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MrYrjö

@mryrjo.bsky.social

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Retired IT professional. Retired from being single, 60s, poet and thinker. Collects vinyl yet unable to find the time to listen.

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MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 17h

Lovely morning respite
A Carolina Wren singing
"SECRET SECRET SECRET"
From the live oak tree.
Yes, this is my secret place
Hidden among the houses
Tree covered and messy
Where my muse comes
Her kisses painting my verse.

#poetry #muse

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 17h

It is with you
I will stay,
No, my darling,
this is our time.
To look at you
is to know peace.
It is beyond me
to never see you
As you are, this moment.
Time stands frozen.

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 19h

This room in the house
Will be your #shrine, where love rests,
The place I worship.

#haikufeels

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 1d

Shredded by misuse
In #tatters the flag flew on
Too proud to give in.

And beneath its pole
Young people showed up in droves
Dressed in frog costumes.

The orange mistake
Fumed in his golden office
As citizens cheered.

#haikufeels

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 2d

When she walks into the room
All my senses come alive.
Like a predator I observe her
Stalking stealthily my prey.
My urges held closely in check
Yet, my love for her excites
And the #piranha in me strikes.
My heart insists on her essence
For only she is the stuff of life.

#vss365

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 2d

Life feels #desolate when you seek only pleasure ignoring the peace.

#haikufeels #onelineoctober

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 3d

RIP Annie Hall

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing the actions we put upon our #knees,
The genuflect at royalty,
The solemn prayer at church,
The slide into home, run scoring,
The coffee table corner knock,
The one #knee pledge to marry,
The baby bouncing play,
The tear stained graveside vigil
The popping rise from a chair.
#vssdaily

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 3d

Through the darkest night
My soul #creeps between the slabs.
This graveyard my home.

The silence I craved
While alive is deafening
To my listless ears.

Oh, for lover's cries
Or a baby's laughing smile.
I miss life, miss you.

#haikufeels

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 3d

2/2
Let the mist fall, still 9 innings
Left to play, we might win
We might lose, but we laughed.
And made memories
Thus old man still lives for.
#vss365

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 3d

Childhood in Seattle spent drenched
A #raincoat a luxury ill afforded
Yet we did not care
Nothing could dampen spirits
The sun was up there somewhere
Above the gray, heating the air.
1/2
#vss365

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 4d

#Skeletal remains
Of a love once lived in grace
Can reincarnate.

Simply rid yourself
Of the prideful pain, and see
Love still breathes, it lives.

Embrace the loved one
Speak the truths you know exist,
Forgive and be one.

#haikufeels

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 4d

I have made a start
On my new home's foundation.
#Skeletal framing.

#haikufeels

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 4d

There was time, before,
For quiet contemplation,
For planning, thinking before doing.
No more, just reacting.
#Fatigue is now our enemy,
The one thing that defeat us.
Backs bent, arms dragging,
We enter the fight reeling
Knowing we can lose
Not that we could win.
It is not enough.

#emoetry

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 5d

It still rings in my ears
London is drownin'
And I live by the river.
The #Clash had it right
Decades before the fall

##vss365

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 5d

Life has turned me blind
I can't see through the red #haze
Of hate, my worst sin.

#haikufeels

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 6d

Tapping down the campfire
As we clear up the site
Packing up for home
After this weekend away.
Such lovely nights spent
Just the two of us alone.
Leaving stress in the city.
Now, to make sure the #ash
Is cold, no reason to ignore.
We will return here someday
When life gets to be too much.

#vss365

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 6d

The scream in the night
Echoed long, my blood #curdled.
Banshee has arrived.

#haikufeels

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 6d

Silently pondering the loss
Of so many dreams, unspent.
How could it all turn to #ash?
What step, not taken, did I miss?

Here was all I hoped for, prayed for,
Destiny touched lightly, as it passed.
My skin is brushed now
With the #ash of remembrance.

#vss365

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 7d

The pond is placid now
The ripples have lain to rest
Only a breeze sheen across
As the tender wind breathes.
The #moorhens paddle slowly
Picking sustenance from below.
No one saw me place him
And O'Grady's dead self won't speak.
Will be weeks before he floats
Time enough to flee.

#wildwalkprompt

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 7d

It's on display, now,
At the museum downtown
#Relic of the past.

The Constitution.
Something our forebears followed
Before it was burned.

But wear a disguise
They watch for who goes to look.
It is dangerous.

#haikufeels

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 8d

The message, simple.
The messenger, a large #crow.
Now, listen closely.

The air fills with sound,
Most of which make little sense,
Yet the #crow speaks truth.

"Beware the easy
Solution to your problem,
There is no right way."

#haikufeels

MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · 9d

In the purity,
The deep #marrow of my soul
I could not love more.

#haikufeels