C.S. Voll

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proud desert tortoise
stoic of arid landscapes
sultan of swelter

#vss365 #haiku

Male king parrot.

Male king parrot out front early this morning.

#Australia #Canberra #spring #october #birds #photography #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NatureLovers #BirdingAdventures #Ornithology #parrot #bird

That is where we came upon
An #arid garden full of
Rocks emblazoned with the name
Of an explorer from years
Past, before the sea served as
A highway and the sky dressed
Itself as a concierge with
An open smile and a myth

#vss365

Map of the World, c. 500 BCE archived by Hailey McDermott
"This tablet contains both a cuneiform inscription and a unique map of the Mesopotamian world. Babylon is shown in the centre (rectangle in top half of circle), Assyria, Elam, and other places." from Abu Habba
#cuneiform

#Unearthly

the cries,
the wails the soul makes
in tragedy—
when all that once
made story of chaos
is ripped away,
and all that’s left
is untold

loss

#vss365

SUPERBATOBER 14: RETRO -- Babs (Batgirl) is scoring high on a classic Super TRON arcade machine! Kara (Supergirl) flies in to check things out, a red light trail trailing behind her. Meanwhile, Streaky is curiously checking out the magical sparking happening behind the arcade's wiring.

Day 14: RETRO 🕹️

#SuperBatober #Inktober #inktober2025

"Your #unearthly gaze captures me again."

"Sorry. I'll look at something else then."

"This is not the time to play coy, darling."

"Now I'm confused."

"That's the story of our marriage."

#vss365

Orange and pink sunset. Corrugated clouds reflected in a still pond.

My daily #peace offering. #vermont #photography #photographer #photographers #nature #protectyourpeace #reflections #nature #mothernature #naturephotography #northeastkingdom

Bugs, insects, creepers, you fear them all but for one, the beautiful beetle.

It must be the wings.

#vss365 #Beetle

Star-shaped tile with a stylized flowering plant, anonymous, c. 1250 - c. 1299
Persia

(Rijksmuseum)

Sublimate in the sun while
A #beetle sits on a sill
To wait for the act that will
Not shade a sweltering day

#vss365

A crop circle I made at Prawle Point in Devon. I was fascinated with crop circles in the 90’s, but didn’t start making them until 2013. I started to incorporate them into rituals to shed the accumulation of grief I felt as an undertaker. The first chapter of “What Remains..” recounts this practice.

Sometimes it's fun to let the reader complete the picture. It makes me happy to hear that, too.

I know, right? I hope you liked it.

"What's the difference between the Vacuumatron 9000 and the Vacuumatron 9000 Deluxe?"

"Ah! A discerning question, sir. The Deluxe model comes complete with the word Deluxe."

"So... that's it?"

"Certainly not, sir. The Vacuumatron 9000, our base model, does not include the word #Deluxe."

#vss365

#MythologyMonday
Cadair Idris is one of Wales' most beautiful and storied peaks. Legend says that a night upon its slopes may grant the gift of 'Awen', or divine poetic inspiration. But it comes also with a risk: some who sleep there will wake not as poets, but as madmen!

Bullets riddle a sitting room. A #deluxe tea set sits on a table, still unscathed. Cushion pieces dance through the air. A phone rings in vain.

#vss365

Ultra 64 prototype.

Famicom Prototype

Casio Loopy

Bandai Pippin and Pippin dev unit.

There was some really neat rare retro stuff at the retro booth at PAX, including Famicom and N64 prototypes, a Bandai Pippin, and a Pippin dev unit.

I felt unknown things
novel and wonderful
sitting down beneath
no distance in between
the maple tree blushing red
with undertones of green
#vss365 #undertones #poetry

A sea turtle with a lot of dots, from when I had time for dotting

There was an #undertone of rage
In her voice when she said that no
One was allowed into the room
While she cleaned it with a bent broom

Her canine audience barked
Their disapproval in reply

#vss365

Some trees in autumn colours.

I seem to have entered my 'helplessly taking pictures of trees' period of the year.

you have the nerve
to come to me now,
when I have weathered
the winds of time,
all #verve drained into
the ground, my roots
deep and dying. to a sapling,
hope is nectar. it is nothing
to the dying.

#vss365 #poetry

“You danced with so much #verve.”

“I was trying to get away from you.”

“Yet here you stand.”

He toyed with his toupée. “The thing is, I ran into some worse — the lesser of two evils is more palatable.”

“Palatable to whom?”

His eyes darted around the room.

#vss365

Morning on the Rideau Canal, Ottawa. #fall #nature #trees #water #city #travel #biking #MyOttawa #photography

his eyes—
  unwritten
 chapters
   of forbidden thought,

his voice,
  a study
   in exquisite ruin.

    wine
 on his lips,
  truth and desire
   share the same glass—

a #libertine soul
    to me,
as the night
    forgives all.

#vss365 #poetry #writingcommunity

This sums up my writing pretty well

Underneath the sea a
Man reads a #libertine
Novel sitting at his
Desk in a submarine

Civilization is
A distant memory
Beneath the depths that still
All concerns in a heart

#vss365

Gertie the dinosaur fuckin yeeeets this woolly mammoth in an early animation from the 1910s