you must start at the end on the first day of last year under the light of the new moon gather all the nothing fill a bowl full of empty light a wickless candle draw the edge of a circle ring a bell with no clapper count backward from zero the ritual to summon a #myth #vss365 #poem #prompt

S𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫. 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐭𝐡, 𝐤𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲. 𝐰𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 #nostalgia. 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡-𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥. #vss365 #poetry #poem #bskypoets #writing #prompt #prompts #vss #poetsofbluesky #skywriting #writingcommunity (Reposted to fix tags)

𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫. 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐭𝐡, 𝐤𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲. 𝐰𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 #𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐠𝐢𝐚. 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡-𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 #vss365 #poetry #poem #bskypoets #writing #prompt #prompts #vss #poetsofbluesky #skydiving #writingcommunity

i said nothing. i just gave you #space. too much‐ 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

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

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

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

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

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

love glows brighter in darkness #passion is not a gentle flame what a beautiful way to burn! #prompt #vss365 #poem #poetry #vss

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

#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

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

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

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

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

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

#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

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 running— but i don't run toward anything now i only run away #vss365 #prompt #poem #poetry

#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

we name the #cyclone like having someone to blame would help us survive #vss365 #prompt #poem #poetry #haikou

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

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

love we try to #conjure with an app’s 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

i will not write a poem using the word #unctuous #galumph was bad enough. #vss365 #prompt #poem

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

see, hear, and feel the world you live in once blind and deaf once naïeve 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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