**You Were There

To be More
is everything
you're hungry for
Only your touch on this
moment is too fleeting
to generate anything but
leftover memories of a tradition
A collision of time revealing
in a blur of headlights
what you'd written on the
windowpane once
"I was here"
So be here
with me
then

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**Who's Responsible For This?

I should be afraid
Of what blossoms in the
shadow of a world where
fear is a piano forte we've
all learnt to play
The self righteous
crack of gunfire muzzling
the grim sound of glass
crumbling into the
grave dust staining our
hands with the blood
of innocents
And I am
Aren't you?

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**Fahrenheit Something Or Other

There is no more
Effectual way of stifling
The hard fought freedoms
That have proven so fragile
Than by barring us
From anything that might
Be called #knowledge
A strategy that oddly
Echoes on paper
And in every other way
A blueprint of oppression
I recognise all too well

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**A Losing War**

A fallen shield mirrors
The red of the sinking sun
Staining the edges of
Battered armour where
Where crimson life bleeds
Into rust and pours out what
Remains of a broken heart
In a glass coursing with
The poison of betrayal
Love is a battlefield
And I tire of this war

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**Mapping The Divide

Our relationship map
Has contour lines stacked
where the sharp edge of
silence drops into a canyon
you're desperate to fill
But the baggage has so far
down to fall & I kept climbing
for that #star you promised
So it'll be a while before
you're on my level
And that's alright
By me

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**Freedom On The Edge Of Everything

In a hollow of stars that hides
Far beyond the midnight sky
We danced with the wild abandon
Of hearts untamed by sorrow
And it was a moment of freedom
There at the very edge of space
You & I, hands entwined
Or maybe just a little bit of heaven
And you
You were everything
And more

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**When Did That Happen?

The Middle #Class Is Disappearing
A headline on a space filler article
And I had to stop for a minute
Because how exactly
Do you just erase
One of the largest groups
Of people in the world
And no one's staging a riot?
And when did we start believing
We're worth so little?

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**Universal Child

I would dream
In the way that words do
But my pen weeps
Ink blots & watercolour visions
Of fragile hearts caged
Behind the star fire
And earth song woven into
A prison of blood & bone
By the vastness of the universe
Each breath fueling the
Ripples of flames
That are a soul ablaze

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**I'd Like It If You Kissed Me

You turn on a smile
And smouldering eyes
And every thought disappears
While I turn to putty
Waiting for the
Touch of your hands
If...
That's what you want?
Coz I'm totally gay for girls
And don't take hints too well
So would you please
Just kiss me
If you're gonna
Kiss me
Already

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**Just A Small Town Girl**

Wide eyed and rictus smiled
I'm clinging on for dear life
First class ticket clutched in hand
And there's a #banshee howling
Some storm chaser's lament
While this one way train
The conductor bailed
Out of two stops ago
Heads straight for the tunnel
At the end of the line
#vss365

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#turningthephrase #atreyasverse #InstantEternal

It's March
Taken 3 months
But
I'm all about the business of words.

No longer
discombobulated
I'm
Feeling whole again and ready.

Called out
I swear I've changed
Cried
and tried to see the patterns of behavior

RT WayneACSmith: another flower whispers
whatever makes you smile

#atreayasverse #loveletters
#turningthephrase #MoonMystic

🎨 Elisabeth Cölfen

**Hidden Hearts**

In a place that's as far from the world as it can be
In the most hidden depths of a bottomless #cave
Stands a fortress carved from its diamond core
Within this lies a secret room where an icy heart softens
Frozen roses in the fire rekindled by a single word
And it is Mine
#vss365

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In this lonely season's
mind, it was 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 that were
the problem!

Why should Winter
be a metaphor
for discontent?

It's not like
they don't know
I'm coming...

I have own beauty:
a brittle, cold and
barren one perhaps.

See my morning skies
red with rage.

#turningthephrase

Like the wandering lost
— who go a'blackberry
picking — unable to
find their way to heaven
having once paid a false
pardoner's fee, she still
searches for what she's owed,
but without the knowledge
that she so clearly needs...

#turningthephrase

Serenaded by morning rain
that flamencoed, staccato
on the window pane,

seducing me to
a dalliance
with the world's charms

that spilled open
like treasure chest
beyond the sanctity

of my inner space.
Warm and sheltered,
the rain made me long

for more...

#turningthephrase

ask the song
to fill ur heart
ask the words
not to pull u apart

ask the poem
to lift ur soul
ask the verses
to make u whole

ask the novel
to enrich ur mind
ask the chapters
to let ur thoughts unbind

ask me anything
that u desire
ask for me,
ur wayward fire
#turningthephrase

through ambient static
our frequencies
attuned —

a signal
of a mutual intent
to connect,

despite the
distracting crackle
in the air...

#turningthephrase

Must you
roam the clouds,
rubbing out
the silver linings
and feeding
on the rains?

#turningthephrase

RT @turning_phrase@twitter.com

Good morning everyone! The #prompt phrase for today is:

other side of the moon

Please include the hashtag #turningthephrase

Combo prompts welcome
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