A looking glass war with the one I see the young girl that I used to be, inside I am still fourteen a reflection of what might have been, my teenaged self seems unconcerned so many things she hasn’t learned she will get her fingers burned, but that’s a page yet to be turned #vss365 #reflection

Older than clocks timed by the moon the ocean hums an endless tune, of stars and ships and things gone by, human life is the blink of an eye, our moment of existence from cradle to grave means nothing to the water and the rolling waves #vss365 #timed

Mine enemies were as weeds they flowered thick in number, I sent them one by one to deep eternal slumber, the world became a desert, so dry that nothing grows, except for powerful me and my nodding yes-men crows #vss365 #number

Adrift on a wave not made of sea or silver hum of distant bees not wind, or leaves on waving trees not earth not sky, not singing birds but language made of living words that float and curl and dart and hide strange fish to catch on a poets tide #vss365 #language

History is a ribbon, threaded with beads, a string of memories that once belonged to someone else #vss365 #history

Each mountain, valley, hill and peak is a scenic landscape quite unique, be proud of your topography & personal #geography, people who make you feel ugly or fat are controlling, mean, & talking crap, ignore their derision it's purely your decision if you ever decide to iron the map #vss365

The domestic cat is sleek and fat with smooth and glossy fur, obsequeous and charming and a motor full of purr, they are stroked and fussed adored and loved demanding to be petted, but you see a different side to them when you take them to be vetted #vss365 #domestic

Domestic preening in a long marriage is a complicated ritual involving checking each other over for brown sauce and or egg on your whiskers #vss365 #domestic

Butterflies lack commitment, as do bees fickle creatures of the air and breeze, they spend their daylight working hours in briefest dalliance with the flowers #vss365 #creature

Come to the old road, find the night birds with their wicked lonely eyes, hands for claws & razor teeth which sit and grin in savage beaks, know that it is you they seek, hide, a timid cowering thing feel the brush of leather wings, #halloween is childish fear, pumpkin faces won't work here #vss365

Let us dance little argent bird, let us swirl let us play, let us sway, amid the chandeliers and the gaudy lumps of gold, in the ballroom where democracy, was hijacked by plutocracy then pimped up, pimped out whored, raped, and sold #vss365 #argent

A smoky guttering candle in a room where shadows fall, a slow and creeping feeling as they decorate the wall, a light that's slowly dying in a saucer on the shelf, brings a sudden realisation that those shadows aren't yourself #vss365 #saucer

Do not hover, leave this ugly dented day embrace the night, you fought a fight we knew you could not win, still we rode with you, now the journey ends if I say stay, it would be for me not for you, rest now, as the poet said, slip the bonds of earth and sleep #vss365 #hover

I brew ideas, stories which bubble and burst to quench the thirst of an arid page #vss365 #arid

Little black #beetle, let me explain do your work, I'll not complain, what once I was is stiff and cold my good times spent, my body old, it weighed me down, and it wearied me, now at last I'm wandering free, return me to the good brown earth & feast away for all you're worth #vss365 #halloween

Autumn butterfly, playful tease, flits among the flowers flirting with the breeze, a libertine, a chancer, a strange exotic dancer who little knows or feels a sense of grey and gathering doom, living for the moment on a sunny afternoon #vss365 #libertine

Wear a shirt with a logo give publicity for free, or is the advert showing me, pictorial displaying is a human way of saying just look how much I'm paying, to buy it wasn't stressful I'm wealthy and successful which affords a certain surety against social insecurity #vss365 #advert

This is the advert that I would like to place, one battered dented planet complete with human race, a shabby fixer upper to treat with tender care 8 billion sitting tenants are already waiting there, #vss365 #advert

Love is elastic, when you let it go, it hurts #vss365 #elastic

Every word that is written is carved from flesh and bone, pulled through the skin from the pulp within, when you read remember that burning ember the author had to give for a book to live #vss365 #pulp

Calm in any storm a steady hand to guide me, to walk and talk beside me not you, you wild and savage thing who caused rough winds to blow, you were never an oasis I never knew a single moment's rest but times with you are ones I love the best #vss365 #Oasis

The world is a blur, an ever speeding, spinning whir amid swirling clouds of AI dust, we are losing faith, and most of our trust, as pioneers of a digital zoo, how can we know what facts are true and what is a pile of cyber poo! #vss365 #blur

Yesterday's candle melts into the blur of tomorrow, same wick, same wax a slightly different mix of facts #vss365 #blur

The prompt word sounds like an Irish castle Come with me to the Castle of Conundrum and there we will feast, or grab a quick coffee and sandwich at least #vss365 #conundrum

Beware the bellwether, follow with caution they may lead you over a cliff, lost in the fog of their own ignorance, or they may have have cut a deal with a dog-food conglomerate #vss365 #bellwether

