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@nicholejohnson.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 2:06 PM

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@nicholejohnson.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 12:55 PM

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...I alone was a dream, a figment which had never really touched anything. I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

—John KnowlesStrings

Oh, steadfast Apollo, 
Marble skin drinking the sun—
And I, existing in the shadows 
Cast only in the places 
You escape the light.

You stand solid—
Where eyes perceive your edges,
Each year tracing another line.
While I dance through the dust,
Particles drifting at your feet.

And you have tasted me,
That lingering salt upon your tongue—
But failed to hold my definition,
Swallowing me instead…
Yet finding no nourishment. 

Still I dream
To one day be made a lyre—
Then hear you sing
Of how I had lived inside the sun
And already kissed your skin.
@nicholejohnson.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 12:20 PM

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#Poetry #Poem #Ballad #WritingPromptWednesday

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

—Pablo Neruda
The Architecture of Absence 

I hear the hush
As it hisses and hums,
A ghostly whisper,
Like ears filled with fog.

The walls, now as thin
As the skin of a drum,
Hold sepia slivers
Of daydreams I bought.

Each doorway an echo,
Each window the crush 
Of empty winds whining—
Should I let them in?

Here in this hollow
I no longer rush—
Just starve on the quiet 
In walls with thin skin.

Just watching in stupor
As slivers let go—
Wrapped up in wounds
That fester and follow.

No sepia daydreams
When dreaming alone.
Just rooms made of paper,
And the silence below.