#vss365 "What's brought about this sudden #caprice in you darling?" "It's the rapture." I hear no trace of humour in his words. "THE rapture?" "The rapture of our wonderful life, our family, our home, it's intoxicating." He turns to me, misty eyed. "Next time you have edibles for breakfast, share."

#vss365 I used to dread this time of year, a time in childhood that was full of pain. Therapy has taught me to #reinvigorate my world instead of following the old patterns, set by my father. Now, I bring colour in, get my knitting groove on, cook stodge. I slip into Autumn like a warm bubble bath.

#vss365 #perhaps some of you could point me in the direction of a writers only platform where politics is banned? I left Twitter a couple of years ago because it was relentless, only been here a month and it feels the same. I know the world is shit but I want to escape into fiction now please.

#vss365 #perhaps we should all just take a moment, breathe deep, relax the jaws, drop the shoulders, think about your own personal happy place. Now, come back to your reality and try to remember kind words are for everyone, including yourself, start there and radiate that shit far and wide.

#vss365 #catastrophe came In the form of collision Families broken. #haiku

#vss365 All this time I should have been calling my children my #extrusions. Oh dear. It's been a long day, I'll get my coat!

#vss365 On the mantelpiece sits a vase full of her mother's favourite flowers, freesias, lilies and #stock, the scent fills the room, building a layer of memory the mind can't make alone. On the floor lies the corpse of her mother, almost a jigsaw, it's own scent adding a new memory, a happier one.

#vss365 Breaking news ** In a show of unprecedented #synthesis the USA has taken advantage of the president's visit to the UK and built a wall across the Atlantic coast so he can't get back in. Women have taken over the country and everything is turning out rather splendidly, who would have guessed🤷

One wish, one sweet kiss Melting into #synthesis Fantasising bliss. #vss365 #haiku

The wind #conspires with Winter, stealing Autumn's reign Leaves gone in a day. #vss365 #haiku

#vss365 Just because you have free will doesn't mean you have free #rein to lord over other people. Which is honestly a shame. If I had my way...well let's just say there'd be a lot more kindness in the world. My reign of terror would make sure of it.

#vss365 I don't mean to #flinch When you press your lips to mine I'm just, so tired, love.

#vss365 The #potential for #style errors has always led me to dress with absolutely zero regard to what anyone else might consider stylish.

I was just in a pub in Birmingham (uk), a group of men came and sat next to hubby & I, they'd been at a whisky festival, 1 of them was wasted. We all, apart from wasted guy, were chatting & laughing. Hubby went for next drink & wasted guy got shirty with me because I'd said something to 1 of the...

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#vss365 We say we're #exhausted because we do too much, we're too busy, there's too many demands. In truth, we are exhausted because we don't do enough of the right things. I long to be exhausted like a toddler, from play, art, exercise, not from needing more money to pay for more things.

#vss365 It never ceases to amaze what is #bearable. So many times I've been asked in life, how do you cope? How do we not? As long as there is breath The only choice is all that is unbearable.

Found a crack In sea bed Where a grumpy Serpent lives So selfish, It’s Sure Thing He will take More than he gives Not much of A housekeeper— Abysmal His abyss A trail Of burger #wrappers Lead me to A precipice Stand there In a diving suit & listen For his hiss #vss365

For my mind, sweet dreams to harden the arteries cloud the brain stop the heart. For my mouth a bar: so bland I might choke down the #wrapper for a hint of texture of flavor of joy. I suffer this moment for minutes more at the terrible interminable end. Not the worst deal this year. #vss365

##vss365 Before her final breath Gran had handed Joy a box of chocolates, it was uncharacteristic but sweet. She took them home, funeral plans spinning in her head. She sat at the kitchen table and pulled the shiny #wrapper from the 1st sweet, an eyeball fell out, she screamed, it rolled away. 1/2

#vss365 What use is #power to the everyday folk. I would be embarrassed and ashamed to tell others what to think, say, read, write. Those ugly-souled little almost-always-men who sit on their money mountains are sociopaths. Greed is an addiction like any other, we need global political rehab.

#vss365 One step All it would take One step The #doorway To the rest Of her life That ice cold Hold on her arm Her shoulder Round her throat In the pit Of her swollen belly He would never Let her go The ice cold Hilt of her Grandfather's dagger Would be Her only chance She turned "Coming love."

#vss365 If We kiss Like that again There's A #chance I won't be Tempted To go Home ever again I might live In this space Between soft lips And hard hips Forever Blissful as A bird Flying above everything Above love I might sleep In the crook Of your arms Your heartbeat Ticking gently For me.

#vss365 She poured over the #articles looking for clues, things she might not have been told, hoping for a bolt to wake her from the nightmare. Nothing. No news is good news, she heard it so many times over the years. It didn't make sense until the body was found.

#vss365 With every passing hour I am more #conscious of my own impending mortality. I have no fear of ceasing to exist on this plane, yet I am consumed with the possible hows that may bring my death. How painful. How slow. How sudden. How wild. How lonely. How do I say goodbye to my children? How?

I was listening to you speak but distracted by the timbre of your voice and my lips longed to be pressed against your neck to feel vibrations the music emanating from your mouth brave & strong vulnerable caring gentle loving and now if you please a whisper I cannot elude my need any longer #vss365

#vss365 Judge me On my figure My face My politics My religion My #arbitrary choices My choice less Looks Judge me Quickly Take my moral code In one breath And spit it out In yours What little You could ever know Of my truth Would steal Your ridicule And split Your hopeless soul. Judge me.

@carrie60.bsky.social I've missed Irish gran! Hope you're well.👋

##vss365 Memories that I thought would last forever #elude me now. Good times and thankfully, bad, have taken rest in the muddy marshes, carried away on the backwater tide, out to sea with every other drop of humanity which ever lived. I can only hope some choose to stay until my body joins them.

The past and future, hidden within the present; illusions of time. #vss365 #past #haiku

##vss365 Summer has #past Faster than the last Each one gathering pace In a one time only race To my final Fall Where I will rest With golden leaves From sleeping trees To dance an endless ball Beneath the sky I came from.

I #yearn for youth When I haven't slept From the weight of life Grinning as it sits On my chest In the dark I yearn for freedom From my own mind When I wake Aching in every Molecule Of my being Wondering why I yearn for connection But i have forgotten The ways Of words. #vss365

#vss365 Uncharted your hands explore my skin with a cartographer's care each fingertip a constellation creating life if you leave I'll d i s in te grate into uncharted space adrift in the orbit of loss. #constellation #poetrycommunity #poem #poetry #poet

I said goodbye to wrath Set it free upon a wave Without it I was lighter Without it I was saved.