She likes it old school,
Subtle, in the way one pours tea from a pot,
Grace, not gusto,
A tiny
#crush
Barely there,
Like the flutter of her floral dress
As she swirls into the frayed bookshop
To catch a glimpse
Of him
Caressing blood-splattered covers
In horror & Crime.
#vss365
#WritingCommunity
😊Welcome to my world: A London Film Prop House.
When I’m not writing, I’m here helping to make all your favourite Netflix films and British Dramas 🎬🎬🎬.
“I never planned to publish. The poetry took on a life of its own.
I am merely the narrator.”
💜Secret Whispers: a collection to surprise/ shock, delight/ disturb, return to and reflect 💜
“Come, let me take you on a walk of whispered words.” 🤍
#WritingCommunity
#poetrycommunity
“A collection of whispered words.”
Book of poetry to be published this year, exploring the light and dark within us all.
💜🖤🤍💫🤍🖤💜
#PetsAreFamily
🥺 Little Whisper was attacked last night in my garden by a fat neighbouring cat. Some light bleeding on paw & limp. Not very responsive this morning so I’m closely monitoring (in contact with vet). Sigh…😔
#WritingCommunity
#WritersCafe
So, I DID it! 😬
Formally handed in my notice at the film prop house 🥳
No more three hour daily drives 🚗
No more office politics🤯
Just more time for me to develop your next TV series 😄, write in between and do a bit of travelling...
🧡Today, a lovely, caring, friend was admitted to a peace hospice. He was terminally diagnosed just 4 months ago. My heart 💔
Feeling so angry that good guys suffer whilst some shitty ones run free wrecking lives.
Not my usual light tweet, sorry 🙏🏽 but anger & sadness immense🥺
#Writer
#MyTwitterAnniversary
When I joined back in 2020, I had no idea what to expect & was more than a bit scared 😬
But from day one, I began to meet you beautiful people & you’ve enhanced my life ☺️
💞🌼THANK YOU🌼💞
for your kind friendship. You ALL make my day shine!
☺️Thank you everyone for a year of smiles, hand holding, care & kindness. I appreciate you all 🤗
Whatever 2024 brings, let’s make it wonderful!
✨Happy New Year!✨
Tess x 💜
#NewYearEve
🤍Tonight, as the glowing sun began to set, an angel named Alex, left us. He had been brave for many months.
33 years of love and kindness, gave he.
Goodnight dearest Alex. We will meet again x 🤍
( no RT’s please 🙏🏽)
She wore a
#forgetful
face
Memories wiped
Like a duster to a shelf,
There…then gone.
But even on her final night,
She called my name,
And smiled at the daughter
She once knew 🧡💗💜
#vss365
#WriteMap
#Dementia
I wish you’d been my first,
But this I know -
You are my
#last
For you give me everything
I missed out on in between.
( 📸 by me)
#vss365
#PhotographyIsArt
Nature,
#hardwired
into her heart,
It is all she has remaining,
And so she clings on to the sky,
Hoping he will catch her when she falls.
#vss365
(📸 by me)
It matters not your height
Width of your arms
Length of your legs
How muscular your chest,
For I only look
To the
#shape
of your heart
The goodness therein
And I know, I just know
You are enough 🧡
#vss365
How many
#poignant
moments
Have passed in your lifetime?
One thousand or more?
Has happiness kissed your heart
To balance the pain?
Perhaps best we do not ponder…🤍
#vss365
#FridayFeeling
No one knows,
So I wear this grief alone,
Dignified, quiet,
A watercolour
#mask
Sorrow-painted smiles
Weeping rainbows
Into pretty rain puddles.
Sadness dressed up
In every seasonal shade.
(Alex 04.10.89- 24.03.23 💙)
#vss365
Will you allow
Warm fingers to
#ramble
Roam your body
Like a virginal tourist
Treading hot volcanic shores,
I, the roving beachcomber
Seeking driftwood & danger,
You, the shifting sand
Ablaze beneath my touch.
#vss365
#WriteMap
I wait, bathed in sweat
Febrile mist upon my skin
For tonight you return
When lunar steals light
#lycanthropy
steals heart
And the beast emerges
Spitting scorn my way,
And tho’ I’ll cower
Your contempt I’ll absorb
For I vowed to love thee, my Wolf 🖤
#vss365
I will walk amongst friends today attending the funeral of dear Fraser, a member of our monthly pub trivia team. We’ll miss our beautiful gentle giant.
