Peter Ravlich
@peterravlich.bsky.social
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I meddle with words
Such beauty smooth and sinuous with carbon fibre sheen so sussurant through underbrush so subtly do you gleam Your underbody
#fascinates
with vivid splash of red exhorting the unwary keep their distance (or be dead)
#vss365
#prompt
#fascinate
#poetry
#poem
#redbelliedblacksnake
#photography
about 5 hours ago
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I'm the deer to your headlights The cat to your curiosity The fly to your honey Prey to your
#fascinating
gaze What I'm trying to say might indulge in cliché but— you kill me
#vss365
#prompt
#fascinate
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
about 8 hours ago
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Peter Ravlich
Professor Fox ✨🖤🌹 - #vss365 Host March 16 - 31
about 11 hours ago
#vss365
#prompt
for March 26, 2026 is
#fascinate
Today is a day to be cat-like and find your laser-dot friend against the wall while you let it fascinate you. I hope we have your favorite color available!
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So you'd like a tiny
#tempest
, Well I'm hardly one to judge— But please tell me, out of interest who solicited this grudge? I've a sandstorm in a phial for exfoliating skin? Or for something really vile a tornado in a tin? And my fee is just the smile as you commit yourself to sin
#vss365
#prompt
1 day ago
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The knot behind my temple seems gnarlier today It throbs in sympathy with all those things I cannot say When our leaders sow semantics teasing tragedy from crime while
#frustrating
peaceful antics— is it revolution time?
#vss365
#prompt
#frustrate
#poem
#poetry
#amwriting
2 days ago
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Peter Ravlich
Professor Fox ✨🖤🌹 - #vss365 Host March 16 - 31
2 days ago
#vss365
#prompt
for March 24, 2026 is
#frustrate
We all experience ups and downs, ebbs and flows, highs and lows, but don’t let the fluctuation frustrate. Find your path and take those first pen strokes toward resolution!
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Did it bug you that the fine print was unusually dense, or deter you that his patter spoke more silliness than sense? I'm intrigued —not by suspicion that the deal may be a dud but why you'd
#endorse
a contract inked indelibly in blood?
#vss365
#prompt
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
3 days ago
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If I might request a favour, when the storm is at the gate: Promise that you’ll never
#waver
, falter, fumble, hesitate Promise me my love my saviour that entwined we’ll greet our fate
#vss365
#prompt
#poetry
#poem
#amwritibg
4 days ago
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Peter Ravlich
Professor Fox ✨🖤🌹 - #vss365 Host March 16 - 31
4 days ago
#vss365
#prompt
for March 22, 2026 is
#waver
You can shiver and shake, but never waver in your commitment to your craft. Put on your armor and leave the antagonists in your wake! Let’s rise to the challenge like the word warriors we are…
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Indivisible— my feelings for you cannot be cut into core components reduced to raw revelation Please don't think it's because you mean so much when it's just impossible to
#divide
by zero
#vss365
#prompt
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
5 days ago
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Your storms were subtle yesterday and nonetheless blew me adrift But doldrums drive my dreams away I must protest this sullen shift; Adorn the skies with violence vast— I hate it when you're overcast
#vss365
#prompt
#overcast
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
6 days ago
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Between the past— The hearts undone the missteps made and stories spun And future path— The great unknown of loss, or wrath or some renown A mediator contemplates— The fulcrum of such selfish states So know— no matter who or how you have volition in the Now
#vss365
#prompt
#mediate
#poetry
#poem
7 days ago
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A dog begs A man entreats but both desire tasty eats A child asked A god implored but both just hoped to be adored The law instructs The sea demands But you— Your wishes My commands
#vss365
#prompt
#entreat
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
8 days ago
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I do not dabble in despair; I drown in its domain Imbibe the angst that wreaths the air— because you feel the same Unless you'd say
#partake
in some warmer, lighter way? But however you awaken here I am, and here I'll stay
#vss365
#prompt
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
9 days ago
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The only thing exceptional that ever trickles out if I were to be confessional is crippling self-doubt In this I am a master and
#surpass
the average Joe at self-delusion I am faster, better, stronger than you know Still I'd rather you don't go
#vss365
#prompt
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
10 days ago
