I smile
with my practiced smile,
cry
with my exasperated tears,
perhaps this morning
will whisper something
different,
perhaps the day will hold
me with arms more dear;

1/2

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a shoulder
to lean and cry on
the old oak

#InkMine #cry
#HaikuSaturday #Haiku #micropoetry #micropoem

I have survived;
slowly, fog gives way
to the sunrise

#InkMine #survive
#DailyHaikuPrompt #fog
#WriteMap #sunrise
#HaikuSaturday #Haiku #micropoetry #micropoem

6/7

...put its mark on you, leave the book of the dead closed. Because, after all, what is the purpose of life if not living?

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#BlueSkyArtShow - #lights
#poetry #FromOneLine 430 #BornBattleReady #inkMine #MPPrompt (2026-09-22 & 26) #soulseedslove #AmpersandAfterDark 63 & 64 ...

Enduring rhythm,
The songs of life will survive,
Woven in the winds.
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@inkmine.bsky.social

Youth, as I #reckon,
curt recalls, gaps, spent seconds.
Curt? I don't recall.

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today it takes
a village to #survive
massive global insecurities

#inkMine #poetry

#InkMine
#survive

finding things to do
to survive rainy weekend
with seven year old

mining some ink? spill it
#prompts Sept 25, 2026

Weekend #Prompt - SURVIVE
(any form of the word)
sixword~tenword~tanka~haiku

** please! No AI **
**no AI words photos or art**

post with the hashtag: #inkMine

defy gravity

#inkMine #monoku #mijikai

You seem-
hesitant-
to face your
reckoning-
I do not need to wonder
why,
I am your
mirror,
all of your terror
without refrain,
all your cruelty and
disdain,
all of your sickness
that defied darkness
lives on
my face, in my
memory-
you run
and run
#emoetry #vss365 #inkmine #vssmagic #poetry

#InkMine
#thereby

He starts with hereby
Causing us to sigh
He’s likely to drone
While we loudly groan
Hoping not to cry
‘Ere he says thereby

feel his woe
happy with the blues
for the record.
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Some nights, clouds low between me and the moon, I get so heavy I could cry. Can barely lift my boots.

So Old Robot crackles into funny old longago songs. Policeman laughing, or cleanin' windows, and a whole world smiling.

The best way to defy gravity, Old Robot says, is a little levity.

#inkMine

Something I reflect on often…the moment between there and gone ✍🏼

#poetry #inkmine #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky

I want to
spend winter
with you
cold nights
in your arms
warmed by
your touch,
the lights of
a Christmas tree,
snowed in for
a night or two
to dream
with you

#poetry #longing #fire #inkmine #photography #eck #westcoastkin

bombing an oil-rich country
thereby sparking inflation

#inkMine

The beauty pageant
entrants vowed to end #hunger
for all but themselves.

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