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My words aren’t poetry true Poets give voice to the inexplicable like Nureyev magically defying gravity I merely pirouette across the stage calling it dance
#vss365
#poetry
#BraveWrite
over 1 year ago
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Words fall like rain disseminating soundwaves drawn deeper as remnants of pain are swallowed by the sea
#BraveWrite
#FoxProse
#loveletters
#inkMine
#vss365
#OurPoetryX
about 10 hours ago
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Those castaway dreams gather hidden in plain sight, not amused by their nature of therapeutic constant care & working by nightfall one way by day another the rift exhausting
1 day ago
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While chasing shadows beware crevasses of janky theories, level up to seize your moment when seeds of hope leave coded messages in the rooted stillness of willows
#vss365
#BraveWrite
#inkMine
#2WordPrompt
#FoxProse
#OurPoetryX
#fairytalepoets
#BSPP53
#MoonMystic
3 days ago
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Daisies show waves immersing us as light trapped boughs & ocean breezes talk to our captive souls, don’t miss out on the joys of life, it’s three scoops of perfect
#FoxProse
#BSPP53
#BraveWrite
#fairytalepoets
#2WordPrompt
#WriteMap
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#vss365
#loveletters
6 days ago
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As the tea lights flicker the morning after I feel the rain, it lingers fresh tethering me to a constant outcome we dare not whisper
#BraveWrite
#2WordPrompt
#vss365
#loveletters
#WriteMap
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#OurPoetryX
8 days ago
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Three turns in secret passages among thickening meadows a disarming betrayal to poppies, under a rock grows the feral, usurpative dandelion
#2WordPrompt
#inkMine
#BSPP53
#BraveWrite
#OurPoetryX
#vss365
#WriteMap
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#PrayerMap
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#vssmagic
10 days ago
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It starts and ends and repeats again…
#poetry
11 days ago
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I ruminate the preferences of turning the page, how we shall never know the bliss of building a bridge of love for unalloyed letters to you lay strewn & unfolded
#inkMine
#2WordPrompt
#MoonMystic
#loveletters
#OurPoetryX
#WriteMap
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#vss365
#fairytalepoets
11 days ago
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It’s not secret rivers sought by wandering souls but diligent values released on a world bereft of virtue; its as agile as two destinies joined by love, ultimately filling the world with sunshine surprises
16 days ago
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The end rarely comes in a welcoming manner nor keenly anticipated with thorn heavy blossoms, haunting unbalanced moments in time, yet we are somehow directly comforted by what we were
19 days ago
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So out of reach, watered down, that radical idea lingering as grace exceeds mercy, a heart soft as velvet moss seeking dewdrops of kindness not the barbarism of tanks
#FoxProse
#MoonMystic
#BSPP53
#2WordPrompt
#loveletters
#OurPoetryX
#vss365
22 days ago
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Deceit in muted tones: only the fearless can be great, enough of yesterday’s never ending ravished truth to serve phantoms of cowardice & greed, set the tone invest now in small kernels of hope
24 days ago
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He didn't like it when the stars moved or multi shadows between words became blank or sliding down the rainbow of chance; his sad affection was for immovable mountains & castle walls where no songbird’s voice is heard
25 days ago
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It’s not the lion’s roar we fear but the silent trading of our lives, while we’re lost to tender escapes of more platitudes the ripples in our hearts grow weak from endings refusing to arrive, but alas, we held the key all along
28 days ago
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I sank slowly into, those quiet hours between reality & hope’s ashen petals, often we were perfect strangers, dichotomous platitudes of life gliding across where bare necessities wandered aimlessly devoid of care & assurance
about 1 month ago
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Written on my soul a pattern I thought I had escaped, when darkness swallows comfort & reason hemorrhages like bleeding magnolias the distance between carrying on & surrender is short
#fairytalepoets
#BSPP52
#FoxProse
#inkMine
#2WordPrompt
#OurPoetryX
#loveletters
about 1 month ago
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The next to the last word was missing and chasing yesterdays with paper & ink is fraught with deception, until we wing ourselves towards a distant presence we are lost
