When I was young you called me a freak
You screamed at me that I was a mutant and asked what you did wrong
Now you scream the same at my sister in law
Now you protect and coddle my abuser
So when my kid is here
At least for that kid’s sake
You shan’t know them

#dontfuckwithpoets

Good :) vent away with your glorious work!

So like just to check in you doing alright?

The bombs like prayers
Unanswered fell and scattered
Indiscriminate
Destruction seeding the land
With autocratic wishes

#tanka #poetry #poem #micropoetry #dailypractice #writing #writingcommunity #poetsky #poet

Can’t say I was reading college textbooks in grade school, but I was probably a slightly advanced reader. A large part of that was my grandparents putting a huge emphasis on reading and giving me books like To Kill A Mockingbird. So I’m all for giving kids books above their reading level

We #laugh at jokes unheard
Humor between the lines is learned

First steps were gentle steps
Followed by a stampede of stomps

Dance with me tonight, I beg, I ask
Knowing that tomorrow we must mask

#vss365 #couplets #poetry #poem #micropoetry #writing #writingcommunity

Our conversation
Never confronts the whispers
Our ears pick up in
The subway the buses of
People’s disgust and revolt

#tanka #poetry #poem #micropoetry #writing #writingcommunity #dailypractice

I think it says much and more for the power of the photograph that it shall endure for so long after those who witnessed it in person passed. Truly a gift to humanity from the space program and may the brave astronauts who took that picture so long ago rest easy

A widow stares out the window
A #spider making their web grow

They were promised a swift peace
Like everyone else they got fleeced

God stared at me from the tiled wall
An abstraction of justice stood tall

#couplets #vss365 #poetry #poem #micropoetry #writing #writingcommunity

The painter’s triumph
As a landscape unfolds on
Their dawning canvas
The hues of sunrise stain on
Ocean waves and jagged shores

#tanka #dailypractice #poetry #poem #micropoetry #writing

Modern language flows
Like the clouds herding before
A storm screams and grows

#haiku #poetry #poem #micropoetry

Luke is flying through Vader's oversized window while Vader runs his usual training routine of lunges. Vader really should stop keeping his windows open though given that they're in space. I think that's an OSHA violation

I watched the children play a #prank
Hoping they would grow out of the stank

The dog stared at me with gentle eyes
From a coat that was honed with white dyes

I fold and bend before every nap
A dreamless respite I tap

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The chaotic push
Profiting off tragedy
Personal- immense
Size does not matter when
Wealth never trickles on down

#tanka #poetry #poem #micropoetry #dailypractice #writing #writingcommunity #writer

By devoting over 7 times more coverage to Sydney Sweeney than the Epstein scandal, Fox continues to lean into cultural rage bait to avoid covering stories detrimental to the Trump administration.

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The #brownie crumbles in my mouth
Under golden sun watching growth

My heart belts out a song
Every beat a rhythm long

The air in the Court is silent
The noise outside is violent

#couplets #vss365 #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writing #writingcommunity

I want to share what happens with my #couplets. I bash them together to make longer poems! It's a lot of effort for a medium that can be difficult to publish in. So if any #agents are out there looking for a #poetry #manuscript you should know that I got one full of bangers! #pitch #writing

The encroaching nails
Scratched against the bark of the
Old elephant tree
Joining the legions of names
Hundreds of lovers engraved

#tanka #dailypractice #poem #poetry #micropoetry

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I’m good and hope you’re doing well as well!

We all live by the same set of #rules
It’s different readings that make fools

The mud swelled between my toes
And carried me up from my lows

I walked into the gilded trap
Four walls waiting to snap

#couplets #vssdaily365 #poetry #micropoetry #poem #writing

I feel like calls for AI literacy in particular are weird. Why not call for tech literacy in general? Lots of tech illiterate people out there! I mean literacy is just generally broken and needs to be fixed, but the answer definitely isn’t making everyone AI literate

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Sneaking through the weeds
The snake pops out a gentle
Head, yet fear creeps down
The spines of those walking the
Path on a hot summer eve

#tanka #poetry #micropoetry #poem #writing #writingcommunity #dailypractice #snake

I stood in #sass, I danced in waves
We played bass and walked through caves

They slammed more papers on my desk
The encroaching claustrophobia is a mask

He lost his dreams when he was young
Now that he’s old he’ll never know to be strong

#couplets #vss365 #poetry #poem #micropoetry #writing

They were huddled in
A mass, a swelling, and a
Secret for you to
Be aware of but always
Far away from finger's grasp

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I’d love to speak more about it! I’m a bit busy this morning but that should clear up within 3 or 4 hours

2/2 so I’ve tried to adhere to that by seeking out contradictions. I’ve also once got the lesson “If you’re wrong at least be wrong and loud” from a vocal instructor so I try not to shy away from being sincere in observations

Definitely! I’ve also worked in a number of other mediums so all of that influences each other. I also think of movement, such as what movement goes naturally with this work as a combination of dance. One of my music instructors once told me that an opposite motion is what sounds good to the ear 1/2

It can never be too early or too late as fall will always arrive, and it will do do exactly when it intends to do so