DW Keene
@dragonandelf.bsky.social
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DW Keene
@dragonandelf.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Reposted by DW Keene
#vss365
I never heard
The full song
As many days
As I walked the trails
Following
Thump thump thump
That disappeared
Like a #ghost
The single strum
Of a 'G' chord
A peep or two
Of a flute
I was certain
I'd find you guitar in hand
Around the next corner
Sitting on a rock
But you
Were gone
Too
I never heard
The full song
As many days
As I walked the trails
Following
Thump thump thump
That disappeared
Like a #ghost
The single strum
Of a 'G' chord
A peep or two
Of a flute
I was certain
I'd find you guitar in hand
Around the next corner
Sitting on a rock
But you
Were gone
Too
February 4, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Haunted by your footsteps coming up the stairs
Duvet-curled, pillows wet
Heart aches your name
You are naught but a memory-ghost
Of never was
Yet I loved you
#vss365
Duvet-curled, pillows wet
Heart aches your name
You are naught but a memory-ghost
Of never was
Yet I loved you
#vss365
February 4, 2026 at 5:09 AM
Haunted by your footsteps coming up the stairs
Duvet-curled, pillows wet
Heart aches your name
You are naught but a memory-ghost
Of never was
Yet I loved you
#vss365
Duvet-curled, pillows wet
Heart aches your name
You are naught but a memory-ghost
Of never was
Yet I loved you
#vss365
February 4, 2026 at 5:05 AM
Reposted by DW Keene
Reposted by DW Keene
He drew the Prince to one side. "It pains me to remind you, but you know how your father feels about you associating with this woman. Only think, if he should wake and find her at his bedside. He doesn't like to be disobeyed." #vss365
February 3, 2026 at 5:16 PM
He drew the Prince to one side. "It pains me to remind you, but you know how your father feels about you associating with this woman. Only think, if he should wake and find her at his bedside. He doesn't like to be disobeyed." #vss365
He couldn't be found in deserts nor forests. His dwellings were caves in macro space. He moved on alternative paths, withholding that secret method from the scripts he couldn't prevent. Hermits were too oft disturbed to be truly hermit. An Exceptional apprentice found him.
#fromoneline 404
#fromoneline 404
February 3, 2026 at 7:18 AM
He couldn't be found in deserts nor forests. His dwellings were caves in macro space. He moved on alternative paths, withholding that secret method from the scripts he couldn't prevent. Hermits were too oft disturbed to be truly hermit. An Exceptional apprentice found him.
#fromoneline 404
#fromoneline 404
She absorbed the water
Drank her fill
Buds ripened ready for the sun
On came the rain
Snowdrop at her root flowered white beauty
The sky lightened slightly
She drank more of the world's pain
Fish and amphibian lusted in revitalised water
The soul tree bloomed
Humans complained
#vss365
Drank her fill
Buds ripened ready for the sun
On came the rain
Snowdrop at her root flowered white beauty
The sky lightened slightly
She drank more of the world's pain
Fish and amphibian lusted in revitalised water
The soul tree bloomed
Humans complained
#vss365
February 3, 2026 at 7:09 AM
She absorbed the water
Drank her fill
Buds ripened ready for the sun
On came the rain
Snowdrop at her root flowered white beauty
The sky lightened slightly
She drank more of the world's pain
Fish and amphibian lusted in revitalised water
The soul tree bloomed
Humans complained
#vss365
Drank her fill
Buds ripened ready for the sun
On came the rain
Snowdrop at her root flowered white beauty
The sky lightened slightly
She drank more of the world's pain
Fish and amphibian lusted in revitalised water
The soul tree bloomed
Humans complained
#vss365
Reposted by DW Keene
Every creature had a #soul in the game, which was useful, because you could capture it to power enchantments in weapons.
Admittedly, it was morally & ethically wrong, if not wildly evil, but they weren’t real things.
Still, Rory did feel more than a little dirty at the mere thought of it.
#vss365
Admittedly, it was morally & ethically wrong, if not wildly evil, but they weren’t real things.
Still, Rory did feel more than a little dirty at the mere thought of it.
