#vss365
I spent four years as a bank clerk in the 60s, so one of my super-powers is the ability to #reckon up a column of figures without a calculator.

A few years after the bombs fell, we lost all track of the calendar and began to #reckon time differently in the shelter. When someone died, we’d count the days in their name as a memorial and say, “Today is the fourth day of Nikolai. This is the third week of Rachel.”

#vss365 #microfiction

#vss365 #reckon
how do we know where we are
when we cannot see sun or star
we tend to use dead reckoning: that presupposes
we're still on course but since our noses
are constantly leading us quite far astray
we'll end up in Antarctica that way.

Friday! What a day too. Spent, but will bounce back. Lol #vss365 #haiku

The truth will #reckon
Real self will emerge again
Phoenix will fly

#vss365 #Reckon

I reckon it's 'bout time to turn the page
Time is slowing down, I'm beginning to age
Been holding on, hoping you'd say goodbye
Time to face the facts; who I loved was a lie

I taste souls to assess them. These two look so plain. A couple and a car crash. How clichè. She tastes of home made cookies. He tastes of sad chocolate birthday cake. I #reckon their value against each other. Chocolate birthday cake is terrified, and he should be. Those awful things he did.
#vss365

#vss365
#Prompt
#Reckon

charlatan

you now stand
where I once stood
can you reconcile
your present with my past?
I reckon that you shall not.

09-25-2026

#Reckon you will stay?
A question left hanging there
Silence tells me all
#vss365 #haiku #poetry

#vss365
"She's going to bottle it." Declan stared at the woman on the podium pityingly.
"You #reckon?" Thos didn't look at the wretched man.
"Even before she wouldn't have stood a chance, but now?"
"Perhaps you underestimate her. Perhaps you can't stand that they are listening to her, not you."

A Reckoning of Incomprehensible Indifference

𝙰𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚐𝚘𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚙 
𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚊𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚍𝚘𝚐
𝚃𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚜𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚠𝚒𝚌𝚑

#Haiku #HaiQ #VSS365 #Reckon

𝑮𝒐𝒅 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒌𝒐𝒏
𝑰𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌
𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒔

#Haiku #HaiQ #VSS365 #Reckon

"Welp, my bed beckons."
"I #reckon it's about time for us to be headin home then."
"Unless you'd rather to join me in my bed. It's a lil bit narrow, but if we squeeze real tight, I'm sure all 4 of you will fit just fine."
"Yep. Time for us to go."

#vss365

i've walked alone with fear at my side
after one act of kindness caused me to hide

i #reckon sometimes we must decide
even if it hurts our pride

so i stepped forward & went beyond
now i'm walking with bravery

#vss365 #poetry #lyrics #bravery

I used to say, "I reckon..." so easily. Before the Reckoning became real. Before "I reckon" summoned forces that, to tell the truth (a wise thing these days), we'd never reckoned on. I never figured I'd #reckon again, after that first series of events. #vss365 (reckon)

"I #reckon it'll take an hour," he said looking at her.

She furrowed her brow.

"Do you think it'll take longer?"

She howled. Then he howled back. The werewolf potion worked faster than he had expected.

#vss365 #writing #stories

“Montor, our latest acquisition is our most impressive specimen...after you, of course. Our scientists tell me she has the genetic makeup of a pureblood Sotkari Ta like you and Kaya. She could become a force to be #reckon-ed with and an extraordinary weapon for us"

#vss365
#Mina

i #reckon,
my love,
that if you get too close
i will unravel
just as you will
in the threads that weave us
together

and in the havoc
we create chaos

#vss365 #shortpoetry #lovepoetry #poetry #original #darkacademia