O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 14/05/2026So permanent I press myself To papers The ink Of my veins Running Over pages Worn Dog-earred Each drop A pen stroke Stanza'd Like a soul Could fit 8 1/2 by 11 #poetry #bspoet #poem #poems 132
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 30/04/2026What is love Without prudence What if I don't want to love Like a warm glass of milk I want to love Like a glass of bourbon You set on fire You have to be brave enough To take the first sip #poem #love #fire #romance #bspoetry 141
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 28/04/2026I got a sliver And I wonder Does love work like that? A small piece of someone Else That gets caught up Sliding into the skin Getting under our Fingerprints No tweezers necessary #poem #poetry #bspoet #love 041
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 21/04/2026"If Listening Were an Olympic Sport I'd be the worst At listening to Myself On the way to work When my singing voice Still cracks from my coffee I Wonder if there's A way to tell myself It's okay When I can feel How not okay it is If maybe I'll listen Past the wall..." #poem #poetry #BSPoet 062
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Would you still look for me? Outside of the swimming pool Eyes closed and hollering If I stopped calling out Your name Would ever I hear my phone ring again I'll wear as many striped shirts in every crowd As you need to see where I stand Just let me know You'll keep looking #poem #poetry #bspoet 010
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 06/04/2026A curse Or a gift Do I still get to eat the knuckle sandwich? If a boxing glove is wrapped around the fist Or does it just Hit What gift doesn't come with the receipt Highlighted and circled in red They will never let you forget the cost Of not being dead #poem #poetry #poems 010
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 12/03/2026My Own Hands "I want to sit me down Put my hand On my own knee Look at myself And say, "I need some time" I want to look Into my own eyes And let the clock Unwind All the time I spent Counting the bruises Like buttons I never was good at Collections But I am good At being a bad..." #poems #poet 040
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Tired "I appreciate healing But I am tired I am tired of a good week Followed by A crash Out Trying to be aware Of my own mind Bullying My own mind Into crying In the shower Even after a good Day Why do feelings Rate from 8-10 When I am desperate For a moment Of 1" #poems #poetry #healing #BPD 040
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Ode to My Butt "I approve Of my butt Many years in the making We've been through some shit Together Round rumped Plumped Better than junk In this trunk I wouldn't go anywhere Without it From toilet seats To handprints This butt? Is going places One stair..." #poems #bodypositivity #poetry 020
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Laugh Lines "I can't wait to get old To see the record Lines of laughter That I pressed Into my lovers Faces like flowers Their laughs Are a bouquet Of colors I Would save for Everyone to see Some day I'll count the Laugh lines I made In the smiles Of my lovers faces Many years from now" #poetry 000
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Time "If my selflessness Hurts people Will being selfish Be good? I thought keeping pain inside Meant saving others From pain they never asked for But I didn't ask for it either How many times Did I walk away Because I thought I deserved it? Maybe being alone to cry Meant..." #poems #poetry 020
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Laughter and Resistance "I'll write a poem about this About the crooked doorways And warm air Damp with breath I'll write a poem about the sound Of people laughing In a house I don't know But I feel safe I'll try to capture The moment laughter And resistance Felt like one..." #poetry #resistance 010
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 21/02/2026I think about my body If I saw me As someone else How I would appreciate Their waist Curving into their hips Would I notice The soft stubble Of newly made hairs Racing to show a Jawline hardening To cut soft lines Into their lovers shoulders Would I see And love..." #poems #poetry 010
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 21/02/2026The Heart of You "I wonder if there's a way To bottle up The way your eyes Catch the light When they look At my lips I feel like I could kiss The heart of You" #poem #poetry #love 020
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Be Love "I wish I was the mountains In your hometown I'd watch you dance in my shadows And call my valleys home I would be the siren that Called for tornadoes And hold you tightly In the basement I wish I was the house That gave the biggest Candy bars..." #poem #poetry #love 020
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Changed "It's a U-turn A stop and go A break between stanzas After the worst Cliff hanger The pendulum swings To Conscious as hell And suddenly I'm changed It won't swing back It hurt too much Swinging words Like fists And a black eye On your heart I couldn't forgive myself.." #poem #poetry #love 040
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 18/02/2026In a Trench Coat "I don't really know how to be a person I'm more like 1000 traumas in a trench coat Trying to find A kind place to land" #poem #poetry #trauma 020
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 12/02/2026"Let me pretend for a while That I'm your knight in dingy armor I already slayed my dragons And showed up to your door whole You can hold my hand And maybe I'll have enough time Before the end To let our fingers weave together A future you might not even..." #poems #poetry #love 080
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 10/02/2026TW: Self harm mention "When will I be done? Growing Healing Working Towards Trying To be something everyone is supposed to already be. See nobody ever told me I shouldn't mean it when I love But my dad meant i When he brought flowers to every recital Just as much..." #poems #poetry #feelings 020
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Crash "I have to fight still To find the space Between my own breaths The moments of pause When I feel the weight of the world Lifted off my shoulders And I wonder If Atlas Ever learned to box breathe To stop it all from crashing down" #poems #poetry #stress #boxbreathe 020
