#Poet

#writerscoffeeclub Day 25
What keeps you striving concerning your writing goals?
Saying I have goals would be an overstatement. But mainly, I just want to explore what I can do with words, and express what I feel deep down with #poetry as well as play with rimes and rhythm! #poet #writing

C is for Critic.

Critics are the worst, even when it's ourselves, maybe event especially.

#acrosticpoem #poem #neon #critic #innercritic #poet #poetry #alphabetsuperset #weeklychallenge

From my poem Wishes For My Constellations. I talk motherhood and my hopes for my children. The full poem will be in my collection IMAGINARI- a glimpse of human experience disguised in fairytales and stardust. #poetry #poem #constellation #scifipoetry #motherhood #wishes #poet #indianapoets #mom

I have so much writing and editing to do but so few mental resources to devote to it.

Need more writing time
But so many distractions
Overwhelmed senses

#HaikusByMonica #Haiku #Daily #Poetry #Poet #AmWriting #Writer #Author #Distracted #ADHD #Book #Writing #TimeManagement

@MikeDunnAuthor @bookstadon

#ShelSilverstein was probably the first #poet I was introduced to as a kid. Still definitely an influence.

Big feelings for such small verses.

https://archive.org/details/ALightInTheAtticByShelSilverstein/mode/2up

sweet freedom awaits
the wind is never rigid
A sailboat's promise!

#MastoPrompt - rigid

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/blue-and-white-sailboat-art-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artist #artwork #fediart #mastoart #mastodonart #blue #sail #sailing #sailboats #sailboat #boat #boating #boats #beach #beachlife #beaches #beachy #ocean #oceans #sea #nautical #maritime #coast #coastal #modernart #AYearForArt #poetry #poet #poem #haiku #smallpoems #writing #writingcommunity

#reincarnation #poem

http://magpiebridge.blogspot.com/2023/02/an-echo.html

#poetry #writing #writingcommunity #writer #poetry #poetry #poet #poets
#poem #poetrylovers #poetry #writingcommunity #writing

#gender #poem

http://magpiebridge.blogspot.com/2023/01/a-clean-getaway.html

#poetry #writing #writingcommunity #writer #poetry #poetry #poet #poets
#poem #poetrylovers #poetry #writingcommunity #writing #writer #poets #poet

#water #poem

http://magpiebridge.blogspot.com/2023/01/an-infinite-figure-of-eight.html

#poetry #writing #writingcommunity #writer #poetry #poetry #poet #poets
#poem #poetrylovers #poetry #writingcommunity #writing #writer #poets #poet

#new #blogpost

http://magpiebridge.blogspot.com/2023/09/falls-through-frantic-air.html

#poetry #writing #writingcommunity #writer #poetry #poetry #poet #poets
#poem #poetrylovers #poetry #writingcommunity #writing #writer #poets #poet

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#poet #poetry #poesie #text #lyrik #lyric #writting #deutsch #german #tonnen #depresion #last #trauer #verzweiflung

Pablo Neruda: the continuing mystery of the #poet’s (& Nobel laureate’s) death after the Pinochet coup in Chile

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-66853120

scintillating sea
treasures washed up in the sand
crabs dance in the surf!

#575Prompt - sand
#MastoPrompt - scintillating

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/blue-and-white-crab-art-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #artist #mastoart #fediart #mastodonart #poetry #poet #poem #haiku #smallpoems #writing #writingcommunity #sea #sealife #ocean #oceans #oceanography #oceanlife #beach #beachlife #beaches #coastal #crab #crabs #crabby #blue #modernart #water #animals #nature

‘Ire’ - #RSThomas
(The Stones of the Field, Druid Press)
#bardd #barddoniaeth #cerdd
#poet #poetry #poem

In The Darkness.
https://wp.me/p84YjG-3jT
#poetry #poetrylovers #poet #zsoltzsemba #poetsofinstagram #poetrycommunity #puisi

http://zsoltzsemba.com/2023/09/24/in-the-darkness/

overflowing blue
a vision of the ocean
washed up on the sand

#MastoPrompt - overflowing
#575Prompt - sand

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/blue-and-white-lobster-art-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #artist #artists #mastoart #fediart #poetry #poet #poem #poems #smallpoems #writing #haiku #writingcommunity #writer #writers #poets #colorful #colorfulart #blue #lobster #lobsters #ocean #oceans #oceanography #oceanlife #sea #sealife #animals #animal #natureart #nature #modern #modernart

This is a CUSTOM piece. Someone wanted one of my poems on this specific art. I am honored to do that for people. I know the story behind the loss for the recipient for this one and it's very sad. Always makes me hug my people a little tighter...

