a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 09/10/2026what #sin have i that sweeps away the joy of a pastel dawn... blood of black, molasses-thick, slowly pours with a hiss and whisper, chasing memories to the end of attention where they wait until lucidity summons them back to the relentless churn of their meat grinder #vss365 071
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026scars like charms, lucky they didn't kill one last gasp to masticate glass let stained windows hide the truth —the lure of redemption an adam's apple hanged far from the tree sabotaged seed, ripened razed to wither in the vernal breeze #vss365 #lure #emoetry #sabotaged 094
Reposted by a.d.Jane Doe @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Harsh white paper, soft words die there before I before I can finish them and all that’s left is sharper edgier built to kill verses The poet did it #poetry 0236
Reposted by a.d.ɐʇǝǝɹʎs @phantomsspleen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Bone dance A procession of tourists human and non- chalk on the old Ridgeway path your plastic lunchbox smells like a licked hand We are gathered here today in space a tree being carved a broad emptiness suddenly filled up with your name into a face to do the Macarena 14618
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 07/08/2026sorrow embraced feels like home #7syllablesentence #home 1104
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 07/08/2026he tried to summon the words to #divine his inanition but only succumbed to silence and otiose laments #vss365 1163
Reposted by a.d.ɐʇǝǝɹʎs @phantomsspleen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I said “maybe” you’re gonna be the one that saves me 413349
Reposted by a.d.ɐʇǝǝɹʎs @phantomsspleen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Waiting for the heart to get up again to finish breaking 13617
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 05/08/2026the world is smaller in the dark, the universe is evermore vast; still I search for a whisper in the din of #chaos, and kindness in the shadow of humiliation; i tend the deadheads at the foot of my gravestone, hoping beauty will sooner grow from disaster #vss365 #emoetry #humiliated 0164
Reposted by a.d.Sunlit @sunblissful.bsky.social · 02/08/2026It's hard to be a feather when the world is a rock #poetry 17412
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 01/08/2026temptation is the bane hope is the torment realization is the agony submission is the torture devotion is the delusion death is the release #vss365 #temptation #emoetry #devoted 0144
Reposted by a.d.Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I don’t want my innocence back. You can’t restore something taken with so many types of violence. And I quite like who I’ve become— fighting upwards and out of the hole I was left to die in. #Poetry #BlueskyPoetry #MythicPoetry 2336
Reposted by a.d.ɐʇǝǝɹʎs @phantomsspleen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Hanging baskets the sun recoils the soil is quietly grieving a measuring tape a kidney bean 02211
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 29/07/2026sea of memories reflecting from its grim coast to drown is easy #vss365 #coast #haiku 1206
Reposted by a.d.ɐʇǝǝɹʎs @phantomsspleen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Planet today, the audacity of the sun punk-sprung and deadly, like the glass lamps we couldn’t stop touching. Free to a good home, it sank down the side of my face, and I cried like a planet, while the sun like my eyes were free and to a good home, while the it shone. 23920
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 26/07/2026the #cadence of his footfalls descending seemed to slow, but only as compared to my heart stampeding to escape its cage, and to my mind racing to disassociate; both being better off in the shadows of #weepy nightmares, than in the light of violence promised and violence done #vss365 #emoetry 1235
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 25/07/2026viewing old pictures thousands of hateful words mirrors of his past #inkmine #picture #haiku 0153
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 25/07/2026ascending moon, what's the point of this & me ...she doesn't answer #vss365 #ascend #haiku 2144
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 22/07/2026one more taste to chase the tremor a #needle records the lie a #turn of the screw masquerades as life the pain of it swells w/ pleasure —leavetaking is the path of least resistance to choke on the #rotten seeds of a garden in ruin as the pupils are wide w/ the truth #vss365 #emoetry #wildwalkprompt 0123
Reposted by a.d.Sunlit @sunblissful.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I pray to touch, to hold, to keep what is aflame. I am changing, transforming, aching. Flowing, pausing, pulsating cosmic trails. I am, I tell myself. I am, I repeat. I am but life replies that dawn is an illusion. Hands outheld to the wild, trees hear this fall and re-invent my call. 2766
Reposted by a.d.ɐʇǝǝɹʎs @phantomsspleen.bsky.social · 19/07/2026This photo cutting a metal train a smooth spark this morning he wants to run and he’s crying everyone I knew was onboard catch you everyone And I’m running and I’m running and he’s crying and I’m not ready and I’m flying a bus home it hurts to look at 54215
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 20/07/2026a feast of marrow so thrives his balance of sins until nothing's left #vss365 #balance #haikuhorrorprompt #marrow #haiku 1162
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 16/07/2026these dreams #depart like webs on the wind in a tangled bramble of silkless litterfall even the final hope cannot free the straitjacket - bedazzled by bloody bite marks and thrashing scores - too tight, too small like a throat in shock scars screaming in the darkness without a word #vss365 0182
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 15/07/2026echoed report another life draws closed man digs deeper #haikufeels #report #haiku #poetry 0140
