Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 30/03/2026The stars on the horizon Make such a sight Blend with the city’s rising Shimmering lights In darkness they seek & prowl Gypsies & #sprites Preying on insomniacs Lost in the night Stories & tales long forgot In urban plight Bubble up & inspire Murder by fright #vss365 0232
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Cold soldiers Line the line In cosplay drama Without #soul The deported and the dead All the #pain of the departed Spreads among Those of us still here A new world order Is upon us But Not the one They feared We will not be your pawns We will not be your prey #vss365 0194
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 18/01/2026As the sun goes down And stars come out All the fleeting noise #murmuring in my brain Comes back in Reminding of all The useless thoughts That keep me up at night Spinning wheels Guilt, remorse, guilt again Exhausting circles Until stars fade into day Wouldn’t have it Any other way #vss365 0204
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 09/01/2026All the noise And useless buzz Tall tales #adorned With manipulative grandeur Ever changing reality Assaulting minds In endless streams of consciousness Objectifying creativity Makes me Want to break Things #vss365 081
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 06/01/2026This is not the house of fun But you’re still welcome We’re a land of misfit toys An #oddball collection Of outcast beatniks And beat down hipsters A poet’s delight Of flipbook creations Suspended animation All wrapped up In a storybook reality Reflecting a writer’s Jealous eye #vss365 0183
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Time is a construct A notion sublime Past down Through stories Of belonging And crime The #balderdash Of thought Mixed heavy With lies Portends a future So dusty Sad eyes Cannot cry #vss365 0132
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 26/02/2025We are the shadows in the corner of your mind the unspoken idea you suppress The marginalized ones on the #fringe of town the unprotected few huddled in mass We are the power you fear when we unite to expose your hatred and lies #vss365 0181
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 12/02/2025I’m not all here but I’m not anywhere else either I’ve tried locking the fear away but days didn’t get brighter I’ve turned the news off my phone off opened a book but reading’s no fun when not backlit by anger quick shot of reality w/ a beer chaser when will we wake up & realize the danger #vss365 0221
Reposted by Toner LowDeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 08/02/2025E’en tho I know They come for me I do not Sound alarm I let them take My kith and kin— None’s left To take up arms Ensconced here In my comfy cave With bowl Of Lucky Charms Gave up my sword For trusty spoon, So now I’m left #disarmed #vss365 1224335
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Swirling vortex of detritus information stretched in a #nexus of visual anguish & assault frontal cortex too smooth to fault undying love flees when hipsters start to loot is everything fine no, it’s time to reboot #vss365 0181
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 02/02/2025solitary shadow o n the wall an after image burned into retinas by #rockets parsley left on a plate after the meal is done trite thoughts original sin adrift on a desert shifting sand of immortal isolation #vss365 0121
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 30/01/2025American roots #Conjuring images Black & white photos Arid faced men Solitary silos Diesel lined highways Stretched to horizon Now faded & worn Tossed in the waste bin Of dictatorial whims Flash in the pan Go back to your Facebook Your YouTube Your Discord Only truth here Is the one we make #vss365 0101
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Lower the #needle Swaying in time Two lost souls Embraced & entwined Whisky and jazz Lips red as wine Tell me you love me And all will be fine A slow rhythm beats Abandoning minds The secret is ours We won’t drop a dime #vss365 0151
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 21/01/2025I pour a drink To warm my heart To numb my soul I raise a glass To calm my fear To wish us luck I take a sip To start a new To forget this day I spill libation To all who love To snuff out hate I hope one day To #crisscross this land To find peace and joy But that’s not today #vss366 020
Reposted by Toner LowRobert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 18/01/2025I want to stumble down the rabbit hole of her heart. I want to share a glass of electric wine with her as we watch the sky shift in emotion. I would rip civilizations from time and place them at her boots so she never gets bored. She deserves an easy ride from here to euphoria. #poetry #vss365 0246
