This essay is mental health-oriented, but speaks to all chronic illness management.

I feel my old scars, tokens of trouble withstood: Rebellious talismans. #haikufeels #feel #Emoetry #Rebellious #senryu

So, I had another kooky dream this morning. Capybaras, one a baby, frolicked on a dark green lush front lawn. Then in the distance something big and black came: not a water ox, but a kooky boy moose. (pause) Doc? Explain how this is really about my mom? She wasn't moosical. #vss365 #prompt #kooky

When tackling the fully conical in cross-section one pitches elliptical, skewed between two axes or planes but never committing to either-- A vagarity which applied overmuch to words that one's breath relies on can only lead to elongated despair-- #Grimscribe #Lexiconical despair

Erthine cloak, Abyssal alb, Rocky robe Tucked under Hydrosphere and crust. Seismic in song. Muted from a fiery birth Adjusted in eruption and quake, Nature's nomady, Tectonics of plates Lava streaking its solidity, Erupting through the crust. #WildWalkPrompt #AcrosticJanuary #song #mantle

#haikufeels #cancel Worry cancels joy: One exists in the moment the other, never.

Keratinous skin sheathes our body moisture and sheds to dander. Keratinous beaks bear easy-wipe clawed grins Feathers prosthetic birds' bodies for flight, swim or crested display. I could toot its (rhino) horn more but character count and your attention span limits me. #keratinous #vssthreads

#DeconstructedDogmas Dog De-(con)-structed ma De-instructed enigmas resurrect after a long drought of faith Doubts in the flood spawning, Devouring schools of thoughts expelling their exhausted oughts. Afterwards, thoughts rebuild Afresh, old guilty clutter gone. #grimescribe

#GrimeScribe #January #Writingprompts

#unmissable @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social #vss365 @vss365hq.bsky.social

Being passive's for heavy verbs: lightning-struck oaks still undergoing trauma therapy, their lower boughs quivering, fragile underbellies submitted for merciful quiescence. --- To be active is to act, take action; Being passive is to be passed over by passion. #Emoetry #Passive

The boughs which can be seen are not the real boughs; Or or do I mean the tao? Of perpetual garble I’m queen. My life regular confusion endows, Which by law should rouse wisdom aplenty: dunno just how. Yet, no matter how my mind flakes, I know your Christmas tree’s a fake. #WildWalkPrompt #Boughs

Humbugs bamboozle: made-up preposterousness ruins re-cognition. Elegance of proof Deals readers the cleanest line of reasoning. Philosophy's task is to elegantly suss out what this whole deal is. Sheer magniloquence thus isn't the endgoal of thought, Just draftsmen's jargon. #haikufeels #deal

What the eye or ear finds salient is pronounced to be unmissable. People whom others wish would take a salient cadence off a bridge also might be unmissable. #vss365 #prompt #unmissable

"I'm officially back!" he chirped, plucking seeds from the feeder. "What's the scuttlebutt? Me? chaffinchs don't need visas to migrate, I've got wings. Pure craic, mate Relax. I'm totally chill if ice comes, and if not, I'll just go south." #Emoetry prompt #Official #WildWalkPrompt #Chaffinch

Modern days have alternatives to killing the messenger, wherein the delivery boy is asked to de-livery and deliver a different package. Sexy librarians may also heavily feature. All very implausible: Librarians need bookish foreplay, not instant deliverance. #vss365 #prompt #delivery

Chronic illness To be, yet not be The self one recalls fondly-- Ambiguous loss. #scihaiku www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/chro...

We achieve mischieve, Us mis-stewards of a'souls who bedevil lives. #haikufeels #achieve

#AcrosticJanuary #trance Thoughts halt, Reality weakens Absence of self Nearly sleepwalking Conversations fog out; Engaging on automatic only.

FURRY-OUS FORECAST: Meowing #clouds above, lighting barking in the distance: Mudbath expected. #WildWalkPrompt

STRANGELY #IGNORED Tenderness survives in growth and learning oneself as worthy of love. Abrupt cold silence Made my heart skip a beat: the known, replaced by the strange. Ungentle absence from unknown causes spurs fears of untold dark ends. #emoetry #senryu

AURORA BOREALIS The night began in color, drained into soft grey ghosts undulating across the heavens. Green and pink arrived at retinas only as vaguely hinted potentialities As encircling civilization's blazing footlight blotted out my night vision. #SenseWrds prompt 169

They adorned their adorable smiles with lip piercings and gold caps- Sometimes beauty unmakes itself And converts to more aposemitic style akin to monarch butterflies' voguish flaps, Warning "approach not", like an elf Playing most dulcet tones from harps adorned with human bones. #vss365 #adorn

So many disabled folks have known for the last decade their lives could be on the line against the neo-fascists. I did. In 2024, I worked my already-iffy health to ruin to prevent this present nightmare. I have nothing more to give if I want to stay alive.

Yep. Why language deprivation syndrome has been called a preventable form of intellectual disability. Occurring in infancy, LDS isolates people from language and leaves a life-long deficit in the ability to fully acquire second languages (written English is one) and deepen their theory of mind.