#FoxProse
#OurPoetryX
#loveletters
#BraveWrite
#MoonMystic
#inkMine
#2WordPrompt
about 1 month ago
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Wolves follow the moon quieter than silence, wrapped in forgotten fragments of time, entire mysteries that only howling winds argue with
#FoxProse
#BSPP52
#fairytalepoets
#2WordPrompt
#vss365
#OurPoetryX
about 1 month ago
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An aperture of prayer where beginnings and endings blur, jaded inner voices soften, what used to be is no more, now emerging as storm bent daffodils reaching for sunlight
about 1 month ago
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Optimistic inquisitive words like ivy twined in spaces between seconds of silence, not muffled undersea gurglings lost in undertows but a crying out loud for human dignity
#fairytalepoets
#TheDailyPrompt
#inkMine
#loveletters
#vss365
about 1 month ago
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The dawn breaks, it too is entertained and seduced by Spring, not by trickery but an inner voice contemplating various spaces between decisions
#fairytalepoets
#2WordPrompt
#vss365
#OurPoetryX
#loveletters
about 1 month ago
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I used to be good at remembering things; a life made of ordinary days inspired by certainties but the winds of hope tired Now the iridescent fog glistening with lies blinds us from a golden truth
#FromOneLine
#OurPoetryX
#inkMine
#BSPP51
#fairytalepoets
about 1 month ago
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They waited patiently the day before everything changed, now tangled cascades of memories played havoc where once rainbows guided them, their introspection had arrived too late
#FromOneLine
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#WriteMap
#fairytalepoets
#loveletters
#BraveWrite
#MoonMystic
#OurPoetryX
about 2 months ago
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I am but a ripple smoothing the pebbles, a babbling brook playing in sunlight and shadows joining the tidal wave to caress the shore, I am a ripple I belong to the endlessness of all
#poetry
about 2 months ago
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Don’t hide, enter the moral divide not as a flimsy windsock; practice patience among wisdom’s well worn paths, chart a course, joy hides amidst lanterns’ glow above, lighting the way
2 months ago
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Wide brick walls press down but the light found me, gently, proudly new leaves appear, another sign of renewal
#2WordPrompt
#WriteMap
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#BSPP51
#fairytalepoets
#BraveWrite
#inkMine
#OurPoetryX
2 months ago
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The fields were not as empty as he thought or wished, tragically souls lost are wind chimes in a hurricane screaming: “we ain’t done with tomorrow” but cruelty has its own agenda
#FoxProse
#FromOneLine
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#vssdaily
-#MoonMystic
2 months ago
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In the vast expanse of suffering we find not the warmth of trust in the morning to begin again but cobwebs of what might’ve been if cords of courage were heeded
#fairytalepoets
#BSPP51
#vss365
#WriteMap
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#vssdaily
#OurPoetryX
3 months ago
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Can we surrender our precious communities, indifferently unleashing not mild suffering but the kind that converts from self interest only to cruelty?
#BraveWrite
#2WordPrompt
#inkMine
#vssdaily
#OurPoetryX
#vss365
3 months ago
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Light returns in increments, a stamp of inseparable harmony washes over stones, marigolds dance among weeds, a home for the soul
#OurPoetryX
#BSPP51
#vssdaily
#2WordPrompt
#vss365
#BraveWrite
#WriteMap
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3 months ago
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A lifeboat of character lingers on the fringes, gesturing to face with resolve not the fear of the night but terror of those without morality
#WriteMap
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#BraveWrite
#vssmagic
#vssdaily
#MoonMystic
#inkMine
#OurPoetryX
3 months ago
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If you turn it ckockwise I shutter to dream of a splendor in wait of promises hidden in the ordinary, buffering sadness; butterflies kissing wildflowers, birds flying to wires singing of hope
3 months ago
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Give the deck another shuffle the heartless language cracked sinisterly reviewing evil intent, I knowingly realize looking for an echo of humanity in a chamber of horrors was a heart out of time
3 months ago
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And within those shadows is a fearless courageous caring, no evaluating, no limits but a quiet reaching across time like never before, not mystifying only sacred.
