A quick #haiku in response to today's #PoemsAbout response #Desire from @thebrokenspine.co.uk. Very best wishes to @alanparrywriter.co.uk. Looking forward to reading and responding to other responses #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

@rfsmith.bsky.social @dragonslayerma.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social I’m hosting #promptcombo this week.Use the #promptcombo and post me @hool415.bsky.social for the theme of #workinglove Anything on love, work or a mix of both! All welcome till 5pm Friday!!

Trust, the brittle bone once broken, never the same when a storm rolls in. #haikufeels #brittle #promptcombo #storm #haiku #senryu #micropoem #micropoetry #3lines #poem #poetry

🙏 to @hool415.bsky.social #PromptCombo #DeepTime take on #workinglove #newpoem / #photography: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025/2022-24 #poetry #JohnCage #MechtildOfMagdeburg #AsSlowAsPossible #orgelprojekt #MysticMonday #thework

Hi @hool415.bsky.social Ju, here's my first response to your excellent #promptcombo #workinglove. It describes the effect of temporarily having 99% hearing loss due to a middle ear blockage:

For this week's #promptcombo #workinglove with very understanding host @hool415.bsky.social , an old one which I think fits. Look forward to reading others later.

Hi Julian @hool415.bsky.social here's my response to your #promptcombo #workinglove my working glove (sic) is blue and hypoallergenic a rash choice

#PromptCombo host is our very charming Ju for this week & his theme is #Workinglove Tag @hool415.bsky.social & use the hastags to get involved. Have a fabulous week hosting my dear friend ❤️

Thanks for the #promptcombo @hool415.bsky.social This is more work than love, and based on a true story.

Hello everyone, slow of the blocks this week, so I've decided to share a wee poem I wrote a long time ago for #promptcombo and @hool415.bsky.social's prompt of #workinglove. Thanks Ju for hosting and everyone else for being so inspiring! #poems #poetry

Hi @hool415.bsky.social - here's my response to #PromptCombo #WorkingLove #poem #poetry

Thank you Julian @hool415.bsky.social for this week's #promptcombo prompt #Workinglove. Sharing one from 2014.

Here is another offering a rather sober look at love #promptcombo #workinglove

Hi @hool415.bsky.social Ju, here is my second response to your inviting #promptcombo #workinglove. It is from my collection "Please Take Change":

Done the #Poetry Warmup this morning as the #PromptCombo #WorkingLove for @hool415.bsky.social. This might work for a weekly thing…

I Hope all #promptcombo folk will forgive one of my very occasional forays among your number 🙏..... just couldn't resist the current #workinglove prompt from @hool415.bsky.social !!!

#promptcombo #workinglove #poetry @hool415.bsky.social “Believing this is the day of their demise”

Many thanks @hool415.bsky.social for this week's #PromptCombo #WorkingLove. Hope this one fits, albeit obliquely! Looking forward to catching up with others later today.

#PoemsAbout #LockedDoors @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will put a reel in the comments, or I won’t.

at the fringe of night the sound of a closing door creaking on its failing hinges & of crickets going quiet & of some bro- ken breaths & lost s.l.nt counts from one to ten to to naught #PoemsAbout #lockeddoors #Oulens @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social

#LockedDoors #PoemsAbout #poem #RhymeRoyal #MentalHealth @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#PoemsAbout #LockedDoors @thebrokenspine.co.uk Whichever door might have slid Open Then Is now closed. There is no key

Am I up to the challenge??😳 #Poemsabout #lockeddoors @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk Cheers to all. A good day to read!😀👍

Winter closes its Fist, mottled orange carpet Of leaves swept away. #WildWalkPrompt #orange #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @sonnetsmith.bsky.social

#PoemsAbout #LockedDoors @thebrokenspine.co.uk 🙏 to @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social & best wishes to @alanparrywriter.co.uk #poetry / #photography: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025/2024 #Symbolism #ZinaidaGippius #monochrome #ImageAndVerse #DepthPsychology #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity

Hello #poetrycommunity @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk This is my slim offering for todays #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors thanks as always to reader and sharers I’ll be popping in and out as time allows. Looking forward to your contributions. #poetry #poems

#PoemsAbout #LockedDoors Sorry, this is very much an off-the-cuff fragment. I made up a little micro-story here last night, and thought I'd turn it into a poem for fun, since the theme matches. Just trying to work out if it's worth continuing as a WIP, either in prose or verse.

