The #rein tugged on the #past at the #butte of #chance and #power. I know you’re #exhausted but stop #flinching at the #arbitrary #doorway because the #article #wrapper is #bearable and the #style #potential is great. Step through, overcome, be yourself, and write.
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Today's contribution to yesterday's prompt #Flinching
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Prompted by: #vss365
Word: #Flinching
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No longer bondaged by the government #reins and #flinching at the weapons above his head, Cosmo welcomed his new stage in his life with #style. Like a performer, in his long fringe leather jacket, he demanded the world to pull up a chair and see the chaos he made. #vss365
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The dog withdrew itself, #flinching in fear.
“Poor thing,” she said as she put her hand out to the dog.
The dog shivered more, not from past harm, but from the thing wearing the human skin reaching out to it.
We'd not blame
a butterfly
fresh from her
chrysalis
for #flinching
at her reflection,
droopy
wet-winged
and soft.
So let us found
our change not
just on courage
but on grace
and a
conspicuous
lack
of
mirrors.
#vss365
I see him
stare without flinching
at the life he owns,
headstrong and goal-driven.
Meanwhile,
I feel that I am
stumbling into my life
hoping to make
the next right move.
#vss365 #poetry #flinching
Without flinching
My ego was tree trimmed
Shorn bare and exposed
With bruises and tears
The abyss and I laughed
#vss #flinching
~unwavering~
there’s no #flinching
in human hatred
no hesitation or doubt
hatred is pure
admitting nothing
but electricity
and bullets
knives and fists
unwavering cruelty
immovable energy
with its own gravity,
unholy law of nature
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Tom is quite fetch, this is true.
His #style, smart—vintage GQ.
With a penchant for pinching,
He thrills at the #flinching,
Imaginging derrieres in a plum-colored hue.
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À reculons
À tâtons
Mauvaise décision
Devancé
L'innocence
L'inacceptable
Doute
Des refus
Informel
Contourner
Ne pas tressaillir
Pour avancer
Comprendre
Définir
Apprendre
À se tenir debout
Devant
Les récifs
Démenciels
Artificiels
ML ⚡
#MesÉcrits ⚔️
#Flinching
#Vss365
HaNa is still #flinching
When I bring my hand towards her.
She's getting better.
Feeding her treats as I move my hands
Close to her and around her
Helps.
There is so much joy
Seeing progress happening.
Cats need to be socialized young,
She and Una had a late start.
#vss365
"Beautiful view," his wife says from the edge of the the cliff. "You should write your story here."
#Flinching, Frain steps forward. "Lemme think on it."
"Not inspired?"
"I dunno, maybe."
She pats his back. A little harder. "You just need a push in the right direction."
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a robot pauses
#flinching at sparking circuits
void of programmed whys
perhaps even robots
may suffer a semblance of
human fear
#vss365 #micropoem
"Ah, you've arrived. Look, there's the guard. He's stood there for ages, without #flinching. I don't know how we're going to sneak in."
"Hm. That's not a guard, it's a mannequin. We'll just walk past in."
#VSS365
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She hauled the door open and saw him lying on the floor, #flinching at the sudden light flooding his cell. She pulled the door to, and knelt to check the cuffs on his bloodied wrists.
"You?" His voice rasped painfully.
"Sorry, not the rescue you'd hope for but..." The cuffs clicked open.
"Report 376: subject LJ-227 has responded well to the treatment, now only #flinching when male orderlies enter. parapsychic talent has depressed slightly, but still remarkable. Recommendation: continued treatment, up the dose to 55mg. Increase monitoring 30%." -Professor Langström.
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A sudden crack-- the known flinching-- a collective wince traveling through the arriving crowd. It is the collective memory-- a silent chorus of held breath-- another graduation class practiced in duck + cover. "I thought it might be."
Here is today's poem called "A First Grader In a Red State Said"
#poetry #poem #vss365 #prompt #poetsofbluesky #writing #flinching #america
I set a timer
so I would know
when my feelings were done
flinching when the shrill sound
pierced the quiet
and watching as my anxiety
bubbled over
#vss365 #flinching #poetry
She remembers feeling shame the first time, and #flinching because she expected pain and blood. She got both, but together they gave her an unfamiliar sense of control. The cold blade—the creator of constellations—became her only friend.
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Everyone flinched as they read it, then passed it to someone else to read. They flinched too. Passed it on. And so on…
She had to know what it said.
It said: “Pass this on or you die.”
Oops. Now you’ve read it too. Nice #flinching. You know what to do… #vss365
#vss365 #flinching
#poetry #poem
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i felt the verses of love
uttered from your lips
carried in the unflinching wind
surfing across poetic clouds
into my yearning heart,
& i wrapped my longing soul
with your adoring words
finally finding a beautiful home
in your beckoning arms
amid the autumnal breeze
of rapture.
#vss365 #flinching
"You ok? I saw you flinch."
"It's... It's nothing... Just my shoes are pinching me something awful."
"You sure that's the reason you were #flinching?"
"I..."
"OF COURSE THAT'S THE REASON WHY SHE FLINCHED!"
"... yes. that's all it is.
ⁿᵒᵗʰⁱⁿᵍ ᵗᵒ ʷᵒʳʳʸ ᵃᵇᵒᵘᵗ ᵃᵗ ᵃˡˡ "
"... I'm worried."
#vss365
The trees were #flinching with every fresh onslaught. They saw friends and family cut down by 90 mph fire. Their younger comrades were supple and able to twist and turn to avoid the attacks, but the elders had to stand firm, trying to survive. Their long lives didn't make them ready to go.
#vss365
A gaze met, no #flinching or fear,
Our destinies suddenly clear.
With nary a blink,
Love's anchor to think,
Meant to be, year after year.
#vss365
no flinching
when I give my truth
no hiding
when you give yours back
only seeing, only seen
#vss365 #flinching
some think it weakness,
#flinching
but I rather that
than the bullish charge
the ceaseless advance
blind to carnage
I want one who looks
consequence
in the eye, and blinks
and decides it's okay
to make a change
if it wasn't worth it
if the aftermath wasn't
what we wanted
#vss365 #poetry #poem
