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If there is a way my will will find it

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tightrope
Talking
Valves
Bi

whichever way the wind blows
despite my yearning
for equilibrium
my grasp on the pole,
I

#poetry #mastopoetry #smallpoems

Voila, here is your cool poem of the day: Danez Smith, Dinosaurs in the Hood

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/57585/dinosaurs-in-the-hood

#poetry #dinosaur #amreading #mastopoetry #DinosaurMovie #hope #joy

so filled with ire
my pen solely allows me
hollow bullet points

#poetry #senryu #smallpoems #mastopoetry

✍️ Lyrics by @wittgensteinmonster
📯 Let the ancestors sing.

#AncestrySongOrPoem
#Poetry #Spiritual #Indigenous #Jewish #Scottish #Irish #Cherokee
#Mastopoetry #FolkSong

Snacking

Such sweet and voracious tearing,
rending then chewing cherry flesh
during the first read of a poem.

And for subsequent reads,
endlessly rolling the pit between tongue and roof,
saliva and friction removing every last morsel.

#poem #shortpoem #mastopoetry

My poem for today’s #PoemsAbout prompt #Spectacle - hosted by @BrokenSpineArts over on BSky

Wrote this reflecting on an experience here in suburbia, walking home from a park and hearing a mysterious music in the air from no source I could identify.

#poetry #writingCommunity #MastoPoetry

let
the garden stay over
grown at least it
has grown into some
thing i keep receiving
pointless numbers
turn right in 400m
the road stops
in 200m 100 people
applauding me when i
drive off the
pier the harbor floor bleeds
petrol and then everyone
leaves
the city in the
end

#Poetry
#OCPoetry
#Poem
#MastoPoetry
#MastoPoem

#artists never drink alone
we toast our #muse
who clinks with the touch
pen to paper
brush to canvas
press of clay
twist of metal
dizzy only from
a proper translation

#poem #smallpoem #mastopoetry

Poem 27:

went to
clean the house
burned it down in
stead buddha screaming
at me keep
it simple you should
only own 6
things he must have
meant 5 matches and
a matchbox but thats
history now thats
to be written down and
forgotten

#Poetry
#Poem
#MastoPrompt
#MastoPoetry

Poem 26:

some
one once told
me just pray and
i did and they
did answer and
love became hatred
became nothing and
rain fell at some
funeral and made
peoples clothes
heavy and no
one seem to
remember when i
ask why

#Poetry
#Poem
#MastoPoetry
#MastoPoem

Poem 25:

im
happy letters
dangling from a
tree a cat
under reaching for
them with her paw
like in some youtube
video we cant
spell anything
anymore but mind
less joy

#Poetry
#Poem
#MastoPoetry
#MastoPoem

Poem 22:

they
took our guitar
gave us a
rifle instead told
us to shoot the play
wright theres nothing
to sing about but
the alleys
echoing and mute
birds on the street
lights a bus
that leaves full
of people and
comes back empty

#Poetry
#Poem
#MastoPoetry
#MastoPoem

Poem21:

one
great man is
all it takes we
will spend our lives
waiting im
sitting on
a bench in the mall
browsing the page
of a supermarket on
my phone picturing a
truck dumping food into
the harbor a man standing
in front of me telling
me ill just have to
wait for my
chance

#Poetry
#Poem
#MastoPoetry
#MastoPoem

Poem 20:

what
has the world
come to an end
to all those
apocalyptic
prophecies people seem
to fear being alive
just to face some
one with a semi
automatic down the
mall or an elected push
ing the button more
than death

#Poetry
#Poem
#MastoPoetry
#MastoPoem

Poem 19:

some
one was singing
anti
war songs down
on the street
corner but no
one cares for music
anymore you can
win or lose in
a bet and you can
hope the bullet will
never reach the
chamber but you
cant outrun
what already
has been
written

#Poetry
#Poem
#MastoPoetry
#MastoPoem

Poem 17:

for
what it is
worth dont run
naked down the streets
with the air
raid sirens ripping
your flesh off down
to the bones stay
in bed and make that
last kiss
last in
stead

#Poetry
#Poem
#MastoPoetry
#MastoPoem

Poem 16:

if you
look close
enough patterns
will emerge re
calculating
trajectory a child
falling from an apple
tree symbols around
her neck a rattle
snake a scream
pounding leaves
into dust

