Nods to @victoriaspires.bsky.social for hosting this week's #PromptCombo #Rupture.🙏

Apologies for the late contribution to #PoemsAbout #UnderTheSkin. I went in a different direction than I expected. Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry

Thank you @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for hosting this week’s #PromptCombo and this compelling #AChangeofUse prompt. I was framing an idea and this helped direct me.

For this week's #PoemsAbout #Undressed, I'm thinking about edges made plain. Thank you to the host @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk and to all of the other writers.

For #PoemsAbout #Undressed. Bows to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry

It's Friday, and #PoemsAbout. Welcome all who write, read, like, comment, share. I went down a dark path this week for #Undressed, the outcome of watching a documentary series about propaganda; vulnerability from the wrong angle. After a hasty Thursday rewrite something more mellow emerged.

For #PoemsAbout #Undressed. Many thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry

@dragonslayerma.bsky.social Squeezing one more #ecstasy one in. #PromptCombo #poetry

#delighted #Emoetry @fafo-poets-society.bsky.social @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social‬ #delight @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social #vss365 @vss365hq.bsky.social

#PRISMATIC @daveashleypoet.bsky.social 7th #FreeVerseFebruary #prompt

One for #PromptCombo #Ecstasy, and I hope it's suitably ecstatic

Good morning @dragonslayerma.bsky.social, many thanks for your great #PromptCombo prompt #ecstasy. I had nothing at first but sat down and came up with this: a bit rough and ready but that's the beauty of prompts, I guess!

Another for this great prompt from @dragonslayerma.bsky.social #promptcombo #ecstasy #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry

Thank you, Fidel @dragonslayerma.bsky.social #promptcombo #ecstasy #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry

This #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils is inspired by a modern take on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Minister’s Black Veil. Many thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

I'm sorry this one is so long, but once it started coming out it wouldn't stop. Thank you @thebrokenspine.co.uk for yet another traumatic/cathartic #PoemsAbout prompt. #BlackVeils #narrativepoetry

Here's a voice that wants to make a statement. Don't think I've written anything like this before for #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoetsOnBluesky

I've just read through all the #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils that have gone up so far. I have to say that the quality is stratospheric this week. My breath is taken away. I'd better throw my veil into the ring...

For this week's #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils, I'm thinking about systems protecting themselves. Error logs, forthcoming. Thank you to the host @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk and to all of the other writers. #poetry #poem #writing #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

Vibes to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk I did not think I could contrive something for #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils. Also sharing with #promptcombo #moment #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #newpoem

And one more with thanks to @victoriaspires.bsky.social for #promptcombo #moment

For @rfsmith.bsky.social and your #PromptCombo #Moment. Death, indeterminacy and musical notation.

With apologies for my late post to this wonderful prompt from @victoriaspires.bsky.social for #promptcombo #moment

With appreciation for #PoemsAbout #FalseCrown @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

#PoemsAbout #TimeSlips @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will put a reading in the comments.

#PoemsAbout #TimeSlips @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk I wrote a prose poem for this week's prompt #TimeSlips, a longer poem, thank you for reading!

For #PoemsAbout #TimeSlips, I shared this elsewhere in Dec.* The world does as it pleases, but we're in conversation with it, & there’s agency in that. We don’t know what’s possible until we try. Go bravely, then. Try. #Compassion *[written before events in MN. Some actions are gravely final. 💔]

For this week's #PoemsAbout #TimeSlips, I'm thinking about what gets left unprocessed. Thank you to the host @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk and to all of the other writers. #poetry #poem #writing #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

Good morning! For #PoemsAbout #TimeSlips I'm fascinated by time. 😊 Thank you as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

With apologies for the late Friday post to #PoemsAbout #TimeSlips. As usual, gracious hat tip to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry

#PoemsAbout #static has me mindful of white noise in relationships Thank you to host @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry

Combining #FromOneLine : Prompt 397 “We should have stopped” with: #PoemsAbout #YouShouldntHave @thebrokenspine.co.uk #Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poetry Thanks for Stopping by! 🙏🫶🙏

#PoemsAbout #YouShouldntHave A poem inspired by Toyin Agbetu I discovered this while watching a documentary about the British Royal family, on the BBC this week. it's more in praise of what he did rather than what he shouldn't have.

For #PoemsAbout #YouShouldntHave I am thinking about all the things I shouldn't do. Warm nods to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry

Sneaking this in before it chimes for the end of this day and thinking for #memorial about each day being an irretrievable loss. #promptcombo @rfsmith.bsky.social #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry

= after autumn = so who will remember but the flowers i watered the birds that i fed the black dog that followed to the garden shed though never a sigh for the words that i wrote in blood on autumn leaves #PromptCombo #Memorial #poem #poetry v3

#weird #magenta #rift got me thinking like this. #Emoetry @fafo-poets-society.bsky.social @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social‬ @sanjar.bsky.social #vss365 @vss365hq.bsky.social @ewiggins66.bsky.social #BlueSkyRelay @blueskyrelay.bsky.social

Another for #blueskyrelay and #rift. This one from a university outing in Hawai'i give me an opportunity to be a bit more literal. Feels topical since Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has been showing off spectacularly. Thank you @ewiggins66.bsky.social.

Hello #blueskyrelay here’s one for #rift Thank you @ewiggins66.bsky.social for hosting!

For this week's #PoemsAbout #Imps, I'm thinking about a presence behind the ear. Thanks to the host @alanparrywriter.co.uk. And thank you to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and to all of the other writers. #poetry #poem #writing #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

This is a WIP and is in part about that very thing. #promptcombo #thispoem #poem @victoriaspires.bsky.social. What a great prompt! #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social my first for #smallpoemsunday #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry

Offering one for #retroartprompt #silver and #wintry @anntigone.bsky.social #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry

For #PoemsAbout #NoFuture , , , and maybe breaking the hourglass? Will return later to read others’. Thank you for reading! 🙏💫 @thebrokenspine.co.uk #Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poetry

This week's #PoemsAbout prompt #NoFuture took me straight into something that is a sad reality, here in France, I have been closely connected to. Thank you for the ongoing inspiration @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk Happy weekend poets! 💜

For this week's #PoemsAbout #NoFuture, I'm thinking about paradoxes and the future problem. Holding our host @alanparrywriter.co.uk in my thoughts this week and thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and to all of the other writers. #poetry #poem #writing #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

#poemsabout #NoFuture #KeepWriting @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché #poetrycommunity #poetry #PoetsWhoSupportPoets #PoetsOfBlueSky knocked out quickly - interrupted by a person from Porlock gaps to be filled...