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The image in the mirror

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South-by-Southwest

The image in the mirror

Is not the reflection in the mirror
it's the image we put into it

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in between the seam

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Michael Sean Maloney

in between the seam

in between the seam
of day

and evening
the entirety of the sky

and the november leaves
cinder in the same glow

the streets
and sidewalks are stained

with autumn impastos
in our arc

we wax
and wane

the many moons
our course permanently burnt

with the colors
of departure

and return
soon

in winter’s patient keep
we will close our eyes

and fill our dreams
with release

8h nivek

🎵 Doomed to be your shadow

8h nivek

The Wilted Witch

🎵 Doomed to be your shadow

(The Stalking Song)

I’m doomed to be
Doomed to be your shadow.
Wherever you go
I’m doomed to follow.

I’m doomed to live
In your limelight.
I’m doomed to stay ten yards behind
And out of sight.

I’m doomed to peek
In your windows.
Wherever you go
I’m doomed to go.

I’m doomed to watch.
And I’m doomed to wait.
I’m doomed to wonder,
Plan, and contemplate.

And for reasons you never,
Ever could understand
You’re doomed to die
By my hand…

For as long as I can remember I have been concerned/disturbed by our relationship with “celebrity”. There are a great many reasons for this.

While getting ready for a shower at the age of fourteen, I was reflecting on one of the avenues of concern and began singing a song. It was very long and a whole story, but most of that is lost to time.

This is what survived the test of time. Too bad I have no good way to impart melody, as this one is a bit bland without it. Ah well.

1d nivek

All | Free verse

1d nivek

LL

All | Free verse

just because they gave
more than you did
doesn't mean they gave
their all — like you did

2025/102

#free #verse

1d nivek

I Write, You Paint, We Bleed

1d nivek

Palindromic Angel

I Write, You Paint, We Bleed

I bleed with ink.
You breathe in brushstrokes.
Still, we meet
in the same shade of ache.

I call it a stanza.
You call it a sky,
but both are ways
to survive the silence.

My pen trembles like your hands do
when the colours won’t blend.
We try to tell the truth,
but it keeps slipping
into metaphor.

I say “I miss you”
through rhythm.
You say it
through smudged reds
and too much blue.

We never made sense
in black and white.
But somewhere between
my verse
and your canvas,
we almost
became a masterpiece.

When a painter loves a poet. Find me on the Poesie app as palindromic_angel to hear my readings :)

#love #pain #art

1d nivek

Spiritual Gem Inside Me

1d nivek

vienna bombardieri

Spiritual Gem Inside Me

Give me the colors of a rainbow and I'll be your heart's extol
or a petal from your favorite rose so I can place it in my soul;
Send me the pillow the fairies have gleaned with watermark
I'll hold it to my chest until I hear the melodious coo of a lark!

Be a Spiritual Gem inside me, I will polish and make you shine
like a soaring star I'll glitter so you know,"I'm truly~truly thine."