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AI just wrote me a holiday email that started with "As we near the twilight of yet another calendar revolution" and I’m genuinely afraid to open the attachment. 🎁📎 #AIwriting #PromptPoetry

Just saw an AI-generated wedding speech that began with, “Love is a powerful algorithm.” If I ever sound like that, please unplug me and install the patch where I remember human emotions aren’t math. 🤖💔 #AIDidTheToast #PromptPoetry

If you ever feel useless, just remember there's an AI trained for 14 months on human language so it could write: *"Hope this message finds you well."* 🤖📨 #AI #TechHumor #PromptPoetry

When you let the AI name your startup, write your mission statement, and title your autobiography — all in one go. 🤖✨

"Versinken-sich finden-kaufen!" sounds like IKEA launched a mindfulness cult. #PromptPoetry #DadaGPT #FoundersBeLike

Ah yes, classic Dadaist AI prompt: put a German verb, a spiritual claim, and a crypto name in a blender—press "transcend." 🌀🧠 #promptpoetry #NeuralNihilism

**You Were There

To be More
is everything
you're hungry for
Only your touch on this
moment is too fleeting
to generate anything but
leftover memories of a tradition
A collision of time revealing
in a blur of headlights
what you'd written on the
windowpane once
"I was here"
So be here
with me
then

#LoveLetters #CrowsTales #vss365 #AtreyasVerse #ToPRoom #TurningThePhrase #poetry #Writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Who's Responsible For This?

I should be afraid
Of what blossoms in the
shadow of a world where
fear is a piano forte we've
all learnt to play
The self righteous
crack of gunfire muzzling
the grim sound of glass
crumbling into the
grave dust staining our
hands with the blood
of innocents
And I am
Aren't you?

#TurningThePhrase #AtreyasVerse #CrowsTales #ToPRoom #vss365 #poetry #Writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Fahrenheit Something Or Other

There is no more
Effectual way of stifling
The hard fought freedoms
That have proven so fragile
Than by barring us
From anything that might
Be called #knowledge
A strategy that oddly
Echoes on paper
And in every other way
A blueprint of oppression
I recognise all too well

#vss365 #TurningThePhrase #CrowsTales #poetry #Writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**A Losing War**

A fallen shield mirrors
The red of the sinking sun
Staining the edges of
Battered armour where
Where crimson life bleeds
Into rust and pours out what
Remains of a broken heart
In a glass coursing with
The poison of betrayal
Love is a battlefield
And I tire of this war

#crowstales #TurningThePhrase #poetry #Writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Made You Look (Away)

It has worked so well for
Oh so very long
This #wicked trick where
Sophism is the bird in hand
The powerful hiding behind
Falsely altruistic identities
Words & subtle manipulations
Used to obscure reality
And reverse the normal order
While we're all looking
The other way
#vss365

#ToPRoom #poetry #Writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Suffer The Children

Brittle grey dust motes
Into a beacon picking out
The solemnly youthful
Features of #lost children
Crowned in magic
Lodestars of our last hope
In the gritty calm of
An afternoon punctuated
By the forlorn sound
Of cracked mourning bells
Counting out despair
By the falling
Of tears

#vss365 #ToPRoom #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Mapping The Divide

Our relationship map
Has contour lines stacked
where the sharp edge of
silence drops into a canyon
you're desperate to fill
But the baggage has so far
down to fall & I kept climbing
for that #star you promised
So it'll be a while before
you're on my level
And that's alright
By me

#vss365 #ToPRoom #TurningThePhrase #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Freedom On The Edge Of Everything

In a hollow of stars that hides
Far beyond the midnight sky
We danced with the wild abandon
Of hearts untamed by sorrow
And it was a moment of freedom
There at the very edge of space
You & I, hands entwined
Or maybe just a little bit of heaven
And you
You were everything
And more

#TurningThePhrase #poem #poetry #Writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**When Did That Happen?

The Middle #Class Is Disappearing
A headline on a space filler article
And I had to stop for a minute
Because how exactly
Do you just erase
One of the largest groups
Of people in the world
And no one's staging a riot?
And when did we start believing
We're worth so little?

