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Poetry doesn’t belong to the person who writes it, it belongs to the person who needs it. — Il Postino (1994 film) The story of a heart that will not be still. A gentleman of a certain age. Avatar art by R. Lichtenstein.

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Robert @robertthe.bsky.social · 4d

The night is long
and my sorrows deep
ask not which sadness
makes me weep
for it is that
very same well
from which all of us
drink and dwell

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Robert @robertthe.bsky.social · 2h

Apart we suffer
a most common woe
invisible, we know
not love nor bliss
to guilt, to pride,
there is nothing we owe
let us now end
two sorrows with one kiss

#poetry

Robert @robertthe.bsky.social · 3h

Shot of Irish Ghost
toasting the dark
and the light
our fleeting glory

#dailyhaikuprompt ghost
#poetry

Robert @robertthe.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you! Appreciate all your effort in running this prompt. 🙏

Robert @robertthe.bsky.social · 3h

Gaelic goddess
Brigid emerges
on the night of
the harvest moon

Her cool blue eyes
set to unchain
magic upon
the unsuspecting

With sympathetic
oscillations of her
poetry she heals
moribund souls

Reignite her smoldering
fires, if you dare
the divinity of fire is
highly combustible

#SenseWrds 129

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 20h

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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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 16h

As a child, my father
was the sun,
spreading #global warmth.

I orbited him
like intrigued #technology—
his insignificant #satellite.

Until he fell,
wings scorched to #ash
and I saw a man
flawed as Icarus.

#Sonder hits—
he too
is broken

just like me.

#2wordprompt #vss365
#vssmagic #BlueSkyRelay

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 14h

I live in the land
of #redhotredheads,
a gift to Eire
from the fingalls-
fair Vikings

we have them
by the dozen
so for me
it's intriguing
to find
a far flung one

foreign familiars
dot the world with
exotic brown eyes
or a dark speckle
of freckles

echoes of ancestors
reverberating
in red

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Robert @robertthe.bsky.social · 1d

Her holy relic
ruins crumbling in my heart
venerate old love

#haikufeels #relic

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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Some day there
will be tales
of how we
clashed
like great titans
and rained
thunderstorms
on Athens;
we shook
foundations
and rattled
bones,
we wrote
tragedies
and
Lifetime
melodrama;
there may have
been something
we both
needed to learn
but we must
stop our ruination

#vss365 #poetry

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Robert @robertthe.bsky.social · 1d

I am sorry for your sorrow but glad for your comments. Thank you. 🙏

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 1d

My #distinct #junior years
oft found hid in a #niche—
book in hand
a #clash with my peers
as I was ever alone

reading Jane Eyre
seeing myself there
as if written down—
an #ineffable connection
with a work of fiction

while she stays still
& I move on
my gratitude remains
for the company
she gave

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 1d

I stalk the waters of your mind
like a skulking #barracuda,
eager for a tasty reverie
to ravage.

Yeah sure, I like your body,
but I'm hungrier for your interior,
swimming into deep ravines,
discovering dark thoughts
so far,
unseen.

#bedroomeyesprompt
@oldsoulprose.bsky.social

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Robert @robertthe.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much! 💛🙏

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 2d

When I picture you,
when I see you smile
it sends a flutter
through my mind,
reaching up & down
my spine,
into the coal mine
of my heart,
igniting a sensual spark
that burns,
an amber hue.

Oh, the things
that we could do.

Come smile at me,
I dare you.

#bedroomeyesprompt
@oldsoulprose.bsky.social

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 2d

Your stories
soothe me—
anxieties dissolved
in an adorable
deluge of details,
worries woven
into words
and carried
away, as if
on the backs
of marching ants

and my mind
is set free to soar
like sound waves
travelling to where
you are, so we
can adventure
together.

#sensewrds #prompt 128

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Robert @robertthe.bsky.social · 2d

Our love
is not of
this realm
nor of the earth

It exists up
there among
the stars
outside of
time itself

Long after our
mortal vessels
are but ash
our love will
be gazed upon
by other
star-crossed
lovers

#BlueSkyRelay #realm

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 2d

When sailing stygian waters—
secret #realms of self,
I try to stear my #ship
clear of monsters
unlike Odysseus,
near #bitten by Charybdis.

Some parts #resemble
Penelope's loving arms,
others #associate
with Circe's witchy charms.

To truly know oneself—
An arduous journey
like a personal
Odyssey.

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 2d

You pulled the
heart from me
like excalibur
from the #stone.
I hope
you are worthy
of the #power
bestowed,
ensuring it's
not #abused.
Since, I can be
as the Lady of
the Lake,
clothed in
#ribbon & silk,
come to claim
it back.

#emoetry #WildWalkPrompt #vssdaily #whistpr

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ⴽⴰⵔⵉⵎⴰ (Karima) @koelh.bsky.social · 3d

even when life wounded me,
i did not retreat.
i bled into the world—
let it stain my hands,
my art, my heart—
it tore me apart.
i chose to stay—
even knowing how
easily
we can wound
again.

#poetry #emotionalalchemy
#humancondition

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manicgirl @jenniferchiera.bsky.social · 3d

bring a shovel
we may have to deepen
love's rebellion

#Poetry #micropoetry #modernhaiku #haiku

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 3d

I travel nightly
when I dream,
to the #cradle
of imagination—
right to the #zenith,
wading through
a primordial river,
churning & #foaming.
Then, in the morning,
I remember nothing.
Yet, the #tie is poetry,
precious fragments,
like subconscious
#advert s,
escaping daily.

#vss365 #BlueSkyRelay

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Robert @robertthe.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, thank you!🙏 💛

Robert @robertthe.bsky.social · 4d

The night is long
and my sorrows deep
ask not which sadness
makes me weep
for it is that
very same well
from which all of us
drink and dwell

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 4d

all between must be profound darkness and nothingness

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Robert @robertthe.bsky.social · 4d

Secret language
only we can (de)cipher
rebel love affair

#BlueSkyRelay #cipher

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