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Ruth Suckow Memorial Library in Earlville, Iowa. September 20, 2023.

Through the time portal to an era when the sphinx still sported a nose Thank you all once again for taking part in this week's #scifaikusaturday and #fantaiku festivities Hope you enjoyed yourselves and please come again #fantasycommunity #scificommunity #poetrylovers #haiku

#vss365 #Distant #Prompt You arrived
like perfume in old libraries,
teaching solitude its elegance. I wore my undoing
with the poise of heirloom silk;
you called it devotion. Even distant,
you became the absence I cherished most—
the name my heart whispered to survive.

'Pixie, you're incorrigible. The local witches coven is up in arms at the googly eyes you stuck on their broomsticks. I never would have behaved like that when I was young.' 'Really, Gabe?' Giggle. 'Back in the #distant mammoth & sabre tooth tiger days?' 'What?! Hmph!' #vss365

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#vss365 I heard the Knicks won the series If this is the quietus of my life I accept it Joy feels so distant And so close I would die happy today And I don't even like basketball

There were many in Almoral who thought declining enrollment in the school district was a problem for the distant future. But voices were growing which were saying things needed to be put in place now to soften the blow. #vss365

#distant star gleams soft whispers secrets through the void faint glow guides my dreams #vss365 #haiku #3linespoem #micropoetry

i've watched ten thousand sunsets across the wide South China Sea nature's incandescent needlework embroidering night's tapestry now just fading memories of a #distant reverie yet the warmth of those evenings will always remain with me #vss365 ~11,500 sunsets, all photos my own

Things will be better someday.

Photos from Dubuque. A bit of downtown looking south.

Photos from Dubuque. A bit of downtown looking north.

Hope you had a nice Sunday.

I keep my #distance from big adventures. There's nothing in this world that tempts me to chase it. I find comfort in the ordinary. Soft socks in winter. My cat purring next to my ear. A cup of breakfast tea. I want moments that ask nothing more than being lived. #vss365

#vss365 Proof Against Oblivion ⋆ The milk spoils inside the hourglass surrender leaning against the threshold I think of all the things that refuse conclusion the names we bury in the mouth so they can keep breathing Behind the charcoal-tin ashes of thunder– a locked piano dragged out to sea still playing the distant shape of a song the sun is late as if heaven forgot the address yet remembered the ache trying to confess through the openings between one ending and the next reminding the darkness it was never the whole story ⋆

Slow deep breaths one day at a time, maybe one day is unwieldy, dividing into neat sections to help me through.. Slow deep breaths one section at a time, I got this, my weary feet still carry dust of miles.. Slow deep breaths I'm gently whispering to the universe, I got this..

The day slows while we sit together in our last hour before you head for customs. I feel the #quietus settling over the moment. I try to hold it in place, but it slips away. Soon the hours apart turn into days, weeks, months as we live on plans to see each other again. #vss365

I hope you have a good tomorrow. Take care and stay safe. Night, everyone.

She steps thro’ colour & light, where sunsets learn to breathe & rivers forget their names. A heart floats like a quiet revolution b/w worlds. In her silence, even chaos learns harmony. Beauty isn’t seen—it is felt, & it changes everything. #bionicanadian @bionicanadian

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