He's a sheep
in wolf's clothing
the emptiest threat
he isn't imposing—
but people forget
how the friendliest fauna
so placid and still
when backed in a #corner
might go for the kill
#vss365 #prompt #poetry #poem #amwriting #writingcommunity
I wouldn’t call it #precious
but you have to understand:
I don’t think it’s pedantic
to acknowledge that this land
never ceded, only stolen
via murder, via lies
is a sadly common case of
what it means to colonise
#vss365 #prompt #poetry #poem #amwriting #writingcommunity
Memory may fail
But your beauty endures in
That defiant spark
#vss365 #prompt #bonny #haiku #poetry #poem #amwriting #dementia
Kill another innocent—
we barely need to wait
Another payload falling
on another failed state
You speak of peace
and #harmony;
your actions speak as well
of avaricious evil
as you manufacture Hell
#vss365 #prompt #poetry #poem #amwriting #gaza #palestine #iran
You were not supposed
To strike me a second time
It hurts even more
#vss365 #prompt #lightning #haiku #poetry #poem #amwriting
She has a thing for diamonds
but they fail to compare
to the sparkle of her tongue
as it imparts a new idea
As for rubies,
they are dun—
the conflagration is her mind
sparking embers in the ashes
of the self you left behind
#vss365 #jewelry #jewellery #spellbound #poetry #poem #amwriting
She may deign
to lay her larvae
in the cyst
upon your leg—
Though she gifted
you her hunger
but you swatted
at her head
So ungrateful
for such blessings
as a royal might
bestow—
Yet you’ll sleep
in supplication
when her
offspring
delve below
#vss365 #magnanimous #prompt #amwriting #poetry #poem
I overflow with
excess
unburdened by
desire
Secure in this
complex—
the common call me
Sire
So bring me
heads on platters
a bounty
of despair
I am bored
of local matters
there’s a world
to fuck
out there
#vss365 #prompt #bountiful #poetry #poem #amwriting #nokings #writingcommunity
So cursed to sleep
Til love’s first kiss
I can’t conceive
Of all I’ve missed
… Are you certain you want me to record that as your reason for being late?
#vss365 #lethargy #amwriting
I can't even
#vss365 #prompt #lethargy #poetry #poem #amwriting #writingcommunity
I chuckled at the piece, then really lost it when I parsed the accompanying image. Love your work!
His plumage flowed
like cataracts
that kiss the rock
and mist the fall
But she, unbowed
by such attacks
defied the flock
ignored his call
She stands apart
And yearns for wit—
She is so done
with surface shit
#vss365 #prompt #cataract #poetry #poem #amwriting #writingcommunity
No reliquary of a former age
Recounted in recursion and in rhyme:
Our #splendor shattered by a violent rage
Our statues crumbling in real time
#vss365 #prompt #splendour #poetry #poem #ozymandias #amwriting
Tide-tossed
a small anemone
corralled within
a rocky pool
whose tendrils
tear away from me
seems something #timid
as a rule
Yet
at her prey she'll
snatch and sting—
the context changes
everything
#vss365 #prompt #poetry #poem #amwriting #writingcommunity
In a #quest for "peace"
He endorsed and abetted
Eighty thousand deaths
#vss365 #prompt #haiku #poetry #poem #amwriting #writingcommunity
So #obsessed, in youth
You seem dispassionate now—
Until it matters
#vss365 #prompt #haiku #poetry #poem #amwriting #writingcommunity
The raindrops gain speed
Seeds of life streaming earthward
"Just a drip," she said
#vss365 #prompt #velocity #poetry #poem #amwriting #haiku #writingcommunity
I fall, once again
But miss you — is this our curse?
Round and round and round
#vss365 #prompt #orbital #haiku #poetry #poem #amwriting #writingcommunity
You yearned for stardom
And now the people aspire
To know that you burn
#vss365 #prompt #stellar #haiku #poetry #poem #amwriting #writingcommunity
She smiled, #knowingly
But he’d never seen her smile
Any other way
#vss365 #prompt #haiku #poem #poetry #amwriting #writingcommunity
The hammer fell once
And #crazed this shallow surface
with flaws that endure
#vss365 #prompt #haiku #poetry #poem #amwriting #writingcommunity
A repulsive clown
corruption so #blatant that
you know who I mean
#vss365 #prompt #poem #poetry #haiku #amwriting #writingcommunity
And yet in these contortions is there cause
to recognise a fluttering of hope—
We risk these realms, indulging in our flaws
to help more noble inclinations cope
To find, beside the venal and the vain,
those other seekers, striving for the same
#vss365 #prompt #sonnet #poetry #poem #amwriting
Our mediated human hopes and dreams
infested with abstraction and decay
enshittifying all until it seems
that life is dopamine without delay
In base indulgence do we rut and weep
then serve our #beastly brain another taste
and incrementally, excuses creep
to abrogate volition in this waste
#vss365
Inside the box
you'll see a sun
behind it shines
another one;
Beyond the suns
a mirrored face
that screams into
the void of space:
That all it knows
and all it lost
is bounded by
this tiny box
#vss365 #prompt #mystified #poetry #poem #amwriting #writingcommunity
What goes up, they say
must then come down—
but you
transcend such
grave assent
You buoy, you bounce
where others frown
and mountains fill
the vales you rent
#vss365 #prompt #bouncy #mountainous #poetry #poem #amwriting
Ward me with your arrogance
curse me in disdain
ensorcell me by utterance
embower me in pain
Hex me for the hell of it
wrap me round a charm
summon shadows from the pit
bid them do me harm
Hate me, hurt me
shower me in spite
I stand in love
and love dispels the night
#vss365 #prompt #enchanted
It's nothing—
nearly nothing
a blip
that's all
a tiny spanner
snagging on the gears
a splinter
under the fingernail
a lost laugh
a needle
in a pie
a lost love
barely an inconvenience
in perspective—
too #minuscule
to say anything
#vss365 #prompt #poetry #poem #amwriting #writingcommunity
And should my fingers
#kiss the keys
coalescing
memories
into word
and scheme
and rhyme
these echoes of
a former time
Can the brush
of skin on skin
the breath below
the ache of sin
condense again
the we we were:
a truer me
a living her?
#vss365 #prompt #poetry #poem #amwriting #writingcommunity
What doesn’t kill you
may make you longer
but I long to
rewind—
before these wounds
wound merciless
around your life
to extricate scar
from skin—
to let you shine
again
#vss365 #prompt #wound #amwriting #poetry #poem #writingcommunity #trauma #ptsd
