#splendor comes from the Latin splendere some say splendor others say splendour the Romans didn't have this problem but it is the glory of thy splendor that hideth thee as the pslamist says and so we meditate on the meaning of the word bright like a million suns we fall down and pray #vss365

#timid snowflake they call you as they strut chests out like peacocks bling around their necks and wrists trophy hunters nuclear flaunters Armageddon wishers me I pray with the humble thankful for this little life timid snowflake they call us as they kill the innocent with their bombs #vss365

do you remember covid and the #quest for the vaccine It was a terrible time even the PM got ill It was like being in a science fiction horror film and we were all stars a lot died some bad decisions were made we all knew where it came from but couldn't say some experiment #vss365

I've been #obsessed with a lot of things breathing I can't stop eating I can't stop and so on I'm boring myself now trying to be clever I remember being obsessed with this girl as a teenager so much so sh made me sick physically thinking about her I remember it clearly like puppy love #vss365

Velocity is a measurement of speed in a certain direction of motion. It is a fundamental concept in kinematics, the branch of classical mechanics that describes the motion of physical objects. I said to Hillary cutting and pasting doesn't help understanding oh I said I suppose so #vss365

each of the actual or potential patterns of electron density which may be formed in an atom or molecule by one or more electrons, and can be represented as a wave function pretty straightforward definition of #orbital I said to Hillary with the long legs you just cut and pasted that #vss365

some say our bodies are just a reflection of the universe all those #stellar objects within us and without it boggles the mind does it not There's a starman waiting in the sky He'd like to come and meet us But he thinks he'd blow our minds ... Let the children lose it ... David Bowie #vss365

I try no to harm anything #knowingly as a child I did wasps bluebottles rats I wasn't keen on but then I realised that I was wrong they are just creatures manifestations of life I went riding my red tricycle around the farm I was the king in the yard those days ended in tears no return #vss365

how do you avoid being #crazed I want a pancake with maple syrup now she says she's only four but we're all like that aren't we time for breakfast time for lunch then dinner information news best car best iPhone more money better house top job trophy partner on and on our minds crazy #vss365

what does #blatant mean I asked Hillary thinking she would know as she was always first in everything she didn't know though sorry she said so I asked my English teacher the poet it comes from the 16th Century Scots used by Spenser till eventually it became to mean obvious #vss365

when we argue she calls me #beastly as in cruel and unrestrained fair point it was the other day we were arguing about who's turn it was to empty the dishwasher it was then she said I was beastly It's time I just learned to take the knee instead of arguing yes it's my turn yup bowing #vss365

have I ever been #mystified probably I just worked out 56 years later why the Head Girl always wanted to dance with me much to my embarrassment I just realised I used to stare at her legs when she sat in front of me in class she must have known that's my confession over for today thanks #vss365

we have some volcanic hills near us but the area is not #mountainous in fact most of it is a fertile plan it used to be a bog 100 years ago but it was drained a high water table resulted in some nasty diseases killing people because of poor sanitation however everything is fine now #vss365

some #enchanted evening that old Frank Sinatra song plays in my head as I take my last antibiotic of the course to help my cough and whatever else I've got then I'm humming Disintegrate by Suede because I feel that's what's happening come down and disintegrate with me the drumming beat #vss365

I suppose my impact on our world is #minuscule we sleep and breath eat walk drive watch tv think etc #vss365

Day 3 of antibiotics for chest infection thought I was over it yesterday but no but it's Valentine's Day so I had to write a poem for her and a #kiss of chocolate to come later hope she likes it was supposed to meet for coffee later with gang but still in bed feeling yuck cough #vss365

I don't feel well today my body has become a #lacuna for illness the antibiotics are helping I think only day 2 of them but they don't make you feel great this is age I suppose I've had my porridge fed the blackbird I'm in bed now about to shave had a phone call about a dog that died #vss365

I went to see the nurse today I'd been kept in the #dark about a few things she wasn't an ordinary nurse but a super qualified nurse she told me I had a chest infection prescribing antibiotics then told me about my MRI and my clumping blood anyhow all sorted right medication next #vss365

winter has #touched me as we long for spring the white snowdrops have pushed up already I'm beleaguered with a cold sore throat cough and snivel my voice has been hoarse forever the fish van comes today and they sell bread as well I meet for coffee later my old friends and I #vss365

I have an #ache for my past the decisions I made the life I led the friends I lost It burns my heart and yet we move forward day by day a new me we declare new cells new blood but the lure of happiness draws us back if only this then that were we really happy then or was it distorted #vss365

I'm trying to to improve my posture my #bones complain as I try my exercises oops I feel dizzy better have another tablet plough then cobra oops I feel dizzy better have another tablet trying a head stand oops I feel dizzy better have another tablet followed by lying down for a while #vss365

I tried to give blood yesterday but I failed the initial iron test, and when they wanted to do a further test they couldn't find a vein. They even sent the 'vein whisperer' in, but several nurses later and one said 'some people just aren't cut out for it'. So I'm resharing this for #VSS365 #Blood

my #blood clumps the doctor said so I take aspirin every day what do you mean my blood clumps I said well she said we did a blood test when you came in you could see the platelets sticking together oh I said why is that I don't know she said but you'll need another blood thinner fine #vss365

I have many old #wounds of jobs I didn't get of love lost who cares I'm happy now and you should be too we muse and chew over the past but it's not there anymore and our memories are often distorted it's best not to open those old wounds happiness is not in them but pain and suffering #vss365

