Rain batters the panes like truth at my door,
lightning exposes what I was before.
A room full of echoes I cannot defend,
old prayers fracture..
refuse to mend.
They call it chrysalism..
this riot inside,
where thunder and guilt learn how to hide.
#BornBattleReady
This week’s Voice of Valo(U)r finalists did not confuse gentleness with weakness, nor intensity with destruction.
They wrote from the threshold where softness and ferocity coexist, where transformation is not spectacle, but becoming.
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#vss365#prompt for 14 January, 2026, is #wonky
So let's be having wonky poems/prose.
You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams
Roald Dahl, The Twits
The best way I could think to honour this woman I have never met was to try to share her joy, which her wife describes as sparkle. I'm no professional artist, but I hope this helps spread her sparkle!
#ArtAsWitness#JusticeForReneeGood#ReneeNicoleGood
Haiku Horror Writing Prompt no. 1632: sticky
Craft a horrifying haiku inspired by the prompt and share your work with #haikuhorrorprompt.
Big thanks to Fiery Sun Song @fierysunsong for sparking today's terror!
Kooky's okay as novelty -
Until deemed liability.
Cast out for acting contrary -
Not complicit, ordinary.
but walking stooped
and sitting straight
keeps us stiff as
our life's mandate.
kookiness for
just kooky's sake
keeps us loose and
free, wide awake!
#Vss365#Ourpoetryx
#OurPoetryX@OurPoetryX
Prompt for 10 January
-Novelty-
Something new or unusual. This could be the latest fad, or an evolutionary product or idea. Everything was new once. A novelty presents an opportunity to learn. Make the best of it!
From the vault: Lofty dreams
The Flagpole:
Tall, straight, and brooding
In his proud, sturdy costume
So no one might see
How he lives for embraces
From his bright, billowing twink
#Flagpole#Tanka#Poem#Pride#Masking#Haiku4U
We welcome the new year with prompts inspiring you to make your resolutions come true by writing them into existence. Happy writing kings, queens, and nobles.👸🤴🏽✨
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"I am #Delight "
I live on the edge,
on the curve of your cheek
and a light in your eye
I awaken when
love is shared with soft words
and urgent touches
But I disappear
in the face of your ire
and absent consent
#Vss365
#vss365
I woke with verbs in my mouth
unspoken, jagged.
They tasted of doing.
My #dream refused to explain.
It never does.
It borrows breath
to bend my will.
I surface
already past tense,
body half-spoken,
breath deferred.
I rinse my mouth,
but the glottal
tightens
&
I'm gone.
An ant's dream
is their team
The pup dwells
on doorbells
People dream
Of esteem
And these tells
Are like spells
For each dream
Feeds a scheme
But the spell
won't compel
If you
stop
listen
to others' dreams
too
#vss365#dream