Bacchante Blues

#haiku
strawberry tops
on the counter
mythologies of pain

A crow flying in silhouette against snow.

Every day is crow day..✨

He lives in a #tower of stone
With moss filling in the cracks,
Every day he looks at the Crone
Who lives across the creeks;

A destined love fated to never
Meet but by whims of beavers.

#wildwalkprompt #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity

#haiku
winter holds the moon
the stars stay
out of reach

Everything that he's touched

From his razor, to my skin
Crawls around on sideways crab legs

He savors my rivets, the indifferent limb
Across the pillows on our flotsam bed

The only time the sailor in him
Harpoons me gently

He mounts my pain

#poem #poetry #vss365 pain

The glow-up was insane ✨✨✨

#butterfly #monarchbutterfly #caterpillar #nature

VAMPIRES

Poem by me

#poetry #poem #writersky

URSA FEMINA

Where the divine feminine and bloodclots intersect

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Love drawing ducks at 3 am 🫧

#art #ducks

All Saints Church, 1914

Watercolor by me

#art #artwork #watercolor

#haiku
you bring back
flecks of rain on
your eyelashes

Spot Coloring

Todd Stoll ©
January 28th, 2026
Realme Q3 Pro 5G

#Photography

#7syllablesentence
#gloam

birds hushed as the gloam deepened

"Matrioshka" was a hard poem to write. How can you absolve a lifetime of maternal trauma without abandoning either woman?

I grew up in an intensely female space. For better or worse, it shaped me. This poem is less of a confession and more of a diagnosis of a godhead...

#poem #poetry #writersky

To look at you
In your Grace Kelly composure

Every finger bearing a ring -
Opal, blood jasper, pearl, sapphire

Pewter, silver, glinting and winking
Only the quiver

Of your Chesterfield cigarette
Frays the raiment of the ice queen skit

#poem #poetry #vss365 quiver

"Human Resources" #poem by me

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I feel sorry for the Cassini probe
It's scraped quartz
Pointing empty north, nothing follows

On the cusp
Of incandescent destiny
Cassini is faithful, it keeps pointing

To the only home it's been built to know
As it's flesh drips to molten Lethe

#poem #poetry #vss365 cusp

It was hard to focus on Oppenheimer when you could hear the Barbie partying through the walls of the theatre next door

Thank you 😺🐬

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that brief week of warmth
it wasn’t winter ending
ye old weather ruse

#vss365 #haiku

My poem "Cow Tool" is a satirical ode to capitalism as it relates to misogyny.

Deadpan, efficient, and ultimately meaningless - the speaker is selling a product that is shaped like a woman, but whose interiority is completely dictated by what purpose she serves.

#poem #poetry #writerscommunity

#FoxProse

paper planes aflame

plummeting

wings shorn
of feathers

a flickering light

not for any reason

just emotions flaring
in that nascent dark

a magnet
that has no sense
of true north

why surrender
to timid
lines of electricity

i need
to bite into
live wire

and feel again

The Bootleggers - Edward Hopper, 1925.
Source : Currier Museum of Art, Manchester (New Hampshire) 🇺🇸

Venus in gilt silks
Bearing her fire bosom
In a lonely orb

#poem #poetry #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt lonely

They build the pyre anonymously
Even as the skin of Tlaloc
Flays its rain and whips its brightness
Into white and blue ribbons

They are not afraid of tempests
Only conscious of costs and timesheets
The price of milk excites them
For they can triple it
By adding water

#poem #poetry #emotry

The quiet snarl
Of the electric wire

Drunk on lightning
Bolt through a heart flower

Two halved cherries
At the crossing

Twin jeweled pools
My favorite ruse

To nothing

#poem #poetry #vss365 ruse

The trees form a triptych
Better than our family portraits

Their green bodies
More honest

Only subtly unalike
And the birds like nesting there

lonely darkness
fade to black in hail of nine
a hero's path

#dailyhaikuprompt #lonely #haiku
#writingprompt #blueskypoets

My two brain hemispheres arguing over whether to submit another poetry manuscript