You #obfuscate your heart, yet like moon’s silver edge, your longings wander the seams of nightfall, before writing yourself across my skin. Like stars peddling memories, you dust me in your fragments— half-formed notes of warmth that dry on my heart until shadows swallow you once more. #vss365

I was born in the snow in the high vale. The wolf moon was new when I took my first breath and my mother her last. Destiny chimed on the icicles and the mark on my wrist I keep hid. My heart is ever cold and I avoid all weapons. I said No to being brave and cup cocoa instead. #fromoneline #403

#Wildwalkprompt Colours and lights Mystery and escape The treasure of sight Smell and sound Taste of salty grains Compressed and hollowed The planet breathes

A rose by another name is a ruse A brief show then gone except for its thorns Still it's pluck at thrice the price of a common daisy Deception is the centre of our nature Held in genes we never believe would want to deceive They too, demand an airing #vss365

Drizzle keeps me in Reminiscent The ones I love The ones I need They slip into place Without a squeak of rust Or grate of unforgiven It's not often I remember how easy The fit #vss365

Decisions congeal in the growing pool Loom dark and worrisome Predawn Dinosaurs came from such murky pools Turned to fascination when gone Living with them would not have been a good film Yet there's no need to bend before fear It can be looked in the eye and known for what it is #vss365

At uni I could no longer read and had to protect my favourite authors from criticism. Now I find themes can't go into the public domain when I'm working on them. One for my check list. #writerslife

in my own breathing I learn again that I am here #haiku #poetry

Odourous honeysuckle Nodding poppies scutched in betwixt Cornflowers Bees veer against the light breeze I long for summer Adding twigs to a bug hotel Preserving what I can In long bowed grass And uncut twigs Blue sky and lazy days Will come again #vss365

Circles and boxes Circles and boxes Until a shrill scream tears my throat I veer left, right, leap Face away Find only circles and boxes Rules and do what's right Perhaps I can dig my way out But look The buggers put me on concrete I sprinkle lichen and moss And wait #vss365

#vss365 The world has a surface glitter, and beneath it, a #murmur. It persists - like heartbeat, like prayer, like an ember hidden in ash. One must bend close to hear it. It tells us: neither change nor loss are doom. The murmur beneath this turning world is hope, persistence, continuance.

Tensions pull the night to waking Murmurs sibilance in shadow-mind Subconscious needs Conscious needs Bumble The sheets into coffee No decisions made Morning reawakens An old argument #wildwalkprompt #vss365

New love sears the lonely Holed up in cold spaces Dignity trembles Fear shakes the once Battleground Fantasy rebels against the loss A bud resilient peeks #vss365 #inkmine

Grief always Recalls out of the blue A seared memory #vss365 #sear

A child sears my heart Shames my doubting with a spotlight His zest half a century younger My whinging freezes in the stark light Insidious lines state It's not the same Zest isn't part of choosing, it's the badge of experience considering holding a line The energy of doing will be citrus #vss365

The content of a heart Takes a long time to drain Bleeding blood in hour long seconds Heartfelt and heartfull Only the nights Are longer #vss365

Bewilderering Another none word A wonky view I'm screwed in the normal world No doubt of this I live in a 4th or perhaps 5th dimension I look up the meaning of a word Consider it Decide the best fit and then I dream From there I exist Refuse to explain the air I breathe I fold thro the word #VSS365

The world is officially of its axis The North wind blows east The tides turn left under the moon's pull The werewolf turns under the sun And The mermaids swim in sand dunes Yet They tell me I'm wonky I can only laugh and say It's more fun To be me than You #vss365

How you set me up in a trimester fuckup was Unmissable Laughter must have been The whole of a 28 day Moon Silver Glowing Howling Snowing John Wick didn't need To Do A thing Dead I hit the ground You missed that scene Many did I stayed in bed so I didn't see Yet I paid One life #vss365

I feel the wind The ice induces compliance to avoid the burn I long to evade punishment Pointless tho such an exercise is Experiment fails in the heat of heartfelt Know you such? Delivery fails It heeds nothing except existence Life persists under new boundaries #vss365

No achievements there Delivering bold speeches In sites void of ears #vss365 #2WordPrompt #haikufeels #haiku

DARK TODAY TO HONOR RENEE dropping off her child stuffed animals in car mom~poet~soul her blood floods the news many share one of her poems tears hit my screen #unmissable she was murdered I light a candle as our world screams RIP Renee Nicole Good 🕯️🙏🕊️ #BraveWrite #vss365 #PoetryCommunity #Poet

This event was #unmissable, one of the best throughout the year that gave some incredible prizes for participation. Rory enjoyed the variety of event quests that were simply a standard above the others, too. He raced to the event quests giver and settled in for a series of fun hunts. #vss365

sorrow branches through the weeping willow shadows lament #inkmine [sorrow] #haiku #writingprompt #blueskypoets

could you g a t h e r me a cup or whimsy while you’re out? fill it to the brim with marvels of moonlight pour it into my pores while I sleep the dark away so I’ll wake to nothing but play and the wild sway of the west wind inviting me to dance upon blades of grass and other soft things #poetry

