Showing prompts for November 16th, 2023 until December 5th, 2023.
Does it get
#vsspoem prompt for December 5th, 2023: Pathetic
More pathetic?
I'm jealous of the life
You think I have.
Post-dusk
#vsspoem prompt for December 4th, 2023: Cordial
Not all answers
To a cry
Are cordial.
Point to heat, point to rain,
#vsspoem prompt for December 3rd, 2023: Placate
Says one, so say they all.
Placate? No, mate —
Fear of change has
Wolves and sheep alike
Howling at the sun.
All for one,
#vsspoem prompt for December 2nd, 2023: Lackadaisical
And thus we fall
Like lemmings —
Positively lackadaisical.
Good times, bad times —
#vsspoem prompt for December 1st, 2023: Whichever
It's all time, all mine
To waste or lose
Whichever way I choose.
I knew it was too great to last.
#vsspoem prompt for November 30th, 2023: Welcome
Disappointed expectations —
Welcome to the failure
Of success.
Sometimes all it needs
#vsspoem prompt November 29th, 2023: Substitute
Is a little creativity —
To mask a lack of pretty
With an air of cool and wisdom —
But I've yet to find a substitute
For love.
A stroll under the winter moon,
#vsspoem prompt for November 28th, 2023: Visit
To watch its shadows dance —
Through darkness,
Through the biting cold,
Visiting the calling past,
Just over death's horizon,
Knowing I can still go home.
Be it controlled or in anarchy,
#vsspoem prompt for November 27th, 2023: Topic
Even for big topics
Like justice or equality,
There's no such thing
As an unforced agenda.
Soaked through and ever moving,
#vsspoem prompt for November 26th, 2023: Fringe
At the fringes of the storm —
The chosen home
Of we who don't belong.
Save your light
#vsspoem prompt for November 25th, 2023: Prime
Past your prime —
Keep the torch
But pass the pinnacle.
Read the signs,
And move on.
Votes separate
#vsspoem prompt for November 24th, 2023: Minority
Reality
From
The loud minority.
Double rainbows, faded, jagged,
#vsspoem prompt for November 23rd, 2023: Overshadow
Gracing the gray autumn sky.
Beauty overshadowed by dark thoughts —
Fuck. It's gonna rain again
Books of war by girls from suburbs,
#vsspoem prompt for November 22nd, 2023: Suburbs
Tales of love, laced with despair.
They don't live it, yet, they dream it,
In this world, beyond repair.
Grains of salt, grains of sand,
#vsspoem prompt for November 21st, 2023: Avalanche
How many for an avalanche —
What does it take to break
The status quo?
Gardening for affirmation,
#vsspoem prompt for November 20th, 2023: Affirmation
Weeding out the haters —
Social feeds arranged by color,
Cannot mask
The smell of shit.
#vsspoem prompt for November 19th, 2023: Information
Sanity recovery,
Untethered from
Ophthalmic, Otic, Intranasal
Information IV’s —
The less I consume the news,
The less it consumes me.
The more I see the world
For real,
The more real life feels.
Blindly chasing
#vsspoem prompt for November 18th, 2023: Expire
Dreams with end dates due —
Expired before
The search is through.
A man with a message
#vsspoem prompt for November 17th, 2023: Illiterate
In the land of the
Illiterate deaf —
I speak out…
Speak out…
Out…