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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

What #hand had I made A full house masking a pair Now, the last big blind. It’s never too late to win It’s never too late to try #vss365 #poetry #poem #writing #writingcommunity

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

If I reflected I could trace the path I walked But I wonder how I got where I am How I did so with her by my side The singular beauty of her Both within and without I could find the answer But at times it’s better to live a life without mirrors For to be #mystified is good for the soul #vss365

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The plane descended, #pale clouds catching attention. The past held above; The future waiting below That eternal, tranquil gray. #vss365 #tanka #poem #poetry #writing #writingcommunity

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I found a calm once Within whispered wind Under a gray sky The summer #thrum of the village Forgotten mine as other lives were lived In knee-deep shallows, Stood silent; #soothed still - As God spoke for but a moment And I, in memory, listened hereafter. #vss365 #writing #writingcomminity

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Despite your clear eyes The world can still #obfuscate And you’ll never know What it was to be so sure That your senses were with you #vss365 #poetry #poem #tanka #writing #writingcommunity #hopemaybedim #butadimlightisstillalight

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Thinking back on better times and rewatched what is possibly one of my absolute favorite things I’ve ever made (in this case shot, edited, produced). Improvised dance featuring the extremely talented Hanna Bass. If this was left as my mark on the world, I would be happy: youtu.be/vNrd-EJk4CQ?...

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Home Bodies - Hanna Bass

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I thought of myself As one never to #quiver; To wax and not #wane. Yet this protection remains Still fearfully unproven. #vss365 #poem #poetry #tanka #writing #writingcommunity

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

A night on the #cusp Meaning of life within grasp! . .. … Oops, I fell asleep. #vss365 #writing #writingcommunity #poem #poetry #haiku

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

So slight a #drizzle Can cause the soul to #unmoor And drift out alone; We wish away waves, to be Back in the peaceful harbor. #vss365 #poem #poetry #tanka #writing #writingcommunity

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

It was always there That sweet, nostalgic future Just over the hill Always right around the #bend Forever just beyond reach. #vss365 #poem #poetry #tanka #writing #writingcommunity

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

There is a moment - For the sand in the hourglass For the thread in the #loom - Where it stands apart from the rest; Forever orbiting the minute As worlds and time itself hinge in an epoch’s breath. The grain rejoins the sand, unaware that, for a time, it was the center of all things. #vss365

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

A #dapple of sun And the #murmur of the creek. Give me this peace. From the shout of modern life, Give nature’s gentle progress. #vss365 #poem #tanka #poetry #writing #writingcommunity

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

May your weekend be just like Waffles: Feet on the floor and ready to party; your butt in bed, hoping your plans cancel. #dogsofbluesky #dog #waffles #haveagreatweekend

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I wish it were joy Holding still my feet in #awe Not pained remembrance. #vss365 #poem #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #haiku

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

You may be called “tender” when wronged. Slow cooked inside, yet left to cool down. But I prefer to think of it more as a #sear Burnt harsh on the out; forever raw within. #vss365 #writing #writingcommunity #freeverse #poetry #poem

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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I beg the floods to stop from coming. I try to pray it all away. But it’s in me, it’s blowing through me— I am its god, and I am the village annihilated. #Poetry #Poem #BlueskyPoetry

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Breathing hard after the 20-mile chase, the red & blue lights - combined with the metallic click of the handcuffs around his wrists - finally clued him in that maybe…just maybe…he had misunderstood when he heard someone say, “ #slapdash” at the neighbor’s barbecue. #vss365 #writingcommunity #writing

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

“This hoity-toity rigmarole is nothing but #balderdash to the hoi polloi!” He couldn’t remember how he landed the gig, but the confused faces of the onlookers proved he was doing a good job. Truly, being paid by the ostentation was a lucrative business. #vss365 #writing #writingcommunity

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

How firm was the #resolution when the sunrise of a year already felt likes the sunset? #vss365 #writing #writingcommunity

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

#abstract time approached Shape revealed near the present Is seen geometric grief? Or a frame of hope? #vss365 #poem #poetry #writing #writingcommunity

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I fear losing #delight in the future with the aging cynicism of each passing year. But the hope is there - small, struggling - but still an ember held, ready for stoking. #vss365 #writing #writingcommunity #hello2026 #fuckoff2025

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I #regret the year. Not an action, but lament that it happened - hurt and heartache of the normal passage of time in a sea of lost justice, efforts to correct the tide merely drops of meager rain. I regret I couldn’t do more. I regret what I could wasn’t enough. #vss365 #writing #writingcommunity

