Showing prompts for March 22nd, 2023 until April 10th, 2023.
Charlatans since dawn of time —
#vsspoem prompt for April 10th, 2023: Charlatan
I'll take your tale, and make it mine,
Painting over history
With holy words and blood.
Soothing slumber,
#vsspoem prompt for April 9th, 2023: Reboot
Consciousness rebooting,
Auto-saved for a new day —
Erase my faults,
Update me.
Plan everything
#vsspoem prompt for April 8th, 2023: Hinge
Meticulously,
Then hinge it
On a whim.
Raised in the land
#vsspoem prompt for April 7th, 2023: Affirm
Of silent nos and maybe laters,
Affirmation is the monster
That hides under the bed.
Absent gods, failed icons,
#vsspoem prompt for April 6th, 2023: Worship
Teachers, parents, preachers, heroes —
Friend or foe,
I let them go
And worship me.
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.
