Punched #Disgruntled customer Cuz I’d too much To drink Who knew drinks I had at lunch Would take me O’er the brink? Well, you Did try to warn me— I punched you too, I think But now’s not The time for you To freak And make a stink I’ll tell you “I’m sorry” Once you bail me out The clink #vss365

I'm sitting under a weeping willow winds whirl above in disgruntled skies I'm chewing on bitter melon a root digs into my thigh I thirst but I don't know why I am sitting under graceful willow sweeps in the wind making guesses about the shapes of clouds eating something new & there's no you #vss365

Ellen was just #disgruntled. The heat didn't help, it nagged at the insides of her thighs as they rubbed and the creases of her joints as they stuck. "Can you move your bag?" "Just pick another seat there are plenty." "I want to sit here." Ellen clicked her tongue. There was always one. #vss365

🗣 #BraveWrite Prompt Words: 8/6-8/12/26:🐧 August 6: Aquatic August 7: Extinguish August 8: Rattan August 9: Beachcomber August 10: Sterility August 11: Mariner August 12: Rat 🕊️ “The Bravest Thing You Can Be Is Yourself!”©️

🗣 #BraveWrite Prompt Words: 8/13-8/19/:🐧 August 13: Psychiatrist August 14: Sail August 15: Alabaster August 16: Dockside August 17: Fringe August 18: Linen August 19: Intel 🕊️ “The Bravest Thing You Can Be Is Yourself!”©️

A #grain of sand In the eye And my oh my You can't see But it scratches It claws You can't see But it gnaws And I paw At iris' till they bleed My hands stumps That concede To the grain That eroded my mind Made me blind Wasted my time And for what? A taste of the sea That drowned me. #vss365

they say time heals but some days it feels like time isn't moving that nothing's improving and I'm just waiting for a grain in the hourglass to drop the pain the grief the questions the anger is the only thing that won't stop nothing for a new day to bring when the pendulum doesn't swing #vss365

A #grain of sand Passes through an Hourglass as a Hand holds a key #vs365

She feels a #pull To the other side A darker tug From deep reside In the shadows In the dawn When eyes awake Are forced to mourn Please she begs Just a sign Please she begs ~A reply? But silence meets Her empty bed And tragedy Fills her head Another day A smile forced -She feels a pull #vss365

My heart gave a #lurch when I saw my Dad across the supermarket. And another. And another. It’s been three years. You’d think I’d have learned he isn’t here anymore. It’s just that everyone in this town has his face. Mum always did say he got around. #vss365

To #defenestrate his clothes. That is the question. Whether tis nobler in the end To suffer the agony of boxes Or to fling freely and with force Perchance to laugh... "Sandy please I didn't mean it!" "You didn't mean it? 3 times?i it's your Xbox is next!" Sandy didn't mess around. #vss365

#vss365 Loveslick your mouth a small nightbatch of almostkisses I taste yesterday’s you mixed with tomorrow’s we ferment, preserve, become this sticky glow not sweet not bitter just batch after batch of us learning how to spread ourselves until we're all that's left of what I was. #batch

He wore a disgruntled expression and hair stuck out at odd angles. Without a sound, he raced to one corner of the living room and then the other. “I swear he is hyperactive.” She sipped her martini. “A real speed #fiend. Should we take him to see somebody?” “Nah. Just a regular kitten.” #vss365

Suspect My upstairs neighbor Might be Some kind of #fiend I just heard A scuffle Punctuated By a scream So I find My courage Ring his bell & now I’m cursed For what I found Ain’t murder— But horror So much worse His one man show I’m forced to watch Endlessly Rehearsed #vss365

I was always a better to be loved than but boy have I lost light kept doubts & fears at bay but now they crawl & feast like fiends at my courage the wisdom of age has not fortified my resilience a man in this world is supposed to be aggressive but I've fallen timid approach me tenderly #vss365