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/until-we-meet-again-cosmos-flowers-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #artist #mastoart #fediart #customart #sympathy #grief #grieving #sympathy #condolences #fedigiftshop #bereavement #loss #death #comfort #poetry #poem #poet #celebrationoflife #hope #love #family

The Last Hurdle Was the Poems
https://wp.me/p84YjG-3jK
#poetry #poet #zsoltzsemba #poetrylovers #puisi #writer #penulis

http://zsoltzsemba.com/2023/09/23/the-last-hurdle-was-the-poems/

#Poet #GeorgeAbraham Believes in the #Power of #ComingOut #Quietly.

The award-winning #author discusses #Palestinian futurity, breaking down the #binaries of the #body, and #comingout in a #Walmart #parkinglot.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Poetry #Representation
https://www.them.us/story/poet-george-abraham-one-of-them

I must acquiesce
Summer is almost over
I will miss flowers...

#MastoPrompt - acquiesce

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/tulips-and-lace-floral-art-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #artist #artists #mastoart #fediart #poetry #poet #poem #poems #smallpoems #writing #haiku #writingcommunity #writer #writers #poets #colorful #colorfulart #summer #fall #autumn #flower #flowers #floral #garden #gardening #gardens #gardener #pink #tulip #tulips

Dandelion

It's been over a year.

The soft morning light
of our affection
flickers
a moment
distracted by your bruises,

"Hi, Mom"

Your eyes sparkle as
you see your child again

(sunlight breaking through altostratus clouds)

From the west,
your winds begin to blow
the amber grain of your sparce hair
shifts
and a few more cypsela detach.

(white parasols drifting around the hospital bed)

You rasp,"I've asked you fifteen times and you won't respond."

I squeeze your leg to comfort you.

(freckled crepe paper cool
under my fingers)

"I've only just arrived"

Your winds calm as
you see your child again

(afternoon light peaking through oak braches)

In the lucid stillness,
we sing of golden moments;

The musty shelves of the Five and Dime,
fabric textures and scissors,
little bears,
stories with golden spines while the laundry tumbled,
unbroken dishes joyfully flying across the kitchen,
corn silk falling into grass.

(your daily magic show;
transforming poverty and tedium into wonder)

"I love you more than I could ever show you."

You glow for a moment
in the warmth of a child's love

(The orange pink light of twilight)

Your inner winds return
with the unresolved conversations and
diaphanous ghosts fill the room with looping dialogue

I squeeze your leg to comfort myself.

It is sundown and
you are tired,
dandelion.
Soon your last seed will sail into the evening breeze.

You will walk out
into the crepuscular air,
and look back smiling

(a thousand fireflies gather)

as you vanish
into everything.

Farewell.

by Lore

#poetry #poet #poetrycommunity #writer #writingcommunity #poem #poetrylovers #poems #grief

It turns out, even when the protagonist can fully recover from evisceration within minutes, a story can still qualify as horror. It feels so liberating to finally call Amy Has Fangs a horror book.

Extreme violence
Lethal for living people
Still won't kill Amy

#HaikusByMonica #Haiku #Daily #Poetry #Poet #AmWriting #Writer #Author #YAlit #Vampire #Horror #Books

@canadaehx and #poet and #novelist

the distance between
white and shades, color and form
One creative thought!

#575prompt - distant

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/windswept-yin-and-yang-symbol-art-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #fediart #mastoart #poetry #writing #haiku #AYearForArt #artist #smallpoems #writing #writingcommunity #poet #poem #life #kindnessmatters #kindness #buddha #buddhism #buddhist #spirituality #spiritual #healing #peace #selfcare #martialarts #yoga #meditation

It's high time to stop denying that Amy Has Fangs is, in fact, part of the horror genre. Although it features few actual deaths and leans heavily on comedy, it doesn't shy away from gore, creepy atmospheres, the depravity of humanity, or other dark topics. That said, although it has a romantic subplot, it really isn't a romance, despite containing vampires.

