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I don't do prayers but one can't hurt

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look down

behold the kid

below the dirt

hear one more clicker’s press

another casket laid

they’d like to say some words

and when he wakes again it’s dark

in someplace he has never been

where gone are all his hungry teeth

that cut him from his itching bones

I hope he finds the peace he needed there

if life alive had failed to give him rest

but still for years his veiled picture hangs

and two days late his father found the tears

so I will make it warm, when he comes home.

Photo taken near Coonabarrabran NSW of mountains and my highly awesome mango ice cream bar

#I’ve been playing with different iambic meters and I’m honestly so happy with how this piece turned out #lmk what yall think #poetry #poets on tumblr #original poem #poem #sad poem #writeblr #spilled ink #grief #dealing with grief #iambic meter #ice cream #australia #new south wales

A Blazen Copse

A fog lays softly over

A wood with leaves like fire

The ground is made of embers

That burn without a flame.

The haze above the thicket

Floats like a misty spirit

All things are cool within it

To keep the embers tame.

A squirrel leaps through the branches

Through twists and turns it dances

It makes its swift advances

The cinders just a game.

Found this deep in my notes app... I wrote it for a school poetry contest a few years back- we had to write an iambic poem about a scene. I won! The prize was a little certificate and a crunch bar, lol.

#poem #poetry #original poem #poets on tumblr #spilled ink #spilled poetry #spilled words #spilled writing #nature #iambic meter #oliviasposts #creative writing

"whoever came up with the phrase "righty tight-y, lefty loose-y' deserves an award"

listen to me, autistics

putting something to a specific rythym/melody/pattern makes it much easier to remember.

that's probably why a lot of people love shakespeare so much, and why brands have jingles for their phone numbers.

when i was little i literally memorized my mothers phone number by learning it to a little melody in my head.

#autism tip #phrases #memorization #iambic pentameter #rhyme scheme #poetry #iambic meter #also could be #adhd tip #no sans you can't have my mothers phone number #/silly #toby.txt

If womankind depended all on me, we'd not yet be familiar with the wheel. I beat machines in my simplicity— it always comes as an epiphany when I note what I obviously feel. If womankind depended all on me, sex would be an unmade discovery— not that it could be that big of a deal. I beat machines in my simplicity, and I don't even work, apparently! He knocks me off my tracks—my senses reel. If womankind depended all on me, there'd be one generation in the tree of evolution—no more to reveal. I beat machines in my simplicity and stumble in severe intensity. I mock my mind and body—he can't heal if his mankind's depending all on me— I beat machines in my simplicity.

"Simple Machines/Woman Unkind" - a villanelle written 4/10/2025

#my grandmother used to make this self-deprecating joke sometimes #'if mankind depended on me... we would not yet have discovered the wheel'#i very much felt what she was talking about and i also thought it was a clever way to put it #yeah if mankind depended on me we wouldn't know where babies come from. no one would know. no one #poetry #villanelle #iambic meter #iambic pentameter #2025 #form poetry #rhyme scheme #poem #asexual poetry #ace poetry #queer poetry #poetess #asexuality #ace spectrum #gray ace

h a s h e m

i used to be afraid of death

i was an anxious little kid

i'd check my pulse with bated breath

and try to keep it hid

i don't worry anymore

because i know his name

you never speak the name, of course

but you breathe it just the same

-rudysassafras

#poetry #hashem #iambic meter #loose iambic meter #common meter #rudysassafras #messianic

The Onegin stanza is a Russian poetry form written in iambic tetrameter. I like how it adds a rhythmic quality to the poem, which fits well with the music theme.

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