jared mulhair

that helium-hearted kid with oxygen for eyes

[jared mulhair @PoeticAdept]

i know the sun
has seen a dark
that even our grieving
humanity hasn’t
& still has warmed
that dimmest patch—
that sunken songless chasm.
i am not a sun
yet i believe in what is molten:
a radiance that fills the cracks
of every spirit broken.

[jared mulhair @PoeticAdept]

@winged_silence thank you!

[jared mulhair @PoeticAdept]

i may dissolve today.

it all depends
on how my salt behaves—

the way it cakes across your skin.

my ricochet of crystal
off your fickle chemistry within.

i only want to alter you

till i become the salt of you
& the mist upon your flesh

is the bliss in which i swim.

#vss365

[Peege @bloodsigns]

Mary Oliver • Devotions

[jared mulhair @PoeticAdept]

@hool415 @TopTweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith @PaulWritesPoems @jitterbugwrites you’re the greatest my friend 🙃

[Béa Gonzalez (sophiacycles) @SophiaCycles]

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.~Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind

[Vikki C. @VWC_Writes]

Honoured to be part of this powerful synergy of global voices, writing on a theme of topical importance.

Thank you to EIC Rebecca Rijsdijk at Sunday Mornings at the River for including my poem 'Territorial' 🖤

#poetry #anthology #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #justice

[Jad Josey @jadjosey]

Goddamn, this book is so good. (frank: sonnets by @DianeSeuss)

[jared mulhair @PoeticAdept]

i won’t sing the deep thing from a corner. who would take me for their favorite riptide? this could be so jubilant, dear arteries, but you love a swivel—and they wonder how a body turns that grayer form of gorgeous. as if wonder was the ember and not the sum of deaths before it.

[Jmadmartigan @jmadmart]

Starting from nothing
to where we are,
is farther than the farthest star.

And farther than the farthest star,
is where we're going from where we are.

- Eyvind Earle

[Peege @bloodsigns]

Dorianne Laux • Only As The Day Is Long

acutely, painfully, achingly

[Rage Against the Dishwasher @DebsValidation]

chaos

i live in a constant state
raw edges circling
axis tilted by season

mornings i redraw my map
look for the beacon of you
as far out as i can go

if you can't be found
i am lost

[Elancharan Gunasekaran @elancharang]

a cloud
mimics
a heartbeat

[jared mulhair @PoeticAdept]

and what do i love about you?

that even as infinity spills
its ocean of obsidian

upon your ember-freckled hills,
you out-mother oblivion

as you brush your baby’s cheek—
there is nothing dark enough

to kill the fire
you burn unique.

[Michael Valliant @mvalliant306]

“This is how it always is
when I finish a poem.

A great silence overcomes me,
and I wonder why I ever thought
to use language.”

—Rumi
(translated by Coleman Barks)

[Peege @bloodsigns]

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer • The Unfolding

[jared mulhair @PoeticAdept]

@RubyMohans @subbo7 thank you Ruby!

[jared mulhair @PoeticAdept]

he fled the algorithm once it began to bramble & fell in with the ministry of mist—their valley of swanlight, bodies only plasma, good earth a gamble. days filled with the silky business of vapor, shawling the land in its own soft karma. floating murmurs into armor.

#vss365

[jared mulhair @PoeticAdept]

remember
to disappear
every so often

[Indu Pillai @InduPillai01]

You don’t speak anymore to the void. You walk into it gradually dropping noise until you are the silence that gives it its depth. Then you walk out.

[RobertAllenPoet @RobertAllenPoet]

Hilma af Klint
“Buddha’s Standpoint in the Earthly Life”
1920