the real John Carr.

#vss365

Mars, the god of war
thinks struggle for survival
constitutes fair trade

#Mars #fair #struggle #survive #SenryuSunday

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

😁😁😁😁😁😁

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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

Reflection Rejoice in life and happiness The ringing of every bell Resounds to the tympanic essence That echoes through your mind Forget the thoughts of innocence Each new birth renews its meaning Permits melodic pureness to fade Forever to disintegrate in time The voices call a thousand times But what fate is to capture the sound Of reason and listen to hear The sweet soprano of their harmonic song The heart twines with a million strings Plucked into a blazing symphony The rapturous calliope lost in soft Caresses of beauty and delight Release the tone of vibrance Cry out to your own desires The orchestra of Passion’s slaves bow low in pain and wondrous pleasure Let the music sweep you away into the deepest depths of your soul know yourself in the intimacies Of a life inside these mirrored walls. Poem by Danielle Grace

#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

When hope burns, embers burn too 😁🥂

Thanks my friend 😁🥂

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