We had an agreement. Milk and sweet cake at dusk; the washing done, house scrubbed, shoes mended by dawn. But those #illusive humans preferred fragile machines. A snap of #sprite fingers, and a smartphone smashes, a laptop dies. Nothing lasts anymore, they grumble, forgetting the old magic. #vss365
An #illusive picture
You see what
I see when
I see this
You see that
Why that
and not the obvious?
No bats or teeth
Some kind of face
Someone you remember
I can deny
You can’t
It’s like an illusion
What’s that called in the desert?
#vss365
#vss365
illusive sprite
creating false impression
of seven up
#sprite #illusive #SenryuSunday
#vss365
“Our preparations, and the skip of my old aunt, made our #sprightly devotee laugh most immoderately ...”
“Madame de Tourvel has restored me to the #illusive charms of youth.”
- in Letter 6: V. de Valmont to the M. de Merteuil; Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1782)
"The Tyrant projects an #illusive image of himself that..."
"Ah no. He fools no-one. He's plain evil."
#VSS365
#vss365
#illusive thoughts
replace elusive memory
Dementia trades unfairly
#caregiver #caregiverangst
#vss365 #illusive #poetryprompt #pedropascal
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social
@nathanbrazil.bsky.social
Drunk/high/paranoid Tiffany was able to point at that unreal apparition of a mfer, so he must’ve been kind of real…but maybe the entire scene was #illusive.
#vss365
#vss365
I am sick,
burning up
with spring fever.
My delirium of daydreams
#revolve around love:
#illusive love,
forever love, true love.
I am incurable—
a romantic,
hopelessly in need
of your kiss.
#vss365
I'm taking #illusive score
where'd you get the idea for the slinky
if you please
the prize is a lily in the variety of canna
-Twas durin' the war
To communicate with the office pinky
We'd slang em in the trees
As a radio antenna
youtu.be/8xSJHcjYx7E?...
illusive fingers dance on the keys
orphic hymns from ancient Greece
used before as chanting rituals
transformed into a spiritual masterpiece
#Vss365 #BraveWrite
#illusive #orphic
Illusion of invisibility
social landscape
scoped off so we
don’t get full picture
We can be #illusive
w/out interactions hoping
fractured self is
seen whole w/socials
….but sometimes that scroll
makes the hole bigger
dream smaller
& doubt's a dragon
that's real hard, to slay
#vss365
cloudy childhood
our #illusive kingdoms
in broken sheds
our crowns rule over
war-weary fields
imagination
our basic strength
our survival
#vss365 #tanka #haiku #micropoetry
#vss365
did you say what I just heard
#illusive is illusive I'll give ye that
but it sure sounded illegal
- I never sed nuthin bout a sick bird
as a matter of fact
I mentioned my favorite beagle
well, that makes sense
if yer psycho
-I'm over the fence
come on lets go
youtu.be/oaec_Mllm-8?...
"The mayor's riding my ass on this case. Have we caught the bastard yet?"
"No sir. He's completely #illusive."
"Someone must have seen him! You checked the cameras?"
"Not ELUSIVE, sir. ILLUSIVE. Imaginary. He doesn't exist"
"Oh. What should I tell the mayor?"
"We caught him, I imagine"
#vss365
#vss365 #emoetry
a big man
never throws his weight around
cuz he can
maybe the littlest feller in town
ain't never ran
#ignored but won't hide
when #illusive quits & reality hits
u want him on yer side
his only control
is in his hulahoop
that's self
tryin' fer more's a loop
of bad mental health
It's a #lovely story. But an #illusive one, really.
His #Orphic music really did move the Underworld. She was free to go.
She *chose* to stay.
Because good girls go to heaven.
But bad girls?
There's a special place in hell for them.
Poolside at the bacchanalia.
#InkMine #vss365 #BraveWrite
W.E.B. Du Bois’s depiction of #race as purely the creation of social forces offers a prophetic, but also illusive, humanist vision of the world sans the veil of race.
@cornelwest.bsky.social 1999
The prophetic, #illusive, #humanist vision. APA #Newsletter on #Philosophy & Black Experience
#vss365
to w
a
n
d
e
r
along this
#illusive
path...
a raft
of certainties —
melting, they
breathe
their last:
cul-de-sacs
divergent tracks
just when you thought
you had it cracked
smoke
and mirrors
enigmatic
glimmers
of a truth
that never was
#vss365
#vss365
home may be #illusive
like any safe place
if my thoughts are intrusive
I have this inner space
to juxtapose the outer one beyond the sky
& it don't take a router son
to sling a web world wide & high
just a little faith
in my own gumption
to smile at the wraith
& continue to function
Deception
Reception
Illusive
Leering
Legislators
Undermining
Society
Invite
Vituperative
Expletives.
#tHartigan
#vss365 #illusive
#vss365 #vss365 Ewan Scott promises to almost but not quite find the Loch Ness monster. No one wants to find Nessie, but people do want to believe it exists. So Ewan carries out half-assed searches, provides unfocused photos, & questionable sonar video to maintain Nessie's #illusive existence.
Peering through the #slat, an #illusive feeling of privacy. Still everyone can hear the spat. Oh look! Here comes SWAT. Hey Jack, hit the mat.
#vssdaily #vss365
You wanted to meet
I faced with #dread
the #encounter
at the #stadium
I felt #ignored
while the crowd roared
privacy was #illusive
no one was listening
everyone watching
on the jumbotron
I became elusive:
I just left, you
didn't notice
#wss366 #2WordPrompt #emoetry #vss365
She used to play an #illusive game at the R shelf in Waterstones, where JK Rowling’s books sprawled possessively.
“Wingardium leviosa,” she’d say, imagining them levitating, making space for her own books.
And now it was a reality.
“Rennervate!” came a voice.
They vanished again. #vss365
The drugs were purposely #illusive. We went into the empty #stadium to free our minds. The lights in the sky were beautiful. They came right to us without warning. It was a much closer #encounter with the celestial and alien than we had expected: A different kind of trip.
#vss365 #2wordprompt #sff
Ready for adventure
Ready for fun
Ready for a fight
Survival
Not ready to die
Suffer or almost die
Just extend my life expectancy
My will till live
Ready or not
Illusive gains
It’s gonna hurt
It’s gotta feel like making scars
Bot no letting
Not on my part anyways
#vss365 #illusive
It may have been called The Kingdom of Make-Believe, but to those of us who visited the Neighborhood on the regular, it was far from #illusive. The characters were real, their stories were meaningful. Daniel Stripèd Tiger taught me that a little kindness goes a long way. Thanks, Mr. Rogers. #vss365