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Magic and Love "What is the difference between Magic and Love If I see stars in your eyes And hear music in your footsteps What fated red string Doesn't pull itself out Of a silly black hat Where rabbits live If Love isn't Magic Why do four leaf clovers Grow..." #poem #poetry #love 001
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Childhood "Bury my bones In the garden Behind my childhood home Let me haunt the woods Where I Built kingdoms in my mind Let me linger on the grass Where my dog and I Laid all summer Leave me by the flowers That I watched Bloom..." #poems #poetry #childhood 010
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 07/02/2026The pendulum swings Too much Too little Never just right I teeter my own totter Into the scales Of what the fuck Tipping the whole Boat overboard My loose cannon Has been all over This cruise ship Poop deck Shit storm of Turbulence where I Do not put..." #poems #poetry #balance 050
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 06/02/2026"Live Live soft Let others hold you Gentle in their hands Let them guide you When you can't see Open your heart enough To let them in Where you don't Want to be Take the love that You are given And know That you deserve Every Drop So live Even if it's soft" #poems #poetry #soft 031
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 05/02/2026"Seeping Finding Bending Breaking Endless Tumult Final Waking Steady Hands Constant Shaking Mirrored Masked Lying Faking Broken Heavy Endless Making Lost Course Ever Taking Stable Ground Forever Quaking Here I lie Always Aching" #Poems #Poetry #Writing 000
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 02/02/20266 Foot "6 foot away from a man in a box That told me he never wanted to be there Consoling grown men that couldn't Hold themselves upright Long enough to look me in the eyes When they wished me a happy birthday What did 20 have to bring That 19 didn't already take..." #poems #poetry #loss 030
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Bruise-Less "I could close my eyes And fall down Three flights of stairs Not nearly as fast As my stumble To you So blindly in love I fall down Into your arms Bruise-less" . #Poetry #Writing #Love 020
Reposted by O. RoseBlueSky Poetry @blueskypoetry.bsky.social · 01/02/2026February’s #BlueSkyPoetry Prompts Title: "February Flux" “February’s flux begins its subtle sway.” Use the exact hashtag #BSPP50 to share each of your creations for any of the days of February that you choose to write. #BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP50 #February #poetry #poetryCommunity 03818
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Stars "You keep so many stars In the constellations on your face Even the sky Knows that it owes you Everything" #poems #poetry #love 020
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Never Known Hearing you snore Is safety I've never known #poems #poetry #love 161
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Home How many times Do I have to rebuild myself To not have Fist sized holes in the wall Somewhere between Well insulated And outright fat Where I can hide The 8 year old Begging to be loved Through the cracks in the floorboard Looking into the kitchen For..." #poems #poetry #abuse 010
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 23/01/2026I’ll Be Fine I do not like this thought at all I do not like it big or small I do not like it in my brain I do not like it on refrain I do not like it when I wake Or every step I try to take I do not like this grinding thought I do not like its tragic plot..." 010
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 22/01/2026The Voice in my Head that Reads Poems You’re the voice in my head that reads poems I've never met you A stranger on all counts But your voice Was the first one I heard tell my story I thought I knew what poems were Until I cried myself to..." @andreagibson.bsky.social #poem #poetry 030
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Scars I used to be so ashamed Of the shiny bumps Hidden around my body Letters like moonlight Sunk into my skin Soft Cold My love for them has Waxed and Waned With the tides of my love For myself. Now I have scars That beam from my chest To light the harvest And..." #topsurgery #ftm #poems 020
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Falling I‘d fallen in love So often I thought I knew what it meant To love myself But Until the day I started Counting Chest hairs And Stopping to stare At myself In the reflection of the mirror in the hallway I didn’t really know what it meant To love Me #transmasc #lgbtq+ #poem 010
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Soft Winter has always been so soft to me Each flake that falls Lands Silently adding all of its weight To the blanket Laid gently on the ground Even when the cold is sharp It’s silence Rolls over Frosty cheeks Rounding its edges in Comfort We watch the snow..." #winter #poems #writing 010
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Breath It’s not that I can’t breathe. It’s that breathing feels like cotton balls Stuffed down my throat Filling my lungs With itching uncertainty My chest stretches out Becoming the worn pillow My anxiety can rest it’s head on Each exhale Clamors its way out of..." #poems #anxiety #poet 030
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Who "If I wrote you a letter And told you about my day I wonder which you'd answer I wonder if it would be the man Who laughed so hard he made The whole room Light up Would it be the Ball tag champion Of the graveyard Of 2004 Would it be..." #poems #poetry #abuse 020
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 22/01/2026November "It all ebbs and flows But the ebb is a drought And the flow is a trickle And my love our flowers need more Than just sunshine To grow I'd love to make you a bouquet But I picked the flowers And didn't see you in time Before they withered" @o-rose #poems #love #writing 010
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I am not "How can you love me When I am not When I don't want to Be Looking to something To finally feel like Nothing Finally feel Like I took a step Off The deep end I don't want to hurt anyone To not hurt anymore How can I love When I am not" . #poems #poetry #love 010
O. Rose @o-rose.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Whiskey "I felt more Myself When I couldn't See clearly Enough to drive home Than I ever Felt Holding my own hand" #poetry #poems 030
