#silverwrites — Public Fediverse posts

**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

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**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

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**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

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*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

*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

*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

**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

**A Father's Disappointment**

I wonder
What you thought when
You hit record that day
Did you think about
The #bonny lad
Just at the start of his life
And how it was ending
In those hungry flames
Or were you calculating
The views
That this satisfying
Of the insatiable vultures
We all nurture
Would get?
#vss365

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

Dedicated to the memory of everyone who lost their lives in the Boksburg tanker explosion, December 2022.

**Praying For Peace**

I pause in the drift
Between the past
As I remember and
The future I imagine
And I breathe into the now
A wish, silent as the wind
May the world find their happy
That does no harm
To them, and theirs
And others
This longing for peace
Made prayer when I add
So #mote it be
#vss365

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

What a ghastly thing it is
Reality
With it's inescapable truths
And undeniable facts
Revealing just how deep
Into depravity
One person can sink
And yet at the same time
The life buoy that is
The kindred spirit
A shining beacon
On the darkest of days
Salvation in a soul
#DawnWord

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