#Poetry
#Poem
#MastoPoetry
#MastoPoem

Tuesday the Thirteenth:

two neighbors
fighting over a
peanut tree i rode
an elephant through
the city last night
people fled down the
streets screaming
like light
bulbs the sun was
long gone we
only had each other
left it turned
out to be the reality
we were facing

#Poetry
#Poem
#MastoPoetry
#MastoPoem

Gedicht Nummer elf

sing and
drown out the
loud silence youth
is sitting on a bench
at a parking lot listening
to a che guevara banner
fluttering from a dorm
window or the hollow sound
when hitting the crossbar of
a soccer goal

#Poetry
#Poem
#MastoPoetry
#MastoPoem

Gedicht Nummer zehn

see
right through
me like im a ghost
or a glass
of water the streets
are empty the mall
is overgrown branches
reach out
of the broken
windows i would
love to hear from
you again but then
again who
wouldnt

#Poetry
#Poem
#MastoPoetry
#MastoPoem

what would
the end of the
world look like
probably weird pale
people who havent
slept for weeks running
around on the streets
screaming i told you
so a stray cat sitting
on the hood of every
car birds nesting in
side your oven im fresh
out of the shower
just waiting for things
to happen

#Poetry
#Poem
#MastoPoetry
#MastoPoem

Poem8:

the great
man theory he will
come we just
have to
sit by at the
bar last night went
into a fight with
the union
steward he left
in an ambulance i
went home alone
bruised knuckles people
all fled to
the opposite pavement
none denied that thats
what strength is

#Poetry
#Poem
#MastoPoetry
#MastoPoem

Poem the sixth:

truth
or dare is a
zero sum game
your mom calling
you in for dinner im
standing on a
bridge throwing that
broken ghetto
blaster i just won
into the river

#Poetry
#Poem
#MastoPoetry
#MastoPoem

The fifth:

high pressure
economy im on the
bus on the way to
work neighbors on
the phone talking
about my demented
mother running naked
around on the
lawn outside the
house insanity is the
first step towards that
one idea that will
make you win in
this world

#Poetry
#Poem
#MastoPoetry
#MastoPoem

Poem the fourth

you
are a killer
we can see it in
your eyes you
can empty
a drugstore
and afford it every
thing you say we
believe in that's
who you
are

#Poetry
#Poem
#MastoPoetry
#MastoPoem

Poem the third:

you want
a clear view
mountain climbing crisp
snow rattling spruce on
the 75 inch this is
why we know about
love this is why
we yell

#Poetry
#Poem
#MastoPoetry
#MastoPoem

Poem something:

you want kids
then you want
food and health
good health you
want to live all
along but
thats not for
you to
decide

#Poetry
#Poem
#MastoPoetry
#MastoPoem

Dyslexia makes angles of angels
and vica-verce – haloed,
painted always by the late RMs with
side eye,
while all the roads not taken,
taunt with unbroken blades
like defiling a cherub
with its bow drawn,
hovering.

#poem #poetry #smallpoem #mastopoetry

tar snakes
aglow in sunset on a bend in I-80
kintsugi

#haiku #poetry #smallpoems #mastopoetry

KARE RAISU

take me to your place
i'll make you lunch
kare raisu
lots of butter
ginger
and curry
carrots, potato and apples
no chicken, though
i'll have to look up
what to replace it with
for the protein
just remember to save some
to take with you on monday
after we could
have some coffee
do you have any?
i like mine with milk
do you have any?
sorry, where's the sugar?
no, don't worry
i'll do the dishes
fine, FINE
then i do the plates and pots
you do the forks and mugs
where's your bathroom?
come with me
let's watch a romance
on your mirror

#poetry #fantasy #poem #mastopoetry #mastopoets #mastopoem #MastoArt #mastoartist #art #poet

busy night

rubber bumpers on swinging restaurant kitchen doors
a drunken boxer at a speed bag

#poetry #smallpoem #mastopoetry

dropping keys from my pocket
playing a crane game at 46

#poetry #smallpoems #mastopoetry

in gridlock traffic
a funeral procession
comes to a dead stop

#senryu #poetry #smallpoems #mastopoetry

overheard at a coffee shop

“I was in a coma for 17 days. They had my chest open for five days.”

To express the opening of his chest,
the man burst both hands
in obtuse angles –
one palm on each lung.

I just finished watching Alien
again
and even greater than that trauma,
thought,

And just imagine:
poets live like that.
Our greatest fear
is being sewn shut.

