Showing prompts for July 28th, 2023 until August 16th, 2023.
No war knows more losers,
#vsspoem prompt for August 16th, 2023: Bedlam
No battle's more cruel
Than the bedlam
Of soured love,
Run aground.
Indecision,
#vsspoem prompt for August 15th, 2023: Prelude
Hesitation,
Reservations —
Preludes to regret.
Seeking strength,
#vsspoem prompt for August 14th, 2023: #Liquid
All I found were
Liquid reasons,
Slipping through my hands.
Gutter, stage, consolidated,
#vsspoem prompt for August 13th, 2023: Mindless
X-rayed lives, the social race —
Mindlessness over what matters,
Eyes on the praise.
Gratefulness an afterthought,
#vsspoem prompt for August 12th, 2023: Afterthought
Basking in the radiance —
How wonderful to see you here,
And thank you for the love.
In blind pursuit of why —
#vsspoem prompt for August 11th, 2023: Incomprehensible
Falling
In patterns,
In scales
Incomprehensible
To the naked I.
You and I walked this road before.
#vsspoem prompt for August 10th, 2023: Ultimate
From once upon to ever after,
We learned what follows heartbreak —
Yet, stubbornly,
Resolutely,
Ultimately,
Always keep
Coming back for more.
Obsolete temptations, stirring,
#vsspoem prompt for August 9th, 2023: Phantom
Whispers from a distant once —
Phantom fragrances,
Desires, sensations,
Churning dust of ages past.
Nothing says
#vsspoem prompt for August 8th, 2023: Subconscious
I love you, still,
Like simply being there —
Even subtly,
Subconsciously,
In denial,
Unaware.
You're still here,
I see you, for I am too.
After so long,
We both still care.
Going through the motions
#vsspoem prompt for August 7th, 2023: Motion
Like a bell missing its clapper
That keeps ringing anyway —
You never truly
Had anything to say.
Free, so free.
#vsspoem prompt for August 6th, 2023: Trick
Nothing can touch you,
Not even yourselves —
Into that sunset,
Never look back,
Oh, you glorious
One trick ponies.
In the end, none of it is meant
#vsspoem prompt for August 5th, 2023: Knowledge
But through ignorance and pain.
Hazardous, the path of knowledge —
Quests for meaning stray endlessly
From obsession to insanity,
And back again.
Media to feed the fiction,
#vsspoem prompt for August 4th, 2023: Chill
Locks to keep the world outside —
An antidote with barely
Truth enough to chill their bottle lies,
Selling by the bloody dozen.
Reality, a storm of
#vsspoem prompt for August 3rd, 2023: Dominance
Clashing single-cell perceptions,
Seeking dominance in alienation
Of all but the self —
Seeking heaven, raising hell.
Crossfire interplay,
vsspoem prompt for August 2nd, 2023: Crossfire
Victims of the war
We wage inside —
Taking both sides.
Siphoning a little extra,
#vsspoem prompt for August 1st, 2023: Siphon
Who would notice,
Who could care?
Once, twice,
Often, structurally —
Stream,
Trickle,
Drop.
Tweaked perception,
#vsspoem prompt for July 31st, 2023: Bias
Biased observation —
Before the light
Hits our eyes,
It's hindsight.
Left unspoken,
#vsspoem prompt for July 30th, 2023: Speaker
Left unheard,
I put to bed
Hurt unaddressed —
Librarian to the departed,
Speaker for the sad.
Wallowing in frustration,
#vsspoem prompt for July 29th, 2023: Wallow
Blanket pain, bottomless grief —
Any dark sensation beats
The too familiar numbness
Of not feeling.
Such futile
#vsspoem prompt for July 28th, 2023: Indulge
Self-indulgence —
If this is freedom,
I can't believe
We paid for this.