Ilis Trudie
ilistrudie.bsky.social
Ilis Trudie
@ilistrudie.bsky.social
International award-winning author 🌍
5 self-published books 📚
💫 Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/ilistrudiepalmerauthorkn
🌐 www.esotericgardenskn.com
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I can also be found at bsky.app/profile/ilis...
where I share about my books, my art, and my tiny Caribbean farm.
bsky.app
September 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Skin deep in death
of the flesh,
your energy
continues to enthrall me
as you shape-shift around me
teasing;
Tormented, I escape to the sea
to renew my spirit
and cleanse my soul
now made whole;
I throw my face to the sky,
and laugh at death.

#vss365
#shape
June 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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the shape of things to come möbius strip
#vss365 #monoku #monoryu
June 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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#poem

not planted
yet something took root—
a #shape
i worked around
as if it belonged
as if
absence
were part of the plan
all along

#vss365
June 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Between the sheets
A plan takes #shape
In a hero's mask
And shiny cape
You'll save me
From a sinful life
Make of me
an honest wife
But down the road
We'd both regret
My truest self
You've never met
Don't save me please
Just let me be
Or fall in love
With all of me

#vss365 ✍️
#writersofbluesky
June 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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night wind lifts
the hem of the field-
roots tangled like lovers
#haiku #poetry
June 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Small cracks
In a devilish smile
A protective barrier
compromised,
Sighs of pleasure
Will turn to pain
If she dares allow
Him
Back again.

#small
#vss365
June 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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"Failure is an opportunity.
If you blame someone else,
there is no end to the blame.

Therefore the Master
fulfills her own obligations
and corrects her own mistakes.
She does what she needs to do
and demands nothing of others."

tao te ching, Stephen Mitchell translation
June 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Fragility in,
An object so #small, precious,
A petal at bloom.

#vss365 - Small
#Haiku
#PoetrySky
June 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Light smoke turned to dark smoke
signaling the destruction that caused the rebirth,
from the ashes a new being arose
with a new pair of wings and a single red rose,
sharing a message of loving each other
no time for war,
time for peace to be brokered.

#vss365
#single
June 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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the words are never something to conjure
but rather what we bend an ear to
June 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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June 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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I’m overjoyed to say I’ve won first prize 🙏🏻🙏🏻

causleytrust.org/poetry-compe...
Poetry Competition Winners 2025 - The Charles Causley Trust
The 2025 Charles Causey International Poetry Competition and Young Person’s Poetry Competition have both been judged and we were delighted...
causleytrust.org
June 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Incompatible,
Not so much single, as a
Singularity.
#vss365 #single #haiku #poem #writing #writingcommunity
June 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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June 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Final dress rehearsal
for your funeral
as morbid thoughts flow,
reflecting a life that never had a full moon,
where burdens and hardships turn shades darker to the end;
Oh release, you leave
under the cover of the night
as crickets whisper in tall grass.

#vss365
#final
May 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Waterfall cascades,
#Finality in the fall,
Reborn far below.

#vss365 - Final (Finality)
#Haiku
#PoetrySky
May 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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fade of day tuck wing roosting
an early crescent Moon
is a mother bird
a flowing cup
a loving word
we said nothing out loud
but our eyes and scents said much
we were adept at writing these
symphonic silences between us
saunter here, garden echo music there
warm biscuits poem-ed window sill
May 31, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Is death the #final act
We rarely speak of it
For it strikes fear at our core
It questions purpose
It questions our existence
Are we something more
Then just molecules
And elements
When you look it in the eye
You hope for a gateway
But is it to more
Or nothing
???

#vss365 #poetry #poem #writing
May 31, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Chapped lips
Days adrift on salty seas
Brine overload

#brine
#vss365
May 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Trapped beneath flickering fluorescent lights, she swirled her lunch with a plastic fork, imagining it was the #brine of a distant sea instead of leftover salad dressing. The ocean called to her from a desktop wallpaper, cruel in its stillness. #vss365
May 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Predatory pricing
The cost of her love
Daddy issues

#vss365
#predator
May 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Bright light will always banish the dark...pass it on 💛
#MeaninglessHashtag #MHClub
May 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM