Gravity’s a #law, they say, but flying disrespects it. Grammar lays down rigid rules, but poetry neglects it. Greed makes economic sense, but charities defy it. Sometimes straying from the norm works better when you try it. #vss365

my lover, gone south for winter; the north wind sends his condolences #DailyHaikuPrompt #NorthWind #haiku

wishing safe travels: snow and sleet at your back and clear skies ahead #DailyHaikuPrompt #sleet #haiku

in remembrance we say in remembrance we pray but in inaction we stay we stray we never find a way #fastprompt

joy elusive Illucid come and dance with us or we’ll lose it we won’t chose it when we should fear we’ll use us and abuse us ‘til we cower & give in so come take our hand & give us a spin ‘til we give in to the joy that we can #fastprompt

give me back the days & nights when the troubles slipped on by give me back the times we laughed & we frolicked through the grass take these toils & turn them fast so we ease onto the greener paths give us back the days that pass us by #fastprompt

inch by inch shadows feast try to look ahead running but we never reach machine pulpits preach n’ preach creepin in through our cracks turning out wants not needs the mother had our back but we turned our backs on her #fastprompt

a beautiful dream disfigured by reality – ripples in the pond #fastprompt

variations on pathways once ~ pathway left pathway right which pathway is the pasts way for a chance to rewrite twice ~ pathway left pathway right one leads to a past one leads to a light thrice ~ pathways right pathways left pathways fright pathways forget #fastprompt

you share the pieces one by one a word here a tear a listening ear there until what’s left is missing pieces emptied but not filled given but not rebuilt #vssdaily #fastprompt

you’re two lost like an abandoned shoe you’re three stood your ground and scraped your knee you’re four now anxiety forevermore and the patterns keep beating repeating repeating and you’re locked in left needing just bleeding and beating (1/4)

last stop at the end of the line last note at the end of the night and we were almost better in the lights as debtors owing nights together to the lies we’d weathered _______ now dear we can pull up the sheets curl in our feet and admit our defeat #fastprompt

ever, ever, ever feel alone under the weather in the rain and the pain you’re insane just can’t keep it together and it’s strange and it’s strange and it’s strange strangely empty effort to pretend at the end to begin again again within #fastprompt

what waits sky and sea wind in face if only what we’d seen had remained these sails would pass us by ‘til another tomorrow we’d stay and bide the tides for a second tomorrow let’s wait sea and sky stay in place #fastprompt

Welcome to the 191st session of #fastprompt with your hosts @jelaymon.bsky.social and @k----t.bsky.social! We're lost in a vortex of time, caught in liminal space. Send a greeting card or two because we cannot seem to find...a thing.

paradise we’ll touch the sky and we’ll never come down never come down paradise just raise our eyes and look away as we drown away as we drown in ignorance is bliss in lies we’ll find our wish and we’ll seal it with a kiss seal it with a kiss #fastprompt

Welcome to the 190th confection of #fastprompt with your hosts @jelaymon.bsky.social and @k----t.bsky.social! Summer is here, and we felt like celebrating! So come join in on the fun, but remember to wear your sunscreen!

luna gives greeting and the wolf howls in return – each one turns brighter #fastprompt #haiku

Welcome to the 189th session of #fastprompt with your hosts @jelaymon.bsky.social and @k----t.bsky.social! Once upon a time is not so far away, childhood's gone but never gone astray. Please write with us, today!

treasure o’ me heart tarry longer n’er part furl thy sails & voyage not nary a moment shalt be lost skies eternal e’er can stay for hearts twined shouldst never stray #fastprompt

wind in the sails be to horizons you and me all we can see – free #fastprompt #haiku

Welcome to the 188th voyage of #fastprompt with your hosts @jelaymon.bsky.social and @k----t.bsky.social! We've a special trip planned for you tonight! So stay your mutinies and engage in a mostly safe (not perilous) journey! Sorry, hats not included!

serene visions teem wishin’ for the simpler times when all we knew was homework & the tires on our bikes & the late saturday nights with our s’mores under the sky & the twinkle in our eyes as we laughed until we cried #fastprompt

picnic solicitor unexpected visitor turns your lunch to a snack watch your back #fastprompt