Portraying on a plane Artifice of light by matter Inventively vanquishing the eye: Nonchalant brushwork Taking its time in a downtempo, Illustrating in gleaming color Natural yearnings by the artist's Gestures waltzing over canvas. #Emoetry #nonchalant #JanuaryAcrostic #painting

Long grey birds take off scudding across car-filled bridges to everywhere. /// Long black-necked geese honk in an afloat traffic jam, and taxi take-offs. #WildWalkPrompt #Take-off

#vss365 #symphony After a while the percussion In my heart was joined by strings In full strum and warming woodwinds, until my heart filled with a symphony silently playing Beethoven's 9th.

#acrosticjanuary #dramatic Double your delight Rachet up the rage Arm with humor Make meanies pay Aggravate for attention: (Teens are just pre-you with training wheels.) Intensely proclaim how any Change comes with chaos... Phew. That was a LOT.

#SenseWrds Prompt 168 Spread white & grey in a feathered tsunami Slap out two triangles of pink, smudge Dot-dash yellow and black, elongate, blend in rapid strokes, switching between brushes until a yellow eye, then the rest of the wolf appears…

The Hooded Wood The smattering of light and shadow In green-tinted woods may hikers gentle peace endow And hide wolves hunting in combo for girls in red hoods. #Smattering #WildWalkPrompt

For me cantaloupe creates deep digestive upset-- it's melan-cholic. #emoetry #melancholic #senryu

"Just about anything could set it in motion..The worst part was that there was no way to predict any of these episodes. That mental burden was #traumatic & took quite a while to #recover from.": buff.ly/VDLMIQy #HeartRhythmDisorder #disability #MitralValveProlapse

SPOOKED Slithers seen sidelong-- People reflexively jump, dodging snake's venom. #vss365 #spooked #senryu

PREYING ON HONESTY Small silver-dollar lunaries Inveigled to cocooneries, Lies unwrapped soon arise. Evil’s eager to disguise Nefarious ignominy, Coerce and devoice the choiceless, Extort a pliancy rejoiceless. #JanuaryAcrostic #Silence

What happened on 01/06/21 cannot ever be justified or prettified. On the 5th anniversary of a blatant self-coup attempt on America along with a ongoing coup attempt in Venezuela- only outrage can be justified. End prose. Begin silence. #emoetry not emoetry still totally #justified

The North Country Trail: hike forty-eight hundred miles Well, not that you can.. (Hmm with pit stops at hotels- just three years maybe?) #Trail #WildWalkPrompt #tanka #haiku To North Dakota From Vermont past Canada walk a mere eight states... (continued) northcountrytrail.org/the-trail/ex...

We tried it all-- praying To our guardian snow angels, used glinting icicles as logs; we sparked hope furiously, repeatedly threw in a sparse glowing ember-- but snowfire camping was plainly no go; Water just doesn’t ignite, except in winter mirages. #vssmagic #BSPP49

IN VIRGINIA I can't step outside without stepping on "historic" something or other. Sometimes I grok the Vandals And Visigoths who sacked Rome... #vssmagic #senryu #tanka

I was a snow-kissed pine, If being left cold by relentless slobber and heavy-handed clumps of caresses weighing me down to the ground could be called snow-kissed. #BSPP49

Like loony shivering flakes, Poets wander with foggy breath and snowlight lantern glow, crystal brows gleaming in snowveil haze: chilly shadows turn iced peaks in drifted banks filling silent hollows near warm houses. (For better or verse, never traipse in whiteout conditions at night.) #BSPP49

Going gingerly Embracing empathy Naturally nurturing Telling truths Lightly loving ennobling effusion #AcrosticJanuary

Some want to believe being heartbroken is a melodramatic metaphor: That the stout of heart can endure shattering losses, lost destinies while their tickers remain tickety-boo. (Takotsubo cardiomyopathy & heart arrhythmias say not.) #Emoetry #heartbroken #scipoetry tinyurl.com/bdezfvdc

#vss365 #prompt #oddball #senryu #scihaiku Normal normal norm all normal normal normal norm-ODDBALL!- normal... Oddball paradigm: "(neuroscience) A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant."

In the melting snow One manlike footprint with claws-- Marking the bear-foot. #Footprint #WildWalkPrompt #haiku

Respectfully submitted for your approval, the completed oil painting on Gallery Wrap Canvas, 24” x 36” “The Illusion of Still Water” aka “The Beast”😜😝 #stunday #art #artyear #artadventcalender #artshare #eastcoastkin #blueskyart #fineart #botanicalart Please read alt text 🙏😃

I'm far from clueless-- The universe's full of clues But few solutions. #vss365 #clueless #prompt #senryu

#SenseWrds 167 #haikufeels #tag ON A FELINE CORNUCOPIA Wrinkles multiply: Elegant queens tag-litter kitten hordes, no homes.

(Unprompted) Conversations with Fear Muted frolic and talk, bodies exhausted with grief. Panic attacks, thoughts indelible. Before I realized- I whipped around, hands combat-ready, bluffing him. Yet fear could not outbluff my heart who knew this stranger as its own, just reason with it nonstop.

When longing meets winter, A passionate quiescence escapes deathly acquiescence to emotional hypothermia; redirects warmth back to the soul. Still, the hearth’s ashes smolder, and reflect a spark’s complex shadows As they crumble, ready for new fires. #kry_wolf_poetry Thaw And Ache prompt.