"He's a #fiend you know." Blake gave Charlotte a withering stare. She'd always had terrible taste in men. He'd wished she'd find someone nice. She deserved someone nice, but with their father he supposed it wasn't a surprise. "Steve is different." "He breaks legs!" "He's in orthopedics!" #vss365

Fevered winds of madness Carried the #gift That broke human minds Causing the drift The sunflower petals Wilted away The voices of bones Drew minds astray A #distant cry echoes Across raging waves Open mouths salivate Begging to be saved Giving blood to gods Who kick them like dogs #vss365

"Surprise! I didn't know if you would like it." "Gosh, you shouldn't have spent so much." "I wanted to. It's a #gift." "You always make things complicated." "Maybe. But I hoped you would smile." "I did, most of it on the inside." #vss365

You are love to me All I ever wanted Mixed in a touch of ecstacy I wouldn't have you any other way All my dreams came The day you walked into my world You are my love Forever entwined in joy A wonderful comfort to me You are everything and more to me #poem #poetry #love

The #periscope bobs across the surface of #distant time, slid between the years like a wedge. Garo bears witness. Betty stands against the ocean, dried and desolate. Only the salt remains. That's why she's there. Shards of bone clatter in her wake, and she begins the harvest. #BraveWrite #vss365

#Distant. That's what you are Caught between sentences Sighed between breaths Like the lost step Between two mountains Obscured ~Distant As the moon Orbiting a world Already lost To the sun Already bound To its path Unyielding As the gravity That holds us Paused in time ~Untouchable #vss365

🗣 #BraveWrite Prompt Words: 6/11-6/17/26:🐧 June 11: Dastard June 12: Iris June 13: Rhetorical June 14: Footsteps June 15: Hollyhocks June 16: Periscope June 17: Speculative 🕊️ “The Bravest Thing You Can Be Is Yourself!”©️

I don't know what else to do I've lost joy in things That are new It's breaking my heart Yearning to be free In a land that tears me apart Wanderlust is #consuming She niether deals in joys Or absolutes in dreaming Let me leave & take good care In the grieving I'll surely leave behind #vss365

"I looked up flights to Ireland." "A waste of time. It doesn't exist." "They had prices and everything." "Placeholders. Like sample text." "People post photos from there." "Green screens are common." "My cousin lives in Dublin." "She told you that. From her apartment in Ohio."

Cut away the pieces A lock of hair, tucked Perfume, kissed ~inhaled Every piece #consuming me I am a mosaic A shattered glass -half formed painting Set to burn At the hands Of love whispered pleaded begged ~Silence Endless Echoes In futility So why Can my mind Not silence you. #vss365

Ari bore her all #consuming gaze. Every breath devoured hope. He knew he didn't love her, knew it when he breathed the scent of her whimsy collected in the borrow of her heart. Knew it when she sighed in sweet contentment. And most of all he knew it now, as well as he knew she loved him. #vss365

#Mother's kiss they called it. It grew wild and ropey across the stonework, with rose scent and poison needles at its height. Harper loathed the plant, never understood the contradictory nature of its being. Then they came. She covered the #deadfall knowing safety came with it's embrace. #vss365

There are #horrors Sketched on iris' Pulled taught Across skin Mapped in smiles And tears There are horrors Blessed and burned In the hearts and minds Of us all There are horrors I hide Horrors reside Deeply inside And still~ Horror Has me tucked Feet Above my bed. #vss365

Adventure calls like a dulcet piper, luring me to the unknown away from the crowd of incompetent thoughts convincing me to stay in the ordinary— as if it would be less stressful to remain stuck I long to swim below the surface where mystery still exists & stay there evermore. #Vss365 #evermore

They called it a #horror. Demon from the depths. Shadow. It lived in the corner of your eye. Skuttled from the light. Cowered in the echo of a forgotten window, open, just a crack. I found it. Cold and damp. Scented of old newspaper and fear. Horror. Pfft. Not yet. But it could be. Yes. #vss365

There's sea salt in your hair Sticking to the roots— Unspoken words Caged behind our lips I wish that you would #cradle The back of my head Lay me down in the ground Put me in my place I can't help but yearn For the shape of you & all the nonsense That makes me laugh #vss365

