Rachel
@rachelnewcombe8.bsky.social
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Psychoanalyst, teacher, &
#vss365
Ambassador Narrowing the gap between theory & life as lived.
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The moon refuses to wane Dancing with evening clouds Defiantly brilliant
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#wane
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Memories of you Still breeze through Miniscule yet ephemeral
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#miniscule
about 17 hours ago
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Peter James Martin
1 day ago
Self worth
#miniscule
I struggle to find myself Be someone you love
#haiku
#vss365
#poetry
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David Middleham
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motion;
#miniscule
nuanced confession; subtle clandestine the science and magic of the minutae maelstroms in the macrocosms of attraction the prose of eyelashes the serendipity of hand brushing skin the choreography of light i adore the matter and miracles of you
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Andy Perrin
1 day ago
amidst winter in minuscule moments I see everything
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#miniscule
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KerreeAM
2 days ago
The absence of leaves the quiet city streets of Nature's dark absence The moon finds a space He walks by rows of closed shops of midnight Melbourne a plain tree lingers passion fleeting on King Street He feels emptiness
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#passion
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Valentine's Day walk Past passion surfaces Memories of love
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#passion
2 days ago
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Bethany Samaddar (on a mini-break)
3 days ago
#vss365
#kiss
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Daniel Cummings - mini hiatus - recouping
3 days ago
Your
#vss365
#prompt
for Feb 14 is
#kiss
"And when he has fled - like a squirrel - his laughter still vibrates on every leaf, and you can see, startled by a bullfinch, the Golden Kiss of the Wood, gathering itself together again." 'Faun's Head', Arthur Rimbaud #14
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Daniel Cummings - mini hiatus - recouping
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Here are all the
#vss365
prompts, just in case you missed one. 1
#shadow
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#soul
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#pain
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#wound
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#lambent
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#ghost
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#blood
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#pale
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#bones
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#ache
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#touch
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#dark
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#lacuna
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#kiss
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I tucked the memory of your kiss in my mind and visit it on days when sorrow arrives. Remembering, a sweet salve.
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#kiss
3 days ago
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Between you and me Words sometimes fail A lacuna of loss
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#lacuna
4 days ago
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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts
5 days ago
#vss365
#poetry
It’s a fusion Of colours Like rainbows And shadows Grey and black Specks of white That work Together Setting alight My imagination Though pages Of a book Are black and white My mind sees more That’s how the magic works
#Dark
or bright
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Almost Morning Hope Floats Through Dark Sky
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#dark
5 days ago
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Andy Perrin
6 days ago
February storm touching the falling sky in cold shivers
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#touch
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The absence of touch scorches a memory in her body.
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#touch
6 days ago
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Woodley Dowar
7 days ago
the
#ache
of first breath tomorrow is yesterday here we are again
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#senryu
#writesky
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Andy Perrin
7 days ago
the ache of each regret in a poem
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#ache
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Daniel Cummings - mini hiatus - recouping
7 days ago
Your
#vss365
#prompt
for Feb 10 is
#ache
"I wish to run my trembling fingers long Through the black tangles of your heavy hair, To plunge my aching head amorous of Your skirts as into secret, perfumed bowers, To breathe your scent as from pale withered flowers" 'Le Léthé', Charles Baudelaire #10
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You wrap our ache in yesterday's newspaper so we'll know what day it stopped.
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#ache
7 days ago
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Skeletal Memories Melancholic Bones
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#bone
8 days ago
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Worries pale then return Scorched with crimson doubt What happens now?
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#pale
9 days ago
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Jenn R-J
10 days ago
north wind an aluminum can picks up speed
#DailyHaikuPrompt
#haiku
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Andy Perrin
10 days ago
snowfall recirculating the blood of earth
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#blood
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Nation's wounds drenched in blood. Transfusion stat.
