She romped through the #bountiful flowers, found the path and raced ahead.

“Francis, wait!”

She paid no heed and continued on her merry way.

He opened the treat bag and she came running. #vss356

a woman wearing glasses and a choker is standing in front of a green wall . ALT: a woman wearing glasses and a choker is standing in front of a green wall .

‘Get your room cleaned,’ Mum says.
Alice slouches further into the armchair.
‘What did I just say?’
‘But Mum, I’m so #lethargic.’
‘Lethargic, my backside.. You get up them stairs and get that blooming bedroom cleaned before I swipe you one.’
Alice slumps, and huffs loudly #vss356

Music blasts from the neighbouring window The notes are dancing cha-cha-cha to a waltzing tune right on top of my lethargic head I take a C-baton and jive after them in my bathrobe Now, there is a new trend on the internet: People in bathrobes are performing the cha-wa-jive © Stefanie Neumann - @KokopelliBFree

#WritingCommunity #poetry #vss356 #PoetsOfDoom

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Music blasts
from the neighbouring window
The notes
are dancing cha-cha-cha
to a waltzing tune
right on top of my lethargic head
I take a C-baton
and jive after them in my bathrobe

Now, there is a new trend
on the internet:
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RECLAIM
the one true self

the one placed
on shelf
by someone else

the one that
stands alone
but is crowded by guilt

the one that
called the shots before
the callous cards were dealt

the one #ghosted
the moment there
was love from someone else

the one that
just wanted to be held

#vss356 #poetry

Last night, underneath the full moon's steadfast firmament, a penguin raced through my sleep. I asked it what it was doing in my mind, but it was already gone. Instead, its shadow replied, and told me it was on holiday dreams. Must have been one of those accidents of time. No one knows where they root. Perhaps, because the moon plays our matchmaker. Well, at least, it was not a narcissist. © Stefanie Neumann - @KokopelliBFree

#WritingCommunity #poetry #vss356
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Last night, underneath the full moon's steadfast firmament, a penguin raced through my sleep. I asked it what it was doing in my mind, but it was already gone. Instead, its shadow replied & told me it was on...

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Mum, you gave me butterflies 🦋

#haiku #haikusaturday #micropoetry #vss356 #butterflies #ForgetMeNots #Mom #mother #mum

those forget-me-nots
we planted before you died
gives me butterflies

Every season comes with old ghosts and new hopes

#haiku #haikusaturday #micropoetry #vss356 #Winter #spring #daffodils #ghosts #resurrection

#vss356
Princess M, in disguise, regretted seeking love among the peasantry. Instead of wholesome shepherds and wheat threshers she met feral wizards with the flat eyes of snakes, desperados, drifting rakes. Yet love was out there, she knew. She went home to her cat and waited for a #relevant clue.

My unseen premonitions
Unrealized potential
Usurp my will
Demolish that chance
The only one I needed

#unseen #vss356

The salt elemental looked up from the swing as the rain coated them in brine.

"I have no good words left for this place."

#vss356 #raincoat

freedom and freewill
desirable life choices
not always in reach
life's #eventuality
may toll a lone, tragic bell

#vss356 #tanka

No tiptoe to
the future—
We run
Can’t #flinch in the face
of tomorrow; never know
what next week brings
Best version
of U
Find victory
in 9th grade,
Sr. Year,
in Professional U&
struggling u
Slam fascist
uncensor my
Freedom of Speech—
1st Amendment
still stands
Dont flinch bitch
#vss356

The plan was #audacious in its simplicity, but very risky.
Ham opened the car door and slid in. The leather seats of the Rolls oozed luxury, and for a moment he lost his nerve. There was a knock on the window. "she's a beauty, isn't she?"
"Yes, and she's all mine."
"Err... Very good, sir.?"
#vss356

the land was barren
from the fall of man
where no flowers
bloom
Not even a weed
pierced the soil
untended for
hundreds of years
until a dove was sent
sowing
loving seeds
a reprieve
for those lost in sin
to
bloom
#vss356 #poem #humanity #writingCommunity #hope
photo~ Sunguk Kim

“I heard him say that, but who would make such a weapon that kills indiscriminately and violently. Being burned by coils would be preferable, that is near instant.” Ephraim said, “Technically, it is not the coil, that #sapphire blue is pure freezing aether.” #vss356

#vss356 Some people favourThe colour scarlet, It makes them feel like royalty Others scorn itBecause of the bible’s Outdated stance on immorality, It is not glaringly offensive Or a sinful colour It is a magical colour which shines, With courage, joy, devotion, Sacrifice
Which warms all it touches

lavender lady
tuft of hair
cotton candy
peaking out
crowds swallowing
her hue
bobs on

#prompt #vss356 #poetry #poetrycommunity #micropoetry
#violet

Myles watched with binoculars as the stork made broad banking turn. "And he scores." The stork said and Myles made a checkmark next to the baby name and said, "Big bird, that was our ten thousandth successful drop." He felt great at filling his #purpose. #vss356

I originally started singing this around the middle of the George W foolishness.

I think it is time to make it public. There is a melody to it, I don't sign so well. 🤪

#writingcommunity #5amwritersclub #amwriting
#writerscommunity
#writesky
#WIP #poetry
#vss356

I never believed in forms of #idolatry,
cultish constructs or even astrology.
But I kinda worshipped Ms. Joni Mitchell.
She is a goddess, or maybe some kind of witch. Well,
how to explain such musical magic, such songwriter sorcery.

#vss356 #DailyLimerick #trufax

what are you?
I am an #enigma
taunting the interrogator
human
rooted to planet earth
Italian?
No
Greek?
No
Palestinian?
Mexican ?
no
Im a colorful rainbow
a nomad
Iam.... you
#vss356 #human #poem #self #prompt #peace
photocredit~Janay Peters

#SpensarianSonnet #vss356 #vortex #love #poem
Trying out a Spensarian Sonnet form bit trickier than Shakespearian one

My heart
trips over itself,
tangled in the
echo of a glance,
falling too hard,
a stone tied
to the river's pull.
It holds on long after
the currents change,
believing every shadow
is a promise.
Free only in the space
between beats,
it surrenders even when
it can't breathe.

#vss356 #poetry #free

This one ended up giving off proverb vibes so I leaned into that.

#poetry #TheRiffOffGame #vss356 #product #poetryprompt #photography

Amira looked through the resources and sketched who she wanted to be. She met with the witches, and together, they perfected her design. Everything about her would allow her to not only survive the temperatures and pressure of the hidden sea but also thrive in that environment. #VSS356

Fool's games
Lead to a dark forgetting,
Where the sweet songs #end.

🎭 🌑

#VSS356 #DailyPrompt #Senryu #PoeteySky #MicroPoem #FoolsGames

The guard looked bored and had likely stopped him because of it, so Caelan began recounting why he was there. He started with that early morning, his need for porridge, and — after a while — the #rigmarole worked. The guard left, muttering something under his breath. #vss356