So true!
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So true!
If somebody says, "Do NOT feel #obligated," don't buy it! You ARE! #Emoetry #Obligated #HaikuChallenge #Haiku #Senryu #Poetry #MicroPoetry #Poems #Humor #Humour #LightVerse #PoetryCommunity
The rain comes, it puddles up in the streets in the mud And when he goes evaporation into humidity Both ever stunning states of matter for the matter Yet the moments between, waiting, languishing pause are absolute torture #poetry
Yum!
Thanks @nomadwriter.bsky.social and @mysticalmadness.bsky.social for the reposts
You want to hear songs of joy, but all I have is sorrow, you want to talk about today, but I may have no tomorrow; scribble words upon words but they are chicken scratch, give you all the thoughts, but it’s an unlit match; now an abyss now an abyss, songs of sorrow is what I can give #poetry
Thanks!
Life is floating on one-winged hope, making endless loop-di-loops back around to try again until someday, it lands, a broken bird. #promptcombo #poetry
It went too and fro, dancing down the hall, with socks of shadow on its feet and no one there at all. #poetry
I E L E G Y I N B L O O M I Even in decay, there is poetry. #ElegyInBloom — a quiet meditation on fragility, time, and the beauty that lingers in endings. - The Asylum Art - Art and words by Yves #bloom #flower #decay #fragility #beauty #art #blueskyart #complexptsd #cptsd #poetry
Thank you
Lovely and thought provoking
Spending the day, fun at sea ~ Obligation ~ Free… Splashing Waves, Dashing Nation, Out Of luck. Under the gun, a plea… ©️ #Seranya #CubistPoet #AmWriting #Poetry by #Emoetry #Prompt #Obligated
#movingsongs #musicchallenge #blueskypoets youtu.be/DtVBCG6ThDk?...
Mood
That should read *one some more* ugh typos
#movingsongs #musicchallenge #blueskypoets youtu.be/oIIxlgcuQRU?...
So many prompts in this little haiku! Great job!
soon obligated to bare the depths of my past to get through the gates #vss365 #prompt #past #vssdaily #bare #BlueSkyRelay #depth #Emoetry #Obligated #haikufeels #soon
I suggested this to someone the other day. Gorgeous poem.
The end #obligated #emoetry #vssdaily
Though the Loch Ness line made me laugh, sad poem.
#Emoetry An obligated post About the pain that swallows me the most That despair that gnaws me Indisputably, slowly I try to feel a sliver of happiness. But the cloud of hopelessness Hovers over my life mess Can I be swallowed by the Loch Ness? Gone and forgotten. Die young and downtrodden, I did
Love this vocal delivery so much ❤️❤️
*THE MUSE...* #Haiku #3lines #poetry #prompt #writesky #Skypoets #micropoetry #spokenword #poetrylovers #blueskypoets #vss365 #past #writingprompt #haikucommunity #haikufeels #soon #poetrycommunity #emoetry #obligated #haikuchallenge #opus #dailyhaikuprompt #sprouts *Audio On, Please* 🗣 🎙
#movingsongs #musicchallenge #blueskypoets youtu.be/iNwC0sp-uA4?...
I’ll have to think on this someone some more but I really like it. Are you drawn so strongly it seems like obligation?
#Emoetry #Poetry #PoetSky
Love this!
This is long, messy, a little left field.... and needs a lot of work... But I think I'll be able to make it work eventually.... I think... (Sorry.. its quite a long one... and very rambling..) #obligated #Emoetry #poetry #blueskypoet #poem #letter #email
Thank you so much ❤️
#movingsongs #musicchallenge #blueskypoets youtu.be/rNxNXcNSyTk?...
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Thank you
Thank you for all the reposts!
mining some ink? spill it #prompts 9/01/25 #poetry #deceit #excoriate #art #tanka Deceit • Thunder excoriates— the skeletal oak branches foul rusty wood grave here, wildflowers refuse bloom and earthworms flee the soil. #arw-raw w/ #artissttree
No smoke signal needed, no flare in the air, I’ve seen your message, no word written or uttered; I change my clothes curl my hair put on some makeup- still I’m not there; It aches It aches to know, I’m not there #poetry
For @rayhourigan.bsky.social #MovingSongs #MusicChallenge #BlueSkyPoets youtu.be/7-lWzQd_xeQ?...
I’m a #cluster sure! messes piled upon mess but also nice too! #wildwalkprompt #senryu #poetry
Painful indeed ❤️
It's funny till it's not. Best wishes. #banterbabes #emoetry #obligated #satire #politicalpoetry #humor #poem #poetry #resist #bruisedorange
#spensarian #sonnet #poem #love #writing
I wanted to write a Spensarian Sonnet... But tentacled beasties aren't really the type to conform like that. #blueskypoet #poem #blueskyrelay #depth
This one is heart-wrenching. So many great lines though
#vss365 #past #Emoetry #obligated #poetry #amwriting #skywriter #blueskywriter
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what a fucking shame I'm feeling obligated to write poetry coping with the hardness of a world I wasn't built for #poetry #emoetry #tanka #poetrycommunity
Not just holiday unions fought for workers rights some protest today #dailyhaikews #poetry #haiku
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her past melting like spun sugar in hot cauldron sticky thoughts taste like candy cotton memory collecting inside the cracks #poetry #tanka #vss365 #past #poetrycommunity
This sounds like a child
She looks at you makes demands obliges you to answer questions and answers dissecting your mind One eye exposed she can see into the wilderness of your soul Sometimes she sings and dances and laughs driving a wedge right through your heart. #obligated #Emoetry
I feel this one deeply. Fantastic poem
Don't feel #obligated to read this. #Emoetry #writingcommunity #poetry @fafo-poets-society.bsky.social @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social
Wouldn’t it be nice though?
