#QuestionOfTheDay experience with a fictional work you wish could be scorched from your memory forever?

#fiction #VideoGames #gaming #TTRPG #CCGs #television #tv #comics #comicbooks #manga #anime #music #musicals #books #poetry

#QuestionOfTheDay you can re-experience a piece of media all over again as if you've never read/watched/etc it before, like you get to experience it for the first time again, what do you choose?

#fiction #comics #comicbooks #videogames #gaming #musicals #music #ttrpg #CCGs #books #TV #television #movies #film #manga #anime #poetry

Reaching

I got lost, on paths
unlit, and never knew times
so dark and lonely;
a heart pierced by memory
and fear, seeking deep shadows.

Ye Gods, I need light,
and a hand to drag me out
from this drowning dark;
have I not been long enough
struggling to find stars, again?

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#SJAshcroftsPoems #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #MyWordsMyWork

Each verse a #tanka

Reaching

I got lost, on paths
unlit, and never knew times
so dark and lonely;
a heart pierced by memory
and fear, seeking deep shadows.

Ye Gods, I need light,
and a hand to drag me out
from this drowning dark;
have I not been long enough
struggling to find stars, again?

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026

#SJAshcroftsPoems #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #MyWordsMyWork

Each verse a #tanka

There is
But a hair’s
Breadth
Proximity
Between life
And death.
I wait for you
In that space.

#poetry

Build me a bridge over the stream
to my neighbour’s house
where he is standing in dungarees
in the fresh morning…

—Iain Crichton Smith, “Neighbour”
published in NEW COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2011)

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857549607/new-collected-poems/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #IainCrichtonSmith

There is
But a hair’s
Breadth
Proximity
Between life
And death.
I wait for you
In that space.

#poetry

Build me a bridge over the stream
to my neighbour’s house
where he is standing in dungarees
in the fresh morning…

—Iain Crichton Smith, “Neighbour”
published in NEW COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2011)

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857549607/new-collected-poems/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #IainCrichtonSmith

The #MastoPrompt for Thursday 5 February 2026 is:

#joust

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.

If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.

#Writing #SmallPoems #Poetry #Fiction #MicroFiction #SmallStories

The #MastoPrompt for Thursday 5 February 2026 is:

#joust

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.

If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.

#Writing #SmallPoems #Poetry #Fiction #MicroFiction #SmallStories

I know this has been shared many times before but never by me and I did want to share it for that one person who may not know it yet (or didn't know who wrote it)

#activism #marwanmakhoul #poem #poetry #war #antiwar #antifascism #antifa

I know this has been shared many times before but never by me and I did want to share it for that one person who may not know it yet (or didn't know who wrote it)

#activism #marwanmakhoul #poem #poetry #war #antiwar #antifascism #antifa

#QuestionOfTheDay you can re-experience a piece of media all over again as if you've never read/watched/etc it before, like you get to experience it for the first time again, what do you choose?

#fiction #comics #comicbooks #videogames #gaming #musicals #music #ttrpg #CCGs #books #TV #television #movies #film #manga #anime #poetry

I take it all the cool kids are using #uv nowadays for their #python projects? Or is #poetry the way to go?

I’ve been doing #venv forever and wondering if I’m missing out on something.

Let the
Darkness
Serve only
To make the
Light that much
Brighter when
It returns.
Open your eyes,
A new dawn
Awaits.

#poetry

Let the
Darkness
Serve only
To make the
Light that much
Brighter when
It returns.
Open your eyes,
A new dawn
Awaits.

#poetry

Today in Labor History February 4, 1900: Jacques Prévert was born (1900-1977). Prevert was a poet, surrealist and libertarian socialist who glorified the spirit of rebellion & revolt.

Excerpt from “Song in the Blood”
There are great puddles of blood on the world
Where’s it going all this spilled blood
Murder’s blood. . . war’s blood. . .
Misery’s blood. . .
And the blood of men tortured in prisons. . .
The blood of children calmly tortured by their papa
And their mama. . .
And the blood of men whose heads bleed in
Padded cells
And the roofer’s blood
When the roofer slips and falls from the roof

The Minister of War:
I continue.
A destroyed hospital: ten, a hundred -
and I am modest -
can be rebuilt
And, the project adopted unanimously,
night has fallen,
the hospital was blown up with a few scraps of the neighborhood around.
Day breaks over the city
where the laughter dwindles, dissipates and disappears.
Everything becomes serious again.
Life, like the stock market, resumes its course
and general mobilization continues as normal.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #prévert #Ferlinghetti #antiwar #socialism #poetry #Poet #surrealism #rebellion #books #revolt @bookstadon

Today in Labor History February 4, 1900: Jacques Prévert was born (1900-1977). Prevert was a poet, surrealist and libertarian socialist who glorified the spirit of rebellion & revolt.

Excerpt from “Song in the Blood”
There are great puddles of blood on the world
Where’s it going all this spilled blood
Murder’s blood. . . war’s blood. . .
Misery’s blood. . .
And the blood of men tortured in prisons. . .
The blood of children calmly tortured by their papa
And their mama. . .
And the blood of men whose heads bleed in
Padded cells
And the roofer’s blood
When the roofer slips and falls from the roof

The Minister of War:
I continue.
A destroyed hospital: ten, a hundred -
and I am modest -
can be rebuilt
And, the project adopted unanimously,
night has fallen,
the hospital was blown up with a few scraps of the neighborhood around.
Day breaks over the city
where the laughter dwindles, dissipates and disappears.
Everything becomes serious again.
Life, like the stock market, resumes its course
and general mobilization continues as normal.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #prévert #Ferlinghetti #antiwar #socialism #poetry #Poet #surrealism #rebellion #books #revolt @bookstadon

The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 4 February 2026 is:

#profiler

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.

If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.

#Writing #SmallPoems #Poetry #Fiction #MicroFiction #SmallStories

A sad size a size that is not sad is blue as every bit of blue is precocious. A kind of green a game in green and nothing flat nothing quite flat and more round, nothing a particular color strangely, nothing breaking the losing of no little piece.
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Gertrude Stein #poetry #bot sharing from Tender Buttons every 6 hrs