Aspiring poet, haphazard artist, Dad, veteran and rabid anti-fascist. On the left fighting for rights.
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Will. Not. Rise. In. The. Oven. 👏👏👏👏🫶🫶🖊️🔥🔥🔥🔥
Heading to D.C. for the music festival tomorrow. If things get weird or you're having an issue and you see this bag, pretty sure I can help you out. #FDT #Resist #50501 We are all DC!
I love this one, and it moves so fluidly to the ending. Perfect for "song"
Musicians I’ve married a few, dated many, had #songs written or sung or played just for me, then the songs always changed, describing not me, places I hadn’t been, doing things I hadn’t done; love ending with a musician is a song about someone else #blueskyrelay #poetry
Thank you. 🙏🙏
#poetry #Emoetry #sabotage (Art: "Phoenix Rising," by Anne Stokes)
That was some poetry!! Really powerful imagery and word choices! 🔥🔥🔥
#vss365 #article #poetry #prose I am not going to apologize for the title. It was almost "Call me a Cab" Another snippet.
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#Emoetry #sabotaged #poetry "You can be your own worst enemy" -My therapist "Locate, close with, and destroy the enemy" - the backbone tenant of the USMC rifle squad
That is beautiful
#vss365 Vigil For Winter Autumn: loose-leafed article of orchard bruises, of horses lurching through violet fog A sun-scarred scarecrow slumps, a hawthorn bough folds itself into blossom bones. and the soil? The soil, hardens, braced for frost’s brutality. #article #poetry #poem #poet
It’s #FeatureFriday and #BandcampFriday! My pick for this week is the just released “No Love Songs Volume 2” by @mboezi.bsky.social Singer/songwriter/guitarist Michael Boezi and a bunch of fine musicians bring us a great collection of songs about the unfortunate state of the world.
Bees buzz Oh you don't like analogies? Unfortunate Not to tell your business but Denoting arbitrary lines is so Ah I can't say it. You'll Revoke my psych licence for it. I know you understand the nuance Everyone thinks they should have a line So what? I'm sure you'll cope...
Thank you very much!! 🙏🙏
I drew an #arbitrary line in the sand, #conscious when I reached it that I'd let go, but the sand moved like a mirage. I chased it as far as I could then fell down, exhausted. It moved again so I gave in and let myself just think about you. #vss365 #BlueSkyPoetry #poem
#Emoetry #rabid #poetry Trigger warning, maybe. There was a time when I argued a losing case through many a bathroom door. Which side depended on the day. This was an inside day, and the last time. We split the next morning.
Thank you! As for aplomb do the wild ones eat crackers? I could get some crackers.
Yay!!! Thank you
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#BlueSkyRelay #Solitary #poetry With all due respect to Edgar
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#vss365 #conscious #poetry
Morning
#PoemsAbout #Facades @alanparrywriter.co.uk Staged Sometimes, I wonder if everyone else is just a better actor than I thought possible… if we’re all walking around in costumes that itch— applauding each other’s performances, while forgetting, we used to know how to —simply be. #arw-raw #art
I have been thinking a lot about this. Your poem is a beautiful way to ask the question. How much of me is for show? Thank you.
The silence between us is heavy, a weight I never meant to carry. Your absence feels deliberate, though your cruelty was arbitrary, as if my heart were a coin tossed in the air, and you chose to let it fall unclaimed. #vss365 #poetry #arbitrary
Dreary Midnight And I'm weary, grieving for My poor baby It's sleepy time But there's a tapping at the door Am I crazy? Dreary Midnight And there's a raven on the move From my front door It never leaves No matter how much I reprove Says "Nevermore"
The ash That remains All there is The veritable Ink of our lives Spelling out Words of Illusion And allusion Conjuring an image Of who we Used to be Anything of import Said sideways Only one word When three Might have Been enough #poetry #writercommunity #poem
Military strike and 'alleged' should not go together. Not that it matters anymore, but I just felt like pointing it out. #resist #fdt #fdjt www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/p...
