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Edward Alport
Writer / Poet
Gentleman
Scholar
Acrobat
Corner stories at

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Poem for now
https://t.co/n2JlAw7HHJ

#vsspoem
#PoemADay
#poetrycommunity
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Was there ever a more tragic sight?
I had hoped it was a glitch.
#Wordle

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For day 3 of our (re)place feature, we are publishing Laura Webb, Edward Alport @cross_mouse and Jaime del Adarve @JaimeBermudezE.

Read the full poems here or through the link in our bio: https://t.co/uqt32jLIng

Thank you so much to everybody who submitted for this feature!

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I have discovered
A portal to Bluesky, so
Farewell to Twitter.

#ScifaikuSaturday
#vsspoem
#PoemADay
#haiku
#senryu

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Now that portals are
Everywhere, transportation
Becomes simplified.

#ScifaikuSaturday
#vsspoem
#PoemADay
#haiku
#senryu

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The portal was left
Open to another world.
Too much temptation.

#ScifaikuSaturday
#vsspoem
#PoemADay
#haiku
#senryu

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The clock has struck midnight, in Venice.
The Carnival drifts out to sea.
I am leaving the canals to the skumbags.
BlueSkys are beckoning me.

#LossLit

I'm leaving Twitter. The #muskbag has finally flipped me. I plan to play #losslit on BlueSky.

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The man called Time and the bell rang
and the party spilled out into the street.
You left with the crowd.
I did the washing up.

#LossLit
#vsspoem
#PoemADay
#poetrytwitter
#poetrycommunity

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You didn’t leave with regret.
You left because the other place
looked greener, the other crowd
looked more fun. But the rain
stopped falling, the grass
withered and the crowd
melted away.
Why should I want you back?

#LossLit
#vsspoem
#PoemADay
#poetrytwitter
#poetrycommunity

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There are legends, hereabouts,
of a perfect place, where there is
company and solitude,
heat and cool,
new and old and young.
I thought it was here,
but I was wrong.

#LossLit
#vsspoem
#PoemADay
#poetrytwitter
#poetrycommunity

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My mother said there should
always be something left,
something for Mr Manners,
but now I look on life and don’t
choose to leave anything on the plate.

#LossLit
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#PoemADay
#poetrytwitter
#poetrycommunity

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I could not keep you.
I could not keep you from the open door,
and when the world beckoned,
and the open door offered its delights,
I could not keep you.
And never wanted to.

#LossLit
#vsspoem
#PoemADay
#poetrytwitter
#poetrycommunity

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I know this place.
I know each line and contour,
every shadow as it shifts throughout the day.

I know each breeze and scent,
but I move on and it does not.
I know when it is time to leave.

#LossLit
#vsspoem
#PoemADay
#poetrytwitter
#poetrycommunity

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another clerihew

Nigel #Farage
Faced a barrage
Of criticism for encouraging a racist riot
Which interrupted the negotiations for his Tory Party buyout.

#FarageRiot
#vsspoem
#PoemADay
#haiku
#senryu

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a clerihew

Nigel #Farage
Faced a barrage
Of criticism for ignoring 'his' constituency,
Which came as no surprise to me.

Clacton

#vsspoem
#PoemADay
#haiku
#senryu

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Stars are fusion orbs
Of light elements, so why
Are they so heavy?

#vss365
#SciFaikuSaturday
#vsspoem
#PoemADay
#haiku
#senryu

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Is a star an orb
Of plasma, or is it a
Sentient being?

#ScifaikuSaturday
#vsspoem
#PoemADay
#haiku
#senryu

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Invaders don't care
About the orb they live on.
They just want power.

#ScifaikuSaturday
#Ukraine
#UkraineRussiaWar️
#UkraineRussianWar
#vsspoem
#PoemADay
#haiku
#senryu

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Darkness used to be my enemy,
but I have tamed it,
and now we walk hand in hand.

Light used to be my friend,
but it grew cold,
and full of shadowy suspicion.

#LossLit
#vsspoem
#PoemADay
#poetrycommunity
#poetrytwitter

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I came to the abyss,
and jumped over it because
I didn’t dare to look down.

#LossLit
#vsspoem
#PoemADay
#poetrycommunity
#poetrytwitter