Thank you Fidel @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for your marvellous #PromptCombo #NaturehasWeapons. Here's my battered and bedraggled response. Looking forward to reading and responding to other offerings from the #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

#NatureHasWeapons 🦠 My pandemic poem for #PromptCombo @dragonslayerma.bsky.social CW: sentimental, especially w/ the music, but it's a tribute (though I'm told med workers didn't want to be heroes; they were doing a job, an immensely difficult one) *In Northern New England Review 2020 #PoemsAloud

Response to the prompt for Fidel #promptcombo #NaturehasWeapons @dragonslayerma.bsky.social Thankyou. Enjoy the week everyone

Here's a poem I wrote to a painting prompt. Not totally on topic (no change there then), more Nature's defence than weapons. For the wonderful @dragonslayerma.bsky.social and #PromptCombo #NatureHasWeapons Back to read everyone's poems soon.

Happy Monday! Here's my #NatureHasWeapons #promptcombo. Thank you @dragonslayerma.bsky.social

Might share a pandemic tribute poem for #NatureHasWeapons but first, here's a quick write: On the equinox, my relatives visited a biodynamic architecture retreat in New Mexico. A few pics from the website so you get the idea Not saying plants are aliens, just strongly implying it 😜 #PromptCombo 🌿

@dragonslayerma.bsky.social‬ #PromptCombo It's #NatureHasWeapons for Monday Have a great week everybody.

#springtree #treeart #fineartphotography #stunday #eck #treeandmood #treephotography #treeportrait #spring #treescape

#nationalpoetrymonth #poem #writingcommunity #poetry #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Wonderful prompt and poetic illustration of it Fidel. I don’t want them to outstay their welcome, since they all had dimensions that fitted last week’s #promptcombo but two poems in my Lothlorien set published last week 👇 possess #NatureHasWeapons dimensions, specifically The Mark and Worlds’ Ends

Good morning @dragonslayerma.bsky.social, what a great #PromptCombo - #NatureHasWeapons. This true story came to mind so sharing it before diving into meetings. Slightly less serious than my usual poems! #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Have a great week @dragonslayerma.bsky.social 👹😁 #PromptCombo #NatureHasWeapons #newpoem / #photography: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026 #PoetryReading in the comments #Nature #BirdSky #Heron #Moksha #Kali #poetrycommunity #PoetsOfBluesky

Hi @dragonslayerma.bsky.social Fidel. Have a great week. My response to your timely #PromptCombo #NatureHasWeapons is a sonnet from my forthcoming (May 1st) collection with Culture Matters Press, "In Your Mouth":

Sharpen your claws, whet your fangs for this week's #PromptCombo #NatureHasWeapons 👹🔥 Use the hashtags & tag @dragonslayerma.bsky.social to get involved! #poetry #prompt #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #PoetsOfBluesky

#PromptCombo It's #NatureHasWeapons I want Nature's drama this week, wordsmiths Tag me & use my hastags. Otherwise, I won't see you! You have till Friday lunchtime to get involved. 💚🌬 @rfsmith.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @janpsolivagant.bsky.social

#PoetrySubmission #ArtSubmission #poetrycommunity #PoetsOfBluesky #WritingCommunity #Artsky All are welcome to contribute 3 unpublished works to: The Starbeck Orion Spring / Summer Feast of Poetry and Art How to Submit - See Link👇 open.substack.com/pub/the880/p...

Big thanks to @zoomburst.substack.com for making this happen! Six #Poems: Bars in #Bardo #Brutalist buildings #Necromancy #Baudelaire meets #Mabinogi #EelPieIsland Shoutout to #poetrycommunity #PromptCombo #PoemsAbout for your support over the past year or so of my #poetry journey!

For #poemsabout #Gravity for @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk I've just stumbled on this old one of mine, written about a year ago. All I've changed is the title. Back to read later on.

Very late to the #poemsabout party here! Here’s a little something. Hope it entertains 🪐 🌒 🚀

@thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #Gravity #Poetry I couldn't write anything new, but this is one written a while ago that never found a home. I've updated it slightly, it sort of fits, and @oyoguhito.bsky.social poem put me in mind of it.

A poem for #PoemsAbout #Gravity @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#Writing #poetry at dawn before I can will myself out of bed to get coffee, or type the #poem I actually meant to write for this initially. This was fun though, a funny memory with hidden weight, if you will. Enjoy 🤗 @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #poemsabout #gravity #6amwritersclub

Good morning! For #PoemsAbout #Gravity. Thank you as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk I hate to post and run, but a busy weekend. I will catch up with reading later.

