Showing prompts for November 19th, 2024 until December 8th, 2024.
Passion, indifference,
#vsspoem prompt for December 8th, 2024: Proportion
In equal proportions —
My whole world,
Until I no longer want it.
Grounding intentions
#vsspoem prompt for December 7th, 2024: Convention
Within established conventions,
Managing the cost-reward
Of social interaction.
No matter
#vsspoem prompt for December 5th, 2024: Agony
How deep
The agony,
Never let
The sour
Turn you
Bitter.
Don’t be afraid
#vsspoem prompt for December 4th, 2024: Quirk
To show yourself —
Your quirks amuse me.
I am a
#vsspoem prompt for December 3rd, 2024: Teen
Forty-something teen
Pushing fifty,
Still chasing the dream.
You may wonder
#vsspoem prompt for December 2nd, 2024: Principle
Why I'd care,
For either way
I won't be there.
It's the principle
Of honest emotion.
Recognise the pain?
#vsspoem prompt for November 30th, 2024: Blinders
What for?
Blinders on —
Ignore, ignore.
I see birds
#vsspoem prompt for November 29th, 2024: Birds
Watching me, braving the cold,
Exposed in leafless trees,
Perhaps wondering
Why I'm out —
As do I,
But I
Am going
Home.
Veiled,
#vsspoem prompt for November 28th, 2024: Validate
Attention the addiction.
See us, hear us, validate us.
No one listens.
No one watches.
No one cares —
Not for others.
Henceforth,
#vsspoem prompt for November 27th, 2024: Henceforth
You'll walk alone —
I can't follow,
Even though I know
Without a doubt
That you'll get lost.
It's not my path any longer.
Naught less helpful than
#vsspoem prompt for November 26th, 2024: Obvious
Words of obvious wisdom,
Haulered from the sidelines —
When given bitter,
Add the sweet yourself.
Gradients —
#vsspoem prompt for November 25th, 2024: Gradient
Life shaded
By the ashes
Of a dream
Once meant
To paint it.
They make it hard
#vsspoem prompt for November 24, 2024: Bastard
Not to be a bastard,
To keep giving
Undeserved damns.
I loved you
#vsspoem prompt for November 23rd, 2024: Guess
With all the shards
Of my heart,
And I guess
I'll have to love
The next
With many more.
Art stops
#vsspoem prompt for November 22nd, 2024: Immortal
Striving for beauty
When reflecting
The dark that is
Our immortal soul.
There's her and her needs,
#vsspoem prompt for November 21st, 2024: Grace
Then there's us
And what we can do
To please her —
By her grace,
That's her world
We live in.
At least,
That's how she sees it.
Maintaining contingencies,
#vsspoem prompt for November 20th, 2024: Contingency
Just in case
The worst takes place,
At the cost of living
All the time we waste this way.
Beaten by life,
#vsspoem prompt for November 19th, 2024: Beat
Broken by the living —
Ever taking, never giving.