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Elvis Dylan
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Poet, singer songwriter. Thank you, thank you very much – but I’m not the voice of my generation, just a song and dance man.
#vss365 #PulpFiction

She wore the red dress like it was stitched from danger. I stared too long. She stared back longer. I felt like a man being #measured for his own downfall.
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
#vss365 #Time #TV

With a start of a TV commercial, time tilts, and it is #measured in blab-o-seconds. These typically are significantly longer than standard seconds, and some seem infinitely longer :-/
November 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
#vss365 #Writing #Writers

“A writer is dear and necessary
for us only in the #measure of
which he reveals to us the inner
workings of his very soul.”

– Tolstoy
November 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
#vss365 #Love

Even love, wild and passionate, must adhere to some form of #measure, lest it consume itself.
November 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
#vss365 #TheAphorist

We are weighed on the scales of wonder. That is the true #measure of our living.
November 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
#vss365 #Mathematics #Numbers

Thus spake #literature’s
Street Mathematician:

Lose yourself to zero,
and find all measures
renewed!
November 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
#vss365

to live with #literature
is to live doubly:
once in the visible world,
once in the imagined one
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
#Haiku #ShortFormPoetry #MicroPoetry

houses
I’ve lived in
live in me
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
#vss365

#literature is
both wound and salve,
night and lantern
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
#vss365

The #literature of my world is rich in relationship triangles, ecstasy and heartache.
November 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
#vss365 #Music #Aphorism

“Music is the #literature of the heart.”

- Alphonse de Lamartine

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphons...
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
#Writing #Muse #Friends

She is my muse.
I find her amusing.
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
#vss365

#literature is
a big word, too big, it’s a
third of a #haiku
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
#vss365

“Even in #literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”

- C.S. Lewis
November 10, 2025 at 7:59 AM
THRESHOLD
leave? stay?
light? danger?
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
#vss365

rebellious rock
dreams of falling
upward

but what about the law?
WHAT ABOUT THE #LAW !!!!
November 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
#Photography #Poetry

what was dark is light
what was light is dark
inverted world
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM
#Music #Composition

“It was on the train, with its steely rhythms, its rattle-ty bang, that is so often so stimulating to a composer … And there I suddenly heard, and even saw on paper—the complete construction of the Rhapsody, from beginning to end.”

- George Gerswhin
November 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
#emoetry

I turn
as the Earth Rotates
while circling the sun
which spins round
the galaxy,
no stillness, no resting -
#nauseated
November 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
#vss365

stars speak
in an ancient #language
that becomes light
when spoken
November 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
#vss365 #Dogs

dog’s gaze, my gaze
we “speak” in
an ancient tongue
deeper than #language
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
#vss365

I text you in lowercase letters, like my feelings forgot how to stand up straight. You reply in emojis and abbreviations.

We speak in a guessing-game #language that neither of us understand.
November 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
#vss365

in my world
we speak perpendicularly,
and sometimes, obliquely
in a #language of angles
November 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
#vss365

poets gather
shards of #language,
piecing them into
mosaics of feeling,
thought, life
November 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
#vss365

We spoke in a #language of “almost.” It was fluent, but not truly expressive. It didn’t serve us well.
November 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM