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CliveReed
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Lover of poetry, nature, dogs, writing, music, running, triathlon, baseball,... Human Rights...poems and pictures I post are mine...No DM'S..
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clivereed.bsky.social
I once stole a kiss
and inside that kiss
a lifetime of happiness
#vss365 #kiss #poetry
February 14, 2026 at 4:32 AM
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"You should not be afraid of someone who has a library and reads many books; you should fear someone who has only one book; and he considers it sacred, but he has never read it."

— Nietzsche
February 8, 2026 at 7:56 PM
clivereed.bsky.social
wingless words fall
into the lacuna
between us
#vss365 #lacuna #poetry
February 13, 2026 at 3:51 PM
clivereed.bsky.social
a healthy Acuna
will fill a lacuna
in the lineup
#vss365 #lacuna #BaseBall #Atlantabraves #MLB
February 13, 2026 at 2:48 PM
clivereed.bsky.social
As I flip the colourful pages
in the family album
those lacunae
those spaces of white
ooh they bite
they are the unclean
bleached out
blizzards of the past
holding their cold space
through the changing seasons
#vss365 #lacuna #poetry
February 13, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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psconway.bsky.social
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i have lost you, my love,

somewhere in the guile
of a nightingale’s song,

where will-o’-the-wisps
flit-n-fill the gathering dark,

where the sacred well summons,
seek me, seek me…

its death-plumbed depths
full of Stygian echoes

and a reflected crescent moon.
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#vss365 #poetry
February 12, 2026 at 12:59 PM
clivereed.bsky.social
After dark
the sea is a sky
without stars
Nothing to wish upon
Nothing but black
underneath the glass
Just fear trapped
in a breathless churn
A mind drops
never to return
#vss365 #dark #poetry
February 12, 2026 at 1:10 PM
clivereed.bsky.social
Where does evil feast
On the table of the night
In the dark is where it eats
Starve the wicked
Bring the light
Be the light
#vss365 #dark #poetry
February 12, 2026 at 4:34 AM
clivereed.bsky.social
an opening bud
the veins on a leaf
small things touch me
#vss365 #touch #poetry
February 11, 2026 at 4:21 AM
clivereed.bsky.social
There is a pain
I want to wipe away
A dirty ache unclean
I have tried to sanitize
but somehow failed again
I want to sparkle
I want to shine
but the grime always remains
can someone help me
disinfect this stain
#vss365 #ache #poetry
February 10, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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Blind Accord

We chart the course with cold eye,
And swear the map has no lie,
From steps of those who rule high.

The nation's tale gains its might,
When we overlook each blight,
That stains the record we write.

#poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #bluesky #blueskypoetry #blueskyart #art #society
February 9, 2026 at 3:34 AM
clivereed.bsky.social
Up through the soil
a million meatless bones
looking for a home
Foot and hammer
I push the down
Down beneath the ground
#vss365 #bones #poetry
February 9, 2026 at 3:52 PM
clivereed.bsky.social
Not just broken bones
but the ligatures
they've come undone
How long will they hold
Or will the structure fold
Now the nexus has been sold
for gold
#vss365 #bones #poetry
February 9, 2026 at 3:15 PM
clivereed.bsky.social
through the icy arms
another frigid sunset
naked bones undressed
#vss365 #bones #haiku
February 9, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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#vss365 #poetry

Sometimes the world’s
Just a spinning cube
The moon a yucky #pale yellow
With the stars barely holding
The sky up

But still I wake up
To march on
Thinking about the sunshine
While my soul slithers away
Withering invisible with time
February 8, 2026 at 8:23 AM
clivereed.bsky.social
Draining out
and draining in
that disappearing sage
marks of age
made greater
by the paleness
in your face
the pulse of a
withered finger
just a beep
from far away
and gathered round
they pray
and silently I pray
#vss365 #pale #poetry
February 8, 2026 at 12:48 PM
clivereed.bsky.social
unable to grow
the lust on your fingers
their blood is still cold
#vss365 #blood
February 7, 2026 at 1:30 PM
clivereed.bsky.social
There in the finality
I see empty ships
with bones sailing
on rivers of blood
and they drop to their knees
and drink with bare hands
at the edge no cup
and the blood drips through
and they thirst still
there is never enough
#vss365 #blood #poetry
February 7, 2026 at 10:40 AM
clivereed.bsky.social
open wounds
in the back of the room
triaged
#vss365 #wound #poetry
February 6, 2026 at 1:22 PM
clivereed.bsky.social
Alone
in waves of cold wind
the door of grief cracks open
no resolve to close it again
too wounded to take a hand
isolated and fettered by the pain
I remain
wrapped up and swaddling
#vss365 #wound #poetry
February 6, 2026 at 1:06 PM
clivereed.bsky.social
In that last few minutes
When the lambent skies fade
Through the cold of my breath
I catch a flickering
There on her chest
As she puts on her dress
A large diamond on onyx
In the middle of a million
Gently set
#vss365 #lambent #poetry
February 5, 2026 at 1:07 PM
clivereed.bsky.social
Some say death isn't death
Feel a breath on their neck
Cold dread and distress

From the phantoms of memory
The fear of mortality
They create the calamity

In the ashes and bone
They are left so alone
They bring the ghosts home
#vss365 #ghost #poetry
February 4, 2026 at 4:28 AM
clivereed.bsky.social
on a breath of wind
torn from the stem
the pappus rises

both happiness
and pain within
as it churns and spins

sailing and surveying
a foreign vale
no root or anchor there

so unknowing then
swirling through
that unfamiliar air
#vss365 #pain #poetry
a black and white photo of a dandelion growing in the grass .
ALT: a black and white photo of a dandelion growing in the grass .
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February 3, 2026 at 1:53 PM
clivereed.bsky.social
pain from the soil
three layers deep
branches grow crooked
and brittle and weak
that affliction
where nothing will stay
even the birds fly away
#vss365 #pain #poetry
February 3, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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A fun-packed dog sledding adventure, with plenty of magic!

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February 2, 2026 at 9:59 PM