Farah Ali

It really is 😄

Poetry can tell us what human beings are. It can tell us why we stumble and fall and how, miraculously, we can stand up.

~ Maya Angelou

#quote #poetry #writingcommunity

Been looking forward to this poke bowl all week

A fox stops in my path and studies me with the cold patience of something that knew this hillside before roads. Eye to eye his narrow amber blade resting against the soft circle of mine. He holds me there. For a moment I feel it my bones rearranging into something clumsy. My breath too loud. My bare skin foolish to the air. A tall creature arguing with sky and ground. He studies me a moment longer before releasing my eyes. As if I’m the creature misplaced in time.

For #PoemsAbout #BeingWatched
Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Poetry can tell us what human beings are. It can tell us why we stumble and fall and how, miraculously, we can stand up.

~ Maya Angelou

#quote #poetry #writingcommunity

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Following another brutal escalation of violence last weekend in the region, once again the people of Gaza have been paying the price, with severe disruptions to necessities and humanitarian services.

The impact is catastrophic. Please donate what you can to help those who urgently need support.

Ooh a blue lobster 🥹 magical and lucky too

Yes! Antlers are very strange miracles of nature. Thank you 😂, not sure what I’d do with them but maybe I’ll trip over some one day

The poem Moss and Shadow by Farah Ali

‘Moss and Shadow’

(Anthology: The Half-Life of Echoes)

#micropoetry #poem #poetry

hinomayo blossoms
another reason
to stay alive

(Failed Haiku)

#senryu #haiku #micropoetry

Yeah I think so…and rather awkwardly they don’t drop both antlers at the same time so it might be tricky to get a pair would be amazing tho

Thank you 💚 ooh nice I love wild deer 🦌 I’m desperate to own a pair of cast antlers 😂

MicroFiction for AmpersandAfterDark Prompt from @madp03t.bsky.social Almost Through I spend most evenings reading. Lamp on, chair angled toward the window, the soft hush of pages. I like knowing someone is there on the other side, moving their eyes where I guide them. Most skim. You didn’t. You lingered. You underlined me. You pause where I intend. You breathe where I leave space. I’ve begun to anticipate you. When you turn a page, something shifts here. The margins widen. The air grows warmer. I feel the pressure of your thumb along my spine. Last night, a crease appeared in the corner before you folded it. When you close the book, the room narrows. Open me again. I am almost through

For #AmpersandAfterDark Challenge 005
Micro fiction beginning in ordinary reality...does the ending seem plausibly normal ...or my own irrational fear?

#writingprompt

very grateful to appear in this delightful journal

Tony Pupello, Editor🙏🏼
tsuri-dōrō

#haiku

The poem Moss and Shadow by Farah Ali

‘Moss and Shadow’

(Anthology: The Half-Life of Echoes)

#micropoetry #poem #poetry

Just released!
modŏ – new & selected
A collection of one-line haiku
by Alan Summers
www.callofthepage.org

#haiku #monostich #monoku

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Get some tmw 😄

I love this chocolate

Really lovely poem ❤️

US-Israeli-led bombing hit a girls school…

Death toll now at 150

A war launched illegally by two depraved men desperate to cling to power and stay out of jail

…and they call others terrorists.

I know simultaneous submissions are logical and much more time-efficient but I just can’t seem to…stoopid brain

through heavy rain
a bird calls harshly, once, twice
as if complaining

#haiku

Israel strikes two schools in Iran, killing more than 100 people Israeli strikes targeted a girls' school in the southern city of Minab and another school east of Tehran.

This story is not on the front page of every British newspaper today.
Imagine if this was Israel, the U.S., or us?

Israel strikes two schools in Iran, killing more than 100 people | Israel-Iran conflict News | Al Jazeera share.google/i9h4LWZs8AuA...

Two pieces of #microfiction

‘Worth a Pretty Penne’

‘Bee the Change’

(Nailpolish Stories)

Autistic woman browsing Netflix will probably end up rewatching lifetime of shame An autistic woman searching Netflix for something new to watch will likely settle on her usual showreel of mortifying life moments that make her wish she’d never been born, it has been rumoured. …

An autistic woman searching Netflix for something new to watch will likely settle on her usual showreel of mortifying life moments that make her wish she’d never been born, it has been rumoured.

Thank you 😄

♥️

blood moon
fifty seven dead school girls
and counting
#senryu

It’s unbearable