Showing prompts for March 6th, 2023 until March 26th, 2023.
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.
Looking back,
#vsspoem prompt for March 16th, 2023: Traverse
Time traversed —
Upside down,
And in reverse.
Cries for attention
#vsspoem prompt for March 15th, 2023: Unheard
Echo through the night,
With no one to answer
But the unheard one
Feeling left behind.
"Wait for me," says the selfish.
#vsspoem prompt for March 14th, 2023: Confident
"I'll wait for you," says the unconfident —
But no, not you, nor I, my love.
We know. We part, and smile.
I'll see you when we reach
The other side.
It can't be had,
#vsspoem prompt for March 13th, 2023: Matter
And yet, it matters —
Life is more
Than laws of men.
Fantasies drained away
#vsspoem prompt for March 12th, 2023: Quick
At the start of each new day —
A quick release to clear the mind
Of what cannot be had.
Cruelty taught in crowded hallways,
#vsspoem prompt for March 11th, 2023: Demon
Like a demon fitting room —
Life reshaped, remolded
In the moments between classes.
Naught but faded sympathy —
#vsspoem prompt for March 10th, 2023: Sympathy
No love, no hate,
And it's too late
To ever change
The way you look at me.
In the end
#vsspoem prompt for March 9th, 2023: Bullet
There's nothing to it —
Cut the knot,
Spit out the bullet.
Mute the world
And face the music
That you love.