Category: Poetry
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28 January: Found Poetry
Restraint It is a great art,seeing rain fall in a desert.It is a sacrifice of water, like a troubled passion. It is a silence.A behaving tongue.Restraint. Images are copyright and not to used without permission, which I willingly give when asked, and when not for commercial use. Wounded by Love, The Life and Wisdom of…
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27 January: Found Poetry
Old Wounds From the depths,we gather like bees,and hold offthe enemies of mercy,but who will hear ourold wounds cry out. Images are copyright and not to used without permission, which I willingly give when asked, and when not for commercial use. Wounded by Love, The Life and Wisdom of St Porphyrious, First published in English…
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26 January: Found Poetry
Emptied Empty yourself of a thousandwithered mindsand thoughtlessness.There’s no progressin apathy, he said, but nevertheless he walked away. Images are copyright and not to used without permission, which I willingly give when asked, and when not for commercial use. Wounded by Love, The Life and Wisdom of St Porphyrious, First published in English 2005. ISBN…
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25 January: Ink In Thirds
She walks, following the curve of the road,Footprints in the snow, winter-withered plantsAnd a low sky stubbornly grey. Written for Ink in Thirds: Three Line Thursday. Some artwork is created using Midjourney AI, and is identified as such in the ALT text or captioned. Imagery and poems/prose ©Misky 2006-2024.
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24 January: Found Poetry
Flesh of our flesh, he said over and over. But no one thought of sensibilities,so the sky scattered starslike lost children. Images are copyright and not to used without permission, which I willingly give when asked, and when not for commercial use. Wounded by Love, The Life and Wisdom of St Porphyrious, First published in…
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23 January: Found Poetry
It drags at you from behind,and the more you look to rears, the more you abandon yourself.You disappear, and are forgotten. Images are copyright and not to used without permission, which I willingly give when asked, and when not for commercial use. Wounded by Love, The Life and Wisdom of St Porphyrious, First published in…
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22 January: Found Poetry
And then you possess happiness.It was good to talk and walk,just short stepsto peacefor a short while. Images are copyright and not to used without permission, which I willingly give when asked, and when not for commercial use. Wounded by Love, The Life and Wisdom of St Porphyrious, First published in English 2005. ISBN 978-960-7120-19-9.…
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21 January: Found Poetry
Light was the first to move.It was calm, an undertow when it moved,and light inherited light.It left its broad markon those old deceptions,and as a consequence,no one entered with virtue. Images are copyright and not to used without permission, which I willingly give when asked, and when not for commercial use. Wounded by Love, The…
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20 January: Found Poetry
Life’s Fire The fire of love,the fire of sacrifice, the heart ever calm,peaceful as the rule of water. It is not the book of life.It is life. Images are copyright and not to used without permission, which I willingly give when asked, and when not for commercial use. Wounded by Love, The Life and Wisdom…
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20 January: Her Sentinel Trees
Her Sentinel Trees These are her sentinel trees,watchers of her comings and goings.It’s the second Friday of the month,frost holding the air low and steadyas she leans back against a birch tree. She, once a child of its slow growingseed says to the tree, tell me a storyabout a young woman who ran awayto the…