Shadows long and dark Dark they walk by my side Side to side I can’t #measure #measure how far to run Run-away but from my mind self Self I am alone Alone they appear these shadows Shadows cover me all around Around there’s nowt but shadows #vss365 #EWRPoetry

Bits and pieces Of #literature Inked on my skin A reminder of your kind From folklores and rainy day tales Scrolls of scripture some a prayer Affirmations and musings Goosebumps read like braille Feelings that look better Dressed up as words #vss365 #pic Pinterest

a simple wish for #paranoid dreams then life wouldn't be real writing has marred the wall in florid, weeping ink tragic #literature for the illiterate memories & reveries lie inertly #curly like dead leaves too brittle for a scrapbook #vss365 #whistpr #emoetry

not of roses, nor of shame; it bears silence a lesson in red #inkmine [red] #haiku #writingprompt #blueskypoets

truth can leave scars like the bite of a north wind flesh and soul pierced - ❖ - lambent waxen pools brief flickers illume time darkness yet comes #dailyhaikuprompt [north wind] #haikuchallenge [lambent] #haiku #writingprompt #blueskypoets

idealism dies upon life's education stripped gears whir #vss365 #education #whistpr #whir #emoetry #idealistic

forgotten plow rust dust in harrowed veins yesteryear's dreams #inkmine [harrow] #haiku #writingprompt #blueskypoets

synesthesia born of violences blues in asphyxia choking on words poisoned w/ #purple haunted memories reds of lead & pooling apologies eyes blinded by #rays of black under pains of torture & existence scars are records & confessions life often #defeated but not yet dead #vss365 #whistpr #emoetry

He says my laugh is a carol a festive cairn to stain the cleanest scape I say let’s make a feast of choirs leave this meagre crumb but he prefers the #heliacal drone of all his forms the bright & the bore #vss365 #poetrysky #promptpersuasion

you can feel the #unseen sorrows like fingertips press bone into flesh with tenebrose tenacity you wonder if this is everything what once was taken thieved against will you now surrender freely #vss365 #whistpr #thief #emoetry #tenacious

I wish I ran like a dog eyes up faith in a stride tang of sun-warmed iron-rich earth huffed across my tongue to be sick at alum lilies vomit up this energy howl a dirge & be done to cut at birth needled teeth loveworn to forgive and never forget #vss365 #poetryhaitus

I don’t know how to/be scissor smooth & cut to the end to all she knew as ashes crawl in the groove of strings that resonant sense of ghosts that cling to the movement of her voice just gives your life away #whistpr #poetrysky #rustwarning

. Run Through The Shadows . #oddlyme #freeverse #anxiety #poetry #micropoetry

∴ saucer’d lune upspills empt goblets mirrours the hunt yare eyes veer to prowl ∴ #vss365 #haikufeels #poemspell #satori #runlikeananimal

a half-cracked death mask plastered on a scowl split lips obviate condolences with a pan am, #saucer smile sorrow adheres an armour of #rage to a broken being like scales #cling to butterfly wings a warning of shimmering toxicity camouflage from the curious #vss365 #whistpr #emoetry

#haikufeels rustle hiding winter's store rustel in October's leaves gray squirrels harvest #haiku #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #October

Leaves #rustle in #fall red and gold littered sidewalks air crisp after rain #haikufeels #haikuchallenge #haiku #poetry

Quiet atoms play like swing sets and monkey bars. Humanity screams. #emoetry #vss365 #poetry #haiku #senryu

∴ atoms rustle herds of kinetic matter electrons stampede ∴ #vss365 #haikufeels #senryu

atomic sobs echo through the #quiet smothering #bubble #vss365 #atom #emoetry #penstricken

Melancholia is needy. It demands satisfaction in its arid yearning. Beds and chemicals become silicon heavens. All the morning afters are funerals for who we are. So let the dirge play. We stitch out mouths shut so the soil won't fill our lungs. #emoetry #vss365 #poetry

today I am grieving too many of the lives I decided not to live I am an agony of unhappening #poetry

∴ she kindled thurgh arid fells found fayth in flare a flame e'er famisht · i bide as sunnerīs's shoulder feral vein'd, windworn will cairnborne & rōvand · her ember burneth for breaking mine, for becomming she names it freedom · i call it the wayfaring stead compas & eckō ∴ #vss365 #sunset

raindrops follow the porcelain's #curve inured to the tremors and potential for violence #needy streaks mind the cracks of time as desperately they tumble wetting the #arid sorrows forgotten but for the tracks they leave behind guides for the next inevitable downfall #vss365 #whistpr #emoetry

