I went fishing in the dawn, where she shone among the foam;

the sea uses love like light on hooks, and draws its borrowings home.

#vss365

I wander
in candlelight
a lot
nothing changes
months pass
I can't say
all too slowly
April's like that
contemplative
an odd transition
I find
perhaps
it's meant
for bluebells
long walks
in the woods
second chances
to become
who you were
meant to be
April
changes me

#poetry

I remember blueberries
fishing for them
at Badger Cottage

lifting the netting
prospecting for the
swollen pops

sweet sour, blue
so abundant
they could drop

unmourned
to the flagstones
while the juice of others

a momentary delight
to my complacent tongue

#vss365 #fromoneline #fishing

#vss365 #MicroFiction #Love #Time

He gave her a #jade necklace on
their first anniversary.

From that time on, she always
put it on before they made love.

She passed, her fire extinguished,
but that necklace continued to
glow, warmly.

every sinew
designed for this

breath explodes
plumes of smoke
in the crepuscular air

summiting the ridge
an unbroken line of fur
still silhouettes
like the trees
that thrust bare limbs
towards the darkening sky

a howl
the wolves descend

#vss365 #wolves

Ember Kite

It spurns the pull of ground,
With scorched and dappled brown,
As ember kindled new.

The frantic flaps of birds,
The Kite selects its line,
Each glide a crisp design.

#poem #poemoftheday #poetry #wildlife #animal #photooftheday #Photography #blueskyphoto #photo #kite #bird #birds

maybe we were always doomed
only getting to express love
at night

is it any wonder
I couldn't see
the jade in your eyes?

there were many things
you missed about me too

oh, but the songs
I wrote about our silhouettes

if our love
could have seen
the light of day?

it's too big
to imagine

#vss365

𝗥𝗲𝗱 𝗚𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘁

one day
it will all be
dust

hopes, fears,
the passing
of years

all gone
the sun
blooms on

earth overrun
as time
treads on

we, a blink,
who sometimes
think

ourselves
the omega
when beta

has barely
begun

#vss365 #dust #edit

Eyes like a #jade fist,
Heart as dark as a hole in the night,
With sinister jokes
For flashes of light.

Shape like a flame
But colder than ice,
She’ll promise a kiss
And deliver it twice,
Swallow your soul
Cos love is her vice,
Devour you whole,
Cos it's never a bite.

#vss365 💅

grey shetland
coat mud-patched
a #jade

flies settle together
then take off
on each head shake

under the hawthorn
once more
rooted, but not forlorn

each time I pass
I hold a hope
you'll come to nuzzle

maybe lower
your head
to my dog's muzzle

only once
you neighed —
she said: a greeting

#vss365

a minion from the movie despicable me is standing in front of a pink car ALT: a minion from the movie despicable me is standing in front of a pink car

On 4-20
Caught you faded
With ole’ Snoop Dawg
& the crew

Ever since
You ain’t seemed #jaded
Like da Preacher
I once knew

“Free yo’ mind,
yo’ ass will follow”
Your new sermon
To the pews?

Guess that little
“Doob” turned fallow
Shallow fields
Of words from you…
#vss365 #four20

Dawn breaks without the noise of songbirds, creatures old legends tell of, before the floods.

Children now sleep in high trees, as we scour for food below; hoping in the future, they’ll find a way to rid the invading monsters from #undersea —could there be, songbirds again.

#vss365

#vss365 #haiku

dawn, upon waking
my thoughts circle slowly
like #undersea currents

Don’t think apartness breaks what hearts have made.
The sun will span all space to warm the stone,
So too does love traverse each distant shade,
For I am with you when you are alone.

#vss365

1/5

#undersea
stones rasp
chatter
restless on their bed
slow grind
eroding in time
to the water's
beat

p a r t i c u l a t e

the morning tide
pulled by the moon
draws towards the shore

on the water's edge
a dolphin carcass
borne by the sea
comes to rest

the gulls
will return
with the sun

#vss365

@susanlanedutrizac.bsky.social #nostopping

what trickery
is this
who'd have thought that
suffering
was the route
to peace

apart from Buddha
and the accumulated
years
of other
philosophical
hacks

well
here I am
late to the party
popping
the champagne

I'm treading
on coals
but maybe
my soul
intact

#vss365 #trickery

I'd look forward to hearing them!

I loved these poems, particularly the first one. 'A bus brake screams like an eagle' was one of the many highlights for me!

I wrote your name
in the sky with care
it whispered back
on the gushing wind.

I traced it deep
in the folded sands,
where #seafoam waves
erased it gently,
leaving behind a seashell.
That shell breathes your name,
soft endless echoes
like the ocean’s sigh.

~rev

#vss365

Yeah, I'm fine with any comments, to be honest. Better than screaming into the void!

ill give zero
punctuation a go
and see how it lands
perhaps
the freedom will help the words
to sing
what have I got
to lose

😉

Thank you for saying.

It's an interesting point and one I've thought about a fair bit. At the moment, when things are tough, just producing anything at all seems like the achievement!

the turbulent sea
beats
relentlessly upon
the shore
each breaker breaking
me
but is this alchemy?
nigredo
before the gold; forging,
starting
to mould new forms
one day
lighter, more buoyant
than the #seafoam
whipped
up by the breeze, floating
carefree
away from the pull
of the
hungry tide

#vss365

crying
in a coffee shop
indie music treads
a beat
so at odds
with my heart

sun's warm
at least

try to imagine
a release
wishing I could
share the others'
chatter about things
that don't
really matter
and yet mean
everything

unsure of
who
I am and what
to do

'I love flat whites'
breaks in

icy water pools
seating cover takes the strain
Robin plunges in

#vss365 #water

shavings cascade, whirl...
sink gurgles the dregs of me
shame, I missed a bit

#vss365 #sink

often the reverse needed

#7syllablesentence

tap drip slows, then stops —
beyond window's frosted glass,
blackbird starts to sing

#vss365 #sing