Liz Young
youngliz.bsky.social
Liz Young
@youngliz.bsky.social
Old bird from the Deep South of England. ❤️ writing, family, kindness. Several books on Amazon. No DMs please.
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#vss365 #prompt #Nov15

Good morning, writers!
From tomorrow your host will be the lovely & healthy Sheila @lovehealthed.bsky.social who will post at 8am GMT.
Thank you all; it's been great apart from the early mornings!
My final word is #transport - very apt as I trundle off into the sunset.
a man is riding a cardboard cart down a street in a city .
ALT: a man is riding a cardboard cart down a street in a city .
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#vss365

Handsome, #suave & urbane, he slid effortlessly into our group, charming us with tales of foreign travel. We wondered if they were all true.
Then he phoned home. 'Hello Muther'. Thick Yorkshire accent. The man was real after all.
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
#vss365

Christmas is approaching
In my view much too fast
With all the sad reminders
Of celebrations past
And loved ones who were not aware
That it would be their #last.
November 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
To my #vss365 friends - which of these represents you? Or doesn't Christmas #matter?
November 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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What we #draw up in our minds #matters. If each of us could find the common ground and become #united in a way that’ll #illuminate truth from the lies our ancestors told us, it’d be #huge toward world peace. Never stop trying to make the magic come true.
#vss365 #2WordPrompt #Whistpr #vssmagic
November 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
#vss365

The big countries' aggression
may lead to our world's end
but in the mayhem all that #matter
are family and friends.
November 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
#vss365

There are all kinds of quack cures for a filthy cold, but over the years I have #learned to ignore them all. Plenty of fluids, regular doses of Beechams, and rest. Which is why I am staying in bed - just for the good of my #health.
November 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
#fromoneline #vss365

I didn't write this, did I?
was my first thought.
On #reflection, it's not bad!
Perhaps it's time to sort
my jottings into order,
so when my brain is stuck
searching for inspiration
I've the beginnings of a book.
November 26, 2025 at 8:28 AM
#vss365 #WritingCommunity

When the joints all creak
And your muscles ache
And a nice long walk
You can no longer take.
When the kids don't phone
Even just to check
That you're still alive,
You think 'Why the heck
Am I even here?
Do I matter at all?
Am I #relevant now?
Life begins to pall.
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
#vss365

My attention span is limited
So to keep my old hands movable
I stick to week-long projects
So the results are #achievable -

And this is the best I can write today
I have to cook a cottage pie.
November 23, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Rewarding a dictator-aggressor always leads to another war. One that is usually even worse.
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
#vss365 #measurable

Only God knows the days I have left -
to me they are #immeasurable
so I live each day as if I am immortal.
If I knew this was my last day
I would spend it saying
over and over
to my children -
I love you.
November 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
#vss365 #WritingCommunity

We'll have to take #action, they said, but nobody was prepared to be #specific. When the body was discovered, every single one of them blamed the others, and the police couldn't pin it on anyone. Murder by committee.
November 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
#vss365

Wish I'd been told in my youth
that choosing one #option
over another
can be irreversible -
I might have hesitated.
Perhaps.
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Mum would have been 101 today. Miss her a lot. Happy birthday Mum xx
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
#vss365 #WritingCommunity

What do you want to get from life?
I was asked when in my teens.
To be happy as someone's wife
I'd say, like every young girl's dream.
But later, when I was grown and wed,
and faced with #reality
my heart no longer ruled my head
and I found I was happier free.
November 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
#vss365

My #goals have shrunk
As the years increase
I'll make do with friends
And a world at peace.
November 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
#vss365
Welcome Sheila @LoveHealthEd our new host!

Daughter & g/daughter coming for lunch,
Roast chicken, as always, required -
Must take #issue with Millie
For being so silly
Coz the same meal each week makes me tired.
an advertisement for roasted chicken shows two dolls standing next to a plate of food
ALT: an advertisement for roasted chicken shows two dolls standing next to a plate of food
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November 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
#vss365 #transport a song I loved in my teenage years!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yHr...
FLANDERS & SWANN - 'A Transport Of Delight' - 45rpm 1957
YouTube video by VinylFun
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November 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Seeds drop and grow
The transport
A bird or perhaps a four footed thing
Hooked for a free ride to migration
How can they not have brains?
Roots speak, dig, and hold together
Chemical warfare in ultraviolet
Symbiote in deed
I, the illiterate
Am amazed

#vss365
November 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Those inhabiting this dystopia
must have some distraction,
some social, chemical, technological ticket
to #transport them out of the present moment
because this very moment is the only place
where the dystopia can be dismantled.

#vss365 #poetry
November 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Cheers to the storytellers, the yarn-spinners, the tale-weavers, those who #transport us into elsewhere and otherwhen. We are grateful trespassers in gardens they planted specifically for our wandering. They counterfeit reality better than reality manages, then share their forgeries freely.

#vss365
November 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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For whoever needs this.
*Yelling fuck is mandatory. It helps. It’s science.
November 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Scalpel. Suction. Sternal Saw.
Finding true love is not an exact #science. Heartache, broken hearts, hearts with holes —I fix them all.
But as soon as I open this man's chest cavity, I see the problem. No heart at all.
A politician. Sew him up. All that money can keep him company. #vss365
November 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM