elizabeth van den essen

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elizabeth van den essen

elizabeth van den essen

@espressolizzo

writer in tiny increments. #vss365. small, concentrated, bittersweet, best under pressure. bean/caffeine

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elizabeth van den essen
elizabeth van den essen@espressolizzo·
My #vssChristmas prompts… turned into a #histfic #mmromance #lbgtq #writing thread. 25 tiny chapters, HFN end. If you have peeps who'd like this, I’ve no issue with Q/RTs. The thread ended today but their story will continue, somewhere. I love these two, hope you do too.
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I rationed the visits. Like sweets. Or medicine. I was-- seemly. Yule was fit reason, surely? To offer season’s #greetings. To see how he was faring. And to torment myself with the heart-stopping beauty of the man. I calmed my breath & laid my knuckles on the wood. #vssChristmas

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Me and my scared, my screaming selves. Who howl at the walls -- Unwilded #wolves who remember the womb And for seasons are cold with the day, They exist in thought, Persist for nought But before They die they must play. #vss365
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elizabeth van den essen
elizabeth van den essen@espressolizzo·
#vss365 #wolves Snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, my dad'd say; child me puzzled whose & how many? A pack of #wolves? One giant shark? Nested alien mouths like Ripley saw? Truth is, it's all teeth. A life's work, stealing hope from hungry despair. Faith makes a bold thief.
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Yaw Ayisi
Yaw Ayisi@ayisi_yaw·
@espressolizzo John legend once sang: 🎶My head's under water, but I'm breathing fine🎶
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elizabeth van den essen
elizabeth van den essen@espressolizzo·
#vss365 #undersea #haiku (x3) WHAT LIES BENEATH #Undersea, in dreams, I can breathe. But the surprise, rising like bubbles through the brine, is you: content to suffer dim sight, slow motion—limits; yet sway alongside, not shoot surfaceward as I know you want to do.
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elizabeth van den essen@espressolizzo·
#vss365 #trickery #haiku (x3) HANDS & EYES, HEARTS & MINDS Pleasure is ever easier to obtain, while purpose’s measure— often meagre—must with pain be wrested from those stealing attention. #Trickery baits us with invention; in your hand, the devil’s greatest.
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elizabeth van den essen@espressolizzo·
#vss365 #investiture #haiku (x3) Assume the mantle, despite your reservations; you must understand, the crown (not the robes) is the trouble—you’ve not once in life bowed your head. We who bend our necks to all kinds of things require your #investiture.
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elizabeth van den essen@espressolizzo·
#vss365 #seafoam #haiku (x3) Shells; driftwood; handsome strands of kelp—beach finds easy to appreciate. More shore boons: bottles with messages; doubloons; flot- and jet-sam galore. #Seafoam's messy; churned salt rot's got a dirty tang, much like life itself.
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elizabeth van den essen@espressolizzo·
#vss365 #hammer #haiku (x3) My future, remade. Not just shelves, paint; taken down to the frame. Ask me and I’ll deny it; reason’s useless. But You know, as a carpenter, how and where it starts; know that the #hammer-ing sound You hear is my heart.
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elizabeth van den essen
elizabeth van den essen@espressolizzo·
#vss365 #letters my love's across the harbor— locked arms & burning shoulders whirl & hitch at precise degrees, his words wind-whipped one crisp cotton #letter at a time. my hands ache w/the spyglass' weight, eyes burn w/long minutes at the bright window; i cannot flag, nor blink
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elizabeth van den essen
elizabeth van den essen@espressolizzo·
@anarimafornow 💙 bedankt - mijn Vlaams is nu keislecht geworden ik moet met mijn “eerste leerjaar” woordjes schrijven & ‘t resultaat is ‘n beetje ontroerend, vreemd genoeg
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elizabeth van den essen
elizabeth van den essen@espressolizzo·
#vss365 #sing You—daar boven, op 't bank. Ja man, jij—kom hier naar 't strand. Hef je sterke arm & sterkere hand— geen inkt nodig, hier 'n stok als pen—teken in 't zand 'n grote & dan 'n kleinere ring: de zon & de maan voorgoed verliefd. Zing maar—snel, 'tis bijna vloed— #sing.
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Leah Boudreaux
Leah Boudreaux@LeahBoudreaux2·
I love it when littles try to figure out how to describe something they don’t yet have words for and end up coining beautiful phrases. 4yo: Is tomorrow the day my buddy (*his cousin*) is coming over? Me: Not tomorrow. The day after tomorrow. 4yo: *thinks* Sooooo . . . tomorrow plus tomorrow is when he’ll be here? Me: *heart explodes* Yes. Tomorrow plus tomorrow.
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