Old memories
lingering like ghosts
in these abandoned homes.
Rotted, crumbling,
rats & snakes #creeping
through their cracks
& crevices.
Joy flourished here once,
& heartache.
Families driven out
because of money
or skin color.
For no reason
than terrible reasons
manufactured by greed & hate #vss365

Old memories
lingering like ghosts
in these abandoned homes.
Rotted, crumbling,
rats & snakes #creeping
through their cracks
& crevices.
Joy flourished here once,
& heartache.
Families driven out
because of money
or skin color.
For no reason
than terrible reasons
manufactured by greed & hate #vss365

What a cruel fate!
To have within me
worlds and gods
and myths #unseen
and unlimited,
but to be bound
by time and by work
and by the unique yet common
tiredness of a modern
late stage capitalist life.
Would just one story
delight one soul
would be a noble mercy
for me, compelled to write.
#vss365

You are pre-dawn magic,
your skin woven from
the crossroads music
of nightjars
at the birth of day.
You are cornflower-kissed,
a vintage soul,
a living denouncement
of the #deluxe and the superfluous.
(1/2)
#vss365

#poem #poetry #poet #writing #vss #freeverse #memories #childhood #happiness #belonging

Blood-stained pavement.
Angry horns and voices.
Criminalized,
demonized,
folks living quiet, diligent lives.
Humanity taken for granted.
For humanity is never granted.
It is always fought for, at every turn,
for this is the land of the vulnerable,
the home of the oppressed.

#vssdaily #grant

Particles of ginger
Cinnamon rhapsodies
A clash of flour and sugar
And your song, alive
only within these precious moments.

#vss365 #clash #poetry #poem

#poetry #haiku #freedomofspeech #flagburning

What a comfort to
know there was an #oasis
in this vast desert.

But I do not know.
Still I journey through the heat
knowing I may die.

My burnt feet carry
me forward. The sands will not
claim my broken bones.

#poetry #haiku #vss365

Of dreams...

#poetry #poem #poet #micropoetry #blueskypoetry#poetrylovers

#poetry #antifascism #democracy

A chorus of screams.
Blurry-eyed
and forgetful.
The fools forward march
into the darkest corners
of history.

#blur #vss365 #poetry

#lacc #lacc2025 #comicconla #comicconla2025 #lacomiccon #lacomiccon2025 #cosplay #horror #scareactor #beetlejuice

#lacc2025 #comicconla2025 #lacomiccon2025 #lacc #comicconla #lacomiccon #cosplay #horror #clown

#lacomiccon #comicconla #lacc #lacomiccon2025 #comicconla2025 #lacc2025 #cosplay

I am a #conundrum of belief.
I shed my angels and demons.
Banished superstition.
Embraced science and reason.
But for the people I love,
I hope for a benevolent, loving god.
Or a kind, cosmic hand to guide them.
#vss365 #poetry #vss