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Showing prompts for September 2nd, 2021 until September 22nd, 2021.

deed, assess, button, life, hinge, contentment, someday, bolt, objectify, interrogate, docile, depend, logic, drive, worship, refuse, spotlight, scapegoat, advice, heartache
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The Longing

Be mindful your feelings,
The heartache, the longing.
Find worth in yourself
Before seeking love —
You can't find in others
What's lacking within.

#vsspoem prompt for September 22nd, 2021: Heartache

Advice Unlived

Of all things given freely,
Most worthless is
Advice unlived.

#vsspoem prompt for September 21st, 2021: Advice

The Scapegoat

The despair we feel —
Hope, the scapegoat,
Fear, the enemy.

#vsspoem prompt for September 20th, 2021: Scapegoat

Existential Kleptomania

Steal hearts, moments, spotlight,
Existential kleptomania —
Taught to want,
To dream,
To covet
Other people's lives.

#vsspoem prompt for September 19th, 2021: Spotlight

One Remembers

They can't
Erase the act,
Bury all the evidence,
Spin all witnessed truth
Into plausible fantasies —
Not so long we resist,
Refuse to validate their fiction.
Not so long
One of us remembers.

#vsspoem prompt for September 18th, 2021: Refuse

All That We Are Not

The church of me,
We patron saints,
All praised in colored light —
Capital I's and uncrosses T's,
Lives displayed with
Stained-glass abstraction.
Lead-lined disconnected stories,
Worshipped
For all that we are not.

#vsspoem prompt for September 17th, 2021: Worship

Passengers

Sometimes we're in
The driver's seat,
Other times
We're passengers.
Either is fine
With the right heading —
Just enjoy the ride.

#vsspoem prompt for September 16th, 2021: Drive

The Heart Only Knows

Trust your logic,
Not your feelings —
The heart
Only knows the way
To where it's been.

#vsspoem prompt for September 15th, 2021: Logic

What-ifs

What-ifs can bring
Regret or change,
Depending on
What is done next.

#vsspoem prompt for September 14th, 2021: Depend

In Every Homestead

Sit, watch, play —
Stay put, docile, dormant
Sounds the siren song
In every heart,
Every homestead.

#vsspoem prompt for September 13th, 2021: Docile

Well-meant Questions

Open to well-meant questions,
Not to interrogation.

#vsspoem prompt for September 12th, 2021: Interrogate

Mirror, mirror

A measured self
Through other's eyes —
Objectify,
Mirror, mirror.

#vsspoem prompt for September 11th, 2021: Objectify

Fertile Ground

Hard truths blinding,
Jagged bolts of lightning,
Shattered conceptions
Reduced to ash —
Fertile ground for new beginnings.

#vsspoem prompt for September 10th, 2021: Bolt

Someday

When the bad
Outweighs the good,
Remember the positive
And know there's
Bound to be more
Someday.

#vsspoem prompt for September 9th, 2021: Someday

Negative Emotion

Hear me, heed my words
O ye prisoners of comfort —
Contentment is
A negative emotion.

#vsspoem prompt for September 8th, 2021: Contentment

Rusted Hinges

They lied to us.
With age comes wisdom?
All I've learned
Is to slow down —
Forced to relieve
My aching joints,
Squeaking like rusted hinges.

#vsspoem prompt for September 6th, 2021: Hinge

What Matters

It's your life —
You cannot
Be told what matters.

#vsspoem prompt for September 5th, 2021: Life

The Button

They might tell us
What to do,
But it is
We who push the button.

#vsspoem prompt for September 4th, 2021: Button

The Decency of Others

Scorn not
The decency of others
Without first
Assessing your own.

#vsspoem prompt for September 3rd, 2021: Assess

All Mine

Not all who desire try,
Yet, most who can't, pretend.
Not me, I'll act and own the deed —
Failure or success —
For this dream,
It's all mine.

#vsspoem prompt for September 2nd, 2021: Deed
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