#INK #vss365
a chaos of ink
blue green yellow pink
on a sign
in a mine
telling us what to think
a blaze of pixels
LEDs and liquid crystals
blinking intermit
scrolling infinite
advancing in trickles
a splashing of words
delivered by birds
with a hammer
lacking grammar
for the gathering nerds
🐮 #ARM #vss365
down on the farm
the cows take up arms
give up being pensive
and go on the offensive
in preemptive attack
against Charlie Spivack
overheard by the herd
he could kill for a Big Mac
✊ #HAND
hand over hand
across the span
urgent rope burns to withstand
day over day
march april may
clench teeth
press lips
bite back what’s to say
outrage du jour?
future unsure?
sometimes the goal
is simply endure
#vss365
🙏 #SAND #vss365
how do you stand it
sifting your hand grit
into galaxy shaped castles
each grain a planet
counted sans hassle
but how do you stand
civilizations in your sand?
Very nice. Very creepy. Happy Feaster!
#RING
they dumped her body in the ground
isolated
insulated
too far down
to be exposed if ever found
too deep for witchy forces
to reach back and spook the horses
should demons release
the soul they’d bound
…continued on web
#vss365
#PEN
white plastic ballpoint
black ink
medium tip
heavy chew marks
from tap-tap base
to finger-squeezed grip
tangy with tax
drained of all facts
infused with sighs
primed for writing
poems and lies
#vss365
#MAN
what a piece of work is man
so full of cheese
so lacking tan
so many miles of minivan
in action, a banana slug
in reasoning, way oversmug
quintessence of rust
defier of every ounce of trust
what a piece of work is man
so distant drifted off the plan
#vss365
#FREEDOM
I sing the poems electric
smooth pixels under glass
on backgrounds eclectic
they’d hit harder in ink
backed by an oak table
to form them up stable
in a padded chair to think
but then I wouldn’t be able
to write on the pot
(more often than not)
and have the freedom to stink
#vss365
Fair enough. I’m going to exercise my #freedom (the #vss365 #prompt from this day in 2023) for today’s poem and shift the next half-month of poems forward to accommodate my local time zone.
🙏 #EXALT 90/365
today we exalt
the One at fault
for this world where we live
and His failure to give
its worst torments a halt
#vss365
#CONDUCT
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at this time of year
those pipes
just gotta
just gotta get clear!
#vss365
#SPRITE
secret sprite
on holiday from magical might
biding her time in the City of Night
flickering the streetlights
mediating cat fights
dancing on rooftops
to initiate bird flights
waiting for a child
inappropriately mild
to discover from out of sight
a portal to fantasy delight
#vss365
#ILLUSIVE #vss365
“so now I’m dying, is that it?
our shared cultural illusions
crafted a cliched delusion
this faux-angelic pile of shit
is my mind hinting I should quit”
he hangs his head
he fades his grin
“a dust grain on your scale has lit”
one last pensive look
oh what might have been…
#REVOLVE
watch the world burn
as we turn, turn, turn
mindless of resolve
this earthly carousel revolves
around the cruel schemes
of a narcissist’s dreams
ever faster
ever faster
in this cycle of disaster
than old Revolution’s faves
spinning in their graves
to the soundtrack of our screams
#vss365
#FASCINATE
and so the conversation turned
until the sun went down
and so they walked
and so they talked
until they’d left their town
and so they laughed
and so they cried
so much in love
they almost died
until the tux and gown
#vss365
#TEMPEST
of all species of tempest
earth wreckers to teapots
winds from east
or winds from west
the tempestuous heart
ensnares the rest
at their most expressed
wrapped and compressed
into a single gasping chest
…
#vss365
FRUSTRATE and still we rise and still we rise tap-tap-tapping on black rubber manifesting the demise of that stranger —oh that stranger— so oblivious to danger and the spreading line of anger down the rickety escalator from his denim ass centered wide-stance no room for busy folk to pass getting later getting later tap-tap-tapping as we rise and as the landing approaches he sighs Reup: 83/365
#FRUSTRATE #vss365
One of my pet peeves. An escalator step is not your personal levitation platform--it's part of a communal set of stairs meant to move a stream of people with speed and efficiency. So unless you have a broken leg or are a zillion years old, keep it moving!
Haven’t heard that one in a long time. Nice!
#ENDORSE
down at the rigged racecourse
same raggedy horse
shot up with go juice
and throttled by force
legs wrapped in plaster
by a desperate master
who wagered a bourse
that his steed could run faster
than the other guy’s Porsche
the smart money pours in
to endorse
#vss365
Thank you sir.
#WAVER
frozen hands seek refuge
from chill winds of fall
finding in tattered coat
a tiny crumpled ball
with painful unfolding
and squint of beholding
transportation of recall
to wander and waver
across springtime pavers
with a pause on the way
to crumple a day
into a pocket for later
#vss365
#OVERCAST
on the day they overcast the play
three Romeos entered with lines to say
six Ladies Macbeth tried to save the day
as seven Hamlets only got in the way
eight Kings Richard soon joined the fray
with a dozen Pucks and an army of fae
on the day they overcast the play
#vss365
#MEDIATE
as push mediates pull
as polyester mediates wool
I planted myself
between matador and bull…
#vss365 Full version on the More Tomorrow website.
#ENTREAT
we entreat
we entreat
put an end to deceit
make sure all the children
have something to eat
eliminate distance
make all feel elite
and let prayers be acknowledged
by printed receipt!
#vss365 Amen.
#PARTAKE
partaaay!
partaaay!
partake
in green beers
and shamrock shakes!
forget your Troubles
blow some green bubbles
to celebrate
ummm…
ummm…
oh…
the leprechaun
who drove out the snakes!
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#SURPASS
two knights face off
on narrowed bridge
in misty heights
of mountain ridge
the combat joined
sword rings on shield
only in death
will either yield
til gods take pity
seal both in brass
to remain forever
high up on Sir Pass
#vss365
#ASSURE
ah, sure
ah, sure
it’s no sin to be poor
to live downstream
of society’s sewer
every dealing revealing
another locked door
dejected
infected
left unprotected
ill at ease with disease
but denied any cure
giving ever more
never to restore
ah, sure
ah, sure
ah, sure
#vss365
