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James Mullen
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Poet, husband, father, grey beard
Feeling worn away
By days & time
Wanting to believe I’m
Fading into grace
I watched a cloud today
Pink hazy thing
That tried to seize the day
Fight back!
Awaken the dawn
Turn open eyes
To tomorrow
Unlocked hearts & tears
Listen to silence
📷 Mahmoud AlKurd
@Amatoryq #Amatory
December 18, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Call on gods
To part the veil
Ancient water
Holds power to heal
We preach to shadows on the
Wisdom of endings
Falling out of view
As night takes hold
Savor the silence
Sip slowly
Seek pleasure
We wake to new dreams
New days & great deeds
📷 Caroline Cadell
@Amatoryq #Amatory
December 18, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Today a different tone
Catches me
Handsome cries
Crawls through my mind
Until I drift into night
On clouds remembering
She plays on my heart
As feathers dance
Light and free
Supporting
How I feel with lightness
Buttery soft touch
Like lips parting
📷Fett
@Amatoryq #Amatory
December 18, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Eyes closed
To truly see how it feels
Folding into you
Hand cupping waist
Arm bracing back
Scent of anticipation
Wafting up to me
Flesh touching flesh in
Compression before the release 
All night in your arms
Tasting darkness
Feel the fire
Inside you
📷 Unknown
@Amatoryq #Amatory
December 18, 2025 at 4:36 AM
She looks
In a way
That penetrates
Unravel me
No matter how
I try to be whole
Project peace
Her smile comes
Seeing discomfort
Knowing I’ll yield
My pain be a guide
To her control
She’s not afraid for
Strokes to show
Just her signature
On my soul
📷Karen Walrond
@Amatoryq #Amatory
December 17, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Evening fading
I’m on my way
Thinking of her
Back in the day
Singing carols
On a winter night
Walking through silence & snow
Falling on an old lane
When I close my eyes
I’m there again
Her hand in mine
Harmonizing
‘Walking in a Winter Wonderland’
@fairytalepoets #fairytalepoets
December 16, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I was late
Learning
But in time
Discovered
Warmth through you
Only the stars
Saw my tears
Only the moon
Witnessed my heart melt
Finding time
When all was grey
In your arms
All darkness
Washed away
Waves hold me
In this state
Loved
Loving
Becoming
📷 Unknown
@Amatoryq #Amatory
December 6, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve lost my words
That came so easily
Falling like starlight
I feel the silent cold
Behind the moon’s grey shield
And long to write
But my thoughts
Find only you
Within my heart
They keep you close
In private ways
I don’t know how to start
December 6, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Bathe your soul
In silent rivers
While the sun
Rides high
Build your dreams to last
When winter rolls in
Foggy mists
Shade the warmth
Your tender heart craves
Look for meaning
In the white of snowfall
And the pungent
Smell of pine
📷 Ebru Sidar
@Amatoryq #Amatory
December 3, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Motes of light in the night sky
Particles of the past speaking
Loudly quiet silences
Across millennia just for us
Look into my eyes sweet lady
Write the words you hear
Deep in your memory
Truth born in the recesses of time
Calls you to my heart
#FoxProse @FoxProse
#OurPoetryX
December 2, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Unlock me
Are you the one
Holding the key
Do you believe
There is much to find
Hidden in me
Will you spend the time
It takes to see
Or walk away
Too many hands
Have handled my heart
To roughly wrestled
Breaking the lock
Do you hold the key
@firewriters5.bsky.social #FireWriters35
🖼Unknown
November 29, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Blood runs cold
Alone in the night
Still thoughts intrude
Like hammering need
“Life is a game”
Too many say
Placing bets carelessly
“Cut the cards”
Rings clear in the air
But they don’t realize
You hold my heart in your hand
@firewriters5.bsky.social #FireWriters35
🖼Unknown
November 28, 2025 at 4:03 AM
We are weak
Sometimes
Beneath the mask
Unique & fine
Though delicate
At heart
We long for
Truth through intimacy
Firm hands placed
Allowed to feel
Shown to remain
Long after long days
Have passed
In night we are free to
Possess & be possessed
At last
📷 Unknown
@Amatoryq #Amatory
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Lights dim
Desires bright
She probes my mind
With tender foreplay
Finding what she needs
She feeds
Sipping on delight
She shares her flavor
One I savor
Drinking deep
We forego sleep
Exploring loudly
Carnal heights
No silent screams or
Quiet nights
📷 Unknown
@Amatoryq #Amatory
November 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM
She taught me well
In her arms
More so in her gaze
Gift of stillness 
To be revealed before her
She learned my soul
Uncover the darkness
To taste my heart
Pure in its touch
Her lips bring me power
To course through my veins
Glory through pain 
📷Natalia Drepina
@Amatoryq #Amatory
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Flicker the flame
The eyes
The heart melting
Take the night 
And spread it out
To hold
To fold to savor
Discover the taste
You have for fun
For fear
For flowing heat
Dare to indulge
Between dripping wax
📷 Unknown
@Amatoryq #Amatory
November 11, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Keep your strokes short
Let me feel them brush not sting
When your pen becomes a whip
Show me how the earth moves
With your lips to mine
Kindle the magic of bodies
The art of us
Etched out on skin
Still contact light
Masking infernos within
📷Hamze Dashtrazmi
@Amatoryq #Amatory
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Still night
Chill night
Only wood smoke
Hanging in the air
Air bright
No light
Memories from
A half century
Held in timeless awe
Wrestling again
Waiting on words
Watching the fiery moon set
Sometimes
Only silence fills the void
Icy fingers
Miss your touch
#OurPoetryX
October 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Face hard from pain
Worn on her body
Borne in her heart
A warrior's heart
Beating stronger than
Butterfly wings
Against the storm
Of her life
She whirls
Such spine tingling motion
A blur of emotion
Reclaiming herself as
Night calls
📷Giovanni Aponte
@Amatoryq #Amatory
#OurPoetryX
October 29, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Night & desire
Mingle with destiny
Melting as they merge
Dripping between fantasies 
Liquified effort leaves
A heavenly trace
Caught by a fabric of
Midnights lace
A taste of the divine
Felt forever inside
Written by instinct
By memories that guide
📷 Unknown 
@Amatoryq #Amatory
October 25, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Soft face
Warm eyes
Behind her façade
A loving heart
#10wordspoet @10wordspoet
September 19, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Remarkable beauty
By measure unfold
Delicate instrument
A musical soul
Play with precision
Each caressed finger hole
Be lost in her music
Clarity becomes whole
Unleash the symphony
Her spirit extols
Breathe into me
The song of her soul
📷Jacopo Baboni-Schilingi
@Amatoryq #Amatory
September 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Left burdened down
With unraveled ties &
Broken chains
I understand
Alone
When silence falls
Dark thoughts intrude
As moonlight fades away
Pale dreams of red
Mask my way
Take solace in this moment
Resting on my knees
Free
No man can
Eclipse my soul
📷 Unknown
@Amatoryq #Amatory
September 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Bright eyes from ideas bursting
Born from light her words shine
With each blink she is shedding fear
To gild the night with poetic lines
As she exhales the stars
How do you hold onto
A drifting dream
That dances on stardust
And shifting moonbeams
📷 monika-es
@Amatoryq #Amatory
September 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Let your eyes close
Be still
Be at peace
You are in my hands
Anchored in my heart
Reach out your thoughts
I feel them holding light
They touch my soul
Pouring out
Pouring into me
I am impregnated with
The essence of you
It restores
I am made whole
📷 Unknown
@Amatoryq #Amatory
August 14, 2025 at 2:58 AM