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Gen X, dreamer, Omnist, artist, poet...
I'm not everybody's cup of tea, and that's OK.
As the artist, I hold all copyrights.

It is what it is.
February 11, 2026 at 9:12 AM
war = experimenting to discover novel ways for humans to kill each other en masse.

#poetrysky
#micropoetry
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#writing
#writingsky
February 8, 2026 at 8:38 PM
An endeavor to negotiate
Betwixt belligerent parties
To come to an accord
For enduring peace and
A novel modus vivendi

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#poetrysky
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#writingsky
February 8, 2026 at 7:53 PM
An image idealized and heroic
With unquestioning flattery and praise
Engineering exaggeration while
Manipulating spectacles deificate
The extravagant ideological demands
of the self-proclaimed demagogue

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#poetrysky
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#wringsky
February 8, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Two medical students;
One plants white roses
The other sows asphodel

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#poetrysky
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#wringsky
February 8, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Cold terror
Stalks the streets
Innocents disappear
Speaking the truth
Can be fatal
While others hide
Behind barricades
Waiting for the spring
And the ICE to break

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#poetrysky
#micropoetry
#writing
#writingsky
January 31, 2026 at 2:02 AM
In a black bile sea of melancholy
Hold on to the life buoy of hope
There are better days to come

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#writingsky
January 27, 2026 at 8:26 PM
like a shaken soda
emotions explode
when bottled up

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#poetry
#writing
#poetrysky
January 26, 2026 at 5:05 AM
Working on my 2nd book of poetry. I am SO frustrated with editing and formatting. I could scream. Haven't yet, but I have been swearing. I screwed up a ton with the first book and I'm trying to do better with this one. Any tips or advice would be great.

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#writing
#writingsky
#poetrysky
January 24, 2026 at 9:11 PM
with a sigh
I say goodbye
although you're gone
your heart lives on
in those you left behind

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#writing
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January 24, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Dancing round in circles
Going nowhere fast
Dodging past the truth
Blinded by his lies

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#poetrysky
#micropoetry
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#writingsky
January 23, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Flittering about
Like a hummingbird
Dodging raindrops

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#poetrysky
#micorpoetry
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#writingsky
January 23, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Dreams

of another time
and another place

Keep me awake at night

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#writingsky
January 23, 2026 at 5:00 AM
A silent pool

The mirrored surface stares back up at me

I toss in a pebble

I can not stand the silence
And I do not like what I see

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#poetrysky
#micropoetry
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#writingsky
January 23, 2026 at 4:51 AM
words, words, words
a bevy of words
big words
little words
a plethora of words
saying everything and nothing
all at the same time

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#writing
#poetry
#micropoetry
January 23, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Searching for a home
Connected to my soul
Found one for a time
Was told I could not stay
They sent me back
Where I did not belong
Perpetually disconnected.

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#poetrysky
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#writing
#writingsky
#home
January 22, 2026 at 6:21 PM
when reality
becomes fallacy
it collapses society

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#poetry
January 22, 2026 at 6:52 AM
I’m not that smart
I’m totally going to fail
It can wait until tomorrow
It has to be perfect
Is this the truth
or
Am I doing this to myself?

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#poetrysky
#micropoetry
#writing
#impostersyndrome
January 18, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Violence and fear
Zip ties and mace
The innocent disappear
With lies and taunts
From the government

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#poetrysky
#writing
January 18, 2026 at 2:19 AM
January 17, 2026 at 7:27 PM
They had a choice...
Some laid down their guns
And walked away
Some picked them up
And did it anyway

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#poetrysky
#micropoetry
#writing
January 14, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Row on row of pure white stones
Some left unnamed
Lost somewhere
On a forgotten battlefield
Or on the sea
Some went by choice
Some by chance
But all paid the price

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#poetry
#poetrysky
#writing
January 13, 2026 at 7:12 AM
The bodies pile up
Until they go unnoticed
Televised on the nightly news

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January 13, 2026 at 6:46 AM
A fate they did not choose
Guinea pigs for a foreign state
A future for us they choose
Free from the Hibakusha's fate

#Hibakusha
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#poetrysky
January 13, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Protest fill the streets
While the secret police patrol
Missiles keep flying
While the innocent keep dying
Time to send the children back to school
Meanwhile
The peace plans are a farce
Inciting temper tantrums
On a plane going nowhere fast
As monks walk across the Bible Belt

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#micropoetry
January 13, 2026 at 2:09 AM