Sleepless Verse

very short stories, prose poetry, Haiku (except evenings and early mornings workdays and weekends) #vss365 #writingcommunity

[Sleepless Verse @MCGLYNN59]

The great covid breakup
ice hard & packed in
Cold hard lake
But a liquid seam that eve
Next morning
half a lake
Next day
the whole bay
Many families in kayaks
And canoes
A joyous celebration
Of ice bound break up
and a sense of spring
and newness
and freedom from fear
#vss365

[Sleepless Verse @MCGLYNN59]

@writeclimbrun North Boston seemingly a word apart

[Sleepless Verse @MCGLYNN59]

@demonrobber I think I watched that game and after the first three minutes changed the the channel to the home shopping network where I got a great deal on a diamond necklace.

[Sleepless Verse @MCGLYNN59]

@StorinoDana The smallest of mannerism

[Sleepless Verse @MCGLYNN59]

@joelspriggs Quiche wo eggs and coconut & cream added

[Joel Spriggs @joelspriggs]

Breakfast pie is a thing right? Adults are allowed breakfast pie!

[Sleepless Verse @MCGLYNN59]

Jesus is having a Pabst
His long braided
hair flowing to the bar
Alone in his phone
No disciples yet
No fishing for men
But Its early
He’s not yet thirty
texting
Checking the old testaments
Old friends who wont respond
New Testament friends
Happy to follow
many likes
#vss365

[Sleepless Verse @MCGLYNN59]

@Charinuuuuh Dune

[Sleepless Verse @MCGLYNN59]

@MCarrollBooks @PatrickAttawayy I tried to top that one but couldn’t

[M. Carroll @MCarrollBooks]

@PatrickAttawayy The oxygen that you get when you step off the plane in Hawaii for the first time in years.

[Sleepless Verse @MCGLYNN59]

Brushes with death
They are icy cold
Like snowflakes
Not alike
The mornings
They come
With yelling birds
A sun too early
Light on blight
Hope I guess
#vss365

[Sleepless Verse @MCGLYNN59]

The fucking clanging
Its a refrigerator
It is loud yelling
A refrigerator
Loud on purpose
Its the only sound I have
I say stop
All is cold tonight
We all might be dead so stop
Stop with the compressor crap
Stop the noise
Stop stop
Sad you stopped
I miss the noise #vss365

[Sleepless Verse @MCGLYNN59]

@mere_789 Me

[Sleepless Verse @MCGLYNN59]

@saylahachey A bed

[Sleepless Verse @MCGLYNN59]

Larks
Its a wet area
And a meadow above
Still very far from roads and noise
The larks singing here
Above the marshy mire
They are happy its fall
Seeds aplenty
The dead buried in cattails
Soldiers of yore
The faint odor of rot
Blue sky
Yesterday forgotten
Wars dead #vss365

[Sleepless Verse @MCGLYNN59]

You did the best with what you had

[DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson]

In her wake’s
1,000 dead—
They call her
#Chiliad Killer

Where e’er she goes
Death follows
And blood flows
Like a river

She’s killed
A chiliad of men
Yet never
Drawn a blade

The smitten & driven
War over her
That her heart
Be swayed
#vss365

[Sleepless Verse @MCGLYNN59]

@derickijohnson She was tough and thoughtful

[DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson]

She embodied
All that’s right & just
This woman on
TheBench

No politics
Just “Rule Of Law”
& compassion’s
Common sense

For all of this
& more
We trusted
Ginsburg in the clench

Glorious
Notorious
RGB
Our thanks
Thin recompense

(RIP Ruth Bader Ginsburg—you’ll be missed)
#vss365

[Emma Males @EmmaLWinfield]

Its 'lets pretend I'm ok even though I'm not day'... well, for me. Whats the biggest tip off that you arent ok when you say you are #WritingCommunity? Like when you're trying to appear fine. Mine is probably cleaning. If I'm doing that, 9/10 times I'm definitely not ok!

[Sleepless Verse @MCGLYNN59]

@HartshipJ Lying