GeneVatow

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Such great words. Thanks Gene.

Thanks Rachel!

A final wave, as I bid you all adieu, to rejoin the ranks of writers that grace #vss365
Please join our new prompter, Paul @thedevilstuna for his 15 day run of music themed offerings!
I've enjoyed it, Thank you All!

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It's the changing of the #vss365 guard with the inimitable @GeneVatow passing the baton over to me .

I'm nervous but also excited to be your new host & hope to inspire you as much as Gene has.

My first word will be posted at 10am tomorrow, let #promptober commence.

You will be another in a long line of the best! Thank you, Paul
@thedevilstuna
🥁🎸🔥💫

Good morning writers and friends.. Something we all confront, from time to time I leave you with one final puzzle, it's been fun! 30 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #conundrum My final prompt. I hand over now to Paul

@thedevilstuna

with wishes of luck!

Thank you so much, Camila!

Thank you, Zachary

Pure delight. Thank you, Gene 😘❤️

Thanks Steve! 👍

You've got it, Brother in words! Do your best! 🪕🧩🥁🌍

Arcane #conundrum
writers working within
the sprinkles of time
a songlike riff
of rhythm
and the unfettered
dance of rhyme
Puzzle of words
in search
of the sublime

#vss365 #conundrum
#poetry

My last prompt, it has been a joy!
Thank you, Writers, and friends!

Good morning writers and friends.. Something we all confront, from time to time

I leave you with one final puzzle, it's been fun!

30 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #conundrum

My final prompt. I hand over now to Paul @thedevilstuna with wishes of luck!

I'm honored by those who've taken part in my prompts. It is a grand community at #vss365 Many thanks to all!
Let's welcome our new prompter.
I turn over the reins to Paul @thedevilstuna on October 1. He will post at 10 am GMT
Enjoy the new month!!

Thank you, Mo! It was fun...

It will all be good Paul! Best wishes!

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I'm excited & a little nervous to be your next #vss365 host from 1st October. How do you follow
@genevatow.bsky.social who has inspired so much incredible writing?

I'll be posting daily at 10am GMT from 1st October so keep your eyes peeled
& your pens ready to rock 🤘

I'm honored by those who've taken part in my prompts. It is a grand community at #vss365 Many thanks to all!
Let's welcome our new prompter.
I turn over the reins to Paul @thedevilstuna on October 1. He will post at 10 am GMT
Enjoy the new month!!

Thank you, Paul. Looking forward to your stint at the steering wheel of words!

Thank you, Karla!

I'm honored by those who've taken part in my prompts. It is a grand community at #vss365 Many thanks to all!
Let's welcome our new prompter.
I turn over the reins to Paul @thedevilstuna on October 1. He will post at 10 am GMT
Enjoy the new month!!

Words luminesce
drifting through the shadows
seeking the freedom
of the pen
At last
they begin to #sublimate
in the nether
Ice melts
on thin revetments
and drips
into the when

#vss365 #sublimate
#poetry

Good morning writers and friends.. We all hide some of what we feel.

Form is changed, maybe, But not essence...

29 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #sublimate

as the margins
of #eventuality widen
with whole body
she holds on
to the moment
keeping watch
& fighting off torpor

#sonorous thoughts scatter
sleep draws her in
taking her
to the shore
of nothingness
or the bank
of plenitude

cellars or suns
#perhaps
will call her home

#vss365 #poetry

Could the black hole
be an #escutcheon
to another
universe
What phantoms walk
this sparkled lane
to be swallowed
by the dark
How many theories
are just fantasies
conceived
upon a lark

#vss365 #escutcheon
#poetry

Good morning writers and authors. Keys heard jingling in the hallway...

From caves to castles, to your front door...

27 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #escutcheon

#vss365

Scarlight

Scrutiny
pierces
the siltblood,
shamed
roots convulse.

Exposed.

Rot hides,
in the murmur,
but
light,
persistent,
leaks through
the
scar's rip.

#Scrutiny
#writerscommunity
#poetry
#poetrycorner

Hypnotic #scrutiny
seeking interpretation
of classic pages
from the rim
The soul
of civilization
rides on humanity
and its whim
Life explodes
from darkness
and revels
in the light
I read on
in my atelier
Passing
another night

#vss365 #scrutiny
#poetry

Good morning writers, authors, and questioners of fate...

Find the words of inquiry that shed the most light...

27 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #scrutiny