#vss365 A poet’s love is akin to the #sonorous growl of untamed ocean surf You don’t hear but rather feel it thumping against your chest Omnipresent Patient Insistent

Love won't fade in a violet haze as lights go out Our Burning Love got mired in life's mud a tide flows out on health and struggling to breathe you face this battle alone Yet from shore's safety all I can do is send you my best and squint to see whether you survive #Vss365

Storms rolling in... #LakeMichigan #MyPhoto #GreatLakes #Photography

#Bravewrite Life is like an #anecdote sans the amusing part instead there is suffering physical pain at a distance You hurt in silence for that is your way and mine, well mine is to grow silent too let's commiserate without words Love burns brightest in the dark

#vss365 Really #deviant apples Passive aggressive ones spread rot to others in the barrel Making dark legend so great they become immortalized in a Michael Jackson lyric One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch girl, Oh, give it one more try Before you give up on love

#vss365 What happens when the #skirmish is internal? When self actions destroy something grand? How to apologize not eulogize when more words Are simply cruel

"Nothing New" a poem by Robert Frost, at age 46 reflects upon memories winter and aging. It seems perfect to share with you all on the hot summer days we are sweltering through now My favorite lines: "Nothing new-- Though I am further upon my way" #NewEngland #RobertFrost pic.x.com/IUJ7bcFn0t

#Patriot is what winners call themselves rebel, insurgent, guerilla, anarchist, traitor words fed us by power. by the ruling class by the not so free press Every generation has a new Bunker Hill, new Hanoi, new Iran set labels aside, see what is happening self determine what YOU believe #VSS365

At day’s end, the lifeguards take the swim flags down. It’s as much a summer ritual as the sunset itself. Today I caught this lens flare and it just works out. Enjoy…

#VSS365 What, the difference betwixt one #moment and the next? When is your time? When do your OWN dreams take wing? It's not the world that will suddenly become new the difference in life's living Simply needs to be you

#vss365 Under #starscapes above sameness slips from his shoulders, like an ill fitting cloak to the cold sand the well trod path ahead no longer his One thing enables a fresh drink from nascent love’s sweet elixir Each breaking wave shouts the answer Change Change Change

Paris on my mind... #MyPhoto

#Vss365 What pray tell, the limit of your domain? In our #realm of fools & transparent greed to what end does desire seek? If love a discovery ala Ponce de Leon, of roots that entwine, entangling as one. Then how hard will you fight to keep her?

In honor of the full moon tonight - Amores (III) ..."In tense starlessness anoint with ardor the yellow lover..." by poet EE Cummings

#vss365 This Day of Sorrow as if seared into #skin waits patiently as the arc of earth becomes a year Death date remembered more than birthdays were and this grief, this grief like the love that lived before Never fades

Cherokee Proverb . "When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice

For some darkness is comfort the only time we feel free

On a Nashville trail today - and came across this beautiful southern flower. Magnolia trees are in full bloom, and I just had to share its quiet beauty

#Vss365 Eyes close to dark eyes open to dark lingering in bed without a clock which #someone do you imagine which #someone do you see and in your distant home is that #someone Ever me

Love how #ArthurSze sets up the premise: our emotions resemble leaves and alive to their shapes we are nourished. From there, Sze takes us on an extended metaphorical journey for the rest of the page. Brilliant concept, brilliant #poetry writing...

#SenseWrds Foundation laid not in hexagonally perfect rows but built on the premise of trust no longing for a youth or health that cannot be renewed Take the pain bear the indignity of age feel love's warm hand pressed into yours and know your newly confessed love Is Fire

Spending the day in writing reflection - so it feels right to share my shot from a #LakeMichigan sunset...

Remembering the visual lavender fields outside of Marseilles, France, the smell of the flowers and the crunchy dryness of the hard ground.

#Bravewrite Some need reasons to live some find the reason some are the reason The French call this feeling a Raison d'être while romantics like us Simply call it love

#Bravewrite Some need reasons to live some find the reason some are the reason The French call this feeling a Raison d'être while romantics like us Simply call it love

The Casa Blanca Lily - A beautiful trait, in addition to its physical beauty, is that it blooms at night. The favorite flower for those who flourish in the dark...

Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire Some say in ice From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favour fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice ~ Robert Frost

#BraveWrite Like being tattooed by your mind - your visage is etched forever upon my heart Now when you are far away I trace my #stenciled chest You are my last thought at night You are my first thought come morning And that, that... makes me happy

#Bravewrite Burgeoning Love can't bloom unexamined asked to #remember what sadness wants to forget A Turning reached secrets shared with no one become shared for love Their only path forward is lit by embers of the past whether taken or not Known only by her heart

Love is a fire that burns unseen… ~ Luís Vaz de Camões

Golden hour! Let’s see your best…

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

#Vss365 Day interminable and now, silence has victory complete Fragments of her words drift free in my mind like wild cottonseeds on a hot Texas day without preamble In my #defense I, half of a "we" if made of anything is allusion and illusion - yet, yet. Hope remains Ever remains

A quintessential poem of Spring by Wordsworth. Enjoy…

#vss365 I used to believe that with age comes #immunity from certain fears, like aging (already old) or revealing stories never told Then here I am surrounded by posers & climbers their claws sharp, desires bold and realize Am utterly alone and that one I never saw coming

#Photography Share your sunsets!

#Bravewrite Where is #home? At the junction of minds in the intimacy of sharing both dark pasts, improbable futures Of being held while reaching for the sky making love under the stars Do not be distracted by the now Let the moon light up our truer path

A theatre company called #TheaterLiteraTour theaterliteratour.com is doing amazing work performing for sick children in hospitals & hospices at their lowest ebb. Any gift small or large enables them to comfort more children! I donated - gofundme.com/f/theaterlit... Thank you!

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” ~ Oscar Wilde

#vss365 The scar she carries invisible - for it’s a mark of omission, of neglect of silent pain While still a couple on the outside on the inside - She bleeds alone

#BraveWrite How does life morph from meaningful to #marginalized How does this play end and the tragedy stay a tragedy without a triumph? How does the finale never have a conclusion? Who writes like this? Who loves like this? Life makes damn fools of us all...

#vss365 In a moment of truth his silence cast a #pallor o'er their evening his hand grew cold as she pulled away All ashes become dust what was once love flakes brown like rusted trust Then fades away...

A feather on the breath of a horizon Luring his mysterious mind To follow freedom’s quest From this empty Nest My baby bird’s plumage nestled here Next to heartbeats we grew No cages or clipped wings Love unfurled to alight Above Fly Free My Dove🕊️ Fly Free #BraveWrite #vss365 #Poetry #SkyPoets

Waves are our universal loves... #Photography

#BraveWrite Bravery: working at a job for money not creating the art you were born to do Then comes the night moonlight #distills your essence, inspiration forges art that could only have come from you And in the end you are satisfied, smiling Happy to be alive

#BraveWrite Writing of love a #mindset illuminating that which has been left unsaid although, cowardly in its own way For is is not forthright nor bold the writer hides behind word or meaning ambiguity Instead of simply saying face to face "I love you"

#BraveWrite About to sleep #helpline to her heart has closed, after hours Dreams ahead will form without substance like cumulus clouds shape-shift in springtime sunshine You wonder oh how you wonder what colour the grass just beyond the horizon

#BraveWrite #Suspicion creeps like ivy on a university wall gnawing on a clear mind until all that’s left is a hole Where trust once lived

Join me in wishing Aspen @aspenbrave.bsky.social a speedy return to health (and to us). Her pen, wit and wisdom are missed. Many here have been encouraged by Aspen to keep writing, keep creating. If, like me, you are a recipient of her special brand of kindness give Aspen shout out! #Bravewrite

#vss365 Posting beautiful ideas from a locked account no comments allowed it is as if to scream aloud Read me. Hear me. Do not interrupt me This, MY #brand these MY thoughts I am through being a piece I am the whole I stand alone