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Robert J. W.
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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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As evidenced by the title, this is about my near life-long struggle with hypochondria.

#vss365 #dark #poetry
HYPOCHONDRIA Every symptom is a disease. Every disease is a doomsday. I've been torturing myself with the endless search of my every bodily idiosyncrasy and the results are always apocalyptic, muddled in slop. I'm aging from a mollusk to a cracked shell and it's all my fault; I've been ingesting toxins to fight toxins for decades. I just need to tell myself on repeat: "You will be okay! Even if you're sick, You will be okay!" while the dark becomes something more beige and I thrive whether I want to or not.
February 12, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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I recently started reading the Tao Te Ching so I suppose this is inspired by it. Trying to find inner peace!

#vss365 #touch #poetry #tao #zen #peace
LAZY DECOHERENCE I let myself drift in the movement of honey, finding the Tao within the lazy decoherence. My grateful fingers touch the paper and they leave with an understanding of the forest. I am more powerful than the Big Rip that may destroy the universe and I am more timid then the rabbit that hides to feed her young. My breath is filled with multitudes of nothing. I exhale afterbirth.
February 11, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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I will get out of this funk. Today is a new day to try!

#vss365 #ache #emoetry #delighted #poetry #mentalhealth #positivity #recovery #pma
THE ILLUSIVE TRY I'm gazing within my own abyss and I'm finding doves and novels along with the ache. The illusive try is flashing loud today. Maybe I will liberate myself from this after all. The purpose is in the callouses not the bed sores. My skull fills with the delight of a million crumbs of circus. I am the rope I climb!
February 10, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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Thank you!
February 10, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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Glad it helped. Hope you get answers and subsequent treatment soon!
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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night gates left ajar
milky way in cold pixels
#pale insomniac

#vss365 #DailyHaikuPrompt #Milky_Way #haiku #senryu #blueskypoets
February 8, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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From grateful.org
Word for the Day from Grateful.org
February 10, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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Thank you. Glad it helps!
February 9, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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Thank you!
February 9, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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From Google:
February 9, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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Thanks!
February 9, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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I'm gonna try to start practicing radical acceptance. Wish me luck! Also, today isn't my birthday. I just used it as a metaphor 😊

#vss365 #bones #emoetry #challenge #poetry #mentalhealth
FINDING A DIAMOND IN THE FOURTH HUMOR I pour green tea over my enervated skeleton, music steaming from every bone. Something good will happen today and I will claw at this excessive black bile until I find it. The challenge of acceptance is not in the pointing finger but in the arms' embrace. These inordinate bad days are just a singular whisper in a stadium filled with my every birthday party. I'm celebrating whether I age or not.
February 9, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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these bones are weary
that carry humanity
we've walked a long time
we just keep wandering
but we won't find it out there

#vss365 #bones #tanka
February 9, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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Excellent
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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I'll fill my grave
with a
pile of bones
blood of wars
won and lost
I came
I saw
I loved
#vss365
#bones
February 9, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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Thank you!
February 9, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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Thank you. We got this!
February 9, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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I'm trying. Thank you. You as well!
February 8, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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My mindset has been frigging awful recently (though it's been a frequent problem for me my whole life.) I'm trying to undo the damage my own brain has done and is doing to me. It will take time and a lot of effort. So I must be patient with me.

#vss365 #pale #emoetry #blissful #poetry #mentalhealth
SHAKING AND ABRASED A pale mindset will never write me an iridescent biography. There are bruises lining my essence and the hands brandishing the war hammer resemble my own, shaking and abrased. I'm putting down my weapon in an act of revolution against myself and I will let myself weep away these doubts, these demoralized reveries until the holes in my heart fill with blissful rain in which I will swim like a sea otter.
February 8, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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Beautiful!
February 8, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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#pale pastels
the colours of spring
of renewal, new life
when the earth awakes
from its long winter sleep
and from somber grey
bursts a rainbow of hues

#vss365 #poetry #writing #writingcommunity
February 8, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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Thank you lots!
February 7, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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A peaceful write. Hope y'all enjoy it!

#vss365 #blood #emoetry #afflicted #poetry #mentalhealth #recovery
ATARAXIS There is tranquility in the crawl to middle ground where I balance my breath and blood. The water in my lungs starts to flow outside of sentience. It is irrigation for flowers I have forgotten in my agonal afflictions. I release the universe from my grasp and let my empty hands play with the hummingbirds and the fireflies.
February 7, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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That's a pretty good idea! One I may have to steal!
February 7, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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My pleasure! Thank you for reading!
February 6, 2026 at 6:25 PM