Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
oh ann this really got to me.. great poem
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oh ann this really got to me.. great poem
Ann Tigone (@anntigone.bsky.social) reposted
Misery predicated on being #obligated— a connection made long ago. I didn't have sense to know the risks of something so intense. But now my ego won't let go. I can't drop the baton, even when winning is really losing. So I'll hold you in my heart 'til the world stops turning. #emoetry
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
beautiful Julian. really bloody lovely indeedio
Julian (Hool) (@hool415.bsky.social) reposted
Hullo I’m hosting this week. Tag me @hool415.bsky.social and #promptcombo #winged (anything goes: angels, planes, birds etc!) Challenge closes early this week on Friday afternoon. Enjoy! @rfsmith.bsky.social @dragonslayerma.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social)
#soon you'll swoon or spoon play pontoon, stroke a raccoon moon, croon hopefully #soon #haikufeels #haiku
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
I have started another and got to the 8 line mark and faltered.. oh no I might be broken!!
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social)
It all came too #soon the end of summer saunters Autumn's brown leaves falls #haikufeels #haiku
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
I just couldn't do the extra 6 lines to get into a Spensarian sonnet today. Ive been reading Midsummer Night's Dream again and it just came out in this.
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
i dont feel it anymore... but for a long time I did.. writing this today has taken a lot to be honest
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social)
#fairy #poem #wildwalkprompt
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
very nice indeedio
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social)
#emoetry #obligated #poem #mentalhealth This is how I used to think about myself a long time ago, and I know a few people who still feel this way.
Mizz Whozza Whazzit (@mwplovesmusic.bsky.social) reposted
#Emoetry prompt for 9/1/2025 is #Obligated #writingcommunity #poetry @fafo-poets-society.bsky.social
Quill of Mnemosyne (@sonnetsmith.bsky.social) reposted
Hello Wild walk #writers I know I just did a similar one, but I love this picture. (Had to use flash to actually see it) a wish stuck in a web #Fairy Use the image/word to inspire your writing, then post using #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
oh matey its an absolute pleasure in introducing different weird forms... that is a really good cascade you did. Steve the penguin did a little a dance.. thats how good it was!!
scoopskie.bsky.social (@scoopskie.bsky.social) reposted
#vss365 #yearn #sundayswap #poetry Thank you @fafo-poets-society.bsky.social and @sonnetsmith.bsky.social for the inspiration. Also @daveashleypoet.bsky.social for introducing new poetry formats that I continue to use. #cascade
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
I steal the words out of christmas crackers (don't tell anyone)
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social)
more fences to #mend social conventions broken I, apologise #haikufeels #haiku
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
A fine sonnet, technically brilliant and incredibly well written. Absolutely in awe matey Come on Steve do your mad hat thing!!
Quill of Mnemosyne (@sonnetsmith.bsky.social) reposted
I'm starting to fall behind again 😰😔... But.... Quite happy with this one... It's a #sonnet for @daveashleypoet.bsky.social as well! The Choir of Bitter Man #Emoetry #poetry #poem #hatred #bandwagon #Mad
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
hey anytime... I got hit by a wave of "WTF am I writing" and now feel I might need specialist mental health support!
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
damn good poem there OI OI Stevey boy.. come here
Quill of Mnemosyne (@sonnetsmith.bsky.social) reposted
All caught up... I think... And ready for today! #blueskyrelay #blueskypoet #poem #petry
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social)
#blueskyrelay #guillemot #cheese #flamethrower #pegasus #delivery #poem #silly
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
They are slightly tougher but in a weirdly fun way
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you. Today, it just seemed to write itself.
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
This is why I keep asking hidden under my right armpit...just in case.
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
stunning poem Ann, love your stuff it make me want to be a better writer. Steve says I should give up, stop trying and just let you be the poet!
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
stunning poem Ann, love your stuff it make me want to be a better writer. Steve says I should give up, stop trying and just let you be the poet!
Ann Tigone (@anntigone.bsky.social) reposted
Rote Rotation An autumn breeze shakes the trees, and the world quivers just a little, #land shifts, Atlas re-adjusts the weight. Just maybe the movement is enough for us to make sense again? Turning on the news, the answer is no. We still rotate around the same shit. #RetroArtPrompt
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
I'll have to stop messing here or people will genuinely think I have a thing for heavenly bodies.... really heavenly one.... I maybe sometime!
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
yeah I'm having problems with this one today... but I'll keep going!
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
look I don't support Leeds (they are utter shite these days!!) you should have won.
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
its not murdering!! Its wholesale carnage!!!! I mean Ive just got a tummy ache.. thats why im moaning. Oh god I think I'm reenacting my teenage years!
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
stop talking to me... you're putting me off looking at Saturn's Rings... its dirty dirty rings!!! cough.. pardon me
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah I'm going to be looking at more physics pics now... for science ... not because I'm some weird physics pervert.
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
as long as you get that feeling of being all safe and secure, im sure the realms of machine gun fire weapon grade haikus can wait a number of days. You take care, big man.
