Writers belonging lies in thresholds of air. In doorways. In the halt. They root themselves in living & leaving. On the horizon that stings & the proximity that steadies. Their chosen ground is the almost illicit border where worlds blur. Or begin. #vss365 #prompt Dec 11 #illicit 🖼️ Liminal Gallery

From scraps of silence trembling beside sudden bursts of thought, a story we have long feared begins to gather. Farewell to the hesitant preludes! Make a place for a raw soliloquy. What was stifled has finally found the ribs to break through. #vss365 #prompt December 8 #soliloquy #art ~ Lily

My muse Gives me life Brings me death Deals with gloom And shows me love They give me words They let me #soliloquy Through a pen And it’s ink And yet none of this Do they know #vss365

Reform accepted £9 million from a former Boris Johnson backer & crypto-multimillionaire. Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines. Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.

A #chivalrous fellow named Nate Hit a snag on the way to his date A duck with no feet Tried to cross the main street And freeing the fowl made Nate late. #vss365 #limerick #limerickoftheday #writersofbluesky

Diving in My bathyscaphe, ‪Deep sea’s‬ ‪#Aphotic‬ Depths‬ Searching Mythi‬c Sea monsters‬ And ancient‬ ‪Pirate chests‬ I see A sight‬ So surreal‬ As I Just sail along‬ ‪4 British Blokes‬ ‪In yellow sub‬ Singing 60s songs‬ Maybe I have‬ ‪Sailed too deep‬ And stayed down‬ ‪Way too long‬… ‪#vss365

Soul drenched under Some kind of eclipse lunar #Aphotic eyes that hypnotise I feel myself morphing Into something Brighter You and I Such as the night basking In the moonlights’ steady glow Through the darkness Our bond stronger, shines #vss365 #poetry

Yes we all matter, it all #matters Then why must words be so cruel Suspicion resting on our souls Seen and unseen Every dot every dash Like morse code Every taste every smell A smile an ouch Every sound every bit of silence Yes yes we all matter, it all matters #vss365

#vss365 Working the reskin farms was dull but cushy, compared to most other security gigs. Raised from exowomb to adulthood and then cryostored or shipped off for harvest, left their wards predominantly in an induced coma. They patrolled the racks for signs of leaks or waking. ... #learned

How Autumn & Winter Conspire to thwart Summers’ soothing shine With snowflake falls & decaying pitiful leaves Never #learning They”ll feel the crisp sharp bite Of Springs’ pied piper birds Singing notes On new petal flutes Coming alive Again and again #vss365

#vss365 #Reflection #poetry #poetrylovers

frost nestled in eaves bereft of nightingale's song truth echoes along #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #senryu

Nights had run long for weeks now, but, ultimately, day and night were ephemeral concepts when you spent most of your time in space. Dylan caught the #reflection of his face on one of Magpie’s consoles and mused that it was a good thing he wasn’t in a proper military. He looked a mess. #vss365

I see in my #Reflection Vivid mirror of my peace But something Always mars it Sure as sunrise in the East The ripples Never bother me Not one bit in the least I build my joy On gratitude A choice my own to keep So even when The gruel is thin I claim it as my feast #vss365

Rory had made many mistakes while playing the game. Upon #reflection, most of those mistakes were largely his own fault, but that was the beauty of the game. Mistakes weren’t fatal. Well, they quite often were, but mortality in the game was a rather fluid affair and being dead temporary. #vss365

#vss365 #reflection If your greatest wish For your desired future Is a stellar career as a seer Then you need to acquire An inquisitive eye A crystall ball And know when to step Into the looking glass Telling futures Changes them Tricky to do more than stare And see more Than your own reflection

Milky opaqueness #reflects the low rising sun on the surface of the frozen mill pond. I recall the May flies skating there, on warm Summer days. Just my reflection. #vss365

Nora kept staring at her #reflection in the mirror. "Are you sure these fake-lashes are not too much? I chose a modest pair." Bob assured her that everyone at the party would love them. She deserved a night of glam. #vss365

LIVE LONG, LEARN HARD. Coincidence or #timed? Benefit of the doubt? You didn't see the signs? You didn't suss him out? So cynically I smile, but years are on your side, next time won't be the same, with your eyes open wide, you will prevail. Next time. #vss365

—began writing song lyrics age 7—each city lived—i hung-out with musicians—i share lyrics to my new song ‘liquid-lemon’ —READ MY MUSIC TALE⤵️ 1 min➡️ tinyurl.com/dww-song #song #lyrics #music #songwriter #musicsky #90smusic #rock #art #indiemusic #bluesky #nature #substack #philosophy #indieartist

The ships screamed overhead, within the atmosphere of the moon, and Dylan checked the auto-chronometer. Fast, but simply not fast enough. They needed to eke out more speed, more manoeuvrability, more everything, He called up and told them to do it again, #timed once again until they got it. #vss365

Love is more than words More than the number Of rose petals in a bunch Love isn’t #hard When you understand The language of your heart #emoetry

Your aura Tho far In waves Across me Bounces Tho you’ve No clue It’s not #Measurable This love In mere ounces #vss365

