100,000 words
a large chunk of my life
bound to
100,000 words

all to win
just 3 letters
recorded
after my name

nearly there
I feel #dead

just one last...

talking of #dead

the dreaded
flat
dead
computer battery

panic stations

our #bravery
to live on
depends on

an immediate
recharge

#vss365

"A person becomes honorable when suffering gives the person every excuse to fail and yet the person still chooses to stand."

#Stoic #Honor #Grace #GraceUnderFire #Endurance #Endure #EmbraceDiscomfort #Bravery #Transcendence #TranscendingFear #TranscendingPain #TranscendingTemptation

#vss365 haiku
prompt is #bravery

if it hurts this much,
there is more bravery in
leaving than staying.

#Dead perches at the party with moonlight in hand,
He counts each bright chuckle like grains of white sand,
When bravely they glimmer,
He's cataloguing the shimmer—
Then smiles," #Bravery 's debt is delight's last demand."
#vss365

I salute my father's flag-draped casket. When the officer pins a medal for bravery to my shirt, I ask: "Is it my daddy's?"
"No, son. Yours."

#vss365 #vss #bravery

Her #bravery, making a cup of tea for herself and sipping in on the porch.

#vss365

What is bravery anyway
But a refusal to give up
A reluctance to accept what feels wrong
To charge into the unknown
Afraid but unyielding
Eager to discover new things
Longing for change
In spite of the discomfort
To carve out a life
That feels more suitable

#vss365
#bravery
#poetry

Onward

Every day
I dip a toe back in
In spite of the chill
For I learn to bear ills
Never cognizant of #bravery.

#vss365
#poetry
#skywriting

when tossed #crumbs
in place of encouragement
it may be an indication it's time to let go

i can testify having lived through
a recent disappointment
being shut out instead of offered a leg up

#bravery showed me the way

#thingstowriteabout #vss365 #poetry
#writing #positivity

"Gosh, Captain Zoom, I wish I had your superpowers! And your bravery!"

"Jimmy, #bravery isn't outrunning a speeding bullet and crime-fighting in a costume. It's pushing on even when you're scared."

"What scares you, Captain Zoom?"

He thought. Shuddered.

"Butterflies."
#vss365

Stiff upper lip
But the tear
still drips
One streak
Three strikes
you're up
In front of all
Tall standing
Far as three eyes see
That's that
Swing
#bravery

#vss365 #writingcommunity #halfbadpoetry #take2

My daughter earned her reputation for #bravery. While other children conquered playgrounds, she was trained to lead an army. Though I love her courage, I hate the circumstances that made it shine. I would've gladly traded all her fame and military skill for her to have a life of peace.

#vss365

we've fallen prey
due to
the decline of democracy

given false hope
to #forsake our #bravery

isn't there a positive way
to gain that power back

No Kings Day
hopefully is the answer
to keeping us on track

#vss365 #inkMine #poetry

#patriotic #bravery

Bravery ?
COWARD...

Tell me,
Without
Telling me

Go on,
Tell me
You
Wicked
Scalled
Thief

TELL ME,
Again

In your
Cryptic
Dragon's
Trick
#vss365 #bravery

war for old white men
over rated bravery
the coward lived on

#vss365 prompt #bravery huh? #haiku P.s. #inktober prompt #lady... sort of all in one because, burning daylight and have to get back to work.

standing up
standing out
speaking.

to do right,
having once done wrong.

to ever be better:
all of us,
having once been our worst,
(or worse,
if our worst is yet to come,)
to believe we can still do any good,
to believe that we should,

that takes #bravery.
be brave,
even if you've been bad
#vss365

#vss365 #poetry #prompt #bravery

#vss365 Sir Robert—scourge of timid field mice, and champion of maidens tormented by dragonflies—faced a great peril. On a damp, mossy stone sat an unblinking newt with the cold-blooded arrogance of a minor deity. It was 3 inches of raw, orange-spotted terror. Robert felt his #bravery slipping away.