Having seen too much & remembering far too often, moments of misdeeds are seared into mind & flesh.

Wishing to be a #palimpsest. Scraped clean & washed. Purified from the life he never wished to live.

#vss365
#prompts
#adhdwriters

"Bren! I found a new word ta describe ma-self!" Riz said excitedly.
"Chaos incarnate? Twat-prick?" I said trying to sleep.
"No, #palimpsest! When new is put ova old!"
"So you're admitting your old?"
"Ya jus jealous ya won't look like me afta a billion years!"
#vss365 #riztherogue

"Look Sholmes,museum's precious painting is missing"

"Check the curator's notes,Hatson"

"They're overwritten"

"Ah…Geriarty's #palimpsest"

"How do you know?"

"He corrected the curator's spelling"

"During a crime?"

"He sees crime as a tutoring opportunity, mate"
#vss365

A #palimpsest life
Past memories rewritten
Old scars built over
#vss365 #haiku #poetry

Battered and scarred by water knives.

Memories buried below the moisture.

Washed away, it became a #palimpsest hiding the meaning after the progenitors left.

It held those secrets even as new conquerers took over.

Ghosts haunted that home on rainy days.

#vss365

Dylan had little time to read the ultra-secret orders sent, for his eyes only, through heavily encrypted data bursts.

Like a technological #palimpsest, the entire tablet roll would rest completely as soon as the time limit was reached.

He didn’t like that, but fully understood why.

#vss365

Rory was tasked with finding the lost #palimpsest of Patagrucia the Undeservedly Disliked, and was a little disappointed with what he found.

Not a great and terrible tome, but a shabby, empty book that looked like it was about ready for the pages to be left on a hook in the privy.

#vss365

#vss365
#Palimpsest
#Poetry

#vss365 #Literature

Ebeneezer Scrooge from Dicken‘s “A Christmas Carol” is essentially a #palimpsest character.

He is because by the end of the tale we see him as the lonely boy, the loving man, the miserly man and the wise old man - with each layer leading to the next.

“Can you forgive me?”

#vss365
A country's history is not a #palimpsest
to be erased on the whim of a dictator
and rewritten to glorify his tainted image.

No mere palimpsest
history revealed writ large
this was the real deal
to reuse this splendid piece
would be total tragedy

#vss365
#palimpsest
#Tanka
#Poetry
#History

#Writing #Time 

Each one of our honest, true and from the heart #vss365 posts is a #palimpsest.

Each is because we evolve as writers.

And those who have read us carefully can see in our daily posts what we were and what we are becoming - as writers, and perhaps, as persons. 

She sat in the seat that had been hers for over 30 years, holding a balllon.

The blackboard’s smudges reminded her of years of service.

She lifted the eraser one last time. So much history on the #palimpsest’s surface that would now just live on in her memories. #vss365

Written in the stars, it’s true,
Yet stars shift their view.
Waxing moon-bound energies.
North Node destinies.
Mercury-tongued,
No longer sharp.
Cupid draws his bow,
Gentler now his art.
Old wounds,
#Adroitly turned to scars.
Softened into #palimpsest,
Reaching for a brighter start.

~rev
#vss365

when I hit my head
pain washed through my brain. now my
life is #palimpsest

#vss365 #poetry #senryu

"You ever find our what was originally written in that #palimpsest of yours?"
"Unfortunately yes."
"How do you mean?"
"It was a contract of marriage."
"But isn't that fascinating?"
"Not so much fascinating as binding. I am now wed to the spirit of the girl whose father wrote the contract."

#vss365