#vss365 #sink #haiku #tanka The old kitchen sink Each small scratch, dent, flaw & scar Imprints for our lives Faded sixties formica Once a housewife's new red pride ❤️‍🩹

#vss365 #ink #haiku ##tanka Never thought you would ink up your skin with tattoos Is this your black swan? Try as I might to unsee My tattooed ballet daughter 🖤

#vss365 #arm #haiku Linking arms for love We are one as ever was Forever faithful ♡

Highly recommend. What a life. And beautifully told.

‘The Body Politic’ - Chapter 13 is posted! Myld is introduced to the place where ‘the deed’ will be done, and Phibber learns of someone who can investigate the killings A pinch of 'Yes, Minister', a dash of 'The Walking Dead', and a heaped spoonful of 'Discworld'. www.wattpad.com/story/406305...

#vss365 #hand #haiku Hand-me-downs we wore Free spirited 60s kids Generation Jones ♡

#vss365 #sand #tanka You ask of these tears My back turns to wind torn waves Sand grit still reaches Conveying past grains of truth I'd rather not recognize

Does his warped brain ever stop scheming, wheeling & dealing, & warring?!

#vss365 #pen #tanka I inherited my dear mother's fountain pen scratch scrawling my heart in black ink like the bereft orphaned adult-child I was

#vss365 #man woman-child 14 lives with parents who fight man-child 18 left home she needs him her family of insecurity he needs her she's not a racy girl he's sensitive raised to respect their union will be blessed distant promise church bells the kids just see love their sky is blue

Today, a federal judge told Trump to stop building his ballroom. Come review the opinion with me, because it's a sort of smackdown for the administration and you'll want to understand what it means! Our house. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Airports are in chaos, energy prices are skyrocketing, stocks are in free fall, Iran has killed 13 Americans and injured 200 more and is striking our gulf allies, but…

#vss365 #conduct #haiku This conduct contract Squashes spontaneity Too straight laced for me

Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

This honorable Swedish man stands for #NoKings day 💙🇺🇸

Wishing everyone a joyous NO KINGS DAY 3.0- Thank you to everyone across the globe for your participation in the Resistance... an inspiration to us ALL!!! 🙏 The signs you're carrying are off-the-charts perfection. 👌 7 months until the Midterms! 🗓️ #NoKings2026 👎 👑 #AccountabilityIsComing

Best message I’ve seen all day. #NoKings

#vss365 #illusive #haiku Fool me once I'll stay Deceive me twice I'll bristle Thrice illusive; gone 🖤

#vss365 #revolve #haiku This revolving door A life seeking truth yet more I turn full circle

Dash Seals, age 85, from the legendary Seals & Crofts, has passed away 🙏 youtu.be/8Dw8R6kIKyw?...

#vss365 #fascinate I adore thee You floor me I'm yours My thespian friend With me to the end Act IV; exit green door Our time is now Let me woo thee You may fascinate me Black curtains no more Encores don't matter Audiences will return You and me meanwhile Have 24 hours to burn 🔥

#vss365 #mediate I sit alone on an imaginary panel And mediate my own blame game Do I practice kindness & fairness Or condemn my historical myopic decisions I stare hard upon my own reflection Baiting her for reaction There is heavy silence Slowly she speaks You're alright, girl You're gonna be ok.

#vss365 #surpass #tanka expectations low dignity shreds held aloft no barbed words find me your deal your cards; what's my fate will wounded love surpass hate?

My question since he took #47

#vss365 #warmth I knew warmth yet you shut me out in the cold I knew how to nurture protect guide & teach yet you laughed at my shortcomings I knew I missed you too much back then Helicopter parents, they said I wanted you safe & warm You wanted to feel the cold; take risks I let you & you did ♡

#vss365 #warmth Give me a day in the Park Blessed with mellow sunshine Wrapped in winter warmth I'll hire me a filly & trot around the lake Like I'm fifteen again Stop for an impromptu performance Promising NY Ballet Co ingénue Shows off grand arabesque en pointe J'Adore! Balanchine's Serenade ♡

Brilliant.