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

“ #chivalry & White-Knighting is a bit like the difference between knowledge & wisdom: one needs just holding a door or helping one over a puddle; the other insists on a Kool-aid burst through a wall or becoming a human raft to cross the wide Missouri.” He had never been good at metaphors. #vss365

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The years pass And with each going I can see The screen’s false light Shining bright to distract From the #aphotic void behind it The vaunted font of knowledge Dried by a cynical desert And disguised as a desperate oasis. #vss365 #writing #writingcommunity

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

My Late-In-Life Change: Going from “Joie de Vivre” To “Suave de Vivre” #vss365 #haiku #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #poem

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

In a narrow hallway Under blue light Staring at the writing on the wall A thousand quotes from ghosts of a hundred shows Spaces bare where I could have laid mine down but didn’t Is now the time? Each step out the door is the #last to make that mark The last, until the next moment comes. #vss365

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

There is a strange, beautiful connection to be found in a subway’s #exhausted collective, an understanding where words are unnecessary but the meaning clearly known; that though we may never meet again, still we’re all in this together. #vss365 #writing #writingcommunity

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Wading into the flowing river of days. Each mapped. Planned. Prepared. Eager dawns & exhausted dusks marking the passage. But my understanding of where I’m going capitulates each morn & a dull fear asks: When I arrive, will I even recognize the world that awaits me? #poem #poetry #writing #freeform

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

It was in the wretched excuse of an afterglow that she realized that sex with him was the #cummerbund of physical relationships: a need only really called for under very specific circumstances; at all other times, a cause to wonder what purpose it actually served? #vss365 #writing

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Was hope worth having when this #liminal life continues to twist and stretch it from our grasp, the stick lengthening while the carrot fades past the horizon #vss365 #writing #writingcommunity

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Yearning to “return to a simpler time” means the #primordial soup at the dawn of existence, an unburdening of consciousness where the only thing to worry about is the threat of heat death, with none of that pesky empathy to get in the way of one basking in id. #vss365 #writing #writingcommunity

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

There is a drive, oft derailed by the intimate details, to be a part of something bigger than one’s #self, the goal quickly abandoned when scale back will do. For a tree doesn’t grow full straight from seed, but gradually fills the space it is destined to occupy. #vss365 #writing #writingcommunity

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Against the winds of the world, my wants seem #small and delicate. Those nights, when knees come close to buckle, I wonder why I spent so much time on flitting, fragile things. But I know, down deep, that they made me who I am - a man far stronger than seeming. #vss365 #writing #writingcommunity

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Why did he seek the risk? Why leave the ocean and aim for life’s #strait? Threading that line, to become the wreck his family already thought him to be, yet ripping them from their comfortable assumption by emerging on the other side - was just too tantalizing. #vss365 #writing #writingcommunity

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

#splinter in the mood Breaking a day into night Splitting flesh of dreams. #vss365 #writing #writingcommunity

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

If her eyes were an endless ocean - as he had so often crooned - then in his betrayal she would not given him the pleasure of drowning, with no drop or drop of #brine to spare. #vss365 #writing #writingcommunity

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Due to the silent stares from his new coworkers, it didn’t take Daniel long to realize that his previous excitement at being transferred to the #nudibranch division of the marine biology department had been based on a gross misunderstanding. #vss365 #writing #writingcommunity

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Know in the moment When I ‘cut to the marrow’ It’s no soft insult. I will break your only guard And sever your core essence. #vss365 #tanka #poem #poetry #writing

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

“Ooo, watch out…” “Stop it.” “You’re in dangerous waters. I hear there’s a #narwhal about-“ “-cut it out, I’m serious-“ “-if you’re not careful, he might poke you-“ “-MOM! I’m 35. Please just give me flu shot already!” “Oh, you’re no fun. Now hold still, little sailor!” #vss365 #toxic

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

At #selkie elementary school, teaching the English alphabet has always proven difficult, as all students get stuck with a stutter on the letter “R”. #vss365 #writing #writingcommunity

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

In #defense of the #anglerfish, it may look vicious, but I have to imagine that he’s really just a friendly little chap lighting the way for weary ocean travelers. Much like a Motel 6, he’ll leave the light on for you. #vss365 #writing #writingcomminity #iknowexactlyonefactaboutanglerfish

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

We need #clarity When the homonym #matrix Complicates language. Ever can a wrath-filled #wraith Know more than a piece of peace? #vss365 #poem #poetry #tanka #writing #writingcommunity #catchingup

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The Penhead Diaries @penheaddiaries.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Holding your small hand Your instinctive grip mighty A moment to smile. Covering the #hiraeth mood Of the world I wished you raised. #vss365 #writing #writing #tanka #poem #poetry

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