A selection of writing from February. More of my short-form writing can be found on Bluesky.
Prompt: Knowingly (vss365)
She smiled, knowingly
But he’d never seen her smile
Any other way
Prompt: Beastly (vss365)
Our mediated human hopes and dreams,
Infested with abstraction and decay.
Enshittifying all until it seems,
That life is dopamine without delay.
In base indulgence do we rut and weep,
Then serve our beastly brain another taste,
And incrementally, excuses creep,
To abrogate volition in this waste.
And yet in these contortions is there cause,
To recognise a fluttering of hope—
We risk these realms, indulging in our flaws
To help more noble inclinations cope.
To find, beside the venal and the vain,
Those other seekers, striving for the same.
Prompt: Soul (vss365)
You see, she said
it isn’t right
to bifurcate the whole
to denigrate the physical
and elevate the soul;
You see, she said
with eyeballs and receptors
and a brain—
and every revelation
is complicit with the same:
Your self
your only
frame
Prompt: Ghost (vss365)
A writer
without writing
is a haunt
without its ghost
And when the words
are reticent
is when
they’re needed most
So
Write
Prompt: Lambent (vss365)
This sullen flame
which smoulders
imperceptibly alight
offers lambent
liberties to those
purveyors of the night
Its potential is
unbounded
though it sputters
in the dark
Conflagration
only checked
by symbiosis
with the spark
Prompt: Wound (vss365)
What doesn’t kill you
may make you longer
but I long to
rewind—
before these wounds
wound merciless
around your life
to extricate scar
from skin—
to let you shine
again
Prompt: Bouncy (vss365)
What goes up, they say
must then come down—
but you
transcend such
grave assent
You buoy, you bounce
where others frown
and mountains fill
the vales you rent
Prompt: Mystified (vss365)
Inside the box
you’ll see a sun
behind it shines
another one;
Beyond the suns
a mirrored face
that screams into
the void of space:
That all it knows
and all it lost
is bounded by
this tiny box
Prompt: Crazed (vss365)
The hammer fell once
And crazed this shallow surface
with flaws that endure
Prompt: Stellar (vss365)
You yearned for stardom
And now the people aspire
To know that you burn
