A simmer dissipates, the embers are crumbling into ash. Wafting gently like dandelion pods in the air. #Remnants of our yesteryears descend into yearning tears. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

Happy lunar new year 🧧 A little side series I’ve been doing these past few years. Every lunar new year I’ve been writing a poem for each zodiac animal. This is my fourth year on the series. #poem #poetry #poems #yearofthehorse

There’s a #pain that #shadows over my #soul. An overcast that hovers over my days until finally a raindrop falls like a tear & it feels like a #kiss. A small embrace like a sympathetic touch of my soul. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompts

There were words that were unwritten & went unspoken. Feelings that were never expressed. Hidden in #dark #lacunas of pages never written. Eyes that avoid contact. A heart that has gone missing. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompts

Over the horizon, the mountains #touch the first morning light. The darkness begins to fade in a symphony of birdsongs. Their wings glisten in the morning’s brilliant sunlight. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

There’s an #ache in my belly, a wrung sensation in my stomach. A moment now collapsing, the floor beneath me is crumbling. The curtains were drawn before I was ready. The spotlights are blinding me. The act is unraveling. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

My heart sunk as the moment struck with a heavy blow. Left me trembling like a pile of #pale #bones. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompts

I reach for the letter, slide my finger along the edge with great discomfort. Drip, drip, a bead of #blood on the tip of my finger & a bloodstained letter. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

A wintry gust burns the skin like old #wounds resurfacing again. #vss365 #poetry #poem #prompt

For a brief instance within her ghostly shell, a #lambent smile & a glow in her eyes. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

Hidden in the mist I walk as a #ghost, retracing my former footsteps. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

Lost within the distance of time. Moments separated by expanding ocean beds. Shorelines hidden in a misty fog to a past I’m incapable of reliving. But I’m still filled with #gratitude for the moments we once shared. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

Diversions & splits moments of #regret. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

I #recall the forest dressed in white. Diamond dust was glittering in the morning’s sunlight. A stillness & silence in the air. My words visible, syllables suspended in warm exhales. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

This desert is scarred with ancient riverbeds & floodplains. Just the #memory of the touch of a single raindrop would accumulate in a tear. Gushing in emotions, engulfing everything in its wake. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

Within the jumble of corporate ties & dapper attire, he stood out like a #boho at the day’s stock market exchange. Indifferent to his surroundings, his life not tethered to this artificial world. He walked passed with his own accord. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

Within the bleakness of heavy skies, a single #ray. A sunbeam ushers in a renewed hope for the day. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

It was an inverse of emotions the reddish iron-rich sky, smoldering fury of a dust storm. Settles & then clears in time for the soft blue tint of a #martian sunset. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

There’s this lingering feeling like a #saucer that #hovers above the surface. Emitting an #energy that alters the very #atoms of my being. My soul softly fleeting. I’m drifting, slipping into the unknown. #vss365 #poem #prompts #poetry

These tears bring rain to #arid soil. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

1947, lightning-like flash in the sky. A crash & #unearthly rubble & remains left to be found in the desert. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt #roswell

The night fell & I’ve lost my #chance. Only waiting now for tomorrow’s dawn. So hopefully I can begin anew. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

My #conscious being lost within dreams. Dreaming deeply forgotten memories. Playing scenarios I wouldn’t otherwise would’ve imagined. Waking up & wondering was it nothing more than a dream? I was left questioning. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

Serenity has eluded me constantly dwelling on an #arbitrary past that I refuse to let go of… #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

#Sentient no more, not even a robot, an automaton. No longer a being. A hollow shell of a soul that doesn’t love or think anymore. Moments forgotten & gone. An old book dusted & worn in a language that is spoken no more. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

Ambient morning light shines into the room. The bitter taste of coffee lingers on my tongue. Outside the morning air has an earthy scent, maybe it had sprinkled sometime during the night. Today, I took in the #mundane before rushing into another arduous day. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

#Vigil candles lit thru the night, gleaming luminously, flickering tears of remembrance. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

Fallen valor, the stakes have become too grave. Desperation sets in, adrenaline #seethes. The moment has finally come to this. A breath, then exhale. The tipping point has passed, time for healing at last. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

#Pummel until bruised. Yet in the end I can still stand. In the end I withstood the worst. Yet my will endured. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

