Startling pic – at first glance I thought the glasses were broken! Your lines, though, suggest the perfect combination, with also a suggestion of the 'half-full' glass of the optimist.
No Bones About It
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Courtesy of Pixabay
Struggling to grasp the larger end
no wish bone will bring you back
there are no words for me to send
within my heart lies a ...
1389
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[bones from Picsart]
*White Bones - A Quadrille*
White bones picked clean,
Phantoms of the night bring,
Scattering the front path,
No rattling of the f...
A trickle, a stream, a river
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source
This poem is a trickle
In the vast sea of meaning
A break in the habit that dulls dawn
and puts days on automatic.
This poem is a stream in
...
This Poem
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*source*
*This Poem*
This poem is an island
surrounded by water
I live on this island
I am surrounded by beauty
and the restless sounds of the sea,
wave...
THIS POEM
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This poem will not bring the climate
back into balance, elect sane leaders,
stop incomprehensible and immoral wars,
or grant us peace.
It won't plump ...
April - A Mirrored Or Double Acrostic
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This week's prompts of Poets And Storytellers United are a bunch of quotes:
*Rommy * says, "The month of April seems to have lots of different imagery
asso...
MLMM MONDAY WORDLE # 471
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hearing from himalways makes her smilethe air thick with blush pink
nostalgiathe very thought of giving him a silver traywrapped in gold foil
tied with a ...
Becoming Natures' Breath
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*~let it come if it must, and it shall, as these moments shall pass, for it
is change that is the only constant of the Universe(s), the onl...
An April Heart
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https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2026/04/friday-writings-221-april-quotes.html
" It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poe...
false spring
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your hands were warm,
as were your letters
against my cold touch
i did not know spring then -
nor the weight of long winter
this i now know:
my heart...
Spring Break Up
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Odilon Redon, Spring, circa 1910
Last night,
grief held my body
in deep soreness
underneath my roughened, toughened skin.
I lay awake, feari...
Goat's Delight
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Goat's Delight
The yellowed moon hangs low,
a pendant swung from night's cold neck,
blind platinum stare bent
blinkless on the baleful ea...
Hangnail in Artificial
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My words are mine, fragile, bold,
nonsensical, angry, or in any other
form or attitude that drips from my pen.
I place my heart in poetry while a
th...
Wonder
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Grandma’s hands are almost never still. They’re usually guiding a needle
through a hem, repairing a worn sock, or knitting something warm. But
toni...
Writers Circle Prompt: Halloween, et al, the dead
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source
*Spiritual connections between the living and the dead*
When asked what Halloween, All Saints Day, and Day of the Dead have in
common, AI tell...
2 New Short Poems
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IN THE TIME OF SHORTENING DAYS
The crickets have come
to sing summer out,
smooth black invisible chirring
like planets spinning.
I have fed the little rat...
The History of One Life
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Linking with Shay's Word Garden Word List -- The Prodigy
*Come join us!*
*Through many windows life looks out... Through windows rosy with young...
About the Poet
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Collected Works 2009 - 2024 About the Poet
Kerry O’Connor has been writing poetry since 2009. Her themes are
existential and she draws inspiration fro...
Hopefulness
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Cynicism
is the most unforgiving
proof of gravity.
I arrive at
the pinnacle
of the Hill of Hope,
and I stayed up there
for a minute,
catching my...
The Barefoot Peace of Ash Wednesday
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peace, barefoot
walking slowly toward me
floating grey and silver
the Holy flashing through
peace, a gathering of flickering angels
he then she then...
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A Stimulated Mind
by
Belva Staples
*Making things entirely from scratch, *
*Brings a certain sense of satisfaction, *
*Because the uniqueness of a cr...
Time For Testing Testing
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I think it has been a while since the cat posted something here. Who knows
though as time is different for a rhyming rear. What? That doesn't count
one b...
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When I started this blog in 2012, I had no long-term expectations for it. I
simply wanted to provide prompts as a small service to other poets. Over ...
Early morning light
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The sun's early morning light breaks through the bedroom window
And brightens the dim room where I wake from my sleep
Her own pictures on the walls no...
A Note from the Poet
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Excuse me while I kiss the sky....
*Jimi Hendrix*
Dear friends and fellow poets
Thank you for visiting my Skywriting Blog, which has been my creative spa...
I BELIEVE ONLY IN GARLIC
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https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/
*It is mid morning*
*and some salesmonkey in Mississippi*
*is ringing my number*
*ignoring the grave warn...
