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A small café scene undergoes reduction: under epoché, the ordinary arrangement of a morning table is bracketed, released from every positing of use or existence. Before any project gathers them, these things remain in releasement, a field of appearances freed from claim or task, where even the simplest objects begin to show themselves otherwise.

https://medium.com/the-poets-corner/the-gelassenheit-of-pastry-7a4915ca1e6a

#philosophy #poetry #freeverse #Heidegger #everydaylife

#completethehaiga 146 #prompt hurt living in fear, the world seems unbearable- embrace love to live #Haiku #Senryu #Haiga #Tanka #FreeVerse #Poetry #Micropoetry #poetrycommunity #poetryprompt #skypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrysky #PictureAndAPoem #WestCoastKin #ECK @[email protected]

"Go, Samurai.
Slash a throat,
And lick the blood from the crimson blade…"

• Samurái (Poem)

https://none-dc.neocities.org/Poems/Works/Samurai/

Food & Emotion

A bowl half-empty,
Still, we clink our spoons and laugh—
Enough is plenty.

#Haiku #Poetry #Poems #Food #Micropoetry #FreeVerse

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The Glass Ceiling

You have to have the attitude of a brick
in order to bring down the glass ceiling above you.
The strength of a madman
and the willingness to fail.

How easy it is to point out the failures of yesterday,
and how difficult it is to admit our own failures upon inheriting our parent’s success.
There is no perfect flower in the rose garden
only the perfume of the bloom, and the smell of fertilizer.
Your tears shall not feed the roots of tomorrow
for that blessing comes from higher up.

Instead,
try nurturing a thistle of your own to perfection
sharpen the colors with love and dignity
Watch it grow in the worst of times.
For it’s core strength stems from appreciation  
and determination.

Those that forge their life from your work
hold you in honorarium!
When they dance, they dance for you
when they sing, they sing to you,
when kind words and actions flow from their souls
it’s an acknowledgement of your attentiveness.

What feeds the stem will feed the soul
and what feeds the soul, feeds your God.

Image: A Blue Thistle taken from Nature and Garden’s web-page.
used without permission.
https://www.nature-and-garden.com/gardening/thistle.html

#Senryu | #completethehaiga 142. Art by Josiah. sun warms the pier fish frolic under dappled light quiet contemplation #Haikufeels #Haiku #Haiga #FreeVerse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Writing #poetrysky #writesky #PoetryCommunity #skypoets #blueskypoetry @[email protected]

#Emoetry | #Empty Sometimes a poem writes itself after seeing an image or word like,"empty" as this did #FreeVerse #Poetry #poetryprompt #WritingPrompts #Writing #poetrysky #writesky #poetrycommunity #skypoets #blueskypoetry #ImageAndVerse #PictureAndAPoem #Photography #WestCoastKin #EastcoastKin

#HaikuFeels | #Crash crash the thunder roars splash goes the torrential downpour. . . tranquility returns #Haiku #Senryu #Haiga #FreeVerse #Poetry #Micropoetry #poetryprompt #WritingPrompts #Writing #poetrysky #writesky #skypoets #blueskypoetry #ImageAndVerse #PictureAndAPoem #Photography

Crow’s Nest Warning

The Great Captain has gone insane
lashing at the sea with all his might
as thunder echoes and lightning strikes
will he be forever lost?

Dejected souls stand the shoreline
awaiting answers that will never come
feel the rain upon the face
for its the only truth that still exists.

The lighthouse keeper has fallen asleep
the light diminishes with each wave
those seeking shelter from the storm
are impaled upon the rocky shore.

Voices scream into the darkness
the captain continues his quest
as violent the storm, so too is his wrath
that leads him into the soulless abyss.

Warnings from the crow’s nest fail
darkness swallows the souls onboard
the helm has sunk beneath the waves
as the albatross takes to the sky.

Songs of warning written in tongues
moral stories told to our young
careful of the ship you step upon
for the lighthouse keeper sleeps in silence.

Author Michael Plante
Image: Shipwreck 1772 by Claude-Joseph Vernet
used without permission.

#Senryu | #completethehaiga 139. Art by Josiah. the moods of the sea are as the seasonings on the food of my life #Haikufeels #Haiku #Haiga #FreeVerse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Homophones #WordPlay #Writing #poetrysky #writesky #PoetryCommunity #skypoets #blueskypoetry @[email protected]

✨️🪾❄️📄❄️🪾✨️ snowy field the vastness of a blank page #EastCoastKin #ImageAndVerse #Cassiopeian Vast #haiku #俳句 #Freeverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Nature #Wolftwin #Landscape #ClassicMono

Having recently read it aloud at a charity event, I have finally just published to my website my 2012 essay "Lie to Me", written at the time for my friend Juli, inviting honesty, which it suggests is more about trust, immediacy and fearlessness than it is about truth. I figured somehow that Valentine's week was a good time to get it out into the world.

