KFOR aired a feature on my poetry/book tonight, which still feels a little surreal honestly. Huge thanks to Galen Culver and the crew for the opportunity. Segment: kfor.com/news/great-s... Book: www.amazon.com/dp/B0GT1262KP #poetry #blueskypoets #writingcommunity

Not every day is meant to be big. Some days are just about being. Here’s some poems. 💙💙💙 #poetry #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #BlueSkyPoetry #SkyPoet

We spend so much time hoping for tomorrow we forget to live today. These poems are for the now. Book link one post down if you want it. 💙 #poetry #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #amwriting #poems

My first book The Least Weird Person Awake is out now. If you’ve connected with my work and decide you want to support it, you can find it here: www.amazon.com/Least-Weird-... Thank you for reading.

We're so happy to publish @bigjosh84.bsky.social 's poem HOLD MUSIC. Read it at www.papersigh.com/poetry #poetry #poetrysky #poems

The world doesn’t always make it easy to keep going. Still—we do. Here’s some poems. 💙💙💙 #poetry #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #BlueSkyPoetry #SkyPoet

Maybe the point isn’t to have everything figured out. Maybe the point is to keep showing up anyway. Here’s some poems. 💙💙💙 #poetry #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #BlueSkyPoetry #SkyPoet

Read THE JOKE’S ON YOU • by Joshua Walker – The Last Bard @bigjosh84.bsky.social -- Stories -- #AprilFools'Day #HauntedHouses everydayfiction.com?p=24131

Not every truth arrives loud. Some of it waits—quiet, patient—until you’re finally ready to hear it. Here’s some poems. 💙💙💙 #poetry #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #BlueSkyPoetry #SkyPoet

No buildup. No rollout. My book “The Least Weird Person Awake” drops April 18. I’ll have links up when it’s live if you want one. 💙💙💙 #poetry #blueskypoets #writingcommunity

Children in schools should never be an acceptable cost of war. Resist. Thinking of the students and teachers at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ primary school. Resist. These poems are for them. 💙💙💙 #poetry #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #BlueSkyPoetry #SkyPoet #resist

Sometimes a poem doesn’t answer anything. Sometimes it just sits with the truth a little longer than we usually allow. Either way, here are some new poems. 💙💙💙 #poetry #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #BlueSkyPoetry #SkyPoet

I think good poetry teaches us something true about ourselves — sometimes before we’re ready for it. Can’t promise that today, but here are some new poems. 💙💙💙 #poetry #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poems

A wise woman once said something that was probably wise. We lost it somewhere in the darkness of modern hustle and bustle. Let’s take wisdom back. Always resisting, always listening. Here are some poems. 💙💙💙 #poetry #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poems

Some days the poems arrive before the explanation. I trust that more than I trust certainty. If anything here meets you where you are, then it did its job. Remember to resist. 💙💙💙 New poems below. #poetry #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poems

It’s Tuesday. We don’t hide. We don’t soften. We don’t wait for permission. We show up. We tell the truth. 💙💙💙 #poetry #blueskypoets #truth #resist #writingcommunity #poems

I always love seeing people honestly express themselves through the arts. Amy Jean just put out this and it’s fantastic. If you’ve got the time and are so inclined, give it a listen!

I won’t lie, this has been a rough time for all of us, friends — but the good fight is never easy. Much love to the people of Minnesota and Greenland. This set of poems is for you and everyone else in the thick of resisting. 💙💙💙 #poetry #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #resist #truth #democracy

Issue 5 of the literary journal ionosphere is now available on Amazon! Read poetry and essays by @fadingbetty.bsky.social, @bigjosh84.bsky.social, @zoomburst.substack.com, @misshalcyon.bsky.social, @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social, and many others.

Normally I’d have words here, but today it’s about the poetry. Keep resisting. Peace and love. 💙 Here’s some poems. #poetry #blueskypoets #poems #writingcommunity

Oh, we have a lovely piece from @bigjosh84.bsky.social - zowza..

Friends, it’s been a long year for all of us — but keep the faith. Keep resisting. Keep speaking your truth. Believe in your voice, and never let the world silence it! 💙💙💙 #poetry #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poems

252 years ago today. men in Boston had enough and poured that tea into the ocean. This year has drained many of us, but we still resist, and the cracks in their empire of lies are starting to show. Keep telling truth to power! 💙💙💙 Here’s some poems. #poetry #poet #poem #poetrycommunity #poems

When you’re lost in winter’s grip, let your soul be the fire— and guard that heat like your last breath. Here’s some poems. 💙 💙 💙 #poetry #poems #writing #poem #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetts

Read our new poem by Joshua Walker! Follow him over at @bigjosh84.bsky.social! We're really excited to have his work over in our yard!

Moments slip through us faster than we want to admit. Hold onto the ones that matter—there’s no second run, no rewind. Just now. #poetry #writingcommunity #blueskypoets #poems

Forgiveness is the hardest thing we ever do. If you can, do it—but never forget. Hate rots the soul faster than grief. Whatever we’ve done, I forgive you. And I hope, somewhere in the quiet, you forgive me too. Without further ado here’s some new poems. 💙 #poetry #blueskypoets #writingcommunity

Dog Throat is pleased to announce that we've nominated The Rapture Machine by Joshua Walker for Best Micro Fiction (under 400 words) 2026. Thank you Joshua for sharing this piece with us. @bigjosh84.bsky.social dogthroat.com/post/the-rap...