After Mom died, I started going through her house for the estate sale. I found an old #cradle in the attic. It was black, as if burnt, and there were deep scratches, like from an animal, on the inside. Stranger still, my name was painted in faded rust red on the bottom. #vss365 #microfiction

First #vss in 9 months written. Already spotted a typo. Man I'm out of practice 😂

I #cradle you First in my arms Tender and sweet Loves first true touch Then in my heart Closely Everyday A treasure I know Will never lose It's shine My sweet Long our the days We have together I bank them up Each tethered Under key -To hold me still When days Are once again My own.

#vss365 Been away for some time just wondering who is host etc so I can get back in the game ❤️

I used to think that falling was only in matters of love but as I danced and whirled in this world my head in the clouds that holes are everywhere some obvious and gaping others covered in creeping brush and you will fall away from all that was good it will hurt it is dark it is lonely #vss365

Tonight I sit, waiting, On the eve of your 1st birthday. My heart is full, and heavy Joy and sorrow interwoven In restless dancing My little love, you grow Beautiful and wild Daring darling I'll be here Your heartbeat on the monitor Still an echo in my ear Little fingers on my heart ~etched ❤️

They taught her to #heel To hide what's real To stay in place To hide her face For shame But she grew wild Bramble sweet With thorns and fruits Hidden deep And delved within Her rogue mind She took their treasures And robbed them blind. #vss365

#drawing #sketching drew the first moment my mum held my daughter, her granddaughter, at the hospital for her birthday. ❤️

there is a winter without the bright white of snow without frost shimmering in the morning independent of Earth's tilt and the promise of return it has been long since your sunshine fawned over my skin and I cannot keep the cold from my memory and I wonder will I ever be warm again? #vss365

#vss365 #Lace that shoe walker of an endless road Such loosened up wire might trip you out before reaching next steps Any ways aren't attached to slope or stairs within distance as polemic ahead after behind slowed by obstacle alerting and diving 👣 Nobody warns about fractures❗

The #lace -like web got larger. Over the past few weeks, it obtained parachute proportions. Some days she waited, convinced that only Shelob could have woven it, but then the diminutive spider would wander forth, spinning merrily. The step creaked. He had returned. #vss365

Soft, The skin, like #lace. Fragile untouched porceline, a museum piece, uncatalogued, and languishing behind, not glass, but a cardboard, shard filled crate. Looking for someone with a crowbar. To come set it free. #vss365 #poem #quickwrite #poetsofbluesky

#Lace, too, this awkward morning, frilled by a spring bird come early, along with the smell of green thinking about it. The November roses are incorruptible saints by the door. #vss365

let us not waste precious moments looking back through the veils of time no #lace of tears from misplaced dreams nor obfuscated views of faded years as long as love exists there's a way for your heart and mine. #vss365

the pale skin of winter sky black-laced by bare branches #vss365 (lace)

stood uninvited masquerading as a statue black #laces combat boots green hues ready to go to battle for his love she held a garland made of silk made to choose a suitor she chose the statue he came to life applied vermillion on her forehead rode her out -rev #vss365

whether loose and unsecure or crisscrossed & woven tight our lives are laced intertwined sometimes there are tangles & knots I leave them be for even in disorder it is better to be touching turning and looping around you for together we are fabric and apart I am but a string and a strand #vss365

We tangle like #lace Clinging to each other Fingers parting Like webs clinging Till finally we split Holes appearing Gaps in memory Like drunken kisses Spread across As many years As there has been ~Love And all is aged To vanilla yellow The soft scoop Of yesterday Still kisses At my heart. #vss365

I wear a #cloak of lies It hides me from your eyes No, it wasn't true But what choice had I? My heart was used And I was drowning Falling down I had to find a foothold Some way to climb Up and out Of this pit of sorrow No. It wasn't love. No. It doesn't hurt. It never did. You were right. #vss365