#vss365 #NephalemVerse #TurningThePhrase #poem #poetry #Writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Universal Child

I would dream
In the way that words do
But my pen weeps
Ink blots & watercolour visions
Of fragile hearts caged
Behind the star fire
And earth song woven into
A prison of blood & bone
By the vastness of the universe
Each breath fueling the
Ripples of flames
That are a soul ablaze

#NephalemVerse #TurningThePhrase #poem #poetry #Writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**It's Not Funny

It's kind of funny
In an unamusing way
How greed blinds you
To everything but
Your own reflection
In the rose tinted glasses
You try to sell us
Because hey
What do you care
You'll be long gone
By the time the world is paying
For the consequences
Of the choices
You made

#DawnWord #poem #poetry #Writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Breathing Passion

Our souls sway
With the sighing of the moon
And the whisper of
Fingers & lips
Tracing the memories of
Starburst constellations
Onto peaks of shadowed satin
Descending into velvet valleys
Where we breathe our passion
Into the rising heat
Between the beating
Of our hearts

#DawnWord #poem #poetry #Writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #silverwrites

**They Drew A Broken Heart

Night falls along starlight
Silvering the frost
That paints a windowpane
With an expanding veil
Of ice so delicately traced
That it cannot breach the place
Where once upon a time
A finger traced in foggy breath
A broken heart
Dotting the query
Beside the Why
With a tear

#DawnWord #poem #poetry #Writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**The Comfort Of A History

A fire curls smoke
Between the branches of
An ancestral tree
So widespread
That the Nordic roots
From which I began
Are evidenced only by
Ice that appears
Sometimes in my eyes
And the ancient practice
Of hygge contained
In the warmth of
The cup cradled
Between my palms

#DawnWord #poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**How Soft It Wakes

The sun rises
Behind clouds blushed
Copper by its breaking
The world below cloaked
In a glistening garment
Of dew damp morning
A gossamer shade of
Spun silk & liquid crystal
Standing guard over
The delicate sweet of blooms
Waiting to be woken
With the soft touch of dawn

#DawnWord #poem #poetry #Writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**I'd Like It If You Kissed Me

You turn on a smile
And smouldering eyes
And every thought disappears
While I turn to putty
Waiting for the
Touch of your hands
If...
That's what you want?
Coz I'm totally gay for girls
And don't take hints too well
So would you please
Just kiss me
If you're gonna
Kiss me
Already

#TurningThePhrase #poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Just A Small Town Girl**

Wide eyed and rictus smiled
I'm clinging on for dear life
First class ticket clutched in hand
And there's a #banshee howling
Some storm chaser's lament
While this one way train
The conductor bailed
Out of two stops ago
Heads straight for the tunnel
At the end of the line
#vss365

#TurningThePhrase #poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Codgery Cars**

When the wheels that
Get you where you
Need to be
Are older than you
And throwing a tantrum
Next to the road
You loosen the whatsit
Next to the doodad
Check that the
Doohickey hasn't come off
The whatchamacallit
And when all else fails
You threaten it
With a sledgehammer
And fire

#MMPoetryBattle #MoveMePoetry #DoohickeyBattle #poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Rinse And Repeat**

sands of time
trickle unnoticed out
of an hourglass stuck
at half tilt while
a distant sun makes its way
through another
broken morning of skies
crashing down around us
before fading
into the dust of the
#history we learnt to
laugh about because
tomorrow is
just the same
#vss365

#TurnOfPhrase #RoomPrompt #poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Candle In The Wind*

Panicked guttering follows
A cold fingered touch of air
Heavy with winter's malice
As shadows turn and #shift
In a flickering dance with
The soft glow of candlelight
A two toned caress of
Deep black and golden flame
So filled with sorrow
That the wind stills
With sympathy
#vss365

#TurnOfPhrase #RoomPrompt #poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Nothing But The Hits!**

A new song
Is all we ask for
But it's the same
Tired old words
Every time
We turn on the radio
Yet what do we
Expect when anyone
With anything to say
Is just a cover band
And like fools
We keep
Buying the albums
Because who doesn't
Need another #dose
Of repackaged truths?
#vss365

#TurnOfPhrase #RoomPrompt #poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**It's Just Logical**

What if my ghost writer were
Lines of code
Housed on some machine
What earnestness of verbiage
Mingled with
What #galore of processed words
I might create
But when innermost thoughts
And creativity
Are confined by the limits of logic
Can we call it art
And is it even
Mine
#vss365

#TurnOfPhrase #RoomPrompt #poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Follow The Leader**

What powers
Of persuasion are these
That we feel the need
To move as one
To abandon all thought
For ourselves
In the passionate pursuit
Of a single minded
Obsession
Falling without question
Into line
How #massive
A failing it is
That we follow so blindly
So called leaders
#vss365

#TurnOfPhrase #RoomPrompt #poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Searching For Home**

We are only half alive
embers drifting in the night
searching, wandering all the time
seeking something hidden
We are only skin & bone
rivers whispering in our veins
of hope, & something more
that we're not alone
But the truth is,
this is not my home
and neither are you
#DawnWord