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A recipe: Take expectation Batter it in biases Simmer over old frustration and distorted memories Add a pinch of self-repression Flavour with a dash of spite Beat with unrestrained aggression Season with a vicious bite Or a healthy substitution: Know the flaw Aspire to more Do right
#vss365
#surpass
10 days ago
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He's a sheep in wolf's clothing the emptiest threat he isn't imposing— but people forget how the friendliest fauna so placid and still when backed in a
#corner
might go for the kill
#vss365
#prompt
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
#writingcommunity
13 days ago
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I wouldn’t call it
#precious
but you have to understand: I don’t think it’s pedantic to acknowledge that this land never ceded, only stolen via murder, via lies is a sadly common case of what it means to colonise
#vss365
#prompt
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
#writingcommunity
14 days ago
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Memory may fail But your beauty endures in That defiant spark
#vss365
#prompt
#bonny
#haiku
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
#dementia
15 days ago
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Kill another innocent— we barely need to wait Another payload falling on another failed state You speak of peace and
#harmony
; your actions speak as well of avaricious evil as you manufacture Hell
#vss365
#prompt
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
#gaza
#palestine
#iran
15 days ago
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You were not supposed To strike me a second time It hurts even more
#vss365
#prompt
#lightning
#haiku
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
17 days ago
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She has a thing for diamonds but they fail to compare to the sparkle of her tongue as it imparts a new idea As for rubies, they are dun— the conflagration is her mind sparking embers in the ashes of the self you left behind
#vss365
#jewelry
#jewellery
#spellbound
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
18 days ago
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She may deign to lay her larvae in the cyst upon your leg— Though she gifted you her hunger but you swatted at her head So ungrateful for such blessings as a royal might bestow— Yet you’ll sleep in supplication when her offspring delve below
#vss365
#magnanimous
#prompt
#amwriting
#poetry
#poem
20 days ago
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I overflow with excess unburdened by desire Secure in this complex— the common call me Sire So bring me heads on platters a bounty of despair I am bored of local matters there’s a world to fuck out there
#vss365
#prompt
#bountiful
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
#nokings
#writingcommunity
21 days ago
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So cursed to sleep Til love’s first kiss I can’t conceive Of all I’ve missed … Are you certain you want me to record that as your reason for being late?
#vss365
#lethargy
#amwriting
22 days ago
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I can't even
#vss365
#prompt
#lethargy
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
#writingcommunity
22 days ago
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His plumage flowed like cataracts that kiss the rock and mist the fall But she, unbowed by such attacks defied the flock ignored his call She stands apart And yearns for wit— She is so done with surface shit
#vss365
#prompt
#cataract
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
#writingcommunity
23 days ago
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No reliquary of a former age Recounted in recursion and in rhyme: Our
#splendor
shattered by a violent rage Our statues crumbling in real time
#vss365
#prompt
#splendour
#poetry
#poem
#ozymandias
#amwriting
24 days ago
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Tide-tossed a small anemone corralled within a rocky pool whose tendrils tear away from me seems something
#timid
as a rule Yet at her prey she'll snatch and sting— the context changes everything
#vss365
#prompt
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
#writingcommunity
24 days ago
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In a
#quest
for "peace" He endorsed and abetted Eighty thousand deaths
#vss365
#prompt
#haiku
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
#writingcommunity
25 days ago
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So
#obsessed
, in youth You seem dispassionate now— Until it matters
#vss365
#prompt
#haiku
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
#writingcommunity
26 days ago
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The raindrops gain speed Seeds of life streaming earthward "Just a drip," she said
#vss365
#prompt
#velocity
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
#haiku
#writingcommunity
27 days ago
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I fall, once again But miss you — is this our curse? Round and round and round
#vss365
#prompt
#orbital
#haiku
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
#writingcommunity
29 days ago
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You yearned for stardom And now the people aspire To know that you burn
#vss365
#prompt
#stellar
#haiku
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
