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Kymaero @kymaero.bsky.social · 7h

she is tiny, with
a sharp wit and sharper teeth
human #piranha

#vss365 #poetry #haiku

Kymaero @kymaero.bsky.social · 1d

Only the front hallway is lit, a white umbrella unfurled, wetness pooling beneath it. Black boots drip from the rack into the tray below. A form sheds its skin, a thin #raincoat, and hangs it on the hat stand. Then turns to face the night inside. #vss365

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Kymaero @kymaero.bsky.social · 3d

Lightly inspired by Molly Grue from The Last Unicorn

Kymaero @kymaero.bsky.social · 3d

you have the nerve
to come to me now,
when I have weathered
the winds of time,
all #verve drained into
the ground, my roots
deep and dying. to a sapling,
hope is nectar. it is nothing
to the dying.

#vss365 #poetry

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Kymaero @kymaero.bsky.social · 3d

the #libertine burrows deep
into the pleasures of the flesh
laid down on a plush bed
surrounded by curtains,
which muffle the sounds of
their slow, slow death

#vss365 #poetry

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Kymaero @kymaero.bsky.social · 4d

titans #clash far beyond,
in the empyrean and the
cthonic depths of the sea,
our troubles wrought large
like shadows on the wall.
we speak their stories
to hide the hands that
puppet them, lest the words
turn to #ash on our tongues

#vss365 #poetry

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Kymaero @kymaero.bsky.social · 7d

I #associate death with
the stump by the river,
once a hanging-tree,
then a missed shelter
in the flood that rotted it,
hollowing it to make
an upright coffin for an
opportunistic killer,
finally felled last year,
its gruesome truth revealed.
But still, it was
just a tree.

#vss365 #poetry

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Kymaero @kymaero.bsky.social · 8d

the #advert sings back
from years past,
a number and a name.
I never knew what it is
they do, and I suppose
I don't need to know.
they already own
a specific corner
of my mind

#vss365 #poetry

(This is for you, Empire Today)

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 8d

Remember, even on the darkest night, you can usually find a little light.
It's usually an ancient witch-light, leading lost travelers to their doom in the mossy woods, but the sentiment remains.

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Kymaero @kymaero.bsky.social · 8d

my heart is #elastic
it stretches
across the sea
to you, and when
you sever the tie
it will snap back
to form, more
or less

#vss365 #poetry

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Kymaero @kymaero.bsky.social · 9d

I drag myself towards heaven,
chewing the #pulp of my cheek
for something to drink,
minutes, maybe hours from
the #oasis. It shimmers,
maybe too much? But
I have nowhere else to go

#vss365 #poetry

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Kymaero @kymaero.bsky.social · 12d

my worries #blur in the distance
the car pressing forward in the rain,
thin dark arms swiping at the onslaught.
I watch one of the warriors racing
across the window, engulfing all
that it comes across, changing.
maybe I too, will be something new
once we reach our destination.

#vss365 #poetry

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Kymaero @kymaero.bsky.social · 13d

classic #conundrum
why can't I hold all this food?
winter is coming

#vss365 #poetry

two memes in one #haiku haha

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Kymaero @kymaero.bsky.social · 14d

I pressed a finger to the #escutcheon around the keyhole. A fine match for my bobby pins. As I fiddled with the lock, I weighed the desire to #sublimate my skilled hands into more useful work. Needlepoint. Surgery. Then the snick of the lock opening hit, and I knew I'd be doing this forever. #vss365

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Kymaero @kymaero.bsky.social · 15d

I cannot bear the #scrutiny
of being the first in the family
the herald, the youngest,
the black sheep and the savior.
You wag your finger at me
with one hand, the other
open-palmed. I can't live
for us all.

#vss365 #poetry

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Kymaero @kymaero.bsky.social · 17d

a #sonorous sky
lightning crackling among clouds
thunder strikes my heart

#vss365 #poetry #haiku

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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 18d

𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐢𝐳𝐳𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐨⁣⁣
⁣⁣
we will be much better off⁣⁣
without these souls⁣⁣
clinging to our stanzas⁣⁣
like tattered flags⁣⁣
in passing storms of ghosts⁣⁣
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#vss365 #caprice #poem #poetry ⁣⁣
#5lines

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Kymaero @kymaero.bsky.social · 18d

you are nothing, she said
so like nothing, I silently floated away
a jellyfish on the current
frilly and dangerous, caught up
in the #caprice of my self

#vss365 #poetry

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Kymaero @kymaero.bsky.social · 19d

every #eventuality
spreads out in front of me
like threads in a web
wefts in a weave
I pluck on one and feel
the future tremble, tenuous
I pull to unravel
the injustices, but
novice hands trip up fate
and time snarls hopelessly

#vss365 #poetry

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Kymaero @kymaero.bsky.social · 20d

the #bellweather shows us
how the wind is blowing,
wether fortune or fate
have placed a hand on the scales
one way or another. Is today
the way of the wolf, or the lamb?

#vss365 #poetry

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Kymaero @kymaero.bsky.social · 21d

#perhaps it is too late
but I had hoped the news
of this opportunity
would #reinvigorate you,
a shock to your system
like Frankenstein, galvanized,
not this slow, sad decline

#vss365 #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 23d

she tries
to hold this
fresh grief
but her ribs
are nothing
but s i e v e s

#poetry

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Kymaero @kymaero.bsky.social · 23d

Would it be a #catastrophe
if I let all the balls fall, glass
and plastic alike? A small
shattering, then I can
pick up the pieces.

#vss365 #poetry

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Kymaero @kymaero.bsky.social · 23d

The fear gathers under my skin
like pus, soon visible, tension
rising. In their eyes I see disgust -
the urge to pick, but at this point
the #extrusion would be excruciating

#vss365 #poetry

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Kymaero @kymaero.bsky.social · 25d

Yes I know the last line is off, I decided I'd keep the word I wanted