#poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writercommunity #WildWalkPrompt #Daffodil @sonnetsmith.bsky.social

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

Dark, the absence of light in my mind that drags me into that abyss of loathing. No sacred sense of serenity as again I tear myself apart. Bleeding and crying in the dark. (Im really in a good mood) @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social @edwardstjames.bsky.social #TheRivals #Dark #vss365

#poetry #mpprompt Matryoshka 1st is bold & bright - watch out, world! 2nd is efficient, capable, hardworking, confident 3rd is friendly, kind, laughter & fun times 4th is quiet, artistic, swirled watercolor, poems 5th is frightened, awkward, self-doubting, improv all are me, curious & distractable

In the bar with the bleeding ivy his Old-Fashioned is his constant companion, warming his throat, erasing his brain, creating new narratives of the hero professor, the king of the barstool #vssmagic #weirdmicro #poetry

sidewalk cafe the rain turns us all into friends #PJJournal #prompt 14 #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity #senryu

You knowe the coole thinge about Gen A.I.? Aye, me neither

Sometimes the answer to the question "How should this sentence be punctuated?" is "It should be entirely rewritten." #copyediting

i want to be understood but not examined so i say half and watch you fill the rest sometimes you get it right and i love you for that sometimes you don’t and i love you for trying #Poetry

there is a door i keep almost opening a call i almost make a line i almost cross almost is a quiet word it builds a life #Poetry

This is Pamela Jo Bondi contemptuously flipping her hair (which is SCREAMING for some purple shampoo) when asked to acknowledge the Epstein survivors seated directly behind her. She couldn't even be bothered to turn her head. What a rude and deeply unpleasant person.

Need to stress that, like the Pretti killing, this terrorism is happening in extremely mixed use residential neighborhoods. Cafes and restaurants just down the street. The St. Paul Curling Club that's put out so many Olympians competing *this week* is like two blocks away.

The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social @mprnews.org . She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.

Raskin has more constitutional acumen and integrity in his pinky finger than Pam "Temu lawyer" Bondi will ever have. She is performing for an audience of one--the tub of lard in DC.

“You don’t tell me anything, washed-up loser lawyer!” Is it asking too much to have an Attorney General who doesn’t sound like a drunk in a trailer park brawl? Apparently, it is.

It really takes a lot of effort to stand out for awfulness in this administration. Well done, Pamela Jo Bondi!

DISARMING MYTH —where arrows meet chosen vulnerability #Cupid arrived and I opened my armor mistaking surrender for strength #WI11Wstories #whisperin11words #poemprompts @whisperin11words @marrowlines

Address the questions Will there be enough cheese now? To outlast winter? #haikufeels #haiku #TheRivals @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social @edwardstjames.bsky.social

It ys Wednesdaye my felawes

POLICE: "We'd like to talk to you about some recent murders." CHARLES MANSON: "I'm moving on from that."

Old DMs are not meant to be read again.... #BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP50 #February #poetry #poetryCommunity

I'm always fascinated with the idea of Japanese monsters, and this song and image made me think of a vast and long parade of demons feasting on human souls. youtu.be/ixTX6mrTnWs?... #Cassiopeian #prompt #vast #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

The worst had happened. What else could hurt me then?

Classical mythology is my love language. #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writercommunity #prompt #FreeVerseFebruary #CIRCEAN @daveashleypoet.bsky.social 11 February 2026

@sonnetsmith.bsky.social I will not apologise for my geekiness. Klingon is such a beautifully poetic language. I will apologise for the fact your picture reminded me of Worf's head though.

#poetry #mpprompt #telephone I caught the darkness leaving as the sky slid from darkest blue to lighter & lighter grey stars disappeared sharp knife of light cut along the tree edge pearled the heavens with pink & orange gossamer another chance to live

your shirt smells like sun and salt i press it to my face as if cloth could be a bridge it can for a minute #Poetry

@daveashleypoet.bsky.social I'm happy tonight, so no angst. #FreeVerseFebruary #circean #poetry

i walked through today it dissolved each moment vanishing as it arrived still an impression a trace on the chest a word almost said a shadow that appears only when i turn from the light #poetry

What this man is describing would seem to constitute crimes against humanity under international law. Other governments could and should contest the abuses he’s describing the U.S. government committing against migrants.