#poetry #poem #mastopoetry

It just started to rain.
Clouds have been lowering, darkening
since my thoughts drifted to the distance
between your lips and mine.
Mark how my quivering chin
wrings sympathy
even from the heavens.

#poem #shortpoems #mastopoetry

it's not forgetfulness,
the memories burrow.
it's instinct, you (don't) see:
Gods are shy,
and when they're born
inside a poet
DNA rewritten
to rewrite
everything,
they hoard,
only to release
at the proper
line.

#poetry #smallpoems #mastopoetry

often,
as I mount my chin
between my knees -
brought up like twin mountains
beneath my peak,
I wonder how she sees
me poem
or pros
e with ran
dom l
i
ne break
s

#poetry #smallpoems #mastopoetry

almost everyone
gawking at the Northern Lights
greedy NJ clouds

#haiku #poetry #smallpoem #mastopoetry #northernlights

Counting On The Restraint Of Carnivores

Harder
she pants
my teeth
teasing her
tenderest flesh.
Harder.

#poetry #smallpoems #mastopoetry #nationalpoetrymonth

hunting foragers
of khobiza and lemons
Israel's food trap

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gazas-hungry-eat-wild-plant-with-no-aid-relief-sight-2024-03-25/

@NewVerseNews

#poetry #poem #mastopoetry #senryu #politics #gaza #gazagenocide

red fallen buds
pool by backed up sewer grate
an early storm

#haiku #poem #poetry #smallpoems #mastopoetry

as I grow older, fatter
soap bars get thinner faster

#poetry #micropoetry #mastopoetry #smallpoems

taking note in traffic
coming to a temporary pause
by a graffiti asterisk
spray paint on a concrete barrier
separating opposing fast lanes

#WhitmanTanka #toomanysyllables #poetry #smallpoems #mastopoetry

Your spare pair of sandals
under my bedside table,
a spare toothbrush
held close beside mine,
a foot in the door to which
you already own the keys.

#poetry #smallpoems #mastopoetry

not enough tender
kisses and cuddles offered
as apologies

#senryu #poetry #poem #smallpoems #mastopoetry

she wants to
dress up and
take me out
dancing but I
do not own
any two s cks
without holes
for either of
my left feet

#poetry #smallpoems #mastopoetry

heater and radio
dialed up to eleven
ice breaks off my car

#senryu #poetry #smallpoems #mastopoetry

Perhaps Most of All

Sitting at a table
with everything ordered
within my reach
for a perfect Sunday morning,
I think of her
innate, unnameable sadness
and want to take that
too.

#poetry #smallpoems #mastopoetry

A poem I wrote many years ago:
Awakening

And when you realise
that I'm not the Messiah
And that the god has feet of clay
And in the sunrise
of all our tomorrows
When our paths may still lead stray
With the awakening of the sky
Will I be hearing your startled cry
When you see I am no lion
Will you reject me

Or give me boots of iron?
#MastoPoetry #Poetry

She is learning
Now
All the mediocrity
That comes from
Dating a poet and
Loving
Every minute of it.

I must stitch
These moments into memory
Before the lack of expiration
Date
Makes them spoil.

#poetry #smallpoems #mastopoetry #love #dating

unexpected halt
cars in both directions wait
on turkey vultures
wide iron gates spread open
before an empty graveyard

#death #circleoflife #poetry #smallpoems #mastopoetry

closed for the season
ice cream locked away until
temperate turns hot

#senryu #poetry #smallpoems #mastopoetry

Let me add my second book of poems to the #FediBookFair - you can hear (and see) me read the title poem here (TW: eye contact):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAaWzQbPzOQ

and check out the book here:
https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780898234060/the-apidictor-tapes.aspx

#mastopoets #mastopoetry #naturepoetry #writingcommunity @writingcommunity #aceliterature #neurodivergence #queerwriters #poetry #bookstodon

How the corner of your lips
Curls into a Cheshire smile,
Previously puckered drapes part
As you beg me to
Pound harder,
Knowing my touch gentle by nature,
That I need to be told to be rough
Because studs are
Hidden behind drywall.

#poetry #smallpoems #mastopoetry #eroticpoetry #homerepair

cold front bringing rain
frenzied squirrels foraging
under burning leaves

#poetry #haiku #smallpoems #mastopoetry

All my girlfriends
Who wear prescriptions
Take off their glasses
Then call me handsome

#poetry #smallpoems #mastopoetry