#BraveWrite #vss365 #tanka
#haiku #poetry #poem
#reprieve #purify
#clouds

sadness scrapes my bones
exposed marrow wreaks of words
unspoken reprieve
echoes of a howling child
still concealed in #clouds of fear

now crying alone
rewriting my memories
to purify stains of shame

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" #Purify me with fire!"

"It was just a snail sliding up your leg."

"Aaugh!"

#VSS365 #Sep28

Every day, the unicorn tries to #purify the horrible dragon.
"Did it work this time?" he asks, with deep amusement.
The unicorn frets. "I'm afraid not."
"Well, don't get sick of trying. I enjoy seeing you."
"To try is noble, even if fruitless. I like seeing you, too."
#vss365

How do you believe in God
But not in me
I stand before you in flesh that bleeds
You offer no #reprieve
I share your prayers
I wash my face in your church waters
#Purify my soul in the Chalice Well
You wash your hands of me
I will honor you and walk away
Mortal until and beyond the day I die
#vss365

An Election Can
Remove Impurities

Purify?
Unctuous
Rude
Imbeciles,
Fuck
Yourselves,
Please!
Until
Removed,
Incarcerated,
Fuck
Yourselves!

#tHartigan
#vss365 #purify

The End is Nigh

They want to purify US
Through Project 2025
Though we are born
Pure & vibrant & alive
Poisoned by their condition,
Just look how they glower
This ill-advised rendition
To keep white men in power

No longer do we fear
Their end truly is near

#vss365 #purify

Day 637: Woke up. Wrote a poem. Made some art. Pinned it to the Wall. #Purify #vss365

I should make a tag for fake product sales pitches.

More Tomorrow. 🌀 💾

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One pint of water
is quaffed in one swift motion.
Alcohol expelled?

#vss365 #micropoem #micropoetry #poetry #poetrycommunity
#writingcommunity
#blueskypoetry #emoetry #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt #purify

Each scratch, each wound
weeps as I slip beneath,
whimpers building to a
drowning bellow as I
#purify myself.

When I emerge,
still raw and
burning

I will wear the pain
for armor.

#vss365

To be an acolyte, one has to #purify one's mind. That's the first tenet: remove all wordly thoughts in order to meditate on the higher aspects of existence.
Luckily for me, there's no requirement to cleanse one's soul. Mine is as stained as they come.
I've found the perfect hiding place.

#vss365

#vss365

I wake, and from my window

see morning drift in like a half‑finished watercolor and

hear choirs of birds sing choruses
of hope and praise

all this serving to sanctify
today

and #purify the ache of
yesterdays

#vss365
The Priestess took me to the dais in the center of the sunken amphitheater. “To meet the Deity, one must be clean of spirit or the impurities will rip you apart.”

“So you want to #purify me? With what? Fire? Water?”

“Not those elements,” she whispered.

And I suddenly fell upwards.

we'll clean up our lives
and #purify by straining -
pulp left in the net

#vss365 #poetry #haiku

"Sholmes, the stage curtains are gone"

"Its the act of Geriarty, Hatson"

"Why?"

"He wants to #purify the theatre"

"By removing the curtains?"

"He said they were hiding bad acting, Hatson"
#vss365

Not waiting for something prettier
in the way supposed to be supreme.
Too much ache & consideration
for that. But not enough to make a smear
out of you, while you're some kind of spry
and they have both floating islands
and earthquake machines -
with a switch labeled purify.
#inkmine #vss365 #purify

In honor of spooky season, Nick decided to do some crypt spelunking. He hit the jackpot and found a nest of snoozing vampires. He snicked the trigger of his trusty flamethrower, and commenced to #purify them. Those bastards proved hard to kill, though…and they were pissed. Oops!

#vss365

#vss365 🍉 #purify 💦
To purify water I don't think
water specifications change
based on the baddest girl's
preference for physical eye
contact.

I had my appointment today
and filled my tall drinking
cup with filtered water.

That's as plain and as sane
as it gets. Purify now? Let's.

You know what can mitigate wildfires and droughts and floods? Beavers. They purify even the toxins we put into the watersheds and create habitat that all beings rely upon. Including us, human beings. We are all beings. The code of the water way is greater than greed.

#vss365 #purify #BeaverCON2026

Alone at the end of another sol
In the dome watching the sun set over red mountains
Surrounded by lush green plants of home
The calm steady whirrr of the machinery

That's life on Mars

We purify the air
We purify the water
But most importantly, we #purify our hearts

#vss365

#vss365
#purify

I’m skeptical of things that aren’t concrete
Wary of alternates that are offbeat
But with such a run of bad luck
I said “Anyway, what the duck!”
Had a witch cast a purify spell complete