The question repeated itself in my mind— it said, time & again you do the same old thing, when will you learn? & I replied, stop dreaming? Stop being a hopeless romantic? Never— even when I'm returned to stardust, I'll spread my dreams like fireworks to light the universe. #FromOneLine 405

if only you knew how hard and how high she reached the ache of her years #vss365 #ache #haiku #poetry #photography #eastcoastkin #nature #scape #ice #snow #tree #art #writingcommunity Photo: Our true story is told in the shadows, just like the trees shown here in this winter scene.

(AXIOS) - Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told Axios in an interview Tuesday that, when he searched President Trump's name in the unredacted Epstein files the previous day, it came up "more than a million times." @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/02/10/t...

I caught the summer leaving at two thirty in the morning. Heading south. Heavy footsteps in the frost. I followed him to the main road and shivered my goodbyes. He did not stop for me, nor turn his eyes, as I stood illuminated by that cold and handsome sunrise.

#tiolet #poem

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

"Portrait of a Dictator" was often copied by Samizdat, or passed orally. When the original text was discovered again in KGB archives after the fall of the USSR, it was found that the Samizdat had preserved it perfectly #poem #poetry www.laphamsquarterly.org/politics/por...

Let's talk about Samizdat ("self-published"), a system for the distribution of censored #literature under the Soviet state Copies were made of banned texts, often by hand. If you got a copy you were expected to make more. Often they were given fake covers to hide their true nature #censorship

Though it eventually included all literature, Samizdat was originally created to share #poetry. One example is "Portrait of a Dictator" or "The Stalin Epigraph" by Osip Mandelstam. Written in 1933, this #poem directly lead to Mandelstam's exile, imprisonment, and eventual death in prison

the body remembers what the mind wants to forget – beneath skin, between bones, you remain. the pain of you still pierces through dull memory, sharpened by the passage of time. you are gone and not gone. all that persists is the ache - the nameless want pulling, crushing, unyielding. #vss365

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The room grows wider. The clock loosens its grip. Light spills like clean water across ordinary things—a cup, a chair, the dust that has been waiting. My ribs open and let the world in. For once, the future does not feel like a wound. Somewhere, a door unlatches. Somewhere, I step through #MPPrompt

On the barren earth- there- the tiniest crack, from which a sapling peeks reaching gingerly toward the sun, as if checking— will it nourish or burn? because even hope can hurt when you've learned not to trust all that it promises. #mpprompt

#poetry #mpprompt now I can breathe gulping oxygen like a whale swallowing krill world awash with light kaleidoscopic joy I am thistledown lifting on the breeze an otter sliding down a bank a dolphin dancing in the waves white blossoms in the moonlight cured free given back life

breathe, love, yes release the tension from your rigid frame the winter’s long and brutal in its depths but the sun, it shines sometimes sometimes one ray can offer enough promise to make you believe that warmth can live inside you, even in an endless February #MPPrompt

Another #promptmatch made in heaven @sonnetsmith.bsky.social and @daveashleypoet.bsky.social #FreeVerseFebruary #10 #Sumptuous #WildWalkPrompt #Plumage #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writercommunity #prompt

In response to a #poetryprompt hosted by @malformed-poetry.bsky.social: "Sit down, take a deep breath, imagine you have just received some really #goodnews." #Nonewsisgoodnews #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writingcommunity #mpprompt @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

That is precisely what the GOP game plan is.

In an email to Michael Wolff while Wolff was writing an unflattering exposé on the Trump administration, Jeffrey Epstein states that people who had dinner with Trump were concerned about his dementia. He was wearing too much makeup and didn’t recognize old friends. THIS WAS ALMOST TEN YEARS AGO.