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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦
@taryntime.bsky.social
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🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦💜She/Her. Disabled activist. Mom to Nori, the galgo. Journeying through poetry. Clinical Counsellor. Business: Amethystisland.bsky.social
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#vss365 Sept 10 bearable #disability #spooniepoetry #painpoetry #chronichealth #pain #tanka #skypoetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity
September 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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#vss365 wrapping #horrorpoetry #darkpoetry #deathpoems
September 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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September, back to #vss365 #power #skypoets #queerpoets #disabledpoet #chronichealthpoetry #tanka #poetrycommunity
Black text on gradient blue-grey background reads: “Ocean View by Taryn Smith Temperamental wind Powerful but changeable Open emotion Reminiscent of my own Pain washing in with the tides”
September 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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The Un-Masquerade
By Taryn Smith

Unpack all the masks
Today our true spirits dance
Together freely
Erasing expectations
Ourselves new and green again

#vss365 #self #mentalhealth #tanka #dailyhaikuprompt #green #writingcommunity #queerpoet
A blue-purple camas flower with a green centre is open against a background of vibrant green leaves and grass and some light brown dirt. Some closed buds surround the opened flower.
June 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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#vss365 #slash TW: #selfharm *Please reach out for help if you or someone you know is at risk of harm. In 🇨🇦 this is a solid list of helplines: findahelpline.com/countries/ca 💕 #mentalhealth #poetry #writingcommunity #queerpoet
Black text on light grey background reads “Dark Thoughts By Taryn Smith Uncomfortably numb She sat alone in her room Safe from the screaming Terrified of her thoughts She tried drowning them out Momentarily distracted She was in a nightclub dancing Til’ the screams were directed at her: “Turn that racket down” Rocking herself in silence Hoping for tears that never came She saw the razor in her bathroom.. Just then a text from Sam: “Miss you, wanna FaceTime?” “Sam, I almost slashed my leg again!” “Bestie! Your parents?” “Dunno..I just wanted to feel something”
June 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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#vss365 shed #queerpoetry #writingcommunity #somaticpoetry #skypoets #poetry
Black text on a white background reads: “The Shift by Taryn Smith. The tingling sensation Crept across my surface Like tiny pin-pricks Deeper Into my heaving body Under the pain I found excitement A deep desire for change Layer by layer I shed my old skin To embrace me”
June 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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#vss365 shape #queerpoet #westcoastpoetry #queerlove Thank you to @loopypeanut.bsky.social for the photo. #littlequalicumfalls
Poem in black text on white background reads: “Water Spirits by Taryn Smith. Falling in love Like slow streams With their own ecosystems Thriving There was beauty In our waters connecting And fear of losing old shapes Of water Beloved babbling brooks Special fishing spots To something unknown and great Together we explore and create New shapes Hidden hot springs Unexplored shores Falling in love with all of our shapes Two roaring streams connect over wet green mossy rocks. Evergreen trees stand tall on the far right side of the water.
June 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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“They Thought We Were Lesbians”
The vulnerability of skin
Of going deeper than that
To discuss attraction
And gender
In a parade
Or a festival
At the risk of backlash
From both inside
And outside the community
When I flash my Pansexual bracelet
Holding the hand
Of my Asexual love

#vss365 #pride
A light skin hand wearing a pink, yellow and blue beaded bracelet, with the letters “PAN” for Pansexual on three of the beads is holding hands with a darker skinned hand. The darker skinned hand has a black ring with red on the inside of the ring, worn on the middle finger. Black rings worn on the middle finger of the right hand as pictured, are a symbol of asexuality.
June 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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One paw on my lap
A look deep into my eyes
A silent deal made
A piece of his heart on loan
For salmon on his kibbles

#haikufeels (lend) #haikudailyprompt (salmon)
#tanka
#poetry
#writingcommunity
#galgo
#sighthound
#doglovers
A hand in the bottom left corner of the photo holds a piece of frozen salmon sashimi. “Nori,” the galgo is sitting, facing the salmon, with his tongue slightly out and his floppy ears perked. He is a long, thin dog of blue-brindle colour with white toes and a thin black tail. He is wearing a forest-green and yellow-green striped pajama top and a black martingale collar with coloured arrows on it.
March 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Once hunter of hares
Left to die on Spanish streets
We made him our dog
Now he thrives in Canada
His joy warming our hearts

#dailyhaikuprompt (hare) #micropoetry #writingcommunity #tanka #galgo #rescuedogs #sighthounds #doglovers
A blue-brindle galgo with big floppy ears and amber eyes is looking intently up. He has a piece of blue fluff on the right side of his long nose. He is sitting, with his long skinny black tail curved out on the floor to the left.
March 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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This one goes out to my dog, Nori, who gets visibly excited when it’s #gusty

Prancing on his leash
A dancing dog in flight, he
Feels gusts in his blood
#dailyhaikuprompt (gusty) #haiku #blueskypoets #poetry #galgo #dogs #sighthounds
“Nori,” the galgo is pictured against a brick wall. He appears alert and excited; with his floppy ears back and his amber eyes looking forward. Nori has a grey/blue face, a white streak on his neck and a brindle-coloured body. He is wearing a black two inch martingale collar with coloured arrows on it. The strap from his red harness is also visible in this picture.
March 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Fresh caught #BC prawns! #oceantotable #foodie
Four prawns cooked in the shell are lined up on a white plate. The plate is placed on a black and white placemat.
March 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM