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beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · Dec 30

ambivalent longing; torn between
the need for connection
and the peace of solitude

#vss365 #poetry

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beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 8d

Still here. Holding things together with duct tape and spite.

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beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 15d

“i’m over here,” i whisper, cold
across the frozen lake
but you stopped looking for me
now the ground is melting
growing smaller by the day
soon i’ll have no choice but
to become the ice or let
the water swallow me

❄️

#poetry #writing

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beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 17d

perhaps all roads led to here

#vss365 #perhaps

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daydreaming about
all the lives I never lived
if different paths were chosen
had I gone left instead of right
or picked the road less traveled
if I were bolder, less afraid
would things be better off
or worse
perhaps the same
perhaps I never had a choice at all
perhaps all roads led to here
but I still think back
to that blank slate
when the future was still laden
with hope and possibilities
not woes and responsibilities
once upon a lifetime ago

-beautyinthemess

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beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 19d

shadows in the corner
waiting for their time to bloom

#micropoetry

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beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 21d

Ooh. 😍

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beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks. 🖤

beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 22d

🖤

beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks. ❤️

beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 23d

moon’s silver grin
knows something
i do not
lie to me pretty, i say
i can’t bear
the truth tonight

✨🌙

#poetry #writing

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stace.bot @stacebot.bsky.social · 25d

#vssdaily #prompt #boundless

a wound without edge

you ask me to name
something boundless
other than love.

i don’t have the heart
to tell you about the ache
some people feel—
longing, hunger,
down to the bare bones.

so we sit,
an orange split between us.

but i tell you a sink
full of dishes
teaches more about infinity
than starshine.

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beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 23d

Fantastic!

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beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 23d

Love this.

beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 23d

pieced myself together
from the broken shards
of glass
some day, you’ll want
to hold me again
and it will be your turn
to bleed

#poetry #writing

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 28d

poems take flight
from the tip of her tongue
little sparrows

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt

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beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 24d

no flinching
when I give my truth
no hiding
when you give yours back
only seeing, only seen

#vss365 #flinching

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beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 24d

Lovely. ☀️🌙

beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks. ❤️

beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 25d

Thanks! ❤️🌙

beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 25d

if the moon had a voice
it would sound like a heart
that beats in tune with mine

✨🌙

#poetry #writing

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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 27d

How to be Exhausted

Spend years doing the emotional
labor at home, at work;
be the cook, the maid, the planner,
the stability, the reliable, the parent;
be the breadwinner, the event organizer, the project manager, the process improver, the developer;
be the sex object, be pretty
#vss365 #poetry

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beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 28d

🔥🔥🔥

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Mark @astrangeday.bsky.social · Sep 8

Tell me the story..
About how the sun loved the moon so much..
That she died every night..
Just to let him breathe...
― Hanako Ishii
#sunflower #flower #nature #photography #stilllife

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beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · Sep 8

❤️

beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · Sep 8

my magic power
standing before you, unseen

#vss365 #power

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beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · Sep 6

It’s not over

#vss365 #chance

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It’s not over
it feels like it is, but it’s not
can’t be
you and I were meant
for something more
something big
you think we missed our chance
but someday we’ll have another
maybe in another life
or maybe in the after
and if all we have are dreams
then I’ll wait for you there
but it’s not over

-beautyinthemess

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