fortitude

fortitude

disguised in the heart
a thick bitter reminder
of death’s companion

stalking the pleasures
this old soul takes solace in
during the music

Thank you to Luke for publishing this today on Micropoetry.com! 

http://micropoetry.com/fortitude.html

Thanks to Tasha!

Thanks to Tasha, editor of In Between Hangovers, for publishing "Despair Pounces From the Faces" =:-)

https://inbetweenhangovers.wordpress.com/2016/12/17/despair-pounces-from-the-faces-by-r-soos/

ELSiEiSY Blog Festival

Thank you for Elsie for sharing my poem Fiddlin' Around In An Orchestrated War:

http://www.elsieisy.com/blog-festival-fiddlin-around-orchestrated-war-r-soos/

Leaves of Ink published five of my poems

Thank you to Earl Wynn for publishing some of my work on his magazine:

http://www.leaves-of-ink.com/2016/11/five-haiku.html

Worth

Thanks to Aaron at Cuento for posting my poem 'worth' in his twitter-based magazine!

https://twitter.com/CuentoMag

Wife on micropoetry today =:-)

wife

my hand cannot write
when faced with your dark whispers
only touch your skin

http://micropoetry.com/wife.html
page includes some of my other recent work.