#writingcommunity
30 days ago
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She smiled,
#knowingly
But he’d never seen her smile Any other way
#vss365
#prompt
#haiku
#poem
#poetry
#amwriting
#writingcommunity
about 1 month ago
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The hammer fell once And
#crazed
this shallow surface with flaws that endure
#vss365
#prompt
#haiku
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
#writingcommunity
about 1 month ago
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A repulsive clown corruption so
#blatant
that you know who I mean
#vss365
#prompt
#poem
#poetry
#haiku
#amwriting
#writingcommunity
about 1 month ago
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Our mediated human hopes and dreams infested with abstraction and decay enshittifying all until it seems that life is dopamine without delay In base indulgence do we rut and weep then serve our
#beastly
brain another taste and incrementally, excuses creep to abrogate volition in this waste
#vss365
about 1 month ago
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Inside the box you'll see a sun behind it shines another one; Beyond the suns a mirrored face that screams into the void of space: That all it knows and all it lost is bounded by this tiny box
#vss365
#prompt
#mystified
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
#writingcommunity
about 1 month ago
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What goes up, they say must then come down— but you transcend such grave assent You buoy, you bounce where others frown and mountains fill the vales you rent
#vss365
#prompt
#bouncy
#mountainous
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
about 1 month ago
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Ward me with your arrogance curse me in disdain ensorcell me by utterance embower me in pain Hex me for the hell of it wrap me round a charm summon shadows from the pit bid them do me harm Hate me, hurt me shower me in spite I stand in love and love dispels the night
#vss365
#prompt
#enchanted
about 1 month ago
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It's nothing— nearly nothing a blip that's all a tiny spanner snagging on the gears a splinter under the fingernail a lost laugh a needle in a pie a lost love barely an inconvenience in perspective— too
#minuscule
to say anything
#vss365
#prompt
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
#writingcommunity
about 1 month ago
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And should my fingers
#kiss
the keys coalescing memories into word and scheme and rhyme these echoes of a former time Can the brush of skin on skin the breath below the ache of sin condense again the we we were: a truer me a living her?
#vss365
#prompt
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
#writingcommunity
about 1 month ago
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What doesn’t kill you may make you longer but I long to rewind— before these wounds wound merciless around your life to extricate scar from skin— to let you shine again
#vss365
#prompt
#wound
#amwriting
#poetry
#poem
#writingcommunity
#trauma
#ptsd
about 2 months ago
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This sullen flame which smoulders imperceptibly alight offers
#lambent
liberties to those purveyors of the night Its potential is unbounded though it sputters in the dark Conflagration only checked by symbiosis with the spark
#vss365
#prompt
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
#writingcommunity
about 2 months ago
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A writer without writing is a haunt without its
#ghost
And when the words are reticent is when they're needed most So Write
#vss365
#prompt
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
#writingcommunity
about 2 months ago
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You gave him something to cry about but it wasn't the frustration overflowing your firmament to rain in punctuated bursts upon his smaller self by hand by wooden spoon by belt— the
#pain
came later when illusions died
#vss365
#prompt
#pain
#poetry
#poem
#amwriting
#writingcommunity
about 2 months ago
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Peter Ravlich
Daniel Cummings
about 2 months ago
Your
#vss365
#prompt
for Feb 3 is
#pain
"After great pain, a formal feeling comes – The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs – The stiff Heart questions 'was it He, that bore,' And 'Yesterday, or Centuries before'?" 'After great pain, a formal feeling comes', Emily Dickenson #3
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You see, she said it isn't right to bifurcate the whole to denigrate the physical and elevate the
#soul
; You see, she said with eyeballs and receptors and a brain— and every revelation is complicit with the same: Your self your only frame
#vss365
#prompt
#amwriting
#poem
#poetry
#writingcommunity
about 2 months ago
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Peter Ravlich
Daniel Cummings
about 2 months ago
Your
#vss365
#prompt
for Feb 2 is
#soul
"Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone I came up with one thing And I don’t believe I’m wrong That nobody, But nobody Can make it out here alone." 'Alone', Maya Angelou #2
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