"ain't all el niño"

Long branches
whip in wind's
sweep, bend
but do not break.

Long leaf pines
stay, rooted in
place.

Cement churned to
shrapnel, shards
measured in pounds.

We wait
in the roots,
no walls left.

Calm collected
in the eye, till
even that falls
to hurricane's wake.

#Vss365 | #Calm

She gingerly stepped around the tide pools to her secret seat beyond the caves and sat, head resting against the worn stone.

Her eyes closed and breathing slowed as waves trickled onto the ocean shelf. Soon it would be time to return to the day’s stressors, but for now, she was #calm. #vss365

Why does anyone think saying "Calm down" is a good way to actually #calm anyone down?

In the history of your entire life, has this ever once worked on you?

Yeah, me neither.

#vss365

And your legs too would quake upon the scaffold.
Shouldn’t that be enough
Not to turn it into a spectacle?

#quake
#vss365

Hunter’s moon
A sense of calm beckons
As night descends

#haiku #haïku #haikupoetscommunity #haikupoem #haikupoet #haikucommunity #poem #poet #poetry #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haikufeels #DailyHaikuPrompt #vss365

momentary #calm ~ the leaves hold their form as colour turns to shadow

#vss365 #monoku #PoetryInPictures #BlueSky #photography

calm
as a gentle rain
cemetery grey
the pulse slows
contentment
is not the same drug
as happiness
but I may find it
when snow finally
falls on cedars

#vss365

#Vss365
#Poetry
#Micropoetry

#vss365 #calm #hahiku

the words enveloped
sinking into honey lemonade
die or saved in the calm

#blueskypoets #bssnet

Yesterday's children
Still climbing fences

Left
At the start,
Tomorrow's child
Pinched and
Lynched

Yesterday's child,
Leaving a
Nasty quake

Set them free,
For Heaven's
Sake...
#vss365 #quake

Swords broke the air's smug pressure.

"Wait!" The Princess bellowed.

A #calm sat between warring factions. Her #siren cry cut through evil intensions.

Her hands did not #harbour fear and embraced the one she loved.

Swords lowered.

All men understood it.

It was not a #sin to love.

#vss365

In troubled times
It’s easy to feel marooned
Lost beneath starry skies
Becalmed

In good times
It’s easy to forget courage
Such a small bright thing

Like the beat of butterfly wings
Or a heart unwavering

#vss365 #inkMine #OurPoetryX
#poetsofbluesky #poetrysky
#EastCoastKin #ECK #poem
🎨Nolde

i think of you
i am calm

i think of you
i am torrent

i think of you
i am content

i think of you
i am longing

i think of you
i am inspired

i think of you
i am wordless

i think of you
thinking of me
and i am fire

i think of you
all the f***ing time

#vss365
#calm

#vss365

#calm is
a temporary state

it has to be

if humans were
always calm

we’d be extinct

unleashing
yesterdays #calming words

to quell
todays storm brewing

#vss365 #writing

I dreamed I was in a room whose walls were lined with mirrors.

Each mirror showed a different version of me.

I saw happy me, sad me, furious me and #calm me. There were many, many more.

I knew I would have to eventually choose one to take into the day.

I chose #vss365 me and wrote this.

Sunday morning view
the calm fills the space between
one thought and the next

#vss365 #calm #haiku #blueskypoets #seaside #photography

dances
with
the mirror
of loneliness

her #calming
shield of protection

#vss365 #poetry

love is the quake
that rearranges
your ranges
leaving canyons
where silence once stood

#Vss365 #Quake
#PoetryCommunity
#Photography
#Nature
#Poetry
#ECK

my 📷