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a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 12d

a threnody
where my heart should be
its atavistic grame
pooling in ink blots & words
i #sublimate the urge poorly,
limning in broken thoughts & skin
as masked desires #clash
with a hope for better days
and the lunacy of a sickle moon

#vss365 #whistpr

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a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 12d

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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 16d

Bob ordered butter pecan ice-cream. Nora, in a #caprice, chose the hyped wasabi swirl. One lick and she emptied her water bottle into her mouth. "You said be adventurous," she gasped. "I meant add rainbow sprinkles," Bob muttered.

#vss365

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 16d

I sit with the stone-
its silence heavier
than mine
#haiku #poetry

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a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 16d

paranoia, frozen fear
darting eyes & flexing fingers
his viscous rattled breath
perturbs the nightmare brume
— #caprice in autumnal bloom
consumed by demon chatter
led toward the railway clatter
mesmerised by the invitation
one trip to escape the other

#vss365

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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 16d

Midnight blue black tresses
Fall down her porcelain skin
With a twinkle of #caprice
In her pool green wet eyes
Was it all a dream she thinks
But she’ll never know
Coz those butterflies left
Along with their kisses
Each gravestone around her
Covered in mosses

#vss365
#poetry

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Scriberly @nomadwriter.bsky.social · 16d

#Eventuality
Often culminates
In disappointment
And each day
There’s more of my heart
To sweep off the floor
And recycle
Right next to the bits
Of cardboard
I keep forgetting
To break down;
Maybe one day
Eventuality
Will be more
Than this constant ache
And will give me
Clarity
Instead.
#vss365

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Scriberly @nomadwriter.bsky.social · 17d

The dreams always begin
The same way
#Bellwether omen
A black sheep
Leading the flock
And I’m somewhere
In the hedgerows
Waiting
For something to happen
And perhaps
That’s the sign
That even within
My own consciousness
I stand without;
A lucid intruder
Unable
To prevent
My own catastrophe
#vss365

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Scriberly @nomadwriter.bsky.social · 18d

The fire #reinvigorates
Time that had felt too short
For breathing
For feeling
For breaking
In a million pieces;
Days
That had felt stuck together
Finally crumbled in clumps
Of plaster
Still holding remnants
Of remorse —
For all the moments
Wasted
In fear
Of the darkness
That always followed
#vss365

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Sunlit @sunblissful.bsky.social · 18d

Autumn weeps so sweetly
colours envelop a tired mind
soul, well...perhaps seen such
many times and yet, Autumn
shall always hold my heart
in such beautiful decay

#Poetry

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Sunlit @sunblissful.bsky.social · 18d

Torn into ribbons
of no concern
I've always
swayed with trees
to ascend
immense need
to pause life
it's a dark concept
to think existence
owes us
autumnal light
fades beneath
Pagan skies
cloaks what is left
I can't blink
eyes wish to close
lead me instead
I'm tired
of crawling

#inkMine

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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 18d

Lively colours come unlock me
From this life slowly walking by

I’ve shimmered into hazy grey
Winter’s not yet quite begun

Catapult me over rainbows
On the back of a #bellwether
Kinda bumblebee

Landing
On filled treasure pots
Open, rays golden

#vss365

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Sunlit @sunblissful.bsky.social · 18d

It's false
isn't it
when reaching
sunlight
tells you
it's always warm
give me clouds
bestow rain
let thunder loose
again
it's false
that all sunshine
may heal, some
may silence you
especially in eclipse
I know the dark
better than light

#RetroArtPrompt

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a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 18d

#frost blue eyes, brilliant skies
engage the clouds in pareidolia
hiding in her #cottage, lights out
watching for a #bellwether storm
the clouds grow black, smothering
as he walks up her garden path
then thunder, lead, dead as a door nail
& she burns the cottage down

#vss365 #whistpr #blueskyrelay

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a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 21d

#quick as you like
may death tease but for a blink
a moment's passing

#inkmine [quick] #haiku
#writingprompt #blueskypoets

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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 22d

Vague sonnets etched
On hollow greying clouds fade
From once an #extrusion of
Daybreaks’ yawning dawns

Listless I too may mist
I have become a prose flatlining

Your ink
Before, my life force
Now drip thrums
Like taunting rain thuds

#vss365

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 22d

The wall glares at me,
#sentient, all knowing,
my failings as transparent
as it's inset window—
it sees right into me,
my hollowness & vacany.
I hate the wall for
what it sees,
I turn my back
but my back
becomes the wall
the wall is me—
reflecting my
soul of stone
& heart
of glass.

#RetroArtPrompt

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a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 22d

wizened #shell
broken since a cursëd birth
a scar-covered scar blighting the earth
my eyes burn w/ #ineffable disgust
as i float outside in blessëd dissociation
watching from an #extrusion of self
i pick at the wretched scab
hoping to rip it clean before reintegration

#vss365 #whistpr #blueskyrelay

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Scriberly @nomadwriter.bsky.social · 23d

#Synthesis of vine and branch
Rebuilding a semblance
Of structure
That used to be
More bone and flesh;
Cartilage and sinew —
A body
That couldn’t hold
Her troubled existence
Extricating her
Like a parasite
Flung to its belly,
Searching for a new host
Among the thorns
#vss365

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a.d. @admatthias.bsky.social · 24d

you dip your toe in the #swamp
to escape the quicksand
what could it hurt
now you're up to your neck
in a filthy #synthesis of love & hate
staying afloat with #mushrooms
while darkness presses down
on the top of your head

#vss365 #whistpr #blueskyrelay

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 24d

We play a #complex, twisted game
like Russian roulette,
but who will get the bullet?
Both of us? Going out
like Romeo and Juliet.

You hold the barrel
to my temple, sensual
as a gentle kiss—
my life is in
your hands.

I give up,
break me
kill me,
take me.

#RetroArtPrompt

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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 26d

New moons tonights forevers
Be the tropes parables
Metaphors running rivers
In veins pumping thru my skin
Telling allegories
I can’t #rein it in

So don’t blame me
I’m of the possessed obsessed
Living in a land far far away
Encircled by a moat
Named MakeBelieve

#vss365

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’dáːvɪ́d ’wɪ́ɡɡə́nz- forth unto the wode, bbs @wordingway.bsky.social · 25d

∴ kiss o𝔣 hares — 𝔣leete
heart-reins snap, 𝔣lit we wunder
wilde-wayes leape þæn loll ∴

#haikufeels #vss365 #poemspell

🗣️🗝️
𝔣 → "f"
þ - "th" as in thin
þæn - then

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Scriberly @nomadwriter.bsky.social · 25d

Nose to the air
Through the grilled window
Breathing deep an aroma
That smelled like promise
Sweeter than the dew
Flush
Against dawn’s pink breast;
The #reins unraveled
Shadows returning a while
To their resting place —
A last glimpse
Of soft indulgence
That would never
Be the same again.
#vss365

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