The past and future, hidden within the present; illusions of time. #vss365 #past #haiku
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The past and future, hidden within the present; illusions of time. #vss365 #past #haiku
The time we have becomes our #past. The time that’s left will run out fast. The time we spend will all get spent. Make sure you’re glad where your time went. #vss365
The clock ticks forward Never looking to the #past With cool autumn winds #haiku #vss365 #poetry #poem #micropoetry #writing
Books from my past will provide the prompt words. So it’s fitting that today, 1 September 2025, the #vss365 prompt word is: Past. “Anyone can create the future but only a wise man can create the #past.” (Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister) Image: lux werk (Pexels) #past #prompt
The sky’s looking a little heavy today Full of cloud shaped ghosts of the #past Hopefully it’ll rain, flushing them away #vss365
Pistol Fails to fire As he points it At my head I live On borrowed time #Past when I should be dead I am not A good man Left evil In my stead Dreamlike Pass the moment Without A 2nd thought Til again Feel cold steel 'Gainst temple Firing naught Maybe Morbid replay Is Hell My evil bought #vss365
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To know that in a world where any meme older than 9 minutes is considered stale, that there are elder meme Lords still in the game and still kicking ass, gives me hope. The fact that we were able to pass on irreverence to the next generation makes me very happy for the #past and the future. #vss365
Captain Eric grabbed Tooki's arm. "You're a Taldarian. I need you to manipulate time." "It's dangerous," the alien insisted. "We could end up lost in the time stream." "This is an emergency!" Tooki sighed. "Fine, a five-minute jump should get us #past the TV commercials." #vss365 #sff
Oh man, I feel that!
"the smell of old pickles and cigarette smoke". Wow, vivid!
#YEARN The past is a haze of nostalgic yearning. The present? A wasteland of potential spurning. And our future, I fear, is already burning. One last era, one final turning. 243rd #vss365
"Door clicks in my head Cold sheets empty bed" -- Love it!
Captain Eric stood on the bridge, gazing out the main window. "I love getting to travel the galaxy. I've always #yearned to explore new worlds. Frozen wastelands! Lava moons! I want to see them all!" Amy rolled her eyes. "Even if they don't have a Clown Burger?" "Let's not get crazy now." #vss365
I yearn to be free of the doubt you placed on me the one that won't write that won't breathe whose tentacles unfurl when you think of me #yearn #vss365
Barney drives a crane; Lives with Betty; bowls with Fred: He yearns for Wilma.
All I did was yearn To be there, burned and betrayed, Now there's just an urn. #vss365 #yearn #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
Love it!
#Yearn is a word that I don’t like So I’m going to let it burn With all the other once upon a yearns I no longer feel its dire desire My core now tangos with fire I walk like a flame My heart doesn’t break It bends at my will untamed #vss365
You may yearn for a better, easier life, but it's not the duty of others to labor on your behalf. The grass is greener on the other side of the fence because your neighbor puts in the consistent effort required to maintain it. #vss365 #yearn
We #yearn to dance amongst the stars, our steps creating new #constellations, forever saying, “We are here and conquered fear.” Crash after crash, we fight through the pain and build a better ship. More hands go up each time. “Send me,” we say, as one. It helps knowing you are out there. #vss365
Professor Hervert drew 17 dots on the blackboard and then connected them together into a familiar shape. "If you look at the northern sky in the heart of December," he said, "you can see the constellation Ofn. Ofn is the Viking god of ancient restaurant grade ovens." #vss365
I #yearn for summer As I see the weather change On this month's last day #vss365 #haiku
The difference between To darn or to mend my socks #Yearn for the answer #haikufeels #vss365
Everything has a yearning to live. The secret to happiness is a beautiful balance so everyone can both receive and give. #vss365 #yearning
Not all that long ago, Dylan only had to care about avoiding Faction patrols, to deliver his cargo on time and intact. That all seemed so long ago now that it could have been in a different lifetime. He could only #yearn for those days and hope they would come again, but he doubted it. #vss365
Yearning, pulling from the hearted gut outward, onward, beyond, toward- is constant, magnetic, tethered, bound to elsewhere, out there, somewhere, another sphere- Yearning, aching to excess from seduced soul, temptation drifting, shifting, tilting, waxing, peaking. #vss365 #poetry
#vss365 #yearn What's the triangle of your wants? We have a list of categories of needs and wants Abraham Maslow created a pyramid of these Although it's two dimensional and more a triangle He wanted to categorize our burning needs Others have come along To motivate our yearning They yearn to earn
Rory didn’t suffer all that much from nostalgia. He didn’t #yearn for games he had played in the past because they were all superseded by bigger, better games now. One day, even this game would become obsolete and a new one would take its place, but not yet. Not today, or for some time. #vss365
#vss365 I #yearn To know Every inch of you The wrinkles From every laugh Every frown The scars Childhood left behind The flesh Of being an adult Every damn day To hear your story To know the stars That guide Your dreams To feel your fingers Slip down my jaw And your lips On mine
Wow, that's beautiful!
