DroppedThoughts

people parade
life's chest of medals
revel
"look at all I've achieved"
truth be told
circumstance
mostly turns on
the fate
of
geography

#vss365 #geography

famous last words
chiseled in stone
cause passers to pause
so as to not
rest alone

#vss365 #famous

thanks Peter 😊

education of example
once thought lost on youth
ripens
innocently nourishing
a wanting world

#vss365 #education

A marzipan cage; the house tastes of her. Everything she touches becomes hers, touches back. At night, walls press close, pulsing. She runs her mouth along a lip of cool glass. Domestic. The cat knows. Paces. The word is a fury, agreeing to purr. In small, slow circles.

#vss365 #domestic

domestic ruminations
clouded thoughts
forgiving words of hope

#vss365 #domestic

bellwethers left unheeded
innocence or arrogance
the outcome will be the same

#vss365 #bellwether

catastrophes spun from
happenings of no meaning
leave the pious questioning faith
the irreverent searching for god

#vss365 oops #catastrophe

catastrophes spun from
happenings of no meaning
leave the pious questioning faith
the irreverent searching for god

#vss365 #castastrophe

She’d been blue, grumpy, sour everything
but not devastated,

devastated
was true love.

#vss365 #grumpy

#vss365

Holy Writ

Grumpy preachers in leathered jackets
spit ps
alms
on the paving
slabs,
I drink
their words
raw,
like blood from a bitten lip,
and feel the city’s heartbeat
hammering my blistered bones.

#grumpy
#poetry
#poem
#poet
#poetrycommunity
#writerscommunity

a grumpy old man
sneered and snarled
a world replete
shaded by ghosts
envious of revelers
he hangs his head
eyes fixed on
familiar cracks

#vss365 #grumpy

my grizzled elm
so sad it's demise
together we thrived
together we die

#vss365 #elm

thank you Jami Lyne 🤗

crimson hair
framed eyes of
sapphire and ruby lips
a gold cross
draped her ivory chest
with a melodic brogue
she spoke longingly
of an emerald isle
those she'd left behind
...the pint overflowed
before she drifted back.

#vss365 #sapphire #crimson

8 Ways to Survive the World

One #sparrow for cheer,
two for good fortune.
Three in a tree
to keep us from harm.
Four grow too loud,
five make a family.
Six become friends,
and seven's a swarm.
Eight sparrows deep,
they return,
true to form.

@jamilynewriter.bsky.social
#vss365 @vss365hq.bsky.social

so sweet
a sparrow's song
that charms the sun
and stirs darkness to light

#vss365 #sparrow

thanks so much!

It was only by
happenstance
that divine
intervention interceded
so nothing would be
left to chance
leaving it all
to fate

#vss365 #happenstance

Like a savant,
I deciphered
every glance,
turning crumbs
of kindness
into feasts.
You'd smile,
and I'd script
entire futures.
But your heart
never stumbled
toward mine.
I'm fluent
in a language
you never learned,
reciting love
to an empty room.

#vss365 #poetry #savant

the savant
gifted a key
straddles
the
threshold
allowing a
glimpse
the
vast
possibilities
that exists
beyond

#vss365 #savant

the rustle
of the overflowing
bright yellow
taffeta prom dress
betrayed my
every awkward
backseat intention
but
not enough
to deter

we still laugh
at the memory
cause
I still have
the girl

#vss365 #taffeta

I carry my #nostalgia in a paper sack filled with broken memories and half-felt sensations of freedom. There's a hole in the bottom and every time I write something, bits of the past leak out.
#vss365

nostalgic reflections
a veiled mirror
softens what was

#vss365 #nostalgia #senyru

at the bird feeder
the comings and goings
of precious migrants

#dailyhaikuprompt (gleaner)
#micropoetry #haiku

is there space for charity
is there space for compassion
is there space to ease another's pain
is there space for my brothers and sisters
is there space in me

#vss365 #space

thank you my friend!

thanks so much!

kept moments
conjured from before
shape a fated path

#vss365 #moment #senyru

with dogmas
rooted in vagary
leaders delude
pounding their fists
in certainty

#vss365 #vagary