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Bacchante Blues

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Poet asleep in the long grass 🌾 New Zealand based Unleash Lit WIP Finalist 2025 ☀️ POETRY REVIEW https://bacchalbooks.substack.com

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Bacchante Blues @bacchal.bsky.social · 9d

Soft launching my poetry review substack!

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Reviewing emergent and cutting edge work from the poets of the future. Click to read Bacchal Reads Books, a Substack publication. Launched 15 minutes ago.

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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 10h

the ease with which the sun sets its climb on all fours til noon

#dailyhaikuprompt (ease)
#haiku
#OneLineOctober

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ant ant ant ant ant @antfive.bsky.social · 11h

#haiku
upside down
the can
disgorges foam

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Bacchante Blues @bacchal.bsky.social · 16h

Hybrid Pear Tree Study -

One person says you were a pear tree, now
Redolent of the waxwork museum
You grow and grow your ruffly buds
So electric they seem, surely, poisonous
Yet scented that eerie somnolence
Of keyhole surgery and beaches

You defy the treeness of all of them

#poem #poetry

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 1d

deer consult
the wisdom of fallen apples
autumn auguries

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt

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Bacchante Blues @bacchal.bsky.social · 1d

Grief is a beetle
Black kernel of ache
Blotted in bile
With salty antennae
Hollowed out heartmeat
Tunneled to ore
Glittering aorta
A trundling monster
Descending the walls

#vss365 #poem #poetry beetle

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Bacchante Blues @bacchal.bsky.social · 2d

Deep autumn, bright spring
Undertone is a couture thing
Between looking alive, apple-eyed
And deader than Orpheus' string

#vss365 #poem #poetry undertone

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Bacchante Blues @bacchal.bsky.social · 2d

"MOTHER BOARD"

original poem by me

Mother Board concerns the ambivalent anxiety of the Mother archetype and creation myths through the technological bent of the 21st century

#poem #poetry

Bacchante Blues @bacchal.bsky.social · 2d

Pan had a hemorrhage
In a bed of leaves
The wild places turned on him
His mouth
Brimming ticks and gasping for
Moon goddess
To bolt him
With a beam
But there's a hole in sky where she had been
Dripping virginally

(Excerpt from WIP titled "A Massacre")

#poem #poetry #writerscommunity #WIP

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 2d

waxing rabbit moon —
transgressing the thin border
between night and dream
takes just this one little leap
go, child, have courage
and jump

#tanka #poetry
#inkMine

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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 2d

morning chill
autumn carries undertones
of winter
#vss365 #haiku

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Gravitas Free Zone @gravitasfreezone.bsky.social · 3d

Rest eludes this rotten heart.

#7syllablesentence #rest #poem #poetry

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Jacques-Yves Cousteau @runflysmile.bsky.social · 3d

Sunset 😊
Baltic Sea
Latvia 🇱🇻

#Sunset #BalticSea #Latvia #Sun

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Bacchante Blues @bacchal.bsky.social · 6d

Gimlet dawn; a greyful mist
In it the triplet lambs
Gleam as clean as oblivion
Silencing the torpor
Of my egress
Into jailed sapience

Life has ringlets
I have a retirement

#poem #poetry

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Bacchante Blues @bacchal.bsky.social · 6d

I hear her whining
A tiny stab - Oh! The verve
Of that mosquito

#haiku #poem #poetry #vss365 verve

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Bacchante Blues @bacchal.bsky.social · 6d

Joy of new paint 🫟🌸🌛

#art #watercolor #ink #painting

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Watercolours By Rachel @elidanza.bsky.social · 6d

The Hunters Moon.....

Happy Friday x

#watercolour #landscape #moonlit #HuntersMoon #watercolor #BarnOwl #watercolourpainting #landscape #art #painting #artist #art #trees #magical #sky #texture #inspired #birds #movement

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Bacchante Blues @bacchal.bsky.social · 6d

Who munked the chip?
Fleeced the geese?
Assembled the donk
And gave him a key?

Modernity has taken
Words out of screw
They'll censor cock
But not cock-a-too

#poem #poetry #wordplay

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Kelseypaintz @kelseypaintz.bsky.social · 6d

I need more power! #kelseyflowerz #art #artist #illustration #painting #flowers #flowers #artsky

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Bacchante Blues @bacchal.bsky.social · 6d

Grief's paroxysms
In chitnous garb
Queen Wasp rages
Against the aerosol God
Curled exquisitely
Stinging her heart -
Even when trod in half

#poem #poetry

Bacchante Blues @bacchal.bsky.social · 6d

Wanton Spring; languorous
In green
Uncombed in bloom
A libertine
Grape-drunk on viridian
And dancing

#poem #poetry #vss365 libertine

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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 6d

Asleep in a boat
I lie side by side with it ...
River of Heaven

Masaoka Shiki

close up from Tang Yin's painted scroll -- A Drunken Fisherman

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Bacchante Blues @bacchal.bsky.social · 6d

A haze of ducklings
Butter yellow; daddy drake near
Sun to eight wee moons

#poem #poetry #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku haze

Bacchante Blues @bacchal.bsky.social · 7d

Emitting smoke and stale
Hissing words, you angry
Campfire
Nicotine vampire

Your racking cough embellished
In the dank
I'm digging myself out of your rheumy air
Your molehill of ash

Behind you, a
Jonestown gently sighs. The parrots caw forlorn.
In your hand, a grey worm

#vss365 #poem ash

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Bacchante Blues @bacchal.bsky.social · 7d

Mordant wind; it mocks
My whites and towels on the line
Sweater scented grass

#haiku #poem #poetry

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 8d

the storm clouds huff
and cough a little
how wind is born

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt (fresh wind)

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