Thank you! It was a joy and an honor to do this.
There is a secret Time that I #yearn for between The seconds that pass #haiku #vss365 #poetry #poem #micropoetry #writing
Thank you so much for your kind words! I really enjoyed it.
#VSS365 #prompt #YEARN The VSS365 word for Aug 31, '25 is YEARN - to deeply, emotionally desire something lost or unattainable. "Hobbits in Mordor yearn for the Shire." With that, I yield the floor to C. S. Voll (@stephlepht.bsky.social) who will post prompts beginning 1 Sept. at 6am GMT
One more reminder: my time as #VSS365 host will end after my last prompt at 1pm GMT on August 31. Say hello to C. S. Voll (@stephlepht.bsky.social) posting prompts at 6am GMT beginning September 1. Thank you for the honor of serving.
Reminder: my time as #VSS365 host draws to a close after my last prompt at 1pm GMT on August 31. Say hello to C. S. Voll (@stephlepht.bsky.social) who will post prompts at 6am GMT beginning September 1. Thank you for allowing me to serve.
Here's my offering for the theme of #constellation - thanks go to Bowen Greenwood, our #vss365 host @bowengreenwood.bsky.social Photo by Free Nature Stock on Unsplash #vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity
I'm posting regular reminders that my time as #VSS365 host is coming to an end after my last prompt at 1pm GMT on August 31. Please welcome C. S. Voll (@stephlepht.bsky.social) who will post prompts at 6am GMT beginning September 1. Thank you for allowing me to serve.
Tying the last knot, she looked over her work in moonlight. A perfectly captured constellation pattern in delicate #lace. As she had been working, the child inside of her grew. Tomorrow the child would be born, wrapped in stars, and her #constellation would be missing in the sky. #vss365 #vssdaily
My time at the podium draws toward a close, friends. It has been a profound honor to serve you. I’m on ’til my last prompt at 1 pm GMT August 31, then it's time to welcome C. S. Voll (@stephlepht.bsky.social) He will release prompts beginning on September 1 at 6 am GMT #vss365
I grow more curious about the dreth every time I check one of these posts out.
You are most welcome! Check out @stephlepht.bsky.social for prompts after 1 September, if you haven't already.
really enjoyed the rhythm and rhyme!
starry night our fingers tracing constellations #vss365 #senryu
"add garlic only once a #constellation of aroma fills the nose" -- excellent creative approach to the word!
Been there!
Entering the library he gazed up at the beautiful star mural above. More stars than he had ever seen it seemed, but known #constellations nonetheless #vss365
The couple sat beneath the stars on a clear evening. "Look, honey, it's Orion!" "You realize that a #constellation is just an anthropomorphized construction of stars that have no real relation to each other..." "This is the last time I date an astronomer," she thought to herself. #vss365
Great words, and beautiful image too!
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Hi. I'm going to be your next #vss365 host, after Mr. Greenwood (@bowengreenwood.bsky.social) has concluded his amazing tenure. The info for next month: I'll be hosting from 1-15 September. My prompt posts will go up at 6 AM in GMT. I'm looking forward reading your inventive stories!