I penned a poem & his family asked permission to print it in the order of service.
I’m so touched
Be well 🙏🏽
#FlowersOnFriday
#vss365
#whisper
#SecretWhispersBook
💙Hold my hand, safe, secure. Let me lead you on a woodland walk of whispered words. Under a sky of secret lies, I will unleash my soul, and spill forth all that is beautiful & all that is bad. Do you have it in you to hear? 💙
(📷 mine)
😬Oooh! So last night I took myself wayyyy out of my comfort zone & performed some poetry & flash at an open mic Halloween literary event.
I survived! 😂
#Bookshops
#Writers
#WritingCommnunity
💜Hello Lovely Friends.
It’s one year ago since I joined Twitter and I had no realisation how my life would change so.🌿
Meeting you all has brought much happiness, laughter and tears, too.
I wouldn’t change any of it.
💜Thank you💜
#WritingCommunity
#SaturdayVibes
So, I’m into healthy food but I’ve just eaten two of these bad boy baklavas 😂.
Going on power walk to equal it out... right? 😬
Dormant have I lain
Like a golden birch
Deprived of summer warmth
Waiting for winter to pass,
And
#yet
of late
Something stirs within,
A tentative leaf unfurls
Dewy with desire
As I dream of sweet seasons
To come…
#vss365
#PhotographyIsArt
(📸 by me)
My wolf reappears
Shrouded in mist
To open a sealed envelope
A secret within,
Enclosure enchants
His eyes seek mine
And in that moment
All that is sinful
#Exudes
In playful delight…💙🤍
#vss365
I’m off to a socially distanced event today 😃
We’re taking a car, bringing a picnic and will be listening to live music within grounds of a gothic stately house. Nice!
Sun is shining and a
good day beckons.
Wherever you are.... hope you enjoy 💖🌼💖
London’s made for
#Lovers
Cobbles & caverns
Secret streets
Mood mist
Mizzling mouths,
Where our lamp
Will be waiting,
Tungsten
Glowing lips,
Tongues
Teasing, tangled,
Kissing until we can kiss no more,
‘Cos bed is calling
And our bodies
Yearn, yes yearn,
To obey…
#vss365
📸 me
As we lay upon grass
Greener than the other side,
To the cerulean
Above we looked,
This royal London park Ours for one night,
‘Be my queen,’
You whispered,
And in that
#singularity
Of a perfect kiss,
The stars stilled
And we felt the stirrings
Of a thousand moons 💙
#vss365
She bowed her back
Leant in deep
Letting the limed foliage take her,
For the trees understood her despair,
She listened as the woodland wept,
Nature’s
#vernacular
she understood,
Done with mankind
And their spiteful words,
This was her home now… forever 💚
#vss365
‘Twas a dark
#romance
Snatched seconds
Lingered to lustful hours
Sultry shore our tempestuous bed
Bending to our bodies
Obeying commands.
We were worthy, my love,
Scribing initials in the sand
Waves to kiss
Under crimson moons a-crying.
Our slumbering hearts dream on 🖤💜
#vss365
As dawn once again graces us,
I rise,
Trepidation
To walk another day,
Stumble, steps,
‘ But steps nonetheless,’
I tell the sky.
She glows with the strength
Of a million roses,
And I recall a time
I glowed
With just one.
I steel myself,
Plead,
The
#endgame
Comes soon.
#vss365
📸
#Tender
be the night
Merciful in glow,
Clement waves caress
As if to quell this mounting angst,
For they know the lover ghosted
Three flaming moons ago,
Yet I, the fool, still come,
To wait on
#sterling
shores,
Where once two bodies writhed
In ardent shine.
#vss365
#NAlove
Frida observes as I pen,
Her once fraught brows
Relaxed by death,
But Kahlo strength
Still fierce as in life.
Her feisty
#skull
stares back
A determined reminder…
#vss365
The four judges
@HaikuCrush
chose a
#haiku
by Tess P.
@Tess_2020
of
#England
UK for The Best Haiku 2023, available via
"(Writing.) It's what I think of when I first awake and my last thought at night. It is a beautiful life full of endless possibilities."
I have no proper words
Mind’s a mess
Heart’s a mush
I’m no poet
When emotions overwhelm
This mix of moods you sow within, torment’s
You wield the sword
Silence, your weapon
Patience, my grace
This week slow
Like Fall’s reluctant leaf
A tender
#harvest
awaits your return
#vss365
Friday feels
Surged to Saturday,
Swathed amongst
#vermillion
The florist bathed upon petals,
Virginal tulle
Belied thoughts sweltering within,
She signalled danger
As she draped,
A living window display
Of irresistible
Temptation🌹
#vss365
#WriteMap
“I don’t know who you are anymore.
You presented as a sail
Blowing sorrow
On a breeze of poignant blue,
But your hue
Peeled to grey,
And now as you lay
Fetid in decay,
A
#shipwreck
broken
Still wishing to play,
I wonder who you are,
And if you’ll choose to stay…” 💙
#vss365
She feels his wretchedness
As if it were her own,
Poignant threads of maudlin
Tether thighs in despair
As she trembles from afar
#chanting
his name in dreams, distressed.
‘Words will return, fear not the wait, fall is coming to carry you home.’🍂🧡🍂
#vss365
(📸by me)
#nature
I writhe in your words
You writhe in mine,
Two fish
Lost in sand
Swim to one another,
Create their own sea
Share a soothing wave
And glow with the warmth
Of a thousand oysters.
In an ocean so turbulent,
How gratifying is this find…
#vss365
#writhe
We all
#bloom
at different times
Life dictates when
Time told me to wait
Finally it is here
And yes, earlier would have been nice
But you see in me
Petals to unfold
Scent fragrant, stem bold,
Pick me, darling,
Mine a floral story
Yearning to be told 💜
#vss365
#Photo
#Flowers
Paths
#beckon
But where will they lead?
Instinct whispers -
‘To the one who makes you smile’,
A butterfly flutters
From a bookmarked page
Lands light
Upon a homely shelf
And intuitively I know,
In her wings
I shall follow flight
Where warmth awaits…🧡
#vss365
#WriteMap
Clever how you caught me
Late last night,
Sleepy, I thought you safe
But in a flash
You tethered thighs
Lips & eyes
All your favourite body bits
Strung on beautiful lies
You did not even wait
To watch me wither & die
Simply stepped away
With a ‘sorry’ bye bye
#vss365
#vssmurder
Heaven plays cupid
Scattering stars,
Lily petals in the dark,
My wolf and I
#Moonstruck
By night’s carnal scent,
Lift our heads
And breathe it in…❤️🔥
#vss365
Midnight magick
Ghost
#train
grinds
Steaming silhouettes
Slither down moist steps,
Wasted spectres
Stealing souls
Salacious pleasures
They so desire,
Sleight of hand
Trick of the dark?
Yet still I spot you,
The
#fugitive
clenching
His ticket to damnation.
#vss365
#macabrewords
#FlowersOnFriday
#March2023
#KindnessMatters
💜At the end of the day, all we truly need are just kind words from a small number we genuinely love and care about. Relationships we’ve nurtured, faces we see in our dreams. Those ones matter to me…😌
Like a maple tree
Caught in wistful breeze
Your mouth swayed to mine
Dropped summer ardour
One leaf kiss at a time.
But was it just a dream
#Brush
stroked
In blurred shades of red?
This notion addles my thoughts
As I lay strewn
Intoxicated
Upon life’s
Autumn bed.
#vss365
Spiteful crumbs tossed she,
Smirking as they clambered to please their queen,
Ravenous pecks,
Eyes lowered upon an ink-swollen bosom,
Judicious revenge plotted
As thoughts of victory
watered sweetly
Within dry,
#parched
beaks
#vss365
#macabrewords
📸Pinterest
#Exquisite
Is the night,
Shifting sand
Beneath our bodies,
As twirling tongues
Play hide & seek,
And the cerulean sings us
Finally to sleep,
Desire sated
Like a moth to the sun.
#vss365
How I wish to wake
Taste you upon my tongue
A tender
#ritual
Whilst twilight motes tingle
Salt-spray droplets mingle
As two ocean-split lovers
Ride rough waves
As one…🧡
#SensualScribbles
#vss365
Dear Children
I so cherish you, but slowly you’re killing me & I ask why?
As best I can, I replenish oceans, land, skies. Tirelessly labour, yet still I wilt.
#Folklore
or fact. Only you know.
Please help me just a little🙏🏽
Love always,
Mother Nature x 💚
#EarthDay2024
#vss365