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I will stand in the way. I promise. Just a guy trying to do the same as everyone differently. Malignant poet.
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A chance encounter, a
Smile and hello, you know
The sabotage is coming
Camouflage or running
Your options thin, you
Pull back, retract and
Absorb from within a
Darkness stored deep
Seeps now to your skin
Sin becomes right and
In your life you win

#vssdaily #pull #poetry
#writingcommunity
December 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
#vss365 #Mars #poetry

Mars is action, passion, desire and war. The war in this (from Oct.) is internal, the rest, I hope, should be obvious. A few light edits and this is one has another day in the Sun.
December 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
#emoetry #whimsical #poetry

This is from March. It's about a third as clever as I probably thought it was when I wrote it.
Which is probably accurate for the poet as well as the piece 😂
A little cringe...seriously
December 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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#vss365

In our #struggle, hope is neither cure nor weapon - it is rain in a time of drought.

O laughter buried in lament,
rise unashamed!

Between grief and grace lies only the rhythm of persistence, chanting its blind hallelujah.
December 27, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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#vss365

#Air hides in pockets of forgotten hats.

I put one on today and smelled last year’s laughter, faint but intact.

Some things never leave entirely - like the memory of that passing stranger who might’ve been me in another life.
December 27, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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The #task to write
when the #garden
of my mind in broken,
a stagnant #bog
covered over with #frost

a walk outside
is what's required,
the #agile #air
could be the #founder
of the words that so far
sputter and falter,
just one poem
to break the drought
of creativity
might #vindicate me.
December 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
#emoetry #vindicated #poetry

I wrote this last March. I read it without the anger and it seems different. Today's #prompt seemed like a good time to repost it. Which one of us was vindicated? I suppose that depends on which one of us you ask.
December 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
#vss365 #air #poetry

Another from over the summer.
There are a few lines I really like in this, and a few I think could use an edit. I was a coastal kid, so the ocean will always be a half thought away I guess.
December 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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she, a wanderer of
the night—
a seeker of his thought,
a keeper of his heart—

breaths unruly, s p i l l i n g
in high waves,
carried away,
rippling the air—
e f f e r v e s c e n t,
heaving,
like the sea.

#poetry
December 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
#emoetry #uncertain
#vss365 #struggling
#poetry

This is new (ironically)

I think it is well past time that my children get some traditions of their own. Keep the joy, and release the obligations. The dead have no use for creamed onions.
December 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, youse guys!

I will be terribly inconsistent until about the 2nd of Jan.

Keep making the world better!
December 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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A new Tiny Prophecy is live:
“Pockets of Words" by Matthias Geh— @ignorantfairy.bsky.social

A poem about the mind juggling too many unfinished and illegible thoughts. ✣

Photography by
Matthias Geh as well.

Check it out here: mercurialsilver.com/blogs/tiny-p...

#poetry #writingcommunity #ruin
Pockets of Words
A short poem by Matthias Geh about modern anxiety and language—words clumped in the pockets, switching tabs, sticky palms, and dusk arriving with quiet urgency.
mercurialsilver.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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heart longs
for warm moments
entwined in
harmonies
shared
with a true love

#poem #micropoetry #poetry
December 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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#vss365

Christmas Jumper

Every jump
I didn’t take
stacks
stacks
stacks
stacks
up
unbroken
ankles,
neck intact,
my life carefully unruined.

The tinseled air I breathe
tangles with unused leaps
that probability is
hoarding,
waiting
to shove
me
all
at
o
n
c
e.

#jump
December 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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#vss365

I met a cloud dressed as a salesman, offering new ways to #jump higher, without falling.

Said he’d tested them on birds and dreams alike.

I bought two, one for when I’m on my meds and one for when I’m just me.
December 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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I dream of post-graduate abroad
in haunted hostels,
looking out the windows
yet never do I leave
only now do I realize that
maybe I'm the ghost?

#poetry
December 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Holding the book that has your piece inside is a truly lovely feeling; got my copy a few days back. Thnx to @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk for making this possible. Also heartfelt thanks to all the support from #poemsabout community. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 🥳 🎉🎻 #keepwriting
December 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
#poetry

Worked a timely repackage for this #poem. This was a #blueskyrelay #prompt if I remember correctly. Which I probably do not. I started looking at me and where I was/am with this work, I think. The new red words spotlight what I wanted to say. Too 'On the nose' probably.
December 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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December 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Back then it seemed
your heart & soul
were mine to keep

then life did
what life does
severing the bond
between us

& you reclaimed
those tokens,
given in love

Now, when I feel
a strange déjà vu
for you
is it just an echo
from another time?

Or did you
reclaim them
at all?

Are they
still mine?
December 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Sorry this is so late! #Emoetry prompt for 12/22 is #Patronized
December 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
One of the first #poems I wrote this year. I remember the joy of getting words out, for the first time in decades, and the magic in not hating them. I do most of my writing in illegible notebooks and notes. I figured I would church it up a bit this go around! #poetry #poetrycommunity
December 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Rory had seen the indicator on the map flashing as he arrived in the region. One of the world bosses was being attacked and Rory needed to tick off the instance for Esme, rushing to the #fight.

He arrived right at the very end, the monster almost dead, but didn’t want to win like that.

#vss365
December 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM