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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 8h
in the garden there's a stone it's grown around in my hand there's a stone not thrown as yet grey matter all about in the city spoilt air an affair of lures as repeat repeat birdsong is heard and ignored grey matter alone the worn weathered face NSEW same: broken place grey matters #vss365
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 8h
in the garden there's a stone it's grown around in my hand there's a stone not thrown as yet grey matter all about in the city spoilt air an affair of lures as repeat repeat birdsong is heard and ignored grey matter alone the worn weathered face NSEW same: broken place grey matters #vss365
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/artic... hazel branch shaped like a crown illegal alien #haiku
asahi.com
ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK/ David McMurray | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
High-pitched calls...swans hurrying back from tundra--Yutaka Kitajima (Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture)
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#vss365 A quest or B quest C quel is R quest
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#vss365 A quest or B quest C quel is R quest
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/uprooted-poe... Feeling very rewarded to have a poem published by The Chaos Section Poetry Project. More voices for an equitable society got to be a good thing. Help us be heard. Share the poetry. Paperback v.soon
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/uprooted-poe... Feeling very rewarded to have a poem published by The Chaos Section Poetry Project. More voices for an equitable society got to be a good thing. Help us be heard. Share the poetry. Paperback book v.soon
thechaossectionpoetryproject.com
Uprooted: Poems of Resistance, Witness, and Survival
Uprooted: Poems of Resistance, Witness, and Survival gathers poets writing about ICE enforcement and immigration overreach. Read free online or download the PDF.
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#vss365 edit

this heart sparks at the start 
the rod and reward
the dirt and the bone

beyond a hill that could be
anywhere 

nurtured by wind and a rain 

the rainbow is always 
42 degrees 

the deceleration acceleration 
breaks the composite light 

rainbow fellows
a white man is made 
from running away 
from the sun
a black man is made
from the staying 
in the sun

the dirt and the bone 
sparked a heart where 
where we start 
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#chapbook #poetry #refugees
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The Chaos Section Poetry Project @chaossectionpoetry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#BlueSky, the third Chaos Section Poetry Project #chapbook has launched online, free to #read. This timely and deeply moving #anthology is dedicated to all of those harmed by police brutality during the #Trump administration. We hope you'll take a look. And VOTE!!! #booksky #poetry #vote #NoKings
thechaossectionpoetryproject.com
Uprooted: Poems of Resistance, Witness, and Survival
Uprooted: Poems of Resistance, Witness, and Survival gathers poets writing about ICE enforcement and immigration overreach. Read free online or download the PDF.
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/uprooted-poems/ Feeling very rewarded to have a poem published by The Chaos Section Poetry Project. More voices for an equitable society got to be a good thing. Help us be heard. Share the poetry. Paperbook soon Somewhat pleased
thechaossectionpoetryproject.com
Uprooted: Poems of Resistance, Witness, and Survival
Uprooted: Poems of Resistance, Witness, and Survival gathers poets writing about ICE enforcement and immigration overreach. Read free online or download the PDF.
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#vss365 edit

this heart sparks at the start 
the rod and reward
the dirt and the bone

beyond a hill that could be
anywhere 

nurtured by wind and a rain 

the rainbow is always 
42 degrees 

the deceleration acceleration 
breaks the composite light 

rainbow fellows
a white man is made 
from running away 
from the sun
a black man is made
from the staying 
in the sun

the dirt and the bone 
sparked a heart where 
where we start 
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#vss365 Work in progres
hands that rock the planet

bent forward each and every footsteps a lift
to prevent a fall. hands free had made us
Erectus

see hands free to run holding all we own
see hands free to hold weapons that run
the prey/enemy/alien through

hands free of the dirt
abandoned the tree
as home
grip hold on shaft
taken from the tree
as tool

guile to preserve fire
and the tree
is the fuel

freed hands nurtured the land into an industry
and were then chained to plough in slavery
under the power of the armed

fistfuls of battleships then ICBM umbrellas
under the press of a single digit
on the button

there there arm swinging to keep upright
fall and crawl fill your hand with dirt
let her into your blood and enjoy the
sky supine. resupinate reminds
of hanged men before the neck
snaps.

hands off tools
hand over credo
hand shake the world for freedoms sake
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#vss365

a heart sparks at the start 
the rod and reward
the dirt and the bone

beyond a hill that could be
anywhere 

nurtured by wind and a rain 

the rainbow is always 
42 degrees 

the deceleration acceleration 
breaks the light 

the white man is made 
from running away 
from the sun
the black man is made
from the staying 
in the sun

the dirt and the bone 
sparked a heart where where we start
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#vss365 Work in progres
hands that rock the planet

bent forward each and every footsteps a lift
to prevent a fall. hands free had made us
Erectus

see hands free to run holding all we own
see hands free to hold weapons that run
the prey/enemy/alien through

hands free of the dirt
abandoned the tree
as home
grip hold on shaft
taken from the tree
as tool

guile to preserve fire
and the tree
is the fuel

freed hands nurtured the land into an industry
and were then chained to plough in slavery
under the power of the armed

fistfuls of battleships then ICBM umbrellas
under the press of a single digit
on the button

there there arm swinging to keep upright
fall and crawl fill your hand with dirt
let her into your blood and enjoy the
sky supine. resupinate reminds
of hanged men before the neck
snaps.

