VZJ
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i can't quit you like cigarettes or the booze or self-pity i won't stop we are an obsession there is something worse than unrequited love it's mutual love with the one who destroys you i was someone else before i met you before i gave up on everybody else even myself
#vss365
#prompt
#quit
#poem
9 months ago
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S๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ฐ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ซ. ๐๐ข๐๐งโ๐ญ ๐ค๐๐๐ฉ ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ก, ๐ค๐๐ฉ๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ. ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ง ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ
#nostalgia
. ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ญ๐ก-๐๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐๐ง ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ฌ, ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฅ.
#vss365
#poetry
#poem
#bskypoets
#writing
#prompt
#prompts
#vss
#poetsofbluesky
#skywriting
#writingcommunity
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๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ฐ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ซ. ๐๐ข๐๐งโ๐ญ ๐ค๐๐๐ฉ ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ก, ๐ค๐๐ฉ๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ. ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ง ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ
#๐ง๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ข๐
. ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ญ๐ก-๐๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐๐ง ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ฌ, ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฅ
#vss365
#poetry
#poem
#bskypoets
#writing
#prompt
#prompts
#vss
#poetsofbluesky
#skydiving
#writingcommunity
3 months ago
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i said nothing. i just gave you
#space
. too muchโ enough for you to drown in. enough for me to breathe in. i close the door behind me. because leaving is easier, staying would have meant disappearing.
#prompt
#poem
#poetry
#vss365
#vss
3 months ago
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she could hold my hand she could see my face she could hear my words but she does not know my name she does not know who I am she does not remember me a lifetime of memories gone but what hurts most of all is that mine do not
#end
#vss365
#poem
#poetry
#blueskypoets
#blueskywriters
#prompt
#grief
6 months ago
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the
#noise
does not stop! the constant drone and hum and buzz everyone connected all of the time always shouting always screaming when did quiet and silence and stillness become a crime?
#vss365
#prompt
#poem
#poetry
#vssdaily
#blueskypoets
#poetrycommunity
#skypoets
#writingcommunity
6 months ago
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we don't measure
#distance
in space between or time apart we measure by the ache and the pain in our heart
#poem
#vss365
#poetry
#prompt
6 months ago
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the colors have grayed and the collar is worn the
#threads
have frayed and the sleeves are torn this jacket still keeps your smell and i still whisper your name as if grief could break this spell but it hurts just the same
#poem
#vss365
#poetry
#prompt
#grief
6 months ago
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she's too young to know what silence means will i be there inside her dreams? a
#gossamer
thread of memory the only thing that's left of me my only wish is one more night to hold her close so I can stay she'll grow, she'll laugh she'll live, and she'll love but i will fade away
#vss365
#poem
6 months ago
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love glows brighter in darkness
#passion
is not a gentle flame what a beautiful way to burn!
#prompt
#vss365
#poem
#poetry
#vss
6 months ago
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the second hand does not move but i can still feel it ticking your heartbeat my
#sempiternal
metronome keeping time with my grief
#vss
#love
#loss
#poem
#vss365
#poetry
#prompt
#writing
#micropoetry
#blueskywriters
7 months ago
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#infinity
is within me i swim along its endless edges i float above its shifting surface when i feel brave i dive beneath the waves the black tide drowns the dark but the deeper i go the less i belong to the air someday i may decide not to resurface
#vss365
#blueskypoets
#prompt
#poem
#poetry
7 months ago
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i watched her as she sank her tears were an ocean of grief her cries drowned out by the waves i could have reached for her i could have helped her swim i could have saved her but i turned away i'm
#guilty
she deserved so much better. but all she wanted was me.
#vss365
#poem
#prompt
#poetry
#vss
7 months ago
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shut your eyes, my little light. the stars will keep you warm tonight. sleep, my love, the night is kind. i'll hold all the things you leave behind. be still, and calm, don't mind my tears. let my
#lullaby
wash away your fears.
#prompt
#vss365
#poem
#poetry
#grief
#loss
#love
#melancholy
#vss
7 months ago
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every day that i spend with you is one less day we have together one less smile one less embrace one less
#kiss
i can't bear it always counting the moments knowing i will lose you someday
#prompt
#poem
#poetry
#vss365
#vss
#heartbreak
#love
#loss
#death
#together
7 months ago
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let's call it
#progress
. we killed the trees, dumped plastic in the seas, and built our hollow machines. the world made in our image see how it withers
#prompt
#poem
#poetry
#vss
#vss365
#trees
#seas
#plastic
#pollution
#climate
7 months ago
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a new
#onslaught
starts though no spears pierce hearts you can sheathe your swords we will wage war with words! log on, plug in, tap your screen all fodder for the war machine soldiers bear no scar or mark bodies intact - souls gone dark.
