i will not yield to this hateful condition spawned by my damaged and dysfunctional mind but i will strive with unwavering resolve to overcome my demons do not #measure my worth by my life's lengthy litany of weaknesses but rather judge me by my fight to improve #vss365

peak storytelling the ascent of everest high #literature #vss365 #haiku

jaw dropped in awe when your face I saw 'twas without a flaw yet your icy core i could not thaw it is Sod's #law #vss365

heavy sits the heart contemplating disaster snows soaked #red with blood #inkMine #haiku Stańczyk by Jan Matejko, 1862 The jester, Stańczyk, reading of the loss of the Polish city of Smolensk to the Russians, sits in solitary misery as the court celebrates unaware of the news.

are the architects of the universe answering our greatest question? why are we? yet though they show us we fail to comprehend their celestial intellect the #language of the cosmos is it there before us elegant, enigmatic yet unknowable? do we frustrate the gods? #vss365

One of life's true joys is having shared #history with someone you love. That cute girl who sat behind me in physics class fifty-two years ago, now wife of forty years. The weft of happy memories and the warp of tough times, when we had to dig deep, weave a rich tapestry. #vss365

My father, Heinz, died 25 years ago, and today would have been his 100th birthday. He was a wonderful dad. There is so much I wish I could tell him about the years since, especially the achievements of my kids. I love him and I miss him. ❤️

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The whole family had such fun at the fair. It was a case of #evolving_elations were a result of revolving relations #FoxProse 😬 @FoxProse

from giddy gyri heights to abyssal sulci depths the #geography of my brain a convoluted complexity alas aging axons and leavening limbic lassitude have trapped my memories in neural oxbow cutoffs abandoned & eroded and thoughts of youthful us fade with the passing years #vss365

Coffee time! Choices, choices... ☕😂

don't remember me the #famous fuckup who let down all who cared disappointed all he loved failed this worthless self myself let my ashes scatter in the keening wind my atoms return to the cold, distant stars come for me obscurity wrap me in anonymity don't remember me #vss365

once more she sits with him a sad, silent stranger her once familiar face lost in the formless fog of his decaying mind yet from these coils of confusion she waits with warm embrace "come take my hand, let's #wander_along_gone_years wrapped in remembered love” #FoxProse @FoxProse

a world in turmoil #domestic sanctuary warm refuge from hate #vss365 #haiku

i've oft pondered what makes you you a divine melange of heavenly gifts, an ethereal light illuminating an iniquitous world but such idle speculation is as futile as the old debate of how many #angels can dance on the head of a pin it's all of you no single part i adore #vss365

it's strange but no matter whether we're at the top of our game or we've hit rock bottom floating up on cloud nine or down on our luck there is still a strong attraction between us and you still make my head spin with your #charm #vss365

my proposal was far from romantic at that grungy student party in Leeds in the early 80s The Guns of Brixton belting out on the tape deck a difficult track to smooch to! "get up, you’re pissed” you hissed but you said yes and the #promise we made 4 decades ago holds firm #vss365

caressed by moonbeams your #taffeta silhouette passionate promises #vss365 #haiku

multi-storey me a human with countless flaws #Hamartia Heights #vss365 #haiku

never feel alone never feel unloved never feel unheard there will always be a safe #space for you in my welcoming heart #vss365

it’s now or never a fleeting opportunity do i have the courage to ask you out on date? heart racing, tongue-tied a #moment of inertia alas my indecision extinguishes my dreams #vss365

born of mere cosmic #vagary or the whim of timeless gods light from a trillion galaxies paints a glorious #starscape glittering in mute testament to the panoply of creation yet the wonder it inspires is but naught compared to the miracle of your friendship #vss365

