Me

It's okay. My dog just made me pet him... 💕

If I unalived today I wouldn't be bothered...

Don't mind me. Just sitting here weepy.

Have a beautiful day. 😎

she is the girl
#obsessed with death

sleeps in a bed
of dark flowers

leather petals
brush against her pale limbs

a bloodless moon
watches over her empty tomb

ravens swirl
like unremembered moments
of a dead star

and no hands
can stop the mad spinning
of the earth

#vss365

#vss365

Tressed
Dressed
Stressed
Finessed
Caressed
#obsessed
Undressed
Oppressed
Witnessed
Misguessed
Distressed
Suppressed
Unexpressed
Depressed

Happy belated birthday 🎂 wherever you are... you know...

You're welcome 😘

She is brittle, a glass chipping in the wind, soft like sun caught in a mother’s hair, unsure like the arc of a memory at dusk. She loves with a velocity that outpetals light as it searches for footfalls on a lonesome sand. Her touch is a soft‑floating leaf afraid to ripple the jar of morning water. Yet she feels so loud, a shout piercing a quiet ear, so misplaced, a birch leaf laid on the branch of a juniper. She collects not heartbeats, nor longing whispers aimed at her shore. But for him, she becomes the earth, waiting for his rain to dapple her with sweet rivulets, a red rose bending toward his hand, a kiss hovering between his breath and lips. And the cold ache of the horizon melts to warmth when she’s drizzled in him and he in her.

#vss365
#velocity

gave up on velocity
to finally find
my peace of mind…
it’s not how quickly you step,
but how often you pause

#vss365 #velocity
#poetry #haiku #tanka
#photography
#eastcoastkin
#nature #winter
#art #ImageAndVerse

photo: I stopped to capture the beauty of a fence line during a walk in the snow.

Buffalo is not a small town. How did no one see him and offer help?

#vss365 #2wordprompt

I made a #note
The #velocity
Of fear
Was never
Broken down
Into #percent perceived
As opposed to real
Because once
The brain determined
A threat
Every system
Redirected energy
To fight or flight
No rational thinking
Could happen
Indoctrination
Through propaganda
Was complete

Oh no. Next they'll be throwing sandwiches...oh wait, it's NYC, maybe not the sandwiches...

Oh goody...more snow...❄️🤪

Whoa...just tried an online music Emdr. That's wild.

Ha! The king who eats McDonald's tarrifed himself into a fast food supply wasteland... Canada stopped imports to the US.

I fear 'in person' up here is a 4 hour drive one way...

I'm going to be hard pressed to find someone up here, but I'll look.

#vss365 #2wordprompt

His comment 'bollocks' was #relevant in an #orbital way. One, normally, thinks of a fae in single terms, as in one wee person-like being with magical qualities. To find oneself surrounded by a hoarde on their own back deck illicits a very #material response.

Prettty pretty love poetry
Hiding behind ambiguous
Beginnings middles and endings

I always find that one true meaning
Circling floating #orbital though

All about me
You us
Back to me
This life Ouroboros
Through moon starred dusky lined poetry

#vss365 #poetry

this stanza panhandles the gateway
stardust merchants buy satyr piss
they want me to ingest herbs and other botanicals
unleash my bladder to guests
cheap ass beer helps medicine go down
in ways delightful sometimes too
an orbital glow through the window
lets me know the sky is on fire #vss365

I had a friend who did that last fall and it seemed to help them.

#2wordprompt

One day you #review
Your life
Celebrations
Odd conversations
Tears
And smiles
Waking at night
In a cold sweat
Sitting out a party
Winning a game
And you #realize
The monsters
You saw
Were real

The thought of getting an #autism diagnosis as an adult is both hopeful and terrifying. Yes, you get answers to lifelong questions that help you understand yourself and the world better.

But its traumatizing when you realize how bullied and mistreated you've been.

I don't know how to process it.

I mean...a dream is the only place they're likely to come see you so it makes sense that's how it would be. 🤷

#vss365

The pulsing light
In the dark of the forest
Was silent
One expected
A hum
An engine churning over
The repetitive squeak
Of something
Generating such a #stellar
Sight
I watched mesmerized
Listening
And just before
It died away
It screamed
As if the dark
Ripped through it
Rendering it moot

a sunset from high on a hill above a river and city

open hearts are our stellar sails
we serve the selfish, who just eat and do as they wish
fish in a pickle barrel, hold souls who sew rigging
I say we've always done this
spooning starlight
in an ark howl and smile
we love and revel as our cells rejoice
a womb dark fertile when we rest #vss365

Speaker one: you are all made of stardust, therefore, you are stellar even in your darkest moments.

Speaker two: you are all made of stardust, therefore you cannot be blamed for blowing up and going nova. It’s in your nature.

#vss365

Nice write! ✍️

#vss365

Deep breaths;
calves will stop
throbbing, eventually
feeling will return
to shoulder, eventually
A #stellar beginning
to the day?
Not today—
but eventually
#vss365

#vss365 Tossing my clothes to the floor, I stepped into a shower, and in the hot spray of water slipped my skin. Escaping flesh and its concerns, my disembodied soul, as light as starshine, wafted out of the open double-sash window. An ascending starburst in #stellar company.