Convo at the grocery store: “Do you ride your bike every day?” “Most days.” “I see you with it. In my country, I wasn’t allowed to ride bikes. Because woman. I’m going to learn to ride. When I do, I’m going to tell you.” — Thanks for telling me your story, Bahar. (I live for these moments.)

''Time is slipping away" by Romanian artist Darius Hulea.

05.08.26_13:15 Because it's Wednesday, Due for the drop, Exacerbated by the manic lack of sleep, Flip the cycle To the other side, And nothing else matters Save the pit and blackness, With the occasional thoughts of a knife. The shit time has begun, Just have to wait it out

And now, as a treat, here's a bumblebee on the milkweed

#Poetry #Painting #Morning The bacon snaps and starts to pop, The coffee drips and will not stop. The eggs turn white with edges brown, The best-made meal in all the town. - Wayne Conrad Serbu 🎨Zoboli, Mariachiara Di Giorgio

Lifted up to be dejected again, temptation of a devoted lover, but always, always I’m not enough #emoetry #vss365 #poetry

#Poetry #Painting #Morning It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it - Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

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Found a single beautiful red flower growing out of a sidewalk #FlowerPower #BloomingBeauty #FloralVibes

Seen in downtown Cleveland today #jimothy #seattle #jimothyraccoon

Damn, grandma was kind of a dish back in the day… #VintageVibes #RetroStyle #FoxyLady #ThrowbackThursday

You guys go on ahead, I’m going to hang out here for awhile ☺️ Armchair Books, Edinburgh's Old Town

JK Rowling is our generation's HP Lovecraft in the sense that they are both bigots and pieces of shit.

warn me when I hide behind the smile I practiced stay until I’m real #haikufeels #Warn #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets

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the dark held us close then bright fireworks crossed the sky hope made itself seen #dailyhaikuprompt #Fireworks #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets

Now that I’ve lost everything and absence is my presence only words fill up the space only slow moving pictures to take the place of life unlived; What do I do with nothing except grieve it, it wasn’t even there in the first place- but I wanted it to be, I ached for it to be #poetry

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Waking up As one person From the Next, I'm pretty Tired of this, Poetry, Never my thing Times change, Times got to sing And this time, It's my thing…

dare I ascend? dare I be lifted up above the horizon? dare I dream of the better when I’ve known the worst? dare I not be scared of the caring and kindness? possibilities walled by time, age, doubt- twirl in wisps through my hair #vss365 #emoetry #poetry

"Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity." Carl Sagan

I am nostalgic for a time when presidents had enough taste, style, and dignity not to wear a baseball cap with a tuxedo. Or to make rapey remarks about smiling to female journalists.