#emoetry #haiku #obligated
@malformed-poetry.bsky.social #mpprompt #poetry My authoritarian father taught me to disobey everyone but him but then he criticized who I disobeyed when he didn’t agree and then finally and ardently, I told him no- free from his shadow of fear free from obligation to respect free to say NO.
Wah wah
Happy Labor Day and mystical Monday. @fafo-poets-society.bsky.social #MondayMusicVibe I hope this starts your week out right youtu.be/1reSpJWbuYE?...
Day 1- “In the Pines” by Leadbelly which to me is still the better version I’m sorry Nirvana fans. #davidsmonthofmusic youtu.be/8z-avOlx3pw?...
This is my #opus you’re witnessing it real time enjoy the coda #haikuchallenge #senryu #poetry
I will give up #soon my feet are tiring now my heart will go next #haikufeels #senryu #poetry
Trauma robs us of our #past scarring it, bending it darkening it, twisting it, shattering it- sometimes becoming to many misunderstood pieces to ever truly reconstruct; I leave this puzzle for years, unsolvable. #vss365 #poetry #trauma #cptsd
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Wytness obligated me To holding mirrors Speaking out Against the racist drivel Thought my skin Meant safety For their hate They couldn’t see My NDN, Hispanic roots I saw them hide some hate Unwitnessed by other wyts Some only for wyts Racism was clearly A choice #emoetry obligated #poetry
Stay #golden or at least cool. #7syllablesentence
Hands #calloused from attempting to endlessly mold pleasant thoughts, instead tossing the misshapen lumps into the #depths; don’t return, don’t return; the exercise begins anew, perhaps we just accept what’s there #wordedart #ourpoetryx #blueskyrelay #poetry
Born to the wrong #family, feelings #bare, craving to find a crevice, a crag to hold onto, a whisper to #relate- dreaming she lived a #watercolor life but more one ruined by rain, and someone shouting art is weakness #2wordprompt #vssdaily #pennedreveries #poetry
*trigger warning* This wasn’t what she wanted, but they did it anyway, ripped the clothes she came clad in, took her world for theirs, chanted their songs of dominance, degradation- until she was there no more, and this all happened to a dead doll #fromoneline 386 #vssmagic #poetry
I give you my heart, time, then you say you say I am obligated to do so- Time turns to sand burying me in hourglasses, hearts turn to brick walling me out; I give you myself but it’s not me you want #emoetry #poetry
You’re lovely defined infinity no bouncies #banter #poetry
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Not obligated I never do what I’m told Rules are for suckas! #emoetry #obligated #senryu #haiku
Thank you!
The final episode of «The Adventures of Nyx and Antin:The BlueSky Files»was brought to you by these prompts: #WIPSnips - #Excuse #VSSMagic - #Clad #VSSDaily - #Bare #VSS365 - #Past #Whistpr - #Angle #BlueSkyRelay - #Depth #Emoetry - #Obligated #writingprompt PS: this will be heavily edited....
Love the second line.
"They were there to be chosen. Not relegated to the box of the obligated. Seen truly, heard completely, known fully. Honest love is a choice made every day. Without duress. In a realm that a matched pair crafts with gentle hands and strong conviction. The calm that doesn't need lightning" #emoetry
I journaled after pondering this week's episode of #po3try I liked the poem that came from it so I wanted to share it in messy journal format. The ALT text has the poem if you can't read my handwriting. #poetry #journaling #hobonichi #peoplepleasing #healing #burnout #mentalhealth #threelings
Alliteration galore!
September scuds across a spic-and-span sky long-scoured by summer’s silent scorching #poetry
You are beautiful
That soft person is always there. Beautiful poem.
#emoetry #obligated
I agree. Great haiku.
Duty? Forget it. Baggage restraining the soul! Give us freedom's key. #emoetry #haiku #obligation
Darn right universe!
#emoetry The universe #obligated me To love you For all eternity Beyond the span Of the light Of the moon Even unto The stars And I Because I Don't like Being told What to do Told the universe To fuck off I'd love who I want When I want Even when I'm old.
This bit, “I can't drop the baton, even when winning is really losing.” Oof. Such a good poem.
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
Love the reverse acrostic effect. Brilliant
“I told you s𝗼” Those words grew num𝗯 All so bana𝗹 my required state of ennu𝗶 I stopped waitin𝗴 Awoke from my com𝗮 I showed my respec𝘁 but this time it was for m𝗲 “Isn’t that what you’d sai𝗱?” #emoetry #poetry
This is comforting somehow
power of touch each morning i fill with Hope steeped in birth tis why we often will stay dark when the Sun rises we are born obligated to a wordless a poem less sense of being beyond feeling sometimes grace is a simple hug all a soul needs lantern-ing the body through eons #emoetry
We want to believe that though. Great haiku
The universe is Under no obligation To reward the bold #emoetry #haiku
Lovely Senryu ❤️
In obligations, heart's true desire is shown follow that instead #poetry #haiku #senryu #emoetry #obligation
Love the lead up to the ending metaphor “I shout away the suffering of ages until my heart becomes gorilla glass, unbroken.”