My #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors was a bit of a hurried affair - which is ironic considering the subject matter! And yes I know she’s a hermaphrodite -maybe that’s my picturebook-writing coming through or maybe it’s significant - you decide! 😊Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk 🥰 @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry

We had our own language of words, looks, touch— telepathic mind stuff, we read each other like custom made books... #LockedDoors #PoemsAbout @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Never forgot the Locked doors, barred windows, months in Psychiatric wards. #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

For this week's #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors with thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and all those participating. Not what I thought I'd write...

Many thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for yet another thought-provoking #PoemsAbout prompt #LockedDoors. Here's my response and I look forward to catching up with others later #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

Thank you #LauraGrevel for this revealing review of #BeautifulLittleFools #GreatGatsby#FScottFitzgerald #Decadence #Deceit #Poetry @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoetsOfBlueSky #PoetryCommunity #https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/237581519-beautiful-little-fools

This week isn’t about escape. It’s about what stays shut. Secrets with a latch. Regret with a bolt. Write the room you can’t re-enter. The letter never sent. Tag your post. Use Alt Text. Share from Friday. Sign up: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

I've read some great responses to @rfsmith.bsky.social's brilliant #PromptCombo #Storm. Here's mine: a fragment of memory which might be worth developing a bit more #BlueSkyPoets #PoetryCommunity

Hullo @rfsmith.bsky.social Thanks for an early classic poem for the very seasonal #storm theme for #promptcombo All welcome, just post to the above address with both hashtags. (The rfs one above, not mine!) @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @dragonslayerma.bsky.social ⛈️

Passing over the #PromptCombo baton to @rfsmith.bsky.social who has got in nice and early with the new prompt #Storm. You have until this time next week to join in 🌪️⛈️

🙏 @rfsmith.bsky.social as #PromptCombo #Storm host #newpoem / #photography: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025/2021 #Expressionism #Trakl #feverdream #delirium #darkpoetry #deathpoetry #monochrome #scape

In dreams, I am big, you are small I can manifest a world that I am strong, you are kind, the vision of the man I loved is the person in front of me; In dreams, I am not me, you are not you, so we can’t be we and this can’t be splintered #promptcombo #blueskyrelay @victoriaspires.bsky.social

For this week's #PromptCombo #Storm with @rfsmith.bsky.social - will catch up with others later.

Our fabulous host this week for #PromptCombo is Ronnie. With a very apt theme of #Storm. Tag @rfsmith.bsky.social & use the hastags to get involved. Happy hosting & happy writing everyone ♥️✍️

Here's a piece for @rfsmith.bsky.social's #PromptCombo theme #storm Entitled, suitably enough, Storms. First published some years ago in Guttural Magazine. #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #booksky

@rfsmith.bsky.social’s #promptcombo theme #storm reminds me of great literary storms. Lear. Tempest. And my poem touches on one of my favourites. Dickens looked out on the sea at Broadstairs when he wrote chapters 55-56 in David Copperfield. Surging poetry. If you don’t know the novel start it today

#PromptCombo Ronnie @rfsmith.bsky.social , here's one from me for #Storm . Have a fabulous week hosting my friend♥️ 📸Colette Gemmell

Hi @rfsmith.bsky.social and #PromptCombo - here's my offering for #Storm, based on notes made after our summer wind storm #poem #poetry

#PromptCombo #emoetry @rfsmith.bsky.social #Storm #idealistic #fascism #RhymeRoyal #poem #resist #politics let not the Far Right dictate politics throughout the world

Hi @rfsmith.bsky.social Ronnie, here's my second response to your great #promptcombo #Storm:

A Shadorma (3-5-3-3-7-5) for #PoemsAbout #Blood with thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

It's Halloween 1. Ghost Town. The Specials. 2. People are Strange. The Doors. 3. Wuthering Heights. Kate Bush. 4. Don't Fear the Reaper. Blue Oyster Cult. 5. Choreomania. Florence and the Machine.

Nowadays it's common to hear "blood is thicker than water," to mean family should come first, but the original saying "the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb," means quite the opposite. TED Talk over, enjoy the poem! @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #Blood #Poetry