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Betty

@bettyv.bsky.social
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈Poet, writer-lover of haiku and all forms of short poetry-mostly ignored by the 'serious' poetry community : ) bettyvalentine.com I won't answer DM's unless I know you

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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
No dark, as daylight on the city falls, thin air gives off a rising dust which settles on the pigeon coated walls #vss365 #dark
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
We #touch but little of the void, that vast eternal portal far away beyond the stars, one brief & shining moment that is ours a few elusive hours to make a mark, we grow, we thrive, we die & we are gone & then it is another's turn to take the torch & carry on #vss365
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Vincent, a fragile tortured soul, who gave us blooming flowers birds and winter grain, he taught us how to love by giving us his pain, it was all he had to show us he was true, there never will be anyone as beautiful as you #vss365 #soul
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
When you are a leader, you cannot unmoor from reality, this lack of rationality leads to growing criminality unparalleled acts of brutality and legally sanctioned fatality #vss365 #unmoor
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Do not place your soiled and grasping hands upon my head do not push, I will not yield or bend a knee, you may have might, but I have right and I know who I am supposed to be #vss365 #bend
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
True depression that dimming of internal light when you can't be bothered to flick the switch, night or day, who cares it's all the same, in that grey grey foggy game you will never win, too tired to #fight, but you know you must, just for them, any crack in the door will do for now #vss365
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Recall the triumphs, enjoy the moment, you learn far more from elusive shadows that got away, experience is a good teacher you may catch them still, another day #vss365 #recall
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Memory is a sunflower painted thick in Van Gogh yellow, brighter than it ever was in life, hanging forever in the gallery of the mind, where the only visitor is you #vss365 #memory
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Darkened screens beget a harsh & unforgiving light, that sucks imagination's teat swallows warm the milk of inspiration, sometimes soured by sheer frustration, bringing into form a sleepless night which dawns the cold & coffee scented morning of a writer's #soliloquy #vss365
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I was a little brown moth girl with shabby wings who longed for quiet and gentle things, magenta butterflies beautiful in flight pushed me to come and stand in the light, some of us prefer it where shadows fall but it's a world where beauty conquers all #vss365 #magenta
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a blue butterfly is flying over a dandelion in the grass
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
So speaks the wind augury of the night we see throw the bones, and dream of what may come to be #vss365 #augury
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Lady, take your mantle, I your chivalrous knight will wrap it warm about you, kiss me once and leave pull up the hood to hide your face I cannot bear your tears, I need the memory of your smile to see me through in after-years, goodbye my Guinevere #vss365 #chivalrous
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
At #last the rain drumming hard with icy fingers, a penetrating beat which lingers, chimney sings in harsh reply conducting curtains wave and fly echoed swift by window rattles, dancing doors, a gentle sigh of shifting floors, I repose in fitful slumber while my household does the rhumba #vss365
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
A looking glass war with the one I see the young girl that I used to be, inside I am still fourteen a reflection of what might have been, my teenaged self seems unconcerned so many things she hasn’t learned she will get her fingers burned, but that’s a page yet to be turned #vss365 #reflection
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Older than clocks timed by the moon the ocean hums an endless tune, of stars and ships and things gone by, human life is the blink of an eye, our moment of existence from cradle to grave means nothing to the water and the rolling waves #vss365 #timed
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Mine enemies were as weeds they flowered thick in number, I sent them one by one to deep eternal slumber, the world became a desert, so dry that nothing grows, except for powerful me and my nodding yes-men crows #vss365 #number
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Adrift on a wave not made of sea or silver hum of distant bees not wind, or leaves on waving trees not earth not sky, not singing birds but language made of living words that float and curl and dart and hide strange fish to catch on a poets tide #vss365 #language
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
History is a ribbon, threaded with beads, a string of memories that once belonged to someone else #vss365 #history
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Each mountain, valley, hill and peak is a scenic landscape quite unique, be proud of your topography & personal #geography, people who make you feel ugly or fat are controlling, mean, & talking crap, ignore their derision it's purely your decision if you ever decide to iron the map #vss365
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The domestic cat is sleek and fat with smooth and glossy fur, obsequeous and charming and a motor full of purr, they are stroked and fussed adored and loved demanding to be petted, but you see a different side to them when you take them to be vetted #vss365 #domestic
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a cat peeking out from behind a blue blanket with the words what written on it
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Domestic preening in a long marriage is a complicated ritual involving checking each other over for brown sauce and or egg on your whiskers #vss365 #domestic
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Butterflies lack commitment, as do bees fickle creatures of the air and breeze, they spend their daylight working hours in briefest dalliance with the flowers #vss365 #creature
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Come to the old road, find the night birds with their wicked lonely eyes, hands for claws & razor teeth which sit and grin in savage beaks, know that it is you they seek, hide, a timid cowering thing feel the brush of leather wings, #halloween is childish fear, pumpkin faces won't work here #vss365
