She founded The #Penultimate Philosophy.

Search for it. You will get zero hits. Vestiges of it can be found in the Tang Ping culture of China. But, it went beyond 'lying flat'.

It was anathema to governments and corporations.

She was erased--the ultimate recognition.

#vss365

August returns again, and I am still dreaming of being pulled into the fire. Life once held me softly in its palm, now I am a memory. I understand the want. I even understand the burn that comes with autumn. I am learning to hold onto this life that won’t hold on to me.

When I woke up
the solitary flame was flickering casting ethereal shadows upon the stained glass window
Soft golden whispers of sunrise warmed the somber sky into pastel peach
Lurking behind
the imposing antique door
a suffocating silence
Music in me has died..
#FromOneLine

sunset pas seul
but for the gulls
my pink ballerinas

#vss365

a ballerina
by the grace of restored youth
is dancing again

#vss365 #haiku #ballerina
(📸 Kharchenko_irina7)

Sometimes life comes at you
Like an ardent avalanche
Yet in abject adoration
You stand stoically staring
As you think of the flakes
Mimicking a barbaric ballerina
Moving forward to devour
With both beauty and danger

#vss365

A good time for a gentle stroll
Quiet side streets peacefully lead
thru this abandoned Sunday morn

#vss365 #turningthephrase

Ill fitted
Penultimate feelings,
Like a thousand doors ago
Has yet to begin~
For when
Is there not
Enough time to stay
And lend an ear?
Who even are we then..
Within,

#poetry #MentalHealthAwarenes

Pic Charlie Clift

A disco ball sun glitters
the water, waist deep
in this otherworld, wisps of fish
display choreographed #shenanigans
around me, a refreshing calm
pours over my ache
like cool mint tea
I become
a continuum of the sky-sea.

#vss365

She danced gracefully
and with the love she had in her,
she was the best #ballerina
So modest, humble and disciplined
that she created magic
with her dance in every note of Beethoven's symphony.
She wove all her feelings into ballet.

#vss365

Our #ballerina
Graces otherworldly stages
When the midnight bell
Tolls
Our sorrow hearts.

#vss365
#forscott

I sing
don’t I
(not pop-star fashion sing
but write-a-poem sing)
as it pleases me -
if it pleases you too
it makes one company-happy

but sing as it comes
as it bids
sacred, profane or none
as it pleases the Voice within
links one to the other
and commands: Now, this
#poetry

Lithe like a ballerina
in a trance-like sway

she swirls in her
own world on life's stage

#vss365
#ballerina
#micropoetry
#poem
#poetsoftwitter
#WritingCommunity

I'm a white feather
tumbling
on the wind

spinning thru sky
drifting like snow
over pine forests

swept into
a murmuration
I sway from
wing to wing
a #ballerina
pirouetting

far below
Northumberlandia
watches my flight
of freedom in envy

#Vss365

i’d wrap the moon
in starlight for you

The penultimate song
the second last leaf

the intransigent island
the loving reef

the lyrics of which
were scattered to sprout

those saplings of love
on the trunk of doubt

that penultimate song
had notes of relief

for a moment eternal
for an eon brief.

#vss365

She was easy to break, bones cracking with monosyllabic snaps.
She folded beautifully, still graceful, swan-like, flowing like water as he tipped her into the river.
His first #ballerina ... but more importantly - he rummaged in her bag - his first pair of ballet shoes.

#vss365

#FromOneLine 295
#vss365
When I woke up
My dreams sleep
But the stair of Moon
Lost my behind, morn,
Noon and
Leafy childhood,
Stainless past has never been
Won't be ever,
Ahead of fortunate time, tide and your crazy smile, penultimate,
©️

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