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Nothing makes something everything
Pinned
Time marks the changes
Of what you can’t
Forget,
There’s purity in innocence
Yet much more
In
Regret

#vss365 #purity
What booze-warm #audacity
Could dare to break
The brittle clarity of her thousand yard stare
August 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
She looked too good to be left alone for long. It was only a matter of time before the booze-warm #audacity of some mediocre lothario would rock up and break the brittle clarity of her thousand yard stare. Until then I’d watch and try to imagine what she was thinking and what had brought her here.
August 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Reposted by Hanrastuff
#Death was a constant, watchful companion out in the airless vacuum. Dylan was very much aware of that every time he set out. Everything in space seemed to want to kill you, especially the void itself, but he never backed down from it.

Taking to the black in Magpie was the true challenge.

#vss365
April 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
When
I slice
The #bloodline from
A pelagic
I think
Of it
Bursting
Through the #slipstream
Of flashing prey,
A scattered
Silver
Twisting mirror.
And an apex
Of vertigo,
Of loneliness,
Gives a tremor
To my hands
As I reach for
The salt and lime.

#vss365
February 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
A #modest house. That was all he wanted. A place where he could raise bookshelves, and write. Where the garden was tangled perfection. A place that was his, and him. But he knew he would never have it. There was no hope left to be hurt by. Looking forward, all he could see was the void.
#vss365
February 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I was once fierce
With the kind of
Sandy wounds
You pick up in deserts
Of unwanted solitude.
But you,
With one atomic smile,
Blasted all that sore grit
Smooth,
And now I stumble
Bewildered
To be so
#Disarmed

#vss365
February 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Gulled

I didn’t think
Hot chips
Could summon
Such a #cyclone
Of sharp beaks and wings;
White stukas
Tightly turning
In screeching
Snapping attack.

I drop the bag and flee
Shamed
To be so far
From the garden
Where once I had control

#vss365
February 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I looked at him. What he proposed was neither thorough, nor fair, but we had no time for either.

‘Stop anyone in a small car and search for books. Anything that isn’t a bible - arrest them. We have to stop this Librarian at all costs’

#vss365 #thoroughfare
February 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
#Oak.
This fallen King!
Centuries of oxygen,
Deep carpets of acorns,
A nursery for chattering flocks
And broad canopies
Of summer shade
For all.
All won in the teeth of
A thousand winter storms,
A gnarled fist
Until the last.
And now,
Food for the beetles.

Would we were so strong

#vss365
February 4, 2025 at 6:42 AM
My father
Was my #umbrella
I never knew the rain
His lessons taught
Furled by my side
Should I need him again

#vss365
February 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
When I visited Melbourne in the 1990s you had to sort through the #rocket to find your meal.

Never understood why.

Maybe the harvest went ballistic.

#vss365
February 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
What light through #sonder window breaks?
It is the east, and hordes do run
Within my head, beneath the sun,
Resplendent in each petty pace.
Arise, fair sun, and mute this flood,
For I am pale,
And quake with disbelief,
That such worlds should hinge
On the twitch
Of an orange cretin

#vss365
January 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM
#Sonder.
You didn’t even know
That I didn’t know
What it even was
To you

#vss365
January 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Elizabethan gentlemen
Weren’t.
Down at The Globe
Armed to the teeth
In puffball skirts and tights
Hogging the limelight
To lob lewd epithets at the players.
They were
Just thugs
In the ruff

#collar #vss365
January 30, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The way you left
I need
One of those
Plastic
Satellite dish
Collars
That dogs wear
To stop themselves
Licking their wounds.

Ruff.

#collar #vss365
January 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Failed parachute
Conjured dead
In the field

#vss365 #conjure
January 29, 2025 at 7:45 AM
In South London, ‘taking the piss’ is all about checking out whether someone has a sense of humour, while ‘giving it some #needle’ is about using calculated insults to test how far someone could be pushed. Both experiences can seem similar but you’d be wise to know the difference

#vss365
January 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
He was staring at me, cloth in hand, with a crazed look on his eye. The sunlight was shining off the counter, dazzling. He began to speak slowly, carefully:
‘The way you keep your kitchen. It is OBSCENE’

#hbp92
Prose/dialogue: “Squeaky clean or obscene with no in-between.” #hbp92
January 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
He couldn’t help it. The evidence was stark: the people had spoken - and his doubts about the future began to #congeal within him.
#vss365
January 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Reposted by Hanrastuff
i will not write a poem
using the word #unctuous

#galumph was bad enough.

#vss365 #prompt #poem
January 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Reposted by Hanrastuff
"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."

✒ Canadian literary critic, theorist, and scholar #NorthropFrye passed away #OTD 23 January 1991. #Literature
January 23, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Frog with lisp goes #cloak

#vss365
January 19, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Hi there!
Blakean.com proudly presents, published today, a short piece on the wonderfully lascivious Australian Artist Norman Lindsay and his relationship with William Blake

www.blakean.com/post/the-bla...

#williamblake #normanlindsay #arthistory #beulah #threefold
www.blakean.com/my-blog
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January 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Tedium’s just
Another word
For nothing left
To do

#vsspoem
#vss365
#tedious

[Apologies to Kris and Janice:
We’re just not as interesting as you]
January 18, 2025 at 4:50 AM
. . . - - - . . .

I
Rot
With tedium
At
Work

. . . - - - . . .

#vsspoem
#vss365
#tedious
January 18, 2025 at 4:43 AM