We are all the same thing, after all. #mpprompt #Afterall #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writingcommunity #poetryprompt @malformed-poetry.bsky.social @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

The moon wearing red Vamping up, touch of lip gloss Celestial goth. #haikufeels #gloss #bloodmoon #senryu #haiku

Monitoring clocks For the workday's end tick-tock slow as a watched pot. #2wordprompt #monitor #tick #haiku #senryu

He was the wild rose that infiltrated my spaceship I wanted to float amongst the stars, away from all of it but a vine latched on, a living thing— vital, real transforming the mechanics of my isolation to something organic & I landed again without even noticing— hand in hand with this starman.

Winter, furious— flabbergasted at Spring its budding usurper making bountiful claims to curry favour— its reign takes hold as cold & dark retreat to shadow— chirping birds herald a new king within me the same battle won— a brighter mood takes root as gloom goes to hide in dark corners of my mind.

When the moon is full, or wild seas pound, we feel it deep down— we are beasts after all even if we wear suits & pretend to be more— gods even as if we're not bound to the land that sprouted us & we'll sink with this ship we take for granted ever poking holes in the hull & calling it progress.

Bird's incoherent testimony, hopping mad, cat feigns innocence. #weirdmicro #incoherenttestimony #haiku #senryu

Post-modern blood bath, red splashed tableaux, painter views his massacred art. #haikuhorrorprompt #tableaux #haiku #senryu

Amid petal rain 'neath sweet magnolia trees he kissed me softly. #bedroomeyes #sweetmagnolia #haiku #senryu @oldsoulprose.bsky.social

Soft as a catkin graceful as an orchid, yet fierce as a flytrap. #DailyHaikuPrompt #catkin #orchid #haiku #senryu

You, the morning sun My heart sings a dawn song when your light fills my sky. #BSPP51 #dawnsong #haiku #senryu

If you turn it clockwise my heart will not unlock— its cogs don't spin so cleanly there is a gentle knack, few have ever cracked & I can't offer any advice— only my heart knows how it works but once in a magical blue moon, another heart ticks in rhyme with mine— the lock turns & my heart opens.

Idle clouds wonder at the fervour of chemtrails Rushing here and there. #haikufeels # #senryu #haiku

When it feels as if dark swathes separate us especially then I hear our song swaying on the wind, as if to say— there is nothing that can truly keep us apart since a thread of light & hope connects our hearts— singing always even in the dark. #sensewrds 192

@sonnetsmith.bsky.social I will be crying and sneezing from now until September!! #WildWalkPrompt #Blossom #Poetry

Lethargy is the story of how my heart beats— forget blossoming, it's too empty for that— hollowed out by humanity's hubris— its sharp wire scratching at the shutters Just look, look at what we do to each other. Where is the coat of love to be our buffer? Here— please take mine & pass it on.

It's a tower of a wound a mighty sunflower I choose to feel as growth not doom #2WordPrompt

Feckless lethargy, Countered, parried by coffee, Lightning in liquid. #vss365 #lethargy #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @cribbowens.bsky.social

#vss365 #poetry 📸 Phys.org The sun didn’t rise #Lethargy crept filling us up From our toes to our eyes Like a moonflower maiden i stood still When the air had hung silent I should have known it be an omen The dark side of a love spell Sent by the moon Falling commets crashing stars

Board Rules Victors dictate the way, And change it as they play, Throughout each passing day. Flags show a shared design, Where fleeting pacts align, A fragile, shifting line. #poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #bluesky #blueskypoetry #blueskyart #art #game #boardgame #power

If walls talked, spelling out the institutional narrative in blocks. #weirdmicro #institutionalnarrative #haiku #senryu

Damned confession box haunted with the ghosts of sins unleashed in its walls. #haikuhorrorprompt #confession #haiku #senryu

Forget rainbow dreams and soft clouds, I want you to decorate my skies. #bedroomeyes #rainbowdreams #haiku #senryu @oldsoulprose.bsky.social

The bright new moon peeks through willow leaves, Selene shaking out her hair. #DailyHaikuPrompt #newmoon #willowleavesq #haiku #senryu

