Cal Winters
@calwinters.bsky.social
Free verse poet (he/him)
I
make (every effort to convince)
words (that they would be happier if they let themselves)
dance
I
make (every effort to convince)
words (that they would be happier if they let themselves)
dance
Pinned
Cal Winters
@calwinters.bsky.social
· May 15
Hello, I'm Cal
I'm looking for writers, poets, artists, and creative sorts
I stare off into space a lot, but I promise I'm listening on some level
I write poems
Sometimes I write stories
Most of the time I write nonsense
I'm generally considered agreeable
I think that's it
Friends now?
I'm looking for writers, poets, artists, and creative sorts
I stare off into space a lot, but I promise I'm listening on some level
I write poems
Sometimes I write stories
Most of the time I write nonsense
I'm generally considered agreeable
I think that's it
Friends now?
I need an #escape from things
a path I can follow that hasn't been trodden
the road less traveled by
but without the irony
so I can find myself deep in the woods
forest bathing until my soul is clean
and I can return
scrubbed and shiny
foreign to everyone I left
a new creature to discover
#whistpr
a path I can follow that hasn't been trodden
the road less traveled by
but without the irony
so I can find myself deep in the woods
forest bathing until my soul is clean
and I can return
scrubbed and shiny
foreign to everyone I left
a new creature to discover
#whistpr
August 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
August 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
August 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
August 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I like the #vss365 prompt, but I'm a creature of habit, and I oftentimes cannot figure out what the prompt for the day is unless it is explicitly stated. The nature of it changing hosts every so often gives variety, but for a person like me, I need a clear place to look for the day's challenge.
August 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I like the #vss365 prompt, but I'm a creature of habit, and I oftentimes cannot figure out what the prompt for the day is unless it is explicitly stated. The nature of it changing hosts every so often gives variety, but for a person like me, I need a clear place to look for the day's challenge.
I admit there is a part of me
that wishes I could take to my memories
cut through them with a #scythe
then separate the wheat from the chaff
so I wake every morning with a smile
a good feeling to permeate the day
but then I will have learned nothing
and my smile will be that of an idiot
#whistpr
that wishes I could take to my memories
cut through them with a #scythe
then separate the wheat from the chaff
so I wake every morning with a smile
a good feeling to permeate the day
but then I will have learned nothing
and my smile will be that of an idiot
#whistpr
August 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
August 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
August 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
July 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
July 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I saw a #beetle crawling across my wall and thought
what a wonderous landscape it has found itself in
gone are twigs and stones
replaced with plaster and carpet
and though this new environment is as cluttered
as the leaf pile it regularly calls home
it does not smell half as lovely
#whistpr
what a wonderous landscape it has found itself in
gone are twigs and stones
replaced with plaster and carpet
and though this new environment is as cluttered
as the leaf pile it regularly calls home
it does not smell half as lovely
#whistpr
July 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
July 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
July 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Deep in the vast darkness
a thought begins to #glow
its light sending scurrying
the creatures of noise
its path becoming more defined by the second
its power growing until it is blinding
the creatures flee, screaming
the thought becomes solid
takes its place
and the creatures slowly return
#whistpr
a thought begins to #glow
its light sending scurrying
the creatures of noise
its path becoming more defined by the second
its power growing until it is blinding
the creatures flee, screaming
the thought becomes solid
takes its place
and the creatures slowly return
#whistpr
July 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
July 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
July 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Knock back a few
sweaty thighs sticking to sticky seats
mosquitoes feasting on your ancestry
the music launches itself at relevance
misses by a mile but everyone claps
orange scent mixed with stale beer
reminds of nights before you came
it will be fun, they said
we'll be #together
#vss365 #prompt
sweaty thighs sticking to sticky seats
mosquitoes feasting on your ancestry
the music launches itself at relevance
misses by a mile but everyone claps
orange scent mixed with stale beer
reminds of nights before you came
it will be fun, they said
we'll be #together
#vss365 #prompt
July 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
July 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM