I miss
the cherry #blossom
petals on the wind
a shower of red
pink and white
as the spring breeze
passes through
and promises
warmth.

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Surrounded by cherry #trees in #blossom, even more beautiful at night when lit by the soft glow of burning lamps. It is hard to find a more #exalted sign of spring, breaking free from winter's icy grasp.

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One day the trees will put forth their mist of green and exalt under a warm sky. Blossom cascading in a bridal veil across the path. Bird song and bright petals. We will open our arms wide to embrace the sun and forget that we were ever hidden in snow. One day….

#vssdaily blossom
#vss365 exalt

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Ok, apprentice, the key to a steak sauce is to #exalt the senses.
- exalt?
It means to heighten. Anyway the key to a steak sauce is to #exalt the senses
- heighten?
Yes.
- how?
Learn the flavour of the meat then add salt and pepper and herbs. And the secret ingredient.
- ?!
butter

People enraged by
Marie Antoinette ballroom
shall topple the king

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#Poetry
#Bravewrite
#vssdaily
#vss365
#emoetry
#BSPP51

Light reflecting from
screens reporting remote war
in comfort we scroll

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❤️ Poem 👆
#WildWalkPrompt #sway #Emoetry #nonchalant #vssdaily #blossom #vss365 #exalt #2wordprompt #shine #straight

Inspired by a nightmare I had yesterday.

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Metal sculpture, a
Flower, razor sharp petals,
A brutal blossom.
#vssdaily #blossom #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity

#vssdaily rat #vss365 conduct #wildwalkprompt sway #weirdmicro shatter talk #thingstowriteabout seat

With shatter talk I couldn’t help but think of confessions, conduct and seat combine to an electric chair, then rat becomes a snitch. I guess I found connections.

Field of purple haze
Lavender blossom unfurls
Eau de parfum calm

#vssdaily #WildWalkPrompt #haiku

black cherry
#blossom

so beautiful

yet wilted leaves
toxic

its flotsom
so innocent

to those
who happen
by

they would never
guess it brings death,
cyanide

#poetry #bloomscrolling #vssdaily #photography #trees

My brother said "I do suppose
That there's no sweeter smell than a rose"
So he sniffed the sweet blossom
And out popped a possum
Which bit off the end of his nose

The #vssdaily #prompt for 3/31/26 was #blossom

a rustle of leaves
she sees a hummingbird
(not a rat)
a conductor in its wings
flitting and beating to unheard music
a trumpet honeysuckle
moldable to its sway

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The #vssdaily #prompt for 3/31/26 is #blossom

Sister in Iran
“enough now, time for ceasefire”
Silenced by missiles

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Yeah I saw that #film
gobsmacked in my #seat
Ben was a #rat
the meanest you'd #meet
sent his army #requests
#conduct them to kill
Ben is a #legend
I remember him still

#WIPSnips
#thingstowriteabout
#vssdaily
#2wordprompt
#vss365
#inkmine

We made the #rats to surveil our enemies, and occasionally attack them. But when they eventually seized control of our society and took over, their king demanded to #meet the human president. He had one special #request: Human #conduct from then on must be humane

#vss365 #2wordprompt #vssdaily #sff

I smell a #rat

yes indeed you do; check out the #rack

what kind of #conduct is this?

drip dry ratvioli, ratdogs, and the Ratatouille is in the stew pot
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#vssdaily #wss366 #vss365

A STARING CONTEST WITH...

#poetry
#prompt
#vssdaily rat
#spokenword
#WIPsnips film
#bravewrite ⤵️
#writingprompt
#OurPoetryX ⤵️
#vss365 conduct
#firewords280 ⤵️
#2wordprompt ⤵️
#bedroomeyes ⤵️
#poetrycommunity
#emoetry moldable
#wildwalkprompt sway
#thingstowriteabout seat
#dailyimageprompt flowers

trickle-down economics
pizza rat
with a top hat and cane
#vssdaily

Musing on whether
Billion dollar ‘Board of Peace’
Just got bored of peace?

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Look at that filthy #rat on my #seat!
Hey, be nice. He can’t help what he looks like.
I’m not talking about your brother. Look!
Oh, a real rat. Well, he can’t help it, either.
Where’s the cat? Time for him to earn his keep.
Probably sleeping somewhere. I’ll find him.
#vssdaily #thingstowriteabout

Mother #rat
with many babies
she forages for food
there’s a hole
in the pantry
a virtual feast

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If one doesn't agree with the #conduct of a cat, then perhaps in another life they lived as a #rat. Except three a.m. zoomies. That's just ridiculous.

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Conduct yourself accordingly. Be gracious to all, rat or mosquito, snail or slug. We are all in a shared existence with our own melancholy & small quest. Given a space to breathe, a tiny part on the earth that will not remember. We live together as earthbound stars.

#vssdaily rat
#vss365 conduct

A #request chewed in plasterboard. A promise of safe #conduct. He agrees to #meet the #rats living in his walls.

"Truce," they offer. He scoffs.

"I could never trust a rat!"

He stays as they try to convince him. Long enough to scatter poison throughout their home.

#2wordprompt #vss365 #vssdaily

Daylight saving’s hour
We’ll find it in October
Now it’s made me late

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Set the world to write
letter to America:
Stand up for our rights

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