#vss365 #vss #warmth

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Hello, brother. Welcome to your final chance to forgo evil. See here, see how your fear (fermented into hatred) is unfounded. Those whom you have come to kill are all familiar: grandmas, granddads, wives and husbands, sons and daughters — families like yours. But if you can’t put down your gun and join with us in peace, here is my body as a shield; it has five places ready to receive your wrath: the declaration of my faith; my prayers; my charitable gifts; my fast from dawn to setting sun; my journey as a pilgrim.

Haji-Daoud Nabi (d. 2019)

from "Last Words" - a sequence of poems each starting with the last words (sometimes apocryphal) of a well-known person.

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to be sung to the tune of The Vaccines’ “Wreckin' Bar (Ra Ra Ra)” Pretty soon, fireman Ray Doo bee doo cremation day Piling books on bonfire night Yeah yeah yeah yeah set alight The villanelle, Petrarchan sonnet The haiku burns with petrol on it Ottava rima, terza too But slowly — lentement hâtez-vous What’s this book? Leaves of Grass? Hey hey hey hey yeah that’s class Still it goes onto the pile Bye bye bye it burns in style Ezra Pound and Seamus Heaney Wordsworth, Swinburne, Matthew Sweeney Agonising though it seems We’re clearing space for all our dreams Philip Larkin, mum and dadding That’s the lot, no more to add in What a lot of room for our words to fill An empty vase, no daffodils.

"Burn It Up".

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Walking in
Lights dancing on the walls
Thumping bass
Comes from downstairs
Sight of leather and lace
Over electric taped nipples
#Clove cigarette smoke wafts over me
As I walk over to the bar
Greeting my friends
Before we goth stomp
The night away

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Long eared jackrabbit
thick legged hare eyes wide with fear
runs when you draw near

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©Gerry White, 2026

Why Don't You Finish Anything You Start? — Jeremy Cantor Why Don't You Finish Anything You Start? The untrained dog flushes a bird but she does not know there is something she is supposed to wait for, a way these things are done, so she chases it, barking a...

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The last of my poems set to music and performed at the Boston Conservatory is “Why Don’t You Finish Anything You Start?” Here are the text, my own reading, and the musical performance.
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faltering support
the loss of any filter
sans annotation
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Long eared jackrabbit
fastest hare I ever scared
rules Nebraska’s plains

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©Gerry White, 2026

word problems had a dream that you killed me. which is common for a woman of a certain age. all ages. strange we are called bad at math. it's not prophecy. we're no witches. just arithmetic. how we calculate what we carry each day loving so many things that might destroy us.

For this week's #PoemsAbout, I'm thinking about #consent as risk calculation.

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and @thebrokenspine.co.uk and to all of the other writers.

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Cloud covered mornings,
Filters out the ole suns warmth
With visions of storms
Galvanise roofs will sing songs
When the rain begins

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In spite of being
Patronised and ridiculed
I chose to remain
Remembering the warmth we
Used to share freely

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penetrating
the promises

in quietness

on our long walk
hand in hand

we are

horizon and hill
lake and breeze

sphere and light

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Sprightly honeybees
watch wildflowers
basking in sunlit warmth
seeking nectar
in the floral sea

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Cat Clyde is Going to Change the World
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All previous poems I mention Cat Clyde
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Without a partition to confess to or a country to escape to
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28 years
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of sand-pay
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in her dream,
that recurring dream—
she longed deeply,
felt an oceanic #warmth
heaving within her,
drowning in its depth.

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Uploaded a new chapbook

The Long Stall Of The Ladder's Percussion
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Internet Archive collection
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The Ones Who Die Slowly
(Øresundsbron I)

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Under the Brake Pedal

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Open-Sky Surgery

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In the Lake

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Prometheus Between the Poles

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Wood anemones,
stars in the forest’s green sky-
comet of fox tail

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At the day's ends
The shadows dip low
As the sun falls
Below the horizon

Glimmer in the eyes
As the desire ignites
Under the flow
Of the moonlight
-Jel

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Cat Clyde is Going to Change the World

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For this week's #PoemsAbout #consent I found myself thinking about whose running things.

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Hello Wild Walk #writers

Overwhelming stench
Billowing from oven top...
One more clove perhaps?

(I really love garlic)

#Clove

Use the image/word to inspire your writing, then post with #WildWalkPrompt

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young neighbor hammering
builds detached unit —
old parents

shopping with mummy: bored, and as usual thinking of words. I'd recently heard one — though I was unsure of its meaning, its shape was a marvel: resonant, round. proudly I spoke it then clearly and loudly to hear how it sounded and yes, to show off. “bollocks” I said in the Home & Colonial. a moment’s stunned silence ... ...and suddenly I was swept up by a whirlwind to stand on the pavement outside the shop. mummy was mortified, red-faced and furious, I was perplexed and a little bit scared. So I learnt to make do then with bullocks and rowlocks and other near-misses — not as fulfilling, but safe.

"shopping with mummy" from "Trickling Grains of a Life: an Unauthorised Autobiography" - from "Boston (1956-1974)"

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They flee before the storm
cardinals seeking warmth
glow like red embers

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©Gerry White, 2026