Francis H Powell writer and poet

Scratching feathers sere
My face in the mirror scarred
Caged parrot vanished

#horrorprompt
#Haikuhorrorprompt
#vssmystery
#vsshorror

Utter madness, many of these subjects are Britain's strengths...who came up with this idea?

My #blithe spirit attracts trouble

#7syllablesentence

I was at art school when Thatcher was prime minister and slashing art school budgets, equally people who have studied at art school have contributed to the British economy, it seems that this party is still a narrow minded bunch of philistines.

He was a #Junior Doctor
With #distinct purple hair
some people stared at him
but he simply didn't care
He was serious in day time
and wild at night
he really loved his hair
that was bold and bright

#2WordPrompt

Lost Sometimes I feel like an #insect Unworthy of notice, hiding. Never finding my #niche I see others #beaming, shining in Light They’ve been #granted special things Not a depraved hack like me. I hide in the darkness, as the #rain pours. That’s where I feel #safe. Secure. This appears to be my niche in life My goals often #clash, though… My feelings is #ineffable always. Never easy to say or explain. Lost in my own mind, between all Thoughts and feelings’ clash Safe, but never found. #VSS365 Clash #Whistpr Insect #VSSDaily Grant #VSSMagic Niche #Emoetry Beaming #WIPSnips Safe #BlueSkyRelay Ineffable #WoTtober Rain #WeirdMicro Depraved Hack

Lost in my own mind….

#wordprompt
#writingcommunity
#VSS365 #Whistpr #VSSDaily
#VSSMagic #Emoetry #WIPSnips
#BlueSkyRelay #WoTtober
#WeirdMicro

That touch, #feather light,
Tickling, driving them insane,
'Please...' he begs, '...no...? More...

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#HorrorPrompt #DailyPrompt #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #ThreeLines #DarkHaiku #SensoryHorror #PsychologicalHorror #PsychologicalTorment #Sensory #PleasurePain #PainParadox #Endurance #Torment

My dogs
#bark
like they weigh
100 pounds
but only
weigh 20;
love to pretend
they all
that

#wildwalkprompt #poetry

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Morning my pen & pencil wielding friends its time to enter week 2, it's day 8 of our musical mystery tour.

Today's word is inspired by a sci-fi infused indie classic Girl From Mars, our #vss365 #prompt for 08/10/25 is #ash. Happy writing 🎶✍️🎶✍️

What's your favourite sci-fi movie or programme?

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My ancestors
a life remote from mine
no technology
or home comforts
no nuclear bombs
no global warming
a kind of purity
innocence
in a world about
to go all totally wrong

#2WordPrompt #Global/Technology

Global race for arms,
Technology found it's feet,
Running past us all.
#2WordPrompt #Global/Technology #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity

sitting around
the fire pit
the ashes cooling
they wait
unmoving
unmoved and
wonder
if the other
would be the first
to experience sonder

#blueskyrelay #sonder #vss365 #ash
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two words #clash
in a swirl of autumn letters
onomatopoeia

#vss365

I waltz in sonder-form
daydreaming thru other lives
so completely, my voice
matches a different pitch,
my gait changes and
I doctor my coffee
differently today.
I accept their lives as
an extension of the tapestry
we all weave together, as one.

#blueskyrelay #sonder #6amwritersclub #micropoem #poem

She crossed a bridge
edging closer
As she crept along that lonely path
the divide between the living to the dead
The sky overhead
was grim and foreboding
Volcanoes erupted
with the anger of the Gods
thick #ash spewed
the fires from hell spread
her fears mounting
for what lay ahead
#vss365

Tuesday, October 7th ~ #WritingPrompts 1/4

#2WordPrompt Junior & District
#BedroomEyesPrompt Barracuda
#Bonktober Swamp
#BookishTues Only One
#Firewords280 Talkative Umbra
#FoxProse Entangled Intensity
#HorrorPrompt Feathers

Mind wandering, I
Pondered long, growing sense of
Sonder, in wonder.
#blueskyrelay #sonder #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity

Dripping With Words (@drippingwithwords) forgive me if i like 3 am best.. could stay forever here… just me, the night… but the llusions.. they broke-open today.. did you know? no. no you didn’t. i didn’t tell you..i didn’t tell anyone at all...

so it crumbled..wrote a short notepad thought & quote below from it.
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for creative, artistic, thinking, philosophical minds—anyone ’alive’..

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Sonder

The world full of people wandering
through life, not part of my solipsist
thoughts.
Caged, discerned and given breath
by my will, my imagination.
Flowing into them,
but in reality, just them, just
they give the world shape.
I must ask
Do they shape me?
Am I their figment?

#poem

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I woke up
In World
Where everyone
Was made of glass

Yet and still
We fall to tribes
With walls
No one can pass

Even though
We look alike…
Still find pretext
To #clash

Does sapience
Doom us to
Nitpick
Until we crash?
#vss365

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#vss365 #ash

Misty haze floats across
My brown eyes to black
A flurry of melancholy
Begun as a pleasant reverie
Then the dark shadows
Crept way on in

Sun kissed days
Picnic baskets
Strawberries and cream
All crushed to #ash
All berries now taste sour
No longer are you mine

#vss365

start of a madrigal for this friday

Sugar thick blood oozing through fat lined veins
physical shit to bemoan the cracked exterior.
Me, doomed excess which makes me inferior.

Mushy peas
& gravy
in a down beat café
A cold cup of tea
a gloomy sky
on display
read a newspaper
depressing headlines
cheasy pop music
numbing my brain
a waitress comes over
the bill in her hand
summer's long over
winter's full in
not a lot to look forward to
just cold wind & rain
#vssdaily

In a state of sonder,
each of us
is at once a hero,
a king
a queen
a great lover
a God
a Goddess
a leader of men
any adulation you have in your head
mind-blowing
awesome
a model of perfection

#blueskyrelay #sonder

#blueskyrelay #sonder

Stop 30

Meet me in a crowded street.
Words spill—images flow,
each one a glint of sonder,
a life brushing past,
its dreams folded small
in a coat we’ll never touch.

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