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Robert J. W.

@robertjw4688.bsky.social

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Poet, writer, artist, mental health warrior/advocate

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Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · Aug 21

TODAY IS THE DAY! My new #poetry collection, The Line Breaks Between Lives, is out now! I've put so much effort into this one; it's beautiful, it's ugly, it's witty. It bares teeth and blooms flowers!

www.amazon.com/Line-Breaks-...

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Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 5h

I appreciate that!

Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you!

Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 10h

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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Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 10h

I feel this hard

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Peter James Martin @authorpjm.bsky.social · 11h

Anxiety grows
Like #beetles inside my skin
A wound that festers
#haiku #vss365

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Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 10h

So. Friggin. Good.

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 12h

🌊 shiva linga
hummingbird sounded sunlight
everywhere nowhere
rite there near where a breath
catches us on fire
we swear by watching tippled incrementalisms
accepting fate as if liberated like beetles when Winter
i remembered cherries darling
the dark ones, so juicy, so cold #emoetry #vss365

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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 10h

Now liberated,
this long caged heart
roams wild,
taking in all the sites
like a hungry tourist-
it yearns to know
what has been
hidden from it
betwixt youth
and middle life;
It’s late in its hours,
but still plenty
of time to love
and savor

#emoetry #poetry

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Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 10h

Powerful!

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beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 10h

pretty bird
you sing lies as if your life depends on it
as if the truth might cut your wings
and ground you
when maybe it would free you
from the cage you’ve sung yourself inside of
look—the door’s been open all this time
so sing or fly away, bird
but don’t pretend you never had a choice

#poetry

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Sillionshine @sillionshine.bsky.social · 10h

I replied "shark"
because I know it is your
favourite animal

But no, little cousin,
I see you as an
otherworldly insect
perhaps a black rhinoceros
beetle - all hard shell and horns

foraging fearlessly in the leaf
litter, irrespective of how large
the world is - small and
invincible

#vss365

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Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!

Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 1d

Jocular motions
from our chests
arise in us content.
We chant
with the voices of birds.
Once illusive trying
rolls from its hiding place
into the spotlight.
We shower it with roses.
Our crying ghosts
dry to flesh,
deluxe beings
burying grudges
in snow that has yet to fall.

#emoetry #vss365 #poetry

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King's Raconteur @kingsraconteur.bsky.social · 1d

Curl your lips upwards
Feel a warm feeling rising.
The joy of smiling.

#emoetry #haiku #jocular

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Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 1d

I adore this!

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Eric @madp03t.bsky.social · 1d

when is it
just loneliness

no calls

no dinners to be late for

never a person to speak with

no drama on holidays

i used to dream
of disappearing

and maybe, i have

#poetry #writing #sad

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Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 1d

Wow! Excellent

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beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 1d

couldn’t leave well enough alone
had to poke
those half-healed wounds
open wider
‘til we both bled out
with smiles on our faces

#poetry #writing

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Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much!

Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 1d

I appreciate that! Thank you!

Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

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Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much!

Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you lots!

Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 2d

I shouldn't be alive.
An undertow of anti-life
flowed through my teens
and twenties.
I still taste the erosion
sometimes.
My inadequate dreams
manifest in caloric caskets
and smokey rooms
in which I'm buried.
Yet, I claw my way
to the sunrise
every time.
I
am a superstar!

#vss365 #emoetry #poetry

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