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@daveashleypoet.bsky.social @jenthorne.bsky.social @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social Sunday came around again and I forgot to post this . My happy place Haibun #PoetsOfDoom #poetry #writesky

For #PoetsOfDoom theme of #friendship a piece seasoned with some arresting alliterations Dedicated to my friends at @fafo-poets-society.bsky.social and all the other meaningful connections I've built since I joined BlueSky last January. 💜 #poetry

Series of forks in The branching of the boughs, bark Bitten from friction. #WildWalkPrompt #forks #haiku #poem #writing #writingcommunity @sonnetsmith.bsky.social

Friendship's funny forms, Common courtesy combined With witty whimsy. #PoetsOfDoom #friendship #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @jenthorne.bsky.social @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social

#poetsofdoom #friendship #alliteration Fickle. Feckless. Fortune's slut. Frankly, I'm not the best friend you could have. I might be fun in micro-doses. Maybe. @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @jenthorne.bsky.social @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social

Thank to @jenthorne.bsky.social for last week #PoetsOfDoom This week I'm seeing poet friends ... so the topic is #friendship To make it tricksy the poem has to contain at least 3 bits of alliteration. @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social @jenthorne.bsky.social

Cute little caterpillar A treasure to find Your colors measure As one of a kind Wait, what’s this You have friends So many together A swarm is defined There’s no place to Run no place to hide Terror cocoons me Will I metamorphosize What could emerge Out the other side #wildwalkprompt #caterpillar

#poetry #wildwalkprompt #shoots There's a classic grammarian issue That changes depending on skill From description of how pandas eat To a food patron panda's next kill You can probably discover What changes these meanings If the answer strikes you as pleasing Post it Quill

I want to be a bee surrounded by shoots of settling cedar, quietly embraced by Spring's ethereal bloom. - #WritingCommunity #vss365 #BlueSkyArtShow - #quiet #poetry #firewords280 #BSPP55 #WildWalkPrompt #bionicanadian

Hello Wild Walk #writers Twisted, gnarly tree Splitting once, then once again One trunk, many forks Your word today is #Forks Use the image/word to inspire your writing. #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub

fuzzy fuzzy #caterpillar who would ever fear such a cute animal that never means to harm a soul? I know at least one who cannot stand the touch of fur and will panic at the sight of it #WildWalkPrompt #poetry #writing #writingcommunity

new bamboo #shoots the spring thunderstorms they bend before the wind but do not ever break drink deep of the water reach for the sky touch the clouds almost overnight the forest of mystery #WildWalkPrompt #poetry #writing #writingcommunity

It crept while I slept Circling closer to window Slipping shoot in crack Meandering to my neck Awakened! I am vine now ꧁⎝ 𓆩༺✧༻𓆪 ⎠꧂ #wildwalkprompt #shoots #nature #poetry

no earth for the seed trapped in cotton, a bean shoots its green illusion #WildWalkPrompt #shoots #haiku

"I shoot! I score" is what he shouted and said bending the rotten dead pig over the bed but the rancid corpse split in a spermy maggoty flit Now his cock is fallen off instead. #wildwalkprompt #limerick #ick #pig

#JumbledJuly I like me some nonsense Your prompt

Humble roots to shoots Stretching in growing glory, Laughing in the rain. #WildWalkPrompt #shoots #haiku #poem #writing #writingcommunity @sonnetsmith.bsky.social

hidden away from prying eyes and stomping feet ash shoots unfurling #haiku #WildWalkPrompt #poetry

my fear shoots up within me like fire up a match quickly eating away precious life force the heat of the fire reaches my fingers how soon before I drop the match? if I am the match itself, who will catch me when I fall? #Shoots #WildWalkPrompt #writesky #writingprompt #5amwritersclub

#WritingCommunity #poetry #villanelle #PoetsOfDoom - Silver stream of tears is flowing Blue is settling in after grief Tender hope like green leaves growing Through the dark night I kept going Faith turned to black as did belief Silver stream of tears is flowing No... 1/3

Hello Wild Walk #writers Second canopy, Shoots rise upward from tree base In its own shadow Your word today is #Shoots Use the image/word to inspire your writing. #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub

acidic soil produces blue mopheads alkaline turns them pink play mad scientist, change the pH but not white flowers, they've got no pigment #WildWalkPrompt #hydrangea #poetry #writing

