DroppedThoughts

I walk clueless
through the forest
distracted in thought
noticed by everything
not noticing anything

#vss365 #clueless #poetry

Thanks Francis! I'm old enough to be familiar with more than a couple of those words.

found balderdash
laying deep in the chest
under ballyhoo and kerfuffle
I new I had it
but
never had a use
till today

#vss365 #balderdash

#vss365 #delight

Take a snowball
Now throw
Don't care if you got it tight
Keep the motion going
Breathy puffy mistrals
Aiding in the flight
Not often are we given chances
Chances to splash water
Chances to throw snow
Take the chances when you can
Grab it
Throw it
Splash it
Handfuls of delight

what a delight
proclaimed the butterfly
I thought I couldn't change

Happy New Year Everyone!

#vss365 #delight #HappyNewYear #HaikuFeels

winter dreams
are simpler still

a few flakes
will suffice

#vss365 #dream

what I could be
I can see
but like a dream
I don't believe it's real
my champions
themseves defeated
I'm propelled forward
only by circumstance

#vss365 #dream #poetry

He was #Mars incarnate—raging across battlefields by Roman mandate. Where he led, victory followed. Eyes like emeralds, body and sword glowing with golden flame, he devastated masses. Once gold #threaded into his eyes, there was no mercy. All he left were husks drained of souls.

#vss365
#WiPSnips

from where
comes the
quiet inspiration
that seemingly floats
through the air
awaiting a
receptive mind

#vss365 #air

I struggle in my skin
wincing at my words
crumple my thoughts
only to begin again

##vss365 #struggle

to survive
without living
existing only
as an afterthought
numb to a world
of indifference
though
mercy asks
so little

#vss365 #survive

Rain drops outside
sparse lives
last sing loudly
before
once again
becoming
everything

#vss365 #last #poetry #poem

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!