It's a horror book
Time to stop denying that
But still not romance

#HaikusByMonica #HaikusByAmy #Haiku #Daily #Poetry #Poet #AmWriting #Writer #Author #Book #YAlit #Horror #Vampire

the seeds were planted
mortified by what they grew
Self care a nursemaid...

#MastoPrompt - mortified

#575Prompt - nurse

#DailyHaikuPrompt - seeds

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/you-deserve-to-be-happy-uplifting-art-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

#flowerart #floralart #art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #artist #artists #AYearForArt #colorful #nature #garden #gardening #gardens #summer #botanical #botany #flower #flowers #floral #poetry #poet #poets #poem #poems #haiku #smallpoems #writing #writingcommunity #writers #selfcare #selflove #happy #happiness

‘The Cry of Elisha after Elijah’ - #RSThomas
(The Stones of the Field, Druid Press)
#Elisha #Elijah
#bardd #barddoniaeth #cerdd
#poet #poetry #poem

swaying in the wind
a universe of sweet scent
Chocolate cosmos!

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/cosmos-and-lace-flower-art-sharon-cummings.html

#flowerart #floralart #art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #artist #artists #AYearForArt #colorful #nature #garden #gardening #gardens #summer #botanical #botany #flower #flowers #flowerfriday #floral #cottage #poetry #poet #poets #poem #poems #haiku #smallpoems #writing #writingcommunity #writers #cosmos #cosmosflowers #glam #girls #girl

sighing...oh brother!
raining more than a puddle
outfit in raincoats!

#MastoPrompt - outfit

#575Prompt - brother

#DailyHaikuPrompt - puddle

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/striking-lightning-bolt-art-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #artist #artists #fediart #mastoart #mastodonart #colorful #colorfulart #modernart #poetry #poet #poets #poem #poems #haiku #smallpoems #writing #writingcommunity #writers #nature #weather #rain #rainyday #raining #lightning #storm #tampa #florida

Explaining to one friend that another friend let you suck her blood can get awkward, but it's another day in the life of a teenage vampire.

I didn't bite her
Okay, so maybe I did
It's her idea.

#HaikusByMonica #Haiku #Daily #Poetry #Poet #AmWriting #Writer #Author #Vampire #YAlit #YAbooks #HaikusByAmy

“A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs; it is because they are made with ideas.”
― G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology

Let's define something...
Difference transform
\[\boxed{\boxed{\mathcal{D}\{f\}(a,b):=\int_a^b\left(f(\lfloor x\rfloor)-f(x)\right)\ \mathrm{d}x}}\]

Here an operator \(\mathcal{D}\) is acting on a function \(f\), describing the difference between an indiscrete sum and a discrete sum on a certain interval \(a\) to \(b\). This operator may play a pivotal role in asymptotic expansions, analytic continuation, etc.

#DifferenceTransform #DifferenceTransformOperator #TranformOperator #DifferenceTransformation #AsymptoticExpansion #AnalyticContinuation #Mathematics #GHHardy #Mathematicians #Definition #Prologue #Maths #Poet #Painter #Patterns #Beauty #BeautyOfPatterns

In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa.
Ada Limón

Arching under the night sky inky

with black expansiveness, we point

to the planets we know, we

pin quick wishes on stars. From earth,

we read the sky as if it is an unerring book

of the universe, expert and evident.

Still, there are mysteries below our sky:

the whale song, the songbird singing

its call in the bough of a wind-shaken tree.

We are creatures of constant awe,

curious at beauty, at leaf and blossom,

at grief and pleasure, sun and shadow.

And it is not darkness that unites us,

not the cold distance of space, but

the offering of water, each drop of rain,

each rivulet, each pulse, each vein.

O second moon, we, too, are made

of water, of vast and beckoning seas.

We, too, are made of wonders, of great

and ordinary loves, of small invisible worlds,

of a need to call out through the dark.

#poetry #poet #poetrycommunity #writer #writingcommunity #poem #poetrylovers #poems

If you follow(ed) @RSThomasPoet on twitter/X, you might be glad to know that there is an account on Mastodon: @RSThomasPoet
#RSThomas
#bardd #barddoniaeth #cerdd
#poet #poetry #poem

- Please boost?

Since regular high schools start so early, and I can rarely finish everything I need to in a day, I rarely get enough sleep. My body also doesn't know what to do on weekends.

