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Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:55:54 +0100

Mus'd wrote a new post

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 18:40:31 +0100

To Manicured Hands That Will Never Be Shackled. An Epistle of Betrayal I wonder what we will leave our children A scorched earth and the bitter Stench of hatred and division If there is an earth […]

Celia wrote a new post

Sun, 20 Oct 2024 21:00:12 +0200

A Progression – Latchkeys to Logarithms Latchkey kids with a lifetime to unlock. Time stretched out into pastures New. Infinite – Springing up. Green under p […]

Celia wrote a new post

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:35:19 +0200

Between the Lines In Sacred and Loving Memory of Rose Elizabeth Cleveland Born in New York, USA Author and Philanthropist A Loyal Lover of Her Country And A […]

Dana Stewart wrote a new post

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:49:34 +0200

Lost in the Woods Oaks Bluff was surrounded by a forest that stretched all the way to the mountains and had more thrift stores than you could count. Main […]

Cathy Holmes posted a new activity comment

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 19:04:06 +0200

Thank you so much.

In reply to - Cathy Holmes wrote a new post Bonded I collected some twist ties and shackled my sanity tied my feelings into knots I’ve unnailed my soul from a long-rusted past and unglued my s […]

Celia posted a new activity comment

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:37:58 +0200

Got me some tears – beautifully written – loved ‘duct tape and tears’ -brilliant!

Cathy Holmes posted a new activity comment

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:22:25 +0200

Thank you so much, my friend. There will be more to come. 😁

In reply to - Cathy Holmes wrote a new post I Never Heard the Flowers Cry (Silence – Acrostic) Solemnly the roses wept, when I mirrored their crimson hue. Low, the bonnets held their heads, each shedding […]

Celia posted a new activity comment

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:13:06 +0200

Just beautiful Cathy – I’ve missed you!

Cathy Holmes wrote a new post

Sun, 29 Sep 2024 21:05:41 +0200

Bonded I collected some twist ties and shackled my sanity tied my feelings into knots I’ve unnailed my soul from a long-rusted past and unglued my s […]

Cathy Holmes wrote a new post

Sun, 29 Sep 2024 20:56:13 +0200

I Never Heard the Flowers Cry (Silence – Acrostic) Solemnly the roses wept, when I mirrored their crimson hue. Low, the bonnets held their heads, each shedding […]

Celia wrote a new post

Sun, 07 Jul 2024 15:41:44 +0200

Fly You were crushed like a bug under a hardback edition of Hamlet, Never even read. Splat. Blood and entrails Slipping down the window pane, Like Chernobyl […]

Celia posted a new activity comment

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 08:06:25 +0200

Aw Jbaz thank you so, so much! Great to see you here!

In reply to - Celia wrote a new post Caffe Sospeso The winter had been brutal. The cobbled streets seemed to absorb the cold—the ice embedding into the crevices between each worn stone, leaving a disconcerting s […]

ROCK posted a new activity comment

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:48:31 +0200

Thank you for stopping by Blitzken!

In reply to - ROCK wrote a new post Go Soft on Me; Scents of Love Elderberry blossoms as cherry buds blush Nature surrenders to love’s scent powerful and lush Iris purple afternoons sway […]

ROCK posted a new activity comment

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:52:08 +0200

Thank you Celia!

Celia posted a new activity comment

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 08:18:28 +0200

Aw Rock so gentle and beauriful. The natural imagery is just perfect x

Hayley Matto and JV Word and Image are now friends

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 20:01:19 +0200

ROCK posted a new activity comment

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:48:03 +0200

Still trying to find out how these ? marks are showing up.

In reply to - Cathy Holmes wrote a new post Eggshells Why walk on eggshells, when the inevitable tastes like cherry pie?

ROCK posted a new activity comment

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:46:19 +0200

Why are there these strange question mark thingys in so many places in my writing. I didn’t put them there? Ugh. I saw them in Cath Holme’s as well.

In reply to - ROCK wrote a new post HOUSEKEEPING; In a Minute Reading glasses swinging back and forth, dangling from a drug store string slung around my neck I said, to myself of course, I […]

ROCK posted an update in the group European Writers: I am not a good "new learner"; I have trouble with […]

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:43:44 +0200

I am not a good “new learner”; I have trouble with uploading photographs to accompany my writing and figuring out the different areas of Mus’d. I am 61 and soo not computer savvy. My last photo looked stretched out, sprawling across the background of my poem and I gave up and left it. Any ideas of how to insert photos from images such as Upsplash,…[Read more]

ROCK posted a new activity comment

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:39:21 +0200

This was a beautiful expression of self love and gave me a warm feeling.

