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Betty
@bettyv.bsky.social
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈Poet, writer-lover of haiku and all forms of short poetry-mostly ignored by the 'serious' poetry community : )

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October 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A poet finds no joy in errant words,
those misbehaving dogs
which will not come to heel,
how can they delight us
when they may turn round and bite us
#vss365 #heel
July 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
A strait is an aperture
a break in a piece of land,
it allows two different oceans
to hold each other's hand
#vss365 #strait
June 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
written after my stroke

The woman in the wheelchair
still finds you funny although her laugh is silent
it is lost in shadow and smoke
hid beneath the #cloak of her stroke
you can tell her a joke
she will probably get it
although the speaker may have gone
her sense of humour lives on
#vss365
January 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Silly little poem really

Morning beach
flat calm but bright
sips with ice the winter light
glass reflects in
rockpool puddles
filled with tangled seaweed muddles
#vss365 #ice
January 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Trying out a cover design for book 3 of my fantasy series-any opinions? #books #fantasy #writers
January 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
As a 9 yr old chorister- the poet in me loved evensong in our little country church

Vespers,
a time to think
of the day we have had
there is nothing more beautiful
or so sad
#vss365 #vespers
January 7, 2025 at 7:58 AM
December 30, 2024 at 7:46 PM
5am,
snuffed between the fingers of the day
slumming stars and a night not fully broken,
the waking world, its petals still to open
is filled with silent promises unspoken
#poetry #poem
December 20, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Silhouette,
they cut out the girl that once was me,
filled my face with the space where I used to be
#vss365 #silhouette #identity
December 19, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Been practicing making reels out of my poems-I'm adding sound now and everything-get me. #poem #reels #instagram #vss365
December 17, 2024 at 12:18 PM
Mycelium hair
frames her lovely face,
arms flung wide
in silent embrace,
fingers float
lilies uncurled,
peaceful she floats
slipped from the world
#vss365 #mycelium
December 4, 2024 at 4:58 PM
This old gal has been learning how to put reels on her poems-this is today's effort #vss365 #souvenir #poetry
November 30, 2024 at 11:09 AM
November 15, 2023 at 3:36 PM
November 12, 2023 at 2:38 PM
A poem for today

#poetry #remembrance
November 11, 2023 at 7:09 PM
I come in peace and you all seem friendly -not a bad landing so far
#newhere #welcome #writers #poets
October 26, 2023 at 9:40 AM