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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 23h

You are nothing, or at least close to it.
A mere #atom within an unknowable form. Yet still you matter. You have your ups and downs. You are strange, but you have charm. You are on top of the world, at the bottom of everything. And if you were to split..? Well, my world would be destroyed.

#vss365

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 23h

Incessant screaming
The thundering roar
In this endless storm
You will find no respite

For want of solitude
A moment of #quiet
In this endless search
You will find no respite

At odds with each other
At odds with ourselves
In this endless war
You will find no respite

#emoetry #poetry #poem

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 3d

Engorged, accursed tapeworms.
They have evil,
rancid, impure, cold hearts.

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 3d

On hands and knees, through the #arid hell, they crawled. They were almost there. They could see the towers, standing in the salty waters of the Sound. One among them gathered the strength to stand, his red hat pointing to some graffiti, and scoffed. "Stop climate change? Fucking libtards."

#vss365

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 3d

#emoetry #needy #poetry #poem #skypoets

A happy boomer marriage.
To continue with yesterday's theme a bit.

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 4d

Elon Musk looks like a bowl of corn flakes that has been sitting in milk for too long

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Kunal 🌅 @poetickunal.bsky.social · 4d

we walk on,
with small hopes,
and open hands.

hands touch,
words fade
we walk on.

the world bends,
but never breaks,
we walk on.

somewhere,
a light waits,
we walk on.

#micropoetry #poem #poetry #hope #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #5amwriters #writesky #skypoets

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 4d

Why would someone want to avoid exposing pedophiles?

Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 4d

a black and white drawing of a stick figure with a smiley face and a finger pointing up .

ALT: a black and white drawing of a stick figure with a smiley face and a finger pointing up .

media.tenor.com

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 4d

All stuff my dad's said to me!

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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 5d

If This Is Manly

All I’ve known is
toxic masculinity-
aggression,
misogyny,
belittlement,
infidelity,
unacceptable sexual behaviors;

These men who say they are
men
and beat their wives
or type about deserving sex on a keyboard
or start bar fights just because-

These are not men

#emoetry #poetry

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 4d

Topple the regime!

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 4d

Fuckin preach it! ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 4d

Their appetite for power.
Their disregard of humanity.
These beings are #unearthly.
Inhuman parasites; otherworldly vampires.
We are mere thralls.
They will feed on us until there is nothing left.
Until we are withered away and they can feed no more.
Until we are too weak to fight.

#vss365

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 4d

Confronted by demons
You must lock them away
Do you have a penis?
You need to get laid.
Grow some fucking balls
Don't be a little bitch
Your purpose is to provide
Your goal is to get rich.
Our family is #manly
So start eating meat.
You must kill for your dinner
Or remain incomplete

#emoetry #poetry

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 5d

Our tongues set aflame
Burning all who would hear
Our eyes fire missiles
With targets unclear
Our nails bite our palms
We hold blood in our hands
And our minds search for reasons
We may never understand

#poem #poetry #skypoets

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 5d

Surrounding yourself in sycophants
Seizing control of the media
Using tragedies to demonize your political opponents
Ousting your own party members if they are critical of you
Deploying troops against your citizens
Silencing protesters
Suppressing free speech
Thank God you killed yourself in 1945

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 5d

The #beetle traded her forewings for a shield.
She felt safer this way.
Mobility offered her freedom.
She could zip around as the Dragonfly,
Dancing about in the sky.
She could travel as the Monarch,
And see the world.
She chose protection.
In her mind, life's cruelty demanded it.

#vss365

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 5d

I am silent
Confined
Suffocating
In their ears
Voiceless
In their eyes
Invisible
I am thoughtful
Drowning
Imprisoned
On their minds
Nothing
On their lips
Unspoken
I am writing
Feeling
Flowing
In my hands
Power
In my spirit
#liberated

#poem #poetry #emoetry

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Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 6d

The beetles and roaches
that once crawled
on my prone body
are now liberated
from their march.
I have risen
from my death bed
of thorns.
Pale hands trace the outline
of old friends
and wave them goodbye.
I drink coffee
as I think of paper planes
with poems writ
on each one.

#vss365 #emoetry #poetry

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 6d

He took the Uber #deluxe
To his deluxe hotel room,
Drank a deluxe martini
On his deluxe mattress.
He lived in luxury
And settled for nothing less
But nothing in his life was deluxe enough
To mask the poorness of his soul

#vss365

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 6d

In cold silence
With cold skin
A cold feeling
Came to win
The cold truth
Of a cold grin
A cold numbness
Settled in
In a cold world
With a cold heart
And a cold harbor
You disembark
Into cold waters
In the cold dark
For your cold actions
I fall apart

#Poetry #poem #skypoets

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 7d

In defense
To defy gravity
A shielded heart
Feigned depravity
At your expense
Bury sincerity
Keep from falling apart
With #jocularity

#emoetry #poem #poetry

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 7d

This chasm
Ever widening
For thirteen years
I've tried to fight it
This unyielding
Pervasive
Chasm
Ever widening
Will it subside?
Or will it feed
Always feeding
It's eating me.
This chasm
Ever widening
After thirteen years
It's become clear
It's here to stay
Or leave with me

#poem #poetry

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Praise @praise3x6.bsky.social · 7d

I had so much to say
Choking on the words
They remained unspoken
You smiled in a knowing way
As if my thoughts were heard
The silence, still unbroken
Deeply I wished that I could stay
Tried to ignore the singing birds
And I had awoken

#poetry #poem #skypoets

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