#MoonMystic
#WriteMap
#inkMine
#2WordPrompt
#fairytalepoets
#loveletters
#vss365
3 months ago
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It was a mistake like fool’s gold trying to unlock a ghost of love, never a nightmare whirlwind but like the gentle kiss of the wind, a kiss so elaborate it made my spirit rise to yours… When I loved you
3 months ago
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He couldn't be found on the troubled path where misery flowed, no bones to bury no way to heal, I was left in the dark with only bits of you, fragments of a life stolen
4 months ago
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The question repeated itself but the rhythm couldn’t justify chronic thunder whispers in the night and nothing broke the cruelty
#FromOneLine
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#2WordPrompt
#MoonMystic
#vssmagic
#WriteMap
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4 months ago
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On the road to freedom blood runs on the road to freedom wails fill the air on the road to freedom bombs fall on the road to freedom bodies lay in mass graves When will freedom come?
#WritingCommunity
#poetry
#freedom
5 months ago
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We woke to snow there downstairs a spell undone clueless to rescue latent truth frantically words you whisper on a site where Freedom is a gift to be earned
5 months ago
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At the Christmas tree farm icicles reveal reindeers jumping in the night sky as Santa’s bag holds wishes of Christmas magic everywhere
#vssChristmas
#fairytalepoets
#vssmagic
#vss365
#OurPoetryX
5 months ago
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This would be the line in the cold night air, halos of frost glimmer as garlands brushes stockings awaiting Santa’s gift of surprise
#vssChristmas
#FromOneLine
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#BraveWrite
#loveletters
5 months ago
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With an epiphany of love he hugs his new puppy, Holly, as silver bells cry a carol into the white of winter
#vssChristmas
#fairytalepoets
#OurPoetryX
#BraveWrite
#loveletters
5 months ago
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Enchanting crystal nights dance in the infinite sky as humble mortals slumber unaware of The Magic
#vssChristmas
#vss365
#loveletters
#vssdaily
5 months ago
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I always recall Gran’s words, “My gift to you” as she handed me her book of memories Oh but I couldn’t! Her voice was without regret “But it was written for you”
#vssChristmas
#loveletters
#vss365
5 months ago
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The magic of dreams is a place called home where candle light glows and a goodwill hug brings the warmth of a brandy and security more precious than gold
#vssChristmas
#MoonMystic
#MoonMystic
#BraveWrite
#whispr
5 months ago
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Gran rocked the child gently, it’s just a dream she whispered, But the yulecat was chasing the grinch trying to eat him the child insisted, Come, let’s have hot chocolate & gather round the fire
#vssChristmas
#fairytalepoets
6 months ago
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In a new old fashioned way he & Papa watched in wonder as snow formed ice crystals in the air trying to shine like tinsel the fire flickered as wind blew down the chimney, Papa did you see that? Do you mean the elf?
6 months ago
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Papa placed the neatly wrapped package in the sleigh for the annual mitten party Let’s go! the child excitedly shouted Gran had worked all year & now the 144 pairs were ready, everyone in the village would get their own unique pair
#vssChristmas
#OurPoetryX
6 months ago
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Gran, please read The Night Visitors again! At vespertine, in the glow of the snow, the Christmas tree cloaked in holly stood amongst sugar coated pines… Gran closed the book as the child slept
#vssChristmas
#MoonMystic
#vss365
#fairytalepoets
#loveletters
6 months ago
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Gran, why do we make gingerbread people? Well, when I was little my Gran made them in honor of those she loved & missed in the Old Country, so now we make them in honor of love ones everywhere
#vssChristmas
6 months ago
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