#poetry #ekphrastic Leaves blanket forest floor In lighter pinkish hues galore Contrasting yellow daffodils To intermix as petals spill With green of grass now hidden While a purpled mist is bidden All the trees will weep for these Like wind does to the willows; A soft cushion of leafened pillows

Today’s #lifttothesky goes to @ignorantfairy.bsky.social @mother-poet.bsky.social For hosting Emoetry while I’m taking some time away to heal and deal. And to @yeehawpoems.bsky.social @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @robojesi.bsky.social @acausalqualia.bsky.social @boomshockalocka.bsky.social

#poetry #wildwalkprompt #foliage Walking through the woods at night Dense foliage canopies the moon But a faintly hint of feeble light Reaches my eyes a bit too soon I study these effects instead Hoping to catch out some trick That causes me to read ahead: Why is second sight so quick?

#poetry #mpprompt #homophone Before breakfast, to please: 'They're to pare their pears with pairs, there Two pears to be preparing per pairing, too' Purr-width wide, I eye our hour To ask: 'honey, why'd the axe handle break fast?' ... 'Thee be four... handle the bees for our honey, please'

#poetry #emoetry #flabbergasted We came to this backwater Spinning around a yellow star Searching for intelligent life Their radio signals held clues So we cloaked & set down To walk amongst them a while We didn't take long to leave; What we saw left us simply Flabbergasted - V'rek, Scout Report

As of tomorrow, I'll be hosting #emoetry at least until Sunday. Your most generous host @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social herself is on mental health hiatus but will return. Watch out for the next prompts at about noon UTC+1/ 6 am EST. #poetrycommunity #poetry

Lion #poetry #mpprompt #tolkien

#poetry #emoetry #defiance [ @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social ] Often times we think about defiance As speaking up to offer resistance But sometimes the best reliance Of a rightly oppositional existence Rests upon the power of silence Even in the face of persistence Or when compelled to speak, by violence

#poetry The cat's-meat man came back at last I catch the smell before my kin Awakened from a catnap, fast I leap from open windowsill To paw at him before he's passed I purr or mewl to get my fill This man's fortune seems so vast With every morsel he provides I record the deed for Bast

#poetry #ekphrastic As reality turns a corridor right Around this time of day An urban shaman sets their sight On occult symbols for display Odd traversal, feeling trippy While the paint begins to spray But the marks are much too drippy So they stumble far away #photography #digitalart #photoediting

#poetry #ekphrastic A curious feeling begins to start When a potpourri of bloodflowers Warms the darkness of my heart As a background has the power Of simple isolation, stark So these acrylic forms just tower Over whitespace, out of time While the potency of bloodflowers Now grows there, in my mind

A Random Act Of Violence #poetry #emoetry #cautious

#poetry #mpprompt So it's come to this, right now A place in time where motion stops With vision red & blue constrained A dozen options open up our row In hope to defend against this cop We keep state violence contained By being pleasant, to a fault & running circles 'round their brain

The queen sits upon her throne Expressionless, waiting A bishop kneels at her feet His request: deference #Bemused, she considers But takes his head As check mate is nigh After his dispatching She takes delight And the king surrenders his crown #Poetry #Emoetry #PoetrySky #PoetsOfBlueSky

In Waves Again (future prophecies) #poetry

Would that I could #split myself into a few— live my life in multitudes, try out all the paths as they diverge, sample all the choices I could have made then when I'm completely sure— when I've opened all the doors, my many selves would merge again to live the life I'd truly planned #BlueSkyRelay

#poetry You hear me speak about fear 'I've been here for an age' Words come tumbling right out 'So long I lost all count' Welling up from inside my throat 'Trapped in a prison' Spilling down around the mouth 'I built up myself' To rest between your patient ears 'Help me tear down my fear'

#poetry The Higgs Boson can decay Which means that mass can end Imagine, if you would, today Some matter made to send Transport has no extra weight But what remains to be done As scientists now test this fate With the power of a sun Is returning matter to its state Of weightfulness for fun

#poetry #emoetry #weird 'With stranger aeons even death may die' The mad alchemist said, in curt reply To which I responded, on the fly 'Death must die, attack!' He seemed to catch my meaning there Revival of those we tend with care An end to death is only fair; Weird science makes a comeback

Genderphoria #Poetry #MentallyIllMess #Queer #PoetsOfBlueSky #PoetrySky #FreeVerse #WritingCommunity #PoetSky #NonBinary

#poetry #mpprompt #lies The lies we tell about ourselves Reinforce maladaptations Concealing or revealing fears To rearrange our constellations Stars are drawn in pleasing lines To help the sailor navigate Their usefulness in darker times Was crucial to elucidate But we have DBT & GPS now

#poetry #emoetry #vigorous I hit The Verve Pipe again Tastes like sobbing freshmen Falling through guilt-stricken ice Vigorous slipping of good advice For the touching of her face & a lack of responsibility But this piece is a one hitter So I put The Verve Pipe down

#poetry Feet lined up to terminal edge Look right down, reveal the drop A flight of time so very short With but a step, & life would stop Brave the heights, conquer fear To be there at the very top Something gained, nothing lost Take that plunge, no fatal flop If bungee factors in your cost No plop

#poetry It started when the first creature Had the first internally consistent thought What started as a bug, now a feature As consciousness was raised from nought Which led to a great aggregation When suddenly matter could invest Power to deities, above their station That deep time makes manifest

