Whether
The light comes
In particles, in
Waves, it is
Seeking home
In you.

#poetry

In poetry: May the world not die of bread
or a lost Messiah
or the oil smeared desert
or a fire washed sky
but ripen into childhood ... https://www.texasobserver.org/a-prayer-for-brody-rhys/

#poetry #culture #poem #Texas

I will listen to
That featherlight
Fluttering inside,
The one that
Says “I’m alive”
When all else
Deceives.

#poetry

#tanka by new contributor Vaishnavi Ramaswamy of Chennai, India (IG: @ haiku_vaishnavir ) #poetry #poetrylovers #micropoetry #haiku #india #grandma #garden #poetrycommunity

Does honey
Remember
The comb?
Hexagonal and
Golden,
And do your
Atoms remember
The core of
The star that
Made them?
Ask yourself
When next
You burn.

#poetry

Also on sale are volumes 1 and 2 of my self published poetry books Disremembering and Threnody. Dealing with love, loss, grief, and healing, using visceral language and elements.

Thank you for your support of an indigenous independent poet this Native American Heritage Month!

#indie #books #poetry #indigenous
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A grey and white background with a birds wing in the center disremembering MICHELLE JOY GALLAGHER SOFFE

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Threnody by Michelle Joy Gallagher Soffe A night sky and a black horizon featuring the moon and many stars

May our empathy
Never atrophy
In a world
Built on
Apathy.

#poetry

You carry
The blaze of
Ages. No
Darkness
Can hold
You without
Being consumed.

#poetry

#collaborative #haiga by returning contributor, Marianne Paul. (IG: @ ms.haiku ), ( #poem ) and her #granddaughter Irisa Harker ( #drawing ) Mariann is a Canadian poet & writer. Her chapbook “Body Weight: A Collection of Haiku and Art”, was honoured with Haiku Canada’s Marianne Blugar Chapbook Award.
#haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #war #child #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #art #painting #picture #canada #pictureoftheday

I will not
Be measured
Simply by
What has
Befallen me.
I am both
The wound
And the
Healing.

#poetry

One day
This pain
Will be
Rendered
In you as
Strength.

#poetry

I have been
Left deranged
By the strange
Need in you,
That of a black
Hole to consume
More light.

#poetry

#haiku by Dr. Randy Brooks, Prof.Em. of English at Milikin U. in #Illinois #poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #micropoetry

#micropoetry by new contributor, Naomi Olivia. Naomi describes herself as “a godless Transgender #poet from st. louis/florida.” Her work appears in Smacked Zine, Viridine Literary, Dadakuku, Partially Shy, Pfudalmda, & Subtext Literary Magazine. Find Naomi on instagram: @moth.carcass.coat (a collaboration with best friend & editor erin vastola). #poetry #florida #stlouis #dark #autumn #poetrylovers #smoke #poetrycommunity

The starlight,
Having traveled
Billions of miles,
Seeks the gentle
Refraction
Of your eyes.
What heaven.
What absolution.

#poetry

#monoku by Anne Fox (IG: @annefox333 ) of Broomes Island, Maryland. USA #poetry #haiku #butterfly #poetrylovers #makingit #survival #poetrycommunity #maryland

#digitalhaiga by regular contributor, John Hawkhead of Bradford-upon-Avon, UK. (IG: @ haikuhawk) #poetry #haiga #art #digitalart #ink #mind #poetrycommunity #england #micropoetry #toad #poetrylovers #haiku #uk #senryu #photographylovers #artlovers

Distributed Proofreaders ponders Poe's poetry https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/11/01/nevermore/ #ebooks #EdgarAllanPoe #poetry

The Distributed Proofreaders' blog this month is about another Edgar Allan Poe book at PG: "The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe."

https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/11/01/nevermore/

#books #literature #poetry

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Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe from 1849.

Carbon,
Oxygen,
Hydrogen,
Nitrogen,
Fire formed,
Eon born,
You burn
Still.

#poetry

You are the
Ghost of
Starlight
In the gloom
Of a doomed
Love.

#poetry

Leave me to
My violent love.
I condemn you
To a comfortable
Life.

#poetry

All the days
Lined up
Against
The wall,
As sacrifice
Blindfolded
Before the
Firing line,
Last rites
Read.
Silence as
Witness,
The dead
Stay dead
No matter
How we
Beg.

#poetry

That I ever
Longed for
Something
So empty,
And left
A bit of
Emptiness
In me.
A void in
The shape
Of a scar.

#poetry

A ward
Against
Memory,
The dead
Letters
Collect
Unsent.

#poetry

Suddenly,
The stars
Are a thousand
Eyes gazing
At me,
And I flinch
At the beauty
Of being
Perceived
By the source
Of all life.

#poetry

You must
Realize:
The light
Belongs to you,
And is not to be
Dimmed by
Those who
Cannot
Perceive
Their own.

#poetry

Unbound by pain,
May we meet in the sky,
And surrender our light
Back to the cosmos.

#poetry

You are the
Star dreamt
Embodiment
Of life after
Death, your
Very existence
Strips fear
Of its power.

#poetry

I am
Haunted
By all the
Women
I used
To be.

#poetry

I find that
You were
Not a
Tourniquet,
But a jagged
Edge instead.
The only
Blood on
My hands
Is mine.

#poetry

When there
Are so many
Alarms, it starts
To sound like
Music. Love,
Dance with me
At the end of the
World.

#poetry

I drown
Myself in
Apathy
Just to get
You out
Of me.
All your
Nothing
To nothing
To numb.

#poetry

Let the
Stars speak
The language
Of light
Over your
Shadowed
Heart.

#poetry

There is
Still life
Within this
Still life
And we
Will bring
Color to
The grey.

#poetry

#haiku / #senryu by new contributor, Joanna Ashwell. #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #micropoetry #night #hours #dreams

I’d break
The bones
Of tyrant time
Just to hear
A fraction
Of your laughter
Again.

#poetry

We ask the
Cathedral
Where god
Went, and
Circle around
The answer
In each other.

#poetry

May every
Place you left
Empty in me
Be filled with
The light of
The Stars.

#poetry

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Two colorful flowers on white with words of love and romance by artist Sharon Cummings.

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Two colorful flowers on white with words of love and romance by artist Sharon Cummings.

The satellites
And I in
Perpetual
Free fall.
My heart
In my throat,
Not your hands.
Is this what
Flying feels
Like?

#poetry

Strange,
The atoms
That made
Us, the stars
That caved in
Gave us
Life after
Death.

#poetry

How many
Times do we
Have to die
To other lives
Before we can
Live?

#poetry