hands off tools
hand over credo
hand shake the world for freedoms sake
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
autumn rain waiting for petrol dry tanks blowing dandelions the Doomsday clock counts bombs #haiku
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/artic... #haiku
asahi.com
ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK/ David McMurray | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
after the hailstorm a sickle moon--Tejendra Sherchan (Kathmandu, Nepal)
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#inkmine #tanka one tree a wild ride those angry sparrows an air force base place for carrion
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#inkmine #tanka one tree a wild ride those angry sparrows an air force base place for carrion
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#vss365 marvellous_ put a ladder up the wall it is a scale of how far -away the vicious Sun -the fall -here love can do for you! you do for love? soar before that fall up before down babies only know superhumans bleeding Marvel -Endgame
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#vss365 marvellous_ put a ladder up the wall it is a scale of how far -away the vicious Sun -the fall -here love can do for you! you do for love? soar before that fall up before down babies only know superhumans bleeding Marvel -Endgame
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
berry good #vss365
hard proto fruits exposed to
hearts naked over sickle
petals sacrificed

red streaked on fickle wind
a one bleed for a summer

like milk run from the wound
they dry to a crust of brown
that scabs the green

sickly wounds of winter
sing in flowers 
to new life

voices raise. a resurrected praise
son of nature nails the analogies in parables of love

Roman conversion of animism makes civilians of Celts and bells ring where

holly trees drank the blood of the chosen beasts

hooves and cuticles given so the sanguine fruit be borne for our winters
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
berry good #vss365
hard proto fruits exposed to
hearts naked over sickle
petals sacrificed

red streaked on fickle wind
a one bleed for a summer

like milk run from the wound
they dry to a crust of brown
that scabs the green

sickly wounds of winter
sing in flowers 
to new life

voices raise. a resurrected praise
son of nature nails the analogies in parables of love

Roman conversion of animism makes civilians of Celts and bells ring where

holly trees drank the blood of the chosen beasts

hooves and cuticles given so the sanguine fruit be borne for our winters
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#poem

anti-psychotic meds watch her face reset 
a calf skin palimpsest doesn't hide all the past stories 
underlined by the capillaries never too fine under the dermis 

scraped and scraped again 
wiping wiping 

grief after grief 

so thin a gossamer i can see
the drugs through

hold that sharpness 
thumbnail into my hand 
the fleshy part of me feels
remembers the pain 

an infant ( ifanc iawn) taught 
of love 
as isolation 
as punishment 
as broken skin

first passes that fracture on
on and on it's breaking 
on inside me

“increased the dosage”

hits a cannabinoid response 
i'm swallowing poppies 
it's just noise 
and 

red crescent where her hand was
and a cluster of biochemistry where 
she is
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#vss365 scratched into tin a name that is only readable across the line a man eloquent in sharp shadows a black wedding tie edged with tone between rain cloud and Brasso'd silver charm worn and loose a tinned can this man all limbs at angles he sang repeating a love song cut into black vinyl
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#vss365 scratched into tin a name that is only readable across the line a man eloquent in sharp shadows a black wedding tie edged with tone between rain cloud and Brasso'd silver charm worn and loose a tinned can this man all limbs at angles he sang repeating a love song cut into black vinyl
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#vss365 #dementia
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#vss365 anti-psychotic meds watch her face reset a calf skin palimpsest doesn't hide all the past stories underlined by the capillaries never too fine under the dermis scraped and scraped again wiping wiping grief after grief so thin a gossamer i can see the drugs through
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#vss365 adroit aguache alost
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
#vss365 old loading walls as grey as the mined slate helicopters named after fast animals hover over slow crows poised to reconnoitre trails after walkers distracted by seals the thrum of rotors puts gulls into a spotted sky the hooded birds hold their ground to dive on crisp packets and pasties
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Row of house with windows reflecting blue in a pink sunset skyline
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
#vss365 old loading walls as grey as the mined slate helicopters named after fast animals hover over slow crows poised to reconnoitre trails after walkers distracted by seals the thrum of rotors puts gulls into a spotted sky the hooded birds hold their ground to dive on crisp packets and pasties
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
#vss365 wax fruit witches with dicks peg_y lee
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
#vss365
trope_

it painted fruit into a tree that fairy tale trope
with Rumpelstiltskin stealing out of the scene
know what I meme?

