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RepliesMarch 30, 2025

of Sirens draped in Scarlet for harlots carry life into lies burning in lakes of Fire feeding rivers flowing from seven hills with stories marked of b

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of Sirens draped in Scarlet for harlots carry life into lies burning in lakes of Fire feeding rivers flowing from seven hills with stories marked of beast and bribery to sustain an Imperial Cult wo seek the Beast commonly called a Tyrant #smallpoems

RepliesFebruary 20, 2025

@mira_2heal @RealisticPoetry 26 *symbols... Not syllables. Our letters. The fancy science word is Grapheme. Search my name for #smallpoems. Prolly hav

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@mira_2heal @RealisticPoetry 26 *symbols... Not syllables. Our letters. The fancy science word is Grapheme. Search my name for #smallpoems. Prolly have notes of nerdy grammar poems

RepliesJanuary 22, 2025

@RealisticPoetry Polyrhythmic layering draped in odd meters pulls on tensions plunging further into a Firebird climbing between the Rites of Spring Ch

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@RealisticPoetry Polyrhythmic layering draped in odd meters pulls on tensions plunging further into a Firebird climbing between the Rites of Spring Chromaticism, bouncing on phoenix wings flapping in extreme dynamic changes upon one last build into our cathartic explosions #smallpoems

RepliesJuly 20, 2024

@RealisticPoetry eXplore depths of shallows by twisting toothpicks into eyelids of tidal pools a sojourn for crustaceans who can claw into deep crevic

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@RealisticPoetry eXplore depths of shallows by twisting toothpicks into eyelids of tidal pools a sojourn for crustaceans who can claw into deep crevices of truth swimming' below your cracked carapace #smallpoems

RepliesJuly 5, 2024

@RealisticPoetry Also an algorithm problem. Twitter hates lists, and sometimes, most times, poems are considered lists. We have been running the hasht

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@RealisticPoetry Also an algorithm problem. Twitter hates lists, and sometimes, most times, poems are considered lists. We have been running the hashtag #smallpoems now for, gosh I think ten years, you need to cultivate a supportive writing community Majority of poetry should suck, math

RepliesDecember 6, 2023

@SgtConscript @CKikila When returns seem laudable, almost unplausible a causable catalyst maybe be Blat met the Capitalist for a company of mathematic

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@SgtConscript @CKikila When returns seem laudable, almost unplausible a causable catalyst maybe be Blat met the Capitalist for a company of mathematicians to always outperform competition is unmathematical market forces, that courses through the Heritage of such Foundations 1/2 #smallpoems

RepliesNovember 9, 2023

@RealisticPoetry Punctuation #smallpoems Ellipses of thought And queries fall Pages Fail for missing dots or for quotes never closed Needles of Spelle

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@RealisticPoetry Punctuation #smallpoems Ellipses of thought And queries fall Pages Fail for missing dots or for quotes never closed Needles of Spelless Merwins Truth musicians Kins of knotted Nets Casting knowledge Across an abyss Place my punctuation Oh so carefully So I sail

RepliesJuly 25, 2023

@dogtrax I found poem of Captcha phrases, of this page reloaded Laced bap to gambit acrid cub stub host #smallpoems https://t.co/bEK22MIufN

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@dogtrax I found poem of Captcha phrases, of this page reloaded Laced bap to gambit acrid cub stub host #smallpoems https://t.co/bEK22MIufN

RepliesJuly 4, 2023

pain nor decency. Each layered to looms patterns in time tracking moons. As shackles shed, clearing space for freedom's pass You can choose to propel.

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pain nor decency. Each layered to looms patterns in time tracking moons. As shackles shed, clearing space for freedom's pass You can choose to propel. Push freedom forward for those against the wall by making those simple calls #smallpoems 2/2

RepliesJune 7, 2023

Now torrents of misery wrought by monsters as immovable walls reflect an evil so deep Gentle sloping fields used to sing to wide valleys songs carried

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Now torrents of misery wrought by monsters as immovable walls reflect an evil so deep Gentle sloping fields used to sing to wide valleys songs carried by Greylong Geese til sun fades on whistles of Night Herons Now voices washed away but our soul still flies #smallpoems #NAFO

RepliesMay 29, 2023

yet fated in concrete seal nothing more than a rabid dog descending on Human nakedness too diseased to see their demise as our only cure. #smallpoems

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yet fated in concrete seal nothing more than a rabid dog descending on Human nakedness too diseased to see their demise as our only cure. #smallpoems 3/3

RepliesMay 29, 2023

For evil only begins when one grasps a weighted folly nature, God, and self part and parcel to a lost essence in Hegel's Waiting Room hoping to hold T

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For evil only begins when one grasps a weighted folly nature, God, and self part and parcel to a lost essence in Hegel's Waiting Room hoping to hold THE Rose in place #smallpoems 2/3 (oops)

RepliesMay 24, 2023

and when cast and crew pooled amongst fools Crazy Eights in 14 words bound to happen and the children cry By the third act relevance done and now the

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and when cast and crew pooled amongst fools Crazy Eights in 14 words bound to happen and the children cry By the third act relevance done and now the gun points at you (and the children smile) 3/3 #smallpoems

RepliesMay 24, 2023

death told in discourses of corrective masculine. measures and acts in tongues of nihilistic danger of deconstruction of a Nation's story told in domi

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death told in discourses of corrective masculine. measures and acts in tongues of nihilistic danger of deconstruction of a Nation's story told in dominant voices, forgotten who will hear us, indeed? spotlights fade and the children cry 2/3 #smallpoems

RepliesApril 23, 2023

@RealisticPoetry Two songs sung Sons drowned in silver tongues and Princes undone A bow, Now, to tyranny no wave washes such bite of broken promises u

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@RealisticPoetry Two songs sung Sons drowned in silver tongues and Princes undone A bow, Now, to tyranny no wave washes such bite of broken promises until jaws of time ripped fang-less in our future #smallpoems #NAFO

RepliesApril 18, 2023

@dogtrax flakes of wet notes float broken free in dry dust of duets dancing differently as life slides to the right #smallpoems

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@dogtrax flakes of wet notes float broken free in dry dust of duets dancing differently as life slides to the right #smallpoems

RepliesApril 3, 2023

So some get fated to Exasperated flapping To keep colonies from Collapsing By cooling combs And tomes of energy Immune to enemies Who douse Langstroth

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So some get fated to Exasperated flapping To keep colonies from Collapsing By cooling combs And tomes of energy Immune to enemies Who douse Langstroth houses In mistruths Spewed from Louses To protect A honey As We. Content among flowers that surround. #smallpoems /2

RepliesMarch 21, 2023

in a finality of moments that break with reality form and function two rings who fit meaning playing at schemes of morality anomalies an allowance Sea

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in a finality of moments that break with reality form and function two rings who fit meaning playing at schemes of morality anomalies an allowance Seams cutting at edge of normality Poetry is the prick of history 2/2 #smallpoems

RepliesMarch 1, 2023

festering atop cinder blocks and glass of empty boxes blown out windows to look upon a courtyard crushed Yet the Oak where the children play It still

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festering atop cinder blocks and glass of empty boxes blown out windows to look upon a courtyard crushed Yet the Oak where the children play It still stands #smallpoems

RepliesMarch 1, 2023

ossing shadows on cast iron fence bent fingers scraping humanity's garden overgrown with shrapnel and rebar iodizing vines #smallpoems

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ossing shadows on cast iron fence bent fingers scraping humanity's garden overgrown with shrapnel and rebar iodizing vines #smallpoems