Beside a shoddily locked door, half-slumped and half-not, you suppose distance doesn't matter when there's no closure at any.
The keyhole....it just blares - the light of what was never supposed to be the embodiment of why it's so hard for you to open up.

#vss365 #lock

You won't let them feed the machine superheroes.
You make sure it knows about real people who had their identities stripped down & survived being invisible.. or a 'nuisance'.. or a target.
With each breath, they moved against the heaviness of the world. Not with it.

#scififri

Loletha💔

Time moves you away
from the ripping & shredding
but the scarring is with you every day,
and scar tissue is somehow thinner
& cumbersome. Some would say
focus on how time's moved away
but that is their long scar -
to rip and shred what is not
simple and instant,
as you are not.

Why can't you just leave?
I earned the right to be free
here more than most. Fought for it
without throwing dirt in someone's eye
so they can't see what I'm doing with my
other hand. My other hand was always
slowly working on a few things
and 1 was always for you.
Yours..you too.

Lost in a saga of invisible clouds & rain falling up from the ground, you are unable to lie to yourself.
You do sometimes wonder, though: How can clouds settle into the ground if it's so concrete?
Then a foggy day happens, and the world makes sense for a while.

#writemap #vss365

You can see the kind of ghouls people fear most coming. They have a blank stare till they're near something they want to consume.
They aren't pretty, they lose themselves in hunger or numbers.
But they don't spread the ghoulish greed that can hide in beauty.
#vss365 #horrorprompt

Curling hair of the cloud
Placing a leg to safety
Theres retribution
In maybe
Hope suffers in anger
#gogyohka

Rats eat what's next to scraps. That's what the people who stuck you in the basement are counting on.
They don't have a reason beyond the hell of it.
One rat stares at you as the others chew, like it's blue too ... split by thoughts of what to do.

#inkmine #vss365 #horrorprompt

It's not the house. It never was. It's the town.
There's no sanctity here. Only someone who'd brush off someone like they were lint couldn't see it; and that's too many people here. That's how you get a town like this.
The house ... it was only on defense.

#vss365 #horrorprompt

#AcrosticChallenge humor #poetsoftwitter #poetrycommunity #WritersofTwitter #WritingCommunity

Highway nowhere is there a through?
A someone searching for a beau,
a view with a room,
green hills with somehere to go,
if you're there, be someone for
closed windows, open doors!

Ante las puertas
de una tercera guerra,
bebo mi café.

#Senryu #Guerra #3Líneas #Café

👇🔥👇 just fucking stop

Sight already travels 88MPH, does strange things in either direction like get warped if the source doesn't have a solid interior.

#fastprompt

carefully curated
mixtapes
buried in certain bits
of ground they made better
for having tread
buried with a note
'if you like any of it,
let me know in my dreams.
let me know if you don't
either. let me know anything.'

#fastprompt

They think it's ectoplasm, when it was just a worm doing that thing they do where they try to cross the sidewalk and lose all their moisture. There's no worm there, because you put it on soft ground again. You don't feel like telling them that.
The worm was so weak.
#fastprompt

A sense of patience
so big that when you're dealing
with the hallmarks of the world
while not putting on airs to be
in sync,
all that patience must be portable
to be there and not nudge people
off the sidewalk.

#fastprompt

American Collection #1: We Came to America (1997)

Burnt by the sun's rays,
certain plants learn to rely
on electric light.

#inkmine #scifaikusaturday #haiku

She spent any spare moment prepping to get on Her, the flying ghost ship.
Once she was in a building when the ship careened into (but not through) it; she saw the hollow portholes.
Whatever albatross did that didn't bring Her down, she figured admiringly.

#satsplat #vssghostship