April Fool's Day was so quiet this year. We're running low on joy.
April Fool's Day was so quiet this year. We're running low on joy.
Y'all this not Great.
No amount of more of this will suddenly make it so.
Objectively worsening the lives of every American and as many non citizens as possible.
Is all that is left to do is to hope to survive to be the ones to sweep up the ashes of our democracy?
#MastoPrompt #bleak
@stevencudahy @poetry
#poem #poetry
Piling hand of bleak midwinter
grasping for infirm to take
darkens sky and deadens laughter
freezes grieving hearts to break
turns the graveyard clay to iron
blocks interment's last repose
shatters crystal dreams of Zion
blankets all beneath your snows
It's looking bleak.
The future
scares me.
But I will speak
and continue to seek
a truth that will set me and others free.
things won’t be so bleak
if we all take turns this week
be the light we seek
Though he had never experienced true winter, he always wondered about the story he read in high school English, about the boy who slips away into madness with the sound of snow--both imagined and real. He imagines the sound like the soughing of the ocean waves upon which he sits with his board under a friendly winter light. The snow would pull him under, drown him. And then he feels the tug of the tide, the lift of his board. He stands, and he is only movement. #mastoprompt #bleak @stevencudahy
The #MastoPrompt for Saturday 14 December 2024 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.
If you're including an image please do include alt-text so I can boost your post.
#Writing
#SmallPoem
#Poetry
#Fiction
#MicroFiction
#SmallStories
The cold is setting in and the days are almost at their shortest they will be. For some the festivities of the season only serve to highlight the oppressing darkness. Wallow in #Saturdoom and revel in the darkness on the day where we highlight the very best of music under the umbrella that is #doom. For when the days are #bleak we should have a good #pairing of #music.
Follow #Saturdoom for an extensive list of good doom music. And if you want to play along you are very welcome! Please boost this post and share your own favourite in the genre.
Happy wallowing!
The Thrill Of Opening A Jar
On how the opening of a jar is a modern day expression of masculinity, and just how bleak that is.
Learn more at 'Why Does This Thing Exist? [Podcast]'
#DonaldTrump: What has the new #president said about #LGBTQIA #rights?
His #campaign #policies painted a #bleak #picture of the #future for the #LGBTQIA #community in the #USA
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
Some days there’s just no need for colour photography.
Also: the tide is very out.
#bleak
#WeatherTootLOL