Never enough sleep
To refresh body and mind
Too much, too early

#HaikusByMonica #Haiku #Daily #Poetry #Poet #AmWriting #Writer #Author #Sleep

the verdict is in
dappled lace wears very well
Not just for the girls

#MastoPrompt - verdict
#575Prompt - girls
#DailyHaikuPrompt - dapple

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/lady-slipper-and-lace-flower-art-sharon-cummings.html

#flowerart #floralart #art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #artist #artists #AYearForArt #colorful #nature #garden #gardening #gardens #summer #botanical #botany #flower #flowers #flowerfriday #floral #cottage #poetry #poet #poets #poem #poems #haiku #smallpoems #writing #writingcommunity #writers #orchids #orchid #glam #girls #girl

@MikhailBazharov
Diolch, thank you, if you like #RSThomas then you might be interested in following this account @RSThomasPoet, also http://facebook.com/groups/RSThomas/
- share his poems, quotes, events, info, Q+A, etc.
- and there’s a Society you can join… https://rsthomaspoetry.co.uk/rs-thomas-me-eldridge-society/
#bardd #barddoniaeth #cerdd
#poet #poetry #poem

- please boost?

@LK_Sass
Diolch, thank you, if you like #RSThomas then you might be interested in following this account @RSThomasPoet, also http://facebook.com/groups/RSThomas/
- share his poems, quotes, events, info, Q+A, etc.
- and there’s a Society you can join… https://rsthomaspoetry.co.uk/rs-thomas-me-eldridge-society/
#bardd #barddoniaeth #cerdd
#poet #poetry #poem

- please boost?

Such heartbreaking quatrain from #NorthernEngland #Ethiopian #poet Lemn Sissay, writing about being a #ChildInCare
"I am the bull in the china shop
And with all my strength & will
As the storm smashed the tea cups
I stood still".
https://www.channel4.com/news/poet-lemn-sissay-on-growing-up-in-the-care-system-racism-and-finding-his-ethiopian-family #childrenincare #children #socialservices #poetry

resting in sunshine
vines of succulent sweet orbs
Water into wine...

#MastoPrompt - rest
#DailyHaikuPrompt - vines

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/colorful-grapes-fruit-art-by-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #artist #artists #fediart #mastoart #mastodonart #colorful #colorfulart #modernart #poetry #poet #poets #poem #poems #haiku #smallpoems #writing #writingcommunity #writers #grape #grapes #food #foodie #fruit #fruits #vegan #veganfood #vegetarian #wine #garden #gardening #vineyard #colorful #colorfulart

Vulnerability is not a weakness, a passing indisposition, or something we can arrange to do without, vulnerability is not a choice, vulnerability is the underlying, ever present and abiding undercurrent of our natural state. To run from vulnerability is to run from the essence of our nature, the attempt to be invulnerable is the vain attempt to become something we are not and most especially, to close off our understanding of the grief of others. More seriously, in refusing our vulnerability we refuse the help needed at every turn of our existence and immobilize the essential, tidal and conversational foundations of our identity.
-David Whyte
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#poetry #poet #poetrycommunity #writer #writingcommunity #poem #poetrylovers #poems #vulnerability

crisp white sets the stage
a big wave of phthalo blue
Art becomes ocean!

#MastoPrompt - #stage

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/pure-water-276-blue-and-white-abstract-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #artist #artists #fediart #mastoart #mastodonart #colorful #colorfulart #modernart #poetry #poet #poets #poem #poems #haiku #smallpoems #writing #writingcommunity #writers #blue #water #watercolor #waves #wave #beach #beachlife #beaches #beachy #modernart #sea #ocean #oceans

Here's a bit about bravery.

A dear friend of mine threw a birthday party for his sweet youngling - a princess party.
There she was with all her friends. Tiaras, cutsy dresses, and of course plastic foam swords. Those ladies need no knights.

However, adults are stupid, and think a man dressed as a dragon would spruce up a perfect gathering of powerful shield maidens.
Have you ever seen how a lot of kids react to Santa? They cry in fear.
The same thing happened here.

Utter terror in her face. She quivered, she gasped.

And then she charged the beast anyway.

#Poetry #MastodonPoetry #Poem #MastodonPoets #Poet #Writing #PoetsOfMastodon #Poets #WritersOfMastodon #PoetsSociety #Bravery

Celebrating Jamaican poet & novelist Claude McKay, a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, who was born in Nairne Castle, Clarendon on September 15, 1889. His first poetry collection, Songs of Jamaica, was written in Jamaican Creole.

