We were all #mystified by the change. Our elders, once caring and empathetic, turned cold and callous. #Crazed by their own appetite for power, blinded by #blatant greed, they cared not who they hurt or what they destroyed. In the end, we had to destroy them before they destroyed us. #vss365
I'm mystified - why me
of all the hot messes?
you can't just love my heart
hourglass and long tresses
got to accept all of me
the mistakes and the flaws
all of my past, unconditionally
everything that makes me... me
#vss365 #mystified #poetry #writing #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
#vss365
She took her time, each step measured and precise. Others were #mystified by the ancient rituals but not Dayla. No, while they stood looking on in horror, gagging, she took every step diligently, specifically, and courageously. Not that she had no fear but that her faith was more potent.
How long will we stay
past our expiration date
is an open ended question
that has #mystified
many experts on us
who continue
to misapply standard
behavioral metrics
to we cheeky bastards
of a non conformist
time defying bent
#vss365 #fromoneline #poetry #poem #inkmine
#vss365
I can't be the only person who is #mystified over why it took so long for .Andrew to be arrested - and sure that the police wouldn't have done it now if they didn't have some pretty solid evidence.
Blood trembled as heart betrayed and sent #delirious spiraled days into decay and loss. #Censor and #surround my #beastly wrath for the #range of my rage reaches beyond eternity and death. #Mystified, all of you shall suffer slowly before you die.
#vss365 #2WordPrompt #HorrorPrompt #vssdaily
#Delirious and #mystified, she fell to the warm stone floor as his blood quickened into her dead veins.
“Embrace the #range of your death. Watch it #censor the light and #surround your soul with me.” The #beastly vampire held his new child of the night.
#vss365 #2WordPrompt #HorrorPrompt #vssdaily
"How can you speak of this so casually, in one breath?" she said, lips trembling. "Because they belong together, in one breath." Her entire being bristled with denial. He continued. "Have you not experienced how the deepest truths lie where you have the strongest resistance?" He evaluated her silence, a chimera of mystification, frustration, and defiance, then smiled, knowing how to her, he was at his most infuriating when he spoke the truth. He also knew she wanted nothing more than scream at him, punch him or run away. Or all three, in that order. Yet, he would persist. He had long ago vowed to only ever push her deeper, never let her graze on the surface for longer than a short resting period craved, and especially pull her down into the depths with him, when she tried her best to close her eyes, or run the other way. As she did, right now. The little growling sounds she tried to hold back were utterly endearing to him. "I don't buy it," she said. "I mean, yes, but sometimes resistance is there because something is straight out wrong." Ah. She was trying to set fire to and go down with this ship. "Let's try a thought experiment, then." "Fine. What?" "Argue for it, not against." She glared at him. "That's your thought experiment?" "Yes." Oh by the pantheon, she hated him. He would not be so easily dismissed though, as she had learned the hard way. With him, the best way out was often through. "Fine," she whispered. "Fine. You said that ruin and love ... you said that something about how the romantic aspects of love are not where love really shines, but when you let yourself be utterly ruined and shattered by love, that it does." He tilted his head. "Close enough." "I think I get where you're coming from, or what you're trying to say, but that kind of love... the one that shatters your soul, it's a monster. It is the monster in the darkness. It's what won't let you breathe at night. It's what won't let you sleep.
It's what holds your heart every day, the bits you have left, squeezing it, crushing it, preventing it from living, pumping, it holds down its wings with cold iron limiting your --" "Argue for it," he reminded her gently. "There's no way." "Hah. You said you get where I'm coming from. Where am I coming from, then?" "Ugh. I think because if you let yourself get shattered, maybe that's where you learn how huge it really is? What it can be? That only by knowing the true darkness of something, you can fully enjoy the light of it?" She grimaced a little. Neither of them were especially fond of or truly believed in darkness and light dualities. Still, the imagery worked. "Or... like... this thing of how you have to go through shit to really appreciate what you've got, and in that sense, maybe love ruining you completely, if you get yourself back up after, and that's a huge if, and if you can learn to love again, which is an even bigger if, then your love will be even fuller, more truthful, more...what?" "More close to the source. To the all, that is love." She stared at him. "I hate that." "I know." "I mean, that really fucking hurts, saying it out loud." "That it was necessary?" She bit her lip, trying to keep her emotions in check. Her anger had stopped flooding her mind, and was giving way to sorrow. She was much better at letting her anger speak, with him anyway. Almost funny how it used to be the other way around. "Yes," she said. "I don't want to believe it was necessary. To go through all that. To break so thoroughly. To take years to get back on my feet." He smiled, softly, and stretched out a hand, touching her lightly on the sternum. "And how do you feel it now?" She looked up at him, gnawing at her lip. "What, love?" "Yes." "I don't feel...", she stopped herself, when a wave of warmth rushed from where his fingers touched her, through her heart, spreading out over her entire being. "Fuck," she muttered. This wasn't love though. Was it? This wasn't love.
