Shell

Shame-faced
Blatant case?
Your tyranny
Cannot be erased!

Smudged out
Judged out!
Yet you’re ready
For another bout!?

Fingers red
And rotten as tar…
We all know
Who you are

Big head
Small heart
It’s not us but you
‘should be torn apart!

#VSS365 #prompt #Blatant

In the quiet winter morning
as sunrise slipped
between the trees
like a breath of light
I stood #mystified
astonished by how the world
can begin again
in a single moment
of stillness

#Nature #Naturephotography
#Naturelovers #Photography
#Landscape #Forest #Trees
#Vss365 #Blueskypoets

#Mystified by beauty
That cannot hide
The Earth is breaking
Its heart aching
Wondrous World
still in the making
Despite construction
Destruction
Beauty reigns
Life heals Green
Grey covered by moss
In the end, we will shatter
To carbon
Stars will shine
And we will be forgotten

#VSS365 #poem #prompt

Ooh I love it. A chilling haiku!

In the hush of the forest
I felt a #mountainous peace
rising within me
as spontaneous and magical
as light filtering
through ancient branches
It was there
that the universe whispered
to the part of me
that still remembers wonder.

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#Vss365 #Blueskypoets #Skypoets

The #mountainous space
dips and curves to your embrace
Sun falls as stars sing

#VSS365 #poem #Haiku

A golden flower
Opens her #enchanted wings
And steals the sunshine

#VSS365 #poem #haiku (attempt)

Thank you Bethany 🫶

It whispered from the wall
Behind torn tulips
Mauve
Like a bruise
Spreading wide
It whispered from the floor
Hard worn
And splintered
It whispered from the roof
High pitched
And empty
It whispered from the closet
Cold and dark
A muffled #murmur
A desperate plea
Silently shouting
Never free
#VSS365

Why do you #adorn me
In crystals and in gilt?
I am filament
A vein in the shape of winter
With no hope of spring
I cling to tendrils of frost
I coil round ice
I drop your gifts
I bury them beneath my perch
Winter is where I belong
And for its darkness,
I hold on

#VSS365

She swayed to the breeze
Grass tickled her toes
Binds left behind
To open up new horizons
To dance by
To live by
To love by
To learn by
To grow
Miss #Boho

#VSS365

You were never meant to have a #successor
You, who never succeeded
Who never tried
Who failed at every turn
Your line runs deep
Though you tried to make your grooves shallow
Your air is thin
No more swallowing gas
From your mulch
Clay was formed
And cast better than you ever were

#VSS365 #poetry

Be a witch
Dip fingers in ink
Tattoo incantations
Knowledge, full
From the soil up
To the moon
#Bewitched by starlight
Dancing dreams
Roaming dusk
Mossy hills
Familiar
Sounds of magic
Like static
Electricity
Energy
Between fingers…
Be a witch

#VSS365

Great choice of video clip! Love that track / music video 🫶

She stood there, sleek black bob shimmering like satin under the streetlight. Rain poured off the collar of her tan Mack. The waist, cinched with a belt buckle in the shape of a knuckleduster. She was ready for Le Freak to be put out by her #chic.
“I’m comin’ for ya, Le Freak’ she muttered.

#VSS365

I never expected it to be the end
A corridor I couldn’t follow
The same tunnel, different paths
One covered in light
The other consumed by dark

I never considered your flame
Couldn’t guide me home
That this would be the #last

That never again would your spark
Be able to light up the dark

#VSS365

Gold slides off glass
Fragile richness

What turns the universe?
Can you #measure it?
Some things are immeasurable

A happiness weighed
On a specific
You’re unable to figure out

A diamond
Swollowed by dirt
Eroded into Earth’s bitter crust

Find a way
To tunnel home

#VSS365

Thank you Marcía

Your actions have consequences
I am a consequence
of an #action, disowned
Even in the grip of shadows
A cruel blindness
Hides you from your demon
You might not see it
But I do
Now it’s your turn to become a consequence
Of the life you chose

#VSS365

Take me anywhere
#Transport me
to another dimension
Far from here
Riding high on dreams
Tumbling through air
Holding hands
Gliding, guiding
Soaring free
Unrestricted
Breathe life into me
and I’ll give it back
To you
#VSS365

It looks beautiful. I am yet to witness it. One day … one day!

❤️

Give me your #number
And I will cut it into the sky
Give me your name
And I will carve it into stone
Give me your secret
And I will cover it with the ocean
Give me your heart
And I will consume it with fire

#VSS365

This is brilliant! Such a sense of foreboding in such an innocent task.

‘Hello and welcome to Hell… did you want to opt for the regular, premium, or #deluxe travel plan?’
‘There are options? Deluxe please’
‘Wow’
‘What?’
‘Nothing… One way or return?’
‘I get to come back?’
‘We cover all bases’
‘Return’
‘Wow’
‘What?’
‘Nothing… welcome to Hell. Have a nice death’
#VSS365

Rain coated skin
Umbrella dripped
No shelter from sin
Grace stripped

Fingers spread
Shoots coil
In soft, dark, soil
Skin bled

Roots grew
A hollow tree
A place to be
To start anew

Free from darkness
The starkness
Of night

In a house of wood
There stood
A #raincoat of oak

#VSS365

Congratulations 🥳 x

Good luck!

I went dark
I went cold
Not because I wanted to
But because I had to
—Needed to
The #eventuality that this would happen
Was not lost on me

Waters became muddied
Focus waned
Eyes fixed on a horizon
That was always out of reach

But my tides
They call me back
Lunar of a lost sea…

#VSS365