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 18/01/2025A mask I wear You ask me why My inner self I do decry A smile my #cloak Devilishly sly You see me not for What I truly belie #vss365 081
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Thoughts aren’t actions They build foundations Supporting #labyrinth Tricking the mind’s eye Reclining on the couch Of mediocrity #Fools wait, biding time Judging past tense’s worth #vss365 081
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 15/01/2025neon city streets damp and foggy scene footsteps slice #silence echoing down alleys so familiar yet foreign enough to give pause remembered past outlined in perfection worn cobblestones yield to reality what was the same cannot remain #vss365 0121
Reposted by Toner LowDeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 14/01/2025I’m labeled A Trouble Maker Then they took My voice I sat & fumed Quietly For thought I had no choice It’s u gave me The vellum A nightlight & a pen Tho I write In #silence Cross dark void My words I send & if these words Ur reading This is my voice Dear friend #vss365 47812
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Frozen in time January sun Glistening On traffic jams Thawing #Ice heist Influencer On line Grifting scams Your only value In this Late stage Digital crime Minds drained Eyes glazed Can we even Talk Anymore #vss365 0101
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Sunday I dust memories into the waste bin of history in the guise of stability but I know it’s not for me I clean every week #vss365 091
Reposted by Toner LowSanya @sanjar.bsky.social · 12/01/2025drama surfs on raging storm tearing roots scattering fragments of life #dust lingers heavy in the air and you wait suspended in haze choose now: dwell in remnants or rise hands raw to rebuild anew unless you're one of those who thrive on chaos not the quiet that follows #vss365 🎨from Pinterest 36713
Reposted by Toner LowRobert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 12/01/2025I wipe the #dust of a radiated day from my shaking shoulders. The woe frozen in my eyes begins to thaw and today starts to seem possible because I have that power. I'm a trillion thoughts so I make sure at least one has a positive charge to power this world I wander. #poetry #vss365 1496
Reposted by Toner Lowmoniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 11/01/2025#vss365 Rhyming wit has no merit, no benefit. If I could #quit I'd do it, but I'm in it to win it and that's it, innit? 1313
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 12/01/2025In the final days Of our selfish ways Snow blows silent and soft On barren fields we fought Tomorrow’s neon dawn Reveals us all a pawn In a game none signed up for To #quit belies nevermore #vss365 0101
Reposted by Toner LowA. A. Rubin @thesurrealari.bsky.social · 10/01/2025This is just to say I have eaten The ambrosia That was in The urn And which You were probably Saving For some feast Or another Forgive me It was delicious And I don’t Want to remain here Tied beneath The earth With an eagle Eternally Eating My liver 2133
Reposted by Toner LowDeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 10/01/2025I mixed Long life elixir From An #esoteric tome It promised Immortality So whipped it up At home Now I’m A great sequoia For which my home Ain’t zoned My neighbor’s Got a chainsaw So I pray I’m left alone I should’ve Read the fine print I would rather Been a stone #vss365 5708
Reposted by Toner LowTheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 10/01/2025No Recall Frost flinches, inching across time-pinched blueprints— edges curl inwards, afraid of what they hold. Esoteric designs for self-peeling stones, cliffs of shuddering smoke, and rock-dashed dreams. I reach out to hold— they crumble, the ashes of an unremembered face. #vss365 #esoteric 0133
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 10/01/2025The smell of #sweet roses That once filled my heart Yields to times gentle breeze Of dying vine art Winter’s snow melting Lost memories of you Past is catching up No matter what I do #vss365 0122
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 07/01/2025You wake to a morning Of wonder Early sunlight gathers thoughts asunder Racing to meet the day Never #questioning What’s next Or lost bargaining Knowing in the end You paid more Than your #measure Who’s keeping score #vss365 0101
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Lovers and haters walk hand in hand down avenues of malaise looking for a #fresh start new hit from an old drug convinced this time it will be different better always walking the same worn path through the rye #vss365 0171
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 01/01/2025The revolution Will not be shown On TV Your #resolution Will resolve In elocution Of past And present Tense Future contributions Co-opted To make a quick buck By politicians Waxing eloquent Cake all around Forecasted days Crash through Reality Like waves Slowly pulling sand back to the sea #vss365 0131