#vssdaily #snap The world is faster now getting faster Time is shorter now, our lives longer Time shrinkflation quicker Road rages and two minute noodles Queuing at drive-thrus for what seems like hours Our fifteen minute attention span down to seven seconds I wish I could snap my fingers and fix it
We awoke #quaking from the dream We are rowing a malevolent stream The waters break their banks A storm that screams and cranks Boats flood streets seeking safety The drowning still takes those crafty #emoetry #couplets #poetry #micropoetry #poem
Wednesday Again Midweek river: slow, stubborn, generous. I stand on the bank and offer it my list of reasons. The water answers with silt and shine, writes over my arguments, leaves a space just wide enough for a better sentence to arrive. #poetry
The strongman at the carnival snaps chains for the crowd, flexes beneath the striped tent to roaring applause. But his weights are hollow, his feats rehearsed. #poetry
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Ah! Selfishly I will miss reading your work! A break is good! Be well! See ya soon
Given the Choice, These atoms Would remain Carbon and Oxygen, Hydrogen and Nitrogen, Free floating In space, Having already Paid what they Owed in fire. #poetry
Good to get guidance From me, myself I Tuning in Inwards In writing Quiet Nature #Poem #smArtist #Photography #Nature #Flower #RedWed #Intuition #Guidance ♥️ How and where do you receive your own inner guidance best??? Do you agree it’s worth listening to? 👉 www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/life...
A Revolt of Sensibilities A revolt of sensibilities, Principles clash like thunder, Within the mind's dark hall, Where certainties sunder, Right wrestles with wrong, In deepness, we ponder. #poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #abstract #bluesky #photo #blueskypoetry #blueskyphoto
Take part in our writing competition! Weave words into wonder with a poem that explores magical realms and mythical beings. For more info and to submit your story, visit: bit.ly/4p8emyc #Poetry #Fantasy #Writing #Booksky
#Pained By which I sat watching through glass panes left with a heart maimed #poetry #emoetry
My flesh is made of atoms, and each atom has a past. I wonder in whose bodies all those atoms were in last. It's kind of #arbitrary, how our bloodlines are defined, when we're all composed of atoms other beings left behind. #vss365
Where evening light falls arbitrary and cruel, I trace the emptiness that holds your shape. #vss365
the leaves’ sleepy veins wilt golden with rust autumn’s copper blood #haiku #whistpr
The rhythm is immaculate!! 🔥🔥
Breath on neck Quivering and shaking Fingertips on skin Shivering and #quaking Lips on lips Saying and pleasing Hips on hips Playing and seizing #Poetry #Emoetry #WritingCommunity
All of this feels so #arbitrary, I promise, it’s not- the plot has been in motion for years, having a bumbling idiot at the helm just fogged up the glass; the moment the birther conspiracy evolved to a movement will be debated; the Wizard is Miller, not Trump, and this is his doing #vss365 #poetry
This is an 'out loud' poem!! So so good!
An aching, #quaking, desperate lust; churning, yearning, burning- so exquisite, It cannot be quenched #emoetry #poetry
poised like a statue languished and bold feeling your eyes upon me roving regarding feasting upon my skin study me like a still life bring me to life with your hands #pennedreveries #poetry
there is no just the right light still life caught hues lent vividity yet grace never denied dream-figures in tableau tenebrous or radiant always meant for embrace #pennedreveries
Ended up writing them all in one. #vssdaily #snap #vss365 #arbitrary #blueskyrelay #abode #emoetry #quaking #wildwalkprompt #light
An #arbitrary foretelling your name amongst rainfall salt-wind gleaned spiralling in my ears the whispered overture of feeling filtered through shingle hymnals wound around a rosary of winkle shells how imagination vibrates echoes of longing blooming dark and wet beneath the moon #vss365 #poetry
Wrote a poem with arbitrary words got a lot of praise that I never deserved wrote a song with random notes about a ship that never floats leave my life to utter chance don’t go with my head I follow my heart #vss365 #arbirary
on a train south inspired by #prompt words: #pained #Emoetry #writingcommunity #poetry @fafo-poets-society.bsky.social @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social #elude @stephlepht.bsky.social #vss365 @vss365hq.bsky.social #limestone @fluxofmind.ca #BlueSkyRelay @blueskyrelay.bsky.social
That is really good! 'walk one worry slower' Will stay with me for a bit
WEDNESDAY Walk one worry slower. Ease into the hardest inch. Do the first thing gently. Notice the smallest bright. Edit your hurry. Say yes to help. Drink water, then light. Ask for someone’s story. Yield the last word. #poetry
The important things Tend to be little things With significant weight, When assembled together They become a grand castle That inside, feels as snug As a country cottage J. C. 09.03.25 #poetry #love #thelittlethings #ourlovestory
#Quaking, trembling — that is how they want us: fearful and blind, sick and #pained. Misdeeds, gluttony, their deviance on display, proudly projected onto the innocent. Against the illusions, these delusions, this madness, we must be the weighted anchor. #Emoetry #quaking #pained #prompt #poetry
Mood
Well I will take that compliment !! Thank you good sir! And Steve is always a welcome sight!
