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Release the Epstein files.
I write poetry and make music about things.
Pinned
Trying to make myself start actually posting music, despite being anxious about it.

Full song: youtu.be/E_YbxOJylpQ
#musiciansky #music
Anyone need a job?
November 1, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Throwback to around 15 years ago when I wrote my first poem. (That I remember, it said so in the Facebook post I dug it out of)

#poetry #poem #skypoets
October 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Bruised and #battered,
I crawl
To something--
Anything at all
For safety. Comfort.
A moments reprieve
"You must keep going"
"You have to believe"
They say, and I
Push away any doubt
I pray, or try
To keep the thoughts out
But here
With hope out of sight
I fear
I've no strength to fight

#emoetry
October 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I float on the waves,
As she carries me away
The ebb and flow bring peace
And I am consumed.
#absorbed into the melody
As she sings,
with trembling strings, she sings
And with her voice
Flow away my fears,
My pain.
And I am free

#emoetry #poetry #poem
October 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
She was meek,
#unassertive
So they took from her.

She did nothing
To deserve it
And they took from her.

She still smiled
Not to break
As they took from her.

She had nothing
Left to take
Still they took from her.

#emoetry #poetry #poem
October 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
You challenged existence
My heart was set aflame
With #tenacious insistence
I was moved to do the same
Commited to defiance
We would tear it down
Liberated from reliance
On this rotten town
But in the blink of an eye
My world was set aflame
You left us all behind
I was moved to do the same
#emoetry
October 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Holding tight to this old, #sacred ruin
Soulless reavers seek to take and ravage
Armed with weapons: brittle, shattered, pointless
Up against these bandits: heartless, savage
Steel yourselves, defend your faith with fervor
Should we survive, we may have hope to salvage

#emoetry #poetry #poem
October 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
October 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
You are nothing, or at least close to it.
A mere #atom within an unknowable form. Yet still you matter. You have your ups and downs. You are strange, but you have charm. You are on top of the world, at the bottom of everything. And if you were to split..? Well, my world would be destroyed.

#vss365
October 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Incessant screaming
The thundering roar
In this endless storm
You will find no respite

For want of solitude
A moment of #quiet
In this endless search
You will find no respite

At odds with each other
At odds with ourselves
In this endless war
You will find no respite

#emoetry #poetry #poem
October 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Engorged, accursed tapeworms.
They have evil,
rancid, impure, cold hearts.
October 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
On hands and knees, through the #arid hell, they crawled. They were almost there. They could see the towers, standing in the salty waters of the Sound. One among them gathered the strength to stand, his red hat pointing to some graffiti, and scoffed. "Stop climate change? Fucking libtards."

#vss365
October 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
#emoetry #needy #poetry #poem #skypoets

A happy boomer marriage.
To continue with yesterday's theme a bit.
October 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Elon Musk looks like a bowl of corn flakes that has been sitting in milk for too long
October 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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we walk on,
with small hopes,
and open hands.

hands touch,
words fade
we walk on.

the world bends,
but never breaks,
we walk on.

somewhere,
a light waits,
we walk on.

#micropoetry #poem #poetry #hope #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #5amwriters #writesky #skypoets
October 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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If This Is Manly

All I’ve known is
toxic masculinity-
aggression,
misogyny,
belittlement,
infidelity,
unacceptable sexual behaviors;

These men who say they are
men
and beat their wives
or type about deserving sex on a keyboard
or start bar fights just because-

These are not men

#emoetry #poetry
October 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Their appetite for power.
Their disregard of humanity.
These beings are #unearthly.
Inhuman parasites; otherworldly vampires.
We are mere thralls.
They will feed on us until there is nothing left.
Until we are withered away and they can feed no more.
Until we are too weak to fight.

#vss365
October 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Confronted by demons
You must lock them away
Do you have a penis?
You need to get laid.
Grow some fucking balls
Don't be a little bitch
Your purpose is to provide
Your goal is to get rich.
Our family is #manly
So start eating meat.
You must kill for your dinner
Or remain incomplete

#emoetry #poetry
October 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Our tongues set aflame
Burning all who would hear
Our eyes fire missiles
With targets unclear
Our nails bite our palms
We hold blood in our hands
And our minds search for reasons
We may never understand

#poem #poetry #skypoets
October 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Surrounding yourself in sycophants
Seizing control of the media
Using tragedies to demonize your political opponents
Ousting your own party members if they are critical of you
Deploying troops against your citizens
Silencing protesters
Suppressing free speech
Thank God you killed yourself in 1945
October 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The #beetle traded her forewings for a shield.
She felt safer this way.
Mobility offered her freedom.
She could zip around as the Dragonfly,
Dancing about in the sky.
She could travel as the Monarch,
And see the world.
She chose protection.
In her mind, life's cruelty demanded it.

#vss365
October 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I am silent
Confined
Suffocating
In their ears
Voiceless
In their eyes
Invisible
I am thoughtful
Drowning
Imprisoned
On their minds
Nothing
On their lips
Unspoken
I am writing
Feeling
Flowing
In my hands
Power
In my spirit
#liberated

#poem #poetry #emoetry
October 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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The beetles and roaches
that once crawled
on my prone body
are now liberated
from their march.
I have risen
from my death bed
of thorns.
Pale hands trace the outline
of old friends
and wave them goodbye.
I drink coffee
as I think of paper planes
with poems writ
on each one.

#vss365 #emoetry #poetry
October 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
He took the Uber #deluxe
To his deluxe hotel room,
Drank a deluxe martini
On his deluxe mattress.
He lived in luxury
And settled for nothing less
But nothing in his life was deluxe enough
To mask the poorness of his soul

#vss365
October 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
In cold silence
With cold skin
A cold feeling
Came to win
The cold truth
Of a cold grin
A cold numbness
Settled in
In a cold world
With a cold heart
And a cold harbor
You disembark
Into cold waters
In the cold dark
For your cold actions
I fall apart

#Poetry #poem #skypoets
October 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM