R.D Carter
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R.D Carter
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Full time day dreamer.
Armchair poetry.
📍Melbourne/Naarm, Australia
Pinned
About me:
- Scorpio
- INFP
- Elder Emo
- Classic literature and poetry
- Writer, looking for a community of likeminded artists to share work and bounce ideas off
Ghost in the machine,
Haven’t heard from her in days.
Wasn’t meant to be.
Haunted by words left unsaid,
I can read between the lines.

#vss365 #ghost #poetry #tanka
February 4, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Is this thing on?
I tap the mic
To scream into
The black of night
Reverberating
Atmosphere
Echoes out
Then back to here
Feedback loop
Around it goes
Louder still
A sound that grows
Go until my lungs collapse
Screaming bloody murder

#poetry #blueskypoetry #writingcommunity
February 3, 2026 at 6:56 PM
(Medusa)

Death by a thousand
Lashes on your eyelids
Caught in the headlights
Left to wonder how
I fell into your grace
Pearly gates within your gaze
A wink would sink me under
Now the sky is looking grey
Stony days ahead
As snakes become entangled
On a grave
And solemn heart

#poetry
February 3, 2026 at 6:58 AM
About me:
- Scorpio
- INFP
- Elder Emo
- Classic literature and poetry
- Writer, looking for a community of likeminded artists to share work and bounce ideas off
February 3, 2026 at 5:40 AM
The ever changing hue
Of new beginning blues
Rivers filled with bad blood
A storm that rages on

Poison in the well
Dreaming of a drought
Waking up to water
A sky that cries in pain

Calling as it falls
Teardrops just for me
Shadowy new depths
Drowning once again

#vss365 #poetry #pain
February 3, 2026 at 4:28 AM
Sap drips down the tree
From the wound left by the axe
Bleeding golden brown

#haiku #poetry
February 2, 2026 at 10:59 PM
My soul of gnashing fangs

My heart of sharpened knives

Made dull beneath your love

Made gentle in your eyes

#vss365 #soul #poetry #writingcommunity
February 2, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Performing for an audience
Reality rehearsed as act
Obfuscated scripted pages
Break a leg but not your back
Applause or jeers all the same
A playbill or an epitaph

#vss365 #obfuscate #poetry #writingcommunity
January 29, 2026 at 4:36 AM
To turn a bat into a moth
To make it fly towards the light
Denies it of its right to live
Accept the truth

It likes the night

#poetry #blueskypoetry #writingcommunity
January 28, 2026 at 10:17 PM
A quiver full
A sword unsheathed
Arrows rain
Like falling leaves

A battle hymn
A song to kill
A place to die
Upon the hill

From blood to rust
The angels weep
Death is just
A dreamless sleep

#vss365 #quiver #poetry #writingcommunity
January 28, 2026 at 5:04 AM
Thorns along the stem
Keep me from picking petals
Still I want to know

#poetry #blueskypoetry #writingcommunity #haiku
January 28, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Only fools rush in
And that's the point
Ignorance is bliss

Dumb from touch
A silly thing
Stupid from a kiss

#poetry #blueskypoetry #writingcommunity
January 27, 2026 at 12:05 PM
What wanes once
Will grow again
From a crescent moon
To broken hearts
The tides turn in our favour

#vss365 #poetry #wane
January 27, 2026 at 4:36 AM
The day has been a drawn out fight.
Patiently waiting on the cusp of a quiet evening.
As the sun begins to sink
I can't help but to think of you,
And suddenly all is right.

#vss365 #cusp #poetry
January 27, 2026 at 2:08 AM