luminescent #jade
aurora frozen in stone
borealis dreams

#vss365 #haiku

Thank you so much! 😊

Thank you so much! 😊

#undersea twilight
kelp fronds sense the unwary
it stirs in the deep

#vss365 #haiku

📸: Deadcurry on Reddit

🙏

sorrow works its quiet #trickery
a slow scooping‑out of the self
until nothing remains
sharp enough for deception
i am emptied of all cunning
only tired, worn thin
and in this hollow place
wanting your presence again
for the simple filling
that friendship brings
#vss365

Walpurgisnacht when thins the veil
'twixt forest glade & land of Bael
hushed voices tell the devil's tale
and earthly ears hear spirits wail

those of which they dare not speak
now prowl upon the Brocken's peak
evil under moonlight bleak
the #investiture of witches wreak

#vss365

#seafoam memories
ebbing tide of confusion
your name drifts away

#vss365 #senryu

Thank you! 😊

Thank you 🙏

her gentle #hammer
i broke into a million
shards of who i was

#vss365 #senryu

David Scott does the feather hammer experiment on the moon | Science News YouTube video by Science News

#hammer and feather
fall in lunar vacuum
Galileo smiles

#vss365 #senryu #apollo15

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo8T...

unspoken #words clog my throat
bruising the quiet places inside me
all the truths i ache to offer you
heavy with a desire to mend
that most precious gift i broke
they press against my ribs
and bearing them in silence
is a quiet sorrow i carry alone

#vss365 #word

entrapped in an
overthinking #loop
a tightening circle
of chaotic fears
just thought
gnawing thought
ad infinitum
until my whole mind
noosed with doubt
choked with despair
goes dim at the edges...

... and i lose sight of you

#vss365 #ocd

Thank you for reading my poem. 🙂

Thank you so much, Eileen. 🙏

our old love #letters
frayed after forty five years
edges curled like tired smiles
the ghostly ink still
whispers your name
even torn they pulse
as warm as embers
proof that love
once written
never really fades

#vss365

*love letters from my girlfriend (now wife of 41 years)

Thank you 🙏

to you
i'm #water under the bridge
to me
you're the sun that never sets

#vss365

deep purple ocean
guns roar and timber splinters
smoke on the #water

#vss365 #senryu

#Sink the Gneisenau!
(yes, it should be the Bismarck)
too few syllables

#vss365 #senryu

Thank you, Rachel. 🫠

your hair spills through my fingers
a soft tide in the dimming light
the quiet evening #sings
as you settle into my arms
my touch smoothing every tremor
until fear loosens its hold
and our two tremulous hearts
finally learn to breathe again

#vss365 #sing

#blind watchmaker drifts
incremental advantage
shapes evolution
small gains across gulfs of time
form living complexity

#vss365 #tanka

Ruin in Rouen

#bank the pyre higher!
entreat the gleeful English
with voices as hard as iron
her prayers rise with the smoke
her flame outlasts the embers
the centuries recall her courage
a steadfast heart unbroken
her name a quiet lantern
carried through the dark years

#vss365

ink-black depression
drowning in bottomless void
where light forgets me

#vss365 #senryu #ink

Dr Frankenstein frowned at his lab book, then at the Hippocratic Oath smeared with a bloody thumbprint. Only now did he notice the H was obscured by a smudge. In his haste to create life he'd read it as “First, do no #arm”. No wonder the creature looked lopsided.
#vss365

he'd see the starry sky no more
on fog-bound ship, awash with gore
last living #hand, the others dead
by unseen foe with eyes blood red
sharp teeth flash by lantern light
a frozen scream choked by fright
swift comes death across the deck
wicked fangs tear through his neck
#vss365

#sand veils the stone paws
Sphinx whispers ancient riddles
into silent dunes

#vss365 #haiku

There once lived a lifeform on Titan
Who thought it was too tough to frighten
But Saturn’s #rings in the sky
Made it scream, “Oh my!”
Now it always sleeps with the light on

#vss365 #ring #senryu