After his mother died, he left Clarendon and joined the Jamaica Constabulary Force in June 1911. His stint there was brief. In his second poetry collection, “Constab Ballads”, he wrote (see photos):

#Jamaica
#Poet
#BlackWriters
#BlackMastodon
#OnThisDay

delicate lotus
a quick swerve of orange fins
Magical koi pond!

#DailyHaikuPrompt - lotus
#575Prompt - swerve

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/mandala-koi-pond-art-relaxing-garden-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #artist #artists #fediart #mastoart #mastodonart #colorful #colorfulart #modernart #poetry #poet #poets #poem #poems #haiku #smallpoems #writing #writingcommunity #writers #landscape #landscapes #landscapeart #koi #fish #pond #nature #lotus #flower #flowers #flowerfriday #floralart #floral #blue #zen #meditation #garden #gardening #gardener

first thing gratitude
towering over my life
I greet the morning!

#575Promp - aches
#mastoprompt - towering
#dailyhaikuprompt - morning

#art #artwork #artist #artists #fediart #mastoart #mastodonart #colorful #colorfulart #modernart #poetry #poet #poets #poem #poems #haiku #smallpoems #writing #writingcommunity #writer #writers #landscape #landscapes #landscapeart #modernart #blue #sky #sunrise #fog #foggy #morning #peace #peaceful #ocean #beach #sunset #sunsets #color

blue flower power
fantasy petals delight
A gardener's dream!

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/blue-flower-power-petal-art-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #haiku #smallpoems #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #writers #artist #artists #artistsofmastodon #poet #poem #AYearForArt #flower #flowers #floral #garden #gardening #plants #summer #nature #blue #modernart

a cascade of thoughts
in color shape and texture
Lost in translation...

#DailyHaikuPrompt - cascade
#Mastoprompt - Translate

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/color-squared-7-colorful-abstract-art-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #artist #artists #fediart #mastoart #mastodonart #colorful #colorfulart #modernart #poetry #poet #poets #poem #poems #haiku #smallpoems #writing #writingcommunity #writer #writers #modernart #blue #orange #green #browns #square #homedecor

Happy Birthday Mary Oliver!

The Uses Of Sorrow
Mary Oliver

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift
#poetry #poet #poetrycommunity #writer #writingcommunity #poem #poetrylovers #poems

sad cloak of darkness
mourning the bright sun's absence
Last glimpse of color!

#DailyHaikuPrompt - #twilight

#MastoPrompt 11th September is: #absent

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/blue-and-orange-art-twilight-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #artist #artists #fediart #mastoart #mastodonart #colorful #colorfulart #modernart #poetry #poet #poets #poem #poems #haiku #smallpoems #writing #writingcommunity #writer #writers #landscape #landscapes #landscapeart #modernart #blue #orange #peace #peaceful #ocean #beach #sunset #sunsets #color

@davidnjoku I do not know much about life of black persons in the contemporary United Kingdom, but please read the real story of Abram P. Gannibal, man born in Africa and lived his life successfully in Russia in the 18th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Petrovich_Gannibal
The greatest of the Russian poets, Alexander Pushkin was his great-grandson. Also, many British aristocrats descend from him.

#Africa #England #Britain #GB #UK #Russia #history #biography #Gannibal #AbramGannibal #Pushkin #AlexanderPushkin #poet

broadcasting laughter
a little too loud. Not classy.
But oh so much fun!

#575Prompt - classy
#DailyHaikuPrompt - laughter
#MastoPrompt - #broadcast

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/red-lips-kisses-kisses-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html?product=framed-print

#art #artwork #artist #artists #fediart #mastoart #mastodonart #colorful #colorfulart #lips #lipstick #kiss #kissing #kisses #sexy #sensual #funny #cute #laughter #happy #happiness #fun #red #modernart #poetry #poet #poets #poem #poems #haiku #smallpoems #writing #writingcommunity #writer #writers #mosaicart #glam

sitting in the dark
listening to all that jazz
Saxophone solo...

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/saxophone-life-music-art-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #artist #artists #fediart #mastoart #mastodonart #colorful #colorfulart #music #musica #musical #musician #rockmusic #rockandroll #musicalinstruments #jazz #jazzmusic #sax #saxophone #musicstudio #poetry #poet #poets #poem #poems #haiku #smallpoems #writing #writingcommunity #writer #writers

the cover of shade
a porch railing for a bed
Feline Siesta!