#poetry #emoetry #scared Huddled in the corner, limbs drawn Tight against the chest, a weight So heavy that rocking back & forth Can't fix it, scared of these feelings Too quick to sort, only the softness Of muted intonations falling out As internal fractures form inside I dissociate myself to hide

#poetry #mpprompt #elegy Cry for their cost An elegy of saddened senses To eulogize the somber When deathly sorrow's tenses Meet the present candor We grieve for the lost While everything in order Or all the stuff in time Is defined by its border Divided by these lines: Dead or Alive

#poetry #emoetry #rapture They came for the rapture Of humanity, out of misery Heralding angels sing a song That steals all penitent breath Then stayed for the capture Of cruelty, now plain to see Spectral horseman will ride on To Pestilence, War, Famine, Death

#poetry #mpprompt That all falls to rust An oxidation layer laid Which I claim as my own In crumbled metal to dust Of fractal flowers, arranged So tarnished by aether It suits me like armor That all falls to rust

#poetry #emoetry #passionate Flowers flow from Aphrodite's lips With honeyed words of desirous silk Eyes an aesthetic gaze can't slip For the beauty inside even fouler ilk Is plain to her, she understands both Romance & attraction, love doth Find in her, a constant state of passionate action

Self-fulfilling prophecy #Poetry #MentalIllness #MentallyIllMess #PoetsOfBlueSky #PoetrySky

#poetry #ekphrastic #redpanda #moon #stars Sleepy panda looms in moonglow Tail curled up in rusty fuzz Grass all pitter-pattered below While the hoppers chirp & buzz A thousand starry lights surround This tiny creature, struck in awe At how the sky behaves around A moon when the clouds are gone

Errands #Poetry #PoetrySky #PoetsOfBlueSky #Thanksgiving

Devotion Token #poetry #love #gift #token #devotion [Dedicated to: @robojesi.bsky.social ; love you, bun-bun <3]

I made it on a list! Thanks @fractalpatter.bsky.social! @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @fafo-poets-society.bsky.social @robojesi.bsky.social @acausalqualia.bsky.social @beckduff.bsky.social @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social @koelh.bsky.social Also definitely follow Jenny Poem, they have great work!

Around 4 AM That's my favorite time of day When we get silly and #giggly And laugh at dumb shit Because everything is hilarious At 4 AM #Poetry #Emoetry #PoetrySky #PoetsOfBlueSky #WritingCommunity

Father's Embrace #poetry #writing #grief #remembrance #father #passing [Today is the one year anniversary of my Dad's passing]

#poetry #emoetry #ferocity Star's collapse predicted It burned with such ferocity That quickly brightening star For everyone, was plain to see A strange light from afar Heralded a time of woe For everything here died In supernova's crushing blow Which left no place to hide Earth's doom, inflicted

Midna was utterly unimpressed with the hard cold water (her first experience with snow) #Caturday

You have #educated me In the various languages of love The love language you speak And the one you understand Additional tongues you picked up And some ancient and powerful All these different ways to show What we mean to each other Day by day And night by night #Poetry #Emoetry #PoetrySky #Poets

#poetry Flowing water pools with gravity Towards the lowest point in space To gather, rise, then overfill Spilling over, out, & down Until the liquid submerges The highest point completely Or the flow is cut short There are lessons in gravity That require no physics; Be that flow, rise & overfill

Artists! Quote with your yellow art (I just made this one, I took RJ's post as a prompt to do one) #art #collage #yellow

For @fractalpatter.bsky.social and anybody else who wants to read #specpo about supreme berries. #poetry #scifi #poetrycommunity #bizarroworld #berries This was sparked from an oddly satisfying banter/chat with some poetry friends, title credit: @wordsbyamymichelle.bsky.social

Therapy session A chance to re-examine Professional help #Poetry #Therapy #PoetsOfBlueSky

#poetry I cast sticks, stones, & cards As omens every day To presage my fate While daily divinations divide The likely from impossible Which guide when life gets hard Or when I lose my way To help fill up my plate When symbolic oracles inside My mind interpret the discernable I read it & wait

Look up at the sky Canadian geese fly south Winter is coming #haiku #poetry

You may call me poor Based on what numbers I claim But what you cannot count, Where I am truly #wealthy, Is among friends, family, love I stand on a mountain of joy Built by people around me Who can see my light Where you see only void #Poetry #Emoetry #PoetrySky #PoetsOfBlueSky #WritingCommunity

#poetry I think it was the last time Sunset, moon hung low We were watching the city Falling into artificial glow In that moment, you kissed me Which came as some surprise To see creation's reflection But you know, in your eyes A source of all affection Deeper than the skies Which I return, in kind

Hey You #poetry Wanna take a minute Just a small pause To check in for a bit & walk in your shoes Are you doing okay? It's okay not to be Okay, sometimes People see you For who you really Are inside, & We appreciate you Just as you are Hope you can feel this Across the divide: We're all connected

'Aww, I Appreciate That' #poetry #compliment #nails #selfesteem #gratitude

I Write This In Gratitude (Pt I) #poetry I find a quality in others, grows So endearing to my ear When we treat as brothers, those People different we may fear For everyone inherits Earth No matter foes, or friends held dear By common right of our birth