Jamie

Morning writers! This one's called Invisible Ruins, inspired by a prompt on the topic of ruins in my local writing group. Hope you enjoy! #vss365 #writing #poetrycommunity @_raw_writing

I am not the conductor of my thoughts. No, the thoughts #conduct me. Every day, I dance to their tune. I clash cerebral cymbals, I hit low brass notes with perfect solemnity, I personify the sadness of the melancholy harp, crying pitch-perfect plucked pain. #vss365 #ocd

@Sleepy_Chaotic Perfect description of this moment in the year!!

It was always her mind that fascinated him. Who she was inside was forever more precious than the superficial. Sure, she was pretty, but then so was the Eagle Nebula; similarly, his addiction was looking deeper, craving to know the building blocks of her. #vss365 #fascinate

A Seagull Stole My Cigarette A seagull stole my cigarette I was #frustrated and huffing I wasn’t going to grab it back though As I didn’t want a run in Let it enjoy the smoke Nicotine wings now rushing Would have been funnier though If it had been a puffin #vss365

Unopened boxes of nitrile gloves, fresh sharps pots, and plastic wrapped disinfectant wipes sit silently, imprisoned within giant metal caged trollies in the waiting room. A thought hits me like a #lightning bolt; I feel closer to death than life in this purgatory. #vss365

@Sleepy_Chaotic So good!

On future’s #cusp We always stand Waiting for each other While the shots ring out Us, wringing our hands Greatness fails us Through solemn eyes We go blind to ourselves Firing screams into voids We are but fodder to the skies Reaching Falling As dust #vss365 #poetry

De-Christmased the house earlier Uncluttered the past Fairy lights tangled Brain broken, outcast Baubles are scattered On the attic’s wooden floor #balderdash I thought New year, old war #vss365 #ocd

A handful from #rotterdam today. Love this city.

@LucyChalice Best eyeballs I’ve ever known….that’s what I love about you 👀

There’s nothing #specific But Friday I’m in love And there’s nothing more to tell you About the wings of this dove #vss365

There was no forgiveness requested, nor any expected. To live again, he must have this. She is better than #reality he thought, offering the solace of a thousand moments of humanity’s kindness, unending touches from soft lips, and eyes to share the world with his. #vss365

@LucyChalice Lovely, that VSS was made for you!! 🫠

An old one: His languid #language belied the vigour in his eyes. Those same eyes hid a darkness though, like a shade of night that could overcome all before it.   Her quandary was simple; did she feel sufficiently bound to those eyes to stay, even knowing the danger? #vss365

Never perfect Always changing Never settled Always flailing Never winning Always failing Never learning Always yearning A human #experiment For the Universe’s merriment #vss365

No darker #terror Than the absence of your kiss Lips cold like winter #vss365 #haiku

No #verve for life Can outweigh this pain Or so I thought But then there you were Underestimating you And us #vss365

My story, laid in #pulp But not a fiction A tale of old woes And new ones A story of missed moments Of forsaken love Of hearts shattering Of laboured life Read all about it Feel how it hurts Know how I miss you The innocent child #vss365 #memoir #ocd

wet ◦ parting wet ◦ per haps per haps ◦ soggy you rosy Sunday ◦ geese feeding geese ◦ five years holding five years ◦ feathers bed whitely feathers ◦ rain insisting rain ◦ insisting kissing insisting beaks ◦ can't feather can't ◦ per haps you you per haps ◦ wet #vss365

@Sleepy_Chaotic That’s gorgeous Emma! x