The most powerful word in the world is perhaps, it is totally unpredictable, and therefore unrestrictable #vss365 #perhaps

Catastrophe, is a loss of kindness, replaced by greed and selfish mindness #vss365 #catastrophe

We will influence what you try, listen to us buy, buy, buy picture number twelve will make you cry, to us you are toothpaste a pliable extrusion both victim and slave of social inclusion #vss365 #extrusion

Primordial soup, from common stock, forged in the fire when the earth was hot we all shared a planet with a big yellow moon, and nobody waved a silver spoon #vss365 #stock

Synthesis, where original thoughts, and single notions coalesce to cross great oceans #vss365 #synthesis

We rein in truth to stop the pain it brings, but lies are free to gallop, cavort and dance at will, when honesty is tied, and truthfulness has died those wicked little fibs are breeding still #vss365 #rein #prompt

Unassuming charmers with a quiet sense of style they never overdo it, but they go that extra mile, beautifully groomed, they can talk with aplomb, and cut through a crowd like a well dressed bomb, it's an extra something not like you or I, stylish people never have to try #vss365 #style

Design me a coat for the seasons remember as you sew, to add vents in the sleeves for crisp autumn leaves and to let spring breezes blow, why not add a long summer as that is in style this year, please try to shorten the winter I don't want it too severe #vss365 #Style

I'm all too #conscious of the change, nothing strange, & nothing I've not felt before not a shock, perhaps the clicking of a lock the subtle closing of a door, a key is turned, a latch is dropped once more, on what was once a fertile time, I hear the chime, the bell that rings for autumn #vss365

A flower in the wind, has no control, It’s an arbitrary victim, with no determined vision, as it blows from side to side, it has no views about the matter when it sees its beauty shattered into petals that are scattered far and wide #vss365 #arbitary

Life, it's not an arbitrary thing, if you breathe you live no matter what the future brings, the winds of fate will blow you through how you fight them is up to you #vss365 #arbitrary

Rich or poor, gay, straight, bi black, white, brown we are all going to die, death is a person we cannot elude from the day we arrive we are already screwed by the man with the cowl a non-partisan dude #vss365 #elude

Tick-tock tick-tock, from our earliest days when my cobweb fingers first brushed your face, and you all unknowing in slumbering grace, it was I who came creeping to watch you sleeping, remember me, tick-tock tick-tock you cannot elude the hands of the clock #vss365 #elude

Do I #yearn for you, not much, I miss the lightness of your touch the warmth of hands that held my own, memory tells me I am not alone yet you are gone, the heart I used to hold a wounded bird which faded into air, yes I miss you sometimes, but only when you are not there #vss365

The past is #pungent, bacon frying, in a house with a green front door, you don't remember much except a dog named Sandy, or Rex, it licked up the ice cream you dropped, someone kind that you cannot bring to mind wiped your tears & sticky infant fingers, memories leave, but perfume lingers #vss365

A noxious little something that pollutes and taints the air, not quite foul and humming but the reek of something coming for which I do not care, it is fishy & disgusting and it's left me all untrusting, when it hits the office fan I would rather not be there #vss365 #reek

Keep vigil, toll the mourning bell feel the breath of Autumn's chills weep for all the fragrant flowers, once so lush upon the hills, see them die, as dry and crisp as yellowed straw, August breaks her grip on bold September's hand the bride of summer is no more #vss365 #vigil

An abject fool has no ears and no brain, he lacks a backbone and a heart, a constant wagging tongue remains as that is the only working part #vss365 #abject

I wish I could stay in my chrysalis world folded tight with my wings still curled so nobody would have to see the little brown moth that I know to be me #vss365 #wings

This world is a discontented place our race a spoiled toddler with a bored and wilful grumpy face, he's clever and productive but terribly destructive #vss365 #grumpy

On a fat contented morning sleepy sunrise stretches, yawning, melted colours brushed across a waking sky the place where rainbows come to die recycled as a new day dawning #vss365 #rainbow

Third time's the charm she said squeezing his arm as he walked from the chapel beside her, for only she knew and soon he would too she was three quarters man eating spider! #vss365 #spider #prompt #poem

Adrift on a rising wave not made of sea or hum of distant buzzing bees nor wind or leaves on waving trees, not earth not sky nor singing birds but movement made of living words that float and curl and dart and hide strange fish to catch on a poets tide #vss365 #hum

Future promise bends the bough a bounty bought through field and plough, harvest berries stain my lips crimson crowned from autumn sips, dangling fruit from summer's vine begets the sweetest winter wine #VSS365 #Promise

A word that is sometimes contrarian is antidisestablishmentarian, it's longer than parliamentarian and mildly annoys the librarian, but it's not -llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch that really pisses them off! #vss365 #contrarian