Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026the kiss of winter and Earth, blushing beneath it in a veil of frost #haiku 020
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"The greatest pain on Earth comes from its pleasure; for by its presence we may take Earth’s measure." seanpatrick.phd/2026/10/04/s... #poem #poetry #sonnetseanpatrick.phdsonnet for a cruelty…the world is full of minor cruelties… 020
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"If there’s a God, I know that He’ll forgive me for learning lessons that His world could teach without requiring Him to be my guide; and on my deathbed I’ll be satisfied." seanpatrick.phd/2026/09/26/s... #poem #poetry #sonnetseanpatrick.phdsonnet from an agnostic…if there’s a God, I know that He’ll forgive me… 020
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"Your body is itself a work of art, a Renaissance in me of eager joy; but what I love the most is in your heart, and there my eyes I can no more employ." seanpatrick.phd/2026/09/05/s... #poem #poetry #sonnetseanpatrick.phdsonnet for an absence…let me describe you, love, through my own eyes… 030
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 21/05/2026dissatisfaction is the only guarantee - whatever the prize, its glow will soon dim, outshined by glittering potential #tanka #TankaThursday 051
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 20/05/2026send off the spirit say the ritual, ring the chime and yet ghosts remain in the absences they filled until we, too, may join them #tanka #NaTankaMo #MayTanka 031
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026the withering of Eden's innocent garden a glut of delights replaced by a single fruit that delicacy, knowledge #tanka #NaTankaMo #MayTanka 041
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 17/05/2026"...This thing we have, which we call love, is not a thing that we can tell the world about; it’s past all language – terse or overwrought – and it’s uniquely ours, beyond all doubt..." seanpatrick.phd/2026/05/17/s... #poem #poetry #sonnet #SonnetSunday 020
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 16/05/2026awakening from an afternoon nap, I learn that I am human, that I have hands and feet and desires. I had forgotten. #tanka #NaTankaMo #MayTanka 083
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 15/05/2026"Electricity clings to a new world, an egg-tooth penetrating the boundary between life and cold machine, the yolk of human ingenuity consumed and excreted. When octopuses hatch, they eat their mother. Evolution has no cause for sympathy. Only survival." seanpatrick.phd/2026/05/15/e... #poetry 110
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 15/05/2026"the bridges I have burnt with verse went up in such exquisite flames; each fleck of ash an eddied rhyme, each mute apology a whorl of heat unraveled by the wind of time." seanpatrick.phd/2026/05/14/a... #poem #poetry 051
Reposted by Sean Patrickyeeorjanedoe poems 🕷️ @yeehawpoems.bsky.social · 14/05/2026My muse is the sun which makes sense because I'm like a plant or something #haiku 0192
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 14/05/2026each time love occurs it is unique - unequaled - there is no first love; whenever we fall in love it is always the first time #tanka #MayTanka #NaTankaMo 022
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 13/05/2026the ugliest weeds usually have shallow roots go, then! pull them out! #haiku 000
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 13/05/2026like a sunflower your radiance captured me heliotropic I couldn't bear the brightness but I couldn't look away #tanka #NaTankaMo #MayTanka 021
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 12/05/2026in crowded cafes people gather, stare at screens and pretend to work the price tag of the coffee is paid by the illusion #tanka #NaTankaMo #MayTanka 093
Reposted by Sean PatrickCatherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 11/05/2026wren in the thorn hedge remember where your home is everywhere always 24217
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 11/05/2026"Our worlds are our experience — and not, as some would say, things of objective fact. When measured fresh, just sense remains intact." seanpatrick.phd/2026/05/10/s... #poem #poetry #sonnet #SonnetSunday 020
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 10/05/2026every human being has a mother - was carried like a parasite - and each of us owes a debt that can never be repaid #tanka #NaTankaMo #MayTanka 000
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 09/05/2026there is not one road but many, compressed and worn by those who travel; there is not one life, but we traverse a single highway #tanka #NaTankaMo #MayTanka 041
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 08/05/2026representations painted on neural canvas of a distant world the artistry of life in their subtle imperfections #tanka #NaTankaMo #MayTanka 040
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 07/05/2026left behind by dreams drops of memory linger, coalesce like dew and evaporate beneath the pitiless light of day #tanka #TankaThursday #NaTankaMo #MayTanka 041
Reposted by Sean PatrickMalachy Moran @malformed-poetry.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Today’s #poetryprompt: The Only Poems poem of the month contest for May is a Sonnet! And they don’t mind if you post on social media. Give me a sonnet! #MPPrompt I repost replies Follow for daily prompts 3103
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 04/05/2026"Yet rhymes, like waves, may glitter in the sun: and meter, like a month, may hold the moon, and verses may burn brighter than the day." #poem #poetry seanpatrick.phd/2026/05/04/a... 030
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 03/05/2026"...Such is the fate of humankind’s inventions, and by extension, that of humankind: that power, in the service of pretensions, usurps the promise that has been designed. If humans teach a lesson, it is this: intelligence must bow to avarice." seanpatrick.phd/2026/05/03/s... #poem #poetry #sonnet 030
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 26/04/2026"...eternal rest, or else an endless dance — these speculations all seem incomplete. Whatever waits, we won’t know in advance. If you are there, I may endure it well; if not, then even heaven will be hell." #poem #poetry #sonnet seanpatrick.phd/2026/04/26/s... 050
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 19/04/2026"The wise are not convinced by beauty’s gleam, but purity revealed to them in time; and hold the weight of deeds in high esteem, for evidence outweighs a luster’s shine. Per ounce of beauty in a pound of flesh, fifteen of ugliness await their test." #poem #poetry seanpatrick.phd/2026/04/19/s... 042