#vss365
#prompt
#poetry
#BraveWrite
#writing
#micropoetry
8 months ago
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#bloodlines
are fiction a lie mankind tells itself to separate and divide we are all the same leaves branches and roots the fruit of one family tree all that we have to live for we share with the living let the dead be forgotten
#vss365
#poem
#poetry
#prompt
8 months ago
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i remember when i was young i used to
#chase
after things the world was simple and new and i always craved more of it i'm older now still runningโ but i don't run toward anything now i only run away
#vss365
#prompt
#poem
#poetry
8 months ago
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#liberation
is wildfire burning everything in its path only with nothing else standing amid piles of ash can something green arise something new something that could not grow when light could not reach it is so fragile and it must grow quickly a new fire is already raging
#vss365
#poem
#poetry
8 months ago
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we name the
#cyclone
like having someone to blame would help us survive
#vss365
#prompt
#poem
#poetry
#haikou
8 months ago
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TIMBER the last
#oak
tree was felled and it was carved into a desk where a man signed papers that approved more cutting his grandchildren will ask him why the air tastes like smoke he will say "close your eyes and imagine a forest"
#vss365
#prompt
#poem
#poetry
#trees
#climate
#earth
#enviornment
8 months ago
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you called me stray but my teeth were clean my ribs uncounted i used to be many things hunger, fear, shadow, growl but you gave me a name you shrank me into a syllable like a curse it unmade me this is how you kill wild things not with destruction but with a
#collar
#vss365
#prompt
#poem
#poetry
8 months ago
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love we try to
#conjure
with an appโs allure swipe left, swipe right, to find something sure but love is not pixels, it's not neat or pure. love is the mess, the ache, the pain, and the cure
#vss365
#prompt
#poem
8 months ago
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i will not write a poem using the word
#unctuous
#galumph
was bad enough.
#vss365
#prompt
#poem
8 months ago
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we crave contrast no joy without sorrow no courage without fear no hope without despair do you find the harmony? slipping between states every sweet sip of life laced with poison or do you abstain from true feeling sparing yourself from harm and hindering your spirits
#vss365
#prompt
#lace
#poem
8 months ago
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see, hear, and feel the world you live in once blind and deaf once naรฏeve but now you see now you know you smell the fear your nose stings you taste sour lies your lips pucker but the world is the same nothing has changed now you just see it for what always was
#vss365
#prompt
#pucker
#poem
9 months ago
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you built this? this sprawling labyrinth that confines you? full of dead ends and narrow halls and high walls to keep others out? to keep yourself in? to echo against your own walls no great monument
#vss365
#prompt
#labyrinth
#poem
9 months ago
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be careful make no sudden moves - the last thing you want is to frighten them SO BE LOUD! MAKE NOISE! LAUGH, YELL, AND BOAST! for you mustn't startle them they fear the silence and the quiet but most of all - they fear those of us who don't
#vss365
#prompt
#silence
#poem
9 months ago
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you were ice sharp, smooth, and solid all the way through if i held you too long you would bite if i left you alone you would melt you had rare clarity but you were cold and brittle you slipped through my hands and i watched you crack all your pieces just evaporated
#vss365
#prompt
#ice
#poem
9 months ago
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i barely noticed you at first but you started to linger you settled into my corners you built up on all my surfaces i could feel you in the air i would cough and choke when you were suffocating me i would wipe you away but you always came back come back dust to dust
#vss365
#prompt
#dust
#poem
9 months ago
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the algorithm looked everywhere there is nobody else no one here for you for $8.99 we can look again so you quit and you don't and you're fine and people ask and you tell them and they stop asking you're all alone here and if you are not okay then you are the problem
#vss365
#quit
#prompt
#poem
9 months ago
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i can't quit you like cigarettes or the booze or self-pity i won't stop we are an obsession there is something worse than unrequited love it's mutual love with the one who destroys you i was someone else before i met you before i gave up on everybody else even myself
#vss365
#prompt
#quit
#poem
9 months ago
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VZJ
M. Belanger
9 months ago
Alive I watch the news -- wars disasters corruption unprecedented storms I ask the Ancestors: Has it always been this bad? Their answer: We are dead Our troubles passed Now is always the hardest time to be alive.
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Poem
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fear the esoteric the darkness the dangerous your skin crawls your heart beats your spine tingles fear you can not explain it you can not ignore it you can not stop it it came from you it belongs to you it is part of you it is esoteric it is yours it is you fear
#esoteric
#vss365
#poem
#prompt
9 months ago
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box of crayons bright red and bold blue worn down to bare stubs green split in half from indelicate treatment orange and yellow halfway gone, wrappers torn the plain colors stay untouched and perfect they watch as the beautiful crayons twirl and dance across the paper they wait
#poem
#poetry
9 months ago
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keep scrolling the next post is what you need, if you scroll long enough you will see everything tap the glass again, one more comment you've almost said it all head bowed eyes low hands together not in prayer blue glow on our faces, we're all here together wondering why we feel so alone
#poem
9 months ago
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she was Sarah her smile her laugh her charm she said she saw the good in me i think i believed her i fed off of her love like she was candy a taste or two then handfuls and more i gorged myself after i was full i took from her the last pieces just tasted bitter she was
#sweet
#vss365
#prompt
9 months ago
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two rats they claw and bite and squeal and grapple beneath the glow of a neon sign a small slight is all it took to set them completely against each other so i watch and film and post and share for the other rats to see so they watch and comment and joke and argue for the other rats to see
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