I’ve become too digitized. My longings have been copied & pasted too many times, too compressed, my dreams are now pixelated. I’m suffering from a lack of imagination. In desperate need of some #pixie dust to sprinkle some wonder back into my life. To dream so vividly once again. #vss365 #poem

These #wings disintegrate like Icarus’s. Folding onto themselves, I took a great plunge. Never have I thought I could fly so high to then fall from such great heights. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

There’s a #hum in the breeze as the trees sing in a language if we listen closely maybe we can comprehend. Whispers of seasonal changes or a mournful dirge of an endless drought. A symphony of nature, resonating from a gust before a storm. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

Watching the branches sway, I fell asleep while laying beneath the old #elm tree. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

The sky opened up & I fell, plunging into the depths. Being caught within the tides & currents. Holding my breath until hopefully I can breathe once again. Once the calm of the #sapphire blue of the ocean returns. Somehow, I survived beneath the now settled sky. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

I woke up to the song of a #sparrow outside my window. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt #haiku

Life comes in moments I don’t know if it’s fate & by design or by complete accident or circumstance. I’d given up on destinies, no point on pursuing such fantasies. But chance shall have it that somehow our lives should intersect & I couldn’t be more happier for this sincere #happenstance. #vss365

The sky bled in #crimson this morning, the clouds painted in the deepest of reds. The dawn rises over the mountains, casting a luminous glow until the blues soften the sky for a new day. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

I woke up in silence, the night trembling. I stayed silent for a moment, just waiting. I don’t normally have nightmares, but it’s over, is it safe to fall asleep, I pondered. Yet it seems as tho the night is full of tremors. #sensewrds #prompt 100 #poem #poetry

He lowered his brim & lit his cigarette. I swore I’ve seen him before, possibly in a spaghetti western. Where the outlaw is no more & the hero rides off in his dusty poncho, cowboy boots, & jeans. Into the stunning desert sunset with music that’ll surely get stuck in your head. #sensewrds #prompt 99

I’m a bit perplexed by your dull-wittedness. Or more so your complete arrogance or rather your incompetence. Standing & yelling into a hurricane. Your message askew & dangerous. Yet the words are lost in obscurity or rather absurdity, I couldn’t hear you thru this wind. #sensewrds #prompt 98 #poem

I hope we meet again, somewhere beyond the great unknown. Past the mist & fog, the surging tides & the lands unbeknownst. Somewhere beyond the stars & beyond the warp of space & time. It’ll bring me comfort if I knew somehow we’ll still end up #together. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

Violets are beautiful until they become the color of a bruise. A bitter soreness that lingers for a bit, tho at least it’s temporary. Or at least physically, the pain becoming a memory. A longing for better days until finally we can dance & play in lush fields dotted in #violet. #vss365 #poem

These years have been piling on like stacks of forgotten calendars. I can’t seem to keep up with life’s momentum, muscles tightening & I’m losing breath. I’m about to give in but then a gentle gesture from a friend. A token of appreciation, sorry, my emotions caved in—in form of a #tear. #vss365

* . . . .Within the darkness stars appear. . . . * * #sensewrds #prompt 97 #poem

A #promise never kept, all of the trust has left. Apologies unsaid, now these words would be lost breaths. Left dwelling on a severed relationship. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

I went searching for a sense of belonging, to discover my greater #purpose. However, I failed to understand life doesn’t have a set course, there’s no map to this journey. Maybe some guidance, but beyond that it’s what we make of it. Each path or decision leads to new beginnings. #vss365 #poem

Within the breaks of heavy clouds, sunbeams rain down. A blue sky begins to peer thru & soon a rainbow appears. The remaining clouds form a ceiling like that of a cathedral’s. The sunlight shines like a #spiritual awakening for at least briefly. A pause within our everyday struggles. #vss365 #poem

She stood confidently, her eyes glistening in her new glossy dress like polished #onyx. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

The whole room felt uncomfortable. Could be the fever brewing in me & the dizziness. Or the way the black & white marble floor glistened like polished #onyx didn’t look right under the fluorescent light. Tho, it was probably the way the taxidermy oryx stared at me from across the room. #vss365

Beneath the shade of a #wisteria I watch the bees weave in & out of the blossoms. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt