James Cutley

Congratulations! First one's the hardest!

a fighter jet is flying through a blue sky with a red target in the background ALT: a fighter jet is flying through a blue sky with a red target in the background

Sucked in to the chase
Striving for attention
Digital jet wash
Now your jet's in a fret

Vectors in turmoil
Switch to analogue wings
Find your line, ring your poise
Hear the tone through the #noise

Set loose your focus rockets
And blow up your goal

#vss365

Draped over the #balustrade, the shimmer of silver lamé mixed with the tearful wailing of a drunken starlet who had missed the mark, though through no fault of her own.
The Academy has lost its senses—or it never had any, cried her agent. Come dear, there's no accounting for taste.
#vss365

Mother and daughter holding hands on the beach at sunset

You built me from crushed dreams and flecks of hope you kept hidden under breath

And we rose from #fathoms to freedom

My kindred, you are sun and rain in one

We walked through darkness, never groveling, never thirsting for light

#vss365
#poem
#poetry
#writingcommunity
#writesky

Thank you, Bethany! 😀

My hope
Has fallen #fathoms
Down into
Deepest sea

If you
Love yourself
It’s best
You do not follow me

Woman once
Tried rescue
Now bad dreams
Won’t let her be

I’m tortured…
And if you’re smart
You will not
Heed my pleas

But when has love
E’er been “smart?”
Bring wine—
I’ll bring the Brie
#vss365

😂

This lantern is my god
It provides me with warmth
And light on this night
This freezing cold night
It radiates hope
As I lay on this boat
Coiled on the deck
Like a #fathom of rope
Where are my rescuers?
I must remain stoic
This lantern is my god
#vss365

When someone fights to overcome the torment of their youth, shopping at the hardship #emporium, using every #fathom of lifeline at their grasp, braving the sea spray of negativity amidst churning swells of doom, willing themselves to reach the calm sea of contentment

It's a beautiful thing!
#vss365

Nigh searched through each dusty shelf but found no sign."Sorry, mama," she whispered, disturbing a swollen-bellied spider in a dim corner, who then scuttled away.

"Ah! Welcome to The #Emporium of Almosts!" a voice pealed. "How about half a cup of tea? Or perhaps... a story with no ending?"
#vss365

It was a pleasure, Bethany, glad to have you for a cameo performance 😀

You're welcome! 🙏😀

You're welcome, ff, yeah I took a big risk with fart, but it didn't cause too much of a stink 😀. I enjoy reading your submissions!

A horse lived in
My neighborhood
Who always
Left home “strapped”

By wearing sharp horn
On his head
In case
He was attacked

Horn came
From an #emporium
That dealt
In magic hacks

Told him
It’d make him unicorn
It don’t
& that’s a fact

So far he has
Impaled a priest
& stabbed me
In the back
#vss365

Much appreciated feedback, thank you, DeRicki!

Lion sentries guard the #emporium's entrance, their soft manes betraying strands of stone. They command a second look as I pass; a testament to their fastidious creator: an artisan of few words, I'd predict... I'd hope. A chatty stonemason... Ha!
#vss365

Awesome news, Bethany! Congratulations!

It's a pleasure, thanks! 😀

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hummingbird
perched on artillery
outlier canvas

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#sheikhawrites #micropoetry #vss365 #haiku #poetsofbluesky

People saw her living life her own way & she was viewed with pity, as an #outlier of life. They were unaware she had a light within her that was impossible to extinguish, one that guided her to exactly where she was meant to be. A beacon that would lead others home when the darkness came. #vss365

You're a superstar, Angela!

Home is a lair, and her vision is dim.
She lives in a bedroom, dependent on him.
An outlier stifled by blankets, she mumbles
a sprechstimme of anguish.
A maladaptive dreamer,
clinging to sculptures of hope.
Dissipation ever close,
she breathes degrees of sorrow
into Judas lungs.

#vss365 #bravewrite

Beware the urge to disregard the #outlier, she who finds the courage to believe and behave with loyalty to her own moral compass over following a crowd, that unique individual who refuses to live in a box of someone else's creation, 𝑠ℎ𝑒 is the one you'd do well to observe.

#vss365
✍️ #writers

Mental finesse is required
If one lives as an #outlier
To this I can attest
Given the stress
I’ve felt from ire
As my feet were pressed
To the fires
Of others’ desires
And the wants they project
Like how my presence’s “required”
Not my solitude nor rest…

#vss365
#poetry

The O is oval, and the #outlier is the only one who respects this, but it doesn't suit the suits who surround him.

#vss365

you're welcome, and thank you 😀

Thank you, Alva 💚

Thanks Eric, your submissions have always been a great read for me 🙏