Reposted by a.d.ɐʇǝǝɹʎs @phantomsspleen.bsky.social · 12/07/2026It fell on us from the rafters making us half tar-blind dripping into our coffee at the neighbours’ house we flicked as cigarette ash onto the carpet left us where we fell walked to work the usual way shaking hands with a dust bunny turned this into a bitumen river itching to burst the bank 44622
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 10/07/2026the beauty of a #rose lies not in its petals nor in its fragrance, but in the single-minded devotion of its thorns #vss365 0163
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 07/07/2026peeling back the skin from fingernail to knuckle from temple to growing smile it's the only way to reveal where the guilt lies feeding sin through bloated veins that spill and stain to black the soul where eternal rivers flow #vss365 #revealing #emoetry #guilty 1162
Reposted by a.d.ɐʇǝǝɹʎs @phantomsspleen.bsky.social · 05/07/2026For every time you told me your sigh is a frown and your girl is a woman with your downward face your face so drawn I am moving with it down down with salt lips that is, I am making a note in my palm and a soundless sound across a soundless salted living room, that is I kiss it to you. 02814
Reposted by a.d.FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026#vss365 #poetry Amber hues dance in delight Reflected in the silent shimmer Of the moon and its stars Across a velvet dark sky Within your eyes And so I #swoon A little love drunk Forgetting the break of dawn Time stopping to swoon too In a galaxy just for me and you 35914
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 05/07/2026i've sat in the shade while ages passed; friend only to a puddle by my side. everyday, she shows me the sun #swoon to the moon's sultry shimmer, and the folly in the sway as this mighty oak withers. patiently she plies her ways, until i too am reduced to a puddle engorging our loneliness #vss365 1153
Reposted by a.d.Sunlit @sunblissful.bsky.social · 05/07/2026The wind is fierce I need such ferocity to talk to the elements to hold my arms wide embrace the wild I want to howl bare feet dappled here it roars again caressing my awe 📷 by me #poetry #photography #trees 110012
Reposted by a.d.BB Milne @bbmilne.bsky.social · 04/07/2026the kiss of frost light tips blue the easy pasture I wait for you #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #pasture 052
Reposted by a.d.ɐʇǝǝɹʎs @phantomsspleen.bsky.social · 04/07/2026you, an insect lie there benign and suffocated in the sea’s upsetting knuckle clicking her ghosts are immaculate throats full of your long dead grass 23015
Reposted by a.d.BB Milne @bbmilne.bsky.social · 04/07/2026pedal down, I play notes on a drowning surface, scatterbrained a primordial hum of silt and undersea I press a key to hear what one hand says to the other to drown, in whispers #supercilious as our hemispheres #vss365 #emoetry #poetryprompt 0134
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 02/07/2026on a good day, the present is numb. an #appraisal by dissonance and fire, trapped between time's weeping entropies. sorrow was never meant to be a synecdoche for life, but i fail to see a future blessed without unrelenting tearfall. today is not a good day. #vss365 0141
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 01/07/2026what is a will to live but a dalliance with #apprehension just one more tattoo of slender sliver just another sleepless night at the whim of dissatisfaction life and will aren't coterminous when its maker is met, so too is mine excuse me, i have a will to kill #vss365 1214
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 29/06/2026worry dolls whisper my ears sear in the nightmares giving back my shame #haikufeels #haiku #poetry #worry 092
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 27/06/2026saved from the quiet internal voices compel flesh is enemy #haikuhorrorprompt #haiku #poetry #internal_voices 2121
Reposted by a.d.ɐʇǝǝɹʎs @phantomsspleen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Tfw I was so sure climbing the wooden hill face in my palm, my hot palm misting from my mouth, winding down the spring of my body. I dreamed of you. We were in our little boat. When I wake, I can still feel your hand, almost, when I wake I am calm. 24821
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 27/06/2026pond petals dance dodging bullet raindrops in the western wild #inkmine #dance #haiku #poetry 0155
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 27/06/2026pond petals dance to the rhythm of raindrops in silver spotlight #inkmine #dance #haiku #poetry 1207
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 27/06/2026a storm's confessions while lightning scars the night's flesh plangent thunder wails #haikufeels #confess #haiku #poetry 0100
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 26/06/2026hoarfrost feathers a fallen leaf not far from the tree it trembles under kisses blown and stars unreached it wants to disappear into dust like a grainy memory but ants shelter beneath its shade so it exists #vss365 #grain 1143
a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 22/06/2026killed darlings murdered dears locked within an ivory tower twisted sisters violent femmes jealous madness, suitor calls slayed angels butchered twins leap-of-faith #defenestrate crashing bodies poisoned souls embracing now, no truth be told #vss365 0111
Reposted by a.d.ɐʇǝǝɹʎs @phantomsspleen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026those eyes and mine black two black molars window-paned over a field a prescribed burn chest speaking boneless buzzing mouths fly-wing necks craning for the sun even though the sun’s just another screen 45524
Reposted by a.d.Anna Horroridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Your heart's sinews splayed like the beams of our fine, white house that was shelled. You said I must leave this hell: A country now burst at its seams. #WorldRefugeeDay 0122