It never ceases
to #fascinate me,
how much I got to write
when the power went out

#vss365

Fascinated by the wild flowers
Purple magic in heart and vase
Tears of happiness slowly glisten
Dad's love always warms my heart

#vss365 #fascinate #love

#vss365 #fascinate #revolve #illusive

She relishes her illusive role, watching from behind an ivory veil as onlookers revolve in fascination. She waits. Her marbled flesh cold to those who dare to touch. Then she moves, delights in the recoil. The statue lives.

#vss365 #poetry

You #fascinate him—
contradictions dazzling
as you #revolve
from grace to ruin
and back again.

Fantastical
Animals
Scarcely
Caught
In
Nature
Affect
Tantalizing
Epics

#fascinate #vss365 #poetry #acrostic

The kids were easy to occupy. An ant colony could #fascinate them for days. But once they demanded only sugar for meals for "the glory of our six-legged Queen-Mother, Bringer of Myrmecological Conquest", the parents decided to find new activities for their curious but impressionable spawn. #vss365

She held desperately still as the giant scaled nose descended to her hat. The dragon sniffed delicately. She'd worn a fascinator to the dragon races because of fashion, not to...well... #fascinate ! The dragon's nose wrinkled as if about to sneeze. #vss365 (fascinate)

Things still #fascinate me
There’s still a twinkle in my eye
I still find joy in life
And feel a natural high

Things still bother me, sometimes
And bring sorrow to my heart
Rain on my parade
Put sadness in my art

I’m not sick of it all…

#vss365

#vss365 #fascinate

There's something cruel about fascination. It's not love or affection. It's more like watching ants burn under a magnifying glass. It's not even enjoyment or delight; it's observation, dissection. Distant. Cold. Or a hand put in the fire, trying to feel something, and failing.

"can't call it war"

fascinators festering
in evening reign, lain
to lie there, left be
hind like a kid off
Bush's bushel.

plastic pluck
ed clean, made
lean on Trump's folly.

nother war to wage, wrought
to fascinate with hate. country
shot, not even trying
to justify his lie.

#vss365 | #fascinate

𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭⁣
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fascinators⁣
posed upon the pews⁣
as though god is seeking ⁣
via television crews⁣
that one head closer to heaven ⁣
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#vss365 #fascinate #poem #poetry⁣

the tempest of man
self fascination, hate, greed
never dissipates

#vss365 #fascinate #haiku

He doesn’t touch her—
not yet—

just watches,
like he’s trying to memorize
the exact shape of her breathing

It should unsettle her

It does

But something in it—
that quiet, consuming attention—
doesn’t feel like danger

It feels like being chosen

#vss365 #fascinate #poetryprompt #writingcommunity

"The day you cease to #fascinate me is the day I'm dead."

#VSS365

Now a crime
Swan black
Historically poignant:

Enter the dragon
Watch your back
Maybe red
Could be Black
Or weather related.

Could be isis
As order’s fallen
Unabated, then
Came a PolyCrisis
Global economic
Markets obfuscate
Reckoning with Nature
Cash splinters loss
Of banks #fascinate

#vss365

familiarity
breeds familiarity
mostly
so bats
don’t creep me out
they #fascinate me
growing up near
a famous hibernation site
an abandoned iron mine
millions emerge in spring
at dusk
dodging, diving
swooping, swerving
peeping, screeching
I wasn't scared
helped that my brother
was Batman

#vss365

A gate and fence silhouette against illuminated clouds of pale orange transitioning to lavender

Does that light that comes just before darkness #fascinate?
The days last autumn colour
That last late glimpse
Often beautiful, but is that because there's so little left to savour?
Flavoured by melancholy

#Vss365

Exiting the beach between Seahouses and Bamburgh

November 29th 2009

#Photography

our laundry essentials
a copper
a pot stick and
a wringer were
wash day tools

concrete twin tubs to
de-mud the dog
soak the sheets
pluck the chook
clean the fish

grandmother's
real life stories
#fascinate the child

#vss365 #tanka #haiku #micropoetry

His green eyes are designed to #fascinate, but the tilt of his head projects extreme nonchalance. He is the ultimate combination of come hither/stay away. All red flags. I should not become invested. And yet...

Reluctantly, I scritch under his chin. He purrs with satisfaction.

Damn cat.

#vss365

Those who've been silenced forever fascinate him. He makes them speak again to find out how their stories end with each autopsy he performs.

#vss365 #vss #fascinate

#vss365
A curated collection
current of social cliques
we play a game of small talk
showing off our wits

In circulating #tempest
over wine, I overshare
appall or #fascinate
depending on one's air

In shifting squalls
I can never win
loved or hated
I'll weather in the end
I will weather in the end.

#vss365 #fascinate
#poetry #prompt
#writingcommunity
#blueskypoetry

breathe deep dragonfly
gusts of scents that hypnotize
#fascinate sense flow

#dailyhaikuprompt Gusts Dragonfly
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

Eccentrics never cease to fascinate,
the wonderfully strange, the delightfully odd.
Head to toe in curious attire,
they see the world through other eyes,
eyes that dance to a different tune.

No one grants them their fair dues
in a world weighed down by sameness.
#vss365 #fascinate

#Fascinate?

But there's so much more #Tempest content to share!

Like when the Merton Chair assigned me to a senior for tutoring, but the boy hadn't read Ovid and knew nothing of Prospero's debt to Medea.

When I saw him clutching Golding's translation, I realized I was the tutor.

#vss365

#vss365

A young woman wearing nothing but boots tossed feathers into the air and tried to catch them on her elbows.

She said, “The feathers #fascinate me because they fall like they’re reconsidering gravity.”

A young Isaac Newton, passing by, stopped, took measurements and jotted down notes.

#vss365 #poetry #prompt #fascinate (s)

you #fascinate me —
you come, again
silent song of enmity

invading my orbit
dragging the dead cat
that had dragged the thing

it had brought in
ha! a shrug!
Who? Me?

still contrary
but still daring
to do me good

if I look hard,
cry hard enough
I see the secret you hide

behind blind eyes

#vss365

I heard that you may #fascinate a woman by giving her a piece of cheese, during an evening class on witchcraft. The next day I left a babybel on Amy's desk and waited.
She started by rolling it back and forth then she smiled at me.

It was our 10th wedding anniversary last week

#vss365