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Category: Love

Ben 6.0?

Tracking my software development.

bugs, coding, software development, versions

halo-ringed

This is the essence of hope – Vistas unshrouded by light.

#haiku, #tanka, halo, hope, perseverance, sun

morning solitaire

I’m making friends both left and right; why feeling so alone this morn?

#triolet, alone, lonely, Love, surrounded

committed

committing to commitment
in various versions
is differently difficult
and beautifully baffling

commitment, committed, Love, mental health, Mental Illness, relationships, tough love

honesty – #SoCS

Honesty is hardly ever heard, and mostly what I need from you.

authenticity, happiness, honesty, integrity, selfishness

out from the sun

travel with me.

#FFFocus, characteristics, gods, names, planets, solar system

the faerie tale bowl

the bowl remains just as full…

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, bottomless, endless, energy, gold, light

Yes! Oh, Yes! Oh…No, Not Yet.

Just what would that look like, a day with no “no”s?

#FFFocus, choices, consequences, Freedom, responsibility, rules

Postmodern Taboos

Welcome to the future.

absolutes, postmodern, relativity, truth

absurd echoes

look at why you don’t cry; cry about why you can’t.

cry, dissonance, Echo, laugh

both/and – #SoCS

Today’s prompt looks like a choice of two options. We were simply given “above/below” and told to write a stream … More

binary, binary thinking, choices, dimmer, non-binary, SoCS

Sonnet XVII- navel gazing

Gazing the navel will skew what is true.

focus, navel gazing, others, Purpose, self-absorbed

standing. still.

“I need you. I’m scared” ~ 4:23 a.m.

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, friendship, missed connections, undelivered

happiness pursued

“but by morning, joy!” says the Good Book.

happy, jollity, joy, peace, psalm 30, pursuit

morose less?

I’ve been challenged to be less morose.

a life worth living, authentic, authenticity, happy, sad

No False Flags Here – #SoCS

I couldn’t be Pride-lier.

ally, Pride, Pride Flag, SoCS, youth

hide and seek

“alle alle auch sind frei”

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, alle alle auch sind frei, closeted, coming out, fear, hiding

weird invites

“If you want to come over tomorrow – you can”

accept, decline, Invitation, RSVP

the blender

A month goes by, then years, they blend

blender, cycles, futility, green juice, important, smoothie, time

the end? – narcissi, revisited

The end was not what I had expected.

Death, growth, Life, narcissus, presumptions, progress, SoCS, time, waiting

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