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TheDevilsTuna
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Music blogger dedicated to unearthing unknown, unheard and unbelievable bands, Find my words at https://besttuna.blogspot.com/ Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition Judge 2011-2025 and @freshnet moderator. Also write poems no-one reads.
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#vss365

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I used to dream in acres.
Today I measure life
in medicine spoons.
rations of laughter,
half sighs
taken with food
each night.

My heart’s on subscription
renewed monthly,
could be cancelled,
anytime.

The world is now a sip,
I can't
swallow
whole.

#measure
#vss365

On Prescription

I used to dream in acres.
Today I measure life
in medicine spoons.
rations of laughter,
half sighs
taken with food
each night.

My heart’s on subscription
renewed monthly,
could be cancelled,
anytime.

The world is now a sip,
I can't
swallow
whole.

#measure
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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#vss365

Unwakened

li-
ter-
a-
ture
breathes
in
the soft
crease
of paper,
the hush
of thought.

I
wait.

page
after
page
after
page.

but

the story
re-
fuses
to
wake.

#literature
#poetry
#writerscommunity
#poetrycommunity
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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#vss365 #prompt #Nov10

Greetings! I didn't want to wake up this morning,but here I am with today's word - #literature. According to Collins that is any writing of artistic merit,which isn't much help when deciding on the genre of my books.Are they literary or pulp fiction?
I may go back to bed now.
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
#vss365

Unwakened

li-
ter-
a-
ture
breathes
in
the soft
crease
of paper,
the hush
of thought.

I
wait.

page
after
page
after
page.

but

the story
re-
fuses
to
wake.

#literature
#poetry
#writerscommunity
#poetrycommunity
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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#vss365

Heavywait

the end
doesn't care
for law,
never signs
a treaty.
it
just
w
a
i
t
s
heavy,
patient
as
a
tomb.

#law
#writerscommunity
#poetrycommunity
#slowetry
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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#vss365
Breaking the Laws of Poetry
Line
breaks
in hand,
I j a y w a l k across the page.
Syntax sirens blare.
A constable of commas
waves me down,,,,
but I run from
the law of poetry.,
no rhyme,
no reason,
just stale breath
and
bruised
en-
jam-
bment.

#law
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
#vss365
I Fought The Law

Round 1:
Bell rings
ding
ding
Law comes out swinging, jab to my conscience.
I duck, footwork sloppy, nerves tangled in booklaces.
I throw a hook, miss.
Law counters with precedent.
Crowd roars.
1....2....3
I rise, unsteady.
ding
ding
stagger to my corner.

#law
November 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
#vss365
Breaking the Laws of Poetry
Line
breaks
in hand,
I j a y w a l k across the page.
Syntax sirens blare.
A constable of commas
waves me down,,,,
but I run from
the law of poetry.,
no rhyme,
no reason,
just stale breath
and
bruised
en-
jam-
bment.

#law
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
#vss365

Heavywait

the end
doesn't care
for law,
never signs
a treaty.
it
just
w
a
i
t
s
heavy,
patient
as
a
tomb.

#law
#writerscommunity
#poetrycommunity
#slowetry
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
#vss365

Bard Language

A Shakespearian sentence
strides into a bar.
The verb’s drunk,
again,
picking fights with tipsy adjectives.
The noun forgets its own name.
Nobody gets the punchline,

“A Comedy of Terrors”,

but everyone laughs,
nervously.

#language
a woman is holding a book in her hands and reading it in a dark room .
ALT: a woman is holding a book in her hands and reading it in a dark room .
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November 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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The Rise of the Far Right

The forest burns, yet
still we plant the spark,
history’s lesson
written clear as bone.

How many times must
tyranny leave its mark,
how many fields turn ash,
how many stone

monuments to cruelty
must we raise
before we learn to fear
the old dark ways?

#poetry #vss365
November 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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#vss365 #prompt #Nov8

Here we go again! The start of my second week as host - hundreds of works of genius read, more screen hours than is healthy, many new friends.
Today's word from my Xword book index is #language.
Off you go - surprise me!
November 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
#vss365
The Melting Hours

Language shivers cold,
unclothed.
It seeks warmth in sentences,
stitched from the skins of unsent letters.
Vowels melt,
night drips inkless.
On the windowsill,
steam conjugates breath.
I wake,
wordless,
while the room
speaks
in untethered tongues.

#language
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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#vss365

Re-bootocracy

History re-
boots,
same glitch
tch
tch
tch,
new interface.
We repackage atrocity,
optimise the guillotine,

In a rented room,
a lonely teen swipes right
with hatred's rotten
gloves.

They
still
fit.

#history
November 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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#vss365 #prompt #Nov7th

Good morning! Today's word is #history. Which I wish I'd studied better at school, because I'd enjoy historical novels more. My first husband knew the dates of all the Kings of England, which was useful.
I look forward to reading your mini historical works.
a person is holding a small piece of paper with the word book on it
ALT: a person is holding a small piece of paper with the word book on it
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November 7, 2025 at 7:48 AM
#vss365

Re-bootocracy

History re-
boots,
same glitch
tch
tch
tch,
new interface.
We repackage atrocity,
optimise the guillotine,

In a rented room,
a lonely teen swipes right
with hatred's rotten
gloves.

They
still
fit.

#history
November 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
#vss365

Travel broadens minds, they say,
so I took geography.
Got lost on my way to class
and failed my GCSE.

#geography
a woman says i 'm in pink letters on her shirt
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November 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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She has no sense of direction and is useless with map and compass. But she knows the fierce #geography of her hometown intimately. The illusion of grace on the sea's surface as it encircles Drake’s Island in an embrace. Experience says this glaze betrays the satiating collision of rivers.
#vss365
November 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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'Our quest has taken us around peninsulas, across plains, through valleys, up hills, mountains, alpine tundra and now we dig through top soil into the subsoil to find the Treasure of Quendrack the Warrior.'

'I knew it. You're not a Mage. You're a #geography teacher.'

#vss365
November 6, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Your geography—
Tempting map of hot places
I'm planning to trek.

#vss365 #geography
November 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
#vss365

Seismintimacy

Faultlines kiss beneath her ribs.
Sweat maps the aftershock.
The geography of want,
cracked, molten.
She says stay,
and my pulse migrates—
a trEMor,
a
land-
slide,
a body learning
how to
c
o
l
l
a
p
s
e.

#geography
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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#vss365 #prompt #Nov6

Good morning! The next word from my Xword book index is #geography - not one of my better subjects from school, though I enjoyed drawing maps.
I still prefer real maps - if I don't know where I am now, how can GPS tell me where to go next?
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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#vss365

Skinfluencer

They told me
to be famous
I must “have the glow.”

So I bought
a discounted ring-light,
hugged it
until my skin shone
like bruised silk

Now my followers
emoji-drown me,
tell me I'm "lit",
while I
suffer
from
third degree heatstroke.

#famous
November 5, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Our friendship is famous for our laughter, meandering conversations, and whimsy.

But most of all for our steadfastness.

#vss365 #famous
November 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM