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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 1d

Here's my downbeat effort for such an upbeat word

#vss365

Verve Averse

verve
lurks,
lumps of shine
glaring,
teeth points shArdened

I
sl
um
p,
hands empty,
spine soft,
in fear
of the
pouNCE.

#verve
#poetrycommunity
#writerscommunity

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Bithi Paul @bithipaulauthor.bsky.social · 21h

He has not realized it sooner. He has met a vibrant Luke this morning. They have talked. They have met again this evening. Luke has seemed hollow within. He remembers similar incidents. He sucks the #verve of people around him. Irony is that he himself is always depressed.

#vss365

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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 5h

When sadness showers down
Made from artificial
Silly people clouds
There naught be
An umbrella
Or a #raincoat
Big enough
To cover
Ones heart
From welling up
And sinking
Like a boat
With a broken hull

#vss365

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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 5h

The griefer wore a long coat, like a #raincoat, on his character, trying to look like something modern in the fantasy world, but it just looked dumb. He walked around, text bubbles appearing over his head, insulting everyone.

Some responded, insulting him back, but Rory walked away.

#vss365

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Sands @revsodhi.bsky.social · 4h

Laughter echoes,
as a comedian
lays truth bare
they own the ministers,
wear #raincoats,
to dodge the dues
and the rain,
while farmers
held umbrellas
loaned by bankers
who lend
when skies are clear,
but want them back
when clouds appear.

~rev
#vss365

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Sands @revsodhi.bsky.social · 1d

Slowly,
steadily
we let it slip
new day’s verve
dulled by fear
we fail to resist.

Shadows grow taller,
darkness enthrals;
astonishing dreams
schlepp toward
materialistic charm
daintily drawn,
then all devoured.

~rev
#verve
#vss365

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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoying our musical mystery tour writers/authors/poets? It's day 10, two thirds of the way through!

We're sticking with the 90s, it's a bittersweet symphony this life, yes today's #vss365 #prompt 10/10/25 is #verve.

What's your favourite lyric of all time (tough I know).

a man is walking down a street in front of a kfc chicken restaurant

ALT: a man is walking down a street in front of a kfc chicken restaurant

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Bithi Paul @bithipaulauthor.bsky.social · 3d

I wore #ash on our 1st date as you hated the color. I puked after 3 glasses of alcohol. I drank 4 on our 2nd date. High heels turned you on. I put on flats on our 3rd date. You liked table manners. I ate by hand on our 4th date. And you kissed me. I knew you were the one.
#vss365

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Sands @revsodhi.bsky.social · 2d

Love my tees with slogans
this one reads
La la Libertine!
belt is black
wear my shirt with slack
My old owl frowns

Who do we vote?
They sing one note.
Religion,race,or caste
who stole what, who came last?

A heist in broad daylight,
but who protests the guards?

~rev
#vss365
#libertine

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Sands @revsodhi.bsky.social · 1d

Slowly,
steadily
we let it slip
new day’s verve
dulled by fear
we fail to resist.

Shadows grow taller,
darkness enthrals;
astonishing dreams
schlepp toward
materialistic charm
daintily drawn,
then all devoured.

~rev
#verve
#vss365

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Sands @revsodhi.bsky.social · 3d

Footsteps echo
in trodden paths
Somber replies,
cold hearts.

Still,
you steady
your course,
my boy, Oye.

Gutless backstabs
leave no wounds
don’t bleed forever.
Heal,
my boy, Oye.

Ashes of fathers,
promises to keep.
If you fall
always,
rise up,
my boy, Oye.

~rev
#vss365
#ash
For my son.

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Sands @revsodhi.bsky.social · 2d

Love my tees with slogans
this one reads
La la Libertine!
belt is black
wear my shirt with slack
My old owl frowns

Who do we vote?
They sing one note.
Religion,race,or caste
who stole what, who came last?

A heist in broad daylight,
but who protests the guards?

