Well, it's, Monday. But poetry & stories take the edge off any Monday, doesn't it?

My final phonesthemic word for you is:

#brush

there is a softness this word that makes me think of smooth hair, or the artists touch on canvas, color gradients intense to faded.
#vss365 #prompt

“My Liberation?”

Why again My Birthday
doesn’t want to be spent with joy.
Now, is it for me to fall in love?
I’m still spending time loving her.

The meaning of pain in hope
to get her doesn’t seek me now.
Now it doesn’t speak to me.
Now it doesn’t ask me for her…

—👇❤️❤️

#vss365

Sitting with sea gods
where footprints #muster nothing
and siren songs drown the world

... mixing salt to salt
heart still whimper your name

Brand new sunrise...

#Monday #Wandering

ヨガ武道🥋想定の法則のカギ

隙間時間を活用して今の幸せ感や感謝を味わい「こうなったらいいなぁ〜」と思い結果を気にせず淡々と目の前の物事に取り組んでいると物事がスムーズに進んでいく
日常の些細なことで上手くいく体験が重なると想定の法則が確信され結果より今の幸せ感謝を感じる
感謝合掌🙏

Chopped fine by the sharp edges of the day, I come by the drive thru lane of Starbucks for liquid gold

Before me, I see God miscue & err on His order
On my turn, I engineer a perfect line up for a divine coffee

Sitting back in the car we both sip & wince at our deciding #vss365

おはよう御座います🌈
本日も宜しくお願い致します
(*´-`)✨

drops of sunlight ...
leaping up the waterfall
pink salmon

tinyurl.com/yzhjww2v #salmon #waterfall #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poem

It was spinning a sadistic saga of catch and release
Just enough hope to destroy it all over again
Just enough relief to make the pain worse

— Truth in Blue 🩵
On sale this weekend along with 300 indie books

#NarratessIndieSale

indiebook.sale

Me: I need to write fast and finish this trilogy
Also me: spends 8 hours yesterday mulling over 1 sentence

I am still mulling

#authorlife #writing

No one can take a knife &
#Chop moments up as
Though they don't flow
In time from one second
To the next
Each action flows into
Equal & opposite reactions
What happens in time
Flows forever
In the universe's ocean
All in motion
We're all responsible
For the commotion
#vss365

“The kids loved the gift!”, “Amazing book “ These reviews brought me more joy than the title of being Nr 1 Amazon bestseller. The story has reached its destination and now I feel like I can focus on my next literary adventure.

time ripples
across the lake
the moon shines

#vssnature #lake
#haiku #micropoetry

Every night as I close my eyes
She comes in dreams & stays for a while;

Like a #fluid love flows in my veins
It #chops my heart, yet I feel no pain;

In the morning I wake up with a smile
In wounded heart, love stays alive.
#vss365
📸 Yash Raut at unsplash

Lovely
Often
Lovely

Happy
Sometimes
Happy

Contemplative
Endlessly
Contemplative

At peace
Seldom ever
At peace

#poetry #micropoetry #MyThoughts

You rented out your heart,
For chocolate and wine,
Selling yourself so low,
And thinking it is fine.

Being bought with fake gold,
Is not the way one should ever go.
Why chase a dream of a princess,
When you are already a queen?
JH “Lady Mirage”

#poem #poet #poet ry
@poetrylights

Morning light, unsung benefactress—
with mesh hands, you sift
through fine wishes and coarse deceit.
We shy from this flood of clarity,
unled & upset, in this procession
of endless becoming.
Hold me, so I may exhale,
muster a plunge into the aerial seas,
away from death.

#vss365

Darling, we were made for glancing up

For sculpting castles from fallen stars

My water lily, opening your bloom at dusk

So I can find you in this #fluid swirl of night

And these shadows, dear, look like stardust next to you

#vss365
#writingcommunity
#poem
#poetry

📷 Pixabay

Children of the Streets
(Short Story)

Preamble
Three boys roamed the streets…they lived on the streets…when was it? Almost always, time and time again…all boys who have to find a way of living, of finding what their mouths and stomachs need, of surviving…countless boys, in…

Write a #sixwordstory or a #poem about this picture.

Pushed and shoved
In the middle of a heist
He exuded arrogance
Threw me on the floor
Kicked me in the back
I screamed in pain
Shut up! He said
And shoved a gun
Near my head

#PromptChallenge