In reply to - River Joy wrote a new post joy “Before the Storm” River 2020 Joy: noun, the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one […]

ROCK wrote a new post

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:34:30 +0200

Go Soft on Me; Scents of Love Elderberry blossoms as cherry buds blush Nature surrenders to love’s scent powerful and lush Iris purple afternoons sway […]

Heather Hubler and Caroline are now friends

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:36:03 +0200

Celia wrote a new post

Sun, 09 Jun 2024 16:16:43 +0200

The In-Between Life consists of the before and the after. There is nothing in-between. In lighter days, I remember the sea with a fondness that can only be […]

Celia posted a new activity comment

Mon, 27 May 2024 13:23:11 +0200

Aw Caroline – I am so happy to have you here! Looking forward to reading again! And thank you so much for your kind words Glad it resonated but kind of wish it hadn’t. I think most humans have felt eroded by life at one time or another 🤍

In reply to - Celia wrote a new post Ariadne's Requiem After our quest. I gave myself to you willingly Like a sacrifice. And you sacrificed me. At the alter of your ego. As you could. Your […]

Celia posted a new activity comment

Thu, 23 May 2024 05:59:33 +0200

Aw Kenny thank youi so much, seriously coming from you…you’ve made my day! 🤍

In reply to - Celia wrote a new post A Digital Apparition Dene had long been the epicenter of tech development. Its skyscrapers loomed like postmodern monoliths overseeing the bustling streets, […]

Hayley Matto posted a new activity comment

Tue, 21 May 2024 19:08:59 +0200

Thank you so so so much River!!! I had this one written in an old notebook years ago with this pattern, but the first draft I did online I wasn’t in love with. But I think I finally got it here! So glad you enjoyed.

In reply to - Hayley Matto wrote a new post Ignoring myself is Easy I’m selling my soul again. And no- No one’s making me do it. Not a magical genie who prophesied the idea or a devil manipulating me […]

River Joy posted a new activity comment

Tue, 21 May 2024 14:38:34 +0200

thank you for speaking your truth here, agreed with Celia and Rock, sometimes the only way out is through (which is an aphorism that I dislike, but in a lot of cases it’s true)

In reply to - Paul Stewart wrote a new post feels like acceptance Hey there, You… You know who wanted to connect personally, direct one to another, brothers and sisters in arms, suffering through […]

River Joy posted a new activity comment

Tue, 21 May 2024 14:33:17 +0200

This was such a unique way of presenting this, I love how little real life moments are woven into the grocery list. It’s a lovely little window into the voice’s life.

In reply to - ROCK wrote a new post GROCERY LIST; Before Now A Grocery List November 1963 (Time; morning of course, before baby Timmy needs his nap) 1. Buttermilk (Ask Ma for her bi […]

River Joy posted a new activity comment

Tue, 21 May 2024 14:30:46 +0200

This. Wow, this just blew me away as well. I would love to see more from this world. I also adore your poetry. This is something special. Really well done

In reply to - Cathy Holmes wrote a new post Hero There was a time when I could have been considered a good man. I had a wife and family. I had a house with a picket fence. I had a good job and college […]

River Joy posted a new activity comment

Tue, 21 May 2024 14:27:43 +0200

oh I love hummingbirds and this is a really beautiful ode to them. I now will only refer to them as tiny dragons.

In reply to - Dana Stewart wrote a new post Dragons in disguise, a haiku Hummingbirds take flight small wings, big dreams, lost in time dragons in the sky

River Joy posted a new activity comment

Tue, 21 May 2024 14:25:26 +0200

Awesome piece Hayley, the formatting adds so much to the piece. It’s visually gorgeous as well as the writing. Really great stuff.

River Joy posted a new activity comment

Tue, 21 May 2024 14:22:08 +0200

Wow, wow. I agree with Celia, this is quite the punch. Really exquisite work here Heather.

In reply to - Heather Hubler wrote a new post Where the fault lies tomorrow never came for her, no heroic deeds in sight, she raced into that dead-end alley, every ‘worst case’ screaming loudly to put […]

River Joy posted a new activity comment

Tue, 21 May 2024 14:21:05 +0200

<3 gorgeous and intricate. I love your work so much.

