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“There is no margin for mistakes in a submarine, you are either alive or dead.”
Admiral Sir Max Horton

#quotes that make you think
December 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
#Micropoetry

I want a world where my wife and daughters have as many rights as your guns…
December 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
#mike johnson

Any fool who contends he has a natural right of supremacy over his neighbors violates not only the foundational creed of America, but the greatest commandments of the God who created him. Share this Quote Mike Johnson
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December 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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American Sentence

Entwined beneath a New Mexico sky, they each taste the other’s love.

#Micropoetry
December 4, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Tanka

The dark moon, hidden
The dry red wine in my glass
The scent of my love
The taste- she tastes of yearning
The stars vow- eternity

#Micropoetry
December 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Haiku

A Southwestern Sky
Stereoscope stars, a dark, dry
California Red

#Micropoetry
December 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Haiku Moon

The moon was sewn on-
to the sky, while backlit clouds,
stitched nearby, floated.
November 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
November 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
But is it Art?

A hush fell over the gallery when, impulsively, Mel snatched the scissors and ran naked across the stage.
There was no applause.

#Micropoetry
October 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
“Do you hear that?” She was wide-eyed, incredulous
“That’s just background noise, maybe the light bulbs.”
I flicked the switch. Darkness, and still, descended, with equal measure.

#Micropoetry
October 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I am 70 years old, and got all the vaccinations when I was a kid. As a result I am now grey and overweight. Because of Vaccines I have aged, instead of dying as an infant.
September 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Night Blooming Cereus - bloomed again last night
August 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Writing poetry makes your soul grow,
'specially when no one reads it.

#micropoetry
August 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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May 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Cravings- A Tanka

I want a ripe peach
they have skins of languid pink-
and taste sweet as a
Alabama cornbread cake
with brown sugar and pecans
May 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
μPoetry and Pageant Politics

Maribel didn’t win-
She took runner up,
Proud, El Paso Princess
May 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
covered from head to toe with big sky and fine desert dust
April 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
April 9, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I see dead people.
Well technically they are stupid people, but give me some time.
March 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“There’s nothing conservative about an unelected South African nepo baby firing people at the VA.”

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz
March 16, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Now he's telling us to 'Shut up about egg prices'
March 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM