Be gentle
In a world
That is
Everything
But.

#poetry

Unhomed

Gazing at clear skies
by night, I hear the æons
mourning our lost souls.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

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Would that I could find,
once more, the coldness of stone
on the wind torn hills;
but reason left me, as prey
to my heat of violence.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#tanka #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

Free

I will bide no judge,
nor shall any know my paths
of joy, or of pain.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

Poem: Shiny LLM:s

they say the shiny LLM:s are crucial,
will solve the existential crisis soon.
we sit in silent awe of their refusal
to stop the hype inflating this balloon.

the stocks are rising, CEO:s are beaming:
“we will remove all boring work for you”.
they’re coaxing us, they want us to keep dreaming,
that we’ll be saved by wonder GPU:s

1/2

#poem #poetry

My cat has chewed my pen and stole my book,
His pawns are saying "no it's time to play!"
But soon it's noon and he will go to look,
If there are tasty bits in his food tray.

#catsofmastodon #poetry

Like a rose
That doesn’t know
It has been cut,
Bloom anyway.

#poetry

If you stay still
It wont hurt,
But you won’t
Heal.

#poetry

📣 ATTENTION: Fellow writers and artists, this is what poorly hidden bigotry looks like. I've been shopping my chapbook manuscript around and this guy had a very timely response...🙄

🚨DO NOT READ, OR SEEK TO PUBLISH WITH TWELVE HOUSE BOOKS

#bigotry #bigot #florida #twelvehousebooks #chapbook #publisher #literarypress
#poem #poet #poetry #poetrylives #poetryisnotdead #poetrychallenge #writing #writer #lgbtq #lgbtqi #lgbtqia #trans #transgender #transwoman #transfemme #ladypoet #tgirl #transexual #mtf #transpoet #queer #queerart #queerpoet #transpoet #nyc #nycpoet #statenisland

i wish you all
the chance today
to eat and rest and laugh and play

to sit and watch
the world go by
and notice how the butterfly
moves through the air
with gentle grace
and always seems to find its place
amidst the flowers
bees and trees
i wish for you the peace of these

and that your heart
is light once more
like rainbows dancing on the floor

#caturday #CatsOfMastodon #poetry

One of Mary Oliver's most famous lines is "What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

I see it quoted all the time out of context, usually on insipid inspo posts about living life to the fullest.

Every so often, I like to go back and re-read the poem it's from, The Summer Day. The meaning of a line can change quite a bit when you read it in context.

#MaryOliver #poetry #mindfulness

On Prairies Of Zathamar

Since no one watches television show
of my life, I do whatever I want
if I harm none, for I value with care
special beauty of each frail human life
that shimmers with the mindless glow of atoms
woven in briefly

surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/03/…

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

i wish botsin.space/@AutoImagist still existed I would follow. Unfortunately it looks like it never relaunched after the botsin space closure. The phrasings that it posts remind me of my own @tender_buttons -- short and creatively evocative.

#dada #poetry