All growth
Requires destruction
Of the seed.
You may feel buried
And broken,
But darling,
You’ll reach the surface,
And find the sun.

#poetry

It’s the burning
In re-entry that
frightens me.
All the satellites
In perpetual free fall
Know what I mean.

#poetry

There are times
When the only way
Left to scream
Is silence.
Tell me,
Can you
Hear me
Now?

#poetry

"Remnants", page 48

"A Deeper Sky", poem 143

Poetry written up to the end of 2024, both volumes available on Amazon. Both in paperback and e-reader; "A Deeper Sky" also as hardcover. If interested in signed copies, DM me to discuss.

amazon .com links:
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Also on Rakuten Kobo

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Rhythm Soft waves, stroke the shore! Take your fill of yielding rock. It stands, defenceless. Reintegrate Millennia ache in this heart, tired with longing for a home, long lost. Companion Whispers in the wind, and oozing gold of sunlight, reveal shy beauty. © Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

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Plea in Bar Please, let this storm take me, across the void – this aching, empty dark – and bring trust to the fire of love, again. Too much, of blood, has passed – our souls revealed, too bare – for steadfast stone to bar our fated way. If I must wait, and weep, the stars will hear the raging of the tempest in my heart; will listen for a call of welcome home. Please, let this storm not pass, and leave me, lone. My curse, to know I have betrayed our hope. © Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

Bards

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

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Bards Remember, when we would sing, together? Soprano, and bass, mixed impromptu; our words joined, melding our hearts? We sang of skies full of strange mysteries; of dreams that remembered hidden harmonies, long lost in time’s vault. We filled the air with silent melodies; as pagan psalms, chanted to the stars, making our darkness holy. Remember when we sang, in the temple of the Poetic Gods? Before we sang solo, breaking the tune. I remember. But I sing, now, as once before, a lesser hymn. We have lost the glory, and the sky weeps. Remember, then for the sake of the song, the honour of the verse, and love of harmony, how we once sang. And I will weep in the holy moonlight, whenever I recall how we offered beauty through our music. © Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

Flares in the sky,
The ship is sinking,
But I won’t betray
My right to drown.

#poetry

On the killing floor,
My heart just another
Stunned animal
Waiting to be bled.

#poetry

When the sun goes
Into the oxygen
Heavier elements
On lend,
Gravity embraces
The core, and then,
Collapse imminent,
Expands,
I hope that what’s
Left of me will
Set fire, set fire
for the third time.

#poetry

Give me
The heart
Of Vega,
Burning bright.
With my light,
Let me conquer
The dark.

#poetry

Cast my
Heart into
The fucking sea.
A stone that
Knows only
How to
Sink
Sink
Sink.

#poetry

All love professed
Is collected in the hem
Of the fabric of space.
Galaxies spinning
Across the eons
Will know you
By your
Heart.

#poetry

You are a
Black hole
To which I
Owe neither
My pleasure
Nor my pain,
Take the empty space
You’ve earned
And choke on it.

#poetry

You cannot
Break what
You never held.
I remain whole
In spite of your
Fumbling words.

#poetry

When we fall,
It is the stars
That wish upon
Us. With grace,
Let them come
True.

#poetry

One day
These veins
Will only be
More frayed wire
Underground.
For now,
This fragile
Lattice, these
Tangled lanes
Carry the stars.

#poetry

The despair
Will have to
Wait until
The last star
Goes out.
I will not
Relent
So long as
There is
Light.

#poetry

My love
Lives out
Past the
Kármán line,
Not beholden
To gravity,
Or you.

#poetry

There is the
Reckoning
Wreckage
Of stars in our
Veins. And,
We will heed
The beckoning
Of the light.

#poetry

With the Guppe groups gone I applied and was approved to get a new poetry group going with fedigroups.social

@ poetry@fedigroups.social

@poetry

See original Fedi Tips post about Guppe groups being gone here: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/115164282623836102

All those interested please feel free to tag and follow the fedigroups poetry group

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Started with one verse of 6 lines. Really wanted it to be a short poem, but I will admit I did hear a voice in the back of my head saying it was not finished. Now I am at 4 verses of 6 lines each, and well, it doesn't seem any closer to being completed. Whether this turns out any good or not, it's going to take a lot of work.

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Deleted poem I just posted from social and my website. Something was telling me it was incomplete and I just needed some time away from it and then to read it again to realize it didn't work as a short poem, but is just the beginning of a longer poem.

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You who
Were born
Inside of an
Explosion,
You child of
Fire, with
Stars in
Your veins,
Will not
Give in
To the
Dark.

#poetry

This pulse,
This tightening
Of chest,
The same
Rush of
Adrenaline
All wild things
Possess
When they’re
On the brink
Of something
Dangerous or
Beautiful.

#poetry

Writing
Nothing
Would be a
Greater
Memoriam
To what you
Gave me.

#poetry

Your words
As empty
As Christ’s tomb.
Only 3 days time
For you to find
Someone else
To lie to.

#poetry

You keep your
Saw blades,
And wonder
How you’ve
Left scars.

#poetry

You read the
Ruined tome
Of my bones,
The runes
They make
As I lay before you,
And save me from
The madness
In the telling.

#poetry

ATTN: #Poetry #PoemADay #Poem #TodaysPoem #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #amwriting

In case you haven't seen this:

"The Guppe groups domain name was sold by their registrar before they could renew it. This means all Guppe groups are broken, and their web addresses point to a spam blog"

https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/115164282623836102

A constellation of the retired house you’re in

https://subspacewagon.systems/a-constellation-of-the-retired-house-youre-in/

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I could have
Split the atom
With the effort
It takes to simply
Keep living.

#poetry

The damned
Atoms
Between us,
Never touch,
But recollect
Their fire,
Illuminating
The dark.

#poetry

I am a
Field of
Dry grass
Waiting for
A spark

#poetry

The Symphony of Tired Soot in Restraining Trembles

https://subspacewagon.systems/the-symphony-of-tired-soot-in-restraining-trembles/

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Letica Saints Wade in the Water

https://subspacewagon.systems/letica-saints-wade-in-the-water/

@poetry @poets @writing @writers @writingcommunity

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I am no fool. I am not inexperienced. I know all I have to do is start writing and that is it. The rest will unfold and take care of itself. There is no such thing as "being in the mood to write" - you just sit down and start writing. That's it. That is the secret. But with #poetry I am *possessed. I want to see where this is taking me. So, it in that sense, it doesn't feel that unnatural to leave the scholarly writing alone. I *know I can't ignore it forever.

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I have two major projects to work on. I put them in a folder titled Two Theses to remind myself just how much writing is required for each project. That was about two months ago. I was expecting to get the two projects completed before the end of this year. I have all the scholarly books and articles needed for the two separate projects. But all I have been writing is #poetry. I've just been in that territory in my mind. I do not feel like I am out of that space yet.

#amwriting