Kaz_the_Kumquat

Processing trauma memories is one part of the recovery work (though often not as straightforward a part as many people assume)-- but challenging the sh*tty things trauma has conned & conditioned us into believing about ourselves is what long term recovery is ultimately about.

Mindful March - Day 13: Pause to just watch the sky or clouds for a few minutes today actionforhappiness.org/mindful-march #MindfulMarch

“Poetry offers a view on humanity, society and the world that is playful, contemplative, mysterious, questioning, and one that is often interested in giving readers the chance to hold several different ideas in our heads at the same time.”
- Michael Rosen
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#poetry

Old wounds grip the plow
turning stones into soft soil-
tomorrow learns bloom.

#dailyhaikuprompt#plow#perserverence
#emoetry#becoming🪨🍂

#haiku
crows
wary about
the daffodils

Within water, lies the truth of reflection.

#positiveripples

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Smoke from the copper,
Curling into three sharp breaths,
The price, is the self.

🧞 ✨

#WSS366 #DailyPrompt #Grant #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #ThreeLines #Genie #Djinn #Wishes #FairyTales #Aladdin #Lamp

#haiku #senryū #senryu #poem #poetry
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Organizing thoughts
Filing away in locked drawers
But I lost the key

#haiku #senryu

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Last word #escapes,
A broken, prophetic phrase,
"Death, rattles."

💀 🪇

#WSS366 #DailyPrompt #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #ThreeLines #DarkPoetry #DarkHaiku #Horrorku #Spooky #Scary #Skeleton

old-fashioned plow —
looking back
the rustiness shows

#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (plow)

tadpole memory -
a frog beneath the full moon
finding it's real voice 🌕🐸

#haiku#frog#moon#dailyhaikuprompt
#writingcommunity#growth#potential

A tear in the sky,
Blue, bleeding into the void,
The horizon stands open.

😮 🌌

#WSS366 #DailyPrompt #Gape #MicroPoem #ThreeLine #PoetrySky #Awe #TheVoid #Stunned #Universe #SpacePoem

Fingers stretch in air,
Hunting for solid shapes,
Grasping blindly.

✋🌫️

#WSS366 #DailyPrompt #Grasp #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #ThreeLines #Sightless #LostThoughts #Tactile #Searching

Thought I'd post a poem for International Women's Day. Hmm, what poems have I written about women? Here is 'Mermaid' from my collection The Burning Circus.
#poetry #poets #womensday #internationalwomensday #mermaid

Jolted out of my
Skin, my skeleton somehow
Just kept on running.
#emoetry #jolted #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@mwplovesmusic.bsky.social

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Never mind the prequel series, when are the BBC giving us The Miss Demeanours, with Nurse Crane and Ms Higgins, and are you writing it?

𝑔𝑖𝑙𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑡
𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 -
𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒
𝐼 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑟𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑒
𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑒𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒'𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑

︵‿︵ʚ˚̣̣̣͙ɞ・🕊️・ ʚ˚̣̣̣͙ɞ‿︵‿

#inkMine | #decadent
#tanka #poetry

She’s wearing her mistakes like a fiery shroud
A flame that flickers never bowed

But her heart still glows bright true
Mistakes couldn't dim the light she drew

In a teary river she didn’t drown
Rising high in her jewellery crowded crown

#vss365 #jewelry 📸 Miss Cosmo #poetry

This l’il fella is a gold amulet from Roman Egypt, possibly representing the Egyptian god Anubis as a defender of Osiris-Dionysus. He wears a military tunic and breastplate, signifying him as a defender of Osiris; he also holds a thyrsus of Dionysus, equated with Osiris. 🏺 1/

📸 me #MetMuseum

I work well with others when they leave me alone

Choosing softness is one of the greatest displays of strength there is

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Poetry is a bird
perched lightly on the back
of all that is fickle
and dangerous in this world...

Searching for light,
Finding only milky glass,
The eye turns within.

🌫️ 👁️

#WSS366 #Befogged #DailyPrompt #ThreeLines #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #Fog

catkins
on branches…
time standing still

#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (catkin)

SMART and STAR
Your personal goals
You set the bar
For your own control
The language of
Manipulation managed
By institutional narrative
The investors advantage

#weirdmicro #InstitutionalNarrative

I can't stop thinking about the dedication on the first page of the book I just started reading.

#16wordpoem

in a specimen jar

even though she has the gentlest hands

she might remove your wings

Her love,
Torn and overcome
His Men,
Too late to stem the gouge
Or the tracks of fatal blood

He was dragged
An escort, without a cart
And nailed to the Castle's mort

Her rage,
Never turned to morn
Now fire, reigns forevermore #poetry #writing #blueskypoetry