Happy Caturday! Milo taking a nap on the porch...Life is good!

#cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #catsofmastadon #caturday #catlovers #catover #kitty #kittycat #kitties #meow #purr #catart #catmom #catdad #feline #kitten #kittens #animals #animallovers #haiku #poetry #poem #poet #poets #writing #writingcommunity #smallpoems #cute #fun #summer #summertime

indigenous art
not just pretty pottery
echoes from the past...

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/colorful-native-american-pottery-art-2-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #fediart #mastoart #artist #artists #artistsofmastodon #haiku #smallpoems #writing #writingcommunity #poetry #poet #nativeamerican #design #AYearForArt #colorfulart #colorful #pattern #collage #collageart #pottery #design #poem #poems #poets #writer #writers #rainbow #indigenous

the earth is crying
breaking the chains of nature
is hurting us all...

#575Promp - chains

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/origins-earth-tone-abstract-art-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #artist #artists #fediart #mastoart #mastodonart #colorful #colorfulart #poetry #poet #poets #poem #poems #haiku #smallpoems #writing #writingcommunity #writer #writers #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #abstract #abstractart #abstractpainting #time #life #memories #climate #climatechange #earth #modernart #painting #paintings

When u know u can fly, a million fireflies will light up the night skies.
Freedom from ur iron-forged #Chrysalis takes willingness:The Hanged Man reflects; The Fool is rash&stumbles over his feet.
U'll no longer b alone, aerially dancing with silken threads,
ur wings a life-force

#writerscommunity
#art #pensketch
#digitalart #vss365 #smallpoems
#writer #poetry #poet
#artists #FediArt #MastoArt #illustration #poetrycommunity
#MastoPrompt #vss365today
#photo #photography

days at a snail's pace
the sequence of our routines
Time, the illusion.

#mastoprompt- sequence
#DailyHaikuPrompt - snail

"Time Will Tell" ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/time-will-tell-abstract-art-by-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

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what will you do with
the balance of all your days?
Less time than you think!

*lost a friend today to an accident. My age and leaves behind 2 children in high school and college. Makes you think...

ART
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it took a pounding
the guitar in the corner
a man's legacy...

#575Prompt - pounding

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/guitar-life-music-art-sharon-cummings.html

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the sacred om sound
slowly breath in and breath out
meditation time...

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/sunflower-om-meditation-art-sharon-cummings.html

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gated by darkness
careful steps along the path
fortuitous moon!

#MastoPrompt - #fortuitous
#DailyHaikuPrompt - #moon
#575Prompt - #gated

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/moon-flowers-colorful-floral-art-sharon-cummings.html

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Density

I want
for a day
to speak the language
of songbirds;

maybe
on the branch of a cherry tree
hidden in the pink,
snow like blossoms,
a soliloquy
about the joy of
hollow bones in flight,

or perhaps
just outside the window
perched
In a yaupon
flush with scarlet berries,
a lengthy sonnet to the sun
as it highlights
the way you ripple the bath
with your wings.

It's a small thing
to want,

I think,

just the one day
to wake without the density
of bones and
sing.

-Lore

#poetry #poet #poetrycommunity #writer #writingcommunity #poem #poetrylovers #poems

a soft blush of pink
infiltrates my pale white skin
A touch of Summer!

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/blush-blocks-contemporary-abstract-art-sharon-cummings.html

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fresh beautiful curves
french kissed music to my ears
she's bold and brassy!

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/french-horn-life-musical-instrument-art-sharon-cummings.html

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kaleidoscope dreams
life is an ever changing
beauty and a beast!

#575prompt - beast
#MastoPrompt - kaleidoscope

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/spiritual-art-tree-of-life-sharon-cummings.html

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years of tomorrows
the tides of time move swiftly
always seize the day!

#575prompt - tides

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/effervescent-zen-yin-and-yang-art-sharon-cummings.html

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beach tides a blank page
when I can carve out the time
I write with footprints...

#575prompt - tides
#MastoPrompt - carve
#dailyhaikuprompt - quill

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-red-dress-beach-art-by-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

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"My True Self"

Throughout my normal childhood
A silhouette in shadows stood
Beside me as I walked along
The narrow path. It was wrong,
They said, to talk to strangers, so
I acted like I didn’t know.
For forty years, that forced rejection
Blinded me to my own reflection.

