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Joshua Shares @shortkingofhearts.bsky.social · 16h

we live a decade-in
to the world of piranhaic criticism
a target appears
and the comments come
many-fished
many-toothed
and biting, all
little nourishment to the individual
little change to the society
but blood in the water
so much blood

#piranha #vss365 #poem #poetry #socialmedia

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Joshua Shares @shortkingofhearts.bsky.social · 16h

we live a decade-in
to the world of piranhaic criticism
a target appears
and the comments come
many-fished
many-toothed
and biting, all
little nourishment to the individual
little change to the society
but blood in the water
so much blood

#piranha #vss365 #poem #poetry #socialmedia

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Joshua Shares @shortkingofhearts.bsky.social · 1d

Sanity: "Just give me up, completely."
Roger: "Roger."

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 1d

I sometimes read old gaming magazines and stumbled upon this "babe of the year" section from Playstation: The Official Magazine.

If I was the editor I would have gently suggested this writer be put down like a rabid dog

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Joshua Shares @shortkingofhearts.bsky.social · 1d

my raincoat is facing the wrong direction
it's so, so dry outside
but I'm soaked
it's 2025 and everything I see
turns my insides to water
my eyes to faucets
my soul to impurity
as what's good is dessicated
soon to be gone
and all I can feebly offer are
unholy tears turned inward
#raincoat #vss365

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geneva @gdbee.bsky.social · 2d

Big blue patchwork witch!

18 x 24 in, pencils, watercolors, markers, acrylics on paper and board!

Illustration of a witch wearing different patchwork clothing, drining a coffee and floating in space. 18 x 24 inches large

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Joshua Shares @shortkingofhearts.bsky.social · 2d

Mario Galaxy level narrative control right there 🤦‍♂️

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Joshua Shares @shortkingofhearts.bsky.social · 2d

in another world
Kevin Smith makes films
set in the verveaverse

they question why they're made
he questions why he makes them

they actively resist their own creation

it peters out much sooner
and waits longer to be rebooted

that tells them something about life
it's a similar world
#verve #vss365

Joshua Shares @shortkingofhearts.bsky.social · 3d

is it libertine
to share my gifts freely
to ensure my seed is spread
or is it "great power,
great responsibility"

would wearing a costume help?

#libertine ##vss365 #poem #poetry #superhero #parody

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Joshua Shares @shortkingofhearts.bsky.social · 4d

I will be a playful breeze
when my body sets me free
and I hope to stir into lazy swirls
my ash the fire leaves

#ash #vss365

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Joshua Shares @shortkingofhearts.bsky.social · 4d

I run my hands through him
and sift, unsuccessfully
I don't know what I'm looking for
in what remains
I touch my cheek and leave a ghost of dust
surely what I'm looking for was lost, in the flames
why do I even keep this ashen scar
would healing even help me now

#ash #vss365 #grief #poem #poetry

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Joshua Shares @shortkingofhearts.bsky.social · 5d

you can make
your suppositions
your assumptions
your baseless self-indulgent arrogance
clash
with reality
or you can carry none of that
and with open arms greet
what comes
what's true
it might be less aggrandizing to you
but it makes for a fine, happy life

#clash #vss365 #poem #poetry #aphorism

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Joshua Shares @shortkingofhearts.bsky.social · 5d

we fall to depravity,
antipathy, open violence
to stoke the coals
of our love

#clash #vss365 #poem #poetry #freedom #dystopia #America

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Joshua Shares @shortkingofhearts.bsky.social · 6d

I keep my circle close
associates; the round guard
worn on the finger to protect me
from my works, the boot
to preserve me where I go,
the hat to shield from the sun
and signal my coming,
the iron
to heat
to work.
oh! I'm king of these streets

#associate #vss365 #poem #poetry #boardgame

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Joshua Shares @shortkingofhearts.bsky.social · 7d

ai advert
staring back at me with my own eyes a prize the likes of which only I could be it was my past present and future wrapped in hope and promise cleanly
side effects frequent diarrhea and death quite depressing until I took the pill

#advert #vss365 #poem #poetry #future #dystopia

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Joshua Shares @shortkingofhearts.bsky.social · 8d

brain like a long, long coiled rope
pulsing with every thought and idea
getting longer and stronger as it grows
we could all be paragons,
like Indiana Jones
if you embrace neuroplasticity
your brain's elastic nature
your power to change
your power to grow

#elastic #vss365 #poem #poetry

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Joshua Shares @shortkingofhearts.bsky.social · 10d

I know the mirage,
I've striven
toward and through.
light burst and still
I point
toward the shining star,
the blessed oasis.
I know
I know
when I arrive I'll find

#oasis #vss365 #poem #poetry

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Joshua Shares @shortkingofhearts.bsky.social · 11d

I try to understand
the fear of the flurry
having a head, a focus
so tightly locked
in a single, fixed position
as the world whirls
round and round
growing and changing
and you can only catch
the faintest flashes as
they blur by
for me, it's just easier
to grow and change too

#blur #vss365 #poem

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Joshua Shares @shortkingofhearts.bsky.social · 11d

I'll have to try some Blur later today, but I've always been an Imagine Dragons fan. Some albums are meatier than others, but one of my favorite songs is "Selene."

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Joshua Shares @shortkingofhearts.bsky.social · 12d

the lead
always a guitarist
or vocalist
never the one
stuck muddling around
on the conundrums
much, much
too busy
with logic
and philosophy
to front a band

#conundrum #vss365 #poem #poetry #pun #band #drummer

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Joshua Shares @shortkingofhearts.bsky.social · 13d

they really took the idea
of sublimation
and ran with it

"if we make the most base
and horrible person
the president

all our base
and horrible
tendencies

become okay,
right?"

I say wrong
horribly wrong

but I don't think I'm changing
any minds

#sublimate #vss365 #poem #poetry #truth

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Joshua Shares @shortkingofhearts.bsky.social · 14d

we struggle to protect the lock
knowing

knowing those who want badly
who want carelessly
who want selfishly

will bust and break and force
and sunder
and sully

escutcheon just a monument
to future force

protection has to come in the past
blunt the wants

#escutcheon #vss365 #poem #poetry

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perry dimes @prdgm.bsky.social · 14d

ya sex is nice but have you ever made a particularly pertinent comment during book club and everyone starts snapping in approval

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Joshua Shares @shortkingofhearts.bsky.social · 14d

we struggle to protect the lock
knowing

knowing those who want badly
who want carelessly
who want selfishly

will bust and break and force
and sunder
and sully

escutcheon just a monument
to future force

protection has to come in the past
blunt the wants

#escutcheon #vss365 #poem #poetry

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C.S. Voll @stephlepht.bsky.social · 14d

You wear your pride like an
#Escutcheon attached to
Your chest, determined to
Flatter your vanity,
At the expense of your
Waning humanity

#vss365

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