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Our history is more fascinating, the more we know…

Fascinating!

#vss365 #poetry

I wonder
What the aroma of you be…
Musky strong mythical Adonis
Sandlewood tobacco dreamer
Leather and grease oiled biker

This some kind of idol I see
What would the wafting breeze
Beneath sapphire skies
Above meadows #jade gem green
Bring to me, I wonder

I wake up to a flat tyre and I'm already late. I curse myself for not paying for home rescue. Can I push the car a 1/4 mile? No. I do the next best thing: call dad. I joke if they came in different colours, maybe I'd be less worried about getting my hands dirty. Lavender #jade perhaps.
#vss365

Jove Decadent, by Ramon Casas 1899

#vss365 #poetry #surrealism #mentalhealth

a shade of pain
delivered when no-one
understands you

fates sealed in #jade
eyes drift to the next show
the list of ever-growing cries

we could sing
try to water the sorrow
to turn royal blue to gold

She swore this was her last dig. Modern tools were out of reach and museums more scrupulous about sourcing these days.

A clank from the trowel! The gravesite yielded a #jade horse with 3 legs. She had seen this before, but where? The eyes flashed and she knew this was her last dig.

#vss365

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“May a thousand cranes Spread their wings over Japan Bringing hope and healing.” MAKINO STUDIOS

rising #undersea
levels to break~bend~rescind
an earthquake still sways
its tsunamic #trickery
heading for this ancient land

I put down my pen
climb to higher ground and pray
for all in Japan

©️Aspen🕊️

#BraveWrite #vss365 #haiku
#tanka #undersea #trickery
#Japan #Japón #Tsunami
#Earthquake

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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

The main characters of Journey to the West: the Monkey King, the Jade Dragon, the pig demon, the sand demon, and the Longevity Monk.

It's April 21, 2026, and today's mythology-inspired #vss365 #prompt is #jade! Like the Jade dragon from Journey to the West.

This culturally defining Ancient Chinese epic features a wonderfully colorful main cast, helmed by the wonderfully rebellious Monkey King!

The dragon god Ryujin, a king of the ocean, overlooking green waters in a robed, long-haired human form. The sea reflects his dragon form.

The April 20, 2026 folklore-inspired #vss365 #prompt: #undersea! As in the coral palace of the Japanese sea god, the dragon Ryūjin (龍神).

A tumultuous and powerful god, Ryūjin can take human form and can be as helpful and benevolent as he can be formidable.

Thanks Donald!

#vss365

#investiture is #trickery

all the regalia, symbolism
ceremony and speeches
change nothing

if we were assholes before,
we remain assholes after

The woman ducked out the 1st floor bedroom window, landing in the azalea bed. Her fire-engine red blouse was at odds with the profusion of pink and orange.

I slammed the window and turned to my husband. “Care to explain? And, please, no #trickery.” #vss365

Uh oh… 😳🤭

iv. The way is steep, even after 14 miles in the car, and we keep stopping to catch breath and let muscles rest, but when we make it to the top, we stop and another kind of breath comes out. Helen, you flat-topped, big mouthed dame. Rainier, we can see the cojones of your cherries even from here. Hood, you watch over the women and pull back only when we say it's good. Washington, you rise majestic but we know you wore a wig and we wonder what underwear you hide under that snow. And Jefferson, we can hardly see you at all, like coyote, you stole knowledge from your sisters, took credit and did not mourn what you saw fall. —from “Falls,” one of the poems in Cassie Premo Steele’s collection about her honeymoon with her wife in Oregon, titled Beautiful Waters (Finishing Line Press, 2017).

Perhaps no trickery
More slippery upon
The back of Turtle Island
Than that of Coyote,
Who takes and takes
Without giving back
And steals what he
Himself cannot make,
Like some billionaire
Bros who have adopted
This modus operandi,
Taking ever increasing
Pieces of our American pie.

#vss365 #trickery

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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

I know this feeling…

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Indeed!💯👍🙌

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What #trickery is this?
I used to have a tender heart
Cried at commercials
For goodness sake
Mourned endings that
Didn't matter
Yet now when faced with
Death and separation
I shed no tears
I look beyond
To what will inevitably
Be peaceful and better
Am I wiser or broken?
#vss365

Don’t know about you, but I often feel just supremely tired. The World just might be wearing me down.🤷🏾‍♂️😢

"Took all ma cunnin nd #trickery, but I finally fukin did it!" Riz said smiling.
"Did what?" I asked.
"I got dis last bottle of god vodka, in it's 99.99% glory! Wait...who drank it already!"
"You did last night? When you got back and wanted a drink?"
"Bugga."
#vss365 #riztherogue

Now THAT’S good vodka!😂

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With an impish vibe
You conduct such #trickery
Yet you still get caught

#vss365 #haiku

Imp gotta try tho… right?😉😂

'Tea, Gabe?'
'What #trickery is this, Pixie?'
'Just tea.'
'Lies! No doubt a fake eyeball marinated in troll snot will pop up when I stir it. The milk will be gnats' pee. The sugar, troll dandruff. No! I shall have coffee.'
'Fine.'
'...what have you done to the coffee?'
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