Finally, Friday. I usually spend this day decompressing from the week, one of my least creative days.
I pushed on my defiance triggers, and wrote a little flash⚡️
May you have a wonderful start in the weekend ❄️
#vss365 #mystified
#vssmagic #chimera #vssfantasy #vow #2wordprompt #evaluate #limit
dancing like
all out of control:
mystified shadows
#vss365 #mystified
#WriteMap #shadow
#Senryu #micropoetry
Mystified with love
Heart beats in tune with the rain
First cherry blossom
#vss365 #mystified #haiku
If I reflected
I could trace the path I walked
But I wonder how I got where I am How I did so with her by my side
The singular beauty of her
Both within and without
I could find the answer
But at times it’s better to live a life without mirrors
For to be #mystified is good for the soul
#vss365
always mystified
when i would give a lecture
they came anyway
#vss365 #Mystified #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #ImposterSyndrome
A goofy looking guy
#vss365
So I opened the fridge and forgot what I came for.
That happens a lot, but this time I’m super #mystified, like I was in some kind of sci-fi parallel universe.
Then I grab a pickle just to feel like I’m in charge of things, and not crazy.
The strange symbols that appeared on the trees outside the village #mystified the inhabitants
Though curiosity quickly turned to paranoia
Believing them to be evil, they cut down any marked tree
The sigils had been there to protect against the true danger lurking in the woods
#vss365 #vsshorror
#vss365
The radio cut out right before the punchline. I sat there frustrated, stupefied, and #mystified.
Staring at the dusty dial. I tapped it once, gentle as a prayer, and the static came back sounding like mocking laughter.
If you ever find yourself completely #mystified, just talk louder and faster. If that doesn't work, blame someone else for it.
I mean, it works for our president and he's confused by most things.
#vss365
My actions #mystified everyone. Had I taken the other road, I could have been sitting on a pile of gold. Now, my only seat is a mound of straw. At least my soul still shines.
#vss365
Red and blue lights flashed outside. Bloody entrails led them down a hallway into a bedroom where her body was splayed open. She was smiling. The young one ran and puked outside. The aged one stood #mystified. All he could think was that the blood would never come out of the hardwood floors. #vss365
"I think we're all a little #mystified sometimes. That's not a bad thing. Imagine how horrid life would be if we knew and understood everything. A little mystery is dash of spice in an otherwise bland life."
#vss365
Need #censor your words
not #wise to be so #cheeky
hide in the #corner
#mystified by knuckleheads
and flip your #middle finger
#vssdaily
#inkmine
#WIPSnips
#vss365
#TankaThursday
#Tanka
Mystified by words,
Mesmerised by recklessness,
yet soul finds the way.
#vss365 #prompt #mystified #writing #writingcommunity #micropoetry
People can be #mystified about life
Viktor Frankl wasn’t
He found the LOGO thesis
within the concentration camps
Much like with LEGO
life leaves you with a
rubble of pieces
A puzzle even
but you can make the
best of it or burn it &
let it burn you to death
Or build & rebuild your life
#vss365
A slap in the face
Seizure of self
Stripped of life
Ravaged and robbed
Left #mystified
Your body thrown
Crushed with others
In mechanical teeth
That grind and spit out
Slop eaten en masse
By apathetic mouths
#vss365 #poetry #fuckAI #keepAIoutofart
I cherish the days the words write themselves,
And beautiful character arcs form a twisted tale
I want to leave my readers #mystified,
Full of awe and wonder
It’s the writer’s elusive dream,
One I practice every day
#vss365
#vss365 #mystified
I am half a dance between
Dionysus and Tom Bombadil
There is not a lot going on inside
And not a terrible lot outside
That's the way it's turned out
Nothing wrong with that
Not one of turns out quite right
It's a consolation
A consolation of consolation prizes
Inside mystified
For All to See
He says of the Epstein files,
“I’ve been exonerated.”
Yet mentioned in various styles
He meant, abominated.
As a human and an earthling
I frankly am quite mystified
That humans don’t have an inkling
All his labels are quite justified.
#tHartigan
#vss365 #mystified
#vss365
trees speaking in damp syllables
#mystified, I lean in, listen but
understand nothing
still, something rearranges
inside me
#vss365
sitting in the woods
mystified by Nature’s song
all things as one thing
#mystified #haiku #poem
