how much poison will it take 'til i either succumb to the venom or find it in me to make an antidote?

#micropoem #poetry #shortpoetry #writing #dark #sad #mentalhealth

nobody knows
of the silent #hurricane
that twists and turns in my head

i just go through the motions
smile when i must
pretend my mind is not

d e s t r o y i n g
itself
day in day out

#vss365 #dark #sad #poetry #writing #shortpoetry #bskypoets

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• Short poetry up to 100 words
• Microfiction up to 300 words
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writing all these musings
is a cry to myself
as i come to realize
i am my own cage

#writing #poetry #darkacademia #sad #dark #poetic #shortpoetry

i #habour
the burden of loneliness
unwillingly

and the most
that i can do
is weather the storm

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what did my soul
do to have a constant shadow
with the name "loneliness"
curse me cradle to grave?

#sad #dark #poetry #writing #alone #darkacademia #shortpoetry #sadpoetry #lonely

to be a romantic to is to forever chase love's #lure and never find happiness

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following the winds of whimsy is not the cure for the loneliness you bury

#micropoem #whimsy #poetry #writing #sad #shortpoetry #dark

This micro means a lot to me. True story. To read it, scroll down to the bottom of fiction. Thanks to Edward Ahern and ScribesMICRO. www.fairfieldscribes.com/issue-62.html/ #writing #writer #poetry #poetrycommunity #poem #poetrylovers #shortpoetry

love is a knife-
cutthroat in how you feel
every
last
slice
of the blade

#love #hurt #poetry #writing #sad #shortpoetry #dark #sadpoetry

Thanks to Joe Woodhouse and C.X. Turner for publishing my poem in Wales Haiku Journal. #micropoetry #micropoem #haiku #haikupoetry #haikuoftheday #haikulover #writing #writer #poetry #haikucommunity #dailyhaiku #poemsofinstagram #poetrycommunity #poem #poetrylovers #shortpoetry

i traverse this #mountain
alone
with nothing but the burdens
of my very existence
refusing to keep their distance

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if you know when you've found the one, perhaps i resign myself that love chose to leave me lonely for this life

#sad #love #poetry #writing #original #sadpoetry #shortpoetry #darkacademia

Here are places to submit your haiku, senryu, and other short forms for October! markhpoetry.substack.com/p/october-wh... #micropoetry #micropoem #haiku #haikupoetry #haikuoftheday #haikulover #writing #writer #poetry #haikucommunity #dailyhaiku #poetrycommunity #poem #poetrylovers #shortpoetry

in the pursuit of whimsy
everyone has fallen for its spell,
the shadows don't disappear
yet blind eyes remain turned

#darkacademia #melancholy #originalpoetry #shortpoetry #whimsy #sad #dark #darkpoetry #writing

what would you do
if you found all i could #bequest
laid between the lines of my poetry?

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