#vss365
February 2, 2026 at 10:02 AM
I fall into shadow
Thin upon the outside
Thickening on the in so I never reach
Bottom
Only here and there where the light falls
Do I begin
Darkness holds me in silence until the moon
Pales me
My breathe shivers goosebumps
Across your skin
I see you turn to find nothing
I'm gone before I feel
#vss365
Thin upon the outside
Thickening on the in so I never reach
Bottom
Only here and there where the light falls
Do I begin
Darkness holds me in silence until the moon
Pales me
My breathe shivers goosebumps
Across your skin
I see you turn to find nothing
I'm gone before I feel
#vss365
February 1, 2026 at 4:36 PM
I fall into shadow
Thin upon the outside
Thickening on the in so I never reach
Bottom
Only here and there where the light falls
Do I begin
Darkness holds me in silence until the moon
Pales me
My breathe shivers goosebumps
Across your skin
I see you turn to find nothing
I'm gone before I feel
#vss365
Thin upon the outside
Thickening on the in so I never reach
Bottom
Only here and there where the light falls
Do I begin
Darkness holds me in silence until the moon
Pales me
My breathe shivers goosebumps
Across your skin
I see you turn to find nothing
I'm gone before I feel
#vss365
Reposted by DW Keene
My offering to the Snow laden forest Rondel challenge
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social
@jenthorne.bsky.social
@phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social
There's not a lot of forest in it...
🤣
Also... I thought more rhymed with melt...
But it sort of came together
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social
@jenthorne.bsky.social
@phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social
There's not a lot of forest in it...
🤣
Also... I thought more rhymed with melt...
But it sort of came together
February 1, 2026 at 3:53 PM
My offering to the Snow laden forest Rondel challenge
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social
@jenthorne.bsky.social
@phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social
There's not a lot of forest in it...
🤣
Also... I thought more rhymed with melt...
But it sort of came together
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social
@jenthorne.bsky.social
@phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social
There's not a lot of forest in it...
🤣
Also... I thought more rhymed with melt...
But it sort of came together
February 1, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Night's blanket spangled with love
Should soothe
Alas belief is frozen in the ice
Orca and bear hunt the free ways
As do seals and micro world aliens
I am turned to cynicism for the rich
Float those waters for amusement
And nothing is free
I cuddle my chains
Their rattle my companion
#vss365
Should soothe
Alas belief is frozen in the ice
Orca and bear hunt the free ways
As do seals and micro world aliens
I am turned to cynicism for the rich
Float those waters for amusement
And nothing is free
I cuddle my chains
Their rattle my companion
#vss365
February 1, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Night's blanket spangled with love
Should soothe
Alas belief is frozen in the ice
Orca and bear hunt the free ways
As do seals and micro world aliens
I am turned to cynicism for the rich
Float those waters for amusement
And nothing is free
I cuddle my chains
Their rattle my companion
#vss365
Should soothe
Alas belief is frozen in the ice
Orca and bear hunt the free ways
As do seals and micro world aliens
I am turned to cynicism for the rich
Float those waters for amusement
And nothing is free
I cuddle my chains
Their rattle my companion
#vss365
Reposted by DW Keene
humming and thrumming
avian friends soon return
my eyes hold their breath
#vss365 #Thrum #Haiku #Poetry #WildlifePhotography #Birds #Birding #Hummingbirds #RubyThroatedHummingbird #ImageAndVerse #Haiga #EastCoastKin
avian friends soon return
my eyes hold their breath
#vss365 #Thrum #Haiku #Poetry #WildlifePhotography #Birds #Birding #Hummingbirds #RubyThroatedHummingbird #ImageAndVerse #Haiga #EastCoastKin
January 30, 2026 at 2:41 PM
humming and thrumming
avian friends soon return
my eyes hold their breath
#vss365 #Thrum #Haiku #Poetry #WildlifePhotography #Birds #Birding #Hummingbirds #RubyThroatedHummingbird #ImageAndVerse #Haiga #EastCoastKin
avian friends soon return
my eyes hold their breath
#vss365 #Thrum #Haiku #Poetry #WildlifePhotography #Birds #Birding #Hummingbirds #RubyThroatedHummingbird #ImageAndVerse #Haiga #EastCoastKin
Reposted by DW Keene
You #obfuscate your heart,
yet like moon’s silver edge,
your longings wander
the seams of nightfall,
before writing yourself across my skin.
