Watty Award winner 2021, 6x shortlisted. Ambys Award winner 2025, 2024 & 2x 2023. 4x ONC Award shortlisted. Writer (🤔).
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Jan Karlsson
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It came at the worst of times.
While the pounding clack of existence, a #quietus affair.
The silence after the explosions marked the beginning.
Our cycle everlasting the pain of yesterday.
#vss365
"You think i will die so easily?"
Savion smiled. "I said this before, you're already dead in my mind. What remands is quietus, a release from this world, so you may harm no one else. So the world can finally be at peace. That's worth me dying for."
#vss365 #conruinon1
He could tell his #quietus was coming. Although claiming ownership felt arrogant. Everything, and everyone, was winding down. The sky was paler. The plants no longer individual. Entropy was leading him - them - into a vanilla future.
A hand rested on his arm. Telling him he wasn't alone.
#vss365
#vss365
#quietus
When one door closes another one is open
When the pitcher leaves the mound, one comes from bullpen
Each quietus is a climb
In the path to reaching prime
We all keep learning over and over again
Hamlet: When he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin.
Horatio: A bare bodkin? That’s a painful way to go. Might I suggest a different method?
Claudius: Poison in the ear, maybe?
#vss365
The idea of being touched by her was #consuming me. My skin felt like fire when she even glanced my way. So I focused on the coffee, grinding the beans, tasting the extraction, returning to my other obsession. #vss365 #flashfiction #skywrite
#vss365
Pause
quietus:
I found it
in the dictionary
between
quieten
and
quite.
A dark little scritch
in the alphabet,
as though language itself
had briefly paused
mid-breath.
#quietus
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#writingcommunity
#writerscommunity
#poetry
a lazy day at the beach
with our books
and our lips
now the sun dips
low
with a deep ocean breath
the world sighs
with water waves,
softens
gently sparkles
our easy breathing slows
in this peace the amber light
dissolves to dusted rose
in #quietus
the endless wonder
of you in me
only grows
#vss365
Voices gone silent
Quiet us with #quietus
Time to make some noise.
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Spring water thawing
Sparrows refurbish their nests
Winter quietus
#vss365
#Dailyhaikuprompt
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🖥 FB Sara Heemstra Taylor
