Jan Karlsson

October 6

cheap wine, lemongrass
vinyl crackling soft, yet full
two thousand nights gone
dylan's blue harmonica
i associate with you

#vss365 #dailyhaikuprompt #night #associate #tanka #writingcommunity #poetry

#vss365 #associate

I finished a late lunch;
as unusual, a squash chimichanga. After
half, I'd decided:
associate w
associates.

The second half was
as unusual, a squash
chimichanga. My bro
Anthony, now
my associate in
association, also

finished a late lunch
w sweet potato fries
and good fry sauce.

To associate winter
with darkness and cold

is to miss the fullness
of emptiness.

#vss365 #associate

They build their palaces  on a foundation of quiet-- associate when your speech with a reckless yawp + whimper that your noise  is actually the problem. But I have seen the monuments  of the calm + sensible-- always draped in chains of silence. So, let them curse your fire-- see how they tremble  at the tremor of your voice. You, who eat the ashes of Pompeii. For the only good  this world has ever known arrives on the shattered air of your volcanic shout!

Here is today's poem called "Tectonic Shift"

#poetry #poem #vss365 #prompt #poetsofbluesky #writing #associate

An #associate is a friend who knows it's time to put on their associate hat when they are introduced to a third party as "my associate."

And by the third party, my associate and I are tipsy enough to find this sort of thing hilarious.

#vss365 #writing #vss #storytelling #humor #humour

It was a whisper designed to be heard: One does not #associate with riff raff!
Gallantia blinked slowly, eyeballs rotating behind her green painted lids til they found their target.
The girl ignored her & stuck out a hand covered in inky twisting vines:
I’m Lacey, but you can call me Raff. #vss365

An associate
Clinging to morality
By the spiders' web

#vss365 (associate) #blacksky #art
#3lines #poetsofbluesky

#makesomenoise

#WIPSnips 7/10: Safe

'Noticing that Ryder’s temperature was much higher than normally considered safe for a human, Victor gently shifted Ryder’s weight from himself to the wall behind them, still taking some of it in case the wall didn’t hold.' - #WitchChild

#WIPSnips October 6: "miss".

TFW the townhouse you're squatting in is smaller than it should be.

furry associate
tabby cat 🐈
at the barber's

#vss365 associate

#haikufeels #dailyhaikuprompt #haikuchallenge #writing #poem #poetry #poet #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #senryu #3lines #verse #wss366

I associate
your voice
with twilight,
that hour
when longing
becomes its
own language.
My hands
remember
what my life
was never
allowed to hold.

#vss365 #poetry #associate

Adjunct, Associate, then Full Professor. I'd hoped that would be my career. Wander the hallowed halls, breathe the rarefied air of academia. Didn't turn out that way. But it's not so bad; being a serial killer has its appeals too.

#vss365

#vss365
Her face lit up like a baby at Christmas. “Shit! I forgot.” A phone magically appeared and went to her face.

A buzzing sound came from a phone an #associate dropped off 30 minutes ago on the phone pile.

The waterworks started up again. But I knew how this story would end now.

#vss365

I'm will always #associate October 6th with the birth of my first child. Happy birthday, my love 😘 😘

What do we #associate with cats?

Allergies.
Fur.
Purring.
Making biscuits.
Cat barf.
Scratching posts.
Cat furniture.
Warmth.
Demanding.
Independence.

There's so many things.
For me, the main one is
Companionship 💙

#vss365

Starting in just a few minutes!

twitch.tv/TelinArtho

#WriteSky #WIPSnips

#WIPSnips #IdolHearts #miss #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

"Welcome to Hell! Please follow the queue and deliver your soul in payment to my #associate over the bridge! Welcome to Hell!"

#VSS365

I can’t #associate with separation
The premise feels fundamentally misleading
Leaving many identities mistaken
By disassociation and special pleading

#vss365
#poetry
#BlackSkyRelay

We may look like we refuse to #associate with each other, but we all look for opportunity and threat
Appearances can be deceptive
You haven't worked that out just yet

#Vss365

Starlings

October 6th 2025

#Birds #Photography

He knocked. Waited. Heard steps. The door opened. And there she was.

"Dorothea!" He felt his face flush reflecting hers. Then, a very tall mouse appeared by her side. He wore glasses and a waistcoat.

"This is my #associate, Longrass." She smiled.

"A mouse?"

"I am."

"A talking mouse?"

#vss365

She didn’t know if the thing that she would #associate with his presence had changed. Suddenly more often and appearing in a different way. She was confused and questioning if this the change was to ensure it was seen or if it was unwanted attention from elsewhere. #vss365

#associate with whom, when everyone leaves after my first sentence?
The psychiatrist said, ‘Then watch your words.’
She replied, ‘But I see their lies.’
Lithium was increased in her prescription.
She’d been hospitalized three times, never given a chance to be believed.
#vss365

Drone Wandering in circles Without moving my feet Trying to find earplugs For my thoughts A dark space, association free A place in me to just Breathe. Everything in here leads to Something..someone ..someplace I have been, or should have been or was I just need the quiet. To find out What I could do if it's quiet

#vss365 #associate #poetry #blueskypoet #skywriter #poetrycommunity

I join my #associate in the booth at the diner on the wrong side of town.

"Were you followed?"

I nodded. "3 hunters; they called to a 4th."

"And?"

"Dispatched the 3 with ease. The other one, though, had some skill. That's how I got these scars. Not healing."

"You need some blood."

#vss365

Associate with flesh and blood
Algorithm has only ones and twos
No love, no hand to hold
If you care
Make sure it breathes

#associate #vss365

"I'm an author, too!"
"Cool! These cons are my only real chance to #associate with other writers. What do you write?"
"AI scifi."
"Oh, like scifi about AI? Dystopian stuff?"
"No, no... I use AI to write science fiction."
"..."
"First, I start with a #prompt like--wait! Where are you going?"

#vss365

a green curtain is hanging from a ceiling in a dark room Alt: Toto the dog pulls back the green curtain to reveal the Wizard of Oz’s fakery

My nose
Starts to wrinkle
Cuz I think
I smell a rat

Know why my
#Associate
Don’t seem
To have my back…

Oft I’ve thrown him
Neath a bus
His back
Tattooed with tracks

Guess this is
His payback
For the loyalty
I lacked

Dis gone be
A rough ride
If my little
Lackey scats…
#vss365

Wait! her brother called, and she turned to see him wiping his sneakers on the dry grass. There was a smell, not of cow manure but something stronger. A stink she #associated with the trash pit at the dump. The puff of air that her nose when Dad made her toss the bags in. Rotten, sweet. #vss365 6/31

appreciate
#associate
appropriate
assimilate

#vss365