Like stars peddling memories,
you dust me in your fragments—
half-formed notes of warmth
that dry on my heart
until shadows swallow you
once more.
#vss365
yet like moon’s silver edge,
your longings wander
the seams of nightfall,
before writing yourself across my skin.
Like stars peddling memories,
you dust me in your fragments—
half-formed notes of warmth
that dry on my heart
until shadows swallow you
once more.
#vss365
January 29, 2026 at 1:23 PM
You #obfuscate your heart,
yet like moon’s silver edge,
your longings wander
the seams of nightfall,
before writing yourself across my skin.
Like stars peddling memories,
you dust me in your fragments—
half-formed notes of warmth
that dry on my heart
until shadows swallow you
once more.
#vss365
yet like moon’s silver edge,
your longings wander
the seams of nightfall,
before writing yourself across my skin.
Like stars peddling memories,
you dust me in your fragments—
half-formed notes of warmth
that dry on my heart
until shadows swallow you
once more.
#vss365
I was born in the snow in the high vale. The wolf moon was new when I took my first breath and my mother her last. Destiny chimed on the icicles and the mark on my wrist I keep hid. My heart is ever cold and I avoid all weapons. I said No to being brave and cup cocoa instead.
#fromoneline #403
#fromoneline #403
January 26, 2026 at 8:45 PM
I was born in the snow in the high vale. The wolf moon was new when I took my first breath and my mother her last. Destiny chimed on the icicles and the mark on my wrist I keep hid. My heart is ever cold and I avoid all weapons. I said No to being brave and cup cocoa instead.
#fromoneline #403
#fromoneline #403
#Wildwalkprompt
Colours and lights
Mystery and escape
The treasure of sight
Smell and sound
Taste of salty grains
Compressed and hollowed
The planet breathes
Colours and lights
Mystery and escape
The treasure of sight
Smell and sound
Taste of salty grains
Compressed and hollowed
The planet breathes
January 25, 2026 at 6:09 AM
#Wildwalkprompt
Colours and lights
Mystery and escape
The treasure of sight
Smell and sound
Taste of salty grains
Compressed and hollowed
The planet breathes
Colours and lights
Mystery and escape
The treasure of sight
Smell and sound
Taste of salty grains
Compressed and hollowed
The planet breathes
A rose by another name is a ruse
A brief show then gone except for its thorns
Still it's pluck at thrice the price of a common daisy
Deception is the centre of our nature
Held in genes we never believe would want to deceive
They too, demand an airing
#vss365
A brief show then gone except for its thorns
Still it's pluck at thrice the price of a common daisy
Deception is the centre of our nature
Held in genes we never believe would want to deceive
They too, demand an airing
#vss365
January 25, 2026 at 5:28 AM
A rose by another name is a ruse
A brief show then gone except for its thorns
Still it's pluck at thrice the price of a common daisy
Deception is the centre of our nature
Held in genes we never believe would want to deceive
They too, demand an airing
#vss365
A brief show then gone except for its thorns
Still it's pluck at thrice the price of a common daisy
Deception is the centre of our nature
Held in genes we never believe would want to deceive
They too, demand an airing
#vss365
Drizzle keeps me in
Reminiscent
The ones I love
The ones I need
They slip into place
Without a squeak of rust
Or grate of unforgiven
It's not often
I remember how easy
The fit
#vss365
Reminiscent
The ones I love
The ones I need
They slip into place
Without a squeak of rust
Or grate of unforgiven
It's not often
I remember how easy
The fit
#vss365
January 24, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Drizzle keeps me in
Reminiscent
The ones I love
The ones I need
They slip into place
Without a squeak of rust
Or grate of unforgiven
It's not often
I remember how easy
The fit
#vss365
Reminiscent
The ones I love
The ones I need
They slip into place
Without a squeak of rust
Or grate of unforgiven
It's not often
I remember how easy
The fit
#vss365
Decisions congeal in the growing pool
Loom dark and worrisome
Predawn
Dinosaurs came from such murky pools
Turned to fascination when gone
Living with them would not have been a good film
Yet there's no need to bend before fear
It can be looked in the eye and known for what it is
#vss365
Loom dark and worrisome
Predawn
Dinosaurs came from such murky pools
Turned to fascination when gone
Living with them would not have been a good film
Yet there's no need to bend before fear
It can be looked in the eye and known for what it is
#vss365
January 21, 2026 at 5:35 AM
Decisions congeal in the growing pool
Loom dark and worrisome
Predawn
Dinosaurs came from such murky pools
Turned to fascination when gone
Living with them would not have been a good film
Yet there's no need to bend before fear
It can be looked in the eye and known for what it is
#vss365
Loom dark and worrisome
Predawn
Dinosaurs came from such murky pools
Turned to fascination when gone
Living with them would not have been a good film
Yet there's no need to bend before fear
It can be looked in the eye and known for what it is
#vss365
At uni I could no longer read and had to protect my favourite authors from criticism. Now I find themes can't go into the public domain when I'm working on them. One for my check list.
