Showing prompts for December 31st, 2023 until January 19th, 2024.
Social comparison,
#vsspoem prompt for January 19th, 2024: Exit
A viral disease —
Validating, empowering
Assholes and cowards
To justify our exit strategies.
Is it any wonder
This ship is sinking?
A fork in the road,
#vsspoem prompt for January 17th, 2024: Highlight
We chose before, and poorly —
Fear highlights our faults.
Weary drift my worries
#vsspoem prompt for January 18th, 2024: Weary
From hellfire
To the shadows of
A new formed day.
Embracing the nuisance
#vsspoem prompt for January 15th, 2024: Nuisance
In hopes it subsides —
Situational tinnitus
At the edges of I.
Gardening to weed the pain,
#vsspoem prompt for January 14th, 2024: Weed
We tend the dream
And love the lie.
Inspiration on an empty mind,
#vsspoem prompt for January 13th, 2023: Remedy
Violence on an empty stomach —
It is nothing that
Some coffee cannot remedy.
Creaking,
#vsspoem prompt for January 12th, 2023: Possessed
Groaning,
Grinding,
Stalling —
Spinning like
A world possessed.
Searching for a green light,
#vsspoem prompt for January 11th, 2024: Naive
Staring at the sun —
All I see is red.
Looking for a way out
In all familiar places
Where nothing ever changes,
And no one ever leaves —
Expecting naively that fortune,
Unwilling for all,
Is simply
Waiting for me.
Gone off the deep end
#vsspoem prompt for January 10th, 2024: Intermittent
For goals intermittent —
Chasing the dream,
Riding runaway trains
Of unguided ambition.
Yeah, you don't like me —
#vsspoem prompt for January 9th, 2024: Filter
It’s obvious, but that's alright.
Lacking a filter on my words
I probably hit
Too close to the painful truth,
Right?
Foraging through motivations —
#vsspoem prompt for January 8th, 2024: Forage
Faded, yellowed, half-forgotten,
Trying to find the strength
To carry on.
Sanity dubbed and subbed,
#vsspoem prompt for January 7th, 2024: Mantra
Chanting ethos like a mantra —
Drowning out estranged reason’s
White noised foreign language.
The irony of
Granted time
Consuming precious shelf life —
Dignity a price too steep,
A bridge too far.#vsspoem prompt for January 6th, 2024: Dignity
Optimism can only
#vsspoem prompt for January 5th, 2024: Rot
Go so far —
What can you do
When life keeps giving you
Rotten lemons?
The road ahead
#vsspoem prompt for January 4th, 2024: Pave
Is paved and owned.
Favors only last so long
Without funds,
Without friends,
Without family —
And the toll is steep.
Souvenir vice
#vsspoem prompt for January 3rd, 2023: Souvenir
And collectable sin —
Don't diss it ‘till you've tried it.
One taste,
And I'll be serving you again.
There's a substantial line
#vsspoem prompt for January 2nd, 2024: Sarcasm
Between sarcasm and assholery,
Which often correlates
With intellect.
Happiness is not a constant,
#vsspoem prompt for January 1st, 2024: Current
Nor is it a given.
Swim,
Dive deep,
Ride time's currents,
Grasp those moments
Where you find them —
But remember,
This is not a game of
Win at life.
Fractured potential,
#vsspoem prompt for December 31st, 2023: Pasture
A species at pasture —
Growing fat on
The last remaining riches
Of a long lost golden age.