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Walking streets Of fading old town Shops all closed No one around Avenues littered With flyer & Wendy’s wrappers Dropped by careless hands Skyline #silhouetted Against retiring sun Burning it down Like forgotten pun Sheltered alone In crowds of thought Unable to be loved Or dream of a start #vss365 0121
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 16/12/2024we do not cross this #threshold to give us power we cross to forgive the love not given forgotten souls of history’s haste marching in step with time forward to its own tone deaf demise #vss365 0112
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Fever dreams AI crypto bot Throwing posts Rogue ocelot Inventing hate Where love should matter Screen time haze Thoughts in tatters Dystopian scene Brain #axolotl Gorging itself Trapped in a bottle Whisky glass hope Tomorrow’s to-dos Lined on an edge Drowning in booze #vss365 171
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 14/12/2024we are just passengers riding through reality our reality lost on a observer dreaming of a different life intoxicated not this #overfit paradigm of scars homemade tattoos with no off-ramp in sight #vss365 071
Reposted by Toner Lowdan with glasses @antiviolentintelligence.ai · 08/12/2024I'm so bored by god's plan, plants, #planaria & planets, that I'm reinventing hobbies like regular-rock relocation. A.k a. reading,writing, math & the history of feminist jazz, I'll pick one up, unlock my car doors, & drive off thinking a round worm is neither a flat nor a mud snail's mud hat. 1163
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Voiceless ideas grabbed them like a #creeper tone of kudzu words a puma stalking their minds ensnaring thoughts egging to ultimate resting place of idle minds where silver-tongued barkers have been waiting your arrival #vss365 081
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 06/12/2024She gave the #parameters To win her love But not The way to keep it Led to her bed You now comprehend As fang of ice Sink in #vss365 0162
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 30/11/2024I’ve got a midday feeling Pulling me down familiar path Lined with discarded #souvenirs Memories hidden in the past I’ll not come #home out of love But guilt left deep in my heart As sunbeams turn to star light A hesitant foot steps #vss365 1142
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Midnight #train Pulls from station Lost love Spending hours Sipping whisky sours Life rushing by Pleading eyes Searching strangers None would return Your gaze #vss365 0232
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Tap water on my face to bring me back to the reality we both left together in a stranger’s bedroom I didn’t need that last hit What was in that? I’m not one to #complain fever dreams blowtorch vision In what? metallic taste dripping sweat Was this my last Mistake? #vss365 081
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 27/11/2024My mind is away On vacation some say Watching sunsets alone On YouTube at home A staycation of sort Too burned out to report Despair & dismay Confusion, #delay A din of near silence Betraying all guidance Those crazy lizards demanded My mind to abandon For now #vss365 0111
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 24/11/2024The voices have quieted in 4am stillness muffled murmuring just beyond audible clarity sleep’s elusive embrace ever out of reach threatening to amplify voices beyond hopes to #hop on slumber train dashed on the rocks of circling thoughts ohasing insecurity’s tail of all that was not #vss365 0142
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 20/11/2024It’s not that he doesn’t like us It’s that he’s not like us If you could take a day And travel his mind A #sightseeing daze If you may He won’t mind You will see Plain as day Why he won’t stay Locked up inside Binging on YouTube Nextflix or Prime #vss365 0121
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Linger cold streets In the fog In the rain Waiting for Bars to close Clubs to let out Numb faced People filling The void Footsteps Disappear in Thinning crowds Of lizard brained #Suitcases carried On spidery legs The city’s Lost and found #vss365 061
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 18/11/2024The sun in your eyes sets slowly behind trees of your mind in autumn decline solitary #journey Illuminating darkness of soul perpetually arguing the value of spring versus a vole #vss365 0211
Toner Low @tonerlow.bsky.social · 17/11/2024The only #postcards you will receive will be from those who still believe words combine in collective power to change this world of disdain and dour into a place where all are free and love is just how thing should be #vss365 0111