in a museum a still life is oil and jessup a study 
a framed moment
the wax plastic fruits arranged in a glass fronted
fridge of a late night night kebab shop 
grabs a different hunger

outside. by day. by night. It's April and equal light and equal temperature
it is a sharp wind by day by night

the scythe that could cut the green of spring
is unreal to the synthetic in the trees
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#vss365 #beat #poem #poetry
away from the sea where hands as fans move the flies before the curtains do. pressing news past tight beliefs an old man's need to pee is another lie. brushing past in a rush before the rain it's not just witches in brooms. blessings from dying priests. forwards, in prayer, the crowd leans in. remembered songs leave Latin. near the sea every tree is truth about where the wind blows.
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#vss365 #beat #poem #poetry
away from the sea where hands as fans move the flies before the curtains do. pressing news past tight beliefs an old man's need to pee is another lie. brushing past in a rush before the rain it's not just witches in brooms. blessings from dying priests. forwards, in prayer, the crowd leans in. remembered songs leave Latin. near the sea every tree is truth about where the wind blows.
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
#vss365 hand me love sand filled glove spit in the dough grit in the bread dust the board oil on the skin sense you want to sing hand in glove when the bakings done
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
#vss365 hand me love sand filled glove spit in the dough grit in the bread dust the board oil on the skin sense you want to sing hand in glove when the bakings done
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
#vss365
rabbity stew

fist full of bones hits and splits skin
"a new divide"
thus spoke HULK
"SMASH!"
war and hominid first spin.
femur is gone blue into black
who cares. wish on space hardware:
our own shooting stars of the profit


two Adams tell some tales
- we must run from an apocalypse. the dream is real
- foundation of wealth is ever expanding consumption

rabbits in headlights freeze as muscle locks skeleton
primitive instinct to stop in delight of the machine

fractions of black tar in and out as tiny invisibles, daggers tipped toxic
metastasise  tissue into mush and fuse bone. pink noses do not twitch.

TDI lies pumped out at child height
the machine Revs. up.
Faith overdrives decrees of deniers.

black tyres spin up.
acrid smoke. it's not designed
to stop

nor are rabbits to leap, high enough
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#poem #writer #softgoth #gothic #promises
prairie hair 
not 
little house on the prairie 
hair 

not straw either 
but a hint of strawberry 
a bob cut

fresh cut lumber colour 
in a dress 
worn 
thin 

some bodies impossibly 
carry themselves 
so worn 
so thin 

glass so thin 
it cuts without pain
and the plain shirt
runs away claret

from the trees 
it calls making an
audience of the trees
their shadows
no encore

long day 
long shadows 
noon
no shade 

rings in trees 
promises kept 
rings on fingers
held

grass bleached 
not brittle 
swaying seducing 
a whole prairie in 
her hair
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#poem #writer #softgoth #gothic #promises
prairie hair 
not 
little house on the prairie 
hair 

not straw either 
but a hint of strawberry 
a bob cut

fresh cut lumber colour 
in a dress 
worn 
thin 

some bodies impossibly 
carry themselves 
so worn 
so thin 

glass so thin 
it cuts without pain
and the plain shirt
runs away claret

from the trees 
it calls making an
audience of the trees
their shadows
no encore

long day 
long shadows 
noon
no shade 

rings in trees 
promises kept 
rings on fingers
held

grass bleached 
not brittle 
swaying seducing 
a whole prairie in 
her hair
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#poem #writer #poetry
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
prairie hair not little house on the prairie hair not straw either but a hint of strawberry a bob cut fresh cut lumber colour in a dress worn thin some bodies impossibly carry themselves so worn so thin grass bleached not brittle swaying seducing a whole prairie in her hair
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#vss365 it's the kind of place where they make you breathe through pillows where the knives are plastic and the uniforms disposed of a talking wig under instruction my dysfunction a DNA trap out lasted the fuel of pursuit like a coyote with a mouthful of roadrunner shittin spittin feathers
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#vss365 it's the kind of place where they make you breathe through pillows where the knives are plastic and the uniforms disposed of a talking wig under instruction my dysfunction a DNA trap out lasted the fuel of pursuit like a coyote with a mouthful of roadrunner shittin spittin feathers
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Absorbent and yellow and porous is he SpongeBob SquarePants! without compare where there's no air honest and true are you the same too unlike the orange blob who only a fish in his gob will stop all the lies and too many French fries #vss365 (he loves the French really to tarrif them dearly)
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Absorbent and yellow and porous is he SpongeBob SquarePants! without compare where there's no air honest and true are you the same too unlike the orange blob who only a fish in his gob will stop all the lies and too many French fries #vss365 (he loves the French really to tarrif them dearly)
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
cut the cord put the needle on the re cord when the drumbeats go like this Wahhh Wahhh first born cried cried cried fcnng Little Acorns White Stripes rockabye baby lullaby roll on the next one #vss365
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Robin Rich @rrichwords.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
cut the cord put the needle on the re cord when the drumbeats go like this Wahhh Wahhh first born cried cried cried fcnng Little Acorns White Stripes rockabye baby lullaby roll on the next one #vss365
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