Ezekial

I'm trying to
to improve
my posture
my #bones
complain
as I try my
exercises
oops
I feel dizzy
better
have another tablet
plough
then cobra
oops
I feel dizzy
better have
another tablet
trying a head stand
oops
I feel dizzy
better have another
tablet
followed
by lying down
for a while
#vss365

Problem Blood, a poem by Francesca L Rolle: I don't know my blood type, I should give blood and find out, They wouldn't want your blood, It's problem blood, you joke, But it stings, With the memories of steroids, tests, needles, Hours spent shuffling from one Windowless waiting room to another, Hematopoietic cells course with pain That flows out onto the page as poietry. Red ink runs into contours on a map of my impurities, As the doctors chart paths and carve me up, Divide and conquer, They ignore my native knowledge and tell me, They know better, My land left pillaged when they can't agree On how to piece together the key. I still don't know my blood type, Don't want to risk the rejection, Find further confirmation, that the battered body I call home, is a doll set to be discontinued, Malformed, and unfit to be played with. Drain my blood, and return my body to the ground, It's problem blood, and it's a problem body, So who cares that it's the sacred vessel That carries in it my precious soul?

I tried to give blood yesterday but I failed the initial iron test, and when they wanted to do a further test they couldn't find a vein. They even sent the 'vein whisperer' in, but several nurses later and one said 'some people just aren't cut out for it'. So I'm resharing this for #VSS365 #Blood

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my #blood
clumps
the doctor said
so
I take aspirin
every day
what do you mean
my blood clumps
I said
well she said
we did
a blood test
when you came in
you could see
the platelets
sticking together
oh
I said
why is that
I don't know
she said
but you'll need
another blood thinner
fine
#vss365

Lovely

I have
many
old #wounds
of
jobs I didn't get
of love lost
who cares
I'm happy now
and you should be
too
we muse
and chew over
the past
but it's not there
anymore
and our memories
are often
distorted
it's best
not to open
those old wounds
happiness
is not in them
but pain
and
suffering
#vss365

Lambent Too claustrophobic to be ever buried, so, I’ll become an actual lambent flame. Not for me that trapping urn: (just screaming genie within a lamp!) No, pass me to a wayward gust on some uneducated hill for the needed bullying of my dust and soul.

Hullo #vss365 and to #lambent

#vss365 #poetry

Let’s not fear
The unknown
Let’s see in hope
Just like the night though dark
Shimmers full of milkyways stars
& a cosmos #lambent in our wonder
Journeys start but do they truly end
I look up at the sky I see no brickwalls

there was
a #lambent
light
on the horizon
the day
they came
no one thought
this day would come
but the angels
came
their faces
fierce as
a million
suns
this
was the new
world order
it
was over
quickly
it wasn't
what we thought
it would be
the last of us
await
their wrath
#vss365

so
I saw #ghosts
when
I started
my teens
but
maybe I
was just mixed up
after
leaving
the farm
I saw ghosts
there
as well
but maybe
I was just
disturbed
I saw ghosts
until
I suddenly
stopped
seeing
them
in my late teens
and that was that
sometimes
they scared me
sometimes
they didn't
#vss365

Break it in
wear it out
toughen it up
work it through
leave it be

#micropoem #ourpoetryx #poetry

a close up of a back lit broken doll face

how shadows wear me

garlanding the mantle
fashioning poppets and puppets
found stones and feathers
nuts, seeds and pieces of metal
affixing them with arms, legs and faces
from a box of broken doll parts
i had collected
feeling this world
rejected me enough
for me to reject me too #emoetry

I feel it

we feel
the #pain
of losing
loved one's
and
there is pain
when we think
about our own
mortality
what
legacy will
we leave
behind
sulks
and greed
I hope not
but there
is this gnawing
ache
within us
that life is short
anger
and jealousy
I hope not
we can leave
love
love
it's all
we have
#vss365

Nice

Great

Love it

my #soul
is the best
of me
I believe
so
the learned
say
all the good
I have done
any kindness
on those
scales
against
with the bad
which way
will it go
hard to say
(pause for some
self reflection)
It's still not clear
I can't say
which way
the scales
will swing
remember
remember
ah
#vss365

I've lost
many #shadows
people
I've loved
and wept
when they're gone
animals
dogs
I'm looking
at my shadow
just now
as light
is blocked
by my body
It's my stamp
of being alive
my mother's shadow
is still
on the top shelf
of the lounge
cupboard
contained
in a funeral bag
I can't scatter
#vss365

we were
supposed to
pick up
our new car yesterday
but a series
of unexpected events
happened
and I needed #soothed
first
a blow out in front tyre
then a discussion
with recovery man
you're not buying
one of those
he said
It'll give you
a headache
he said
further due
diligence
deal off
#vss365

we awoke
to the #thrum
it was coming
from everywhere
the table
and chairs
cereal bowls
everything
it changed
its pitch slightly
my head began
to ache
then they started
to appear
they were
all over
small
and great
all joining
the thrum
I sat down
and prayed
but
it was only
the start
#vss365

what are your
darkest thoughts
don't #obfuscate them
bring them into
the light
and they will
disappear
that's what I said
to Hilary
that morning
she pinged
on the back of
the head with
an elastic band
I feel better
she said
I rubbed my head
good
I said
I kidded
myself
about her
#vss365

a meditation practice
I sometimes do
is to visualise
myself as
an archer
with my #quiver
of arrows
on my back
firing off
arrows of love
and peace across
our world
some say I'm
a dreamer
but I'm not
the only one
as John Lennon said
in Imagine
stop now
let's examine
our thoughts
#vss365

I like this music

Beautiful

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It's strange
but my
love has
not #waned
for her
fifteen years now
we went
for a drink
last night
and something
to eat
we just enjoy
each other's company
I had the soup
and sandwich deal
she panini
and there
was the old
border collie
lying beside us
we knew
a lot of people
it was fab
#vss365

The musical note A4 (A above middle C), standardly tuned to 440 Hz, corresponds to various high-pitched, clear, or rapid sounds found in nature, often characterized by whistling or chirping.

Great words

I'm listening to Gatton just now. Sounds good. 👌