#writerslife
#writerslife
January 21, 2026 at 5:27 AM
At uni I could no longer read and had to protect my favourite authors from criticism. Now I find themes can't go into the public domain when I'm working on them. One for my check list.
#writerslife
#writerslife
Reposted by DW Keene
January 19, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Odourous honeysuckle
Nodding poppies scutched in betwixt
Cornflowers
Bees veer against the light breeze
I long for summer
Adding twigs to a bug hotel
Preserving what I can
In long bowed grass
And uncut twigs
Blue sky and lazy days
Will come again
#vss365
Nodding poppies scutched in betwixt
Cornflowers
Bees veer against the light breeze
I long for summer
Adding twigs to a bug hotel
Preserving what I can
In long bowed grass
And uncut twigs
Blue sky and lazy days
Will come again
#vss365
January 19, 2026 at 7:19 AM
Odourous honeysuckle
Nodding poppies scutched in betwixt
Cornflowers
Bees veer against the light breeze
I long for summer
Adding twigs to a bug hotel
Preserving what I can
In long bowed grass
And uncut twigs
Blue sky and lazy days
Will come again
#vss365
Nodding poppies scutched in betwixt
Cornflowers
Bees veer against the light breeze
I long for summer
Adding twigs to a bug hotel
Preserving what I can
In long bowed grass
And uncut twigs
Blue sky and lazy days
Will come again
#vss365
Circles and boxes
Circles and boxes
Until a shrill scream tears my throat
I veer left, right, leap
Face away
Find only circles and boxes
Rules and do what's right
Perhaps I can dig my way out
But look
The buggers put me on concrete
I sprinkle lichen and moss
And wait
#vss365
Circles and boxes
Until a shrill scream tears my throat
I veer left, right, leap
Face away
Find only circles and boxes
Rules and do what's right
Perhaps I can dig my way out
But look
The buggers put me on concrete
I sprinkle lichen and moss
And wait
#vss365
January 19, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Circles and boxes
Circles and boxes
Until a shrill scream tears my throat
I veer left, right, leap
Face away
Find only circles and boxes
Rules and do what's right
Perhaps I can dig my way out
But look
The buggers put me on concrete
I sprinkle lichen and moss
And wait
#vss365
Circles and boxes
Until a shrill scream tears my throat
I veer left, right, leap
Face away
Find only circles and boxes
Rules and do what's right
Perhaps I can dig my way out
But look
The buggers put me on concrete
I sprinkle lichen and moss
And wait
#vss365
Reposted by DW Keene
#vss365
The world has a surface glitter, and beneath it, a #murmur.
It persists - like heartbeat, like prayer, like an ember hidden in ash.
One must bend close to hear it.
It tells us: neither change nor loss are doom.
The murmur beneath this turning world is hope, persistence, continuance.
The world has a surface glitter, and beneath it, a #murmur.
It persists - like heartbeat, like prayer, like an ember hidden in ash.
One must bend close to hear it.
It tells us: neither change nor loss are doom.
The murmur beneath this turning world is hope, persistence, continuance.
January 18, 2026 at 8:26 AM