This photo cutting a metal train a smooth spark this morning he wants to run and he’s crying everyone I knew was onboard catch you everyone And I’m running and I’m running and he’s crying and I’m not ready and I’m flying a bus home it hurts to look at

a feast of marrow so thrives his balance of sins until nothing's left #vss365 #balance #haikuhorrorprompt #marrow #haiku

these dreams #depart like webs on the wind in a tangled bramble of silkless litterfall even the final hope cannot free the straitjacket - bedazzled by bloody bite marks and thrashing scores - too tight, too small like a throat in shock scars screaming in the darkness without a word #vss365

It fell on us from the rafters making us half tar-blind dripping into our coffee at the neighbours’ house we flicked as cigarette ash onto the carpet left us where we fell walked to work the usual way shaking hands with a dust bunny turned this into a bitumen river itching to burst the bank

the beauty of a #rose lies not in its petals nor in its fragrance, but in the single-minded devotion of its thorns #vss365

peeling back the skin from fingernail to knuckle from temple to growing smile it's the only way to reveal where the guilt lies feeding sin through bloated veins that spill and stain to black the soul where eternal rivers flow #vss365 #revealing #emoetry #guilty

For every time you told me your sigh is a frown and your girl is a woman with your downward face your face so drawn I am moving with it down down with salt lips that is, I am making a note in my palm and a soundless sound across a soundless salted living room, that is I kiss it to you.

#vss365 #poetry Amber hues dance in delight Reflected in the silent shimmer Of the moon and its stars Across a velvet dark sky Within your eyes And so I #swoon A little love drunk Forgetting the break of dawn Time stopping to swoon too In a galaxy just for me and you

i've sat in the shade while ages passed; friend only to a puddle by my side. everyday, she shows me the sun #swoon to the moon's sultry shimmer, and the folly in the sway as this mighty oak withers. patiently she plies her ways, until i too am reduced to a puddle engorging our loneliness #vss365

The wind is fierce I need such ferocity to talk to the elements to hold my arms wide embrace the wild I want to howl bare feet dappled here it roars again caressing my awe 📷 by me #poetry #photography #trees

the kiss of frost light tips blue the easy pasture I wait for you #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #pasture

you, an insect lie there benign and suffocated in the sea’s upsetting knuckle clicking her ghosts are immaculate throats full of your long dead grass

pedal down, I play notes on a drowning surface, scatterbrained a primordial hum of silt and undersea I press a key to hear what one hand says to the other to drown, in whispers #supercilious as our hemispheres #vss365 #emoetry #poetryprompt

on a good day, the present is numb. an #appraisal by dissonance and fire, trapped between time's weeping entropies. sorrow was never meant to be a synecdoche for life, but i fail to see a future blessed without unrelenting tearfall. today is not a good day. #vss365

what is a will to live but a dalliance with #apprehension just one more tattoo of slender sliver just another sleepless night at the whim of dissatisfaction life and will aren't coterminous when its maker is met, so too is mine excuse me, i have a will to kill #vss365

worry dolls whisper my ears sear in the nightmares giving back my shame #haikufeels #haiku #poetry #worry

saved from the quiet internal voices compel flesh is enemy #haikuhorrorprompt #haiku #poetry #internal_voices

Tfw I was so sure climbing the wooden hill face in my palm, my hot palm misting from my mouth, winding down the spring of my body. I dreamed of you. We were in our little boat. When I wake, I can still feel your hand, almost, when I wake I am calm.

pond petals dance dodging bullet raindrops in the western wild #inkmine #dance #haiku #poetry

pond petals dance to the rhythm of raindrops in silver spotlight #inkmine #dance #haiku #poetry

a storm's confessions while lightning scars the night's flesh plangent thunder wails #haikufeels #confess #haiku #poetry

hoarfrost feathers a fallen leaf not far from the tree it trembles under kisses blown and stars unreached it wants to disappear into dust like a grainy memory but ants shelter beneath its shade so it exists #vss365 #grain

killed darlings murdered dears locked within an ivory tower twisted sisters violent femmes jealous madness, suitor calls slayed angels butchered twins leap-of-faith #defenestrate crashing bodies poisoned souls embracing now, no truth be told #vss365

those eyes and mine black two black molars window-paned over a field a prescribed burn chest speaking boneless buzzing mouths fly-wing necks craning for the sun even though the sun’s just another screen

