the real John Carr.
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A soulless man, with an empty grin. They've opened up the asylum doors. I could have been anything. No DM's unless we're dating.
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A Black and White photo of her.
But her lips are moving,
as empty eye sockets
stare, as they bleed.
I think she's crying for help,
I think she's dying alone.
A Black and White photo of her,
as she laughs,
and she's at peace again,
she's Sixteen again,
she's alive again,
in a Black and White photo.
a black and white photo of a woman 's face behind a few leaves
ALT: a black and white photo of a woman 's face behind a few leaves
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TODAY IS THE DAY! My new #poetry collection, The Line Breaks Between Lives, is out now! I've put so much effort into this one; it's beautiful, it's ugly, it's witty. It bares teeth and blooms flowers!

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Kestrel #hovers in Azure skies,
swiftly swoops,
Dormouse dies.
Life is cruel,
life is survival,
love your friends,
beware of rivals.

#vss365
I recited these words, in front of a mirror, impersonating the voice of Jack Klugman playing the part of Quincy M.D.

I may have a future. 😁😁😁😁🥂
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In this dark forest,
Each tree, part of a network,
These roots manoeuvre.
#2WordPrompt #Tree/Network #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
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They still used the word #unearthly to describe something so strange that it belied any kind of correlation to how things worked.

Like the system gates. Still no-one knew how they existed, so far beyond human comprehension, but they did, and Hogan showed Dylan how to use them as weapons.

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#vss365 He came to, as all around him were gone. Only an #unearthly drone remained. The floor thrummed below him, vibrating his entire frame. It soothed him.
The last thing he saw was the floor come up to meet him, to pass overhead and then swallow him.
An alien honeycomb world existed...
On the cusp
of night time slumber,
#unearthly screams
from somewhere under,
the haven that
you call your bed.
Go to sleep?
Or risk your death?

#vss365
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Watching a program about the '80s, Nora mused that her mother had gone through a phase of bedazzling her clothes with an #unearthly number of crystals. "It looked silly really, but we imagined ourselves to be pop stars."

#vss365
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Standing on my sky
Chance hangs in our atmosphere
Slipping through time

Dimension’s doorways
Revolving evolving dissolving
Walls that held a we

Until #unearthly urges undulating
Your rhythm with my rhymes
Such surreal sexual syncopation

Now Coming As One

#BraveWrite #vss365
#PoetryCommunity
a close up of a person 's hand reaching out of a window .
Alt: a close up of a person 's hand reaching out of a window .
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You can't belittle
a little #beetle,
cos the little beetle doesn't care.
Nor can you belittle
a bald headed Coot,
cos a bald headed Coot
has very little hair.
But you should belittle
the table skittle
cos the table skittle
just stands and stares.
Until the Cheese
knocks the skittle.
#vss365
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#vss365 It was the new #deluxe Unalive2000. He'd been dying to try one out since he first read about it's unique "self-cleaning hydroform gel, that provides a smooth cushioned ride into the afterlife." And now here he was, front of queue and keen to end it all.
But no one had said it was pay2go...
The brackish smell
from damp, fallen leaves,
fills my busy lungs with fear,
anxious for the Winter due,
when Jack Frost with his razor teeth
will chew all hope from my soul,
then stab me with his icy rain.
I long for April's sun and rebirth,
but Winters time will crawl.
#poetry.
How happy can we be
as we chase eternal life?
Guzzling pills and potions,
surgery and implants,
in search of immortality.
How happy can we be,
as we upgrade to #deluxe?
Ignoring what we are,
mere skin and bone,
nurtured no longer by love,
but by the influence of fools.
How happy can we be?
#vss365
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feeling the energy today? if so.. here’s my flow for the mojo today.. channeling the good juju vibes:).. ✨🍃

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#astrology #zen #life #virgo #newmoon #eclipse #moon #nature #spirituality #philosophy #health
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Once I was just a silhouette,
a #shadow, a stranger in
a dark cloak, afraid of
the sunrise. But
the sun didn't erase me,
it gently took down my hood
and gave me light and colours.
Now I walk in the day
with a smile and
an eternal sunburn.

#whistpr
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I feel your breath
Upon my shoulder blades bare
It’s a #conundrum my brain dares

But the heart knows
What the heart knows
Feeling the ghost of you

#vss365
#poetry
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#vss365 For days, he'd hung on, intent on cracking the last clue. The paper beside him.
His wounds were too severe to move him & we were still shoring the roof, to prevent another rock fall.
"Retired miner... 3-across." He said, then died.
His foreman, held his hand "A right #conundrum there Doug."
Good morning writers and friends.. Something we all confront, from time to time

I leave you with one final puzzle, it's been fun!

30 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #conundrum

My final prompt. I hand over now to Paul @thedevilstuna with wishes of luck!
What would happen
if a Snake swallowed it's tail?
If a Slug had a shell
would you call it a Snail?
If our Knees bent opposing,
am I right in supposing,
a chair wouldn't do for our bottoms?
All these #conumdrums,
make our lives less humdrum,
what came first
the mouse or the egg?
#vss365
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The game practically overflowed with puzzles and the odd #conundrum. What kind of game like it didn’t have a wild variety of such tests of imagination and intelligence?

Rory enjoyed them, up to a point, so long as they weren’t ridiculously hard and too many of them in a short period.

#vss365
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How to keep a bunch of rogues and scoundrels working together without killing each other? Now that was a #conundrum for the ages, but Dylan did his best under tough conditions.

This was only one fast reaction force throughout the systems. He just had all the belligerent and cocky ones.

#vss365
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The process of creating alchemical concoctions involved a lot of words that Rory only vaguely understood to begin with & only understood a little better when he looked online. Such as #sublimate.

He knew it was about change, so why they didn’t say ‘change’, he couldn’t begin to understand.

#vss365
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#vss365 Their mistress was mercurial and oft given to #caprice. Her flights of fancy were legendary. After impaling the entirety of the brotherhood for their refusal to take a knee, she donated their bulging war chest to their starved kin. Then pledged allegiance to their women...
Dance with #capricious glee,
sing till your voice is hoarse,
celebrate your youth.
Tomorrow isn't far away,
aching bones,
cynicism, sadness
and moral decay.
Time is not your friend,
but a burden in disguise.
One day you're young and juicy,
next day, dry, bitter, but wise.
#vss365
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As he always expected when dealing with those in power, even for a small Faction, Dylan expected more than a little #caprice, changeable minds and political moves in spite of the circumstances.

He hadn’t seen any of that. Yet. They were, to a one, laser-focussed on beating The Enemy.

#vss365
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Midnight blue black tresses
Fall down her porcelain skin
With a twinkle of #caprice
In her pool green wet eyes
Was it all a dream she thinks
But she’ll never know
Coz those butterflies left
Along with their kisses
Each gravestone around her
Covered in mosses

#vss365
#poetry