Ennui

my wings
took to sky
and touched your face
when love
had no shape

#Photography Rachel Armes-McLaughlin
@mother-poet.bsky.social

When life gives you lemons
You make lemonade right?
Well, all I've got is the zest...
With its potent sun-bright bite
Fuck it, time for lemon bars!

#emoetry #zest
#poetry #poetrycommunity

If you see this, post a random picture from your device without explaining it

It looks like the community you've put so much into has come to support you ☺️
I hope navigating this time is as easy as it can reasonably be, and that it is resolved quickly.
Here's some more light to help you through 😁

🕯️

Haunting wraith, my thoughts of you.
#7syllablesentence #wraith

I am guessing that
When evil bald people die
There is hell toupee

#vssdaily #haiku

The night is long
and my sorrows deep
ask not which sadness
makes me weep
for it is that
very same well
from which all of us
drink and dwell

In the motherfucking air vent Jesus fucking Christ could you possibly be any more flagrantly malicious 🤬🤬🤬

Society is a construct, designed to justify the cruel actions of the wealthy few to inflict harm on countless lives as much as possible. Therefore, I no longer need it.

With light of recent events, evergreen.

It's amazing how much you can accomplish around the house under the threat of someone coming over

Life Advice Collaborative Project In this ocean of knowledge, observe the depth by staying afloat. To find yourself. ~Kunal Freedom, Let Me Loose Our unity is not uniformity— we are; a chorus of distinct voices harmonizing toward freedom one truth-telling session at a time. ~A #Solseed Joint @arwashington.bsky.social always love, always reach, keep chapstick everywhere, drink water ~Meg W. Progress, over perfect, Kindness to the selves you've been, And the self yet to come. ~Kaz Love ferociously, like a forest ablaze. Send that furious heat to yourself, and to others. Do this often. Even if it’s left like a candle, forgotten, on a dusty shelf. ~Gravitaslessness If a tree falls in the forest And you didn't hear it Then stop worrying What sound it might have made. ~QuillOfMnemosyne Nouns will come and go- Death is the price for this life- Learn to love yourself. Be kind to yourself; hydrate, Laugh, rage, cry - create yourself. Eat off the good china Dance in the kitchen and always wear the good underwear ~OldSoulProse The only way to get all the laundry done, is to do the laundry naked “Pee first.” Best motherhood (and life!) advice I was ever given, thank you to my first midwife. Shoes off at the door Don't push through pain Shower before soaking Electric toothbrush wins No respect = no love: bye ~Tré Know the rules of the bureaucracies that you participate in. spare some change fuck tha system ~m i k e Always give voice to those precious things that whisper from your heart. To smother those truths is a sorry, aching thing. ~Ennui

Here's all the poems I wrote in September 💕It includes the Life Advice poem collaboration that y'all wrote so beautifully. Thank you everyone who participated in that, it's a stunning and timeless piece of varying voices. 💖
thoughtbutterfliesblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/s...
#poetrycommunity

'Afternoon!

The high, greater than the fall.

#7syllablesentence #fall

some of y'all are acting like if kirby swallowed you, you would have any abilities for him to copy and he wouldn't just spit you back out as a star

Omfg it was Alani NU 🤣
I'm such a fucking doofus istg

Ah yes. Pumpkin spice toilet paper.

Saw someone call him Metamucillini and almost choked

Holy crap! Damn good #Poetry out there today!!
Have you read it? Every poem is kind of amazing!!!
Thanks for several jealous head shakes and a lot of whispered 'damn' s. The #poetrycommunity is on fire!

What if
you chose
to see me as a strength

instead of a weakness?

What if
you chose
to see me as a blessing

instead of a curse?

#Poetry #Poem

Ty 🙏😭

How true! Like an iron beaten with a hammer, and a blade to a whetstone; so much has been taken, but what is left has been made stronger.

And yet our chosen responses to those changes, scars and lost innocence make us who we are. The hurt may be great, but how we learn and grow from it is a gift. 🎁

Please,
Forgive my standoffishness
My aversion to eye contact
And the wariness cascading
Off me in droplets of ink

You see,
I simply cannot just let you in
I am a book too easily-read
My pages, stained and torn
From flagrant misuse

#emoetry #wariness
#poetrycommunity #poetry
#writingcommunity

Girl on Fire

Flickering opalite flame
licks along palmed plans
sparking stars in startling
magnetic magnitudes

From frenzied phoenix
breaking burned out ashes
to slow simmering sparkle
she summons its show

#poetry #bedroomeyesprompt
@oldsoulprose.bsky.social

Today I found out that my husband and his family somehow say larnyx instead of larynx. Much fun was had. 😁

"I was there when the ocean vanquished the stars but left the moon alone because they loved it too much. Where is my paradise under the verdant green and the sound of lapping waves? My aching hands cradling tomes of fabled Atlantis. The mysteries of emerald dreams are what I call my home."

#emoetry

Let's give Trump the publicity he deserves and call it Trump's Big Beautiful Shutdown

I used to live in Philly, which has a robust public transit system. I moved to Georgia and the second you hit an Atlanta suburb the transit system just drops off the face of the earth. Not a lot of sidewalk either which is insane to me. Really makes me sad and I miss Philly so much.