"Sit still! You're exhausting me." "Sorry, mom. It's hard not to react to such a good story." "Okay, now we become the book." Together they focused and transported inside the novel's story to frolic in the imagined hydrangea field. #thingstowriteabout #WildWalkPrompt #vss365 #FoxProse #2WordPrompt

green caterpillar, many just cling to the bark, dissolved in the moss #WildWalkPrompt #caterpillar #haiku

caterpillar slide caterpillar glide caterpillar wish caterpillar squish bye caterpillar baby bird filler 𓂃 ོ𓂃 #wildwalkprompt #caterpillar #nature #poetry

Fed till fat Silk then spun Crysallis Awaiting Desperate For the change Awaken Transforming Emerging. #tricube #poem #wildwalkprompt

Once upon a time, a caterpillar got lost on a hydrangea bush. One of the big leaves spread over the little animal like an umbrella during the rain, while it dreamt of being a butterfly gorging on the weathered nectar of Summer's last roses. - #vss365 #BSPP55 #WildWalkPrompt #thingstowriteabout

Curling up in a Fluffy ball, caterpillar Traumatised by size. #WildWalkPrompt #caterpillar #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @sonnetsmith.bsky.social

Another #haibun for the #PoetsOfDoom crew. In this case the mice find their happy place. #poetry #inkmine #haiku @jenthorne.bsky.social @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social

This is my #HappyPlace. #PoetsOfDoom #Haibun #Poem #Poetry #Writing #PoetryCommunity @jenthorne.bsky.social

Hello Wild Walk #writers Racing to safety, Caterpillars cross tarmac. Desperate search for green. Your word today is #caterpillar Use the image/word to inspire your writing. #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub

You're #safe to #dance #with #fairies #Safe to #frolic here, have fun Those ocean #waves don't look #safe #Safe to say he's #indignant Are #hydrangeas #safe for cats? Loose change is #safe in a #jar #7syllablesentence #OurPoetryX #vss365 #thingstowriteabout #emoetry #WildWalkPrompt #inkmine

hydrangeas’ lesson: nutrients we sip, glean, gulp determine our shade 𓂃 ོ𓂃 #wildwalkprompt #hydrangea #nature #poetry

#hydrangea in the garden pink, white, blue an explosion of colour amid green leaves an oasis so lovingly cultured and watered even as the sun blazes overhead #WildWalkPrompt #poetry #writing #writingcommunity

#PoetsOfDoom #happyplace #haibun @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social @jenthorne.bsky.social

I love hydrangeas but have never been able to successfully grow one. #WildWalkPrompt #Hydrangea @sonnetsmith.bsky.social #Poetry

How about both! #JumbledJuly #PromptCombo More bizarre menagerie! A very specific type of mimic: The Duvelgänger #poetry #fantasy #nonsense

Hydrangea lifting air with perfume, and yet it’s winter inside

she loathes hydrangea with the same intense passion folks are hating wasps #senryu #WildWalkPrompt hydrangea #poetry * whoever finds out who "she" is first gets a haiku. 😊

My very first sestina. Diyu and Avici are Buddhist words for Hell. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diyu en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Av%C4%A... #vss365 #prompt #BlueSkyPoets #Inkmine #emoetry #WildWalkPrompt #writingprompt #5amwritersclub #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

The hedgerow's pom-poms, Bursts of hydrangea wave, Pausing for applause. #WildWalkPrompt #hydrangea #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @sonnetsmith.bsky.social

Hello Wild Walk #writers Oppressive heatwave, Its bite curved by only this - Hydrangea season! Your word today is #Hydrangea Use the image/word to inspire your writing. #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub

#emoetry prompt for 7/9 is #indignant #writingcommunity #poetry

#WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub #helicopter #writers

spiralling in his stomach humiliation felt like a helicopter going down burning shame coloured cheeks stuttered vow of innocence didn't quite cut it bowed face no noble retreat but escape into irrelevance — defiance off the table #emoetry humiliated #WildWalkPrompt helicopter #poetry #vss365

#PoetsOfDoom #HappyPlace #haibun #windowweather @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social @jenthorne.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

Inspired by @rock-rex.bsky.social and @jenthorne.bsky.social (Peters poem that started the process off) I have added an eel based creature to my menagerie Eelsekai And here is a rough draft of a poem about them for #promptcombo

TW tr@uma #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writercommunity #prompt #WildWalkPrompt #Helicopter @sonnetsmith.bsky.social