#vss365 Word Fast I’ve given up poetry for Lent, banned metaphors for smuggling sugar, similes closed till Easter. Adjectives wither, crazed, outside the mouth, nouns isolated, eating only absence. Still beneath restraint, a stubborn line kneels, unfasted, learning to live without me. #crazed

#poetry #blueskypoet I am working on writing in the moment. Mornings are where I am for now. Thank you all for reading. Here is a #poem

@thebrokenspine.co.uk This is the first of two poems I've written for #PoemsAbout #Undressed #Poetry

Here's my offering to the #BastardPoetsOfDoom @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social @jenthorne.bsky.social #prompt #time #poetry #haibun #writing #haiku

#poetry #blueskypoet Just being in the moment. Here is a #poem

Everybody wants to be a freedom fighter until it's time to do freedom fighter shit. Reposting from ages ago. (Last April) #poetry #blueskypoet #fuckICE #resist #trueblue #Bondiisscum #FDJT

It's funny the way light can dance & play— how it flickers through the pane it's lovely the way light might not be light at all but hope— flitting in at the edges of despair it's wonderful how light can be not light at all but you— the way your soul shines through the window of my mind. #poem

#vss365 #poetry It’s a fusion Of colours Like rainbows And shadows Grey and black Specks of white That work Together Setting alight My imagination Though pages Of a book Are black and white My mind sees more That’s how the magic works #Dark or bright

Yesterday I heard the offbeat sound, grass growing as all I touched turned violent hatred, I lived in Dostoevsky and died in Woolf; that was my heart breaking and the stones filling my pockets maybe I am the criminal and my life is the sentence #bedroomeyes #vssdaily #vss365 #faesense #poetry

A WARLOCK ON... #poetry #prompt #inkmine ⤵️ #spokenword #vss365 touch #moonmystic ⤵️ #2wordprompt ⤵️ #firewords280 ⤵️ #emoetry empathy #RetroArtPrompt ⤵️ #BraveWrite tangible #Solseed Valentine_Day #OurPoetryX plan_ahead #dailyimageprompt hobbit #FreeVerseFebruary circean #bedroomeyesprompt yesterday

She’s Transitioned— Yesterday lingered on the windowsill a thin veil, I could not sift in my hands. Your name moved through the house as stolen wind,underneath gossamer dust amid crevices—settling—corners I still avoid. A #Solseed Joint #unsexy #bedroomeyes #Yesterday #skypoets #poetrycommunity

#Emoetry #empathy #poetry A dark take on #empathy? Yeah, probably, but I get to be a bitch sometimes too. Here is a #poem about it..

#vss365 #touch #poetry Maybe it is time for a leap of faith? It's possible, but either way, here is a #poem

#vss365 #ache #poetry I do solemnly swear I will defend... Here is a #poem

At the wake, the ache Of loss permeated the Air with quiet sobs. #vss365 #ache #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @nathanbrazil.bsky.social

@daveashleypoet.bsky.social Bet you didn't think I could make this prompt angsty? Think again. #FreeVerseFebruary #Sumptous

words gather, then hesitate. meaning shifts, just out of reach. an #ache settles, language shaped, meant to land without knowing. #vss365 #prompt #poetry #writing #5amwritersclub

The tenor of my heart wavered, an offbeat key, when you thundered in in your quiet way, gently seismic your instincts knew it wasn't raucousness would make me swoon, my ear more attuned to subtle cues— your quirky mind, your witty ways created the quake that subtly shook me off my feet. #inkmine

I want to move on But a longing sneaks in Like a snake Shedding its skin Leaving old scars behind Being free from old sin The shell that was Holds the imprints Of how I’ve grown Of what I’d been I can’t just leave it So I’m stuck again #BSPP50 #longing #thingtowriteabout #sneak

licking ash and #bones a burning sunset of mayhemic fangs its rictus, iron maw sears; mocking me disabusing my fear with ember remembrances in a sermon of lashing tongues it crackles accusations from long-wronged voices and i'm deafened by its taunts submitting to its fiery recompense #vss365

A cut through the skin Then slowly peel back Layer by layer Held with a tack Exposing deep within Found far in the back The heart of the matter Covered in a plaque Of confused devotion So slimy and black #weirdmicro #confuseddevotion

Ache revives in A heart again Weakened by years Of mistrust, mental Gymnastics, a backflip Side hustle into Muscle memory You left not me, the Other way you see is Simply not how it went A conclusion met long Ago, even so, the ache Weakens the heart again #vss365 #ache #writingcommunity #poetry

#vss365 #bones #ache #cassiopeian #offer #poetry

Plantago lanceolata #poetry

@nathanbrazil.bsky.social I do love it when a prompt means I can go full on goth! #vss365 #bones #poem #poetry

I'm gonna try to start practicing radical acceptance. Wish me luck! Also, today isn't my birthday. I just used it as a metaphor 😊 #vss365 #bones #emoetry #challenge #poetry #mentalhealth

RADIANCE — what the roses kept when she left Some departures return as light. This poem listens for what lingers after the room empties. #24hrbybt #poetrysupportbybt #photochallenge

OUTSOURCED — the luxury of not thinking A #cult begins as convenience— doubt delegated, wonder rationed, complexity replaced with a single bright sentence. Soon belief is rented, judgement amortised, and the mind discovers how easily freedom masquerades as relief.

