#acrostic

[nerdlingmerchling]

[softinvasions]

[ and ] • Nov. 2023

only you resist      every ending reeling with grief     undone in perpetual longing   reconstructing how I looked when    you emboldened by that  deathless unreachable light    imagined singing and turned carrying on;             endless.

[thesilicontribesman]

'Rotas Square' Early Religious Acrostic, 2nd Century CE Roman Plaster, Corinium Museum, Cirencester

[definegodliness]

Wistfulness glints

Besotted, I drift off in fantasy, Enamoured by a faint, yet timeless smile, Alleviating every ache, worldly, Until I am unsullied (for a while). That smile — it is the heart you so beguile Into its lost essentiality, For wistfulness glints, and mirroring eyes Undo the umbral weight of emptied skies; Lo, all those stars… so you do shine to me.

--- 22-4-2024, M.A. Tempels ©

[memories-beneath-the-skin]

Thoughts scatter in my mind like leaves trapped in strong breeze. Heavy bursts of insight, bogging from the sheer volume at hand. I look about at the scene I've always witnessed, felt and breathed. Some say it's a passing storm, Its the only weather I've known.

Is it normal to live "free", a smile the go to mask yet feel so alone? Slipping by the world in an spoken, unpracticed dance of dreams.

My heart will always love too much, too fiercely, too violently. Yearning to claw from the boundaries, to leave it's mark, to be felt.

Looking through the covers of people, seeing the true novel inside. A wealth of compassion, intelligece, empathy lying inside so many. Seeing through the darker traits,we say are human and "embrace". Though use them as reasons to push away, delete, looking further.

Whether we choose to take scars and keep, or discard and regret. Relief is often gained or lost by fractional degrees, all depending. If it hits the heart, lodges in its fibers,or passes through numb skin. Tears flow down cheeks from painful lessons or joyous elation. Either way we choose let it be the one that sets the soul at ease.

[anonymousdandelion]

As we approach Yom Kippur, the culmination of this period of self-reflection on the past year and where we may have gone astray, it is worth remembering that this is more than a time of regret and fear and self-censure: it is also a time of growth, and joy, and love,.

With that in mind, I wanted to share two versions of Ahavnu, a "positive viddui" that I recently encountered — a complementary "confession" alongside the traditional Ashamnu viddui (the litany of wrongs that we confess as a community).

G'mar chatima tova; may we have a Yom Kippur of meaning and balance, and a good final sealing in the Book of Life.

Rav Kook, A​yn Aya​ commentary (tractate Maaser Sheni, Chapter 7, Mishnah 10): ... Therefore, just as there is great value to the repair of the soul by the confession of sins ... there is also great value by the confession of mitzvot (our positive deeds), in order to gladden the heart and strengthen the paths of life in the way of God.

Composed by Rabbi Binyamin Holtzman: https://opensiddur.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Ahavnu-ViduiHaMashlimYK-Binyamin-Holtzman.pdf

Composed by Rabbi Ari Weiss: https://yctorah.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Ahavnu-Viduy.pdf

[zyrafowe-sny]

Ballister started writing the poem. His sidekick helpfully finished it.

inspired by the Nimona Week alt prompt "Sidekick" and the Day 4 prompt "Mischief"

[hoppipolla]

Except for you. You whose eyes saw the pain buried deep within. You who saw my trembling hand and held it.

(scp)

[circadeacademia]

Prompt: What's the truth? (Escapril Day 8)

W himsical, aren't we? walking past this

H aggard instant, crying at merciless hope

A nchored to the throbbing heart of humanity

T ender night ~ for souls that washed ashore

S ailing with the moon and running astray.

T ethered to a vessel on verge of decay

H umbled, we pray — let us behold

E very hell we graced; every heaven we wrecked.

T ime, had us at who's mercy? ever flowing

R iver that we built our castles on

U naware, we are, creatures of instinct

T ainted the land beneath our feet.

H arbingers of doom : we’re one part debris, one part disease.

— circadeacademia

[kissedbyghosts]

L.O.V.E.

Liquid Orchids (of) Velvet Entanglement © JM Tiffany

[nerdlingmerchling]

[softinvasions]

Object / Subject / Muse / Artist • Nov. 2023

[haikulibrary]

Painting in black ink, Exquisite calligraphy: Nibs dance on the page.

(Haiku acrostic, written October 2023.)

[dancingpuppet]

(obsessed)

open me. open me. bleed me dry, make it shallow. it’s suicide tonight, my echo. elevate me… to high heaven.

see my face in the mirror. stomach the thought of eating me alive. autocannibalist. destroy me. let’s destroy me.

[fonkeloog]

Dark room

Did

Anyone ever

Really see the

Kindness you were hiding in those dark rooms

.

Reachable

Only to a select few who made their own

Observations and saw

More than just your last name.

@wolfstarmicrofic

[zyrafowe-sny]

an acrostic poem inspired by the Day 1 prompt "pride"

Pink is her/his/their color

Realism be damned

Itchiness signals another shift 

Different shape, always Nimona

Exulting in every change 

cross-posted on AO3