Carla Halpin

Writer/ Editor/ Nurse. Words in The Cabinet of Heed, The Ascent, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Mighty. #vss365

[Carla Halpin @CarlaHalpin]

The sun set in the #west…until it didn’t. We adapted; places renamed, new compasses issued. Then the world started to spin faster & faster. Who needs compasses when we’re all squatting in the desert, holding onto our belongings, listening to the the cities slide. #scifi #vss365

[Anagha @AAnagha197]

#barren winter fields
frost whispers to sleeping seeds
hope waits in silence

#vss365 #haiku

[Basho Society @BashoSociety]

here to repay
your kindness
a garden willow

Basho

[Carla Halpin @CarlaHalpin]

Oh how she wished for this
Just to wash the dishes
And clean sheets
And lie back quiet with the stars
Having found her peace
But this —
Is more
And as a fright quickened her blood just momentarily
In the contrast she could see
Within the #monotony
Moments of joy
#vss365

[Indigenous Soul @GeneVatow]

The blight
became #monotonous
Towns crumbling
into haze
Allegory and psychodrama
are just
the latest phase
Little fields
of wildflowers
making silence pay

#vss365 #monotonous
#poetry

[Daniel Cummings @DanielC55186873]

He has a spot for you
on his wall,

between the rocking horse
missing a limb,

and the necklace of love locks
from the Pont des Arts.

When you no longer fit the mood,
when the #monotony of the world
has bled you dry,

there’s a place
where all things fade.

#vss365

[Voima Oy @voimaoy]

There is an oasis in the desert of despair, the Librarian said. We are the oasis, with our books and music, and art, an oasis of humanity.
#vss365 #oasis

[Voima Oy @voimaoy]

It's a double rainbow! the Librarian cried. A good omen.
And sun and rain, said the fox girl.
Mystical signs, of hope, said the bobcat.
#vss365 #mystical

[Basho Society @BashoSociety]

no time
for sleep
moon viewing

Basho

[Brooksie C. Fontaine @BrooksiesBooks]

"I wanted a #brownie that would do housework at night, but the one who responded to my ad was the woodland kind."
"What's the difference?"
"He's growing a forest in my living room and rides around on small, wild animals in saddles."
"I fail to see how that's a problem."
#vss365

[Carla Halpin @CarlaHalpin]

@divya_sabaa 🙏

[Carla Halpin @CarlaHalpin]

Despite the hushed tones, she’d heard. Their shadows flickered in the firelight like their serpent tongues. A #scintilla of something primal awoke. She sat unflinching, watching w the detached fascination of a decision made, as the fire grew until it raged out of control. #vss365

[Voima Oy @voimaoy]

Had we but space and time, we could see the whole story unfolding, the Librarian said. How it all began, how it ends, how it begins again.
#vss365 #space

[Carla Halpin @CarlaHalpin]

@divya_sabaa 🙏

[Carla Halpin @CarlaHalpin]

Walking the path of her #progenitor
Into the desert
Under the same constellation
Wide open sky
With dirty nails
Alone she digs
Alone she cries

#vss365

[Author Lali A. Love ™️ 🌈 @laliaristo]

In the #liminal hush,
#progenitor stars release—
codes bloom, veils unweave.

#vss365

[Carla Halpin @CarlaHalpin]

@iamwitwicky Thank you, Vikas. 🙏

[Carla Halpin @CarlaHalpin]

A damp couch
Under an old elm tree
Soaking in the #liminal mist
That hangs still & close
It whispers the party is over
What’s been done
Is sleeping
Let it be
#vss365

[Basho Society @BashoSociety]

the moon by the river
is just sliver
summer evening

Issa

[SparrowInSilence @SparrowNSilence]

blood maiden. moon and fire
conspire to find
under breath water
red and hot
pink and hard
sword and scabbard pulsing to be
bare and brazen
iris and ichor
shadowed in the wind

[Carla Halpin @CarlaHalpin]

@RitaKrugerWrite 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