SPIDERS OF THE ORB, RACE OUT UPON THY SILKEN THREADS AND ENJOY THE BOUNTY OF THY LABOR AND THE WINGS OF THEIR MISFORTUNE #philosophy #poetry #random #paranormal #errtlings #writing bsky.app/profile/amyc...

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"And They Got To Play" #writing #poetry #florida #arcade

There are some stones that open in the night like flowers
Down in the red graveyard where Bessie haunts her lovers…

—Jackie Kay, “The Red Graveyard”
published in OTHER LOVERS (Bloodaxe, 1993)

Jackie Kay’s biography of Bessie Smith was published by Faber in 2021:
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571362929-bessie-smith/

Small Things
20181015

In the smallest things
I find delight,
while in the bigger things—
as the world decides
to name them—
I find only vanity
and loss of form.

Every raindrop
holds a universe—
and every universe
is but an empty dream.

Give me the rain.

#poem #poetry

https://www.wordspace.zone/small-things/

Got me a half ton
of your fuckin carcass
crushing my chest
soon to be caved in
by the weight of excess
toxic expectations

I guess
our thing ain't ever
gonna be the same
like back in the day
when we were weightless

when you left this world
my heart became a hovel
where a mansion once stood

#mastoprompt - hovel

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/love-deeply-comforting-floral-art-sharon-cummings.html

they won't grow yellow
south Florida daffodils
an oxymoron

#dailyhaikuprompt - daffodils

I don't have daffodil art...They don't grow here. Instead we have umbrellas falling from the sky...lol

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/colorful-umbrellas-whimsical-photography-sharon-cummings.html

#art #photography #photo #photographer #photographie #umbrella #umbrellas #colorful #colorfulart #selbygardens #florida #floridalife #fun #cute #spring #springtime #summer #summertime #buyintoart by #SharonCummingsArt #haiku #poetry #poem #poet #shortpoem #smallpoems #smallpoem

#dailyhaikuprompt - daffodils

stay in the moment,
Sara -- dog on the table,
blue glass, daffodils

#WritingCommunity #poetry #haiku #micropoem

Bookworm
A #poem in three parts

—

i.

A bronze little boy
who grew up with old books.
Turn the page

He read Twain with joy
and Jack London cooked.
Turn the page

But soon he got sick:
his mom kept him close
Turn the page

yet gave him her love
in tiny spoon doses.
Turn the page

Taught himself to write,
even in cursive
Turn the page

but her line of sight
was ever elusive.
Turn the page

How do I always seem
find myself
in the wrong place
with a bad crowd
of reprobates
always on the make
as they take
more than I have to give?

Not gonna be
your singing monkey anymore

Now I gotta deal with liberation
and all the angst freedom brings

He had his orders
Sir Daffodil Dragonfly
Slay all the Griffons

#dailyhaikuprompt - Daffodil - Dragonfly
#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity

There you go again, Naomi Shihab Nye, making me cry.

"And I looked around that gate of late and weary ones and I thought, This
is the world I want to live in. The shared world."

https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/03/naomi-shihab-nye-gate-4-prose-poem.html

"It felt like a tide had gone out and taken all the ships with it, and you were left on a shore, a debris."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry #FridayReads
from This is Happiness by Niall Williams (2019 Bloomsbury Publishing) https://tinyurl.com/ymhhzeed

yellow trumpets
silently herald
spring

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - daffodil

I pushed to prod,
Prod pushed back.

I prodded prod,
It cracked and cracked.

I fixed the bug,
Or so I swore.

One last deploy…
And prod is no more.