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HP Writers Spotlight: William A. Gibson
~ / April 2026 / HP Poet: William A. Gibson
@The-Timetables
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#1
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our grief is a data point
bombs are exploding into the design of our lives / clocks, once stiff with certainty, now oozing down / the mantelpiece like Dali’s prophecy
@irinia
25
#2
29
Slumber
A world slowly woke from slumber / Stumbled through a sense of Deja Vu. / Free from sheets of sleep and dreams,
@RWRutledge
6
#3
28
Existential Crisis of a Sock That Lost Its Partner
The sock woke up alone, / which felt dramatic enough / to justify an existential crisis
@VerseBuster
73
#3
28
Other poems
Grace
If only he had known it would be their last kiss / His lips would have merged with hers / If only he had known he'd never hold her again
@kim-johanna-baker
20
18
Glow of my eyes
I still look up to the night sky above / and wonder / where my place is
@flame-heart
18
18
To You, the One that I Love and Hate.
To you, the one that I love and hate. / How could you exist? / In my space, in my mind, in my body.
@ducking
10
18
you said, some words dont sleep
some aren’t trying to stay awake either / they just burn, / quiet,
@RastislavKnezi
32
17
youre welcome
while you blink i ink / while you sleep i creep / while you write i rewrite
@RastislavKnezi
13
17
Dont take my armor
Don’t ask for a hair tie / one of many on my wrist, / looped like quiet promises
@Thirteen14
32
16
the border
i don’t know / where i end / where dust
@RastislavKnezi
29
15
tremor
a leaf / before / falling
@RastislavKnezi
48
15
the laugh that is a scream
morning / lies / wait
@RastislavKnezi
47
13
durmitor fever night
the road dissolved into mist / and something in my mouth / tasted like stone
@RastislavKnezi
157
12
Happy Moments.
Child / You are so admirable / How you see the world
@jlkskai
19
12
A Slow Collapse in Heat
Throbbing within, not a second of rest, / A pressure swelling toward eruption, burning— / A tormenting tickle crawling downward,
@Pink-pulse
12
12
A Shared Afternoon at the Water's Edge
(A Collaborative Play) / ********************************* / We tiptoe out to the lake, careful not to wake the frogs or the dragonflies, though let’s be honest, they’ve probably been watching us all along. The sun stretches lazily across the water, painting it gold, teasing the ripples with each skipped stone.
@Songbird0926
52
11
Kyoiku mama
Horrifyingly, time passes. / One tick in the clock, another. / Then the kid, trembling,
@Shattentraumer
36
9
Fields of Burnt Sugar
I'm nine, standing on a beryl hill / under a humid dusk slab - / my sister picking wheat anthers
@EvanS
40
9
surface theory
we become each other’s ground / by what we let rest in us / you place something heavy in me
@RastislavKnezi
31
9
the secret
being / does not defend / against non-being
@RastislavKnezi
36
8
If youre alive, then stay alive
“If you’re alive, then stay alive / Until the day you die / Then you’re dead
@Livingpoet
14
8
not wings
you are / the pause / before
@RastislavKnezi
31
8
the flight
do not / open your eyes / do not
@RastislavKnezi
30
8
I Wish I Could
I wish I could, / I wish I were as free as the ocean, / Be able to communicate each and every-emotion,
@Hazel_Dusk
27
7
bird
the moment / before / the claw
@RastislavKnezi
59
7
between fingers
an ant / carries / nothing
@RastislavKnezi
38
7
maybe
not a question / leans / before anything
@RastislavKnezi
25
7
Shaman Shaman
Shaman Shaman, / bury me / under a starlit sky
@irving-mac-pherson
20
6
Between light and judgment
I closed my eyes once and dreamt, / I dreamt of the end of the beginning, / Of a breaking tide untouched by pain,
@Lilyxpoetry
26
6
The Fourth Battle
"This place had a heartbeat in its day." / For some reasons i can't explain, a brutal way to ameliorate anxiety is positioning myself into another duty. Embodied by mobility, airport evokes thinking as much as hearkening — the highest stage of listening: only to listen. It grows as a form of sensory participation of a field without attaching any meaning to sounds and therefore allows the subject and object of this acoustic event to entangle. Those who can and do hearken hold an intensity that keeps them sensitive to the environment they entered and altered. Am i among them? At least i could let sounds penetrate through the body; it cures and splits all at once, incorporating debris of imagination, action, and aspiration. / Sounds do not disappear, only dissipate; so do voices. The line between volition and ideal no longer equivocal; I’m taking a chance, a fall, a shot. In dreams I hardly dream a figure who hasn't yet show up — perhaps becoming. And yet amorphous, heavy worries kept me awake. Again, i flowed with them — into billows that would otherwise engulf hope. What those worries eclipsed was memory, an anchor of sentience that fears going on fire. Experiences dissipate, lowing the volume, silent, but sometimes, it haunts anyway, earsplitting.
@EvelynYiningChen
7
6
saint sebastian
do arrowheads feel despair / no one mentions his sullen, entrancing eyes / or the way his hair curls, falling in front of his eyes slightly
@saint-sabeer-amin
27
6
What You Mean To Me
I'm going tell you what you mean to me / I want to swim in your divinity / Emotions flow in unity
@PoetryByMAN
25
5
Taxidermied Anatta
Taxidermed Anatta / —— / Finished: March 23, 2026.
@OliviaWilliams
22
4
Chasing the light
All I knew was to chase the light, / How could I have known I was only a moth to the flames?
@akyri
2
4
Perfectly Broken
Your wounds are closed / And the scars you wear / Are beautifully you:
@TheDedPoet
29
4
Classroom Scene 005 - Lessons for Sale
Not a playtime game, / mindful score behind every name. / Tomorrow’s society gets polluted
@Thesilentobserver
21
4
Sydney (Poetry In Human Form)
The first time I met her, I was mesmerized. / She was poetry in human form. / Sydney was her name—let me tell you,
@JosephCousineau
21
3
Attention
Looking back into the past— / I see myself holding my stomach when it hurt / It's not a big deal, of course—
@akyri
18
3
It Makes No Sense to Me
It makes no sense to me, / Your eyes, not so special, / Small, grumpy,
@Rosita26
25
3
A Shared Sanctuary in the Rain
(A Collaborative Play) / ******************************** / Introduction
@Songbird0926
105
3
GIVE US YOUR LIGHT, MY LORD / DONNE-NOUS TA LUMIRE, MON SEIGNEUR ( Operetta 5 )
DONNE-NOUS TA LUMIÈRE, MON SEIGNEUR / Viens, mon Seigneur. Viens à nous, ne nous laisse pas seuls ; c’est vers toi que nous crions, Seigneur. Prends pitié de nous. C’est toi que nous appelons, mon Seigneur ; regarde et aie pitié du monde. Nous avons besoin de ta lumière pour tous ; fais que l’amour et la lumière triomphent, que ta gloire remplisse la vie de ta lumière. / Souviens-toi de nous, tes petits ; viens à nous, accompagne-nous, ô Seigneur. Donne-nous ton signe, libère nos cœurs. Protège les petits cœurs innocents ; fais que personne ne puisse blesser les enfants, fais qu’ils soient délivrés de tout mal et puissent être des enfants.
@carlos-alberto-bustillos
19
3
On Completing My First Novel
I've lived in 1987 for the past two months, / Every waking moment and in my every dream, / When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,
@VictorDLopez
61
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