‘I’m not sure the doctor gave me the best advice to stay #calm.’

‘Why? What did he recommend?’

‘He said I should drink two glasses of wine after a hot bath.’

‘That sounds reasonable.’

‘But I could barely drink the bath.’

#vss365’

stay calm everyone
nothing is under control
color outside lines

#vss365 #calm
#haiku #senryu
#senryusunday
#photography #nature
#eastcoastkin #autumn

“Thank God you’re always around when something stressful happens,” they say. “You’re so #calm in a crisis.”

The truth is, they’d be better off staying away from me. I am the crisis. But it’s their company that calms me down. #vss365

'You're too quiet & #calm, Pixie. You're plotting something!'
'Me? What an outrageous accusation, Gabe. I'm just quietly reading the local village mag while snacking on pickled slugs.'
Snatch!
'Hey, give me back the mag.'
'I knew it, Pixie!'
'Relax. It's only your diary.'
#vss365

in the midst of chaos
you are my #calm

#vss365
#poetry

Swords broke the air's smug pressure.

"Wait!" The Princess bellowed.

A #calm sat between warring factions. Her #siren cry cut through evil intensions.

Her hands did not #harbour fear and embraced the one she loved.

Swords lowered.

All men understood it.

It was not a #sin to love.

#vss365

Stay calm and cat on.

#vss365 #calm

#vss365 #calm #poem #writing #vsshorror #speculative_scifi #AI #vss #paragon #deception

~ Andy ~

Sunday morning
at the end of festival week:
the town is pretty calm
except for the brum, brum of engines
from three dozen agricultural vehicles
here for the tractor show
who don't care that it's raining
#vss365 #calm

"I am not #calm. I am petrified. We are in a sublevel, three stories down. The door is blocked and the roof is cracked. Likelihood of us dying is high, based on what we know, but Piter is out there. I hope he would not allow me to drown." #vss365

Elliot's mouth tightened and his eyes were larger. "How do you do that? Stay #calm when we are about to drown like rats?" Uller's hand stopped mid movement and he looked at the grape between his fingers, and smiled before eating it. #vss365

surface unbroken
reflecting a visage
#calm and serious
one you could trust
that neighbour look
a façade accepted
behaviour expected
smile like a cloak
greeting as a lockpick
#vss365

#vss365 #poetry #WritingCommunity #BookSky

stay #calm

it might not work,
none of it might,
but there's a small, slight, thin chance
and that's what you'll fit yourself into,
that's where you'll live
at the edge of maybe, at the brink of might

(Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with a Calm, c. 1651)

just another war
famine and strife, nothing new
#calm out of boredom
#vss365

Where I
Long,

My lips
Held tight
Your name

Where I
Find calm

My body
Held on
To the
Letters of
Your name

Where I
Find heart,

My inside
Scream in
Your name
#vss365 #calm

She goes
On her
Twinkle toes

She gets it
With her
Scalled tail,

Her's
And
The Captain's
Kippers takes
A Mermaids hit

Candle light,
And Luna fish
Calm seas
Bring in
The ship's
Love tonight.
#vss365 #calm