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🎄✨Giselle✨🎄
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Reader, Writer, Poet, Daydreamer, Artist, Mother
Pinned
Tonight I sit, waiting,
On the eve of your 1st birthday.

My heart is full, and heavy
Joy and sorrow interwoven
In restless dancing
My little love, you grow
Beautiful and wild
Daring darling

I'll be here

Your heartbeat on the monitor
Still an echo in my ear
Little fingers on my heart

~etched

❤️
Tonight I sit, waiting,
On the eve of your 1st birthday.

My heart is full, and heavy
Joy and sorrow interwoven
In restless dancing
My little love, you grow
Beautiful and wild
Daring darling

I'll be here

Your heartbeat on the monitor
Still an echo in my ear
Little fingers on my heart

~etched

❤️
August 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
They taught her to #heel
To hide what's real
To stay in place
To hide her face

For shame

But she grew wild
Bramble sweet
With thorns and fruits
Hidden deep

And delved within
Her rogue mind
She took their treasures
And robbed them blind.

#vss365
July 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
#drawing #sketching drew the first moment my mum held my daughter, her granddaughter, at the hospital for her birthday. ❤️
February 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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there is a winter
without the bright white
of snow
without frost
shimmering in the morning
independent of Earth's tilt
and the promise
of return

it has been long
since your sunshine
fawned over my skin
and I cannot keep the cold
from my memory

and I wonder
will I ever be warm
again?

#vss365
January 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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#vss365
#Lace that shoe
walker of an endless road
Such loosened up wire
might trip you out before
reaching next steps
Any ways aren't attached
to slope or stairs within
distance as polemic
ahead after behind
slowed by obstacle
alerting and diving
👣
Nobody warns
about fractures❗
January 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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The #lace -like web got larger. Over the past few weeks, it obtained parachute proportions. Some days she waited, convinced that only Shelob could have woven it, but then the diminutive spider would wander forth, spinning merrily.

The step creaked. He had returned. #vss365
January 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Soft,
The skin,
like #lace.
Fragile untouched porceline,
a museum piece,
uncatalogued,
and languishing
behind,
not glass,
but a cardboard,
shard filled crate.
Looking for someone with a crowbar.
To come set it free.

#vss365
#poem #quickwrite #poetsofbluesky
January 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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#Lace, too, this awkward morning,
frilled by a spring bird come early, along with the smell of green thinking about it. The November roses are incorruptible saints by the door.

#vss365
January 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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let us not waste
precious moments
looking back through
the veils of time
no #lace of tears
from misplaced dreams
nor obfuscated views
of faded years
as long as love exists
there's a way
for your heart and mine.

#vss365
January 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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the pale skin
of winter sky
black-laced
by bare branches

#vss365 (lace)
January 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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stood uninvited
masquerading
as a statue
black #laces
combat boots
green hues
ready to go
to battle
for his love
she held
a garland
made of silk
made to choose
a suitor
she chose the statue
he came to life
applied vermillion
on her forehead
rode her out

-rev

#vss365
January 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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whether loose
and unsecure
or crisscrossed
& woven tight
our lives are laced
intertwined

sometimes
there are tangles
& knots
I leave them be
for even in disorder
it is better
to be touching
turning
and looping around you

for together
we are fabric

and apart
I am but a string
and a strand

#vss365
January 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
We tangle like #lace
Clinging to each other
Fingers parting
Like webs clinging
Till finally we split
Holes appearing
Gaps in memory
Like drunken kisses
Spread across
As many years
As there has been
~Love
And all is aged
To vanilla yellow
The soft scoop
Of yesterday
Still kisses
At my heart.
#vss365
January 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I wear a #cloak of lies
It hides me from your eyes
No, it wasn't true
But what choice had I?
My heart was used
And I was drowning
Falling down
I had to find a foothold
Some way to climb
Up and out
Of this pit of sorrow

No. It wasn't love.
No. It doesn't hurt.
It never did.

You were right.
#vss365
January 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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She was walking into class when she saw someone in a #cloak duck out of sight behind the building.

Annoyed she went over to confront the person.

"What are you doing here?" she asked.

"Protecting my queen," he replied.

"I'm only the queen in your world, here I'm just a normal 9th grader." #vss365
January 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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When the weather got cold, Alice rejected my offer of a new coat for school.

"I think I'll start wearing a #cloak instead." I raised an eyebrow, but said nothing.

"So, our kid's a vampire now?" my husband asked that night.

"Just finding her inner 19th century countess, i think."

#vss365
January 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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moonlight loneliness
i'm grasping at your umbra
begging for release

you regard me like prey
but also like your eden
the coveted paradise
so far from reach

at last
you mantel your #cloak around me

this night is ours

#vss365
#poetry
January 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Grandpa wanted to be a poet, a beat.

Under this cloak he hitchhiked across the plains, wandering among communes and camps.

He was one of the last to meet Uncle Seymour, the walking blacksmith.

Meanwhile grandma was at home with 8 children to feed.

There was no money. The baby cried.

#vss365
January 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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She wears her personality
as a #cloak
hiding the #fool
under a smile and a rule
Never let them see
the vulnerable Cheri
whose heart debris
falls short
of sympathy
A symphony of failures
stains upon her soul
Unbleached -
her beseech ignored
until his eyes
so blue
renew

#vss365
January 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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#vss365 #cloak

Skin cloak wrinkling
I aspired to be king
Mind diminishing

Holy aging
Heart so weak
Eye sight fading

Never to be anything
Human zero point
Still my soul singing

So to be dust im ground
Greater people made less sound
Brightly I'll go, a cacophony.
January 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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I wear my sadness
like a #cloak; tattered, torn, and
discarded to time.

#poetry
#vss365
#haiku
#senryu
January 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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I'm reading your eyes
for stories

touch me
& weave me in
tell me in kisses
that will melt
the ice of this world

for there is much
that makes one cold

I'm sliding
across your skin
there is music
in vibrations
our hips
the harmonics
of amplification

make the silence
of indifference
no more
#vss365
January 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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This week’s vsspic!
Here is this week’s #vsspic. We can’t wait to see where it takes you. Don’t forget to attach the picture and tag us at #vsspic.
January 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Welcome everyone to the encore of #QuickQuill. I hope you enjoy! Let's begin with Round 1. Please write a poem or vss with a metaphor for:

Truth

(you need not use the word 'truth' in your write)

#quickquill
January 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Yes
I often think of you & me

Yes
I think a lot of what used to be

Yes
I’d like it to have ended differently

Yes
I wanted without a doubt to be free

Yes
There were things I never wanted you to see

Yes
I walked away from it all independently

Yes
I made some mistakes in order to be free
January 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM