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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
about 1 year 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 days 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
6 days 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
22 days 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
24 days 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
25 days 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
26 days 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
27 days 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
28 days 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
about 1 month 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?
about 1 month 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
about 1 month 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
about 1 month 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
about 1 month ago
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Stepping into a winter wonderland he held Papa’s hand tight, too excited to move he gazed at scene, Where did they come from he whispered, Papa grinned, Maybe you should ask them
#vssChristmas
#fairytalepoets
about 1 month ago
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I’ve never seen the moon cradle teardrops on the beach and then retie promises in the wind
#WriteMap
#2WordPrompt
#FromOneLine
#MoonMystic
#BraveWrite
3 months ago
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Monday morning one hour late rough beginnings, we’re falling between words like lonely dreamers, while shadows of grief rise leaving threads of remorseful mysteries to untangle
4 months ago
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Another time I’d take a chance but to have seen so much death of humanity’s virtue I cannot lay bare my soul to the eventuality of the storm coming
#vss365
#MoonMystic
#whispr
#fairytalepoets
#inkMine
#WriteMap
371
#FaithMap
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#OurPoetryX
4 months ago
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They were hot to touch those uninhabitable spaces where catastrophes loom and humanity is found not in a priest’s benediction but in the entrances and exits of love
#vss365
#fairytalepoets
#inkMine
#FromOneLine
391
#2WordPrompt
#firewords
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4 months ago
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Another week passed, tirelessly somehow knitting better days into assurance, always searching for a journey’s end full of mystical compassion sparkling underneath the darkness
4 months ago
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This wasn't what she wanted, alone among deceitful lies empty promises wrapped in gut-wrenching screams, love ones living in the shadows
#MoonMystic
#vssdaily
#FromOneLine
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#inkMine
#WriteMap
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#BraveWrite
#OurPoetryX
#vssmagic
4 months ago
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He said the light shone through it beautiful and not to be ignored but audacious hope melts away among the detailed game of unpredictability, an unholy crusade begun when even sometimes you are but a ghost
5 months ago
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None of them had labels to warn us? now true discernment began in the quiet hours as I risked hope, stray thoughts of frightened words trickled in, as silent wishes of what about yesterday offered little solace
5 months ago
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Rainbow’s mosaic on sunbeams threaded wings, a redeemed encounter when love was certain and fear a distant memory
#whispr
#vss365
#OurPoetryX
#loveletters
5 months ago
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Sleep wouldn't come, beware the candle’s mystical cosmic devotion to tender nights, it’s the price for shadows of your powerful memories, no longer confident but obedient to loss
5 months ago
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It was just a box of pain uncovered: war haunts with wildfire ghosts laughing at the starvation listening to ubiquitous cries for rescue but always it ends in secondhand news nothing learned no will to change
5 months ago
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It’s not mischief was the point, enthralled in squeezing life’s good purpose out, now we bake in the sun of despair where on the horizon freedom is sometimes an echo
#vssdaily
#2WordPrompt
#MoonMystic
#BraveWrite
#vss365
#OurPoetryX
#vssmagic
6 months ago
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Intoxicated shadowed hazy days of danger, your iridescent sapphire eyes never wavered, for in the chaos of a world gone mad it was just us till the end
#vss365
#inkMine
#BraveWrite
#2WordPrompt
#vssmagic
#OurPoetryX
#MoonMystic
#vssdaily
6 months ago
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It took two tubes of glue, some swearing, faces crimson with determination but together with the faith of sparrows we completed our mission
#vss365
#FromOneLine
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#2WordPrompt
6 months ago
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It’s not a conundrum even from a mountain view, it’s more than balancing the scales of injustice, it’s tears for the dying & bread for the hungry Museums are full of humanity’s folly
#vss365
#BraveWrite
#2WordPrompt
#inkMine
#OurPoetryX
#vssdaily
6 months ago
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Three copper pennies without purpose appear as tiny embers kindled in a lost constellation of paradise in despair looking for the promised moonbeams of hope
#FromOneLine
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#vss365
#WriteMap
353
#MoonMystic
#inkMine
#vssmagic
#loveletters
#vssdaily
6 months ago
