David Shaw retweeted
the moon floats
in a puddle
i step around it
as though anything beautiful
could be kept whole
by being careful
an illusion
but my shoes stay dry
#vss365
David Shaw retweeted
Love you till the very end.
But tribe broke our limits,
Our indifferent was know cos our colour weren't same.
Laughs to when they taught we won't last,
But now we stand together to the very last.
Love they said,
Meets you in the strangest place.
#vss365
Kene Lyon
#salute
David Shaw retweeted
the soft fur
of complicit hearts
how funny inside
each one hears
and harkens to
the echo
of a howling wolf
#vss365
David Shaw retweeted
#vss365 #Illusion
(日本語版は下に)
Mid-Journey——
mist lay low over the harbor.
Across the dark water,
a little town glimmered
with windows of amber light.
A kettle sang behind one window.
Someone called a name.
A woman reached into the darkness
to pass a loaf of bread
to hands waiting next door.
I stood upon the quay,
imagining a winter evening
when I would return
and find those windows glowing still.
But at dawn,
the first house began to move.
Then a second,
then all the others.
As the mist lifted,
there were no streets beneath the lights——
only fishing boats
moored together for a single night,
their ropes trembling in the morning wind.
The illusion scattered
toward a dozen separate horizons.
And where the town had floated,
one small ripple crossed the water
from where one window had shone
to where another had been.
旅の途上の港には、低く霧が垂れ込めていました。暗い水面の向こうでは、小さな町が琥珀色の窓明かりをともして、かすかに輝いていました。
一つの窓の奥では、やかんが歌うように音を立てていました。誰かが誰かの名前を呼んでいました。一人の女性が暗がりに手を伸ばし、隣で待っている誰かの手にパンを渡していました。
旅人は埠頭に立ち、いつか冬の夕暮れにこの町へ帰ってきて、変わらず輝くあの窓明かりを見つける自分の姿を思い描いていました。
ところが夜が明けると、最初の一軒が動き始めました。続いてもう一軒。そして、ほかの家々も次々に動き始めたのです。
霧が晴れていくにつれ、明かりの下には道などなかったことがわかりました。そこにあったのは、一夜だけ寄り添って停泊していた漁船たちでした。その係留索が、朝の風に小さく震えていました。
幻想の町は、いくつもの異なる水平線へと散っていきました。
そして、かつて町が浮かんでいた場所では、小さなさざ波が一つ、かつて一つの窓が輝いていた場所から、もう一つの窓があった場所へと、静かに水面を渡っていきました。
David Shaw retweeted
#vss365 #prompt #illusion #haibun #haiku
The city at midnight becomes a theater of ghosts. Neon signs bleed into the heavy fog, stretching their neon blues and hot pinks into glowing ribbons that hover over the empty pavement. Footsteps echo, sounding closer than they are, making me turn to catch a glimpse of someone who isn't there. We spend our lives building heavy structures out of brick and bone, yet an #illusion is all it takes to dissolve the world we think we know into thin air.
Neon through the fog
World of shadows shifts and fades-
Truth hides in the gray.
David Shaw retweeted
#foxprose @FoxProse #poetry
Faded photos start to wake
With the promises we’d make
A gentle blush of dusty gold
A tender story to be told
The morning sun dispels the gloom
Your seductive #colour_slowly_blooms
Nostalgic light upon the street
Makes a faded world look honey sweet
David Shaw retweeted
'Really, Gabe? THAT gives you the same #exhilaration as I get waiting to see if a prank has worked?'
'A perfectly dotted i, a correctly crossed t... pure satisfaction, Pixie. Rules, reports, paperwork... PIXIE! Are you listening?'
'Sorry. I nodded off at "perfectly".'
#vss365
Nests of green nurtured in oppressed minds.
Wind sped up with the coming decree.
#Exhilaration expected at the royal procession.
He called for heads but hot were the thoughts of rebellion.
#vss365
I sat with Peter for what felt like a lifetime. Most people he said find their first day #exhilarating, I’m confused why so hesitant?
Always been afraid of heights I whispered.
You’ll be fine.
That’s what Dave said and look at me now.
But my dear, now you’ve got wings #vss365
David Shaw retweeted
at first, #exhilaration,
then routine,
then both serenely banal and
excruciatingly uncomfortable,
then, alas - exhaustion, here
in the darkness, of this
twittering world
#vss365
#poetry
ts eliot
David Shaw retweeted
#vss365 #poetry-dark
My loyal obsidian cauldron bubbles
As the midnight wind
Catches my tattered velveteen cloak
As bitter nightshade stains
My fingers pitch black
I leap into the howling sky
On wood splintered
Tasting the dark into my lungs
In cackling wild #exhilaration
David Shaw retweeted
"You're buying a lot of cheese there, Bren. Has Riz invited a gang of mice to crash at your place again?" Valarie asked me.
"No, he's just got a #ravenous hunger for cheese at the moment."
"Maybe he learned he's part mouse."
"No, I think he's mostly twat."
#vss365 #riztherogue






















