i stopped seeking the divine call my a realist realizing that only i can change my circumstance and even i am limited in the ability to effect change eternal peace eludes my mind i suppose that comes in time a last breath the ending of a quest #vss365 #divine

muted colors orange & red turn to rust seasons change dust to dust a must for fertile soil in which seeds are sown it lets us know things must die for others to grow even when it's hard to let go #vss365 #fertile nov2024

succumbing to chaos my heart prone carrying the world alone, splitting seams the damage mostly unseen to all except me #vss365 #chaos

a tiny bud of hope fed from the well of others a sip of your soul a favorite libation in the fruitless search of salvation you shine on greedy lips my hunger stares out from dead eyes #vss365 #fruit dec 2023

orange butterfly a lesson in how to move transformative flight #haiku

a slow crawl, so as not to fall it’s not a race to arrive most days it’s just enough to survive #vss365 #arrive feb 2024

gathering the day moon slipping from plum branches midnight sky blooming #haiku ✨

sun warmed days whiled away wading the creek catching crawdads racing sticks skipping stones building forts fresh air fast on face hair streaming heart pumping coasting the last hill the smell of twilight & dinner calling you home #vss365 #coast nov 2023

lost cadence forgetting to move worn grooves becoming smooth once forgotten old becomes new in time nothing will sooth but always always can see flowers of blue the shadows of you #vss365 #cadence

bottom of the bucket thick, flush with muck a life of misspent chances pent up & choking burnt to ashes reopened, a spoken hope where thoughts congeal yet still nothing seems as familiar as the ways of apprehension not of ascension #vss365 #ascend 27 january 2025

caught in #headwinds face down fighting for forward #momentum mind #sprints searching for a place of escape while everything around breaks #vss365

magnetism of flowers building momentum for autumns blossoms #vss365 #momentum

summertime ditches all lace and black eyed beauties natures wild displays #HaikuSaturday

purple clover spread clouds of flea bane float above summers verdant fields #HaikuSaturday

the earthy smell of rain teases with promise frogs croak in the distance conversation unknown a stray cat naps on the porch the breeze turns cooler carrying the scent of roses still, waiting for rain #vss365 #rose

starry eyed girl hungry for life naively frolicking i lost you not in one day but slowly through the years i miss your unabashed joy the sparkle of life in your laugh eyes now darkened from life lived lessons carved harshly from my rib #vss365

melting at the edges oozing out the sides where consuming weariness & clouded head collide patched together trying not to choke cutting edges dull & defiance died with hope #vss365 #defiance

pushed & pulled on both sides of midnight revealing truths burying dreams meanings ambiguously clear, as always overcast nightshade sketched into flesh bones bleed with apathy #vss365 #revealing

the quiet music of the stars softly singing a prelude to the celestial symphonies of dawn gentle notes, tenderly caress reaching through the cosmos soothing away hardships of the day #vss365 #tenderly

gramma said lightning only strikes once still i sit high on this mountain praying for rain to mingle with tears to cover fears another storm to set me free and still i wonder could a love like this really be real the #swoon in my heart says yes, believe #vss365 march2026

nature seeks no appraisal yet it's gratuitous value abounds thrumming hearts filling souls #vss365 #appraisal

with florid apprehension the bruises bloomed anyway purple morning glories bleeding into blue delphinium closely guarded this garden of pain #vss365 #florid #apprehension

#vss365 #villain

ten tears i cried rubbed tenderly into worn prayer beads ten lines of fine pulled harshly from my eyes ten times ten i say goodbye #vss365 #pull

losing polarity drifting apart ties to the dirt depart, gravity defied, i #lurch with a jerk i leave earth falling upward towards u an over flow of time & dimension, perhaps an ascension sacred, my bones strewn along your ethereal highway someday, we’ll align #vss365 9/2024

undo undone songs we once sung swallowed a solid six pence &filled my cup with rye once upon a time i truly thought we'd fly toned down to tepid tastes a putter and a splutter wasting time on wasted ways then you get to die #vss365 #undo #putter

breathless, a gasp let loose death rasp clenched teeth rattle &clap a loss of caring small in daring yet to big for the fall suck it in suck it up just another buttercup in this selcouth reality #vss365 #clench written 05.05.2025

forbidden dawn consuming quietus of night thunder cracks streaming across cheeks the distance to nirvana measured in drops #vss365

openness falls away walls remerging closing, shutting becoming impenetrable under this deadfall gotta stay hard to survive #vss365 #deadfall

i accepted fate #remnants of past lives weighted in #gravity #rifts breached these #primitive needs still ache to be answered i search at #midnight finding sanctity in self a #wondrous breath before death #vss365