Lungs swell up gasping for air Heart leaps Into the back of the throat No air it chokes That’s fear in #action Fear of losing a dream That can’t ever come true Blossom raining monsoon I don’t fear spiders or ghouls I fear losing my dreams of you #vss365

shrouded in darkness I was you were immersed in light we didn't have any #options love took us by surprise I couldn't bear to be exposed in your world without bars you forsook your shining armor to become my midnight dark knight #vss365

Second fiddle, never solves the riddle. Spared no care, felt optional or spare. Tucked in the boots, gave two hoots. loud mouth shoots grew new skin When choices are thin, always choose within. ~rev #options #vss365

Elements of imagination Bring with them destinations Full of invisible desire Little dotted islands conspire Between mind and hearts Where we do not drown In #reality’s murky waters #vss365

Hogan understood the #reality of the situation, but, like Dylan, he kept it to himself until they were alone in their racks at the safe house. The war was going badly. All the odds pointed toward annihilation for the human race, but that didn’t matter. All that mattered was the trying. #vss365

Nora frowned in front of the mirror, "Every time I push past midnight, #reality reminds me I’m no longer 18. I've got dark circles, wrinkles and the worst posture to show for it." "Yes, I can see that," Bob casually replied. #vss365

Such a brutal suit Of heavy armour, at a Height of seven feet. #2WordPrompt #Suit/Height #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @jason-h-abbott.bsky.social

Score! Goal Opportunity: Always Love. #tHartigan #vss365 #goal

#vss365 to draw a breath’s an aspiration to keep on breathing that’s the goal #goal

#vss365 I still like using a #number of smilies like :-) and :-/ to convey feelings And one time I tried to convey an indeterminant feeling by using this :- But it looked like something else, so I didn’t.

I was born of a dark intellect I told ‘em all As I sought to see out Of the dark pit I was left in The sinister pitch of his voice Cackled mock hysteria But I was born of dark intellect I bit at his jugular He died the sting Of my #eldritch truth #horrorprompt #vsshorror

#vss365 Traceability was key. From donation egg to womb, to farm fed and plated, the entire lifecycle was encoded in one simple #numerical barcode. Food and comfort were both carrot and stick. Obedience was rewarded with larger portions and warm and dry hay. ...

Running to escape time How insane Humankind Turning Churning Burning For what? A dime Chained to a clock Tick-tock Tick-tock One #number after another All in Death’s circle Line up Fill your cup Life starts Uh, where? A place few ever go That breath called Now #BraveWrite #vss365 #PoetryCommunity

Whenever I see a picture/photo of Kash Patel, the words SHART/SHARTED, immediately spring to mind.

Would you like a dose or two of Chloroform? That's the clue. #Number #vss365

Doesn’t really matter The #number of our lives The hope in the stars told me so We could come back or go on As silk worms, crickets Even three eyed monsters It’ll always be us Soulmate dimensions Endless limitless #vss365

#vss365 The band disappeared after a night which went down in the annals of Heavy Metal legend, with a body and occult paraphernalia left behind. They went unseen and unheard of for decades, other than #mythical sightings in the darkest realms, on a quest to find the most evil sound...

November drags as drizzle falls, from dark, dank, cold wet morning, till cold, dank, dark, still night. June, July, August, are oft remembered #myths March through to May, mere ghosts. Time flies, so they say. So they say. Our lives, #measured in seasons, eroded, as waves do to the coast. #vss365

Broken we stand in grief, lost are the brave, young men, memories stirred merely by bugles. Tho' we celebrate the fallen soldiers, do we value our freedom? How do we #measure peace? #vss365

MOONRISE ON KIND WATER. Bright white light in the jet black sky, you multiply 10 million times, in the ripples on the sea. We hold our breath as you hold our hearts. #poetry

We need a different kind of #education not just another brick in the wall. Not bound by reservation but free & fair A syllabus that unites not divides that teaches peace, not war. We need books that breathe love with lessons that shape gentle hands & open hearts ~rev #vss365

Love, hate and jealousy, are inherited, human emotions. Be the better guy and turn the other cheek, are a pacifists #education. #vss365

“The notebook is my only possession. I have written poems and would like to keep it.” He laughed before chucking it into the disposal unit. I ran to retrieve it, but he grabbed me by the hair. “Stupid boy. You are like a wild animal, but here you will be #domestic-ated." #vss365

Reports were coming in from several systems. Reports of a bigger attack from The Enemy, on several fronts. A retaliation for their bruising defeat. Dylan couldn’t send the team everywhere, he had to concentrate on the nearer, more #domestic, attack and the others had to fend for themselves. #vss365

I recall the time his wife, Bet, was so patriotic, just to show her fervour for the main Christian event, she wore baubles as earrings, matching her Leopard print dress.

The Enemy weren’t monsters, the kind of thing people on the Old Earth would use to frighten each other with, or dress up as on that old festival of #Halloween. They were real. They did appear out of the dark and they were merciless and implacable. They weren’t to be parodied, but feared. #vss365