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Dr Steve Fleischer
@stevefleischer.bsky.social
Dual national (🇬🇧 /🇩🇪 ). PhD in quantum physics. Ex-Hong Kong (32 years), now North Yorkshire. Interested in writing, physics, history, travel, aviation. Overthinking introvert. Bipolar. Tries to be kind and funny. Sometimes is.
Pinned
another day drowns
with listless sigh
dragging lost souls
to the numbing depths
of that fathomless deep
keeper of our darkness
the ocean of despair

but today your love
sparked in me fresh fight
to sieze the sunset
repel the nightmare
a scarlet blade sheathed
#FoxProse @FoxProse
their brief encounter
paramours' platform passion
#timed to perfection

#vss365 #haiku
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
another day drowns
with listless sigh
dragging lost souls
to the numbing depths
of that fathomless deep
keeper of our darkness
the ocean of despair

but today your love
sparked in me fresh fight
to sieze the sunset
repel the nightmare
a scarlet blade sheathed
#FoxProse @FoxProse
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
lies spread like bindweed
choking a relationship
truth trapped under roots
of mendacious words
needs honesty to flourish

#FoxProse
@FoxProse
#tanka
#trappedunderroots
November 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
i look to the distant stars
and cower under their
cold indifference
to them i am not #relevant
my existence superfluous

but when I look at you
a radiant sun bathing
my dull firmament
with light and joy
i ache for meaning

#vss365
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
surface receding
cerulean memories
i'm welcomed by depth

#FoxProse @FoxProse #haiku
#welcomedbydepth
November 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
there once was a man just so dense
who mithered and became a nuisance
is it inconceivable?
i hope it's #achievable
for a chance to mend that fence

#vss365
November 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
my love for you is
is impossible to define
as #measurable as infinity
as knowable as eternity
and yet it is tangible
when my fingers caress
the soft curve of your neck

#vss365
November 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Barbara Stanwyck
in Double Indemnity
shaded curves shadow
her malicious intentions
the definitive film noir

#FoxProse @FoxProse
#shadedcurvesshadow #tanka
November 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
you tried to salve
my anguished mind
with tender care
and words so kind

a #specific chance
i was too blind
joy extinguished
heartache enshrined

#vss365
November 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
tears of silver
like congealed moonbeams
coat my frozen heart

#tearsofsilver
#FoxProse @FoxProse
November 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
the tenderest touch
my hungry lips brush your neck
#action potential
impulsively exciting
every cell of my being

#vss365 #tanka
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
friendship is an #option
best bestowed with care
squander it at your peril
you stupid man - beware!

#vss365
November 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
people's compassion
for vulnerable people
is the Big #Issue

#vss365 #haiku

📸AI generated
November 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
music is my #transport
down four decades of
The River
of time to a far land
that only exists
in faded photographs

June '85
two months before our wedding
arriving unannounced at your lab
to surprise you with tickets to see
The Boss

honeymoon memories
of those
Glory Days
#vss365
November 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
night falls & the
coming morn fills
my mind with terror
yet reveries of thy sweet face
doth comfort me
in my final hours
belief floods a quill
that my last words
can ease thy aching heart
until we meet again in
heaven's glorious realm
adieu sweet love, adieu
#FoxProse
@FoxProse
November 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
moon landing deniers
really irritate me
#science friction

#vss365 #haiku

(Apollo photo AS12-48-7134 shows Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean inspecting the Surveyor 3 spacecraft.)
November 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
love is a field
permeating spacetime
woven into the cosmic fabric
complementing Higgs
in sensual symmetry
infusing creation with
not mass but meaning
its strength not restricted
by a mere #number
but an unbound infinity
that overflows my soul
when i look into your eyes
#vss365
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
like woeful orpheus
i dared to venture deep
into the stygian abyss
of my shattered mind
to persuade the cruel
god of madness
to return my
strife-free life
alas, like ancient #myth
ascending to the light
i foolishly looked back
at future hope
and it was lost to me
forever
#vss365
November 12, 2025 at 10:19 AM
i will not yield
to this hateful condition
spawned by my damaged
and dysfunctional mind
but i will strive
with unwavering resolve
to overcome my demons

do not #measure my worth
by my life's lengthy
litany of weaknesses
but rather judge me
by my fight to improve

#vss365
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
peak storytelling
the ascent of everest
high #literature

#vss365 #haiku
November 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
jaw dropped in awe
when your face I saw
'twas without a flaw
yet your icy core
i could not thaw

it is Sod's #law

#vss365
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
heavy sits the heart
contemplating disaster
snows soaked #red with blood

#inkMine #haiku

Stańczyk by Jan Matejko, 1862
The jester, Stańczyk, reading of the loss of the Polish city of Smolensk to the Russians, sits in solitary misery as the court celebrates unaware of the news.
November 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
are the architects of the universe
answering our greatest question?

why are we?

yet though they show us
we fail to comprehend
their celestial intellect

the #language of the cosmos

is it there before us
elegant, enigmatic
yet unknowable?

do we frustrate the gods?
#vss365
November 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
One of life's true joys is having shared #history with someone you love. That cute girl who sat behind me in physics class fifty-two years ago, now wife of forty years. The weft of happy memories and the warp of tough times, when we had to dig deep, weave a rich tapestry. #vss365
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
My father, Heinz, died 25 years ago, and today would have been his 100th birthday. He was a wonderful dad. There is so much I wish I could tell him about the years since, especially the achievements of my kids. I love him and I miss him. ❤️
November 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM