bent by intention
the voice falters
language asks its price
an #arbitrary toll
pressing
the barest phrase
into hesitation
sincerity stumbles
what longed for clarity
turns opaque
still we lean on speech
seeking presence
in absence
where being true self
#eludes all saying
#vss365 📸 by A. Zhuravleva
Through the labyrinth, the black minotaur pursues. It wears her mother's face. Memory #eludes her. Where's my girl?
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Mom plucks at the sheets. She moans, "Mommy!" & I know she's in deep. She learned young not to rely on Gram, not for help, not for love.
I hope she feels my hand at least.
#vss365
#vss365
May the peace that #eludes us all find you…
…but not knock you out with that brick it’s been carrying for the last 4 blocks.
When expectant partisans
heard the breaking news
that the demise
of the intolerable beast
was just another
wishful rumor
When the group wishes
of their wanna be existence
#eludes the tyranny of reality
the disappointed zealots
must learn the value
of putrid acceptance
#vss365 #trumpdead #poetry
Hope #eludes her, fading like night in the shining city. Streetlights scare the darkness out of the sky, bringing it down to fill her head. She would sleep, but lately that eludes her too, so she'll count stars. One, two.
It's not enough.
#vss365
"Well, I think we should go see her before she turns every book ever written to poo!" Longrass scratched behind his ear, enjoying the feeling of being a mouse once again. "Of course, there will be the odd tale that #eludes her."
"We could get the bookworm to eat her sheep." Gee pondered.
#vss365
It #eludes me
Peace
Sanity
Fitful dancers
Flitting as flickering embers
Buoyed & buffeted
On ravens-wing winds
Lost in abyssal aether
An echo of an unheard cry
& still I grasp
The straws razor-sharp
Biting me
Flaying my soul bare
Until all is numb
And the tears gone dry
#vss365
“There is fifty cutlers in the city and those are cutlers with a stall which excludes the number of roaming cutlers. A cutler is a figure that #eludes the prying eye of guards. It is a needed profession, but not profitable enough to warrant asking bribes by guards.” #vss365
A blackened pot with a handle, filled with water, rests outside on a brick colored deck. (It is the pot of homemade vegetable soup that I just burned while composing the triolet.)
So many things, my mind #eludes
Forgetting too many names and dates
Consistently dampens my moods
So many things, my mind eludes
But never morning coffee brews
I guess that's the plan of the Fates
So many things, my mind eludes
Forgetting too many names and dates
#vss365 #Poetry #TBI #BraveWrite
Time #eludes us
To the #limestone cliffs we have not even scratched
the surface of living
Let the sunset borrow their escarpment to play
out the last drama of the day
I will be glad to see it
#vss365 #blueskyrelay
the thing that
(say again)
the thing that
voice on pause
or am I stuttering
the thing that
mind reroutes
message returns again
pillow on my head
turn off the radio
cancel my newspaper (sorry kid)
the thing that
#eludes is
a way out
shipwreck reality
designing us
our numb humanity~
#vss365 (eludes)
I used to know what calmed the soul
Once, this pain, I could console
"Found" #eludes me now
Sunken clouds consume me now
In the mist is beauty
Pray, allow my heart to see
Restless no more, I pray to be
But not at expense of "this is me."
#vss365
History #eludes
the voodoo walk of time
Spectacle
of the Avenue
the way her hand feels
clutched in mine
Passing moments
beneath the lights
with the towers
up the street
Haunting passion
as we dance
to jazz
we revel in its beat
#vss365 #elude
#poetry
When it wants to, love #eludes us
Like a shaky face shimmering
Across old photographs
The family points, asks
Who was that?
And the memory of the person
Becomes only the memory
Of the dress they wore
When presented with a life
So condensed,
Its no wonder
The picture came out blurry.
#vss365
hypnos #eludes me
but eros slips in
occupying that empty space
and there i pen
my most coveted desires
#vss365
#poetry
Romantic love #eludes
It is but water’s spirit
Adherent to the flow
Of the terms of conditions
#vss365
#poetry
#writing
#BlackSkyRelay
Some days I can feel the beat
It runs from my feet into my chest
I can feel all the movement in the street
Yet some days it #eludes and tests:
My patience, my desire, my need
Those are the days I feel my greed
#vss365 #poetry #micropoetry #poem #writing
In the timeless ritual
one pursues and one eludes
it is not by frailty then,
but by design
if the weak should fail
and the strong survive
but what of men
where the open gate
has let compassion in
#vss365 #eludes #poetry
I love you to the moon and stars and back but the reason eludes me.
She was hoping for a few specifics.
#vss365 #eludes
From the #vss365 jukebox, this is You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby by The Smiths:
If you're wondering why
All the love that you long for #eludes you
And people are rude and cruel to you
I'll tell you why…
You just haven't earned it yet, baby
youtu.be/jc9F0bh5OXc?...
#MusicSky
too young to have grown up
but a sapling bends with the wind
forced with age to shade the undeserving
joy #eludes these broken boughs
lightning-scarred, self-decorticated
leaves crumble under #veins collapsed
there's no majesty in the withering
a forest of one forgotten
#vss365 #whistpr
the vow I once took
has no words for this place
its name will elude
and only exist to those
who are completely adrift
#vss365 #eludes #tanka
enlightenment
#eludes us all
caught up
in all the machinations
of life
food
water
shelter
while the threats
to our existence
are many
and obvious
they pose
like proud peacocks
strutting
pouting
threatening our world
and children
stop
just stop
#vss365
#vss365 #WritingCommunity
Photos around the house
keep your smile ever present
but the memory of your embrace
#eludes me.
