October air hits,
like a kiss I can't return—
The cold stings my cheeks.

#October #haiku #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity

#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity

Dear Moon
If I would be you
I'd pirrouett every orbit
Until all of earth could behold
My hidden face.

#micropoetry #micropoem #poetry #prompt #moon

Your fourteenth summer—
milky eyes lift up to mine.
What is it you see?

#dog #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #haiku
#Pet #seniordog

Emily Dickinson reminds us we are definitely not utilizing em dashes enough. Picture from Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson’s Poems, selections and introduction by Thomas H. Johnson.

#EmilyDickinson #FinalHarvest #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity

God gave us halos
to wear as golden collars-
a beautiful asphyxiation
embedding itself in my soul.

They glow like nooses of light tightening each time I breathe,
a choir of angels watching,
Their eyes hollow, unblinking.

#poem #poetrycommunity #poetry

Texas summer moon—
mosquitoes hum near my ear,
smack— their song is done.

(A friend of mine and I worked on this one together. They're far more clever than I.)

#haiku #poetry #poem ##poetrycommunity

The combination of the words scratches something in my brain. 🖤🖤🖤

To name a poem feels like confining it. I want mine to linger freely, as they do in my mind, for as long as I can hold them there.

#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity

Humid summer night
my thigh unsticks from your skin,
the fan cools our sweat.

#haiku #poetry

My poems don’t fit into neat word counts. So here’s a photo that says nothing... and maybe everything.

#selfie #digitalrelic #altarofme #nightvibes #moody

Rebirth
#poem #poetry #rebirth #darkpoetry #altarofme

It feels too good
watching two hearts
bleed

Bite back all love
carved into me

Un-mend this heart
Hungry
Finger the wound

It feels so good
to watch you
bleed

Concerned
My nosy neighbor
Keeps parading
By my house

Think he’s up
To something sneaky
Just what—
Ain’t figured out

Might be acts
Nefarious,
Or maybe
He’s just nosy

When confronted
He stutters—
His cheeks
Grow red & rosy

His #sonorous
“Mea culpa”
Is kind
As on he moseys
#vss365

Punctuation

I pause—
A subtle pivot.

My mind considers,
Then trails off...

#micropoetry #emdash #ellipses

A thousand of me exist,
crafted in the imagination of others—
effigies of shadow and memory.
I burn these “mes,”
watching them smoke and curl,
so I can drift unbound and whole.
#poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #darkpoetry #shadowandlight #innerworlds #wordalchemy

I am a myriad of micro moments,
dust motes in a slant of fading light—
golden, restless,
haunting the air.

#selfie #mirrorofmoods #poem #poetry ##micropoetry #altarofme #InnerPortrait #SelfAsArt #digitalrelic #shadowself

Angelic,
tongue the halo—
a golden razor
that cuts unfeignedly.

#selfie #poetry #poem #micropoetry #micropoem
#InnerPortrait #VisualPoetry #SelfAsArt #digitalrelic #poetrycommunity

#poem #poetry #poets #poetryandprose #selfexpression #poeticthougts

Two decades ago, I silenced my poetry. Not only because life swallowed me whole, but because I kept shrinking for the comfort of others. I was told my words were too much, too flowery. This year something in me changed. I’m ready to speak in my own voice again.

#poetry #writing #findingmyself

My personal Jesus. En el nombre del daddy, el hijo, y el espíritu santo. Amén.