Hullo #vss365 and to #lambent

#vss365 #poetry Let’s not fear The unknown Let’s see in hope Just like the night though dark Shimmers full of milkyways stars & a cosmos #lambent in our wonder Journeys start but do they truly end I look up at the sky I see no brickwalls

there was a #lambent light on the horizon the day they came no one thought this day would come but the angels came their faces fierce as a million suns this was the new world order it was over quickly it wasn't what we thought it would be the last of us await their wrath #vss365

so I saw #ghosts when I started my teens but maybe I was just mixed up after leaving the farm I saw ghosts there as well but maybe I was just disturbed I saw ghosts until I suddenly stopped seeing them in my late teens and that was that sometimes they scared me sometimes they didn't #vss365

Break it in wear it out toughen it up work it through leave it be #micropoem #ourpoetryx #poetry

how shadows wear me garlanding the mantle fashioning poppets and puppets found stones and feathers nuts, seeds and pieces of metal affixing them with arms, legs and faces from a box of broken doll parts i had collected feeling this world rejected me enough for me to reject me too #emoetry

we feel the #pain of losing loved one's and there is pain when we think about our own mortality what legacy will we leave behind sulks and greed I hope not but there is this gnawing ache within us that life is short anger and jealousy I hope not we can leave love love it's all we have #vss365

my #soul is the best of me I believe so the learned say all the good I have done any kindness on those scales against with the bad which way will it go hard to say (pause for some self reflection) It's still not clear I can't say which way the scales will swing remember remember ah #vss365

I've lost many #shadows people I've loved and wept when they're gone animals dogs I'm looking at my shadow just now as light is blocked by my body It's my stamp of being alive my mother's shadow is still on the top shelf of the lounge cupboard contained in a funeral bag I can't scatter #vss365

we were supposed to pick up our new car yesterday but a series of unexpected events happened and I needed #soothed first a blow out in front tyre then a discussion with recovery man you're not buying one of those he said It'll give you a headache he said further due diligence deal off #vss365

we awoke to the #thrum it was coming from everywhere the table and chairs cereal bowls everything it changed its pitch slightly my head began to ache then they started to appear they were all over small and great all joining the thrum I sat down and prayed but it was only the start #vss365

what are your darkest thoughts don't #obfuscate them bring them into the light and they will disappear that's what I said to Hilary that morning she pinged on the back of the head with an elastic band I feel better she said I rubbed my head good I said I kidded myself about her #vss365

a meditation practice I sometimes do is to visualise myself as an archer with my #quiver of arrows on my back firing off arrows of love and peace across our world some say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one as John Lennon said in Imagine stop now let's examine our thoughts #vss365

It's strange but my love has not #waned for her fifteen years now we went for a drink last night and something to eat we just enjoy each other's company I had the soup and sandwich deal she panini and there was the old border collie lying beside us we knew a lot of people it was fab #vss365

you no a casual look can be the forerunner of the #cusp she looked at me far too long I looked away that was best or had I looked at her beforehand maybe anyhow we met up where I was born had lunch we've been happy ever since of course I have some health problems now this cough brain #vss365

when I was young I lived in a flat with five others we were at University and loved our #ruses we blew a flatmates eggs so he would be surprised when he tried to boil them we put cling film over the toilet seat to catch people out we put washing up liquid in the sauce bottle for a laugh bad #vss365

my mother #slipped away surprising the hospital my father the same he had delirium mother no so my parents gone they seemed so alive much of my life and I think back to our farm everything gone the tractor rusting maybe the geese that used to chase me gone but is that mother baking no #vss365

I look out my window to see the #drizzle of dawning I think I see the shadow of the waiting blackbird hungry for whatever I've put out but I'm unsure till there's more light the eucalyptus tree is dancing to the merry tune of wind I await the birds I've moved the food further away sh sh #vss365

my brain event has left me slightly #unmoored you know lost confused insecure and a bit low but then I think how lucky I am born in a country without war the man opposite in the ward was hardly conscious his family coming and going weeping by his bedside it was humbling but we go on #vss365

there is a #bend in the spiritual way we all know it don't we you think you've arrived somewhere but then it's just a little bit further isn't it #vss365

I live in a village where weaving was the thing at one time you can still find the old #looms just bits of wood fixed together turning flax into cloth it was a big thing those handlooms the Industrial Revolution put paid to it all so it became history people forgetting how to do it #vss365

I remember driving when I was younger a car didn't see me and came out straight in front of of my car causing me to #veer suddenly I went one way and then the other trying to correct this resulted in a front wheel skid which somehow I managed to correct feathering the steering wheel ... #vss365

I was up early not a #murmur from the garden well before the dawn chorus I had my porridge and tea my new favourite drink as coffee shocks my old body too much went back to bed no Church today resting taking it easy I can catch the service on the web can't I people calling how was I #vss365

I was in hospital yesterday scans the whole shabang dye in my veins lets see what's going on the doc said and opposite a poor soul #dappled with illness his family around him weeping so mortality gives me a wake up call as the clock ticks down maybe not today tomorrow no #vss365

I've chopped some apple to help the birds with winter's #sear I feel a great compassion for them all the creatures in my garden but winter's cold here they shiver at night look the blackbird has just arrived a bit if apple in its beak and then the robin and soon the sparrows #vss365

life is full of #prompts isn't it the blackbird in the morning dawning wants some food the noises upstairs better get the coffee ready anger and violence prompts us to kindness compassion to love you may call me a dreamer but I'm not the only one John Lennon where are you now #vss365