We woke to snow snapping cold at the windows The cold floors scampered feet to the kitchen Brought coffee to snug deep There was wood to chop, eggs to find even if few Bread to bake with the last of this yrs honey An hr of bed was glorious and wrapped up, we walked untrodden paths #fromoneline #400

I love the swoop And flow of the chaffinch Colours warming My heart and soul Tree-sitting above the bird tables #wildwalkprompt

It would be So Convenient To get a Delivery From that mega place A package Neatly Delivering My future Unfortunately I cannot Find the right Section It is all Ungraspable Which is probably not a real word #vss365

His call penetrates His rival steals hearts Or is it sex Away A white stone here A red ribbon flag A sparkle of old foil Lyre birds adorn Artistic structures Still she'll come Enticed by a brief fling Nature driven Content with who they are #vss365 #adorn

There's nothing to be done Sad though it is The facts sit on the table Sit between us Neither can adorn This separation It is something urgent That needs to be done #vss365 #adorn

adorn the altar with flowers and good intentions the dust stays honest #vss365 #Adorn #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Photography #Nature #Flowers #Roses #ImageAndVerse #Haiga

The ancient yew tree's branches were adorned with ribbons, woven dolls and scraps of mirror, but its real glory was its size; at least six people would be needed with arms outstretched to span its girth. A brown figure detached itself from the folds of its bark. #vss365

so there’s water under our bridge let’s go skinny-dipping high time to forgive your pen’s out desiring to give bathe me in poems come~get in our rhythmic rocking into climactic rhymes scribing a #symphony for infinity lives inside ©️Aspen #BraveWrite #vss365 #PoetryCommunity youtu.be/kPa7bsKwL-c

STRETCH Time is the Devil, Or at least the Devil's tool, Decapitating eons, Unyieldingly cruel. She #spooked me in the mirror, Said I’m looking like a ghoul, "‘Cos yesterday’s tomorrow Is today, you bloody fool!" #vss365 🕒

He could #swallow guilt in one straight shot. He was at that #mature #stage where you no longer seek the bartender’s approval for calling a mix of drinks a #symphony — noise is auto-reduced as in a smart selfie & even if it isn’t #euphoric, you drink it anyway. #vss365 #2WordPrompt #inkmine #Oulens

A distant reminder day When once she was so sallow Her fingers did play Strings a Cello Looks above in dismay Seeking something mellow Oh to be a Fae Dancing amongst the branches of Willow Cello in play Dancing to a #symphony mellow #vss365

You absorb me as I you I arch to you, as you to me We are one On the wild path And Are Content #wildwalkprompt

Time works differently here Folds and bends in one Tears consume me in the moment of flex I age and fall and endure Rebirth I remember a scene A path through a whitened forest My heart at war with you I ache in that space, which rarely comes Spiraled time inverts I am gone through #Twowordprompt

Wanting a v large piece of paper to work out timeliness and priorities for the next 18 months so I can watch it become disarray in real time #writerslife

When the talks broke down again, one delegate calling the entire process #balderdash and fantasy, Dylan had just about given up and only a steady hand from one of his own delegates stopped him from concluding the talks at the point of his gun. They had to make this work. One way or another. #vss365

#WildWalkPrompt I have not seen you Dance the sky I have not touched The cold of you This year Never heard the moment You land Througout this long life #snow

Seven months of abstraction Disassociation from all Hanging like a roost bat Swimming like a sailfish Curling like a dragon Being an astronaut in a suit defying penetrative images Cleansing down Delving deep Skim-living I change #vss365

Now I have broken Everything Now I look Down At the bolderdash of my Life See The lifeless pieces Flat Upon the ground Hear the silence surround me The what next has no shape No fangs Little meaning A cursor blinking dim in a black Screen All are gone #vss365

The #dawn of Aquarius was once on many people’s minds What happened? Now people take #delight in cruelty Looking at eachother with suspicion Not love Why can’t we be #delighted In the good of the universe each mind and spirits own worth #writingvommunity #vssfantasy #vss365 #emoetry

ornamental smile— she said it may be time to turn down her sunshine #haiku

The planet reminded Dylan of one from the Old System and the Old Earth. Red and barren, like fire and hell, like Old #Mars, but this one had life on it, struggling to survive, true, but life. And the Faction said it would one day have more. That’s what they had. Terraforming technology. #vss365

I begin Salting the ground in frustration Seeing no reason to withhold The view of damage done The bars must rust Plain sight unseen Deficit of love Unbreachable Your intentions harming Growth unrequited I leave for Mars Stretch for new stars Dance a solitary music Die the way I will #vss365

#MyFirstBirdoftheDay Two large mobs of crows opening the day with somewhere to go while a blackbird worm-hopped on short grass. The cold sun yellowed the pale purple sky towards blue and further down the path, made an eery green of the low horizon. Lots of birds sang in the dark trees.

AI call it heresy, but what if it all fails? what if endless cycles of machines trying to predict what we want to hear next doesn't create meaningful intelligence but just... endless cycling of things we already thought and we turn back to poets who stick out their tongues? #poetry