Showing prompts for March 17th, 2023 until April 5th, 2023.
Differentiation,
Excused discrimination —
Not only privilege separates
Achievement from choice.
#vsspoem prompt for April 5th, 2023: Privilege
Hate upon hate —
#vsspoem prompt for April 4th, 2023: Blacken
Blackening the world
With layer upon layer
Of dark, red paint.
Dawn, a place too far away,
#vsspoem prompt for April 3rd, 2023: Square
So distant from my square of sky —
Oh, moon of mine, reach out your light
And vanish me.
Reluctant, grounds unknown —
#vsspoem prompt for April 2nd, 2023: Perpetual
Perpetual the doubt gnaws on.
Small indulgences allowed —
#vsspoem prompt for April 1st, 2023: Adult
Of adult lives,
And April fools.
Dark shadows in the Sycamore tree
#vsspoem prompt for March 30th, 2023: Steal
Steal a little dream of me.
The sole motivation
#vsspoem prompt for March 29th, 2023: Belong
In desire, in revulsion —
Belong.
Using culture as a heatmap
#vsspoem prompt for March 28th, 2023: Trait
For which traits should be display,
Is it any wonder
We have lost the will to change?
Celebrated art —
#vsspoem prompt for March 27th, 2023: Art
Recreate, auction, repeat.
Is there value in a statement
Beyond money,
If the sentiment's no longer real?
Monsters are the enemy —
#vsspoem prompt for March 26th, 2023: Monster
Not me, not you.
No, never we.
Menagerie, all shapes and sizes,
#vsspoem prompt for March 25th, 2023: Persuasion
Snakes of similar persuasions —
I can no longer tell
Which one is you.
Reluctant beginnings,
#vsspoem prompt for March 24th, 2023: Eager
Eager endings —
In retrospect,
The signs were there.
Your words, not mine.
#vsspoem prompt for March 23rd, 2023: Silence
Echoes cannot break silence —
Yet, apparently,
They shatter peace.
Separation brings perspective,
#vsspoem prompt for March 22nd, 2023: Separation
As do years —
We've grown so distant.
I cannot believe
I used to think that
It should have been you.
If the mirror says
#vsspoem prompt for March 21st, 2023: Sweetheart
You're ugly,
You're too beautiful inside
For your own good —
Sweetheart,
Like the world,
The mirror lies.
Two lives adjoined,
#vsspoem prompt for March 20th, 2023: Adjoin
But still apart —
Waiting to
Be given back
Their hearts.
Killing time in self distraction,
#vsspoem prompt for March 19th, 2023: Lining
Tragedies with silver linings —
Bitter tears putting out
My paper hopes, aflame.
Fate, expectations —
#vsspoem prompt for March 18th, 2023: Shaken
Constructs to be shaken,
The more, the further
We journey in life.
I'll be redeemed
#vsspoem prompt for March 17th, 2023: Hero
Once I am gone —
After all,
The graveyard is
For saints and heroes.
