Feed a fever,
starve a cold;
#nurture an ague
from malarial marsh mould.

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even ghosts #nurture their shadows
how else could they slip discreetly
through cracks in dilapidating walls

#vss365 #poetry

prized flowers
drink in the energy
of spring rains

and weeds
multiply

and grass
outruns mowers

and the gardener

feels

spring pains

the #nurture
inherent
in nature
never
discriminates

#vss365 #poetry

express emotions
#nurture the soul
address the heart
but by all means
practice self-control

#vss365 #poetry

Days end, feet up, gin.... mmmm #vss365 #haiku

Moment to #nurture
Indulge in each sensation
Let her kiss linger

I assembled friendship in a factory
From machined parts
Quality control
Stamped, sealed, approved.

But she grew it through soft warm seasons
And bitter cold winters
I watched her #nurture it through hard times
Cultivate that rare beautiful blossom

And hand it to me.

#vss365

Imagine

Imagine
Just for a moment
That we, going forward, collectively,
Choose to nurture one another
Rather than push each other away
What a world it would be
For every single you and me

#tHartigan
#vss365 #nurture

Grieving over gold,
old Silas stayed weaving flax
to #nurture a child.

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Tending creates blooms.
It’s not nature v nurture.
Mother Earth does both.

#vss365 #haiku #nurture

Having torn out my heart she proceeded to step away and do the one thing I am incapable of: connection.

I watched her greeting, smiling, shaking hands. She treated everyone with the precise amount of respect and deference to ensure their comfort.

Except me.

She deserved my hate.

#vss365 #nurture

"Riz, I found these red books. Care to explain why there's names in there? Including mine?" I demanded.
"Dwarves taught me ta #nurture ma grudges, so I started writin everythin down."
"You have twenty five books!"
"Well, ya been pissin me off lately!"
#vss365 #riztherogue

Day nine of attempting orgasmic tantra.

I water it like a bonsai, hypothetically speaking.

I've abstained from porn, and I'm definitely not thinking about the woman who works in the local Greggs.

Sting did seven hours, or so I'm told.

I #nurture it anyway.

My small, angry trouser tent.
#VSS365

#nurture your skill
but how
my skills, autopoeisis
stigmergy
appear like wind
unguided
control just kills
spontaneity
words come to me
unbidden
thesaurus, last resort
foreigner
my skills like weeds
#vss365

…so that they’d learn later, regretfully much later, why it was important to hurt and to hurt each other…when they’d finally shed all that they #nurture -d & wore…or bore, but regretfully again, bare before none but themselves.
Of a lightness.
Minus lightning.
#Reckon -ing. Barely.
#vss365
#Oulens

she packed her belongings in one bag
grabbed her child
and her dog

left her world behind

she was the nurturing kind
made a choice
that this child's life
would be different
than her own
#nurture #poem #vss365
photocredit~ nienke.b

Bring the diggers over here, Brit shouted. We need to find the source of these lights. The bodies were on their way to the morgue, and Brit drove back to the station stopping off at #Nurture Yourself for coffee on the way. Brit hoped the lights would give them an answer #vss365

#vss365

#nurture ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️