,and we still #reckon
with 'good,' and 'fair,' and 'equal'
as all craven do.
#vss365 #prompt #poetry

#vss365 #reckon

A reckoning.
Some will be counted.
Some will be counted out.

In the last hour before dawn

A dream awakens

Half-way between hope and dread

Reckoning the truth

With a swollen heart #vss365 #reckon

They’d quarried Cald Fell since 1802. Each March the clerks #reckon up with tonnage out, royalties paid, all square. This year a second ledger, on cut vellum, appeared in the stone. It tallied the same 224 years from the other side. The last column was headed OWED. The units weren’t tonnes. #vss365

I #reckon I
Should reckon with “I”
“I” can definitely be wrong
And though “I” may long
To hold importance
What “I” may want
Holds no accordance
With the impersonality
Of truth

#vss365
#poetry
#BlackSkyRelay

#vss365 #haiku
#Reckon their masks
of hypocrisy to hide misfortune
lets us reveal truth.

(Likely just in Time)
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'A Visit From A Vampyre...'

#vss365 #reckon #poetry

I #reckon it rains
like cats and dogs, rats and nests
illegal lodgers
#vss365 #haiku

Poets ledger
Adds up
To nothing
Only columns
Flush with words
And doodles
Nickels found
Spent too soon
Random coffee
With a stranger
Balance just
Something lost
Along with dimes
And days
A reckoning waits
Somewhere sadly

Scribbler
Walks away
Without a care
Looking for a reason

#poetry
#reckon

Existing
In between
All the minutes
Of a day

Dodging hours
On their approach
As if they might
Be dangerous

Glancing often
Toward a sky
That holds
A truer time

Dark clouds
Haunting the horizon
On the way
To a reckoning

#poetry
#writing
#reckon

'I #reckon, Gabe, with a few months training, & copious supplies, I could win the world record for brownie eating.'
'Pixie, if this is your way of telling me you've already eaten all your brownies, tough. I'm not buying more.'
'...I ate yours too.'
'PIXIE!'
#vss365

“Close your eyes & stand up when you #reckon an hour’s passed,” said the teacher.

Soon my peers’ chairs were scraping as they stood. I laughed to myself. They were way off!

When I got to my feet they’d all gone.

“The old lady woke up!” came an unfamiliar child’s voice. #vss365

Often, when I asked my parents if I might do a thing, they would answer with "I #reckon." I came to learn this meant "yes" with qualifications and stipulations, and the understanding it could be revoked as new information surfaced, no matter how much I protested.
#vss365

Fearless young men and women
in school uniforms as capes
heroes from ordinary homes
stood against enemies within

They had no sabres to wield,
no bayonet strength,
yet stood against Goliaths might.

By Jove!
the world will #reckon
how they won with pickaxe, shovel and gun.

~rev
#vss365

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My reckoning keeps living.

It wanders off
the course I've set,
drawn by promises
of
clarifying vistas,
clearwater wells,
metaphorical weapons
stash belaying fearsome foes.

My reckoning is not dead.

I must check the map.

#vss365 #reckon

“Welcome to Orbital Ring 2, folks! I’m June, your Fun Director while you’re here with us. I #reckon y’all are hungry.”
“Reckon?” Bobby whispered. “Six grand, she’s guessing.”
“Behave, Robert,” Ruth said.
“I want certainty.”
“You married me after three dates.”
“You had rent control.”

#vss365 #scifi

#Reckon knocked once at everyone's door,
In a coat sewn of ledgers and weathered old maps from a store.
His hair threaded with shavings; his fingers clicked beads;
One eye was a careful clock that ticked maybes and needs,
The other a warm, sharp compass that found what I'd hidden before. #vss365