sat down
at the world's edge
surprised by the boredom,
a single, corrosive note of
beauty

https://xxyxxy.com/items/vNBEY5X0

#graphiteOnPaper #poetry #cinquain

from whence
all this brutal
violence? Well, I have
a notion, but you're not gonna
like it

https://xxyxxy.com/items/PCdkMGqo

#graphiteOnPaper #poetry #cinquain

Let’s Play Instead

There’s something about the day after Labor Day. In the olden days (when many of us were children), it was the first day of school, so even as adults many of us have an urge to buy notebooks and pens and sharpen pencils and Get Serious.
https://writerunboxed.com/2025/09/02/lets-play-instead/

#Inspirations #REALWORLD #Writinglife #cinquain #haiku
@indieauthors

trying
to comprehend
the vocabulary
of the clouds, as if gathering
my thoughts

https://xxyxxy.com/blog/ubsAfrlv

#poetry #cinquain #cloud #sketch

the clouds
will still author
their shadows on mountains
long after we've burned everything
away

https://xxyxxy.com/blog/Q1NYWo5q

#poetry #cinquain #desert #sketch

I miss
my father, I
miss my father, and my
family was no comfort when
he died.

#poetry #cinquain

I'm here
because you are
I could be anywhere
The place doesn't really matter
You do

#poetry #cinquain

They said,
"we've heard enough
from the likes of you," but
they had not read a single word
of mine.

#poetry #cinquain