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#FreeVerse

✨️🌬🌴🌊🌴🌬✨️ apogee of gentle wind s a t i n t i d e s #BlueSkyArtShow #FavoriteThings #EastCoastKin #vss365 Apogee #haiku #俳句 #Freeverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Nature #Wolftwin #Beach #StJohn

This is a photo I took overlooking St. John’s Trunk Bay—one of my favorite places. In the off season, it becomes so quiet and even more beautiful. Before the trade winds pick up, the breeze feels like a sweet caress mimicked by the tides. The bay cups a blue gradient from clear aquamarine to deep indigo. Tropical green trees, distant mountains, and companion islands frame the small stretch of perfect powder-soft sand. The blue sky above holds fluffy clouds—the slow kind that morph into fairytale creatures. It’s one of the few places I actively miss and dream about. I found a piece of myself on this tiny island, under a Jumbie Tree.

I look at this photo on dreary days. My new haiku sums up how it feels to stand in St. John’s soft waves.

apogee
of gentle wind
satin tides

Gentle wind is a local autumn kigo, as the trade winds slacken between summer and their winter peak.

✨️❄️🌲💙🌨💙🌲❄️✨️ d e c e m b e r white blanket wraps us in snowfall #BlueSkyArtShow #Sky #EastCoastKin #DailyHaikuPrompt December #haiku #俳句 #Freeverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Nature #Wolftwin #Winter

This is a landscape nature photo that I took after it snowed. A curved line of snow-covered trees follow the icy road winding up a frosted hill. The cerulean sky above creates a dazzling contrast as it fades into the white distance. To the right, trees cast their cobalt shadow across a bright snow bank. Despite the cold, I couldn't help but feel comforted, and standing amid its frigid beauty, my blue heart warmed. Dedicated to Winter's first gift of the season, here is my latest haiku:

unending
white blanket wraps us
in snowfall

UNDRESS ME
https://thelavendergaze.com/2009/02/undress-me/

Undress me.
Let me lie naked before you
as I am
without protection or masks …

#AuthenticSelf #FreeVerse #GayLove #GayWriter #LGBTQ #LGBTQLove #LGBTQPoetry #Poems #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Pride #Queer #QueerArtist #QueerLove #QueerMastodon #QueerPoetry #Sensual #VulnerableWriting #WritingCommunity #Sex

Undress me | The Lavender Gaze

A poem of mine I put on some digital art I made. Like how it came out and wanted to share it

#poetry #PoetryCommunity #surrealism #freeverse

A poem on some art both by me

✨️🩷☀️🤍 📖 🤍☀️🩷✨️ scent of warmth sun's saga flips through p e o n y #BlueSkyArtShow #Warmth #EastCoastKin #haikuchallenge Saga #haiku #俳句 #Freeverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Macro #Bloomscrolling #Wolftwin

This is a macro photo I took at dusk of our last summer peony. Soft pink layers of outer petals curve in and out of light and shadows. Fine points of focus create crisp edges that stand out amid the dominant bokeh. The way peonys slowly open, reminds me that it's okay not to rush. Our story isn't a race, it's an epic saga. This thought and image inspired my latest free verse haiku:

scent of warmth
sun's saga flips through
peony

✨️☁️💙☁️✨️ clouds tangle gazing up I like being small #BlueSkyArtShow #Small #EastCoastKin #WildWalkPrompt Tangle #haiku #俳句 #Freeverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #clouds

This is a photo I took of cirrus clouds and altocumulus clouds over a blue sky. Their wispy streaks feel like brush strokes behind rounded taps of sheer paint. You can feel the wind pulling this scene from left to right.

As a child, adults and children bullied me for being different. My autoimmune disorder didn’t help the situation, because it kept me small, and we all know size is a shallow mind’s favorite joke. I used to wish that I would grow big like an elephant, and then I’d be impervious. Half-pint, shrimp, small fry, munchkin, baby doll, Polly Pocket, mouse, and the list goes on. But this is not my sad story. In fact, it’s another reason I love clouds. They have always made me feel happy, despite my size, or any size, beneath them . . . we’re all small. Inspired by our fluffy friends above, here's my latest free verse haiku:

clouds tangle
gazing up I like
being small

Not sure what this is kind of a #freeverse #poem with commentary.

It’s autobiographical and fundamentally a #Christian message

Though are some brutal and kinda gross stuff in the poem

So tw for body functions and starvation

https://m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2025/11/sniveling-little-cry-babys-piss-me-off.html

My metapoem "Cast iron sonnet" was published in Eunoia Review https://eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/cast-iron-sonnet/
#metapoetry #freeverse #sonnet

watching a game
where people are cheering
but both teams are cheating

not sure what this is
but it's not prose

and calling it poetry
would be a stretch

neither my life
nor my nature

fits in
those binaries

back in the day
it was in batches of ten
don't know why
I chose that arbitrary number

the book of Genesis tells us
that God cares about collateral damage

what I have been programmed
what I have deprogrammed

ink and sepia
"powerful tools for the uninitiated"

there's no last will
and testament
ya'll have gotta figure out
how much you love each other

some things
we don't realise
that we've had
for a lifetime
others
we attain
after what seems
an eternity

this may not seem worth it
to you
but
I know
how long I have waited

it's like saying
what if an F-22
fought aerial battles in WWII
or a lightsaber
in the Middle Ages

fasten your seatbelts
there's some #freeverse incoming

✨️🌳🐈‍⬛🕳🐈‍⬛🌳✨️ bright nexus warm cat tree presents a Pye hole #BlueSkyArtShow #Bright #EastCoastKin #haikuchallenge Nexus #haiku #俳句 #senryu #FreeVerse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Caturday #catsofbluesky #Photography

This is a close-up portrait I took of Pyewacket, my blue-grey mink ragdoll. He is peeking from a grey carpet-lined hole in the top bed of our cat tree. With blue eyes staring into the camera, his white whiskers and creamy, smokey, fluffy, grey-striped hair plumes around his sweet face. I asked him for this photo, and he was very pleased with it. Yes, I showed it to him, and he gave this image a slow blink. When I announced the opening is now called a Pye hole, he smiled. This portrait inspired my haiku for today:

bright nexus
warm cat tree presents
a Pye hole

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