"This boat is full. No third class."
"Have mercy," she #entreats. The other passengers, faces like #overcast skies, pockets heavy with jewels, don't step in to #mediate.
She crosses the #divide, seawater in her lungs. "I have no coin."
The ferryman #wavers. "This boat is full. Go back." #vss365
#vss365 #emoetry #wildwalkprompt #poetry #prompt
You’re not #bitter,
not yet;
the #divide too raw,
the #pine too #terrible.
You’re #afflicted—
an #unconfident longing;
#withdrawn, collapsed.
Who can #mediate
when all is #overcast?
#vss365#fiction #amwriting #writingcommunity #authors #writersofbluesky #chronicillness
He asked me if he needed to #mediate for us and I didn't dare deny him. Damon was right. He's always been right. My best friend and biggest supporter speaks our truth, knowing me well enough to diagnose my life.
My collection unused, unspent, decayed. Why don’t you see me? Why don’t you feel the #apparition fallen from my #overcast and ashen mouth? #Mediate the pain within and die with me. Watch closely my #rapid #public descent. My final gift to you, to me, eternity.
#vss365 #2WordPrompt #HorrorPrompt
#vss365
‘The goblins & the trolls are asking for me to #mediate in their dispute about the Sceptre of Ameroz?’ Lis stared at her boss in horror.
‘They respect your integrity.’
Lis scoffed. ‘They’re just looking for a fall guy, preferably human.’
"No, I don't want to #mediate between you and your dog for the last muffin. I'm with the dog."
#VSS365
isolate, ignore
a meditation in
the mediation of
meaning where
truths translate
to mirages
in the vastness of
the maddened mind
maybe god
can understand
these overcast skies
#vss365 #mediate #overcast
#vss365
#mediate
I sit alone on an imaginary panel
And mediate my own blame game
Do I practice kindness & fairness
Or condemn my historical myopic decisions
I stare hard upon my own reflection
Baiting her for reaction
There is heavy silence
Slowly she speaks
You're alright, girl
You're gonna be ok.
Heat and cold had to
Mediate, overcast, tense
Negotiations.
#vss365 #overcast #mediate #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@darkxfer.bsky.social
Mending
Entrenched
Disagreements
Involves
Abandoning
Toxic
Expectations
#mediate #vss365 #poetry #acrostic
He hated being the middle child, forced to #mediate his siblings' disputes. It would be fine if they had normal disagreements like who got the last pizza slice. But as the three heads of Cerberus, it was usually who got to eat the Hero of the Week. Just once he wanted a NORMAL family dinner. #vss365
Interviewer: Rumour has it that due to internal band conflict,
pan-galatic punks Peach Schnapps & the Poltergeists had to bring in someone to help #mediate the situation before your last album could be released. Is this true?
Peach, snorts: Who do you think we are? Metallica?
#vss365
I tire of my own unresolved plot
Mediating between to be or not
Rising and inciting actions drop
And cycle back again nonstop
Denouement and resolutions forgot
The dust jacket never told me squat
Maybe I’ll nap and quit being a twat
#vss365 #mediate #weirdmicro #unresolvedplot #wildwalkprompt #nap
Work
#vss365
In the course of a day, I bounce
between dead seriousness and
red-balloon-y silly.
When dealing with people, I find it
necessary to #mediate between my
serious and silly sides.
I’m not very good at that though. People tell me there’s a silly seriousness about me :-/ :-)
#vss365 #poetry #prompt #mediate (ing)
I always feel
Like I’m mediating,
I hate discord,
I like people getting along,
It makes life so much easier,
To have harmony surround you.
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the present is inter mediate
between your sin
and bad intentions
but look
we must unwrap it anyway
#vss365 #mediate #poem #poetry
#vss365
He's impossible, my sister says,
moaning about our brother.
You know what she's like, my brother says -
I wish they could like each other!
I'm stuck in the middle to #mediate -
and I'm not even their mother!
#vss365
"Rowan refuses to talk to me, Kae looks at me like I kicked his puppy..." Thos sighed and dropped onto the sofa.
"What do you want me to do?"
"I thought you could #mediate for me?" He smiled hopefully.
"Like anyone listens to me."
Realisation dawned on him. "You're mad at me too aren't you?"
#vss365
We built a bridge, to #mediate between the river and the city.
In turn, the river mediates for us, between the city and the sea.
#vss365
twenty years ago,
two twenty-year-olds
married on the twentieth of March.
It took twenty years,
and two children,
for their love to run its course.
Tomorrow—
they meet unwillingly
to negotiate custody.
Paying lawyers
and a stranger
to #mediate the fate—
of their family.
Has somebody cunning
Placed sleeping poison
Over the bed sheets
Of my slumbering abode
My head mediates the dry rocks
For no dreams have been
To sweep me off the shore
The nights have slowly
Turned into breaking dawns
And my days have no
Sweetness of dreams to morn
#vss365 #mediate
morning tides
erase yesterday's footprints
and sandcastles
waves renew
their schedules
their art
I #mediate between
the values of
to and fro
rise and fall
here and there
any permanence
leans on
the controversial
yin and yang status
of now
#vss365 #tanka #haiku #micropoetry
To #mediate
I meditate
Two halves
Of the same coin
One side Love
& One of hate
How I motivate
Sit on the edge
& suffocate
And I don't know
The answer
Malignant in my brain
Becomes a cancer
Too many questions
& I'm tired of being
An asker
What's in my head
Is a disaster
#vss365
"But is that not the circle of life?" Jonah said and the trout slapped the chair with the tail like a deranged drummer. What ever it said was gibberish until it jumped on the table and brandished a knife and said, " #Mediate this, you stupid human." #vss365
Tess’s characters argued so much she wrote in a therapist to #mediate.
“We used to get on fine but lately it’s like someone’s trying to control us,” they told her.
Tess’s doorbell rang. The therapist barged in & took her laptop.
“This will save their marriage,” she said. #vss365
#vss365 At the kitchen table, Mildred watched a swirl of steam coil from a cup of tea. Chocolate-covered biscuits tumbled from an open sleeve of Digestives. It was her mid-morning routine to #mediate the eternal hollow of modern life. Profound alienation subdued by a cuppa and a choccy biccy.
The trout swung its tail and said, " #Mediate? These fuckers eat us, no it is not even eating. They chomp on us, bite a piece and toss us to suffocate on riverbanks. Before we even get to mate." Jonah felt a pressure at his temples. #vss365
My life,
I'm mediating in lies,
I ain't going to be
The fool no more
And I’ll say one or two
Are mine
Nothing stays light and white
The haunting truth,
Like Winter, Springs back
And it's deathly silence
Has come for me tonight
#vss365 #mediate
It fell to me to #mediate between the orange and the blue—the opposites, whose strife was a distortion of both their natures. But in equal proportion, they turned grey. Warm or cool, this was undesirable. The trick was not to make a mix, but to lay one over the other, then they would sing.
#vss365