“Just stand here and look through the telescope.” “Do you think we’ll see love in a #constellation?” “You don’t have to look for it when it’s standing right next to you.” “But there’s no one else standing here.” “Just look at the bloody stars.” #vss365
A #constellation of #vss365 writers creating stories brighten our days
Each constellation my heart, a celebration always points to You #vss365 #haiku
I would chase a constellation of stars on your skin #vss365 #constellation
do it well quell a monster within burn like a thousand Suns marrow and bones, spiral galaxies stardust clouds and constellations morning turned towards wished upon involution sunglasses on here we are wholly telemetries whispers of radios and golden ratios in Love with hosting soul #vss365
#vss365 Taught me To play poker On our honeymoon I was game Because I was Stupidly in love And wanted to do Everything to be With you But now You hate it Because I always win It's not my fault You have a tell Like a #constellation Fixed and rigid In your face Your cheeks Flush red When you lie
Each #constellation in your eyes Devours the night sky Buried in my mind As I look at the moon For your face Miles away Beneath a diffent sky Sharing that place Within our rib cages Where the stars tingle us twinkles #vss365 #Satsplat #poetry
Rory always marvelled at the attention to detail in the game, including things that people would rarely ever notice. Such as the star signs utilised in so many puzzles, each representing a #constellation in the heavens and, on clear nights, a player can look up and see them, up there. #vss365
Looking out of the porthole on the station, Dylan mused over the situation, staring out into the black, trying to tell which #constellation he could see, but knowing that they were all different, depending in which of the Five Systems he found himself. He needed a whiskey. A bottle of it. #vss365
My #constellation Dotted the night like a flame Blessing us together Binding our souls with Glue and love that transcended Day time’s petty squalls #vss365 #haiku #poem #micropoetry #poetry #writing
#VSS365 #prompt #CONSTELLATION The VSS365 prompt word for Aug 30, '25 is CONSTELLATION - a group of stars forming pattern in the sky. Metaphorically, "A veritable constellation of celebrities dotted the gala." Say hello to your next host, C.S. Voll (@stephlepht.bsky.social) starting 9/1
Just another reminder that I'll be the next #vss365 host, after Mr. Greenwood (@bowengreenwood.bsky.social) has concluded his excellent run. The pertinent info: I'll be hosting from 1-15 September. My prompt posts will go up at 8 AM in GMT+2 time. Thank you and have a great weekend!
The doors opened; a wall of putrid stink greeted them from the station beyond. “*That’s* #pungent,” Remy said, eyes shut tight. Koan pushed past. “It’s Walzak virus. Put the ship on quarantine protocols.” “How do you know?” “It’s how my parents smelled after it killed them. Hard to forget.” #vss365
#Pungent aroma A rich smell of affluence Looking down your nose #haiku #vss365
The odour was #pungent, almost acrid, and Harry's nose wrinkled in disgust. "Someone die in here?" The coroner's scowl matched the stench. "It was funny the -first- time." Harry shrugged. "We have to make our joy where we can. What can you tell me about the victim?" "They're dead?" "Touché." #vss365
#pungent #vss365 #owl_nightsky Upon the corpse of Doom City, the Devil built his theater of horror. He stitched curtains from torn skin, and spread ashes across the ground as if it were velvet for kings of rot. Yet the air betrayed him…
Powerful ending!
Oof, that ending hurt.
#pungent aroma it's coming from the kitchen mum's cooking again #vss365 #haiku #poetry #writing #writingcommunity
not too subtle nor too pungent olfactory reactions inhaling reverie the echo-scent of you on my skin i dream of memories that were only ever dream conjuring that resonance i adore you so #vss365 #pungent
pungent odor wafting upon wanton winds insults the senses carried across fields of soybean and corn the hog farmers become immune #vss365 #poetry
They didn't attack with swarms of ships or ground troops, like in the movies. The air thickened, enveloping our world in a #harsh, #pungent odor. Some humans lasted longer than others, but the #impact on Earth's flora and fauna was minimal. #SciFiFri #vss365 #WriteMap 364
Pungent miasma, Rising from the sewer drains, Secrets of the ooze. #vss365 #pungent #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
You release a big yawn And I smell #pungent kibble Which makes my toes curl #vss365 #haiku
A #pungent smell escapes A closed room that contains The last survivor of A war that shook planets, A star, and a small heart #vss365
#vss365 “Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it #pungent, intoxicating.” Louis Aragon
We throw it as far as we can but we can still smell it. The pungent aroma of a mistake we’d rather forget about. We plant flowers & light incense but sometimes we catch a whiff, a distinct odour that reminds us that we were never perfect. We bake bread & open windows. #vssdaily throw #vss365 pungent
OK, now THAT is a high quality pun!