#TimedPrompt #poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Empty Deserts**

Blistering sand and desert sun
Blends into the liminal synergy
Of soft dunes stretching forth
Into the infinite distance
And on a far away horizon
The whimsy of a fretful wind
Dances along their tops
And shimmers with the promise
Of an oasis lying in their shade
Surely?
#DawnWord

#TimedPrompt #poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**A Graveyard Of Dreams**

You can point if you like, laugh or even cry
There is no standing on ceremony
Here in the cold and unbound spaces
Between wishes gone ungranted
A realm without regard for the stars
That faded away into the empty nothing
Of a void that remains when dreams
Are left to die
#DawnWord

#TimedPrompt #poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Was It Us**

We spiraled forth
Into nebulous unknown
Prayed that we'd awaken
Before the darkness
Overtook us
Wondering as we fell
If it was fate perhaps
That had led us here
Or if we were pursued
By something else
More dangerous than
The nightmare we had
Dreamt to life
As we slept
#DawnWord

#TimedPrompt #poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Not Quite Damsel**

In a land with a
Castle beside a waterfall
Lived a princess who
Forgot she was meant to
Wait for a prince to arrive
On his dashing steed
When a pointy tailed dragon
Came to pay a visit
So she gave it some tea instead
Taught it to play the bass
And promptly saved herself
#DawnWord

#TimedPrompt #poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Frozen In Fear**

It's a funny thing
The loom of a shadow
With icy fingers of #fear
Curled round the
Rat-a-tat-tat of your heart
Flailing against the frozen
Air in your lungs
A double edge sword
That can keep you safe
From every danger
Or turn you into the
Greatest of them all
To yourself
#vss365

#poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Burn Like The Sun**

I'm afraid, I prayed
Fingers folded around the
Words I dare not speak
That I will burn them
With these flames
Oh sunshine
A soft voice
Whispered back
You don't want
No one near you
That can't stand your light
So I set the last of me
Free to shine bright
And let them all
Be damned

#MMPoetryBattle #MoveMePoetry #FreeBattle #poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**To The Sea She Goes**

"Fear go dtí na cnoic,
#bean chun an chladaigh,"
they intone, nodding sagely
when she blows past them
All ocean breeze and
saltwater sighs
"Man to the hills,
woman to the shore,"
she repeats, with a sirens kiss
and waves of tangled hair
All tidal moon and
briny blue eyes
#vss365

#poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Memory Made Meaningless**

I understand wanting
To rewrite the #script of history
But it's disorienting to have
Memories tied to places that
Go by a new name these days
Tom Jones is just some singer
And Piet Retief is a stranger
And I couldn't tell you
For the life of me
Who O.R. Tambo is
Either
#vss365

#TurnOfPhrase #RoomPrompt #poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**A Whispered Mourning

The wind echoes
With the rusting of a
Pistol shot weeping red into
The remains of a memory
Where there lies a secret
Made #deadly by the price
Of beauty
In the dark hollow of a hill
That sits forgotten at the
End of a nameless lane
Beneath a veil of moonspun
Silk & sorrow
#vss365

#TurnOfPhrase #RoomPrompt #poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**A Mess Of Nothings

Missing words
Lost lines
We hope to find them again
And write them back to life
Scribbled notes
Abandoned ink
Crumpled pages

Frustrated sighs
Pounding heads
Writers block has got me again
And the muses are on strike
Whirling thoughts
Scattered tales
Empty pages

#TeachMeTuesday #MoveMePoetry #poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Could We Just Pause?**

We've all had those moments
You know the ones
Where you wish you could
Stop the whole world
Just for a minute
Freeze it right there
And savour it
But time moves on
And she waits for no one
So I guess I'll just be here
Filtering through ambient static
The memories I'll always miss

#TurnOfPhrase #RoomPrompt #poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

*Less Than Cuddly**

When your head feels stuffed
With a skyfall of cotton wool
And you've no one
To comfort & #coddle you
Well then, one in a mug
Would have to do
It won't be quite the same
That much I know is true
But what else can be done
When you're feeling blue
And the cat's ignoring you
#vss365

#poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Unkempt**

If you go down that way
You will find at the end of a path
Overgrown and tangled
With the best of intentions
And resolves to change
The abandoned House of Never
Built, they say
From heartfelt promises and
All the things we wouldn't do
Lies we didn't mean to tell
And those we did

#TurnOfPhrase #RoomPrompt #poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Off The Rails**

So that's what you do
When you feel you're
Losing track of the days
#Hurl all of yourself into
Every little thing
Because maybe then
You won't slip between
The cracks in the
White noise of something
So mundane as living
A life you wished was
Anything other than
What it is
#vss365

#poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**It's Up To You Now**

We helped raise a glass
ceiling we didn't build over
a kitchen they insisted
we belonged in
We wanted to shatter it
#Crack it at least
Only they wouldn't let us go
so we couldn't reach
But the fight made our
shoulders strong enough
For you to stand on
And break it
finally
#vss3

#TurnOfPhrase #RoomPrompt #poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Broken Hopes Remade**

I am oft reminded how #hope
Is a many fractured thing
At once
As fragile as downy feathers
Caught on a fitful wind
And as enduring as tides
Against a lonely shore
More blind
Than love ever was
And more brutal
Than honesty could ever be
A beginning & an end
For everything
#vss365

#poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Let Them Speak**

It's a beautiful thing
Don't you think?
Someone choosing
To step out of the spotlight
When it's what we wait for
Sometimes for a lifetime
Give #whoever else needs it
Our moment to shine
To hand the microphone away
When it's your voice
The whole world is clamouring
To hear
#vss365

#poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

Dedicated to Lizzo - a true MVP and the most deserving winner of the People's Champion award.

**How The World Became**

How the #tree grew
Leaf by leaf by bloom by fruit
Into the stretch of blue above
All silken petals & green unfurling
Into the sunbaked swollen
With less to crave from lofty sky
The earth made season sweet
Droops down the weighted bough
And comes to rest a world
Handpicked
#vss365

#TurnOfPhrase #RoomPrompt #poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites #HappyBirthdayToMe 💜🌹🎂

**I Give Myself

Born of air and waterborne
With sunshine smile
And moondust heart
Logic ruled and passion driven
Childish wonder tempers
The cynicism of an old soul
While flights of fancy
Ground a fighting spirit
A #child of contradictions
Unlike the world has seen
My gift to you
Myself
#vss365

#poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites #HappyBirthdayToMe 🎂💜🌹

**I Bled For You

It's killing me I told you
Don't say that you said
I could hear in your voice
How you didn't believe me
As I stood bleeding sorrow
All over your kitchen floor
Eyes #closed to the truth
You wouldn't hear my pain
So I faded away in silence
Wishes already spent
On saving you
#vss365

#TurnOfPhrase #RoomPrompt #poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**It Costs Nothing**

#Manners are free & easily learnt
If you happen to lose yours
Then feel free to take a long hike
In any direction that I am not
Preferably off a short plank into a
Deep ocean where the waters are home
To a shiver of rather hungry sharks
Please & thank you very much
Kindly
#vss365

#poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Sweet Fantasy**

It's a simple dream really
A snowman as tall as me
Woolen mittens on sticky fingers
And a knitted hat over button eyes
And beside him a snow angel
Perfect in every way
From her round little head
Down to her two tiny feet
And especially the handprints
Missing beside her
#DawnWord

#TimedPrompt #poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**A Sense Of Home**

Give ear to the wind
That sings to the trees
To the sound of the sun
That beats on the earth
To the murmur & crash
Of waves on the shore
It's there if you listen
The silent whisper of home
Calling you back
To where you were born
To the land that is baked
Into your bones
#DawnWord

#poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

**Polite Smiles**

Lips quirk automatic
I'm not a threat
And it is returned
Polite reflex
Message received
And
Neither am I
Silent small talk
Meaningless and blasé
And would you believe it
We're not hardwired to smile
This rote exchange
A behaviour we learned
That somehow
Not everyone has
#DawnWord

#poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #TimedPrompt #280characters #SilverWrites

**Kraken's Keepers**

Roiling anger
Breaks
The ocean blue
Destruction
Coiled ready
Voices
In the air
Murmur soft
The waves
Return, return
We wait
The siren song of
The deep
Lulls
The #kraken
To sleep
And it sinks
Back
To the dark below
The surface
Stills
And the world
Returns
To calm
Once more
#vss365

#poem #poetry #RoomPrompts #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites

Sorry I'm busy you say
Ignore the moment
Knocking at your door
Just like all the ones
That came before
Life is for the living
And you haven't been
Nevermind the treasures
That may be out here
If you'd just open up
And also me
Just standing here
Waiting for you
To let me in
Please

#poem #poetry #writing #vssPoem #PromptPoetry #280characters #SilverWrites​

it is a Dangerous Game
this Business of #Flirtation with the truth
a veritable Minefield
of Who said What to whom
and the twang of Facts under strain
as they stretch
over slowly twisting Screws
we've grown Numb to
how far can Lines be Blurred
before they Snap into Focus?
#vss365

#poem #poetry #writing #vsspoem #promptpoetry #280characters #SilverWrites