Cyrano

You’ve stopped dancing.

Folds of cloth in piles on drawers Not in them Murmurs bleat from my half made bed Who’ll hear them? You? Doors ajar windows open Come on in however broken We’ll start again With dreams and hope and #vss365 #start #poetry

Foxes and chickens.

The wind blows and the sneakers two step Both feet firmly in mid air Laces looped on the overhead cable Strings for the puppet master When the sun shines they loiter When the snow falls they shiver But they know that when the wind blows, The best thing you can do is dance #vss365 #sneakers

Play the lottery of love It’s easy to do Simply pick a number Between one and two If you draw one, You’re certain to lose Two’s odds are even, So nothing is sure A win has a catch though Baked into the game Once the jackpot is gone You must play again #vss365 #lottery #poetry

Watching Tales of the #Unexpected Tumultuous leaves distract The programme and the follage Share shades of brown I’ve saw this one before of course I wonder When and where? And in the round Is life as I expected? And I wonder why this old TV show Gives me such comfort? #vss365 #poetry

The trick of the light fools all It does not illuminate Nor shine and guide It’s in the business of distraction Catching the eye Redirecting thoughts to false horizons The honesty of the dark Is where the truth is found Where the mind can settle Back to the womb of sound #vss365 #sound

Debt descends like a hurricane Taking your roof and your car Life sucked up on the whim of a wind The spiral of disbelief In the eye of self recrimination The debris of who you were Is a lemonade stand Dumbfounded children gaze When all is gone with the storm Rebuild #vss365 #hurricane

We need students of western fashion and the pillars of good wardrobe choices. Leaders who understand that a gray 3-piece absolutely does not go with a pair of cognac loafers. The power and freedom of not having his spray-on tan be the exact same shade of shoe leather.

Big Daddy Warsfucked

Menopause at Work

We will live together on simple terms My sanctuary in your home Your sanctuary in my arms I’ll bring logs up the granite steps You’ll light and heat the summit Children tall and small, will conspire to keep us company We will Laugh Eat Learn Decorate I will nurture #vss365 #nurture

Tom Watson, former Labour leader, has joined Palantir, the data analytics firm that has become integral to the UK's national security and surveillance strategy. #TomWatson #Palantir #UK #surveillance #politics https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/24/tom-watson-palantir-uk-politics

Are you finishing that? #vss365 #hunger

She first thought him the height of conceit Flamboyantly shirted hedonist Exhibitionism in a lounge bar snug It never left her, he never left her Marriage nor children could button that shirt On the support act’s exit She asked the universe to send her passion And it did #vss365 #passion

Season turns to cooling air Autumnal browns of orange bleed from waking radiators Cats curl. ‘Stormy Weather’ plays in doors and out #vss365 #stormy

Gardening’s for fools And I was born to prune But that’s the way I like it baby I don’t want to dig forever …

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

No idea what #palimplest means I would look it up but that would seem Like cheating #vss365

By the door at the rear Against the wall Stands the broom A natural blonde and thin as a rake She loves a tune Give her a shake Sweep her high Sweep her low, Just put her back By the door #vss365 #broom

There are times When the sight of a single child’s glove Abandoned on the pavement Or slipped from a hurrying pram perhaps There are times When On seeing that I feel myself begin to weep #vss365 #glove

You can’t write legibly on a tissue Although we all still try The words are incomprehensible Hence a tissue of lies #vss365 #tissue

My favourite joke is by 1970s UK magician /comedian Tommy Cooper It went some something like this; Sorry if I I’m bit off on this evening’s show but I had a terrible night’s sleep Dreamt I was eating a giant marshmallow When I woke up this morning The #pillow was gone?! #vss365 #pillow

This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.

@rfsmith.bsky.social #PromptCombo My nostalgic #Era for Monday

Umbilical A pair for the ages Mystical Past lives and angels Inexplicable Voices and pages Physical Congress in unity Complacency Temper and ruin The cord broke Again we are human #vss365 #cord

Put the #kettle on his mother says we both grew up drinking tea it used to be the one way we connected now I brew enough for a single cup and think of her as I drink it #vss365 #poetry #writing #writingcommunity

No one handled a comb like the Fonz Look him up or ask your elders Jeans, boots, white T and a leather Stops in front of a mirror in the hall Hair slicked back with motorcycle oil Flourishing a comb to make a correction Doesn’t follow through You can’t fix perfection Ayyy! #vss365 #comb

A true story - #vss365 #matchbox #poetry #cyranovg

#vss365 #Remote

All this fire and smoke Nature’s hand brake #vss365 #brake

Ken Burns Wants You To Watch America: Birth Of A Nation Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cTi_vTwwmU&t=599s

…dimpled steel to mirrored ceiling eyes dart upwards, feet tap accusing glances feet shuffle, eyes fix forward on beyond seconds unsettlingly slow, turn the hand, extend the index approving glances pause from beyond she enters doors slide we descend i fall #vss365 #descend

On reaching the summit, I peaked to early I stuck a flag on the ground and had it unfurl The ascent complete of the final Munro We’d started the quest three years before ‘Sean break out the whiskey, whats the delay?’ - ‘We’ve climbed this before, it’s that one over there’ #vss365 #summit

LIke the Catholics say You're dust The ultimate correction to a plus. Don't mourn. Fertilize. It comes as no surprise. As I lay dying Pump in Shellac At Action Park Remind me: Skip the light, go to the dark (For my mental health) #Ascend gaudy, feathered. Fall feeling more yourself. #vss365

Beautiful night at Citi Field. #Mets

Today, like every day My mind will wander down a familiar road Resentment and fear will hook arms to cross They like a road well travelled I’ll walk connected, ears plugged Podcast will stream mollycoddling therapy I’ll question the wisdom of putting more voices in my head #vss365 #road

She stared at that cloud for 15 minutes Inconsequentially meandering A fluff of a moment in the sky With a head in that cloud She heard it speak “Wait until you see what I do next” Her squint disappeared along with the sun “Inconsequential?” “Your turn” #vss365 #turn

The playground a track meet for involuntary sprints with no destination to speak of the thrill of velocity reason enough to dash to climb and swing and bounce and sprint Them’s the vitals of life Dead stop of a peeling bell and all back to class To be convinced otherwise #vss365 #sprint

Momentum Such a valley of a word A hawk swooping in the mouth Talons clasping the prey with pursing lips Gliding to rise on the wind of breath #vss365 #momentum

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