Dylan hadn’t cleaned up Magpie in weeks and it had grown more than a little #pungent, but he had other things on his mind. Far too many things to care about what was probably rotting under all the mess. But being filthy would help no-one and save no lives. Not that people wanted saving. #vss365
Get in early on following your future host. Don't be late!
I would like to congratulate Mr. Greenwood (@bowengreenwood.bsky.social) on his successful tenure as the current #vss365 host. It's been fun! Just a quick heads-up to all the writers: I'll be the host from 1-15 September. My prompt posts will go up at 8 AM in GMT+2 time. Thank you!
Rory could imagine that the scene, if in real life, would be quiet … #pungent, to say the least. A large group of people, kept in tight conditions, without the benefit of a privy, in a cavern system filled with lava. No doubt there would be a cornucopia of scents that would be unpleasant. #vss365
True story. My olfactory nerve has been mostly destroyed over time. The good news: I am immune to most #pungent smells. The bad news: I get to clean up a lot of nasty messes. #vss365
#pugent smells wafting Blossoming of decaying Blooms in the garden #vss365 #haiku #poetry #poem #micropoetry #writing
Your words hang #pungent over me draping me in multiple weighted blankets until my hunch becomes a crawl the crawl becomes stillness- this stillness will be my death #vss365 #poetry
Big Pharma Hates to cure you Big Pharma Wants you sick So they choose To TREAT what ails Than e’er Get rid of it That way dough Keeps rolling in You suffer… They get rich Big Pharma’s A #sentient beast— Evil As it gets #vss365
Pro-cat poetry is my favorite kind of poetry.
Here's my offering for the theme of #malignant - thanks go to Bowen Greenwood, our #vss365 host @bowengreenwood.bsky.social #vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity
#VSS365 #prompt #PUNGENT The VSS365 prompt word for Aug 29, '25 is PUNGENT - having a sharp, strong, or biting taste or smell, often unpleasant or overwhelming. "Dude. The leftovers are pungent." Metaphorically, "The crime scene's pungent air of mystery."
"Do You Mind? I'm trying to kill people, & you're getting in my way." "I will not allow you to destroy my Church without protest." "Don't think I won't blow it up with you inside it. Of course I will. Your attempt to protect people I consider a #malignant growth makes you, too, my enemy." #vss365
For the topic of #malignant, here is my poem "Here it is", published at the beginning of this year in @duckduckmongoose.bsky.social. CW: Illness Note: The feelings described in this poem, written almost 5 years don't reflect the current state of affairs. Everything is well now. #vss365
Oof, I feel this.
A horror defined By #malignant aches and dreams That eclipse belief #vss365 #haiku #poem #poetry #writing #micropoetry
Vampire bro was sick with God knows what #malignancy, but he was still a dumbass so he had the idea of instead of going to a physician, he thought " wouldn't be cool to call that cute healer I met the other day? " I said you do whatever you want, just remember the urgent Care is open 24/7. #vss365
Not malignant in the slightest, maybe on occasion a slight grievance..a twinge. A smidge of resentment in the elbow joint, maybe some envy in the ankle bone. But on the whole well adjusted. A pleasant countenance that is well practised and suits her ego perfectly. #vssdaily elbow #vss365 malignant
“We should wipe you out,” the senator said. “You’re #malignant, parasites.” The vampires laughed. “Exactly. We can keep the host alive by draining just enough that they’re too weak to fight us… or you.” He rubbed his chin. “Interesting proposal. You can work the night shift at the IRS.” #vss365