Angela Rachael

October photography faves 🍁

Whenever I need to recharge, I set myself under the sun and plug myself into the earth. I let music flow through my nerves. I inhale cleaner energy. I exhale the things that are clogging and blocking my blessings. I seek peace of mind.

the specific fomo when you're far enough into autumn that you feel compelled to be outside for every remaining warm and sunny hour

Weird how they put all their efforts into using technology to replace human creativity and art and then say creative arts degrees are useless.

Aside from August, don’t all months already have holidays? I vote for weekly instead!

sharing espresso together in silence >

Boarded up senses,
Bottling saneness, but glass
Explodes with pressure.
#firewords280 #BoardedSaneness #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
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Nightfall's pomes dropped from
Trees, as he derived meaning
In patterns they made.
#firewords280 #Nightfall'sPomes #DerivedMeaning #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
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It’s a new prompt month! The #firewords280 theme for October is Stark Raving Madness.

Feel free to use the pairing as a phrase OR separately!

Include the hashtag for RP consideration. No AI or QP. Thanks in advance.

My mantra lately is "Don't let the bastards grind you down." But you know what? The bastards are grinding me down.

I’m always reading a fiction book and a nonfiction book, and usually listening to an audio book. I don’t read multiple books in the same genre at the same time, so it works for me!

Note to self: you didn’t come this far to forget how far you’ve come.

I wish it didn’t feel like I’ve been running a race underwater for my entire life.

i like art

ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳.

the human heart
wanders too
migrating birds

Issa

explore ways to celebrate this sacred turning of the seasons by being in alignment with nature

She wasn't about to let cowardice
steal her real assets
or kill every witness,
when most had no weapons at all.

#firewords280 #foxprose #vssmagic #vss365

She straddled strength,
overly wary of it
flipping the script
w. a sonorous dip;
a highly suspicious skedaddle.
Sometimes, grenades and missiles made battles as awful as possible, parading blood-soaked vengeance
so those who pulled the pin
could slip
away in their weakness,
unnoticed.

we werent meant to live our lives as lightning rods in servitude to predatorous thundercloud that stalk over us

im not responsible for the misery they create, i can only choose the ways i live my life

we can do more good free from them than they can do harm without us enabling them

a fading sun
shimmering heat
lingering

Basho

“These are my sanctuaries: music that stirs, nature that heals,
poetry that whispers, and solitude that understands.”

Marina Tsvetaeva, in a letter to Boris Pasternak, Summer 1926

frustrated to report once again that walking through nature and exploring new little paths is, in fact, amazing for one's mental and physical health

Writers, this is our moment. Our words change the world. If they didn’t, people wouldn’t try so hard to shut us up

Haunted halls, secret
Passages, hidden caverns,
Vistas of my mind.
#firewords280 #HiddenCaverns #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
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there is peace in realizing that what is intended for you will happen in the right way

Not to sound like a hippie opening my big bong hole, but more people needa connect with the earth NOW