Memories of summer Wade through my mind As I breathe in the cold sights Of hoarfrost & tiny frosty stalactites Covering the green shubbery Now an #undertone of emeralds Year spins fast seasonal colours Sunny yellows to snowy whites #vss365

as a grooveless record, i spin soundlessly along the #needle tracks listen while #inadequate words sough ashore with every ebb pulling away their meaning only remains remain, of bones & #undertones just a stain stretched like clinging fingers #vss365 #emoetry #penstricken

a threnody where my heart should be its atavistic grame pooling in ink blots & words i #sublimate the urge poorly, limning in broken thoughts & skin as masked desires #clash with a hope for better days and the lunacy of a sickle moon #vss365 #whistpr

Bob ordered butter pecan ice-cream. Nora, in a #caprice, chose the hyped wasabi swirl. One lick and she emptied her water bottle into her mouth. "You said be adventurous," she gasped. "I meant add rainbow sprinkles," Bob muttered. #vss365

I sit with the stone- its silence heavier than mine #haiku #poetry

paranoia, frozen fear darting eyes & flexing fingers his viscous rattled breath perturbs the nightmare brume — #caprice in autumnal bloom consumed by demon chatter led toward the railway clatter mesmerised by the invitation one trip to escape the other #vss365

Midnight blue black tresses Fall down her porcelain skin With a twinkle of #caprice In her pool green wet eyes Was it all a dream she thinks But she’ll never know Coz those butterflies left Along with their kisses Each gravestone around her Covered in mosses #vss365 #poetry

#Eventuality Often culminates In disappointment And each day There’s more of my heart To sweep off the floor And recycle Right next to the bits Of cardboard I keep forgetting To break down; Maybe one day Eventuality Will be more Than this constant ache And will give me Clarity Instead. #vss365

The dreams always begin The same way #Bellwether omen A black sheep Leading the flock And I’m somewhere In the hedgerows Waiting For something to happen And perhaps That’s the sign That even within My own consciousness I stand without; A lucid intruder Unable To prevent My own catastrophe #vss365

The fire #reinvigorates Time that had felt too short For breathing For feeling For breaking In a million pieces; Days That had felt stuck together Finally crumbled in clumps Of plaster Still holding remnants Of remorse — For all the moments Wasted In fear Of the darkness That always followed #vss365

Lively colours come unlock me From this life slowly walking by I’ve shimmered into hazy grey Winter’s not yet quite begun Catapult me over rainbows On the back of a #bellwether Kinda bumblebee Landing On filled treasure pots Open, rays golden #vss365

#frost blue eyes, brilliant skies engage the clouds in pareidolia hiding in her #cottage, lights out watching for a #bellwether storm the clouds grow black, smothering as he walks up her garden path then thunder, lead, dead as a door nail & she burns the cottage down #vss365 #whistpr #blueskyrelay

#quick as you like may death tease but for a blink a moment's passing #inkmine [quick] #haiku #writingprompt #blueskypoets

Vague sonnets etched On hollow greying clouds fade From once an #extrusion of Daybreaks’ yawning dawns Listless I too may mist I have become a prose flatlining Your ink Before, my life force Now drip thrums Like taunting rain thuds #vss365

The wall glares at me, #sentient, all knowing, my failings as transparent as it's inset window— it sees right into me, my hollowness & vacany. I hate the wall for what it sees, I turn my back but my back becomes the wall the wall is me— reflecting my soul of stone & heart of glass. #RetroArtPrompt

wizened #shell broken since a cursëd birth a scar-covered scar blighting the earth my eyes burn w/ #ineffable disgust as i float outside in blessëd dissociation watching from an #extrusion of self i pick at the wretched scab hoping to rip it clean before reintegration #vss365 #whistpr #blueskyrelay

#Synthesis of vine and branch Rebuilding a semblance Of structure That used to be More bone and flesh; Cartilage and sinew — A body That couldn’t hold Her troubled existence Extricating her Like a parasite Flung to its belly, Searching for a new host Among the thorns #vss365

you dip your toe in the #swamp to escape the quicksand what could it hurt now you're up to your neck in a filthy #synthesis of love & hate staying afloat with #mushrooms while darkness presses down on the top of your head #vss365 #whistpr #blueskyrelay

We play a #complex, twisted game like Russian roulette, but who will get the bullet? Both of us? Going out like Romeo and Juliet. You hold the barrel to my temple, sensual as a gentle kiss— my life is in your hands. I give up, break me kill me, take me. #RetroArtPrompt

New moons tonights forevers Be the tropes parables Metaphors running rivers In veins pumping thru my skin Telling allegories I can’t #rein it in So don’t blame me I’m of the possessed obsessed Living in a land far far away Encircled by a moat Named MakeBelieve #vss365