Welcome to the 185th session of #fastprompt with your hosts @jelaymon.bsky.social and @k----t.bsky.social! We just couldn't take all the stress this week, so we booked a stay in the remotest cabin we could find. Write with us to stave off the cabin fever!

stranger in the dark something fierce grips your heart is it the fear or something sharp that pierces through your armour leaving something soft unguarded #fastprompt

Welcome to the 182nd week of #fastprompt with your hosts @jelaymon.bsky.social ky.social and @k----t.bsky.social! We went on a late night camping trip, and things are just a bit too creepy out here! Write for the picture, the prompt, or even just be inspired! Don't worry, we won't tell!

detective detective elect to reject the first drawn conclusion your brain might detect direct your attention to each’s clue’s intention to correct the illusions you bought in profusion #fastprompt

on the creep on the prowl a thief without a pal challenger with her own morale sneaking no creaking for her own avail #fastprompt

Welcome to the 181st issue of #fastprompt with your hosts @jelaymon.bsky.social and @k----t.bsky.social! We wanted to go out and accomplish some things, but SOMEONE wrote us into a comic book and we can't get out! Anyway, until we figure this out, let's write for the prompt or the pic! Have fun!

cute they say as a way to sway the worth of the words you play from carefully laid hand to a nothing a nay #fastprompt

Welcome to the 180th edition of #fastprompt 🛸 with your hosts @jelaymon.bsky.social 👾 and @k----t.bsky.social 👽! I guess if we were abducted, you would never know. Maybe we all were? Oh well. Let's talk "ALIENS" shall we? Write for the prompt or the pic and have some fun!

Welcome to the 176th edition of #fastprompt with your hosts @jelaymon.bsky.social and @k----t.bsky.social! Weather is wild, but it's also inspiring. Let's write!

gaze scorched read in morse secrets unbidden hidden in sheer force a future unwritten in half-bitten smittens lost at the source & ended in full remorse #fastprompt

one in thirteen pristine when first seen no unseemly drooping or prickly stems caught stooping just an inner rot soft moving in and about each petalled wooing #fastprompt

Welcome to the 174th edition of #fastprompt with your hosts @jelaymon.bsky.social and @k----t.bsky.social! We have mixed feelings about the holiday of Love...but each their own! Maybe you'll have something else to show us tonight! Write for the prompt or the picture and have fun!

Take a walk. Reflect. In tough times, turn to nature's Inner soul and smile. #HaikuSaturday #fantasyinnature

land of our first breath you failed to protect me & all those lost lonely seen less &repressed waters of our solaced rest gift us erasers of regrets we & all now found in nearness seen freed &fearless will clear perilous hatred &arrogance forge new paths of cared-ness built justly &of awareness

An opinion, released into the wild; Unsolicited. Uninformed. Unkempt. Made the air bitter, irredeemably so. #vssdaily

we can tough this out dead the vines they still entwine spring they'll try again #vsspoem - ENTWINE #haiku

I didn’t see the door… until it opened solid oak vines entwined curling down its well-worn spine breaths wild escaped its widened space hotly beckoning to its embrace deep inside that inner place rocky ruins primordial shrine once you yours now thine mine #vss365 #vssdaily #vsspoem #hbp100

trace the lines to our interstellar chase they’re chaotic no rhyme to the race just surrender to time & space release the controls can’t command our fates embrace the kinetic magnetic interplay dance your cares away & through the stars we’ll play #fastprompt

Welcome to the 173rd edition of #fastprompt with your hosts @jelaymon.bsky.social and @k----t.bsky.social! We hope you like a bit of time traveling, because we built...

#anchor me tight to the land of my birth my mother once prayed but kites dream high tails stretched from the sky and lines that barely keep storms she warned and fears she inhered mirrored in every leap yet yanked by a string to the songs of all things a bird is destined to blaze #vsspoem

first goes the heart weak with bitter chill next the head filled yet empty still last the limbs nothing worthwhile to expend muscles left unfed let feeble cruelty freely spread #fastprompt #muscles

one by one by one swarm to an echoed refrain – hive minds find false foes #fastprompt #hive

Wondering how many of my #fastprompt crew are here and waiting for the switch? Asking for a friend. 😉

thump-thump thump-thump bass booming speaker pounds gasp-huff gasp-huff all consuming enclosing crowd breathe in-breathe out breathe in-breathe out center wholly slowly grounds #vssdaily #speaker