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
aren't we all!!
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
hope it goes well Ray and you get settled quick
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
thanks so much, im glad you like it
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social)
Its a new Sunday which harkens a new Form Challenge!!! I know you say "sonnets! pah they are so Shakespearean!!" well that is untrue!!! This week it #Spensarian sonnet form. three interlocked quatrains and a final couplet!!!!! here are the rules en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spenser...
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
See everyone needs to be better to Geryon on goals
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social)
#emoetry #blankverse #naked #poem #muse
Mizz Whozza Whazzit (@mwplovesmusic.bsky.social) reposted
#Emoetry prompt for 8/31/2025 is #Naked #writingcommunity #poetry @fafo-poets-society.bsky.social
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks mate. I feel better about myself now.
Mizz Whozza Whazzit (@mwplovesmusic.bsky.social) reposted
Small bits of happy collect at the corners of my mouth slowly pulling my lips upward until I am smiling, then the sadness falls off my cheeks for the moment #poetry
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
I like doing these hard hitting, emotional subjects which are a constant in my work. And not seeing if my follower numbers will dwindle!
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
Instead admit I liked writing this one
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
You're way to kind Ann
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
They'll love it.. All postal workers secretly fantasise about handling a boxed up manky squirrel corpse. It ls a question asked at the job interview.
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
Any corpse, any space, Any where. It'd my new jingle
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
I really don't know where i get these shit ideas from!
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm not choosy
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
Until I can kick a body.. I don't trust anything.... which I don't see as a bad thing... but apparently, you get found in a morgue, and people lose their shit when you are trying to believe in things by corpse kicking. Political Correctness gone mad!
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you Robin
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
He is reportedly not available till Tuesday... my money is dead on Monday!
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm doing that Tuesday... I got some time free yhat day
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
This is way too emotional for us British... I might have to invade a country now and steal their antiquities
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
this makes life soooo much better
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
I just really love you guys
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
they are wearing their normal faces to hide their inner ones.. tricksy f*cks!! (edgy poet)
Mizz Whozza Whazzit (@mwplovesmusic.bsky.social) reposted
I longingly #gaze you are celestial pools I am a swimmer #haikufeels #senryu #poetry
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
thanks so much matey. i really hope you get out of your funk soon
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
I love it when epileptics find one another (If there is a hell I'm going there now)
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah that's just grime band name when you are laying down sick beats. We know the truth!
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
Too oooooo kind! It's a 2!
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you. It's something a load of us do. I tend to see behind the masking and I care about people.... just don't tell folk as really I am a dark poet!
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
Just for depression here . I was/am an addict... been clean of heroin about the same time. I write a bit about the cPTSD from those very bad days and still get hit by depression every now and again.
🔆Fiery Sun Song🔆 (@fluxofmind.ca) reposted
Hello again, writers! Here is your #BlueSkyRelay #prompt for Aug 30: #CHOSEN Picked; the past tense of choose. 🔆🔆🔆 Imagine that you already chose what to write - what did you decide? 💡
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm trying the Free Verse as all the kids on the street are doing it! Am I hip now?
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
A time gone by. Thanks for your exceptionally kind words
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social)
Your mask may deflect repel those who don't see the real you Just the paper armour. the soft apparel of naked emotion raw, vulnerable, loving. A person whole, Not the fighter, the jester, or the lover. Just you without the mask. #poem #freeverse
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks Dave, being in the North I can remember so many communities wrecked and nothing for a generation put in place for gge former miners. Truly a terrible time indeed
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
It's an old poem of mine. Today writing I'm finding difficult. Depression doesn't kick me as much as it once did since I normally write every day. But honestly, thank you for the comment Quill, old chap!
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social)
nothing but a #gaze being with you is heaven cuddling wrapped, in bed #haikufeels #haiku #love
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social)
#emoetry #mad #wildwalkprompt #reflection #mentalhealth #depression
Quill of Mnemosyne (@sonnetsmith.bsky.social) reposted
Hello Wild walk #writers I forget how beautiful this lake is. The reflections make it look green & dirty, unless you catch it just right #Reflection Use the image/word to inspire your writing, then post using #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub
Mizz Whozza Whazzit (@mwplovesmusic.bsky.social) reposted
#Emoetry prompt 8/30/2025 is #Mad #writingcommunity #poetry @fafo-poets-society.bsky.social
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
It would be worth while Paul. You have a great knowledge of writing and would give good advice on the subject.
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
If it were a weekly one Paul it would make sense. There is such a lot of work answering questions
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
Always
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you so much Silvia. You are so very very kind
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
Random!
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
Now that is a deeply powerful poem. Really good writing Ann Steve the penguin loves it
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
Fuck... I'll start being more random!
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
It's my children's illustrated thesaurus!
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
Awwww thanks Ann!
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
I've decided if I'm really random it keeps women away. It's amazing being a lunatic works!
Dave Ashley (@daveashleypoet.bsky.social) reply parent
I've given up on heartbreak and I just now fo around shouting "don't get close!"