Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 30/03/2025the call of the ruru walks the night her call ascends the valley and rings the stars on their mechanical swings satellites tremor as the last wisps of cloud signal a moonlit semaphore in the gap between calls moments resile her notes ride their echo and then fall #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 060
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 28/03/2025a slow rain came to fall from it came a deeper spontaneous joy as an entire cast and audience scrambled for cover to see the performance shift into the small house then an expression that could never be imagined effortlessly emerged out of the endless present #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 070
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 28/03/2025heading out I glimpse the sea and see the splintered light cast from shimmering waves reminding me of the coming and going of life how I’m a flash of existence a splinter of light on a wave not bound by anything for long not this body not this mind not this time #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 2140
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 27/03/2025out of dreamless sleep comes a shadow that hangs over the day making it seem squalid or half-lived while I reach for an uneasy truce between mind and emotion trying hard not to lose sense and reason as I push on upstream against the mad normal and its bitter tide #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 020
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 26/03/2025at sunrise the hard night breaks a blackbird sings setting loose an open melody kindling an optimism counter rhythmic to the chaos of power and ignorance the sweet notes calling the day awake making something of a promise all could be well if you would only sing #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 060
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 06/03/2025the early autumn eve prepossessed with a softening chill that begins to bruise the leaves everything is in early decline but beautiful to remind me yet again that all falls and the beauty is in just understanding this to walk with it through the lilting evening #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 060
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 27/02/2025an owl calls and night shifts a moment the breeze abating as stars float between cloud gaps otherwise everything is dark my restlessness mocks time and should dawn ever come it will only do so creeping slow and soft like a stalking cat with no care for my calling #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 040
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 25/02/2025the city at night is full of sirens as though every sleeping breath is an emergency through empty streets they ricochet off concrete, glass and steel an orchestrated dissonance of panic someone or something to be saved in the pensive dark or to be lost like sleep #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 040
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Little swells burst Cut by the bow A sea bird glides nearby Glinting in the late day’s light I look to the her and To the horizon For a moment Near and far in harmonic balance What captains no longer notice I see and feel completely Shifting with the subtle heave #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 030
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 22/02/2025she catches the wave i feel a shifting tide sheer joy and delight a high five running into the sea again eyes alive timing the dive chasing the ride she watches me return we try again facing the break between sea and sky a weightless glide her smile ocean wide #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 010
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 20/02/2025today cicadas sing they sing to thrive to be survived by next season’s singers so many singers one song how would it be if all we had to do is sing one simple song once we’ve sung our part to know that our song will continue we’d sing our meaning and be done #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 030
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 19/02/2025in the angled sunlight of late summer morning mist is clearing from the tops of the near hills silver birches still no longer recoiling from the heaving winds of yesterday I breathe and remain believing this is not a losing battle just a time of sharp transition #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 030
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 18/02/2025imagine if we could grow old without carrying questions and scars if we came through nurtured purely safe imagine if we had no struggle to know how or why free from the sticky confusions the petty brutalities of home painlessly here bright burning alive imagine #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 050
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 17/02/2025sometimes soft rain is enough a gentle opera of falling applause singing me to sleep permeating dreams urging sanity or at least a night without loss grief paused struggle suspended respite within the tumbling embrace be with me soft rain abide this slow night #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 091
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 17/02/2025a stray cloud speaks in soliloquy the rains are coming but here I am alone like you the same lightness adrift eventually we dissolve or evaporate becoming as though we never were by luck of timing we may glow bright shot by sunset rays then gone once and for all #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 0131
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 16/02/2025though I do not believe it the dream fills with destitution this young girl, once a bright babe in arms, is mad with addiction and conspiracy she shrieks with despair at the dealer who denies her then a moment later solicits the passing crowd for mercy and money #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 050
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 14/02/2025let it fall this grand tree despite all it housed shaded sheltered let it shatter and be remade this is the only way to make sense of it to honour and remember let it come down in a rain of splinters we will know then how mighty and true how necessary it was #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 030
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 13/02/2025the night is a broken song forlorn singer how long I’ve listened how I’ve heard in the effervescent starlight one sweet note abandoned recalling lost recitals playing in the cascading dark’s arrhythmia and how I danced for you between songs aching for the moon #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 010
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 11/02/2025quiet tears the kind that fall slow from little realisations the seeing of shadows where she thought there were none her quiet tears enough to condemn my heartless errors promises left empty small but countless brutalities tears of dignity that move me to shame #poetry #daily #4yearsof #booksky 030
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 10/02/2025A new phase of the moon Alters the angle of light Gravity bends the tide A darkened ship Silhouettes the sea, leaning As slow swells slide Drops of mist Assail flags, a breeze Pings the guides Day is so faraway And I hold the watch For the deepening night abides #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 010
