One for @victoriaspires.bsky.social #promptcombo #ancestors. Autumn term writing. Thanks.

All are welcome to contribute. Please quote hashtags #promptcombo #ancestry and tag @victoriaspires.bsky.social Vic. bsky.app/profile/vict...

Hi @victoriaspires.bsky.social Vic, hope you have a great week. Here's my first:

I'd intended to post a recording of my #poem Homecoming, first published in @eunoiareview.bsky.social, this week. And that's a happy accident, since it touches on @victoriaspires.bsky.social's #PromptCombo theme #ancestry #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #booksky #writingcommunity #poetry

🙏to @victoriaspires.bsky.social as #promptcombo host #Corvid & human #Steppe #Ancestry #Poetry: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 #Rooks #Jackdaws #Prehistory #Analog #Radio #Radiogram #NeolithicFarming #DawnChorus #Aubade

Hullo @victoriaspires.bsky.social and to #promptcombo #ancestor

Thank you to @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for hosting last week! This week's #promptcombo is #ancestry. This piece was published in Freeverse Revolution Issue XII & is something of a letter to my younger self. Also doubling up as a fairly seamless segue from #history 😁 Tag me/use # to join in

Copies flying out of the #poetry book of the Autumn 🍂 🌒 🌊 ✨ @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social’s ‘Drench Me in Silver’. Get one now! www.blackboughpoetry.com/louise-mache...

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Today is #PoemsAbout #Candlelight Drop your poem. Tag it + tag: @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social Then Read. Repost. Reply to 3+ poets. Keep it low-lit. Keep it loaded. Not every light is meant to guide.

As your host this week at #PromptCombo, I've chosen #ClocksTicking Is time running out, or is another adventure waiting Out There - (title of my new book!) Tag me & use the hastags ⏳️♥️ @victoriaspires.bsky.social @rfsmith.bsky.social @hool415.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

#PoemsAbout #Facades I was inspired by the excellent blackout poem @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social to share the only blackout poem I have ever written, which abused a rare positive rejection letter to create the facade of the wounded poet.

As often happens for the #PoemsAbout prompt, I spent hours toiling over a messy sketch, scrapped it and wrote a #facades poem in a few minutes. Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for making me bin things.

A very quick musing I'm hesitant to share having read some cracking poems for #PromptCombo #Winged for @hool415.bsky.social However, it's quite typical of my style and I have dozens of bird poems that are a variation on this theme. I might share something different later this week 🐦‍⬛

A tentative offering for today’s #PoemsAbout #facades Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk It’s a bit jarring, I know it’s not right, but have no time to work on it anymore. #poems #poetry #WIP

@allanparrywriter.co.uk , #PoemsAbout, #Facades Thank you for this intriguing prompt and here is my response. Love to all.

A new poem for you. #poetrycommunity #poetsofbluesky

Almost launch day for 'Out There' Big thanks to everyone who shared this post. Big ❤️ Love

They’ve turned off the street lights. And I can only hear leaves talking in the breeze. Join a million ancient suns in the unpolluted sky. Track the journey of a fox by Its barking trail of tethered farm yard dogs. ©️September 2025

The soft breeze whispers In the tree’s ear. Leaves tremble, Translating for us. ©️September 2025

Pray In the cool Autumn air. A solitary Kestrel, plumage black against the sun. Stationary above a menu of land, lowering... silently... onto...? We’ll see. A long tail droops from a clenched talon. A life ended, another prolonged. Biblical. ©️September 2020

Down at the pier head, My grandfather waits, smiling. Only I see him. ©️September 2025

Vines stand together. Now shorn, post-partum, rusting. Always accepting. ©️September 2025

You can stand still but Still, everything will change Around you, in time. @September 2025

For @hool415.bsky.social this is my *first* response to this week's #promptcombo #winged (Don't panic. I just mean I might actually try to write something new for you, too 😅)

A kilt of rain drifts across the valley, pleats infused with a tartan of rainbow. ©️September 2025

Light, shade and sinew. All it takes to paint a life, to open a mind. ©️September 2025

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

Phoney War The air is opaque blue. An anvil pressing on our lungs, a thing we can touch. Still with silent birds, on naked branches against a black loom in the East. A late summer storm, its pyroclastic intensity rumbling, building an expectation of something big. August 2022

For #PromptCombo #Banality ✨ for @rfsmith.bsky.social (please click on the picture to read the full poem because the title and last line are not shown in the preview. thank you to anyone reading this ♡)

Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poemsabout #riot Reflection on the first wave COVID lockdown in Spain & was first published by @rfredekenter.bsky.social @icefloepress.bsky.social and then featured by @iambapoet.com @markantonyowen.com 🙏 www.iambapoet.com/eliot-north

Good morning! Today's #PoemsAbout #Riots was another difficult one. There's so much history, but now it just like we're waiting for it to happen at anytime now. Thank you to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the opportunity each week.

Tomorrow we write #PoemsAbout #Riots Write fury. Write loss. Write truth. Tag your poem + tag: @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social Then Read. Repost. Reply. 3 interactions minimum. Because one voice isn't enough. Prompts drop Saturday: shorturl.at/oEXAM

Hi Ronnie, @rfsmith.bsky.social. Excellent #promptcombo #banality. Here's my fourth:"Moon Coins, I", about the act of washing up:

Let us not forget who Donald Trump is. Look it up. It’s accurate.

@rfsmith.bsky.social #promptcombo #banality A quick one! Think it fits the theme? Itch In The Heat

Thanks @rfsmith.bsky.social for this week's #promptcombo #banality. #poetry

the world is divided into those who own gumboots and those who wear wellies 28.VIII.25

So here is a poem for #banality a word I could never really get behind, here, but at least I tried #promptcombo #teenspeak #JoeCool #existentialism

This sufficiently banal for @rfsmith.bsky.social's #promptcombo this week on the topic of #banality? I do hope so.

I like it when you 'get political' Ronnie (not that it's something you can turn on and off), I think you do it very well 👏🏼

Hi Ronnie, @rfsmith.bsky.social. Thank you for the great #promptcombo #banality. Here's a short extract from the title poem in my collection "She Needs That Edge," Nixes Mate Press, 2017:

Grinning at all the possibilities for this great #promptcombo #banality @rfsmith.bsky.social. Here's my first. .

Hi Ronnie, @rfsmith.bsky.social. Here's my second for your cracking #promptcombo #banality:

For #promptcombo The sun is out, it's a lovely holiday, I'm thinking #banality. So #tongueincheek @rfsmith.bsky.social I turn to #funerals #verydrafty 😉

@rfsmith.bsky.social this was sort of fun......

The worst thing, a poet stuck in #banality- are my openings all the same? am I using that refrain too much? oh cool! depression is my topic- again! so stifled by self-criticism, doubt; oh yeah, a self conscious poet- so original! #promptcombo #poetry