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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 · 20h

it wasn’t how you looked
or anything you said or did
it was the quiet
the calm
the way the noise just stopped
when you stepped in
and for a moment
i could almost breathe again

#poetry #writing

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beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 13d

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

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beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 20d

“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 · 22d

perhaps all roads led to here

#vss365 #perhaps

Photo of text:

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 · 24d

shadows in the corner
waiting for their time to bloom

#micropoetry

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beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 26d

Ooh. 😍

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beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks. 🖤

beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 27d

🖤

beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks. ❤️

beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 28d

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 · Sep 14

#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 · 28d

Fantastic!

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beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 28d

Love this.

beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 28d

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 · Sep 10

poems take flight
from the tip of her tongue
little sparrows

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt

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beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 29d

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 · 29d

Lovely. ☀️🌙

beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · Sep 14

Thanks. ❤️

beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · Sep 14

Thanks! ❤️🌙

beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · Sep 13

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 · Sep 11

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 · Sep 10

🔥🔥🔥

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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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