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 09/02/2025one million miles away the shards of a star scatter and battalions of satellites scour the sky for meaning and purpose not so faraway weapons poised and recoiling angry men assault a city and no satellite looks our city our bricks, our streets our meaning #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 040
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 07/02/2025I was small and She would call me her Little Terror When I would wail in shopping malls For things I could not have And when the tempest of My denial passed Her circled arms pulled me in to hear her heartbeat The rhythm of some unfathomable treasure Undeniably mine #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 120
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 06/02/2025across the quiet night fierce sadnesses arch towards refraining hearts the old die so quickly and the young forget time the living believe too much the dead too little coldness bites as a sorry night bird calls warning us again that hate’s harvest comes for all #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 050
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Once In the midst of grief I laughed Then A shock of tears Heaving Somehow What I could not let go of Was gone Lost To everywhere But my heart Soon A single star spun its wavering light Now No longer shaking At dark I Breathe And wait for new joy #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 051
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 30/01/2025sometimes we notice we carry sadness a deep vulnerability a feeling of dread and at those times if we sit with our disturbance be patient with it we hear the sadness speak as a little gap of light opens through which we can see a new bud of truth unfurling sweetly #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 050
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Troubled at night Sleepless We left bed to go outside and see stars Constellations, satellites The softening light of the Milky Way Holding space for us Then, one shooting star Arcing above us Bright like a knowing smile Abiding so briefly So perfectly timed #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 020
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 28/01/2025strung between two silver birches a hammock swings mid-summer languishes day sleeping song birds chime their obsessions a scent of sweet baking comes from inside in this place and moment an untouchable peace could not all arrive here and be done with hope and fear #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 010
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 27/01/2025The repealing tide leaves mudflats exposed Blushing pink under sunrise Oyster catchers pipe for shellfish A tender rests on its hull I could look this way a million times And still find new joys There is deep water in the channels but In the shallows life abides #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 010
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Let’s slip into the aquamarine And coalesce with the sea and her fishes Let the search and rescue vessels carve their circles The bell calls lost in the crashing white Let our sinking kiss be love’s last semaphore signal One bright nebula in an oceanic night #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 000
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 25/01/2025I see the chaos But I also see the ash tree Unmoved by it Awaiting fantails A shower of rain comes Now a burst of sun A cat sharpens her claws on the trunk Then a sweet breeze whisks the leaves On it goes This timelessness without ambition is the greatest power #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 171
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Four sparrows on the crossbar of the guillotine Scrambling for space between each other Oblivious to the meaning Of the mouton and blade Only men could make this madness Only men could miss the innocent bliss of Four sparrows on the crossbar of the guillotine #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 010
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 23/01/2025beneath high cloud as the mid-summer evening settles I swim from the boat ramp toward the cut between moored yachts turning slowly on the switching tide breathing to one side glimpsing the shore I am thinking of surrender of solitude of letting be of letting go #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 031
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Jesus puts down his phone breathes a heavy sigh hours of scrolling to see if he could recognise himself in the intentions of power moment by moment announced in his name everything I taught is lost I wanted a world awake with compassion it was all a waste of time #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 030
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 21/01/2025a Gulf does not care what she is called for so long she was nameless and never will be possessed by namers without discrimination she sends hurricanes carries driftwood sweeps shores in sunrise and sunset dresses holds her dance with the sky completely free #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 020
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 20/01/2025The valley frames the sunset and cicadas continue on Early stars glimmer and the distant tide recedes The air is still and a child’s calling echoes None of this could ever be affected by the coming to power of a lunatic king None of this will ever obey him #poetry #4yearsof #daily #booksky 140
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 20/01/2025The ticker tape falls And so do tears Of joy, of sorrow And Like this, we slide between moments Passing each other Missing each other All of us looking for meaning Where there can be none Just the tectonics Of moments moving Between us Pulling us apart #poetry #4yearsof #daily 030
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 18/01/2025I’ve been thinking of my distraction plan for the 4 years from Jan 20 2025 to Jan 20 2029, so my plan is to post bad original poetry here, writing it as I think of it, probably daily but maybe not, never more than the character limit but almost never just a little haiku (to say how much I like you) 010
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Why are so many surprised that a culture that has lionised and sold celebrity and BS for so many decades is now governed by it? We all bought it. The US is about to get the minimum 4 years long reality TV show it was always destined to. This is deeply cultural folks, not some weird side show. 010
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Though she is a critically injured infant, looks like I’m ramping 2025 because 2016 to 2024 are occupying all of the emergency beds and still awaiting treatment. 010
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 03/08/2023Being here is like being at a party too early, all the drinks & snacks are ready, but it’s mainly just you & the hosts who you don’t know very well, so it’s all awkward & the other guests here early seem very serious about everything, which makes you want to hide on the dance floor, but it’s empty 021
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 24/07/2023Hellsite rebranding itself X is definitely the funniest thing since Elon got his hair replaced 000
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 13/07/2023Touched but cannot claim that mantle - does anyone know if Mr A Slowy is in here somewhere? 000
Pablo Eskimobar @paulhoworth.bsky.social · 13/07/2023How the heck has this place survived and thrived without me and my scintillating wit? 040