Carpet World worker He's a bit of an expert A true rug #guru #vss365 #senryu

#liminal lovers caressing only in dreams the ache of never #vss365 #haiku

you held me tight in loving embrace against a world i couldn't face vituperative #vortex of my broken mind you rode the storm our futures entwined your grip never faltered in forty years though oft you were blinded by bitter tears can my love suffice to repay the price? #vss365

the once beautiful #realm began to whither and die when the princess rode off to a faraway gentle land and bitter soughing wind replaced sweet birdsong yet though he took solace in her new-found peace he lamented her absence with heartfelt forlorn sigh #vss365

sensuous soft sheets sexual snuggly spooning #susurrus sighing #vss365 #haiku

rivulets of blood wrist #slash draining me of hurt better without me #vs365 #senryu (note: just a poem, all ok, not current situation)

let me peel away the layers of pain that numb your soul and with gentle fingers #scrape off the years of neglect so that once more happiness floods your tender heart which for so long atrophied under incurious indifference and believe once more that you are deserving of love #vss365

my lips on your #skin delirious with desire lustful reverie #vss365

insignificant i'm #small amid starless void my screams fade unheard forgotten by this cruel indifferent universe #vss365 #tanka #boötesvoid

faith and charity failed on the trampoline, but hope #springs eternal #vss365 #senryu #spring

twixt the mountains of mania and the obsidian sea of despair i sail the serene #strait of sanity aft are the mists of regret fore lies the fog of failure below the jagged reef of self-harm but in this tranquil moment i am guided through the dark by the beacon of your love #vss365

the first time we met i shook so much with nerves that i spilled my coffee making my muffin soggy frantically mopping my latte-logged levi’s you walked in the shop hesitantly looking for me your smile of recognition like a #splinter of starshine still lights up my world #vss365

#sunbeam extinguished amid my mind's miasma yearning for your light #vss365 #haiku

intangible love glimpsed in mind's periphery exquisite #vision the lingering scent of hair sweet olfactory daydreams #vss365 #tanka

- Why on earth did you buy a calendar called “Famous Rock Guitarists at the Seaside? - It was on special offer - I can see why... - Who is it this month? - #Brine May #vss365

life's a #glitch (and then you die) #vss365 📷 Simon Stålenhag

i wish... you were a #nudibranch growing on a nuditree i wish i was a nudibird so i could cling to thee alas i am a nudichap as shy as shy can be thinking of your loveliness (but without any nudity!) 😇 #vss365

rampaging king kong! atop empire state building apex #predator? #vss365 #senryu

hateful #toxic trait limitless overthinking slowly poisons me #vss365 #senryu

blissful ignorance is more desirable than bitter #clarity #vss365 #senryu

i think you’ve had the vaccine that mutes my voice to your ears heard #immunity that hides my words from your eyes ocular inoculation one prick was all it took i wish it hadn’t been me #vss365 😢

fingertips than never stroked you laughter that never lifted you lips that never explored you arms that never comforted you tongue that never aroused you kisses that never warmed you #hiraeth hurts my heart yet is far outweighed by the dream of our love that never was #vss365

i’m losing myself in a clonazepam haze i don’t want to leave this #soporific daze beseeching the meds the void to erase exhausted from fighting this mental malaise #vss365

The BASIC Lament of an Overthinking Friend 10 each time you sleep 20 i endeavour to evolve 30 into a better friend 40 yet when you wake up 50 my resolve does #dissolve 60 and i act like a prat 70 i beg forgiveness 80 i hope you’ll absolve 90 i can be better 100 GOTO 10 RUN_ #vss365

you’ve come for me again with inexorable stealth but i sense you obsidian tendrils ready to engulf me in atramental embrace to extinguish my joy in merciless #eclipse i drown in the raven sea of despair clinging to the driftwood of my humanity one day my grip will fail #vss365

dying baby boy pyloric stenosis #scar surgeon gave me life #vss365 #senryu 📷me. At 2 days old I was baptised/given the Last Rites before this operation to save my life. In hospital years later, consultant doing the rounds said it was typical of the crude surgery of 1960! 😂

do distant stars lament the coming of the dawn fading from your sight to gutter on forlorn careless if they shine mourning cobalt morn or anticipate with hope stygian night reborn my light is now but #pallor once you saw me bright look again upon me my hopes to reignite #vss365

with red-rimmed eyes you sit in solitude your silence #sutured from a myriad shards of incessant censure i wish i could unpick your pain and release your suppressed soul and let you soar high into a sunlit sky to feel once more a warming love to fill your empty heart #vss365