This week's #BornBattleReady prompt word is: RETROGRADE 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! 🖤⚔️🤍

Today, we give thanks for the kind of strength that defends rather than destroys.
 Here’s to the warriors who fight with grace, and the poets who turn pain into peace 🍻 #ThankfulThursday

Or there’s another Carrington Event. Erm, I mean, oh my god so pretty! 🤩

Congratulations, Neil G! You were selected to be this week’s Voice Of Valo(U)r 👑 Our next #BornBattleReady prompt word is: RETROGRADE 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! 🖤⚔️🤍

Ain’t nothin’ but a heartache.

The universe said no takesies backsies 🤷‍♀️

This week, our Battalion didn’t shout their truth — they spoke it in such a way that others would have to listen closely to understand. For these finalists, each verse became a reminder that the soul does not speak in thunder, but in quiet knowing. freeonlinesurveys.com/s/ht4N3opu

The slithery seductress Going for the kill Knowing she would Have it all Just a look Tantalizing Whisper of silk and lace Against buttery skin Irresistible sin Most beguiling sinner Look of come hither Secret lover Nothing ever Will be the same #BornBattleReady

My contribution to this week's #BlueSkyArtShow, #BornBattleReady, #soulseedlove & #inkMine. - #WritingCommunity #poetry #KBFPhotography #MobilePhonePhotography #Photography - WHISPER One evening fall fell upon us like a curtain across rainbows ... 1/2

The wind started to whisper strange kind of words sometimes in riddles other times words yet unheard mystical moments musical charm rhythm and meter a flow of sound #BornBattleReady WHISPER @thepoetryarena.bsky.social

#BornBattleReady Link to poem on my website: annieb222.com/2025/11/08/o... Text in first comment for anyone who prefers not to use the link

#BornBattleReady #whisper #poetry #poetsofbluesky #skywriting

Beneath fear's cloak, bold whispers draw you near, unveiling paths where shadowed doubts disappear. In trembling steps, untethered strength will rise, like dawn emerging from night’s veiled skies. Embrace the fright; through darkness, the light will sing. #BornBattleReady #prompt #whispers

#BornBattleReady #whisper The selection of the metal is crucial As is the crucible The cyclic rhythmic hammering The ritualistic quenching Redoing remaking Until the blade is made Securing the hilt The wrapping of the handle The balance must be perfect Born battle ready The blade makes no whisper

#BornBattleReady #whisper #Poem #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #Sonnet The Breeze Brings Autumn

Faint and dusky grave I hear you #whisper my name But be off—I do not crave At all—your dark game #BornBattleReady

In all the confusion It was a whisper in the air I felt your intrusion As footsteps wandered my mind They called it a madness While I lost my sense of time I fuelled my own fire With unknown vengeance in my quill #qrt #BornBattleReady #poem #whisper

#BornBattleReady I know yaller here 4 fried perch hush puppy is as hush puppy does with a quickness 1st let's holler church with no secrets or whisperin' can I get a witness kindness don't besmirch the devil ain't got a hit list god don't sell merch & creation happened when an idea wished it

*strokes imaginary beard

This week, the word “corporeal” became a battlefield as poets learned that the hardest wars waged are often against the limits of the self. These finalists turned inward to confront the fires dwelling within ⬇️ freeonlinesurveys.com/s/JZ7lXkqI

#vss365 what kinda throwed off #creature looks back at me from a mirror hangin' on yonder wall I reckon it's my perception of what I see with grotesque countenance I pluck out my right eyeball for it offended me such that I cut off my right hand now I'm out of touch youtu.be/t3C2HtduZWU?...

My backpack’s got jets I’m Boba the Fett I bounty hunt for Jabba Hutt to finance my ‘vette youtu.be/S22Ls4E5GRI?...

Happy Halloween! 👻✨

Congratulations, @dmiddleham.bsky.social! You were selected to be this week’s Voice Of Valo(U)r 👑 Our next #BornBattleReady prompt word is: CORPOREAL 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! 🖤⚔️🤍

Me to the youths:

You mean my loyal subjects? 🪴

#BornBattleReady Quiet whispers of #vellichor Seeped through my fingers Between the earthy pages of a book Her book... Tears fell close to her words Not touching Never meeting... I clutched the book Close to my heart Perhaps to never let go Perhaps to ease the pain of separation Perhaps...

It's the time of year When the feeling Is more rampant As I find my feet leading To that place downtown Amidst the falling leaves That feeling when I step into yesterday The vellichor hits soundly As I walk through that door Solace and daydreams Of innocence if ever I was #BornBattleReady

#BornBattleReady Link to poem on my website hereunder (text in first comment for those who prefer not to use the link) annieb222.com/2025/10/25/t...

#BornBattleReady #vellichor #Poem #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity The Deerfield River Bookhouse

VELLICHOR #BornBattleReady @thepoetryarena.bsky.social

Inside My Book My contribution to this week's #BornBattleReady ( #vellichor ), and #BlueSkyArtShow ( #inside ). --- #WritingCommunity #poetry

I dunno … he might be on quack 😂

This week's #BornBattleReady prompt word is: VELLICHOR 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! 🖤⚔️🤍

“The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.” - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Gratitude is more than saying thank you. It’s tending to the fire when it flickers, and celebrating others even when your own harvest feels lean. Humbled by those who understand that community isn’t built by comfort, but by contribution. #ThankfulThursday

Congratulations, @writinglife2010.bsky.social! You were selected to be this week’s Voice Of Valo(U)r 👑 Our next #BornBattleReady prompt word is: VELLICHOR 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 wife would still beg to bring this critter home if it were real 😆💕

The palace in which Light lives and the dwelling place of Darkness are one in the same. Our vessels contain a vast, never-ending expanse in this quest for Truth — Universal Virtue loves nothing more than being You. #poetry

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This round, our Battalion braved the question that has the power to make or break us all: Who are you when you stop letting the outside world tell you who to be? Our finalists chose not to hide behind a shroud, but to lift the veil ⬇️ freeonlinesurveys.com/s/eQKtZSy2

#BornBattleReady #shroud #Poem #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #Sonnet Under the Hunter's Moon

#BornBattleReady Link to poem on my website hereunder, document in first comment with text, please note it is a wide document with three stanzas across the page and you may need to make sure you scroll all the way down annieb222.com/2025/10/18/i...

Old growth forest full of giants. This was saved by decades of protesting and trail cam footage of an endangered potoroo. I'm up here again today. #BlueSkyArtShow #Vertical ( #BornBattleReady #Shrouded in alt text)