"Say every candle, every flickering lamp dies out.
No reason to despair.
Within us, we carry the flint and steel to spark a flame."
--Jalal al-Din Rumi, trans. Haleh Liza Gafori
@dgbarlekamp.bsky.social
@dgbarlekamp.bsky.social"Say every candle, every flickering lamp dies out.
No reason to despair.
Within us, we carry the flint and steel to spark a flame."
--Jalal al-Din Rumi, trans. Haleh Liza Gafori
@sueghosh.bsky.socialSitting still on my bed,
Gasping for breath.
Yearning to touch the earth,
Feeling its rawness.
Missing what never happened,
Embracing what is.
©Sudesna Ghosh
@sandymcintosh.bsky.social“His clean, swift poems strike the reader's eye as well as heart as they rangle from hope to nightmare, from loss to social comedy."
-Michael Heller
@kevinhogan.bsky.social27 pages on absence this morning, feel like western culture needs to embrace the idea of fleetingness over persistence, find traces of nothing #PoetrySky
@paulsemel.bsky.socialStarted reading Jeffrey McDaniel's "The Endarkenment: Poems"
amzn.to/4uRu8Pq
Weird, this is the middle book of seven he's written, but it feels like his first. At least the first 20 pages do.
#books #reading #poetry #poems @upittpress.bsky.social
#BooKSky #PoetrySky
@joolsvergne.bsky.socialWe need a nowhere to be seen, unfold your sail to the evergreen. There is no safe way to do that, but who cares? Who dares swim.
@aetherpoet.bsky.socialIrony in bold.
Black-brittle-abused backbone.
Journey circumspect.
#haiku #micropoetry #PoetrySky #DarkPoetry #WritingCommunity
@readingraindoe.bsky.socialodyssey~
the journey begins
not with a single step, but
a plunge.
destiny: my star
or the abyss—
Who can say?
the spirit charts
its own bright ways
#♡ᝰ.🖋️
#poetrysky #poetry #poem
@aetherpoet.bsky.socialWheels in forward march
Sadness caresses some minds:
Infinity wails.
#haiku #micropoetry #PoetrySky #DarkPoetry #WritingCommunity
@kevinhogan.bsky.socialSome stuff you'll know, but this looks like it will be a good weekly series #PoetrySky
@odessagrimm.bsky.sociali was easy to love because i cost nothing to keep
nobody warned me
about the bottom of the well
#poetry
#poetrysky
#booksky
#poem
#poet
@martinembree.bsky.socialLast Man Standing Part 2
sci fi western epic poem
#SciFiWestern #EpicPoem #NarrativePoetry #SFFCommunity #PoetrySky
@northseapoets.bsky.socialTickets are still available for the next #NorthSeaPoets course 🌊
'Writing With...' is back this autumn with a brand new series. Join us on either Wednesdays or Saturdays, starting October 2026.
Book your place at buff.ly/EPPXZUp
@jonadcock.bsky.social
@richardjgreene.bsky.social
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@flusteredduck.bsky.social