There is an accompanying audio reading by me. It is about 5 minutes long.

https://nhplace.com/kent/Writing/Lie-To-Me.html

#Valentine #Valentines #ValentinesDay #honesty #truth #lies #lying #trust #immediacy #honesty #essay #writing #WritingCommunity #poem #FreeVerse

✨️🪨🌊☁️⛵️☁️🌊🪨✨️ clouds shape narrative shoal r o c k tales form a library #BlueSkyArtShow #Clouds #EastCoastKin #ImageAndVerse #Cassiopeian Libraries #haiku #俳句 #Freeverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Nature #Wolftwin #ocean #ClassicMono

✨️🌊🌿🌺⚗️🌺🌿🌊✨️ mountain creek thaws the poison garden stirs itself #BlueSkyArtShow #Vibrant #EastCoastKin #DailyHaikuPrompt Creek #haiku #俳句 #Freeverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Macro #Photography #Nature #Wolftwin #Bloomscrolling

My poem "Ode to Melanin" is online at Uppagus https://uppagus.com/poems/magahiz-melanin/
#poetry #race #freeverse

✨️🔖🌺⏰️🌺🔖✨️ placeholder hibiscus counts down to springt i m e #ImageAndVerse #EastCoastKin #OurPoetryX #Stunday #Haiku #MicroPoem #俳句 #Freeverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Macro #Bloomscrolling #visualpoetry

✨️🌬🌴🌊🌴🌬✨️ apogee of gentle wind s a t i n t i d e s #BlueSkyArtShow #FavoriteThings #EastCoastKin #vss365 Apogee #haiku #俳句 #Freeverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Nature #Wolftwin #Beach #StJohn

✨️🌬🫧🌕🫧🌬✨️ opal mist aglow constellations light the way moonlight leaves behind #haiku #freeverse #Micropoetry #PoetryCommunity Read my other two haiku published by Tiny Prophecies @[email protected] ✨️Link below 🔗⬇️✨️

Białowieża | Aglow | Indigo - ...

✨️❄️🌲💙🌨💙🌲❄️✨️ d e c e m b e r white blanket wraps us in snowfall #BlueSkyArtShow #Sky #EastCoastKin #DailyHaikuPrompt December #haiku #俳句 #Freeverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Nature #Wolftwin #Winter

Undress me
https://thelavendergaze.com/2017/02/undress-me/

Undress me.
Let me lie naked before you
as I am
without protection or masks …

#AuthenticSelf #FreeVerse #GayLove #GayWriter #LGBTQ #LGBTQLove #LGBTQPoetry #Poems #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Pride #Queer #QueerArtist #QueerLove #QueerMastodon #QueerPoetry #Sensual #VulnerableWriting #WritingCommunity

Undress me
https://thelavendergaze.com/2017/02/undress-me/

Undress me.
Let me lie naked before you
as I am
without protection or masks …

#AuthenticSelf #FreeVerse #GayLove #GayWriter #LGBTQ #LGBTQLove #LGBTQPoetry #Poems #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Pride #Queer #QueerArtist #QueerLove #QueerMastodon #QueerPoetry #Sensual #VulnerableWriting #WritingCommunity

Undress me
https://thelavendergaze.com/2017/02/undress-me/

Undress me.
Let me lie naked before you
as I am
without protection or masks …

#AuthenticSelf #FreeVerse #GayLove #GayWriter #LGBTQ #LGBTQLove #LGBTQPoetry #Poems #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Pride #Queer #QueerArtist #QueerLove #QueerMastodon #QueerPoetry #Sensual #VulnerableWriting #WritingCommunity

Undress me
https://thelavendergaze.com/2009/02/undress-me/

Undress me.
Let me lie naked before you
as I am
without protection or masks …

#AuthenticSelf #FreeVerse #GayLove #GayWriter #LGBTQ #LGBTQLove #LGBTQPoetry #Poems #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Pride #Queer #QueerArtist #QueerLove #QueerMastodon #QueerPoetry #Sensual #VulnerableWriting #WritingCommunity

UNDRESS ME
https://thelavendergaze.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/undress-me/

Undress me.
Let me lie naked before you
as I am
without protection or masks …

#AuthenticSelf #FreeVerse #GayLove #GayWriter #LGBTQ #LGBTQLove #LGBTQPoetry #Poems #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Pride #Queer #QueerArtist #QueerLove #QueerMastodon #QueerPoetry #Sensual #VulnerableWriting #WritingCommunity #Sex

✨️🩷☀️🤍 📖 🤍☀️🩷✨️ scent of warmth sun's saga flips through p e o n y #BlueSkyArtShow #Warmth #EastCoastKin #haikuchallenge Saga #haiku #俳句 #Freeverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Macro #Bloomscrolling #Wolftwin

✨️☁️💙☁️✨️ clouds tangle gazing up I like being small #BlueSkyArtShow #Small #EastCoastKin #WildWalkPrompt Tangle #haiku #俳句 #Freeverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #clouds

Not sure what this is kind of a #freeverse #poem with commentary.

It’s autobiographical and fundamentally a #Christian message

Though are some brutal and kinda gross stuff in the poem

So tw for body functions and starvation

https://m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2025/11/sniveling-little-cry-babys-piss-me-off.html

My metapoem "Cast iron sonnet" was published in Eunoia Review https://eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/cast-iron-sonnet/
#metapoetry #freeverse #sonnet