Many thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk for today's #PoemsAbout prompt #Gravity. Here's something quiet and reflective. Will read and respond to other offerings from the #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets later

inspired by some recent travel, here’s one for #PoemsAbout #Gravity many thanks as ever to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

For #PoemsAbout #Gravity, one of my old pieces written sometime in 2024, and featuring on my poet’s page on #sixtyoddpoets on #substack by @zoomburst.substack.com For @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk Thanks for reading 🙏🙏 #Oulens #NaPoWriMo #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

#PoemsAbout #Gravity @thebrokenspine.co.uk

My contribution to #poemsabout #gravity Going to add a recording after work #poetry #poetrycommunity Reading your contributions later once I'm off work. Thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt!

Responding to news of last two weeks, here is my #PoemsAbout #gravity Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt and @rspb.bsky.social for the fact file! 😊 #poetry #swifts

#PoemsAbout #Gravity with thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 #Satire #Swedenborg #Jupiter #Swift #GulliversTravels #poetrycommunity

For this week's #PoemsAbout #Gravity @thebrokenspine.co.uk a little something. Will catch up later. Thanks to everyone in the #poetrycommunity

I am thrilled that @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social has published three longer pieces of mine on the wonderful @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social They’re all #visions Millennial is urban, Worlds’ Ends concerns places & histories, & The Mark is folkloric. @rfsmith.bsky.social #promptcombo #poetrycommunity

#PromptCombo #Visions for Wednesday @rfsmith.bsky.social

In lieu of writing a new piece (I might manage something in the next day or two) here's an Ekphrastic piece to a painting entitled Eschatological. For #promptcombo #visions @rfsmith.bsky.social

Here's my #visions #PromptCombo. Inspired by the movie Burnt by the Sun. Thanks, @rfsmith.bsky.social!

#SaveTheDate 19th April 2026 I'm delighted to announce that my Poet Page/Profile with 6 #poems will appear on the Sixty Odd Poets substack. Many Thanks to @zoomburst.substack.com for making this possible! Link available on the day #PoetsOfBluesky #PoetryCommunity #PromptCombo #PoemsAbout

I'm packed up and I'm off on the 51 mile odyssey to Leeds to participate in the Leeds Song Festival #LS26, reading #poetry, which has been set to music by Joanna Ward and realised in art form by Hannah Guy. With a soprano & a classical pianist on board, its the most cultured band I've ever been in.

My offering for #PromptCombo #Visions Great prompt. Thank you @rfsmith.bsky.social

I spent this winter experimenting with audio recordings for many of my earlier poems. It was during the last weeks & days of my dad's life. When I look back at these poems now, they seem quaint, but I'm glad I have them. They captured a time in my own life never to be repeated. Here is 'Eventide.' ❤️

"Late season fruits of a sun-steeped climate"🍂 When you're in one season, dreaming of another. I wrote this in 2021 for my parents' 45th anniversary. This year would've marked a half-century in the trenches, but my dad passed in Jan. (Poem in Rockvale Review 2023) #PromptCombo #Visions #PoemsAloud

In these parts, there is less distance between this world and others. Many thanks @rfsmith.bsky.social for the excuse to write about it for #PromptCombo #Visions, inspired also by this morning's encounter with one of our resident woodcock! #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #scottishpoetry

I hope this one qualifies for #PromptCombo themed #visions #poetry in #alt-text Thank you for hosting @rfsmith.bsky.social

Many thanks @rfsmith.bsky.social for your brilliant #PromptCombo #Visions. I posted this a year or so ago in response to #PoemsAbout but Chagall the great visionary painter seemed to fit today's prompt. Looking forward to reading and responding to other #BlueSkyPoets later.

Be ye seers or not, all are welcome to contribute to this week's #PromptCombo #Visions. Tag @rfsmith.bsky.social to get involved.

Have a good week @rfsmith.bsky.social! #PromptCombo #Visions #newpoem: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026 #Reading in the comments 👇 #SimoneWeil #Philosophy #Mysticism #Theodicy #poetrycommunity

I’m on this weeks #PromptCombo and the theme is #Visions . Mine is short but you can send me anything you feel, at any length. Love to all. and the sea slowly mesmerised to the shore through the rays of the evening sun; pulsing as if it were the membrane of Solaris. ©️April 2026

Hi @rfsmith.bsky.social Ronnie, have a great week. My response to your cracking #promptcombo #Visions is a sonnet from my forthcoming collection with The Red Ceiling Press, The Drey Skin:

Have you ever noticed how the “spring green” of #new leaves can appear almost fluorescent! A brief, enchanting “moment,” and then this color deepens so quickly into the full green of summer… #blueskyartshow #eck #springgreen #naturephotography #smallbirdsaturday