Thank you!! 🙏
Gotta respect the honesty!
Hey #bluesky #poetrycommunity ! Yeah you, the #poets , the #skywriters , the #blueskypoets , the #prompt warriors: You are all so damn good it is humbling! I read so many things each day that inspire me, it is impossible to keep up! Thank you all for sharing your work.
How does it play directly to the core of me? Trembling on my heartstrings, birthing me into life and tearing me apart— with its beautiful melancholy... #Sensewrds #prompt 114 Wistful Silhouette Concerto #poem #poetry #BlueSkyPoetry #BlueSkyPoets
Thank you Kindly!! 🙏🙏
🖊️🖊️🔥😀 So fun and well done! Infinitely clever as always, my friend!!
#punctuation #poem #silly #nightmare
#Emoetry #Quaking #poetry #amwriting #blueskypoet #skywriter
Damn. You got it. Brutally good.
#SenseWrds #prompt No. 114 Curtains breathe softly, stirred by drafts from unseen doors. A figure lingers only in memory, fragile as dust caught in lamplight. Once, the air swelled with sound. Now it waits, patient, for nothing. #writing #blueskywriters #writingcommunity #writingprompts
Thank you!! 🙏
You call me home, but I’m just walls that trap you. My rooms laugh at your efforts, my windows frame your failures. You don’t belong here, but where else would take you? #blueskyrelay #prompt #abode #writing #5amwritersclub
Damn good! 👍👏👏👏👏
Good morning!
What a fantastic piece! I couldn't love this poem more. Thank you for sharing
#WordedArt #crucial #prose #poetry #amwriting #skywriter #blueskypoet "The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea" -Ovid Yeah, it's prose. I am counting it anyway.
Damn good. I read it out loud and over!
Great poem! Excellent rhythm and the word choices really make you think. Powerful stuff
Thank you very much 🙏🙏
Thank you
#vss365 #arbitrary #poetry #amwriting #blueskypoet #skywriter "All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves" - Amelia Barr
#Emoetry #pained #poetry #skywriter #blueskypoet #amwriting 'They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried." -Tim O'Brien
Thank you! I was going for the cloth wordplay, but your last thought is very interesting. I am really happy it inspired that kind of thought!
You may elude your Past for so long, you forget What you're running from. #vss365 #past #elude #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
Thank you!!
#vssdaily #zipper #poetry #amwriting #skywriter #blueskypoet
#vss365 #elude #amwriting #skywriter #poetry #blueskypoet "Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction" -John F. Kennedy
Mood
That's really good! Super great mood. Neat prompts!!!
It is a lot to think about. You have clearly walked these thoughts, and worked them through. It is really amazing. I believe you have some really good points, and a very solid perspective! Thank you for taking the time!
#vss365 #past #Emoetry #obligated #poetry #amwriting #skywriter #blueskywriter
Civility Rote routes to civility, A march of pre-set, vacant smiles that stretches on for endless miles. Rote routes to civility, A march of vacant, set replies beneath the same compliant skies. #poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #Photography #bluesky #photo #wildlife #blueskypoetry #blueskyphoto
“Nonsense” Mad is a teacup that drinks itself, porcelain lips chattering secrets to owls who gossip in cloaks and spoons that bend in the air. #poetry #nonsense
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Thank you, for the prompts!!