John(jd)

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struttin down sidewalk
lookin cool in his ray bans
hiding behind shades

#vss365 [ray]

No redeeming quality whatsoever

No empathy

No compassion

No love of country

No conscious

No heart

Just a black ink heart, void of soul

No wonder he says so himself, that he doesn't believe he'll go to heaven

The first and only truth to leave his lips

The world agrees.

american history dies and withers in shame is this great again

#haikufeels + #OneLineOctober [wither]

We are the architects
of our own pain,
inventing cruelties
nature never knew.

We sharpen words
like knives, we made the chain,
we wound the very hearts
we’re bound unto.

Oh God, see what Your
experiment became:
a species drowning
in its own cruel shame.

#poetry #vss365 #humanity

he thought it brilliant
a masterstroke like never before
but of course he thought everything
he did was the best deal ever
but thin skin doesn't protect his ego
alas it was the sign of our times.

#2WordPrompt [brilliant & sign]

chilled to the marrow
clattering skeleton dance
early evening breeze

#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku

brisk morning coolness
blanket soft by forest mist
breeze dried ___ just add rain

#dailyhaikuprompt [coolness soft breeze]

HAAAAPY BIRTHDAAAAAY TO YOOOOOOOU 🥳🎉🥂

The #creaking #floorboards
of this house
as it settles
into its old age
mirrors
the popping
of my joints
as I settle
closer to death

#OurPoetryX #poetry #writing #writingcommunity

#FromOneLine 395 Where can we go with just one connecting #prompt line? Let's see how many different places we can discover from just one starting point! Start your poem/vss with the opening line : Last night I saw #FromOneLine 395 #prompt This prompt is borrowed from a friend - an exceptional songwriter and musician, and a genuinely kind and wonderful soul. May they rest in peace. Much love.

#FromOneLine 395

Where can we go with just one connecting #prompt line? Let's see how many different places we can discover from just one starting point!

Start your poem/vss with the opening line :

Last night I saw

#FromOneLine 395 #prompt

last night i saw
your aurora in the night sky
you've left us now
but your song echoes for all time
your music will ease our grief
and stay our ships from sundering reef
and in the mornings still to come
the storm recedes . . .

#FromOneLine [395]

the shadows leapt from the semi-rigid inflatables
they moved invisibly up the shoreline
scuttling like the sand crabs seeking cover in moon's shadows
this is what they train for to slip through the aether
then return silently as they arrived to the sea . . .

#2WordPrompt [rigid & train]

i call him the creep
and all of his sycophants creepers
creep and the creepers
a bad name for a very band rock band.

#vss365 [creep]

Thank you Steve your prompt made it possible 👍

but . . . we are all citizens of the world
and one day we will make the entitled
elite quake in their shoes . . .

@jangoeswriting.bsky.social

Thank you for reposting the original,
because I was horrified of all my typos
c'est la vie . . . non 😂

over the wood trees
a helical sunrise
begins to paint
the day with fading
reds and yellow
morphing into browns
across the way
gathering speed
tree shadows abseil
in a race with the sun
reaching for it's zenith

#vss365 [helical]

it was the neutral expression on his face
that captured my attention
"grandpa, are you yourself?"
his cat jumped off his lap
and scurried out the front door
on it's own journey over
the rainbow bridge . . .

#2WordPrompt [neutral & yourself]

the first winter seep
frost minus temperatures
still leaves cling on

#haikufeels + #OneLineOctober [seep]

first frost of winter
trees still await to disrobe
still leaves clinging on

#haiku #micropoetry

halloween
oh the night terrors
of children in war torn lands
wrought upon them by men yes so called men
but they are just the pointed end of the spear
of arms manufactured by profiteers in other lands

#vss365 [terror]

echo tween day before night ___ the dusk terrors

#haikufeels + #OneLineOctober [echo & dusk]
#vss365 [terror]

or is it the terrors wrought upon the citizens
by some narcissist and his sycophant band
and the lily livered senators and representatives
who no longer recognize their own republic
the world looks upon something no longer normal
2/2

#2WordPrompt [compel & normal]
Vss365 [terror]

what compels me
to walk the streets at night
is it the terrors wrought upon the child
on halloween's so many years ago
1/2

#2WordPrompt [compel & normal]
Vss365 [terror]

screen print ___ sorrow of the killing fields

#7syllablesentence [screen]

it a pears my prompt ___
was wrong plum line off kilter
beware the orchard

#dailyhaikuprompt [pear or plum]

plum bob weighs me down
my plum line is off kilter
so plum out of luck

#dailyhaikuprompt [plum]

witch's afterburner accident 🎃

cobwebs in the cellar cover hidden halloween decorations

#haikufeels + #OneLineOctober