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Let us dance little argent bird, let us swirl let us play, let us sway, amid the chandeliers and the gaudy lumps of gold, in the ballroom where democracy, was hijacked by plutocracy then pimped up, pimped out whored, raped, and sold #vss365 #argent
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
A smoky guttering candle in a room where shadows fall, a slow and creeping feeling as they decorate the wall, a light that's slowly dying in a saucer on the shelf, brings a sudden realisation that those shadows aren't yourself #vss365 #saucer
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Do not hover, leave this ugly dented day embrace the night, you fought a fight we knew you could not win, still we rode with you, now the journey ends if I say stay, it would be for me not for you, rest now, as the poet said, slip the bonds of earth and sleep #vss365 #hover
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I brew ideas, stories which bubble and burst to quench the thirst of an arid page #vss365 #arid
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Little black #beetle, let me explain do your work, I'll not complain, what once I was is stiff and cold my good times spent, my body old, it weighed me down, and it wearied me, now at last I'm wandering free, return me to the good brown earth & feast away for all you're worth #vss365 #halloween
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Autumn butterfly, playful tease, flits among the flowers flirting with the breeze, a libertine, a chancer, a strange exotic dancer who little knows or feels a sense of grey and gathering doom, living for the moment on a sunny afternoon #vss365 #libertine
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Wear a shirt with a logo give publicity for free, or is the advert showing me, pictorial displaying is a human way of saying just look how much I'm paying, to buy it wasn't stressful I'm wealthy and successful which affords a certain surety against social insecurity #vss365 #advert
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
This is the advert that I would like to place, one battered dented planet complete with human race, a shabby fixer upper to treat with tender care 8 billion sitting tenants are already waiting there, #vss365 #advert
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Love is elastic, when you let it go, it hurts #vss365 #elastic
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Every word that is written is carved from flesh and bone, pulled through the skin from the pulp within, when you read remember that burning ember the author had to give for a book to live #vss365 #pulp
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Calm in any storm a steady hand to guide me, to walk and talk beside me not you, you wild and savage thing who caused rough winds to blow, you were never an oasis I never knew a single moment's rest but times with you are ones I love the best #vss365 #Oasis
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The world is a blur, an ever speeding, spinning whir amid swirling clouds of AI dust, we are losing faith, and most of our trust, as pioneers of a digital zoo, how can we know what facts are true and what is a pile of cyber poo! #vss365 #blur
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Yesterday's candle melts into the blur of tomorrow, same wick, same wax a slightly different mix of facts #vss365 #blur
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The prompt word sounds like an Irish castle Come with me to the Castle of Conundrum and there we will feast, or grab a quick coffee and sandwich at least #vss365 #conundrum
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Beware the bellwether, follow with caution they may lead you over a cliff, lost in the fog of their own ignorance, or they may have have cut a deal with a dog-food conglomerate #vss365 #bellwether
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
The most powerful word in the world is perhaps, it is totally unpredictable, and therefore unrestrictable #vss365 #perhaps
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Catastrophe, is a loss of kindness, replaced by greed and selfish mindness #vss365 #catastrophe
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
We will influence what you try, listen to us buy, buy, buy picture number twelve will make you cry, to us you are toothpaste a pliable extrusion both victim and slave of social inclusion #vss365 #extrusion
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Primordial soup, from common stock, forged in the fire when the earth was hot we all shared a planet with a big yellow moon, and nobody waved a silver spoon #vss365 #stock
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Synthesis, where original thoughts, and single notions coalesce to cross great oceans #vss365 #synthesis
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
We rein in truth to stop the pain it brings, but lies are free to gallop, cavort and dance at will, when honesty is tied, and truthfulness has died those wicked little fibs are breeding still #vss365 #rein #prompt
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Unassuming charmers with a quiet sense of style they never overdo it, but they go that extra mile, beautifully groomed, they can talk with aplomb, and cut through a crowd like a well dressed bomb, it's an extra something not like you or I, stylish people never have to try #vss365 #style
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Design me a coat for the seasons remember as you sew, to add vents in the sleeves for crisp autumn leaves and to let spring breezes blow, why not add a long summer as that is in style this year, please try to shorten the winter I don't want it too severe #vss365 #Style
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I'm all too #conscious of the change, nothing strange, & nothing I've not felt before not a shock, perhaps the clicking of a lock the subtle closing of a door, a key is turned, a latch is dropped once more, on what was once a fertile time, I hear the chime, the bell that rings for autumn #vss365
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
A flower in the wind, has no control, It’s an arbitrary victim, with no determined vision, as it blows from side to side, it has no views about the matter when it sees its beauty shattered into petals that are scattered far and wide #vss365 #arbitary
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Life, it's not an arbitrary thing, if you breathe you live no matter what the future brings, the winds of fate will blow you through how you fight them is up to you #vss365 #arbitrary
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Betty @bettyv.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Rich or poor, gay, straight, bi black, white, brown we are all going to die, death is a person we cannot elude from the day we arrive we are already screwed by the man with the cowl a non-partisan dude #vss365 #elude
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