If we let monsters reign, and unrest proliferate, if we let injustice and anguish drown our future, then freedom was always a fallacy. War becomes the fate we didn't fear enough.

Might be the last batch of #tomatoes. We have a #frost advisory tonight. Still sick but slowly getting better. #garden

life’s #advert shines on vivid dreams in fleeting light moments call to us vows woven in joy and tears treasure in moments we share #vss365 #Tanka

Craft an #advert persuasive pulls long lines form to buy a fable stuck in one dimension #vss365

It’s an #advert for sore eyes The burn of fireworks A little too close When your smile Widens at the gaze Of somebody elses seduction #vss365

- we whispered little white lies never fearing the consequence of accumulation pulled tight like a sheet on a bed too cold to share only later did we learn truth is elastic: it stretches beautifully - right before it breaks - #vss365

Murky nights, heavy with long-drawn sighs, longing in leagues, a tryst with restless angst. It is a road that wanders toward you, though hope seems lost along the way. #FoxProse #Inktober2025

Leaving the world behind #elastic frayed fired into space that sky high feeling flying my muse & I we are unearthly things gravity cannot hold us down we are moonwalkers weaving words from starlight tattooing eternity with Noodler's ink black night #vss365

#vss365 #FoxProse @FoxProse #fairytalepoets #breatheprompt #loveletters 💌 #Elastic night sky consuming the coming darkness but there's still light that beauties the canvas with entangled intensity, for she bewitched the constellations into a vortex of onyx dreaming... watching

#Elastic dreams surpass what I thought possible their details engulf my fingertips and my soul surrenders to belief #vss365 #writing

The table a sticky mess The old cloth saturated and dripping Puddles growing He paid no attention to them He only had eyes for the delicate work before him The skull now hollow The brains transferred to a blender Ready to become pulp for his ever hungry creation

#flu elixir Green tea, turmeric, lemon, garlic, cayenne pepper, ginger root, honey #sick

she pressed her own name till pulp of truth bled softly... no one saw the stain #vss365 #pulp

#Flu. Throat hurts, nose, face, ears, body aches. Fever. Trying to rest. #Thanks for all the good wishes.

Castaway on an #oasis among broken cooking pots & splintered wood, she huddled on the shore. The mercurial sea tempered its fury. Swells rushed to comfort her frozen toes. Every swallow burned, like a fire curled around her neck, pulling tight as the tide receded. #vss365

#fairytalepoets On the full moon She wakes The moonlight pulls her to the surface Her magic song captures a soul Leads them blindly into the woods Straight into her waiting arms She soothes their frighten soul As she drinks their life away Leaving their corpse Hidden in the

time moves in circles, days fall, nights become a blur. yet your memory stands still, a face the clock cannot erase, burning through silence. #vss365 #Blur

Hug means everything ~j.d. #3wordspoet

I know that sinking feeling hollow & lost a boat adrift in a storm the throttling hands of grief grip your throat a stone you can't swallow chokes & tears pool at that sad, sad song they #blur your eyes & all you see are rain clouds never the sun just behind #vss365

Hours #blur like the view from a window during a downpour I settle into aches waiting for this fever to break #vss365 #actuallysick

The darkness seeps onto the earth It spreads like a vine Entwining deep within any warm bodied creatures It comes into contact with Takes over their bodies While feeding on their souls All because a tiny hole had been discovered That’s all it took