Hello Bluesky! 👋 It’s Josh here. Excited to finally join this space and connect with you all. Just a quick note: this is my only real and official account on Bluesky, so if you’re looking for me here, this is the place. Looking forward to sharing music and more. Thanks for being here. 💙

#vss365 #corner #haiku My back to the wall This corner is claimed for war You start; I'll finish 🖤

#vss365 #spellbound She was your fantasy waiting on you in the canyon country store they sold everything there dope, coke, incense, bread Wysteria her name like the flower like the intoxicating scent you were spellbound she knew ~ don't mix your fix in Laurel Canyon ♡

@mrjoncryer.bsky.social Trump's #clownshow

#vss365 #magnanimous #tanka Put on the fine act You won't want to lose; save face But of your co-lead? Magnanimous performance! This thespian bows for thou 🎭

#vss365 #cataract Darling tabby Loyal as they come You came to us as no one else's choice An institutionalized adult mother-cat Overlooked for months for those pretty kitties Tracy We kept your name & you loved us all the same 'Til 15 years on Cataracts hearing loss Kidney failure Love let you go 🌈

#AmListening #Shostakovich www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dYx...

#obsessed #vss365 I wouldn't call it an obsession but more manifested in fear When control is removed with no humanly possible way of interfering with the outcome One can still obsess with the finality of it all Whilst simultaneously falling apart Just like the earthquake did to home & heart 💔

Neil Sedaka is my second cousin. He and my mom grew up together. Perhaps they’ll connect again. Neil Sedaka, Singing Craftsman of Memorable Pop Songs, Dies at 86.

#SatSplat sun blushed walls frame this pale beauty her open, unflinching gaze draws me deeper beneath duskangels’ trembling wings secrets spill like lonely shadows tender flower midnight starved wreathed in sorrow's black fire her petals closing one by one until we disappear

We're stressed and #obsessed over wealth we possess But death takes away every dime; A much better measure of what we should treasure Is how we have spent our life’s time. #vss365

#vss365 #mystified I want to live again in a mystified state In utter curiosity of my surroundings To be in awe Free of cynicism Prejudice Unconscious bias Let me be 15 again Growing up in a small country town Two rivers A mountain Two parents Friends Horses Dreams Early kodachrome memories ♡

To the NY boy we respect on BlueSky @mrjoncryer.bsky.social ♡

🗣 #BraveWrite Prompt Words: 2/19-2/25/26:🐧 Feb. 19: Patina Feb. 20: Roots Feb. 21: Discovery Feb. 22: Wings Feb. 23: Flip The Script Feb. 24: Dealbreaker Feb. 25: Eyesore 🕊️ “The Bravest Thing You Can Be Is Yourself!”©️

#vss365 #minuscule this minuscule moment a poignant shiver of emotion floats down like a feather pirouette reaching my eyes delicately it reminds me anything can change pain is transient feelings are fluid love & memories hold true for now ♡

#WildWalkPrompt #withers Leaf curling on the tree Like the curling fingers of an old hand The veins of each Did their job Never no glory It's the turning of the world It's the turning of the season As the mother of us all Reaches to remove us Place in her basket Past our prime We are Eden's withers

My mom sent me a link to this bookshop website that curates interesting and unusual books. Great looking selection, here. societyforunusualbooks.com

If you like making love to music, put on a live album. That way, you get applause every two to four minutes.

#vss365 A minor correction to the scheduling. Since @daniellestejust.bsky.social will be dropping the word at 6am PT (that's 2pm GMT), her first prompt will be tomorrow. Please feel free to use any of the words from the list until the word drops. I'll catch up tomorrow.

#vss365 #kiss #haiku promise of a kiss these virginal teenagers parked up lovers lane 💘

I am the sun You’ll never feel To the #dark #lacuna you run For any light~will kill I am the #RareDisease DNA chose you 1 in a million receive Only way out~is through I am the moon & stars In a vespertine garden you bloom Glowing from within~not from afar #BraveWrite #vss365 #PoetryCommunity

#vss365 without a warm voice in my head can't keep those inner demons from feasting they know all my soft places know just the right words "uncomfortable" "weird" "pathetic" "unwanted" and they tear me to pieces until there's nothing left just a #lacuna where i can store my darkest thoughts

My love, we face a crossroads~ A lacuna that breathes life unto itself widening and distancing the space between us with silence Or we leap into the fear head first on the gamble that life turns out just as we’d always hoped ~M. Mann #vss365 #prompt #lacuna #poetry #blueskypoets #photography