~rev
#vss365
#libertine

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Sands @revsodhi.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you ☺️

a brown bear is standing on its hind legs in a field and says `` thank you beary much '' .

ALT: a brown bear is standing on its hind legs in a field and says `` thank you beary much '' .

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Sands @revsodhi.bsky.social · 3d

Footsteps echo
in trodden paths
Somber replies,
cold hearts.

Still,
you steady
your course,
my boy, Oye.

Gutless backstabs
leave no wounds
don’t bleed forever.
Heal,
my boy, Oye.

Ashes of fathers,
promises to keep.
If you fall
always,
rise up,
my boy, Oye.

~rev
#vss365
#ash
For my son.

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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 3d

Misty haze floats across
My brown eyes to black
A flurry of melancholy
Begun as a pleasant reverie
Then the dark shadows
Crept way on in

Sun kissed days
Picnic baskets
Strawberries and cream
All crushed to #ash
All berries now taste sour
No longer are you mine

#vss365

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Sands @revsodhi.bsky.social · 4d

My heart still beats
to rhythms deep
real friends I’ve kept
the roots that sleep

crushing
crashing
dreams outstretched
forever clashing
waiting for a pass

Through fate’s
deep mire
I navigate
still chasing high
some distant gate
that elusive arête
that unmet date

~rev
#vss365
#clash

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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 4d

The new moon sighs
Where’s the wisdom
Once, apricity reigned the skies

I think this
From my abode below
Haunting mausoleum

#Clash I, with celestial spells
Tainted desires savage
Fighting like a dark lord titan

Summer a myth
Wisdom sighs content
Within darkness

#vss365

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OddlyMe @oddly-me.bsky.social · 6d

The Silence of a Stone

endures grit
the hush of worry and concern
Its rest is contingent on nothing
dismissed and forsaken
yet it will not seek
nor forget
nor blunder
it simply endures
unmoved in its quiet truth

#oddlyme inspired by @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social
#poetry #micropoetry #photography

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L. M. Shayle @skittishr.bsky.social · 4d

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I've never seen the moon exert its power this way before. Beyond the tides, its pull invades realms deep within our souls, attempting to draw out the unknowable evil it assumes is plaguing us.

Artwork of cracked face glaring up, moonlight tinting it.

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PoetessOProinntigh @poetessoprunty.bsky.social · 5d

"They fomented a great divide, instigated hostilities, and having no dignity, they showed no dignity towards others, causing riots, then they yell riots, riots, riots to send in the troops. It's despicable."

OProinntigh

#quote

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DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 4d

My nose
Starts to wrinkle
Cuz I think
I smell a rat

Know why my
#Associate
Don’t seem
To have my back…

Oft I’ve thrown him
Neath a bus
His back
Tattooed with tracks

Guess this is
His payback
For the loyalty
I lacked

Dis gone be
A rough ride
If my little
Lackey scats…
#vss365

a green curtain is hanging from a ceiling in a dark room

Alt: Toto the dog pulls back the green curtain to reveal the Wizard of Oz’s fakery

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Miss Kimberlyn 🍁🇨🇦🔮 @misskimberlyn.bsky.social · 4d

I am exhausted.
My mind is full
Of things I wish I'd told you -
Feelings, desires
Wishes, dreams,
A desperate need to hold you.

Why am I so fucking weak?
I should be letting go.
Instead I'm holding on
And hoping that you know

I love you.

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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 4d

Here's my effort

#vss365
London Crawling

London crawls
eats me raw,
spits back
clash-stains, vowel-bites.

History’s zipper
stuck halfway.
notional anthems
rewritten on the skin
of petty vacant revolutionaries
who graffiti
“I Was There Too”
on post-fact
walls.

But
none
of it was true.

#clash

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Bithi Paul @bithipaulauthor.bsky.social · 4d

I've never seen the moon the same way after loving you. I often wonder which of us is the moon and who is the sun - whose love is stronger? My conclusion may #clash with the scientific view. I think both of us are the moon, reflecting one another's glow.

#vss365 #FromOneLine 393

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