Your heart's sinews splayed like the beams of our fine, white house that was shelled. You said I must leave this hell: A country now burst at its seams. #WorldRefugeeDay

his forest of memories smothered by towering rampikes longing to caress the azure beyond a handless grasp alone he waits in #quietus a velleitous tree dying in the wildwood no honour guard to inhume his bones roots trapped by the soil's filth marrow decayed by the forest's corruption #vss365

a Tetris dream The sky gets zipped in blue eggshell zinc white haven’t even heard of a side mirror yet where I go everything slipstreams blocks of hummingbird machines I love this expression Got a lot time for them it just feels good when I wake up for split seconds in the place I know you’re ok

In the land of the herring there isn’t much to hold. No matter. Slide when you slide, meanwhile, slipping on a fish spine, you’re landing on your neck, it’s fine, because you’re just doing a sky lick. you’re just in the blue hour, you’re at the herring ball, bone libel, breath on.

window view, verdance without life stretches out of reach storms scar the pane pull the shades tightly to see clearly roots rotting within #deadfall between four walls an understory of thorns slowly bleeding the poisons dry #vss365

herald the #mother why does she suffer me a pock in her moonglow the welling, the cursing let her draw the undertow and I'll swallow the sand a dead weight anchor oblivious to the ebb and flow sinking thru the ocean floor #vss365

chrysanthemum, when I say it is holding something close enfolding fiercely on a window sill a chrysalis of arms when I say it is a head or kissed on top or warm and dry as a flower shell is specific flower shit giving me palpitations window sills are terms of endearment, I am afraid.

Being folded into a beautiful origami rose might fix me

There’s a river of darkness Flowing through my veins Blackens my daydreams Sinks my soul To out of reach depths Bubbling in the empty Because without you Moon stars sun blur into naught These are my eerie #evermore hours #vss365 #poetry

Maples leaves drip from cankered limbs Each vein whispers to be silenced Far afield, forestless, alone No taker for the blighted shade Maple leaves swirl from bedeviled promises The grip of madness acquiesced to sanity Now is the future and #evermore Rooted in place until the rotting #vss365

we are your kids magnifying glasses down by the river a picnic of turning the reeds brown all the ants waving smiling waving no nonono wait stop you know us

there's no #victory for the hanger queen taking random chances with random romances they all steal a piece of her when they leave she's a simulacrum in the uncanny valley a congeries of parts disconnected broken and neglected a hole in the darkness unseen #vss365

a hypnotic slipknot slithers to the floor as the mirror immures his madness razor blade rings adorn his fingers while a lingering heartbeat betrays his hope he's dressed to the nines in a crimson necktie and a straitjacket tailored for sorrow #vss365 #linger

Sadness, when it is fork-tailed, passerine.

that's why i should never engage.

The stone mother I once was a yew the name of my left eye was Quiver the other one was called Bush cricket I’m trying to make sense my lips are Soft vortices and Gulf of my mouth opens to the sea My fists Bright ball of light and If a songbird feels no guilt then nothing why can’t you just stay?

I know It’s strange Lost In a place Where once Roses stood Now barren & headless But now I understand This Is the place Where love leaves you Before it’s even started #vss365 #poem

impotent promises and #barren poetries skin in the darkness is tantamount to paper and calligraphic scratches are epiphanies any point or #prong can pen a memoir if the flesh is willing and a life is short enough #vss365 #wildwalkprompt

another opportunity to disappoint, thank you @phantomsspleen.bsky.social baptism a drowning gone wrong life treading tears #poetry #poempass to @sunblissful.bsky.social care to share more storm lore?

I let it hurt me let the hurt live it’s life and die soft of old age

it's the end times, dead man walking nothing left to stitch the flesh to daylight only dying grants #forgiveness dead man sprinting toward the night the last tethers lay, finally threadbare disappears, the dead man, out of sight #vss365

one link is shame. another, guilt. with fear and anger, they bind to the shackles abrading feet unclean. #caged beneath perspective's crushing wait, while #phantom tears flow and once red arroyos crust to rust. the reperfusion of hope shatters a hopeless mind #vss365 #wildwalkprompt

of stones sticking into my skin as I press the ground and something gives star death cells can’t say why I’m suddenly filled up small and sharp a kiss can’t say why I’m crying it’s just dividing and sub-dividing uncontrollably in broad emptiness there’s a perfect copy of my body made out of sound