Red & white tan inspiration..Ouch it's hot, even in the shade. 🔥
Happy Saturday #WritingCommunity

Behind these walls
Cracked plaster frowns its
Silent jaundiced judgment
The quietude of #solitude
Swaying of a single dingy bulb
Illuminates secrets
Better left in shadows
Forgotten detritus
From careless, callous hands
Echoes of lilting laughter
Strum mournful melodies

#vss365

I want to break something
Just for the noise
to echo
shatter the tight #band of silence
Displace the atoms
All the beauty dies
& only in our eyes the wounds remain
Scars, smell of fresh blood
nausea
I’m clumsy
Still so broke
in the face of death
#vss365 #prompt #WritingCommunity

University puts trigger warning on Beowulf for ‘violence, cruelty and monsters’, as well as blasphemy, defecation, alcohol abuse, symbols of evil, black magic, etc.
Maybe it's time to reacquaint myself with this classic independent.co.uk/independentpre…

Why fear alone?
you deprive yourself
I can't help but ask
as I sprawl on a damp chair
that tastes like rain & wine
feels like an old sack
I count pin satellites
instead of sheep
not wanting sleep
Skin covered in beauty
it could make it shed
An answer
in the tail of a falling star

shaking off memory
the confetti of blossom trees

Rachel - Taking a short writing break Booked

Double booked our seats on the train,
Trained our eyes on each other’s words,
Read to each other with our inner voices,
Words invited us between their covers,
Regaled us with their stories,
The storied exchanges of lovers in this moving picture,
this mobile library.

the child inside me helps me remember how to laugh out loud, love unconditionally and play without restraint

I stayed awake all night talking to you... I only wish you were here so you could hear my words

Who are 'our people'?
Throw up a ball,
see who catches.

Who speaks 'our language?'
Open your heart,
you will hear.

Where is 'our homeland'?
Let us be reborn,
and we are there.

#WritingCommunity #writing

'For years you kept your accent
in a box beneath the bed,
the lock rusted shut by hours of elocution
how now brown cow
the teacher’s ruler across your legs.'
'Homing' by Liz Berry, a very fine poet from the Black Country #KeepYourVoice

#WritingCommunity is great for writers. Is there an equivalent community here for bands that want, support, shares, to be signed by a label?

Any advice, tips, links would be welcome please.
#ThrashMetal #Metal #music

I've been having a love affair
He holds me in an eternal grip
I savour all he offers
Sometimes when I can't find a part of him
I study him afresh
discover new delights
there's always more
Though I've flirted with his elder Greek cousin
I always return to my lexicon.
#writing

August billboards in Tuscany. Important because they announce music & food festivals. For three summers they have been missing, only religious notices for the deceased were displayed. I'm happy the heartbeat of Italian life returns.
#thursdaymorning #writerslife #ItaliaViva

#vss365
She has joined my scissor and shadow sisters, cutting herself out of my life. She's become a #silhouette , void of features. A name on a dying family tree. I've already forgotten the details of our life together; the unforgivable things she said; her betrayal.

The man stood on the cliff, watched her lean #silhouette darken the sky.

The woman walked into the sea the way they said her mother did when the war was over.

The man called out her name. A songbird did the same. When the woman disappeared, the man ran like lightning.

#vss365