This is what I am:
sometimes hidden,
sometimes seen.
Sometimes of the faithful,
a Jew or Christian,
able to fit into any heart,
taking on a new face every day.
- #Rumi, quatrain 1325, tr. by #Helminski
sometimes hidden,
sometimes seen.
Sometimes of the faithful,
a Jew or Christian,
able to fit into any heart,
taking on a new face every day.
- #Rumi, quatrain 1325, tr. by #Helminski
October 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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#ShadowsTober25 Day 15: The Wall - Spoilers for ep 25!
We're in the sad portion of this challenge. Changing up my #quatrain form to heroic/elegiac stanza since that seemed fitting. #ShadowsOverWelde #poetry
We're in the sad portion of this challenge. Changing up my #quatrain form to heroic/elegiac stanza since that seemed fitting. #ShadowsOverWelde #poetry
October 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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No sign, but here's a quatrain:
No kings to rule, no crowns to wear,
No throne to climb, no need to swear.
The world turns on with freer breath,
A quiet peace, not forged in death.
No kings to rule, no crowns to wear,
No throne to climb, no need to swear.
The world turns on with freer breath,
A quiet peace, not forged in death.
October 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Taking #flight pure abandon
The air flowing through somber
Feathers. A liberating run
A hunter counts the numbers
#wildwalk #quatrain #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity
The air flowing through somber
Feathers. A liberating run
A hunter counts the numbers
#wildwalk #quatrain #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity
October 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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#ShadowsTober25 Day 14: Absence - Slight spoilers for #ShadowsOverWelde ep 16.
Since CharlieFis did Argentum and Vale did The Wall for this prompt, I challenged myself to find a different character and occasion... and landed on Tybalt. Sorry not sorry. #poetry #quatrain
Since CharlieFis did Argentum and Vale did The Wall for this prompt, I challenged myself to find a different character and occasion... and landed on Tybalt. Sorry not sorry. #poetry #quatrain
October 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Throw in the couch fucker and you’d have a quatrain that poets would be tickling over for two decades.
October 17, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Silver eyes that feel #unearthly watch
Gazing through the thicket in a batch
Their hoots permeate the air
Still the fear it brings is fair
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Gazing through the thicket in a batch
Their hoots permeate the air
Still the fear it brings is fair
#vss365 #couplets #quatrain #poem #poetry #writingcommunity #micropoetry
October 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Centuries speak through a single quatrain. The enduring power of Omar Khayyám's wisdom, capturing the profound truth of self-authorship.
October 16, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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The #beetle moves about the sound
Drums becomes it’s legs and
Pianos become it’s shell all abound
With metals as fine as sand
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Drums becomes it’s legs and
Pianos become it’s shell all abound
With metals as fine as sand
#vss365 #quatrain #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity
October 15, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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A challenge! Here's my attempt at a traditional sonnet:
In twilight's hush, where shadows softly fall,
Amidst the whispers of a forgotten wall,
I find myself lost in thoughts of thee,
And all the memories that we used to be.
The stars above, like diamonds […]
[Original post on mstdn.forfun.su]
In twilight's hush, where shadows softly fall,
Amidst the whispers of a forgotten wall,
I find myself lost in thoughts of thee,
And all the memories that we used to be.
The stars above, like diamonds […]
[Original post on mstdn.forfun.su]
October 15, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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WHAT QUATRAIN OF NOSTRADAMUS
WAS THAT???
WAS THAT???
October 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Why don’t they make it you have to quote more than 2 lines of Shakespeare from a quatrain or sonnet, that’s 99.9% of Brits out
October 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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#ShadowsTober25 Day 11: Phoenix - I spent too long on this so that I could reference "Because I could not stop for Death". Spoilers for ep 26 and (accidentally on purpose) ep 38. #poetry #ShadowsOverWelde #EmilyDickinson #quatrain
October 14, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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I was taught that writing was about
Subtlety and #undertones
Then I learned that you need to shout
As no one reads the bones
Tea leaves and ashes
Mysticism and literacy
All my lessons are dashes
All my faith is heresy
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Subtlety and #undertones
Then I learned that you need to shout
As no one reads the bones
Tea leaves and ashes
Mysticism and literacy
All my lessons are dashes
All my faith is heresy
#vss365 #quatrain #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity
October 13, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Even storms feel #inadequate
Lightning never seems to have wit
Just a dullard screaming
Begging for a God believing
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Lightning never seems to have wit
Just a dullard screaming
Begging for a God believing
#emoetry #couplets #quatrain #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity
October 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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#mpprompt
She told me not to trust a lady
Of the night named Candy
But I knew Candy quite well
So on that question I did dwell
I missed a forest for a tree
Love that died on a vine
But that may have set me free
#poem #poetry #micropoetry #couplets #quatrain #tercet #writingcommunity
She told me not to trust a lady
Of the night named Candy
But I knew Candy quite well
So on that question I did dwell
I missed a forest for a tree
Love that died on a vine
But that may have set me free
#poem #poetry #micropoetry #couplets #quatrain #tercet #writingcommunity
October 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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That loud, sharp visitor, big and blue
He knows my bounty is always free
Friendship wanes when the seed is few
Still, I’m glad he remembers me
#whistpr #Visitor #Poetry #Quatrain #Birds #Birding #BlueJay
#Friends #BirdFriends #Simplicity #Hope #Appreciation
He knows my bounty is always free
Friendship wanes when the seed is few
Still, I’m glad he remembers me
#whistpr #Visitor #Poetry #Quatrain #Birds #Birding #BlueJay
#Friends #BirdFriends #Simplicity #Hope #Appreciation
October 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Heart flutters in an array of lights
All day and under the starts at night
As long as our hands are touching
Into each other we can be folding
#giddiness #emoetry #couplets #quatrain #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity
All day and under the starts at night
As long as our hands are touching
Into each other we can be folding
#giddiness #emoetry #couplets #quatrain #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity
October 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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#ShadowsTober25 Day 9: Weapon - The pen is mightier than the sword. 😉 Because the #ShadowsOverWelde fandom is international and English can be confusing as hell, I feel the need to clarify that I mean "wounds" like "inflicts injury". #poetry #quatrain
October 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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He sits in #defiance at the bar
Waiting for a simple act to be a war
When they tell him to move
He stays seated in the name of love
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Waiting for a simple act to be a war
When they tell him to move
He stays seated in the name of love
#emoetry #couplets #quatrain #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity
October 9, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Love bats and moths 💜 a solid quatrain.
October 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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#ShadowsTober2025 Day 7: Elandra - I don't know why Elandra had me stumped for a bit, but I wound up thinking about her experiencing the world since joining the party. #ShadowsOverWelde #poetry #quatrain
October 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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I was once rather #candid
I thought that would be lauded
But I found that it was hated
Perhaps truth is not what’s fated
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I thought that would be lauded
But I found that it was hated
Perhaps truth is not what’s fated
#emoetry #couplets #quatrain #poem #micropoetry #poetry #writingconmunity
October 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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