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#Blood
10 days ago
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Gabe Valentine ~semi-hiatus~🐬🌊🏝️🧜🐳
11 days ago
humanity's wounds are your wounds and they're my wounds just trying to heal while we keep fighting our wars some outside and some inside
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#wound
#tanka
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invisible wound scorched psyche unnamable scar
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#wound
11 days ago
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The lambent flicker of morning fog Dances on the mountain lake shadows Reflections sparkle silent and still
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#lambent
12 days ago
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Tracy Shawn
13 days ago
The Memory of Ghosts My mother’s ghost Paints the past Between dreamworlds Where I reach for her hand on a blustery spring day A lifetime ago
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#ghost
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Rachel
14 days ago
Ash drifts on dusk wind sere fields remember the fire green shoots test the rain
#7syllablesentence
#prompt
sere
#haiku
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Mark Bird
13 days ago
we are daffodils kings with bright corona crowns spring does not last long
#7syllablesentence
#haiku
#senryu
#daffodils
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Peridot
14 days ago
Some hearts ache not from breaking, but from waiting…..
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Elvis Dylan
13 days ago
#vss365
memory is a
#ghost
that doesn’t haunt - it whispers, calling on us to remember
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The ghost withered and lost its ability to haunt. Now we can play hide and seek without worry. Freedom.
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#ghost
13 days ago
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Daniel Cummings - mini hiatus - recouping
13 days ago
Your
#vss365
#prompt
for Feb 4 is
#ghost
"But that isn’t all. Some of my ghosts are planets. Not bright. Not young. Spiraling deep in the dusk of my body as saucers or moons pleased with their belts of colored dust & hailing no others." 'Ghosts', Kiki Petrosino #4
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Daniel Cummings - mini hiatus - recouping
13 days ago
#vss365
He tried to divine the purpose of people without heads. Filing into book stores, when they cannot read. Fingering vintage vinyl, when they cannot listen. Running their hands along wooden statues, unable to express their grief. Not
#ghosts
, just people who have lost touch with life.
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Migs
14 days ago
~the dance~ history tends to linger the joys fade away but the
#pain
, it festers until it explodes again raw and agitated anger seeking fear nervous drumsticks fly time ticks forward to the mating dance of war
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My alphabet spills onto the sidewalk letters splayed scattershot making it mpossible to describe the pain
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#pain
14 days ago
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She keeps the thought to herself. When walking in New York City she knows that some buildings have a soul.
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#soul
15 days ago
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add a skeleton here at some point
16 days ago
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Jenn R-J
16 days ago
frozen lake a human chain spells out SOS
#SenryuSunday
#senryu
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Ash & Ink
16 days ago
#vss365
#shadow
#poetry
This went from a relationship poem to something very different. I think it is still part of a bigger work, but for now. .. Here is a
#poem
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NYC Morning Message Sidewalk Shadow
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#shadow
16 days ago
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Gréachán
21 days ago
where soft winds sigh the swallows fly upon the cusp of light
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Gréachán
16 days ago
Oh soothing descent of evening rain
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Elvis Dylan
17 days ago
#vss365
My crazy old grandfather talks to his tired shoes the same way he used to talk to me - slow, patient, and full of the whimsical nonsense that somehow
#soothes
everyone and everything that listens.
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For @blsamaddar our host, and all
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writers. "If through all the madness We can stick together We're safe and sound The whole world's just turned inside out and upside down" Stories & songs have the power to
#soothe
. Carly Simon, Safe and Sound
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YouTube video by Carly Simon - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atPq0S5pCSY
17 days ago
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Gabe Valentine ~semi-hiatus~🐬🌊🏝️🧜🐳
18 days ago
The thrum of humanity.
#vss365
#7syllablesentence
#thrum
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Sheila Burpee Duncan
18 days ago
today’s
#vss365
#prompt
reminds me of the good old days twittering our thrums
#thrum
#sorry
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Cassie Premo Steele
18 days ago
My wife used to tease me that when I get angry, my childhood Minnesota accent comes out. Now she knows it’s the sound the heart makes as it thrums its way to justice.
#vss365
#thrum
#Minnesota
@nicollewallace.bsky.social
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The thrum of January snow falling serenades my morning walk as the sun promises to warms the mountain. Simplicity soothes.
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#thrum
18 days ago
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