The soft drift of thoughts like clouds moving slow over a peaceful blue sky. #BSPP51 #softdrift #haiku #senryu

The living night sky, with its many glowing eyes, looks upon all things. How I envy it tonight that it gets to gaze on you. #mpprompt #tanka

Flash of her blue eyes turning my dark stifling clouds into a fresh sky #DailyHaikuPrompt #fresh #blue #sky

Magic made mechanical, wonder made mundane— the mind reduced to a machine doing this or that & science agrees to some degree— we are indeed predictable creatures but we are also myths & beasts, monsters & saints— that don't quite make sense despite the schemata we're squashed into. #mpprompt

At last, pressure eased— Atlas shifts the world's great weight Winds rage and seas sway. #haikufeels #last #ease #senryu #haiku

I have friends who are hurting, and all I can do is offer them my words. @rfsmith.bsky.social #promptcombo #powerless #Poetry

The moon's eye, watching through a misty cataract flowers close for the evening deceived by light's leaving, all to be forgiven come morning & in the dark, I steel myself for the day ahead wearing dread like a lanyard still, a thread of hope that I'll be as the flower unfurling come morning.

A small sprig of hope Like a shoot in barren soil Reaching for the sun. #BSPP51 #sprig #haiku #senryu

Morning, evening, night The day's palette fades as the Painter drifts to sleep. #DailyHaikuPrompt #evening #morning #haiku #senryu

My mood drenched in a sad song, call it Raindrop Blues, the beat, missing you. #bedroomeyes #raindropblues #haiku #senryu @oldsoulprose.bsky.social

Experienced jump as claws grab from the shadows Kitty stealth attack. #haikuhorrorprompt #jump #haiku #senryu

Doubts internalised Limitations imagined My constructed self. #weirdmicro #internalisedlimitations #haiku #senryu

Emotions swirl in the maelstrom of my heart, good or bad no matter, they ever batter— even love my mind, in contrast is a still ocean, choices cold & clean, watching my heart in quiet disdain wondering why its storm is raging I sit between, watching— secret drama queen, willing my heart to win.

Love arrives with a vicious kind of splendour— raging in, a glowing thing, teeth clamped to your heart, utter certainty in its grip— not to wound but to cure still, rationality curls up in the dark as feelings tower high— this beast of love must sprout its wings & fly.

Through the march of time only the shattered heart knows love’s lost that’s not loved #haikufeels #march

The day and the night Philosophical crackpots Debating the light. #weirdmicro #philosophicalcrackpots #haiku #senryu

Damning files tell tales Of depraved monsters and ghouls Walking among us. #haikuhorrorprompt #depraved #haiku #senryu

Not perfect, life left marks, but he didn't mind the dirt on my fingers. #bedroomeyes #dirtonmyfingers #haiku #senryu @oldsoulprose.bsky.social

Flock of flying geese o'er a field of wild roses Flowers wave goodbye. #DailyHaikuPrompt #wildrose #flyinggeese #haiku #senryu

In the soft, pale glow of evening, our hearts, fireflies dancing in moonlight. #BSPP51 #paleglow #haiku #senryu

Time marches onward Boots relentlessly pounding To a ticking beat. #haikufeels # #senryu #haiku

I buried it one night the shame of a mistake, left it there to rot or so I thought it clung to my clothes, showed up in my dreams, made a home in my skin that no amount of scrubbing could wash clean in time I understood that I'm not all good & I never will be now it's a lesson held close within

Lightning surged, the sky On the verge of breaking, and Thunder drowned the world. #BSPP51 #verge #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

Like brake lines were cut We rushed forward, saw the crash Before it happened. #haikuhorrorprompt #brake #haiku #senryu

We whispered in tones so conspiratorial Bureaucrats' smoke break. #weirdmicro #conspiratorialbureaucrats #haiku #senryu

You, a bright crocus In the snow, a beat of life Amid all the cold. #bedroomeyes #crocusinthesnow #haiku #senryu @oldsoulprose.bsky.social