Showing prompts for May 24th, 2023 until June 12th, 2023.
Shelter in the dark.
#vsspoem promptJune 12th, 2023: Lust
Safety where the light,
The world,
The lust
Can't touch —
An inner child
Fled inside,
Forever on the run.
Just another Monday afternoon.
#vsspoem prompt for June 11th, 2023: Inebriated
Two old drunks,
Drinking warm cervezas on the beach.
Killing germs, and tanning leather —
No, not retired, a lifelong siesta,
Living the inebriated dream.
Friendly eyes, aglow with joy,
A radiant smile —
They saw the teeth,
Not the killer underneath.
#vsspoem prompt for June 10th, 2023: Killer
Pad the message,
#vsspoem prompt for June 9th, 2023: Exaggerate
Flood the space —
Exaggerate, exaggerate.
Lay your claim.
Piling up wishes, promises —
#vsspoem prompt for June 8th, 2023: Pile
Heat-of-the-moment's,
Desperations,
Perceived needs —
With open heart
I claim the weight,
And bury me.
Close the lid
#vsspoem prompt for June 7th, 2023: Boil
On this boiling pot of
Evolved beings,
Killing for the golden seat —
We're clearly not done yet.
Worlds at crossroads,
#vsspoem prompt for June 6th, 2023: Bleach
Lives convergent
Throughout eternity.
A tapestry of braided knots,
Bleached, divergent histories —
Ideology, culture, ethnicity,
Futility colliding
In the shared space between.
Were this all I'd leave behind,
#vsspoem prompt for June 5th, 2023: Whim
Could you still see this life
Amidst my mess of letters —
Scrambled, glued together
By a thousand moments' whims?
To decipher me, even I
Would not know where to begin.
Rainbow hearts in grayscale palettes,
#vsspoem prompt for June 4th, 2023: Grayscale
Brightness levels set to nine.
Celebrating every flavor —
One month, no love left behind.
And still we say
#vsspoem prompt for June 3rd, 2023: Invalidate
The sun rises.
Still we say
The sun sets —
Invalidated, ancient concepts
Used so often,
They've burned into our heads.
End of the line, settling decline
#vsspoem prompt for June 2nd, 2023: Decline
With mere inches of sky
Left to sail until breach,
The unreachable up has become
The unrealized me.
Freefall repentance
#vsspoem prompt for June 1st, 2023: Freefall
Through clouds of missed chances,
Eyes fixed on the bottomless
Pits of release —
Towards where Death,
My savior eternal
Is waiting for me.
Diving from the ledge
#vsspoem prompt for May 31st, 2023: Ledge
Through fading outlines of redemption,
Into unfamiliar depths —
Sacrificing anything,
Everything.
Words like scars,
#vsspoem prompt for May 30th, 2023: Audible
Wounds carved
Into the bark of this world.
Fearful confessions,
Like a record
Audible by touch alone —
We were here once before,
Much like you.
We were lost once, too.
Embracing our outer demons,
#vsspoem prompt for May 29th, 2023: Embrace
We beat drums of war,
But let them win —
Self-betrayal in celebration,
Lest a silence amplifies
The ones within.
Strength by strength
#vsspoem prompt for May 28th, 2023: Defiance
To fear, to fear,
Until defiance's well runs dry.
Skittering through the dark
#vsspoem prompt for May 27th, 2023: Skitter
On hands and knees,
After marbles loose —
Not lost —
But to be honest,
It is not too big a difference.
Live afraid
#vsspoem prompt for May 26th, 2023: Wink
And Death
Will wink.
Art knows beauty's order,
#vsspoem prompt for May 24th, 2023: Place
The all-in-its-place
To be a human weakness —
A thing to overcome,
Yet, rarely grasps
Its depths of truth.