Daniel Cummings #vss365 host from Feb 1 - 14
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Daniel Cummings #vss365 host from Feb 1 - 14
@nathanbrazil.bsky.social
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Your #vss365 #prompt for Feb 12 is #dark

"Dewdrop, let me cleanse
in your brief
sweet waters...
These dark hands of life"

'Dewdrop, let me cleanse', Matsuo Basho

#12
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'Stop diversify,
Build the walls
Keep the colour pure’

The darkness of men
Calls

‘For identity, For humanity,
You need to understand
We ain’t the same,
Blood and all’

The shadows of men
Do call
#vss365 #dark
February 12, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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#vss365

I swapped some cat
a big ass roach
for half a tray o jello shots

it got #dark after that
as I watched noon approach
hangin' with the have nots

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February 12, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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No dark, as daylight on the city falls,
thin air gives off a rising dust
which settles on the pigeon coated walls
#vss365 #dark
February 12, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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If you miss reading about heavy shit,
Don’t worry one bit,
I have more heavy shit to post,
Blood, beer, bullet or ghost!
I’m doing us a favor,
A break with something lighter,
We will return to heavy shit,
For today, enjoy this piece ⬇️

#poetry for #vss365 #dark as #prompt #EastCoastKin #AmWriting
February 12, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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When I was five
I lived in a house
With door leading to
The Down Down stairs,
The place was a
Victorian basement

My first real chills,
I felt from the darkness.
I liked it……
The first goosebumps
On my young heart
#vss365 #dark
February 12, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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dark roast
grounds
for divorce
#vss365
February 12, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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The #ache in my #bones tells me something #dark is approaching. I #touch you gently on the wrist waking you from sleep.
‘We must go,’ I say.
‘Again?’
But you rise and pull on clothing laid out by the bed. Always ready. For we have grown to trust my intuition and so far it has kept us safe. #vss365
February 12, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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February 12, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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Like a shroud of cicadas,
Midnight covers the escapades
Of our illustrious family, Vega
As told in the dust and the shades.

#therivals #vss365 #dark #poem #poetry #writingcommunity

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February 12, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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#vss365 She entered Unlit, a store in a starless void, to purchase 300 grams of the purest #darkness. She dismissed a raven's wing, too glossy; a lump of coal, too iridescent; a black hole, too visible. "Darker," she said. The shopkeeper opened his chest & pulled out his heart. "Perfect," she said.
February 12, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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dark, damp day
the child in wellies
waterproof

#vss365 #haiku #poetry
February 12, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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Closet monsters and underbed horrors have boogeymen of their own. They fear St. Lucia Lumen, patron saint of bedtime. She can be invoked to make blankets proof against fangs and claws or to bless a nightlight so that it banishes the #dark and all that reside within it.

#vss365 #microfiction
February 12, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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it was #dark
in the beginning
I was a spark
on the way
to being
it is dark still
and I remember
I am a spark

#vss365
February 12, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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"Darkness doesn't exist. It's only the empty space between the light," she repeated. "Darkness doesn't exist. Darkness doesn't--" The #dark lunged forward, blotting out the candles. "Darkness doesn't exist--!" But it did. And it was coming for her. "The empty space..." #vss365 (dark)
February 12, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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Margot went full #dark mode. She slid the switchblade from her Prada evening clutch, gave that abusive goon the gruesome gift of a Sicilian necktie. When she snapped out of it, she cleaned the weapon and wiped claret speckles off her black cocktail dress — back to the party.

#vss365
February 12, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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#vss365 #poetry

how easily the #dark seeps in,
uninvited, unannounced,
to steal the light from memories
and plant a shadow—
flouncy, bright

and so we’re forced to learn which parts
of love can see in darkest glare,
illusions burnt away by truth,
the trusted light of old
a glimmer, barely there.
February 12, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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#vss365

“I found a rainbow,” I beam
but before colors
spill from my mouth
they are stolen
midair.

Mouth agape,
a #dark cloud gathers
in my throat.

I am a fool,
left out in the storm,
watching you
gather my gold.
February 12, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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Insults digital
slights physical grudges building
going #dark balance sought
#vss365
February 12, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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#vss365 #Dark

In shadows they whisper,
in the #dark, omnious silence, she hears every word they say. Her eyes darting beyond the day.
February 12, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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I carry it like a silent smile
presenting it and ignored for it
shadow amidst shadows, not melding

I see you and your burden
offer to share it, I will not
#dark inside is enough to me
#vss365
February 12, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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February 12, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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It’s dark - but it isn’t.
I had a vision:
I buried myself deep in the dirt
to attain enlightenment -
as if suicide were a ladder
leaning toward heaven.

The irony:
I was the very self I buried,
thrilled at the thought
of finally reaching peace.
#vss365 #dark
February 12, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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#Dark was my Mood as I entered The Room, no Ray of Hope for the Outcome. Then, from Nowhere came Inspiration, I did joyfully receive it and went whither it led me. Answers impressed, Tales told in Jest met with welcome Ovation. Nevertheless, despite Success, I still detest a Social Situation
#vss365
February 12, 2026 at 7:33 PM