C.S. Voll

62.2

He looks for her
between words,
tracing each letter
with raw fingers,

like a lover
not quite blind,

damaged by
a cataract on
his heart.

#vss365 #poetry

60 degrees and blooms beginning to appear in Portland, Oregon today. #Photography #Flora #Flowers #Oregon 📷

A river splits
A town and forms
Two #cataracts
Crying tears full
Of gold pieces

#vss365

This is a fragment of the Corinthian-style Olpe Chigi, found from Veii, Formello, from the cemetery area of Monte Aguzzo, from Tumulo Chigi, and dated to 650-640 BC. It has the personification of Aphrodite - as stated. Now in the Room 38 in Villa Giulia. #EpigraphyTuesday

#Splendor

in darkness
when all is lost
despair beckons
and you are awash
in slow, endless sinking

still

you continue

#vss365

Howl
10”x10” Oil on cradled wood panel

“You can’t handle my #splendour.”

“Sure, let’s go with that.”

“Just look at how my coat sparkles.”

“I wish I could, but it’s like looking at the sun.”

“My beauty does shine brightly.”

#vss365

AI Will Create Millions of Pygmalions Users will marry their own statues — after paying a price, of course

Ancient stories can still teach us valuable lessons. In various ways, the tale of Pygmalion's love affair with a statue does that and more, but only if we catch the details. Now, with artificial companions on the rise, its message is more important than ever. #philosophy #ancient #myth

Plaque with swallow (Late Period - Hellenistic Period (400-30 BCE)) Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Plaque with swallow (Late Period - Hellenistic Period (400-30 BCE))

Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Undersea Photography and Its Sights | C.S. Voll and His Writings Get more from C.S. Voll and His Writings on Patreon

Photographers have found various ways to create memorable images. In this article, I look at the people who ventured beneath the waves, to places where even simple tasks become a challenge. What they ended up producing is special. #photography #photos #history

A curved light brown flint knife held up on a museum stand

For #FindsFriday here's a fabulous flint knife found in the tomb of King Semerkhet at Abydos, Egypt

Semerkhet was one of the earliest Pharaohs who lived around 2900 BC!

📸 Mine

It's now in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge

#archaeology #museums #ancientegypt #photooftheday 🏺

High velocity collision
strangers, just strangers;
back to flat words.

#vss365 #poetry

A watercolour painting of a dunnock

This is a watercolour painting of a Dunnock (previously know as hedge sparrows). Small little ground feeders with a beautiful song 🎶

#watercolours #birdart 🪶

His feet reaches escape
#Velocity just as
He rounds the last
Corner in a district
Full of birds and a mast
Hailing from a schooner

Then he arrives sooner
Than the letter states

#vss365

Mulder and Scully, warmup sketch for fun. Liked it too much not to post.

We seek the proper star course
to that elusive
happily ever after destiny

The mutual attraction of gravity
seeking #orbital embrace

Like the constellations above
straining for release

But no matter where we may be
in this massive galaxy
some day you will be with me

#vss365 #poetry #poem

Found this frame for £4 in a charity shop last month, and today I found this embroidered off-cut from a tapestry in a fabric bin for £6

Every day I get closer to turning my home into a wizard’s tower 🔮

A candle flickers as it illuminates a study. In one corner, a man studies a skull, whose large #orbital opening reveals it had once been part of Neanderthal. All of a sudden, he hears a low whisper.

#vss365

Got to see the wonderful collection of carved stones at Groam House Museum, Rosemarkie today. A very special place #medievalsky big thanks to curator Aila

The handsome prince rides in so bold
from yonder castle I am told
on #stellar steed a mane brushed gold
and swoops the damsel to his fold
til I awake, my bed still cold

#vss365
#poetry

I finally finished this drawing 🐥 thank you for all your kind words as I've shared snippets of it coming to life 🪶✍️

created to raise funds for FugleAdvokatene (The Bird Advocates) - Norwegian city bird rescuers based in Oslo & Bergen 🐦‍⬛

A #stellar effort says
A sticker on the page
Of my new exam spell

Look out for the giant
Heads glaring at me from
Their perch in the rafters

#vss365

Thank you so much! I appreciate it.

Cocky Anchor, Worcester, UK
18/2/2026
#WindowsOnWednesday

We send words where we dare not, 

faux fingers into the wireless night,

knowingly morphing into ghosts.

#vss365 #vsspoetry #knowingly

Mountainous backdrop for the Curecanti National Recreation Area near Gunnison, Colorado #MountainMonday #Mountains #Colorado #Landscape 📷

“You #knowingly let him in?”

“He was shivering, so I couldn’t just let him stand there in the snow.”

“He’s the Abominable Snowman! Greg, sometimes I wonder why I married you.”

“We were both drunk and it looked like the best option—“

“Thank you for your input.”

#vss365

Congratulations!

How Louis Boutan Took the World’s First Undersea Portraits At the end of the 19th century, a biologist dared to push boundaries

Photography has the power to preserve a scene. Matters become more complicated when the scene is located in the ocean, but that didn't daunt Louis Boutan in the 1890s, though. After years of hard work, he finally realized a dream. #photo #photography #history

I feel so weak.

I used to #blatantly hate my smile—the nooks & crannies of my teeth.

I believed no one could love
someone so #crazed, so feral—
aching to be known by touch.

Somewhere between the red lines I desperately drew,
I fell apart & rose again.

I found my way back to you.

#vss365