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Marr
@marrmalade.bsky.social
a poet, dont you know it?
sometimes i make art
i think i'd rather advertise my flaws—
they say far better things about me
than mere virtues ever could—for
what's the worth of doing good
when doing otherwise was
not even an option?

#poetry #wip (maybe)
February 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
the cluttered mind collapses:
fractures first, then falls to bits;
each tiny piece detaches
for their edges never fit

#poetry
January 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
quick, fleeting frost-like
thoughts iced over, crystallized
in mental amber

(a #haiku again! apparently the only kind of #poem i can complete lately haha)
December 22, 2024 at 10:57 AM
spicy sweet cold sinks
into the shadows of this
sunny winter day

#haiku #poetry
December 15, 2024 at 7:32 PM
snowmelt, washed away,
joins with the earth
in part, at least;
and, though earnest
are the offerings it leaves,
in time, it yet again will freeze.

#poetry #poem
December 5, 2024 at 6:47 PM
violet-tinted mist makes up the morn
and in the distance calls the horn
across the sea, striving to warn

#poetry
November 27, 2024 at 11:46 AM
maestro stills their hand;
a dropped baton
draws one more swell
out from the band
as if a wand casting upon
the world a spell

#poetry
November 12, 2024 at 2:05 PM
you!
it's you!
i never knew
what love meant
'til we met — it's true!
...but hasn't happened, yet

#poetry
November 10, 2024 at 10:20 PM
i wish the wind would blow again,
and stir the stagnant steam
sitting so heavy in the air. i cannot
stand the sickly scent that
seeps and sticks inside my nose, to
all my clothes; not sulphuric,
but quite close; a far cry from how
a storm's supposed to smell.

#Poetry
July 23, 2024 at 6:46 PM
i'm bathing in sunlight,
topped by foamy bubbles;
left to simmer, i'm a swimmer,
and the water is my keep.
but oh, the way that star-!
it burns, and boils like the sea!

#poetry #author
February 25, 2024 at 7:53 PM
wrote a haiku then had the thought: "what if i wrote this as a freeform?"

#poetry
February 21, 2024 at 11:14 PM
silky steam is dancing through the air
—fleeting and free, without a care,
no chain, no cage, no cause to bare;
were i the same, what would i dare?

#poetry #poem #author
January 7, 2024 at 8:14 PM
winter holds her breath—
in the silence all that's left
are the marks that mar
the surface of the snow.
in between each moment,
one second to the next,
if you stop and wait
a truth to you is shown—
halfway you will be met
by a wordless message sent,
within which you'll find
all that you need to know
December 31, 2023 at 6:28 PM
halo on the water dark,
whipcord thin and sharp as shale—
a knife that cuts as though a gale,
illuminates the tree line stark.
sweet onlooker, take in the sight,
and know that soon the sun will crest;
be witness as it journeys west,
all while carving out the night.

#poetry #author
December 25, 2023 at 6:45 PM
the moon is out in daytime,
not a cloud is to be seen, for
this past evening's winter gales
have blown them north.
the sun, it hovers south of west,
thirty degrees until it sets;
and in the east, the darkness waits,
to occupy what room is made.

#poetry #author
December 19, 2023 at 7:21 PM
i've never felt so clean
as in the middle of a storm,
swept up by the wind and
set alight; i could have sworn
it was as though i were in flight

#author #poetry #wip
December 18, 2023 at 7:02 PM
my body, eternal:
i'm messed up, i'm mortal—
i sing at the top of my lungs
all my thoughts, they are hung
from the sky, like a noose
from on high, then cut loose—
i'm losing, i'm lost, oh my mind!
will you love it in kind?
will you treasure this brain
and this body the same?

#poetry #author
December 17, 2023 at 3:06 PM
#author #poetry
December 9, 2023 at 8:47 PM
a spray of snow
is dancing down off of the branches overhead;
crystal and cold,
sunlight weaving through each mote just like a thread.
walking below,
this moment catches on my eye as though a snare;
blinding and bold
before the moment passes on without a care
December 6, 2023 at 6:15 PM
winter sinks its teeth in,
but summer won't let go;
autumn obfuscates the
fraying edges of the world.

#poetry #author
December 2, 2023 at 12:40 PM
it's morning now and
frost gilds every blade of grass
like silver leaf that
frames the edges of each page
in some old and precious book

#tanka #poetry #author
November 14, 2023 at 12:51 PM
hours after sunset,
moonlight catching on frost as
it forms on the grass

#haiku #poetry #author
November 13, 2023 at 11:05 PM
#wip #poetry #author
November 6, 2023 at 6:52 PM
blushing trees form a corridor;
down the lane, branches all
comport to weave together
in a lattice of bright leaves,
through which fall winds blow
and autumn sunlight sieves

#poetry #author
October 23, 2023 at 4:58 PM
autumn is as always:
at 9 upon the clock.
as flowers droop
trees fill with fruit
before the harvest stops.
leaves begin to color,
then begin to fall,
heralding the season
that is coldest of them all.

#poetry #author
October 18, 2023 at 4:53 PM