This week's #BornBattleReady prompt word is: QUIXOTIC Submit your poem by using our hashtag (QRT with hashtag if no space). Include your poem in this 🧵 for added engagement! Submissions close Sunday at 9am EST The only rule is to aim for the heart — and don’t miss! 🖤⚔️🤍

One fucking prick bursted the bubble of a quixotic queen. One could expect castles to crumble if reality make-believe. One choice correct in the ruptured rubble, surrounded by grief: One single brick laid despite struggle is "impossible" achieved. #BornBattleReady

Can’t argue against that logic.

Fear isn't always a stop sign. Sometimes it's a classroom. Sometimes it's an invitation to trust yourself before the outcome shows up. Be grateful for unsettling moments that make your chest tighten — they are the paths that ask for courage before clarity. #ThankfulThursday

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#vss365 #bend

Congratulations, Ryan Fiennes! You were selected to be this week’s Voice Of Valo(U)r👑 Our next #BornBattleReady prompt word is: QUIXOTIC Do not post your #poetry here. Battle will commence Friday at 9am EST The only rule is to aim for the heart — and don’t miss! 🖤⚔️🤍

My spirit animal ✨

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This Battle isn’t about perfection — it’s about persistence. Our Voice of Valo(U)r finalists showed up with grit, nerve, and enough momentum to start a movement. Now *that’s* moxie ⬇️ Read the poems below and vote here: freeonlinesurveys.com/s/R9kBHb8n

#BornBattleReady #Moxie #Differences #poetry #protest #resist #PoetsOfBluesky #Skywriting

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Venus A hit The wow-factor Moxie Charisma A certain … je ne sais quoi. I don’t know what she’s got, but she’s got it — yeah, baby, she’s got it. #BornBattleReady

#BornBattleReady #vss365 it takes a lot o #moxie to think you are up writing before me boo hoo see it's true you gotta get up pretty early let all the words free #sear em till they're pearly make em battle ready like Tres-3B Hot Jupiter, exo planetary youtu.be/qORYO0atB6g?...

This week's #BornBattleReady prompt word is: MOXIE Submit your poem by using our hashtag (QRT with hashtag if no space). Include your poem in this 🧵 for added engagement! Submissions close Sunday at 9am EST The only rule is to aim for the heart — and don’t miss! 🖤⚔️🤍

Moxie 🤌 #BornBattleReady

Look at how far you’ve come! Remember to pat yourself on the back as you gain ground 🙌 #ThankfulThursday

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We’re married now 🥰

We never did begin, but I witnessed the end played out in a lavish splendor. Although twice condemned, this love paid dividends — you will break me again, still, I surrender. Take my heart as legal tender! #pennedreveries

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This round asked poets to examine the patterns that bind us, and the moments where being brave can break the cycle. Our Voice of Valo(U)r finalists looked unflinchingly at what repeats, what wounds, and what can be rewritten. Read ⬇️, then vote: freeonlinesurveys.com/s/4uBpt211

Humanity is a slapdash attempt at untangling God’s snarls by giving primates less hair -- fewer follicles, fewer follies. But in this endeavor humans became cold, slaughtering kin for leather and skin adorned with fur. Are we fucking animals, or does creation condone murder? #vss365 #slapdash

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I like your kind of anarchy all that reckless energy nobody knows where it's going or what it means no leader to set a course a disorderly line waiting for trains that never comes no need for clockwork brains bedlam has a place of virtue #BornBattleReady @thepoetryarena.bsky.social

#BornBattleReady #clockwork #Poem #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #Sonnet And Suddenly It's Your Turn

#BornBattleReady #poetry #BlackSkyRelay

#BornBattleReady #vss365 I often wondered how & more they got away with such devilry it was all in their established rapport & timing of #delivery it's a #clockwork type mechanism that winds up with respect & sharing a similar ism that's willing to connect youtu.be/tgAN0EdmA-8?...

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It's a Bloodsport Betrayal and sadness No ebb and flow Just a sea of madness Like clockwork Limited time only Then left To myself lonely Something wrong with me Not needing ecstasy Only ever Wanting to be heard #BornBattleReady

"The Clockwork Doll" Hidden in a room Behind all alone Wondering when She will be loved On days like these Rain lands on the trees Indoor play in full swing The #clockwork doll lay Maybe it will be her turn to play How she hoped and wished But another chance missed #BornBattleReady

#BornBattleReady  A Clockwork dream Automatons that dance Worlds of time, of function Lucas Santos unsplash.com

Solid 5 this morning. How about you?

This week's #BornBattleReady prompt word is: CLOCKWORK Submit your poem by using our hashtag (QRT with hashtag if no space). Include your poem in this 🧵 for added engagement! Submissions close Sunday at 9am EST The only rule is to aim for the heart — and don’t miss! 🖤⚔️🤍

Ra-ra-ah-ah-aven ✨

This is a visual representation of our Battalion's appreciation for all the love @saffronsuncat.bsky.social shows our poems every week! 🤗 Who would you like to thank for their support this #ThankfulThursday?

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Congratulations, @sisyphusfell.bsky.social! You were selected to be this week’s Voice Of Valo(U)r👑 Our next #BornBattleReady prompt word is: CLOCKWORK Do not post your #poetry here. Battle will commence Friday at 9am EST The only rule is to aim for the heart — and don’t miss! 🖤⚔️🤍

tf i did not 😾

Wow! What an honour to be selected into the finals during such a strong round, and amongst such wonderful poets. Thank you! Good luck, fellow finalists! I love what you do, #BornBattleReady community!

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This battle round asked us to witness desperation not as weakness, but as a crucible. Our Voice of Valo(U)r finalists did not turn away — they named their pain and bravely spoke their ache. Read below and vote for your favorite here: freeonlinesurveys.com/s/qaxRcxf8

I neither require nor desire pedigree — your presence is preferred as oddball company. If I am not your cup of tea, well, that’s just fine — I’ll raise my glass, toast to class and those who divine wine. #vss365 #oddball

#Bravewrite #vss365 meals on a #mirror in lines she screams but she's lickin' the plate clean #clueless to the fines of broken dreams but don't cause a scene the razor in her teeth shines he leans in past where decency seems novice & green she smiles & cuts his throat he won't pusher no more

It’s time.

#vss365 #BornBattleReady Desperation rang twice in a row it was all gussied up in vice lettin' its #balderdash show I thought of turnin' it away but what if it's Jesus & 'em I ain't goin' to hell today so I went out a limb & sed come on in I'll make coffee good to see ye friend glad ye caught me

I Need to Go I need to go, like terribly, Not go terribly just the need is great. Great to go. To leave. To go away. Away from … here, now, the situation. All of it. No, not all of it. Not you. I need to go but not from you But because I need you. Desperately. #BornBattleReady #poetry #desperate