Bypassing the word count 👌
#adorn #vss365

So often, she's depicted as frivolous, vain, selfish. But even as they do so, they #adorn her with admiration, and then blame her for what they feel.
Roses bloom in Aphrodite's hair, and doves coo amongst her curls. Her eyes smile, and she doesn't apologize.

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delivery tag
glaringly unmissable
hung to adorn knob

#unmissable #delivery #adorn

I’m allergic to felines; I sneeze
And I tear when they’re near—then I wheeze.
So I wish you had warned
That your house is #adorned
With a half-hundred #cats (Siamese).

#vss365 #Adorn #Cat #Limerick #Limericks #Allergies #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse #Pets #PoetryCommunity

Here's my offering for the theme of #adorn suggested by reports in the UK press of a civilian impersonating an admiral at Remembrance Day events.
Thanks to Francis @Dreamheadz our vss365 host.

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#vss365 #Bluesky

A follower asked me why I #adorn
my stories with so many strange and
sideways details.

I told her that the world has tilted,
it’s leaning a bit, and I’m just try to
keep my balance.

Stingy with verse,
I wished
to #adorn you with
fallen stars
so like your eyes.

Did they, earthbound,
whisper of their home
of deepest blue
so like your eyes?

For you are gone—
to where I know not, but
the stars they sparkle
so like your eyes.

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In an era of fleeting digital whispers, Gabriela Marie Milton writes with a pen dipped in the eternal. To encounter her work is not merely to read, but to step into a curated sanctuary where the ancient echoes of the Mediterranean meet the disciplined stillness of the far East. As a three-time #1 Amazon bestselling poet and a 2022 Pushcart Prize nominee, Milton has emerged as more than an author; she is a custodian of the sublime.

#vss365 #adorn - ed with beutiful words. I am humbled and grateful. Featured in New York Glamour Magazine – The Alchemist of Ink and Light: The Odyssey of Gabriela Marie Milton, A Profile in Modern Mastery 🙏🙏

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slowed down frame by frame
shattered morn adorned with good
resistance snowballs

#vss365 #adorn #haiku #good

Poem by @whispers615 that reads: What is it about a turn of the sun that makes everyone feral for change? For living their best life and for chasing down their wildest dreams? As light begins to adorn the earth and we intern also are born anew, I suppose it’s only natural that we too feel hashtag “new year new me”

#vss365 #adorn
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His call penetrates
His rival steals hearts
Or is it sex
Away
A white stone here
A red ribbon flag
A sparkle of old foil
Lyre birds adorn
Artistic structures
Still she'll come
Enticed by a brief fling
Nature driven
Content with who they are

#vss365 #adorn

There's nothing to be done
Sad though it is
The facts sit on the table
Sit between us
Neither can adorn
This separation
It is something urgent
That needs to be done

#vss365 #adorn

Words for #vss365
#adorn
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TO A SOURCE OF RADIANCE

Like atmosphere adorning dawn
with opalescent scattered light,

confusion could be beautiful,
as when your brilliance floods my mind:

perplexity bejeweled with truths
escaping vain embellishments...

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#poetry #poem © me 2026
#beauty #love

In a quaint little town named #Adorn,
Where the flowers and colors are born,
With each vibrant hue,
Joyful hearts break anew,
In a landscape of beauty, we’re sworn.

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I want this static to bother me By C. Oulens Oh, I’m all souls and ears to the #symphony of a parliament of dusk & chirps & tweets at the 42nd mile— drive down to the woods winding along foothills But let me retain some disturbance, in my brimming brain— memory screens— sparrows gone missing from the scatter of greying trees along this city’s lanes

Signal Loss By C. Oulens sparrows uncounted their tweets on un-erected trees on grounds mushrooming concrete in un-laughed urban drowns & I un-walked a tavern #adorned with things-with-feathers the ra…di…o playing static

Presenting 2 poems for #PoemsAbout #static & #vss365: #symphony #adorn Poem1 is a new piece, Poem 2 an old piece posted on Threads, here with edits. Not to read as part I&II but I felt they go well tgthr!
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Nothing about this was effortless. Your almost smile. My pointless shrug. Placeholders mistaken for adornment. Adornment mistaken for meaning. As if ease were not depth held under restraint. Our hands smoothing the surface— practiced, nonchalant, clean.

#nonchalant
#Emoetry
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Whimsy ways
#adorn mundane days;
my ordinary life, less tragic
with washi-color magic.

They #adorn my branches with the bones of their loved ones and wrap my trunk in scraps of clothing from those who passed on. They lay offerings of food among my roots and lift my own offerings of leaves to the moon

And still, they hunt us. My brethren, chopped to pieces

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#vss365
#Adorn your crown,
with silver and gold.
Turn the world
Upside down.
The Hanged Man
predicted you'd come,
on a shiny new horse,
proselytizing,
what's right is right
is right,no left or U turns.
The fish will one day
escape&swim
against the tide

An AI experiment...

Spiky pink blossoms topping a shrubby plant stretching towards the sky on the edge of a marsh basin

The blessing of being flora
No need to preen nor strut
Like the birds in the marsh
Simply reach for the sun
As blossoms adorn your crown

#vss365 #adorn #poetry

I tear my heart
from my cracked, heaving ribs
and bury it raw,
still screaming,
to stop the hemorrhage of love,
to free it of paralysis,
the only known way.
I #adorn its grave with jewels
that once lit smiles,
now rusted offerings of agony,
and let the earth finally mute its pain.

#poetry #vss365

we #adorn our lives
with money, plans and trends
real meaning tarries

labels will never
be the inner real person
aura yields a clue

#vss365 #haiku #micropoetry

I never knew why I kept my CD collection all these years.

My daughter is currently bopping about her room, listening to a Lemonheads CD, trying to #adorn every square inch of her walls with 90s images.

I don’t know the word for what I’m feeling right now, but I know why I kept those CDs.

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#vss365 #adorn #emoetry
#melancholic

He adorns her with time,
time he did not have to give,
time that was never hers to take.

Time sitting heavy at her hands,
tick, tick, ticking—
the mark of absence.

She wears it with pride,
long after their time is up.
A melancholic trophy
masquerading as care.

Writing #vss365

"It's worship, in a way."

Bristles glided across my skin, cool of wet paint trailing in their wake, and I shivered, "Just ornamentation..."

"No." Her voice cracked in dry air, "to summon the sacred by creating beauty, to offer decoration as adoration, to #adorn something is art."

It began and ended the same for years
youth
a reflection
spent chasing what was missing

fool's gold adorns walls
brass path built
for charlatan tongues
#adorn #vss365 #greed #poetry #poem

A litany of lies #adorn
The images on the overdoor
Of pure deceit but with no core

Practically perfection in style
Please now won’t you give me a smile

See as you step on through the portal
A moment is all you will be

Be mortal and still choose to see

#vss365

"avenged"

Her
waist a
dorned
with so
meone
else's s
calp, cu
t from
the soon
to be
corpse,
a seep
ing mon
ument to
his final mo
ment. praying
for salvation, soul
falling fast to hell, where
all the good conquistadors go.

#vss365 | #adorn

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"You can #adorn me with as many pretty compliments as you want, I can't do this any faster." Her shoulders dropped. "If I can do it at all."
"It's ok, I have a plan B."
She looked up him, his face unreadable. She had the distinct feeling plan B would not go well for him. She typed faster.

with gems and make-up
I do not #adorn myself
I am only me

#vss365 #prompt for 8 January, 2026, is #adorn