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 09/04/2026A sonnet of mine appeared in the March '26 Neologism www.neologismpoetry.com/March-2026/neologismpoetry.comMarch 2026Issue #106 Simon MacCulloch Laugh Tracks Did Satan die here skinless, scalded cat, each hair a crime shed wriggling in the alleys and the gutters of our town, and turned to fishes, finless, mouths … 010
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 09/04/2026regarding beauty, there can be no consensus - the world's ugliness is self-similar, fractal, but its beauty is unique #tanka 020
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 10/02/2026the body remembers what the mind wants to forget – beneath skin, between bones, you remain. the pain of you still pierces through dull memory, sharpened by the passage of time. you are gone and not gone. all that persists is the ache - the nameless want pulling, crushing, unyielding. #vss365 2133
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 29/01/2026love is not written and ink does not carry love only promises love is not a lettered thing but a blank page to be filled #tanka #TankaThursday 040
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Some poems of mine appearing at alliteration.net (Forgotten Ground Regained Winter '26) alliteration.net/poetry/defen... alliteration.net/poetry/allit... alliteration.net/poetry/engin...alliteration.netA Defence of Moby Dick, a poem in alliterative verse by Sean PatrickAt sea, where sent · the seething Ahab / his ship – and Ishmael, and she, to die / and whither whales · have whipped the waves ... 000
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 25/01/2026"The vigilant must watch while Justice sleeps, and on some distant day when she awakes her sword will cleave through humankind’s mistakes – but only those that observation keeps." seanpatrick.phd/2026/01/25/s... #poem #poetry 010
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026"The world is cold today, and bare; and nothing sings beneath the sun, and wind brings promises of snow. Throughout it all, the urge to run: to find some other place to go, and hope to find some comfort there." seanpatrick.phd/2026/01/23/m... #poem #poetry 030
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 21/01/2026The weight of the world would seem enough to overburden the strongest bridge, and at this crossing-point we hear the creaking of supports and protests of the trestles; the beams all warp beneath the load, but remember in the grip of gravity even light must bend. Dawn alone may break. #vss365 0102
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 19/01/2026"A mind is not a weapon, it is an ember in the night that craves the warmth of others; we sit and watch the shadows projected by our fading light, and celebrate the ash of gleaming." seanpatrick.phd/2026/01/19/e... #poem #poetryseanpatrick.phdembers in the night…a mind is not a weapon… 010
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 17/01/2026"the day before, we watched the world boil over and drip, and flare, and sputter uselessly and they were still alive, and yesterday we might have done a thing to keep them here, but not today." seanpatrick.phd/2026/01/17/t... #poem #poetry 120
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 11/01/2026"I do not think that I shall miss the Earth, and of its denizens I’d keep but one: for you, I’d bear the misery of birth, and in your being concede that God has won. Regarding all the rest, I’m not so keen – but you give purpose to the whole machine." seanpatrick.phd/2026/01/11/s... #sonnet #poem 010
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 10/01/2026when feeling you try to elicit, it's best to be very explicit; the unmissable truth is too subtle, forsooth, for plenty of folks who will miss it #limerick #vss365 0131
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 09/01/2026it should be clear by now that life is a joke; the setup and delivery are immaculate, it's just that we are waiting for the punchline. someday, when it comes, we'll greet God in tears with laughter and when He asks what is so funny, we'll say "I guess you really would have had to be there." #vss365 0101
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 09/01/2026steam rising from soup seeking equilibrium as do we all. *slurp* #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt 060
Reposted by Sean PatrickBrandon O’Brien, but wearing a wolf mask @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 08/01/2026a poem that came spilling out today. 525798
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 08/01/2026the space between things an optical illusion through the lens of time #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt 0191
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 08/01/2026wandering slowly and in the midst of monsters through thick, blinding fog brushing against the unknown I met you, against all odds #tanka #TankaThursday 0111
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 07/01/2026...Yet here, with heavy-handed irony, we’re made to mind the macro-lens. The world is waiting, witnessing, revolving, and here, we humans had our chance. We may not make a move in time to save our species; still the Earth shall turn, and time will tell who lasts... seanpatrick.phd/2026/01/07/a... 020
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 04/01/2026"Let all our expectations be forgot, and let us love in instants now and ever: and let each brief ephemeron of thought unite we two, and past attachments sever. Our history is of no consequence, for love exists within the present tense." seanpatrick.phd/2026/01/04/s... #poem #poetry #sonnet 030
Reposted by Sean PatrickUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/01/2026All or nothing, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it's life itself? What do we know of eternity but the glimpse we get of it when we enter in that bond? 0183
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 02/01/2026"From many, few; who in that winnowing may bear the lost when light, at last, arrives. On winter morns, no quiet songbirds sing, but silence cannot drown them in the spring." seanpatrick.phd/2026/01/02/a... #poem #poetry #villanelle 061
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Woke up this morning still thinking about a book of poetry I read last night and still feeling a bit shook by it. The mark of a good book, I guess. 020
Sean Patrick @seanpatrickphd.bsky.social · 02/01/2026the world, when it reaches us has been slathered in abstraction - look there, an object, a color, a thing. our brains shelter us from the grim nature of reality (which is chaos) and swaddle us in emotion: "This is separate from that: attend now to this, which is love, which is pain." #vss365 0214
