The Poet's Bower

And it was at that age Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when. - Neruda

[IrrationalPoet @PoetIrrational]

Your safe hands
gently stitch up wounds
you never inflicted
#Driven to fix things
others left behind broken
hang the stars back up
straighten out the moon
and yet you give no thought to this
because it's just who you are
Let the moon rise and fall
you'll still be there

#vss365

[Carol Roberts @authorRobertsC]

One day she left her only lore
Searching for what, she didn’t know

He walked along the shore that day
Eyes green, red hair, he couldn’t look away

But it could never be
How could she ever break free
From her own heartbeat
bound to the Sea

#BardBits #PoemTrail #MadVerse

[ᴰᵉᵉᵖⁱᵏᵃ @_deepershades_]

Take me not

to the acres of lawn
So green
Evenly cut
Fine & clean
Oh take me to the Wild
Where the #grass rises high
Yellow & Green
Where they dance with the wind
Where you cannot see the Other Side
Where you cannot fathom what lies inside
amidst the wild.

Take me there
#vss365

[KS JAYAPRAKASH @ksjdreams]

Per Contra
The Inlets Of Your
Verbal Occupancy
Are Pausing
Closed Against Me

Always I'm
Taking Care
Of Your Euphonious
Memory I Cherish

I Savor The Moonlight
Flooding In Your Eyes

I Hold Close Your
Naked Heart To Mine

I Drink Plenteous From
Your Opulent Inkwine

[υωє 🖤  @ntsys3]

covered ... 🖤🖤
#photograph #photography

[Miles Nowhere (MIA) @NowhereInk]

#VSS365

we #drove
in silence
me in rain
her asleep
i had no thought
that life would
hurt like this
tho if I did
it would have
done no good
as i am here
to learn
not #teach
and so
i forgot
to pack
the bear
the one that
never let
her down
she loved
that bear

[Robert Folkard @rfolkard1]

Latent spring
You have bled those roses
And kissed poetry
Out of the hanging tree
Darkness was afraid to stay
Now watch us meet your wolves
But only if you dare
#BardBits

[Hanson Oak @HansonOak]

Cut deep.

Deeper.

Stitches are cheap, scars are sexy.

Deeper still.

Pull off the grass and soil, the things that make you pretty, take me to the core of what makes you ugly.

There it is! There you are!

Now we can begin.

#BookishTues #vss365

[Alan, Words and Music @alanlovespoetry]

Away

I heard you put them back
on the shelf,
the model bicycle built for two
& heart the glassmith blew-

I think I’ll get my keyboard fixed,
reattach each letter that spells
your name...

I’m ok with walking where we walked,
ok if I happen to walk toward you
& hope you are too.

[Monica B @_Being_Benign]

Night in full bloom
Come,hold me in the safety of arms
Hide me in ur warmth
Whisper something unexpressed
Let me feel ur breaths
Drive me insane
With ur seductive touch
Caress my every inch
With thirsty lips
Hug me tight
Kiss me long
Love me wild
~
Ah!
Moon sighs
#vss365 #PureDoe

[Gordana Biernat @MyPowertalk]

Self-confidence comes
from knowing who YOU are.

You are a creative spirit
turning thoughts into matter.

Your source is infinite.
Shine on!✨

#Love
#TuesdayThoughts

[David Grant Lee @DechoLee]

Standing along side
Never quite n
The images burnt
With sulfur sin
Brutal truth
Of how it begins
But flashing images
Never sink n
Flickering HD
Keeps it at bay
Arms length
&a popcorn tin
It's not shocking
With a Hollywood win
Did your screen
Even blink
No
Its not shocking
Anymore

[DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson]

I’m lying
In the long #grass
Beneath the baobab tree

It’s quiet
As we wait here—
The man
My pride
And me

The “two-legs”
With his boom-boom stick
Is sick and kills for sport

My kith and kin
Will be his end
Our roars will mute his mort
#vss365

[Vikki C. @VWC_Writes]

We aligned ourselves with hope
lying low in the rushes,
wearing the scent of
wild grass & petrichor,

it was about seeing things
at eye level with the earth,
her pulse so true against our own,

needing nothing more,
we were bare shadows
content to rise again with dawn.

#vss365

[emily golden | on indefinite hiatus @emilygolden_]

Swift adventure
brings disaster, or at least
ignorance.

In slow travel we begin,

—to see
below the surface of the artificial,
behind the windows of our presumption;

—to feel
the ripples of history,
& the truth that lies in mystery.

#wednesworld
#1linewed
#talesnoir
#wordwhim

[Tan @TanVanHuizen]

Crystal flutes & wedding #cake
The table’s set for us tonight
The kiss of frosting upon our lips
Your smile shines of candlelight

I have loved you since we were young
Summer wishes by the lake

The games we played
and dreams we made

They were ours to take

#vss365

[υωє 🖤  @ntsys3]

... 🖤🖤
#myartwork #photograghy