jola coker
jolacoker.bsky.social
jola coker
@jolacoker.bsky.social
casual poetry
then another day falls
another night collapses
into a quietly raging dawn
where the autumn leaves colours of flames
curl up on and on
and the fire burns still
into a melting dusk
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October 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
so lost in our love
endless love
we forget and then remember ourselves
and start to hate
what we fought to have
love was only for the version of ourselves
we cherished just being with one another
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October 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
out of the loop
their silence forms a void that breathes like me in their
secretive filling hearts
might as well throw me out on the curb
if, sometimes, only a missing corner
is all my part's worth

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October 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
mourning what i could've had
what i now have instead
normal thoughts
no matter the amount of praise or gratitude
something ugly is raised out of my content
nothing erases the bruises on an ego
inflicted by life's banal honesty
a friend you say
what kind of friend?

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October 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
i don't want to write something
with deep words and deep meanings
worthy enough to be written
not seen or heard
worthy of an ovation but
not literary salvation
good things shall come to me
if in my heart i choose to seek them
and believe they exist
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October 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
the way things go you're better off having a good time
even better if it's a long time

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July 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
June 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
June 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
skin hides the soul
the darkness or light inside us all
love or hate
skin won't change but it will know
sin and blessings will be on show

changing to and fro
the breathing pendulum
that paints a picture of an evolving soul

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June 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
she slipped into the silence
the everknowing ghost
away from all she knew
especially what she knew the most; she didn't want to be close
look the truth in eye
hang onto her hope

instead she wanted to disappear
to get up and go.

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June 10, 2025 at 8:47 AM
we try so hard to stay in the lines
we end up blurring them like watery spilled paint
the endless intersection
in which all is remembered and forgotten
just made a mess of -

identity blooms from the amalgam called life
irreverent and forever in hearts and souls

the universe's colourwheel.

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June 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
nothing will make me feel better forever,
a truth quite bitter
tomorrow's coming thick and fast
and i have to brace for a future

with or without hope.

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June 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
forever will there be oppressed and oppressors
endless wonder of primal instincts
taking over, we
cannibalising each other
a cruel cruel world
where first among others
leaves the step down
leaves ignorance and want
in the vulnerable eyes of many
fighting to be free in their captivity

#vss365
May 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
daily sonder
horrors of being a monolith

daily blunder
repeat disconnection
lowered surgically mechanically into reality
like fish in bags into water with tweezers, going under

becoming
the dreamer
resenting
the preacher
when people are out of reach

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May 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
the end all be all
the what we become
the what we succumb to
begins with when we're born
unknown to all the world
we unfurl in others' blood
boil in others' trouble
but the truth is in the marrow that hardens our soul
makes the life in our bones
the death in our rise and fall

#vss365 #poetry
May 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
human nature
hardening clay
thrown into the fire
and forever made

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May 22, 2025 at 11:12 AM
clarity
i denote it purple or the navy blue of the midnight sky
or the comforting knowledge
the sweetest hindsight
the epiphany laid out between stars and constellations
the calm eureka that shrieks amongst the lavender and roses that
what purpose anything has is how it's meant to be

#vss365
May 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
the meditative state
Hard for some
born into a frenetic glum
no choice but to walk so the hopes of the world can run
at some point, it penetrates you
all the pieces melded into one
heart raw and mind numb
immune to a singular rotation of earth once again

#vss365 #poetrycommunity #poetry #writing
May 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
i know there are some people
with whom i sometimes relate
who wish to tweak their existence
tune it to perfection
until their humanity is no more

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May 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
literary
the standard of awe
masterpiece
the standard of skill
symphony
the standard of an everchanging soul
art -
the compass of the human condition in all dimensions

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May 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
beauty in control
evil in freedom unseen
the things that bleed still
upside down in victory
and die in defeat

im rusty with a #haiku, but they're still fun i see they're popular on here 😅
May 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
We take comfort in the things that can hold the weight of our hearts,

so that when the time comes, we don't have to start hiding again

and confront reality the way it confronts us, the dark truths sealed in light.

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May 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
we used to chase ice cream trucks together
i picked cherry, you picked vanilla
days where we lived life fuller

only for it to tumble about the memory drain
part of the nostalgia hole

#summer #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity
May 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
we can't all be horses
unwavering loyalty
spoilt by the burdens of reality

we can't all be horses
in solidarity, we collapse and collide away from the source

the simple and good things in life will continue to go unappreciated

we can't all be horses

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April 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I ask for the world
They want me to hold my word
And not go back on myself, they just don't know
That instead I go on forward plunging straight into the void

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April 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM