Vance Alexander

@standingmountain.bsky.social I'm so glad you enjoy my poetry as much as you do, the reshares are incredibly generous, and to those that follow me, here's one of Standing Mountain's poems that really just scratch the right spots of the mind's eye!

Why thank you! Much appreciated 🩵

And yet in this lifetime, we give our all and must fight and lose and grow so that we learn that the only thing holding us back from accomplishing what we need for a full experience of life is ourselves. Whether that's going for your dreams or dreams maturing and becoming more.

#thereisagoodending

Black rot of nightfall
decays senses slowly
where is softness
the storm in my veins
eclipse in tired eyes
to ugly to see worth
it is the season
of phantoms
makes sense

#weirdmicro

I have heard good things, but sadly anthologies aren't knowing for containing all hits 😅

@shashika.bsky.social thank you for the repost!

@sunblissful.bsky.social Many thanks 🩵

What words spoken
In what sequences
In which silent corridors
Changed the world?

What ideas
What concepts
Too radical at the time
Have become trivialized?

Where did our minds go
From challenging the unknown
To instead
Refusing to accept differences?

#thoughts #poet #philosophy #thinking

Infinite

No shadow binds,
no fear remains,
pure silence sings
through endless plains.

The stars unfold,
their secrets near,
eternal light
dissolves all fear.

We are the flame,
the breath, the sky,
the boundless soul
that cannot die.

All space is home—

Glistening radiance
of soft control
alluring words

a sensitive heart
un-gathered
purged

ocean spills forth stories now
I can't hear, whisper louder
once more, I dream also

#Weirdmicro

This light inside of me
How do I know the scale?
Is it like the candle
That refuses to go out in the shadow?
Is it like the lightbulb
Illuminating the darkness of rooms innumerable?
Is it like a star
Shining before and beyond my existence?

What is this light?

#thoughts #poet #writingcommunity

Holy bats, batwoman! 🤣

We were diabolical,
well, they say I was.
We took chances with
the temptation of lust,
refusing to be subdued
by common sense.
Was it resilience or
plain stupidly that
let us survive
as long as we did?
We thought it was love.
It was love—love that
knocked on our hearts
only to run away.

s.b.

Through the shadow of a tree
On the backdrop of a burning night sky
Smoke rises in the distance
Nature has claimed its vengeance

Moon obscured by clouds
Stars all but wiped by a tree's branches
There is no light from the Sun

This is the time of the Moon
And she is angry

#poetry #writing #moon

@sunblissful.bsky.social thank you for that repost 🩵

Bottlecap

Such a small act of kindness
To remember a comment
Mentioned in passing
And to not only remember
But walk back in
And present it to me
A small gift...

I have been moved
Beyond words
With the simple act
Of a stranger
For another stranger
Just because
They remembered...

#thoughts #poetry

Cynicism is healthy to an extent, and it allows us to appreciate the magick that much more when it happens. Though sometimes the timeframe of it really just refuses to make sense 😅

The photograph lends so much to the words, which themselves were already fantastic. Well done 🩵

A grave can be a grave
Without anyone knowing it exists yet
Something can pass on
Snuffed out forcefully or peacefully
Something you always counted on
That you knew was there
And yet it had been gone for a week
A month
A year
A lifetime
Farewell, green friend...

#poetry #writingcommunity #writer

Saw these kitties and it made me miss my own... I'll see them soon enough.

Why, thank you for the repost 🩵

A light breeze blows
And the sand shifts
Down comes others' shaky fortresses
Yet sturdy is my foundation
I have not built my home yet
Though seeing the strength
Of what I am to build upon
Gives me a warmth
That this trial
Will soon be
At an end

#poetry #inspiration #foundation #writer #thoughts

Expanse of space
From a tranquil surface
To a silent barrier
Within my line of sight
Yet only recognized
By memory and by cognizance
Of powers beyond me
A thirst for knowledge
I could only handle
If I didn't learn that
It was all
Random

#space #thoughts #poetry #earth #expanse

Exactly. I suspect he has a different love language, but who am I to say. It takes being vulnerable as a man to actually show our true love languages. And we know how the wrong people car scar that vulnerability, even twisting it so it is that much harder to find our love language.

This guy has the wrong idea and no one has told him otherwise. I enjoy a love language of touch, but his is just an uneducated idea of it. Cuddling that doesn't get spicy, a hand on the cheek, hugs from behind, so many ways to show physical touch love without it needing to be sexual in nature.

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You think yourself alone
The grief never ending
Isolated beyond any safety
No one truly understands
If only I had some way
To let them all know
That we all are suffering
Lost in our own pain
Because we think ourselves alone

We are not alone in this grief

#thereisagoodending

#poetry #poet #grief

It is when you feel your heart is breaking
when it is felt that tears shall never cease
when you hold life as a fragile blessing
in warm palms that you know
the burdens must be there
as must the joys

#Poetry

@standingmountain.bsky.social glad you enjoyed, thank you for the repost! 🩵

Facing the immense totality.

Facing the immense totality.

𝚈𝚎𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚋𝚕𝚊𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚗𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜,
𝙴𝚊𝚌𝚑 𝚕𝚒𝚖𝚒𝚝 𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚜 𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎—

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚜
𝚏𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚊 𝚕𝚞𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚙𝚞𝚕𝚜𝚎,
𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚑𝚞𝚎,
𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚞𝚗𝚏𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑.

𝙻𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚛𝚒𝚍𝚐𝚎: 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚞𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚟𝚎𝚒𝚕 𝚘𝚏 𝚕𝚒𝚖𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗.

#VanishingTime