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Dylan took a drink and then poured another onto the ground, grimacing at the waste of alcohol, but needing the respect.

He took no #consolation in the fact that his old friend had died a hero. The man that had pointed Dylan toward the yard where he found Magpie. He was gone. Many were.

#vss365
December 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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December 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Bleeding –
there is no stemming this flood
Stay here
and watch my words bleeding out
Nothing
can really sew this wound shut
At least
you're here to see me bleed out
Seeing
the end of this tale
Seizing
what time I have left
Hear this
#soliloquy I make
Maybe
you'll avoid my mistake

#vss365
December 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Warning: political post

So I used to have this guilty pleasure called Eurovision. It became more guilty than pleasure in the last few years. And as of today it brings me no pleasure at all so I'm not going to follow it anymore. Cheers, EBU for ruining the competition for people with morals. +
December 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Machine told me
I'm 70 years of #age
I can't hide.
I was slightly irked.
But I'll choose
to treat it as a perk.
The robots don't yet know
how I work!

#blueskyrelay #spotifywrapped
December 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I listen to CDs I own mostly, but here's the Spotify.

I didn't think it'd still be Adrian Younge this year... especially as of late I'm obsessed with Yazmin Lacey.

I listened to Haute & Freddy songs a lot, but since they only have 6 songs, they're not even in my top 5 artists.

#SpotifyWrapped
December 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
#SenseWrds 56

But stranger,
I'd venture,
to say this feels like
surrender
as we wave goodbyes
and avert our eyes
I wish

I wish
we weren't
quite this busy
I wish
these moments
came by easy
so as trains depart
it's with broken heart
that I miss...
I just miss...
#SenseWrds 10

Well met stranger
It's strange eh?
feels like I've known you
for ages
the speakers boom
train's coming soon
& I wish

I wish
we'd remain
in this metro station
I wish
we'd prolong
this conversation
but we all know our times
our routes our destinations
have no time to exchange
farewells
December 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
#SenseWrds 55

Every true musician,
sweet cherub babe
with a tiny lute
stringing along notes...
Now, ain't that cute?
December 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I wonder
bout one who said
chivalry is dead.
Was it really
that thunderous
instantaneous
dread?
that knight #chivalrous
guiltless took to guillotine
lost his head?
or perhaps
chivalry was
figment?
and only now we notice
tis a beastly hand
that fed
us stories
of gallant men
who fought & bled

#vss365
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Deliberation shapes the words pulling close the truths that ache to be understood. Yet they come alive only when someone meets them. Between giver and receiver, the conduit completes its arc. There is something chivalrous in it. Undeniably so.

#vss365 #prompt December 3rd #chivalrous

📸 S. Corso
December 3, 2025 at 8:02 AM
#SenseWrds 54

crying over glass of wine,
stained the carpet,
cut my feet.
I was told to relax.
did and now regretting it.

so thirsty, headache nursing
hear the guests sing
glass keeps
breaking in my hands
really hoping this hell ends
December 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
As with every
well-planned arson,
the spark took its time.
It would be wrong
to say it started
here, now
lit in a second
or even with the thought
two days prior.
No, it started
decades earlier,
small child smiled
looking at the fire.

#blueskyrelay
December 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I would like to keep it transparent,
I am just that what you see.
Feel free to sieve through my being,
shine inquisitive over me.
You will find passion, I'm certain,
something reflecting from within.
Won't get at its #aphotic essence–
it remains alien, even to me.

#vss365
December 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
#SenseWrds 53

idyllic field marred
in a murder, single crow
disturbs the silence
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
#SenseWrds 52

As the cat waddled by
glint of light caught its eye
and it thought this, I'm certain,
something hides in the curtain,
so it pounced on the fabric with claws.
November 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
What's that, Mr. Wordsworth?
As a cloud you wandered lone?
In that case, I'd hope
the sky saved room for one more
I want to join you in your
'emotion recollected in tranquility'
I don't believe this means
solitude's a necessity
so if your poem I may recite,
take me with, let's depart.

#blueskyrelay
November 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
#SenseWrds 51

Steady me
as I fall
at mercy
of your hands
to think
you're no god
but I'm remade
speechless
rendered
some unholy
mess
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
#SenseWrds 50

I think we'll keep polluting
and I'd think maybe until
something lays waste
to our wasteful ways,
but I fear what mess
we'll make before
that something comes
or what if it's all up to us.
November 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
#SenseWrds 49

To think
our love
would wilt

I thought
we were
too wild

Brimming
with life
and hope

Not speaking
'bout it now
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Upon reflection
I find myself
changed
by the
view,
didn't
think it'd
be this clear
under reflection.

#poem #poetry #vss365 #reflection
November 26, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Often I ask
'what's there to write about?'
so now I'll ask back
'how's that #relevant?'
If I'm needing of theme
it'll come in a dream,
but the main thing I lack
is the self-esteem
to #gaslight myself
to think I'm good enough
to write even when
the words are sounding rough.

#blueskyrelay #vss365
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Cool new song ^^ Samm's a comfort artist for me.
Samm Henshaw - Float
YouTube video by Samm Henshaw
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
#SenseWrds 48

(Yes it's 48. I'm 100 behind)
Prompts: serene, raindrop, melodies.
November 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I'm an avid watcher
#waves, trees, birds
people, clouds, sports
why, ski jumping just started
as the 1st snow here falls
I'm an avid poet
searching for words
to describe what I watched
distant jumps on TV
transmitted by waves
surely only #achievable
on invisible birds' wings

#blueskyrelay #vss365
November 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
They keep saying
I look good in #blue,
but I'm never happy
with the hue,
I'd rather arrange
all sorts of gaudy orange,
then be feeling resigned,
wearing (on me) blue.

#blueskyrelay
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM