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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 19h

Envious, I watch
As they exist
To be free of shame
Of empathy
Of conscience
Of what burdens me
I am helpless
Apathetic
I am #fatigued
And they exist
With vigor
Uncaring
Blanketed in solipsism
Oh, to be a narcissist

#emoetry #poetry #skypoets #poem

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 1d

The #libertine exists in a prison
But with broken bonds he walks free
The inmates look upon him in disgust
As they strain against their own bindings
They look only to his unburdened wrists
Rather than to the shackles of their own
The libertine is reviled
For he lives free without permission

#vss365

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 1d

My words are weapons
Even dull blades inflict pain
You must guard yourself

#tercet #poem #poetry #skypoets

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 2d

This is not insurgency
This is not rebellion
Though we act with urgency
Against the machiavellian
This is not revolution
This is not civil war
Though we face persecution
By the ones we abhorr
We are the defenders
We are the concerned
They are the pretenders
Who would see it all burned

#nokings

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 2d

We act for freedom
We act in #defiance
In the face of fascistic
Power-starved tyrants
They want for a warzone
We'll give them a scene
I'll see you there
On October Eighteen

#NoKings #FiftyFiftyOne #poetry #emoetry #skypoets

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 3d

I am a statue
My marble
My being
The chisel: suffering
You are the hammer
I am a mistake
A misplaced mark
Devalued
To be refused
To be rejected
I am worthless
To be recycled
This one is wasted
Try again
In pursuit of perfection
I am nothing

#poetry #poem #skypoets

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 3d

During our
#candid exchanges,
I strip the layers
from you
like #bark
from a tree,
getting right down
to your #crimson
heartwood.

What I seek,
no more than
the size of #pea,
just the essence
of you,
all that you are,
the tiny weight
of your soul.

#emoetry #wildwalkprompt
#whistpr #vssdaily

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 3d

I live in Portland currently,
It's a savage, war torn hellscape. As you can see here, an interdimensional rift has opened on that roof there and a dog-murdering she-devil has crawled through.

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 3d

Let me be #candid.
I think you're a failure.
As your morals are
Discarded.
As your shame is
Discarded.
Measure yourself
In your capacity to grow
For your children
As that willingness is
Discarded
We will not be
Discarded
Let me be candid.
I think you're a failure.

#emoetry #poetry #poem #skypoets

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 3d

Hell yeah, fuck Bill Maher

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 4d

In a white dress #beaming,
Glowing, seeming perfect.
Being everything
I've been dreaming of.
This is love.
This is me
Believing.
In something that doesn't end
My best friend,
Defeating
The thoughts that would consume me.
In a suit, I am beaming.

#poetry #poem #emoetry #skypoets

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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 5d

I associate hurt with you
I associate fear with you
I associate control with you
I associate manipulation with you
and as you beg me
to love you,
you beg me
to be vulnerable,
I have covered myself
in steel,
I have silenced my voice,
I will hold up a mirror
so you see yourself

#vss365 #poetry

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 5d

Came a lot easier to me than the yucky one. Wonder what that means

Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 5d

My bruises:
An aversion
To my reflection.
I tremble.
A prisoner
Of thought
Repeating
And repeating.
Louder,
Booming
Like thunder,
I tremble.
My scars:
Doubt of self
Fear of others
Lacking strength
I tremble.
In fear
For self,
The #abused
Of mind.
I tremble.

#poetry #emoetry #poem

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 6d

You're #yucky
There's shit up your back
You pick your nose for a snack
And I'm taken aback
By your total impact
I'm adjusting.
To a world come apart
Past ambitions depart
But still from the start
You've had all of my heart
I am lucky.

#emoetry #poetry #poem #skypoets

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks! Who knew writing to a prompt would get the creative juices flowing?

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