#mastoprompt #sillouette

#poetry #poet #poetrycommunity #innerself #darkside #innerstruggle #poetictruth #beherenow #dreams #hopes #fears #symbolism #irony

This brat--who misbehaved in other ways as well--noticed I wrote "Monica DePaul" on the board because writing "Ms. DePaul" is not illegal under transphobic Florida law. He kept calling me "sir" in every interaction and kept trying to get my attention by shouting it across the crowded room. Legally, all I could do was ignore him because correcting him would be considered a lesson on gender politics--though technically agreeing with him and identifying my very femme-presenting self as male would ALSO be a lesson on gender politics, in addition to an outright lie. If only I hadn't gotten banned, and if only DeSantis could stop existing, I wouldn't be stuck dealing with this crap.

Transphobic freshman
He just keeps calling me "sir"
I can't correct him

#HaikusByMonica #Haiku #Daily #Poetry #Poet #AmWriting #Writer #Author #Teacher #SubstituteTeacher #Transgender #Transphobia #Florida #DeSantis

I can't compromise
in the outposts of my mind
I will never bend...

#575prompt - outpost
#DailyHaikuPrompt - bend

ART Titled "THE PHILOSOPHER"
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-philosopher-teddy-bear-art-by-william-patrick-and-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

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Perched on one of my favourite spots
- poets know it well;
the place humanity files by unfiltered.
Sat there, I watch the local street workers
trying to contain the avalanche of the lost.
I see Ahmed, who prays to Allah before his fix
in an attempt to make the pain flow easy.
I watch him lurch in front of two gods fighting for his mind.

Shortly after, he calms.
He sings a tune calling for home, I assume.
I never asked.
He staggers over to my bench,
Smiles,
'You know you worry too much, don't you?!'

I nod. We both blink into a late summer sun.
Here, perched on my favourite spot:
Poets know it well.

#Poetry #MastodonPoetry #Poem #MastodonPoets #Poet #Writing #PoetsOfMastodon #Poets #WritersOfMastodon #PoetsSociety #Drugs

hollywood soon wooed her with tidy sums for screenwriting (until she was blacklisted as a commie by the HUAC). she loathed it, but tinseltown kept her in tipple & she was ready with her dosh (in spite of her frequent need to self-medicate). in the years up to & during the second world war, dorothy wholeheartedly embraced the struggle for civil rights & served as chair of the joint anti-fascist refugee committee.
#art #illustration #dorothyParker #writer #poet #HUAC #communism #civilRights

Tuesday is for Lovers...Or Chocolate....Or Both!

*The beautiful Cosmos flower comes in a deep red burgundy color that SMELLS like chocolate! Yum! That was my inspiration for this piece and love poem.

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/love-like-chocolate-passionate-art-sharon-cummings.html

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stop pulling my strings
you cannot play me like that
I'm not a guitar!

#mastoprompt - guitar

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/colorful-electric-guitar-2-abstract-art-by-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

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we look in horror
but presentation matters
We can also smile. :)

*Another skull featuring my Labor Of Love mosaic style!

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/day-of-the-dead-colorful-skull-art-sharon-cummings.html

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Having not been around much and tweaked how I'll use this account, a new intro seems fitting.

Hi! I'm Elise (they/them), Aussie author of epic YA Fantasy with lots of #queer and some #neurodiverse rep.

I'm also a full time #teacher and a #poet, so I tend to write and toot #poetry of an evening and write on fiction on weekends.

I love reading/viewing #Fantasy, #SpeculativeFiction, thrillers & historicals.

What do you read/ write and where are you based?

#Writing #Author

blushing succulent
winter green, warm summer pink
Everything changes!

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/blush-succulent-3-botanical-art-sharon-cummings.html

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suspended goddess
feminine recalcitrance
flashing of bare legs!

#575Prompt - flashing
#MastoPrompt - recalcitrant

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/suspended-artistic-nude-stone-rockd-art-by-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

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functioning for taste
living to lick skin and feet
Splendor of the tongue!

#575prompt - tongue
#mastoprompt - function
#dailyhaikuprompt - splendor

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/colorful-saint-bernard-dog-by-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

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pretty nautilus
home with a spiral staircase
Room for only one!

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/aqua-coral-nautilus-shell-art-sharon-cummings.html

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yearning for respite
an unrelenting heat wave
Angry burning sun!

#575prompt - burning

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/fire-water-260-by-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

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