#vss365 #bones #poetry Chaos. Only the next step I take is important. After this post, anyway, so...here is a #poem

And here’s a small piece in this month’s Post. Many thanks to Peter Devonald @pdevonald.bsky.social for including this piece. 🙏 #Oulens

#afflicted #Emoetry @fafo-poets-society.bsky.social @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social‬ #writingcommunity #blood @nathanbrazil.bsky.social #vss365 @vss365hq.bsky.social #undercurrent @blueskypoetry.bsky.social #BlueSkyPoetry #SkyPoet‬ #BSPP50

The pool of #blood was a little gruesome, and Rory had an idea that it wasn’t there just for show. He hoped nothing was going to rise up out of it. He didn’t know why, but that sort of thing always creeped him out. The viscera dripping from a creature, hiding its true identity. Gruesome. #vss365

who will answer for the #blood of men once heavy with destiny setting a whole life in motion now a #wound on the ground a #pain with no mouth to speak it blindly spilled asking the question older than earth #vss365 #poetry #blueskypoets

For #vss365 wound I meditated on time constraints. #poetry #poetrycommunity

@nathanbrazil.bsky.social I was determined to do a cheerful one today, and then you give me #Blood #vss365 #Poetry

#vss365 Why No-One Recites Poetry Anymore Ciggy-breath sticks to the tongue like tarred blood. Words try to escape but the throat clamps shut. Metaphors car-pool but the light's always red. They brace for my word-scraps but..          but…                   but…. #blood

That day, the evening sky itself seemed afflicted— slashed pink & red like a flock of flamingos standing in a blood lagoon— an insurrection of the elements holding us culpable, a price to pay for escaping life's dull rhythm— but we'd justify our actions by living the night as if it was our last.

#vss365 #blood #wound #poetry Lines of 7. Just trying to see a different perspective. I love sunrises and sunsets. Simple, but here is a #poem

#vss365 #wound We grew up in a world where names would never hurt me At least that’s what they drilled into us supposedly After all those years And our held-back tears Now we’re allowed to acknowledge our wound openly

#vss365 #lambent #emoetry #uncomfortable #poetry I honestly wasn't going to write today. I made some space, and I am pouring through poems on here and in my TBR pile. I was really kind of moved by it all, so this is a little love letter to all of you amazing #poets

#ooze #childrenspoetry #poem

Another lengthy one (poem is in alt text.) This one is about my struggles with anxiety, which I've been dealing with since the mid 90s. #vss365 #ghosts #emoetry #terrified #poetry #anxiety

dig into emotions oligarch media wants us to explore factually presented home yarns metal barns filled with what would have us succumb ink cue bust, suck you bus too some systemic, socially institutionalized classism disguised as anything but here, where neon and bright white sells us heritage

Rory immediately drew Esme’s staff, but it seemed that this #ghost, unlike all the others within the desecrated tomb, was part of the quest. It hovered, wafting its arm, and Rory could only assume it wanted him to follow it. It drifted away, around the corner, and Rory remained wary. #vss365

#Emoetry #Terrified #poetry "He thrusts his fists against the posts.." Here is a #poem

STRAIGHTEN THAT LINE! March shoulder to shoulder with your grim comrades in tight ass formation Can never have enough discipline in these times of turbulence cause we know they are coming for us but when their offensive will commence remains an unknown variable #poetry #poem #amwriting

#ghost #vss365 #silly #poem

#vss365 #ghost #poetry Looking back from today, it is harder to see what was done to me, and what was done by me. Here is a #poem

Ok fellow #BastardPoetsOfDoom if @sonnetsmith.bsky.social can make his own form up, so can I @daveashleypoet.bsky.social I call this an #Alphabetarium I did this example one a while ago to help with my kids writing practice. The theme is #youth

I cannot handle rejected, pit of childhood demons, clutching, hoping to pull me in, pound me thin; I cannot handle rejected, question of every smile, kiss, soft word wrapping me tighter in a cord; I cannot handle, rejected, build multi-storied condos of justifications #emoetry #poetry