For #promptcombo #ancestry and host @victoriaspires.bsky.social Also for #vss365: #Reinvigorated #perhaps #2WordPrompt : #turn #design #Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

The wonderful @victoriaspires.bsky.social has set us an intriguing test for #PromptCombo this week with her #Ancestors . Fortunately I have an entire clan of them. Love to all.

#PoemsAbout #NeverAgain #rondeau #poem #homeless : @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social I was homeless for a couple of months and had several beatings by late night clubbers. Perhaps taking clubbing to heart!! people shouldn’t treat others like that. Never Again.

Hi Vic, brilliant #ancestry for this week's #PromptCombo Here's an old video of me reading my poem Storytelling (from my our book Time) that fits your prompt. Have a fabulous week hosting, darlin❤️ Video by Julie Corcoran

@victoriaspires.bsky.social‬ #promptcombo #ancestry #Trimeric #poem this is poem is about my Great Grandmother who fled from Kiev at the height of the pogroms where jews were being slaughtered.

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

For this week's #promptcombo #ancestry with thanks to host @victoriaspires.bsky.social Not feeling inspired at the moment, so here's an old one (surprisingly long!) which I think fits.

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

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

🙏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

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

For @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for your #promptcombo this week, #history. Forgive me, if you can, for indulging in my longtime obsession with Walter Benjamin. He had a lot to say about history which I find enduringly interesting & relevant. Jetztzeit = now-time. Thanks Paul, enjoy x

Into delicious Autumn 🍂 ~ #stunday #eastcoastkin #equinox #autumnequinox #intothewoods #intotheforest #mabon #blessedmabon #naturephotography #changingseasons

For #PoemsAbout #SilentPlanets ✨ for @thebrokenspine.co.uk & @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Travelling far from home and supposedly digitally detoxing. I scribbled these lines yesterday for @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social #PromptCombo #history I've read a couple of poems here, hoping to read and comment on a few more if I can

"To walk this planet is a privilege, not a possession." #Photography

Hi Paul @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social , A splendid #PromptCombo speaking as a retired History teacher and here is my #History contribution. Love to all.

Excited that Suburban Witchcraft 10 @suburbanwitchlit.bsky.social launches today! Thrilled to have two poems within. Here I am reading 'Communion in the Square'. Heartfelt thanks and congratulations to the editor Mirjana M. 🖤💐 #Poetry #PoemsAboutIdentity #PoetryReadings youtube.com/shorts/0nG71...

#WildWalkPrompt #Valley

#emoetry #earnest

Whisper's of Grace .. #Photography

For @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social's excellent #PromptCombo theme, my recording of a #poem about personal #history published in @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social's Lothlorien Poetry Journal @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social The Haunty Tree #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #poetry #writingcommunity

It’s a pinnacle moment finding myself featured on a #poetry platform I have admired for years. @iambapoet.com provides the most beautiful experience of #spokenword #poetry. 💖 Here are my 3 poems www.iambapoet.com/wave/23-hele... Please do dip in to the other poets there, too. Brilliant stuff!

#vss365 #potential #poetry

#poetry #promptcombo #history #blueskypoetry

Blue As A Language... #Photography

Many thanks @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for today's #promptcombo #history. I posted this a while ago in response to #poemsabout but I think it fits the bill in the way it explores the idea of nationhood. Looking forward to reading and responding to others later.

For @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social , with thanks for the #promptcombo. #History gathers its shadows until they burst into vision. This poem is about that moment — when solitude stops being empty and becomes a place of revelation, when the desert turns to a path and the silence begins to speak.

For #PromptCombo #history and with thanks to host, Paul @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social a personal history poem, which I don't think I've posted before. First published in Under the Radar.

Thank you, Fidel @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for last week's #promptcombo. All are welcome to contribute. Use hashtags #promptcombo #history and my tag:

🙏 @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social as host of #promptcombo #history 2 #poems for the price of 1 - Part II #poetry / #photography: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025/2024 #Satire #Grotesque #Witches #Brocken #Communism #Honecker #Gorbachev #EastGermany #Harz

🙏 @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social as host of #promptcombo #history 2 #poems for the price of 1 - Part I #poetry / #photography: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025/2024 #Satire #Grotesque #Witches #Brocken #Communism #Stasi #EastGermany #Harz

For #PromptCombo #ClocksTicking ✨ for @dragonslayerma.bsky.social

#PoemsAbout #Candlelight

🗣️🗝️ þ - "th" as in thin #haikufeels #wildwalkprompt #vss365 #poemspell #promptcombo #clocksticking @dragonslayerma.bsky.social

For today’s #PoemsAbout #Candlelight a different sort of candle. A true story that remains as vivid to me now as the night it happened. @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

For ##poemsabout #Candlelight @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk an excerpt from a poem in my out-of-print book "The Headpoke And Firewedding," 2017:

her snow fox eyes — two shimmering crystals that the magpies, too exhausted from dreaming, forgot to steal away #tanka #vss365 #TankaThursday

#PoemsAbout #Candlelight @thebrokenspine.co.uk A persona poem. I will post a video in the comments.

Hello @thebrokenspine.co.uk and everyone, and perennial host @alanparrywriter.co.uk. After #Riots and #UrbanDecay (elsewhere), must come calm. Yes (1986) sang 'Soon, oh soon the light, pass within and soothe this endless night'. For this week's #PoemsAbout #Candlelight I turn metaphysical.

Hullo @alanparrywriter.co.uk and to #poemsabout #candlelight An old one, first in Dreich. Thanks for curating this wonderful public service. Hope to get to all these submitted gems this afternoon.

This is a previous poem reworked for this weeks #PoemsAbout #Candlelight @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

For this week's #PoemsAbout #Candlelight with thanks as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and everyone taking part.

Here’s a piece for #PoemsAbout #Candlelight ‘Wine Bottle Seance’ Big shout as always to @thebrokenspine.co.uk & @alanparrywriter.co.uk who dedicates time to amplify poetic voices. Also if you sign up to The Broken Spine’s newsletter you get a range of prompts associated with the theme 👏👏👏

I laughed as I wrote this #PoemsAbout #candlelight. My poem is for Claire, my best friend and worst enemy for the year we spent teaching abroad aged 18. #ProjectTrust Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt. Happy Friday! #poetry

My today’s contribution for #PoemsAbout #Candlelight @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry Thanks for reading!

#poem #poetry #BlueSkyPoetry #candlelight #poemsabout #sestina @alanparrywriter.co.uk

I light a candle strike a match for every goodbye you never will have for every hello you never said for the life you barely lived and the stories you never had. I light and light and light again till my whole world is burning. @alanparrywriter.co.uk #poemsabout #candlelight #poem #poetry