Tracy Shawn

Much gratitude, dear @drippingwithwords.bsky.social 💙!

Thank you so much 🤗

Excellent prose, @kitchenraptorj.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽!

Trapped in an #advert not of our making

We fall, thinking we're free but we keep sinking

I'll surrender when you realize we're raindrops in a sea

I'll drop the mask when you wake & break free

The storms ahead don't matter
so long as we're not dead

Still sinking, keep breathing

#vss365

Beautiful prose, @drippingwithwords.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽!

Ad Shamed

Let our company fix you
Of those embarrassing smells
Unruly hair
Age spots, wrinkles, spotty complexion

Let our adverts shame you
Into a plastic-smooth existence
Where the real you forgets how to frown, smile, cry, laugh.

#vss365

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#booksky #videos #ContemporaryFiction #WomensFiction

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I'm a simple girl who just likes long walks in the book aisle.

And by long walks, I mean ‘loooong walks in the book aisle.’📚

#Booksky #Bookworm #ReadingCommunity #WritingCommunity

The sky no longer holds us
No oasis of imagined loyalty
No star-filled light of hope

Alone, my heart wonders
Why your heart folded

To the drag of crouching habits
To the velocity of lies
#vss365

blurs of time
deepening
in my wrinkles

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‪
Jane Goodall, born April 3, 1934, Passed October 1, 2025. Dr. Goodall emphasized that there can never be world peace until we learn to live in harmony with nature, promoting environmental harmony. 🌹Thank you beautiful lady for your tireless work for the animal kingdom and our world.

Thank you for writing such mesmerizing prose💐!

Powerful!

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A large garden with blooms of pink, purple, and white. It's bordered by a white fence with the ocean and a clear sky in the background. This is the entrance to the Marginal Way, a gorgeous coastal path in Ogunquit, ME.

Oceanside garden—
#Perhaps waves sing lullabies
And flowers dream of the sea

(My 📸) #vss365 #haiku #poem #FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling

I think I might name a character ‘Bellwether’ and have everybody listen very closely to what he said and then do anything *but* what he wants them to do. 🤔😅

Wind,
The unreachable air
Of change

But, still, he thinks he catches it
Fancying himself a bellwether
Expects all to follow his lead

Yet nature has her own wild flight—even, at times,
The human nature that sways within its path

#vss365

Much Gratitude☺️💕! I love your work, as well📖!

Thank you, @marcialynnpaul.bsky.social 📖🦋!

White bloom tinged with pink and purple against the varying greens of the garden foliage.

Hibiscus in the garden.

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Thank you, @drippingwithwords.bsky.social ☺️!

I extrude my dreams
Press them into so many hopeful shapes

Bake them until they’re warm and crisp and finally done

Only to have them break into so many crumbs
Only to lean my head onto the table

The exhaustion of reality
Crushing

#vss365

..sometimes you just need to sit alone. on the floor. in a quiet room. let the sun dance away into the night–and forget about the world for awhile..

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We are seeing a roll back of the freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and freedom of the press not just on late-night, but at all levels of society, we must stand united for our freedoms.

That’s why announcing the NOPE Act to prevent presidents from using government to punish critics.

Reading The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong…such a poignant story, such a talented author📖 #Recommended #Reading #BookClub

Life sometimes feels like I’m trying to assemble a jigsaw puzzle in an earthquake.

*STERN CHAPERONE*

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Mine, too! #anxiety warrior💐

Lovely!

The gift of thinking
Became a nightmare
Of overthinking

What-if-thoughts conspire
Against rationality
Against the here and now

The challenge is to lasso
Those ruminations
Then set them free

Let them gallop, with their impossibly loud hoofs,
Into the unknown
Into silence

#vss365