In reply to - Celia wrote a new post Quintessence Chae-Won sat in the courtyard of the tea house, the clay teapot on her table remained untouched. The streets bustled with a life she could […]

River Joy posted a new activity comment

Tue, 21 May 2024 14:19:21 +0200

Thank you for your voice on this issue. Free Free Palestine! Really beautiful message and writing.

In reply to - Kenny Penn wrote a new post From the River to the Sea From the river to the sea, Roar masses all over the world, Exasperated by eyes blind to suffering, Eager to witness the end of the […]

River Joy posted a new activity comment

Tue, 21 May 2024 14:18:12 +0200

<3 thank you. Yeah, at the time it was heartbreaking, now it was one of those moments of radical acceptance that you can love a friend or lover so much, but we know it's best to walk away.

In reply to - River Joy wrote a new post was walking i went walking with you when my world was just black and white we whispered under the willow by the big pond you know the one with the snapping […]

River Joy posted a new activity comment

Tue, 21 May 2024 14:16:38 +0200

Thank you so much <3 He's is an incredible man. I highly recommend blowing a kiss to the ocean, it's a wonderful meditative moment.

In reply to - River Joy wrote a new post A Good Man in a Storm “Love ooo” the words my father says to me as I leave the house every day. We have a script, a rhythm, the type of communication that […]

River Joy posted a new activity comment

Tue, 21 May 2024 14:14:15 +0200

thank you so much Dana, and thank you for all of your support for Mus’d it’s been really heartening.

In reply to - River Joy wrote a new post leftovers one night you awake with a start no different from any other night your breath is cold hanging brightly in the air your body heavy with […]

River Joy posted a new activity comment

Tue, 21 May 2024 14:13:42 +0200

thank you so much! I tended to go a little off on those challenges because I don’t like being told what to do =], I almost always skirted the prompt

In reply to - River Joy wrote a new post Mirror Man the mirror showed a reflection that was not my own i walk towards it, its eyes hold me strong i am not scared, for i have been here before the […]

Cathy Holmes posted a new activity comment

Mon, 20 May 2024 21:14:51 +0200

It was really, really good. And what’s this “gothic challenge” you speak of. nvm. I can’t write Gothic anyway. lol

Celia posted a new activity comment

Mon, 20 May 2024 21:05:24 +0200

Honestly itching fo more ‘The Holmes’ prose! So good!

Celia posted a new activity comment

Mon, 20 May 2024 21:04:35 +0200

LOL That shall not be named 😂 Yeah I tried to do Kenny’ gothic challenge and for some reason I end up going towards sci-fi…having never wroye (before the other thing) or read any 😁 Weird!

Cathy Holmes posted a new activity comment

Mon, 20 May 2024 20:57:41 +0200

Thank you, my friend.

Cathy Holmes posted a new activity comment

Mon, 20 May 2024 20:56:20 +0200

Well said!

Cathy Holmes posted a new activity comment

Mon, 20 May 2024 20:55:04 +0200

This kinda reminds me of the series you did on the other site. Well done! And yay for Adam and Eva. (cool names)

Celia posted a new activity comment

Mon, 20 May 2024 20:52:38 +0200

Yeah Its awful. It is just hear breaking. The west only seems to involve itself if there is oil to be found. Makes me sick. Thank you for writing and sharing 🤍

Celia posted a new activity comment

Mon, 20 May 2024 20:47:45 +0200

Damn Cathy! I love your poetry but this was epic. I had absolutely no idea where it was going and was riveted the whole way through. Kindawish he’d hopped on a fligh to Maritus and just fucked over the man but ending makes absolute sense. Voice was so damn good!

Cathy Holmes posted a new activity comment

Mon, 20 May 2024 20:41:16 +0200

This is good. Such tiny descendants. Who’d a thunk it?

In reply to - Dana Stewart wrote a new post Dragons in disguise, a haiku Hummingbirds take flight small wings, big dreams, lost in time dragons in the sky

Cathy Holmes posted a new activity comment

Mon, 20 May 2024 20:39:28 +0200

beautifully written, but ooph, that last line.

Cathy Holmes posted a new activity comment

Mon, 20 May 2024 20:37:59 +0200

This is great. Your dad sounds like a wonderful man, truly wonderful. I love the idea of blowing a kiss to the ocean, and will be sure to do so when I go home for a visit next month.