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Bithi Paul
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My blog: www.bithipaul.blogspot.com
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'Gabe, I'm exhausted. I #ache everywhere.'
'Really, Pixie? You only put 2 dishes in the washer.'
'They're bigger than me. Based on volume math, you should fill it for the next 3 weeks.'
'You have super pixie lifting powers.
'Oh sure - & you're JUST an angel.'
'Hmph.'
#vss365
February 10, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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‘You sure about this?’

‘No. But you keep buggin’ me about it. Gives me an ear #ache.’

‘I hear other couples enjoy it.’

‘I’ll do anything to help our relationship.’

‘We should have a safe word.’

‘Ok. Meatloaf.’

‘Meatloaf?’

‘Right. Cuz I’d do anything for love - but I won’t do that.’

#vss365
February 10, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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i felt that quiet ache in my soul
reminiscing about
my bright wildflower dreams
getting lost amid layers of you,
those nights of breathless sighs
enveloped within your caresses
'neath vespertine skies,
& how my shattered
forlorn heart still cries
since that day you said goodbye.

#vss365 #ache
February 10, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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February 10, 2026 at 4:05 AM
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Why understand you?
The mind muddles your art,
for one can’t know without unraveling.
I choose to savor you,
to be the one unraveled,
to be your fevered verse
undressing from your lips.
Slow-kiss your notes onto my skin,
drown my #bones in your hungry dark sea.

#vss365

📷Pixabay
February 9, 2026 at 8:39 AM
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Be fluid.
Be languid.
Do not let the darkness
entangle you,
drag you under,
colour you #pale.

Rise from your ashes.
Sow new trees
Bloom in defiance,
vivid and unbroken
the new you.

~rev
#vss365
February 8, 2026 at 6:07 AM
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Forgiveness
resides within,
only the deserving
truly understand.

Forgiveness
is a gift to self,
liberates the soul
and leaves no debt.

Forgiveness
eases the #ache,
swallows pride,
splits the lies.

Forgiveness
is joy,
is happiness,
is divine.

~rev
#vss365
February 10, 2026 at 6:49 AM
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An ice cube trails
down my spine,
its chill settling in my bones.

Moss gleams green
on our stone
the waves don’t reach it anymore.

Your perfume lingers
on the sheets we lay on.
The tattoo
has taken a new shape;
it’s from the book we read

~rev
#vss365
#bones
February 9, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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#vss365 #poetry

I picked up my #ache
Threw it in a trash can
Only for it to boomerang back!

Now I wear it hidden in plain sight
Like a second skin

Waiting for true love
To come along
And knock me for six!
February 10, 2026 at 6:25 AM
let's not fight this way
let's not pass the nights sleeping
in two corners of the same bed
not touching one another

I #ache to remind you
time is flowing
and life is short
let's not waste a second

but I don't
and both of us stubbornly wait
for the other to bow first

#vss365
February 10, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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Your #vss365 #prompt for Feb 10 is #ache

"I wish to run my trembling fingers long
Through the black tangles of your heavy hair,
To plunge my aching head amorous of
Your skirts as into secret, perfumed bowers,
To breathe your scent as from pale withered flowers"

'Le Léthé', Charles Baudelaire

#10
February 10, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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#vss365
the #wound that never heals

in the corner
eating dark flowers
bleeding ink

the child
he doesn't know how to comfort

painful memories
spilling over

glimmering silver pools

the long fingers of night
grip the bars
of his crib

he is alone

she succors him
when no one else will
February 6, 2026 at 4:10 AM
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stark and naked,
#wounded, eviscerated
love and compassion
pulled me back from ruin.

cleansed my soul,
washed away my sins;
through conviction,
my purpose stood bare.

~rev
#vss365
February 6, 2026 at 5:16 AM
I was accustomed to you
tending my #wounds
drying my tears
bringing smiles to my face

glimpsing your wounds tonight
my brave knight
I knew you needed my care
as much as I needed yours

#vss365
February 6, 2026 at 9:14 AM
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He’d wound
A dirty bandage
Round his head
To bind his #wound

Then he rejoined
The battle
Like some toff
To smoking room

I ask how he
Can be so calm
As we
Face certain doom

He tells me
“I’m already dead.
My foe will soon
be too.

“This fact
brings certain focus
to the job
I have to do.”
#vss365
February 6, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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#vss365 #poetry

Worms fester in a lonely mind
They don’t even tickle

Tear ducts heavy
Dead weight they ooze

Chest so fragile
It expands inwards
One big #wound

Silly fools know it alls
Say regardless carry on

Pushing you through
Dead end streets
No doors only traps
February 6, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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Your #vss365 #prompt for Feb 6 is #wound

"and yet she waits for me, year after year,
to so delicately undo an old wound,
to empty my breath from its bad prison."

'Wanting to Die', Anne Sexton

#6
February 6, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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“Revels End” - Chapter 48 is posted!

In which locations are debated, a queen is quite ruffled, and someone very unexpected adds to the conversation …

Continuing the Discworld inspired story.

www.wattpad.com/story/394952...
Revels End - Jan Karlsson - Wattpad
Wilmuh Tremblerod knew from a young age that she would become the world's greatest playwright. Unfortunately, the world, and her talent (or lack of it) disagre...
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February 6, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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Victory could only come through great #pain and suffering, Dylan seemed to know that better than those in charge, who now seemed confident they could open diplomatic talks with The Enemy, if only they could communicate.

The Enemy didn’t communicate, only with death and cruel slaughter.

#vss365
February 3, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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Stan didn't care about the #pain he was inflicting as he drove through the crowded streets. He barely registered the near misses anymore he did the bodies that bounced off the hood. His #soul has crumbled and his sanity with it. His #shadow laughing all the while.
#vss365
February 3, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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sometimes endings
create new beginnings

that takeoff tension
when a plane departs earth

the logic of knowing death bides
but your heart races, recalcitrant
with the thrill of flight

and life’s everyday pain
fades

seen in contrails
by envious observers far below
-

#poetry #vss365
February 3, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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~the dance~

history tends to linger
the joys fade away
but the #pain, it festers

until it explodes again
raw and agitated
anger seeking fear

nervous drumsticks fly
time ticks forward to
the mating dance of war

#vss365
February 3, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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My alphabet spills
onto the sidewalk
letters splayed scattershot
making it mpossible
to describe the
pain

#vss365 #pain
February 3, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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Something wrong with my brain.
Imaginary #pain.
I feel it in vain.
I wake up and I'm whole.
Doesn'tmatter.
The #chilling_caress still has a hold on me yet.
#vss365 #weirdmicro #poem #poetry
February 3, 2026 at 8:20 PM