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Robert J. W.

@robertjw4688.bsky.social

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Poet, writer, artist, mental health warrior/advocate

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Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · Aug 21

TODAY IS THE DAY! My new #poetry collection, The Line Breaks Between Lives, is out now! I've put so much effort into this one; it's beautiful, it's ugly, it's witty. It bares teeth and blooms flowers!

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Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks!

Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 17h

Autumn winks
at a sky
devoid of meaning.
Leaves breathe death
and beauty
as if there were a difference.
The people are draped
in raincoats.
The witches are giddy.
All expect a shiver
from a nameless tear.
I hope we all
heal
from the screams
that this year
has forced on us.

#vss365 #emoetry #poetry

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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 19h

When sadness showers down
Made from artificial
Silly people clouds
There naught be
An umbrella
Or a #raincoat
Big enough
To cover
Ones heart
From welling up
And sinking
Like a boat
With a broken hull

#vss365

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Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 18h

Yes!

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Sophie Sinistra @witchythirteen.bsky.social · 19h

Life is too short, so live it loud.
Be magical and weird.
Celebrate your joy.
🖤✨🔥
#Witchsky #Pagansky #FreeWitch

A fairy dancing on toadstools with a fox

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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 18h

I’ve exchanged
the wretched
for the #sublime,
the grimy
for divine,
the pain
for sunshine;

I’m bartering
what’s left
of my soul
for a chance,
one
last
chance
at a life well led

#blueskyrelay #poetry

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 18h

An atmospheric shift.
Darkening clouds seem closer,
and that rain feeling.

Wrapped in a Raincoat.
Road smells and Petrichor perfume;
slowing down to listen.

Road puddles do form,
the child inside comes back to life;
free from adult cares.

#vss365 #Raincoat

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Catherine Beavis @catherinebeavis.bsky.social · 18h

as the gloaming arrived
we ran laughing
into the autumnal wind
our tawny raincoats spinning
amid apricot swirling leaves
with just the synergy
of our heartbeats
echoing the amber skies
& my only wish
for this weightless freedom
of endless kisses
forever dancing by your side

#vss365 #raincoat

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Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! Sorry to feel it though

Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 1d

I'm choking
on the bones of this world.
My misanthropic verve
drives me to write
in venom
but I'm getting fatigued.
I want to love,
I want to rise.
Bitterness becomes
a coping skill
and soaks in like a virus.
My vomit speaks;
it curses
then sputters
into binary code.

#vss365 #emoetry #poetry

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 1d

Forgive me, I am by nature an open book,
but was discarded carelessly halfway through
a reading, pages splayed, binding strained.
But regard the spine: creases long and smooth
as the lines of the South Downs viewed from afar.

A chance, my friend, that’s all I ask.

#PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 1d

misty garden light
the rabbits are wearing
raincoats of dead leaves

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt

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Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks! I'm glad!

Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks!

Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 2d

My thoughts itch
to the flow of a shovel.
I rattle in defiance
of myself
and the nameless triggers.
A cold war is fought
inside a dirty window.
If I win, I promise
to smile more
despite the libertine patterns
that cross my border
from time to time.

#emoetry #vss365 #poetry

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Eric @madp03t.bsky.social · 2d

Still here.
Not shining, not brave,
just breathing when I’d rather not.

#Defiance is not fire.
It is the whisper that says stay
when nothing asks you to.

No banners.
No victory.
Only the small refusal
to vanish.

#Emoetry #prompt #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 2d

what bubbles and boils us
toiling for Love
we sliver time into worth
tactile perceptual heavens
how libertine
we stand by for instructions
mesmerized by our own image
in the gentle, lapping tides
Moon is setting
becoming lacy, foam fingers
riding these very
febrile ends of our dark #vss365

a close up of a puppet with a beard looking at something

Alt: a close up of a puppet with a beard looking at something

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Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you lots!

Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!

Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 3d

I sit the pain down
for a candid conversation.
I let him burst
in terrifying clarity
while reminding him
of life's absurdity.
We hold each other
and watch this burning world
as we both smile.
The ash
becomes our blanket.
We drift into dawn
with fists scabbed
and free.

#emoetry #vss365 #poetry

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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 3d

As my life erupts,
the #ash of my goals
collects
at my feet like a gray
dusty carpet;
the rainbows and unicorns
replaced
by cats and bathrobes
while vacations become
things I once did;
this once was the thing
I wanted, and everything
I worked for,
now it’s the thing that
chokes me

#vss365 #poetry

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Fliddais @fliddais.bsky.social · 3d

A random fate
A candid take
On the fake I’ve become
Running from myself
I make it all up
Take what I was
And create something
Someone
Who might be loved

#emoetry #candid #poetry #writingcommunity #blueskypoetry

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IrishLisa @irishlisa.bsky.social · 3d

Crimson hides in green
the forest holds its breath still
a song waits to rise

#whistpr #Crimson #Haiku #Haiga #Imageandverse #Poetry #Nature #Micropoetry #BlueskyPhotography #Birds #Birding
#Cardinal #NorthernCardinal #Wildlife #BackyardBirding

A bright crimson male Northern Cardinal with a black face mask perches on a branch. A thin twig crosses over his eyes. Behind him is a soft blur of green leaves.

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 3d

Versions of me—
a jumble of different
jigsaw puzzle pieces
that don't fit together
and never did.

The shy & quiet me,
the sassy stinging
bumble bee,
the Queen of Irony—
just some samples
from my personality
tray.

Which one
will I be today?

Let's make a new one,

shall we?

#MPPrompt

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