I am the moon drift
Leading the wanderers
Who sleep during the day
I renounce your bitterness
As the sun denies the darkness
More than it is due
I reckon with lies
Dry tears and kiss smiles
I am the wolf howling
Just before dawn
Calling to its children
To sleep again
#vss365 #reckon #renounce

I formally #renounce
My prior dependence
On the good opiion of others
Such things are nice
And well-received
But no longer required
For my personal wellbeing
You have the option
To like me or not
It will not change
My opinion of me
Though it may affect
My opinion of you
#vss365

I #renounce the vows
my mother made
to have and to hold
til death do us part
my bed is made
I no longer want
to sleep in it

#vss365

never #renounce your dreams
for what else is there to live for?

#vss365
#poetry

The King said he was going to #renounce the throne. The Queen was supportive and nodded in agreement because the responsibility was making him ill.

When she left, the nurse gave him some medication. That stopped his claims about giving up the throne, like his son wanted.

#vss365 #writing #stories

My voters, declining to think,
Have forced my campaign to the brink
To prevail in this race
I #renounce - for my base -
World history and truth in a blink

#vss365
#limerick

#vss365 #renounce #poetry #BookSky #AmWriting

Lights splatter and paint the landscape.

Lives under dictation and education glow in the candlelight.

From the norm, lies we #renounce, the truth we must chase.

Across the brown paper, we write history and aspirations.

#vss365

#vss365 #renounce
they celebrate the saints
who showed them better worlds
by renouncing (so they think)
the attractions of this one

that's silly: they simply
didn't want anything
that was on offer
what's to renounce?

#vss365 #renounce

There I was a politician
At the last State election
Saying out loud
Over and over
That everyone should have
Houses, homes and shelter
We don't do that anymore
We leave park benches for the poor
If they're fortunate
Two years time
Aussie national voting
But
USA
I'd have to renounce

#vss365

Eye Vow

​I renounce the stone.
Let the tower
lose
its footing in the river,
let the heavy archway
drown in rose-wash
before evening arrives
to take it back.

​What stays solid is a lie.
Give me dissolution,
the cold violet shadow
eating the edge of what
we once thought real.

#renounce

The Party is the King

The King is the Party

Not mutually exclusive

Can't separate the two

But the pie is shrinking
cause the product is stinking
as once loyal subjects
#renounce and abandon
the sinking Ship Of Fools
til all that remains
is the lonely King sitting
on a tarnished throne

#vss365

All the man had to do was #renounce his faith in the demonic entity that, quite honestly, couldn’t care less whether the man died or not. He was nothing more than a teeny-tiny cog in a vast conspiratorial scheme among many demonic schemes.

That was the way of the game world, really.

#vss365

A priest of one of the Patrons had once caught Ilyna. He had prayed for her and begged her to #renounce her dastardly, thieving ways.

She had left him stripped and tied to his altar as she left with a sack of gold and robes for disguises.

She didn’t want redemption. She wanted excitement.

#vss365

Dylan would never #renounce his smuggling ways. Not ever. They were, for the moment, on temporary cessation, but he would go back. One day. After The War.

Just him and Magpie, thumbing a nose at authority, barely making enough to survive, living day to day.

But still flying. Flying free.

#vss365

late September #wind
even the reddest petal
must #renounce the stem

#HaikuDailyPrompt #vss365 #haiku #blueskypoets #PoetryInPictures #nature #garden #flowers #photography