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I wait for moments of mellow onyx auras, maybe today or tomorrow only to be robbed of paradise by loud whispers of nothing
#vss365
#MoonMystic
#vssmagic
#2WordPrompt
#loveletters
#vssdaily
#BraveWrite
6 months ago
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Before the crack of night terrors our analog lives were sleeping ‘neath rainbows, not stolen by a trail of wormholes based on fear where innocence is erased by monsters
#vss365
#MoonMystic
#vssdaily
#WriteMap
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#vssmagic
6 months ago
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The whisper of taffeta to soothe the voiceless cry when mercy melted to rain and the alchemy of souls drowned in the soil of anxiety
#MoonMystic
#vss365
#BraveWrite
#2WordPrompt
#FaithMap
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#loveletters
#vssdaily
6 months ago
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It was hard to interpret and catch the prism of truth when interwoven with lies that spiral and twist in the wind of deceit or so they said
#FromOneLine
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#vssmagic
#BraveWrite
#vss365
#WriteMap
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6 months ago
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I've forgotten too many things in the valley of conflict pausing as hope awakens only to observe the heel of injustice upon the last escape to freedom
#vss365
#2WordPrompt
#BraveWrite
#vssdaily
#FromOneLine
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#inkMine
#OurPoetryX
7 months ago
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Crushing waves of loneliness finding treasures of moments in ruin pretending jewels of yesteryear can render us whole again but it’s the cost of going home
#OurPoetryX
#BraveWrite
#MoonMystic
#vssdaily
#loveletters
#2WordPrompt
#vss365
7 months ago
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It’s the color of time catching shadows where depths of darkness fume and progenitors’ mountainous strengths of shame, glow beneath emblems of destruction
#MoonMystic
#OurPoetryX
#WriteMap
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#2WordPrompt
#vss365
#inkMine
#vssmagic
#loveletters
7 months ago
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The wounds are rich the need to breath, trying to touch the stars but all the edges of me swept into a vortex of pain are unable to create a realm of calm, I weep
#2WordPrompt
#BraveWrite
#WriteMap
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#MoonMystic
#loveletters
#vss365
#inkMine
#vssdaily
7 months ago
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The string snapped slowly, I hear the power of the cascading bundle of letters written but never sent, it’s self revealing when daylight fades to midnight rapture and my soul dances briefly to knowing what could have been but is not
7 months ago
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Together with shadows of the past stay especially close to me with healing spirits, shape us as strong oaks deeply rooted in principles of love & fragrant with resolve as daffodils
#MoonMystic
#2WordPrompt
#vssdaily
#inkMine
#vss365
#OurPoetryX
#loveletters
7 months ago
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No vines of softness enfolding only roadblocks to equity after the stream of iron cruelty scraping against the heart of justice, we reject the wine of iniquity
#vss365
#OurPoetryX
#BraveWrite
#vssmagic
#loveletters
#2WordPrompt
7 months ago
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Weighted memories against my soul, resulting in comfort and pain mixed but things never cast aside like a box of feathers
#BraveWrite
#vssdaily
#loveletters
#2WordPrompt
#OurPoetryX
7 months ago
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Four was too many sorrowing heartbeats under my skin, in a rush to identity my splintering, can’t you see returning to me is not an omission of reality but solace for my soul
#FromOneLine
375
#OurPoetryX
#loveletters
#2WordPrompt
#vssmagic
#BraveWrite
#vss365
8 months ago
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As the sun and moon collided wandering passengers tangled in thorns gave final deference: waiting for courage is ill advised
#WriteMap
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#inkMine
#whispr
#loveletters
#vss365
#BraveWrite
8 months ago
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No hopeful wish casting rescues our prodigious memories of what might have been but there amidst the rubble of what is, we place our deepest longings
#inkMine
#2WordPrompt
#BraveWrite
8 months ago
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One last time we stenciled on roof tops hidden patterns of courage no retreat or returning only numbering spirited memories of liberty
#inkMine
#loveletters
#vss365
#BraveWrite
#vssdaily
#2WordPrompt
#vssmagic
8 months ago
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They caught sight of themselves in the mirror, and laughed remember when birds still sing in the rain it’s only the beginning now the predator in the castle bans words in magazines
#FromOneLine
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#MoonMystic
#2WordPrompt
#vssdaily
#BraveWrite
#loveletters
#vss365
8 months ago
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Lost in the silence of you
8 months ago
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Wounded Healing Echoes of longings, white noise fills the silence, visions of yesteryear’s swan-song leave the heart empty of tears, bereft is the reality
8 months ago
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Eclipse of Silence Devastation: to be old, poor, or sick with awareness that no value is assigned, what could change things, dangers of indifference & clueless, time is slipping away, generations will pay the cost
#MoonMystic
9 months ago
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