Backdeckbenny (Peter)

Amethyste wrote a new post

• 8 months, 2 weeks ago

My boy

Poetry

November 27, 2025

4

I like my boyIn all ways and mannersI could go on writing for daysBut the trait I love moreHe has got "I won't hurt you" face.

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4 Comments
- Damian DeadLove
  8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Powerfully penned, Amethyste. Excellent write my friend. Appreciate you.
  
  Damian
  - Amethyste
    8 months, 1 week ago
    
    Thank you dear. 🙂
- Fia Naturie
  8 months, 1 week ago
  
  Aww I won’t hurt you. Great line. Simple but means alot
  - Amethyste
    8 months, 1 week ago
    
    Yes it means a lot to me. Every day life is full of mismatches, and ‘could have been better’ moments.
PAR (Paulo Acácio Ramos) wrote a new post

• 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Stations of the Cross of a Ghostly Love

Poetry

November 27, 2025

2

Stations of the Cross of a Ghostly LoveInitial Rubric:Here begins the procession of ghostly love,where each station is absence,each absence is revelation.A letter erected on beams and wind,made of broken tiles and nocturnal breaths.To love is the echo of...

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2 Comments
- Damian DeadLove
  8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Brilliantly penned, PAR. Digging this new format and style my friend. Excellent work as always. Appreciate you.
  
  Damian
  - PAR (Paulo Acácio Ramos)
    8 months, 1 week ago
    
    I’m currently deeply immersed in research on postmodern poetry. Playing around and exploring the possibilities of autopoetics and the ultra-development of fluid emotional writing. Thank you, I’m very happy you’re enjoying it. All the best to you, my dear friend!
twofiftythree posted in the group ”BACK TO POETRY BASICS”

• 8 months, 2 weeks ago

hopin to receive partial credit for late assignments…

swore under oath

rationality
face down hands cuffed to my tongue
heart screams alibi

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- RICHARD "Rascal" JENKINS
  8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Love it, Dru
  
  Excellent, in every sense of the word: counts, directives, and intent in following in the spirit that one of the truly tangible facets of what the Senryu is meant to convey.
  
  For me, your Senryu literally strives to express needed fervor for acceptance and the strife to be trusted and believed-in, even though the opposite may appear…Read More
Ghosteen wrote a new post

• 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Sunrise (not my poem)

Poetry

November 27, 2025

4

I am not the sunrise but I should be I should be a cascade of wind an unfinished scent the geometry of words starting a fresh poem allowing the lines on my face to tell it all leak the shade of grief I should be an ounce of...

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4 Comments
- Fia Naturie
  8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  This is tender. A nice tribute to her. Sorry for your loss.
  - Ghosteen
    8 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    Thanks Fia.
    
    This was actually the last ever poem she wrote before the morphine, methadone and chemo took hold of her skull. She was very popular in DU. The truth lies on her death bed and with her children – but as I scribbled in the summary, deluded narratives prevented you all to say a proper goodbye. A huge fucking shame and shameful.
- Backdeckbenny (Peter)
  8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Lovely sad beautiful poem.
  
  Thanks for posting 🙏
  - Ghosteen
    8 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    Thank you. All plaudits to the author, who sadly, was taken way too young.
Sappho (Elke) wrote a new post

• 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Point of No-Return (Collaboration with Duhsjaak )

Poetry

November 27, 2025

14

Point of No-Return Like pearls your tears glisten on the leavesA masterpiece of nature's magicSo marvelous and yet so tragicBecause it was us who caused your grief We live as if there was no tomorrowGlobal warming and droughts we acceptAs progress'...

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14 Comments
- Visions_of_Insanity
  8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  This is one amazing collaboration. WOW! The lyrics, music and image are stellar. Great work here!
  - Sappho (Elke)
    8 months, 1 week ago
    
    Thank you so much for your kind words and your appreciation, dear Keith! Xox
- Jim Musics
  8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Fabulous work yoy two very gifted artists. 🙏
  - Sappho (Elke)
    8 months, 1 week ago
    
    So glad that you appreciate our work! Thank you very much!
    E&G
- Duhsjaak
  8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  @visions of Insanity
  Also on behalf of Sappho, I would like to thank you for listening.
  The lyrics are about something we both care deeply about. And she was the one to write this inspiring poem. And artwork of course.
  
  Thank you so much for your very fine compliments. They go a long way!
  
  Kind regards, Sappho and Gus
- Fia Naturie
  8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  I said it before. Wonderful collaboration ❤️
  - Sappho (Elke)
    8 months, 1 week ago
    
    Once again, our deepest gratitude, dear Fia! 😘
    E. & G.
- Damian DeadLove
  8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Powerful penned, Elke and Gus. Excellent collaboration you two. Great lyrics, Elke and excellent music, Gus. Your guitar tone has a little Neil Young vibe going on. Top notch both of you. Appreciate you, both.
  
  Damian
  - Sappho (Elke)
    8 months, 1 week ago
    
    Thank you so much for your kind words and your appreciation, dear Damian! It was entirely our pleasure to create this work!
    E&G
- RICHARD "Rascal" JENKINS
  8 months ago
  
  I bow most reverently to Sappho ‘n Gus 🙏
  
  Stunningly beautiful, You Two, in every sense of the word.
  Artwork choice, title, and the Envelope Form in its abba rhyme-scheme (with spot-on and soft rhymes), work perfectly together, just as writing and musical skills came together in rendering this lovely, impacting virtual masterpiece in homage to Mother Earth’s ever dwindling beauty and life sustaining wonders.
  
  Simply, an enthralling co-write … love it deeply!
  Thank you both! ⁓ Richard🖌
  
  Nits:
  (Check V1-L3, “get” may have been meant as “yet”. Final stanza, L1, should “plead” be “plea”?) 🤓
  - Sappho (Elke)
    7 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    I bow with gratitude to you, dear Richard! A breathtaking comment and the appreciation of a writer like you means a world to me!
    I have gratefully implemented your kind suggestions for improvement. As English is not my mother tongue I appreciate this all the more! 🙏
    - RICHARD "Rascal" JENKINS
      7 months, 2 weeks ago
      
      What lovely sentiments you share, Elke …thank you ever-so warmly.
      
      You’re a beautiful person and wonderfully enjoyable poetess!
      A Most Happy New Year to You! ⁓ Richard🖌
- Willow
  7 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  I’ve written a few from this vein myself and no doubt we’ll write many more, trying to get people to pay attention. The both of you did an amazing job on this. 🙌
  - Sappho (Elke)
    7 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    There is a lot of work to be done to raise awareness of nature’s uniqueness and to call for its protection. But we won’t give up!
    Thank you from the bottom of my heart, my dear fellow campaigner, for your wonderful comment!
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