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You and I
we speak in a language
no one else understands
or even hears

02.03.2026 18:06 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#StreetArt by #ZURIK1 in #Guadeloupe

01.03.2026 14:27 — 👍 423    🔁 62    💬 6    📌 2
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A measured distance,
yet something unseen moves through
two forms, one silence…

01.03.2026 10:54 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Whizz
Too fast moving
Jars me so
Stand silent
In the shadows
Timid & afraid
To let real feelings show
I felt a smile once
Capture me
Knock me sideways
Dart away
Inside maybe
Just tuck your knees
And go
I had to flee
Before she found
She followed me
Touch softly so
I know
#vss365

01.03.2026 07:34 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

I keep you
in a special place
where my words
can always find you

02.03.2026 16:17 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Black and white photograph of summer monsoon clouds gathering over the desert mountains of Utah.

Black and white photograph of summer monsoon clouds gathering over the desert mountains of Utah.

I have always loved the desert.

One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing.

Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
The Little Prince

[Summer monsoon clouds gathering over the desert mountains of Utah]

01.03.2026 08:23 — 👍 20    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

cold display light -
I miss the blue sky
of my youth

#dailyhaikuprompt
#senyrusunday
#senryu
#poetry

01.03.2026 10:22 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Elia Nedkov

01.03.2026 11:33 — 👍 58    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 2

I could not wish
for more
than you

01.03.2026 18:37 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

rain at dusk~
the statue’s shoulders
growing darker

#haiku

01.03.2026 11:14 — 👍 41    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0

"How empty of me, to be so full of you."

01.03.2026 06:52 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Sun faded, slowly, heat waned, slowly, I, dreamed, slowly. An elderly man walked down steps carefully, the Mother spoke, carefully and my favourite tree, strong and wise, held my aura, carefully. Grace often nestles between dusk and acceptance.

#photography #poetry

01.03.2026 09:20 — 👍 68    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 0

You know
I can strip you
naked
with my words

01.03.2026 14:29 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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She moves according to the unseen mathematics of energy…

01.03.2026 12:12 — 👍 24    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

Most urgency is
just panic in a hurry.
Let it rest for five minutes.
See if it survives.

#musings

27.02.2026 18:10 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
WORLD’S BLISS


The men & women sang & played
they sleep by singing, what
shall I say of the most
poignant on earth the most glamorous
loneliest sought after people
those poets wholly beautiful
desolate aureate, death is a
powerful instinctive emotion—
but who would be released from
a silver skeleton? gems
& drinking cups—This
skull is Helen—who would not
be released from the
Book of Knowledge? Why
should a maiden lie on a moor
for seven nights & a day? And
he is a maiden, he is & she
on the grass the flower the spray
where they lie eating primroses
grown crazy with sorrow & all
the beauties of old—oh each poet’s a
beautiful human girl who must die.

WORLD’S BLISS The men & women sang & played they sleep by singing, what shall I say of the most poignant on earth the most glamorous loneliest sought after people those poets wholly beautiful desolate aureate, death is a powerful instinctive emotion— but who would be released from a silver skeleton? gems & drinking cups—This skull is Helen—who would not be released from the Book of Knowledge? Why should a maiden lie on a moor for seven nights & a day? And he is a maiden, he is & she on the grass the flower the spray where they lie eating primroses grown crazy with sorrow & all the beauties of old—oh each poet’s a beautiful human girl who must die.

wholly beautiful

Alice Notley

27.02.2026 15:47 — 👍 107    🔁 24    💬 3    📌 0

You would look
divine
in my darkness

27.02.2026 18:12 — 👍 20    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

#poetry
It's true once, a time ago
You bled out my essence
In setting sun's embrace

A razor sharpened grin
As small patterns formed
Omens of my own doom

The message rang clear:
'Seek the path of entrails
For death becomes you'

A visceral awakening to
The black & red & white
That would consume me

26.02.2026 22:08 — 👍 25    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0
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#Photography Bernard Chevalier (2016), 'L'Amour'.

27.02.2026 17:30 — 👍 23    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

attic sketches appear
unclaimed reels linger
as grey tinged captions
claim the passage
confounded and spent
my impulses proceed
through the fire and passion
stoking the burnt offerings
left scratching their way
through the ash and lust
where noted desires played

#PoemsAbout #Spent

27.02.2026 09:53 — 👍 52    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 0

The thought
of you
being you
is poetry

27.02.2026 14:58 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
This work © 2026 by Lee Zimmerman is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

This work © 2026 by Lee Zimmerman is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

In the mirror

27.02.2026 13:39 — 👍 72    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

across the sky
she casts star clusters
the simmering moon looks on

#haikufeels #haiku

26.02.2026 22:09 — 👍 33    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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#BedroomEyesPrompt #isthisdlove #triolet #poem #writing #writingcommunity
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@southernjam.bsky.social

27.02.2026 13:33 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

I see your name
and say it softly
aloud
I see your name
and cannot help
but smile

26.02.2026 18:37 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

hesitant spring
bringing just a bit of yellow
to everything
#haiku #dailyhaikuprompt

25.02.2026 21:10 — 👍 29    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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My painting TIDAL WETLANDS

26.02.2026 15:46 — 👍 3297    🔁 408    💬 63    📌 8
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His and Hers. Not sure if it’s clear which side of the sink is mine. #oilpainting #art

26.02.2026 06:40 — 👍 2807    🔁 229    💬 88    📌 33

I see you
and I want you
simple cause
and effect

26.02.2026 15:12 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Sky is tense and grey,
yet the rain keeps falling down,
blithe in its descent

#emoetry #tense #haiku #writing #writingcommunity #micropoetry

24.02.2026 14:37 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0