They tell us we’re ugly, that we’re nothing special. Why? Because birds with broken wings can’t stand to see others soar. Never listen. Believe. Hope. Resist. 💙 #poetry #writingcommunity #blueskypoets #poems

@bigjosh84.bsky.social has a short poem in the current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: Ash of the Oathbreaker. Think of it as a quick dose of Viking/Old English spirit. It uses a Norse stanza form, ljoðaháttr (song meter), a close relative of the ballad. alliteration.net/poetry/ash-o...

People ask why I always post poems on Tuesday—such a mundane day. That’s the point. We fight the good fight, speak truth to power, burn bright—but it’s who we are in the quiet, ordinary moments that defines us, that tells the story of our lives. 💙 #poems #writingcommunity #blueskypoets

There’s beauty in what breaks, light in what endures. These poems come from the quiet after the storm— where truth cuts, fire flickers, and faith rebuilds itself from ruin. 💙 💙 💙 #poetry #poetsofbluesky #writingcommunity

There’s a hum beneath the silence, a sting beneath the calm. These poems come from that place—where faith burns, masks slip, and the heart still beats. 💙 #poetry #blueskypoets #poems#writingcommunity

It’s been a while. I stepped back, healed, and let silence do its work — but through it all, you stayed, and I carry that with me. Tonight I return the only way I know how: in four poems.Thank you all for your support and here’s the poems. 💙 💙 💙 #poetry#poems#blueskypoetts#writingcommunity

So, friends: I was going to take a few days off to mourn my dog. But I’ve got a reputation for speaking when I must. So, I will speak—consequences be damned. Before the poem: This poem defends free speech and criticizes mob mentality. It is not a threat to any person or group.#resist#poems#poetry

Friends, I won’t lie — I’m shattered. My dog, Sugar Ray, passed suddenly. But grief has its own strange light. In our darkest moments, something in us still burns. Believe in your light, always. Here are new poems. #poetry#poems#blueskypoets#writingcommunity

After the sweltering it’s cool and cloudy here, threatening a downpour, the hazy stickiness of summer already washed off. A perfect mood to read these three gorgeous, dripping @bigjosh84.bsky.social poems. We bet wherever you are the weather is perfect for it too. templeinacity.com/three-poems-...

It’s been raining since yesterday. Water washes the past away, leaves the streets clean. But these poems are for the soul that refuses to drift, and the heart that will never be clean 💙 #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #poems #poem

poetry from @bigjosh84.bsky.social and Aleena Muzafar open @thearsonista.bsky.social 's BETTER THAN IT LOOKS August Guest Editor issue. #poetry #BurningHousePress #LitMag #prosepoem burninghousepress.com/2025/08/26/t...

poetry from @bigjosh84.bsky.social @thearsonista.bsky.social 's BETTER THAN IT LOOKS August Guest Editor issue. #poetry #BurningHousePress #LitMag burninghousepress.com/2025/08/26/a...

These three Joshua Walker poems. Tender, aching, gorgeous. We can’t get enough of them. templeinacity.com/three-poems-...

Honored that Dog Throat Issue 7 takes its title from my poem The Rapture Machine. Between Sin and Signal is live—highly recommend giving this one a read.

For anyone who’s been left in the dark, circled the same ache, or sat in a room full of silence—these poems are for you. Not every ending makes sense. Some endings just spiral. #poetry #poetsofbluesky #poems #writingcommunity

The world keeps turning while we hold on—between pain and hope. These poems are for the worn and the alive, for the raw edges and quiet strength. You’re not alone. Let’s sit with this together. 💙 #blueskypoets #poetry #hope #writingcommunity

For anyone who’s ever loved too hard, stayed too long, or lost themselves trying to feel whole- these poems are for you. Regret, beauty, and survival all tangled in the same breath. Let me know if one hits. #poetry #poems #blueskypoets

New poems today- for anyone carrying wounds that still haven’t silenced them. These pieces come from the places we survive, the places we rebuild from. If the world’s felt heavy lately, I hope something in these lines reminds you: you’re not broken beyond repair- just in the middle of the story.

For anyone walking through the dark-these came from the same place. Grief, regret, survival. I’m still here. You are too. That means something. It may get worse first but believe me will hurt less eventually. Just keep going. #poetry ##blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poems

They want us quiet. Docile. Even with freedom of speech, they still fear what we might say. Never let anyone control your voice. Never silence your truth. These poems are for those already speaking — and for those still gathering the courage to rise. 💙💙💙 #poems #poetsofbluesky #poem#poetry

The world feels off its axis, and yet- there’s still light. Still fire. Still us. These poems aren’t solutions. They’re flares for the ones holding on. Maybe one of them finds you. 💙 #Poetry #HopeInDarkness #BlueskyPoets #WritersOfBluesky #poems

The hate is loud. The fight feels long. And yeah- some days hope and fatigue sit in the same chair. We don’t kneel to cruelty. We name it. We survive it. We outlast it. Here’s a few poems from the slow burn. For the tired, the alive. 💙 #Poetry #BlueskyPoets #Resist #WritersOfBluesky #HopeIsAFlame