A Wise Woman Writes a Survival Manual
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Morgue File
by Ken Brasier
I do what I can,
whip white horses into froth
to line a horizon
pull at bone layers
to make spit out of fire
fill you w...
Everyday Table
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This is a poem written for the Midweek Motif on Poets United on “Everyday
Living.”
http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2019/10/poets-united-midweek-motif-ev...
Poets United
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I happened to visit Poets United and discovered two wonderful ladies, who
have given hours of their time to this creative poetic endeavor are passing
their...
Zipline
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I was browsing my Facebook page when a promotion from Toroverde - Jebel
Jais Flight popped up. It was offering a 54% discount from its regular
price for y...
How Did It Feel
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How did it feel
the breath that you held
for heartbeats,
four heartbeats,
a sway hollow knell.
Rattling ribs
till they finally fell
apart - tell me, how did ...
A MOMENT of PERFECT PEACE...
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I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light.
For a time I rest in the grace of the world,...
Poem: ACCEPT
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*This was written for Poets United's Midweek Motif:*
*Dark Moon, New Moon*
*I have to accept the hurricanes*
*that are happening everywhere*
*Look at them l...
A Lesson in Melittology (or Tea with Plath)
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“You always made the best tea”, I confess.
Something in the method: fanning the bag
In the cathartic lung space ‘tween spoon and china. ...
Lions and Tigers and Bears
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Oh my...
Lion, hats and background from the Midnight Reverie collab from Mischief
Circus; the rest from my stash.
I love polar bears!
Tuesday Poem - 'Agnus Dei' by Marty Smith
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*Agnus Dei*
I carried the lamb in a sack on my horse
It's buggered, said Dad, throw it in the creek.
The creek leaped, dimpled. Small bubbles
whirled, i...
My Parents
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Courtesy: Poets United
When you two fought
you never knew
how I burnt
in your wrath.
I was a water body,
too brine to taste.
But the Kal-boishakhi*** days...
Tick Tock
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Tick Tock
I hear my
Biological clock
Ticking away
The eggs I have
In short supply.
“Yuh nuh have
A child, yet?”
He looks at me
Like fertile soil
In whi...
Sad Eyes
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Photo:SlaRueB weeping in the wind as the willow blows a remembrance of
forgotten times bending branches moves as one as we danced all night to the
Autumn m...
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Another Day
My smoke alarm is beeping
it sounds like my Peach Faced Lovebird
I have missed him for a long time
sitting on my shoulder, nibbling my ear
now...
Cuz Culcha
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Sista,
remember makin cinnamon toast
and chewin back
bitz of the periodick table
like it were vitamins.
knowble gases
hevvy metals
an your luv letters
to Jon...
cheers with life
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*Fill one half*
*in passion*
*Sandy *
*The remaining half*
*in Love ....*
*this is coonect to - **PoetryPantry #287 of PU*
*photo credit here*
*-nuwan-*
Every Scrap
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Life is fragile
You, my friend, are not so
Such a small creature
You have such a
presence
Such a strong grip
on this life-
Claws scratching
Teeth bared
You w...
Ring of Fire by Mary Eliza Crane
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At the wane of a long season of heat filled yellow sky, fire consumes
mountain forests infested, decimated by bark beetles feasting in their own
changing w...
faded pages
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*in the days of mostly easy time, *
*there is the odd reminder of another place.*
*fragrant reminiscence in a flash; *
*passed - but in its wake - a trace....
There Comes A Time...
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when we rethink things. Looking back and reflecting on one thousand
thirty-two posts, six thousand fifty-nine comments, and two hundred eleven
followers ...
What a lovely notion!
ReplyDeletethank you donna
Deletegood luck!
Sweet!
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thanks of lot RK
DeleteNicely done Nuwan :)
ReplyDeletethank you so much sanaa
DeleteAnd indeed it's always half full
ReplyDeletethank you buddy
DeleteThat is a combination that works!
ReplyDeletethank you very much dear sherry
DeleteThat sounds like a great beverage!
ReplyDeletethank you mary
Deletegood luck!
Startling pic – at first glance I thought the glasses were broken! Your lines, though, suggest the perfect combination, with also a suggestion of the 'half-full' glass of the optimist.
ReplyDeletethank you dear rose flower
DeleteLove with no compassion..I can't even imagine. Great!
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