*Hearthfire Echoes*

Luminous ghosts keep me company
Persistent in their haunting
As hearthfire simmers to remnants glow
And gaze meets remembered gaze across
Fragile scenes flickering at perceptions edge
Moments stolen from time’s erasure
If only for heartbeats
By things as fickle as flame and light
Before firefly shine surrenders
Spark by spark
To evenings subtle grace
And though light and lives must ultimately dim
Fading incandescence reminds that
These fleeting glimpses restored
Offer a radiance of solace to solitude
Buoying against the dark until
Night has done its work

SilveringOfRose © 2024
#BornBattleReady #incandescence
#BirdAppPrompt
#Poetry
#PoetsOfMastodon
#Poem

Sharing from this instance because this is 60 characters too long for a standard toot and I know how much I hate having to click through to another link to read a thing.

@FrostPoem I dropped this in the server too but I told you I'd be back soon 💜🌹🫂

@guinan Thank you for keeping us wordy folx in mind with this instance!!! 📝🖋️

Write everyone (see what I did there 👀). It is Friday and that means I get to do one of the things I love most about Mastodon... Which is spread the word about some accounts I love because there's no other way to find them!

Posting from this instance because I'm circumventing character limits and in no particular order I would definitely follow:

@feditips (head here if you have any questions about the #Fediverse and #Mastodon and also check their website where a lot of those questions are already answered)

@[email protected] (the brilliant mind that brought us #WynonnaEarp, a perfect source of snarky humour and irreverent hot takes on the state of the world)

@DeadSocietyPoet (an incredible poet who also reads his work over on the Gram and the Tok, and runner of 4 #PoetryPrompts on the bird site. I'm working on getting him to launch #VIVPoem, #CrowsTales, #TurningThePhrase and #15WordsPoet here 😂)

@mystavaria (A brand new, still in development MUD that will be launching their alpha/beta soon. In need of builders and testers so join their #DiscordServer!)

@teabeesea (an incredible poet who is also half the mind behind the absolutely brilliant world of the Between - check out their site linked in my bio!)

@FrostPoem (an amazing poet whose words I fell in love with the first second I saw them. Remind her consistently just how wonderful her words are)

@EllenKrupich (Another absolutely amazing poet whose skill with words leaves me slightly awestruck every time she comes across my feed).

#FollowFriday #WhoToFollow #FollowSuggestions