You try to #survive A feast while others Insist you take one More plate, but that bun Might be a stick of Dynamite this time #vss365

#Emoetry prompt for 12/25 is #Thoughtful #writingcommunity #poetry @fafo-poets-society.bsky.social

Rory never had any reason to worry about ensuring his characters would #survive, because no character truly died on the game. Unlimited resurrections. But, at Christmas, he always remembered his parents. Real life wasn’t a game and he still very much missed them more than he could ever say. #vss365

Combining #FromOneLine : Prompt 397 “We should have stopped” with: #PoemsAbout #YouShouldntHave @thebrokenspine.co.uk #Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poetry Thanks for Stopping by! 🙏🫶🙏

when I was young I would #shoot pinball I would love it never quite a Pinball Wizard ever since I was a young boy I played the silver ball do you remember The Who it was my anthem from Soho down to Brighton I must've played them all do you remember the song the deaf, dumb and blind kid.. #vss365

Prompt 162 Twinkling Effervescent Nutmeg Do Not use the prompt words in your piece. Please use #SenseWrds , and include the prompt number. No combo prompts. Message me if you have more questions.

This would be the line I was warned about - the blue line. An invisible barrier prevented me from going beyond it. I wanted to win. I had won all the previous levels. I stopped trying to #jump over it. "I surrender." The line disappeared along with my pride. #vss365 #FromOneLine

We won’t speak of those arctic winds. I don’t need to make sense of it. All I want is to lie in our poetry, breathing its wild mystery that loosens my footing, then teaches me to stand. Stay with me in our special place, with honey on the air and Oshun’s necklace warm between us. #poem 📷 Pixabay

#vss365 Cloak me in light, so my dark begs for shadow Shroud me in sure hands, fitting the contours of ache For touch is a tiny wonder and I #jump into the heat of your fingertips Light your cadence on my skin a language of whispers & iris breath slipping thru me like a warm gust in the velvet hour

It never ends But i’ll do what it takes What else can i do? I’ve hit a dead end Caught in a storm with no way out Neverending battle Uphill in circles I maintain madness Even if i retry, regain hope, i fail I start over, walk, run, fly, jump, crawl It never stops #vss365 #jump

In a #happenstance a #mirth flirting along edges set tolling of #bells & #romance #jumped in like a flurry of bluebells in a hurry to bloom,without even a lit’l sketch or #plan. & the poem couldn’t decide if it should #compose a #weak #ode or an odd elegy. #vss365 #jump #2WordPrompt #inkmine #Oulens

#Amatory #MistletoeMadness25 #inkMine #vss365 #FoxProse #firewords280 #blueskypoetry #storiesandstanza

This week on #TopTweetTuesday our host @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social asked us to post our best three TopTweetTuesday poems from 2025 in three separate photos. Here are 3 of mine. Happy holidays ~ a wonderful new year to fellow wordsmiths. #poetry #writing #poetic #blueskypoetry #storiesandstanxa

Prompt 161 Perched Enchanting Kinship Do Not use the prompt words in your piece. Please use #SenseWrds , and include the prompt number. No combo prompts. Message me if you have more questions.

I didn’t want to talk to you in raindrops, as much as I love them, I wanted to talk to you in oceans, where the words do not end

#SenseWrds Prompt 160 #Whimsical #Resplendent #Coins Do not use the prompt words ~ see where they take you. #blueskypoetry

I was drawn to the shadows and warm tones along the Red River. “Winter Along the Red” is based on a photo taken at Lindenwood park in Fargo, ND. 🙏🏻 #watercolor #watercolorpainting

Many thanks for the repost 🙏🙏 @mitchellsquid.bsky.social @bithipaulauthor.bsky.social @storiesandstanza.substack.com @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social @jangoeswriting.bsky.social

#vss365 #FoxProse #FireWords280 #Moonmystic #inkMine #loveletters #UnchainedSymphonies #storiesandstanza

From ‘Reign, Dear’. #WiPSnips

#vss365 I can not #recall What the row Was about But the ghost Had enough The ting ting ting Of tea cups Chiming In the cabinet Made us stop And search Finding a single cup Moving Like a clacker In a bell The physical force Unconveyed To the rest Of the cups Left us all Believing In ghosts

She stood in a quiet corner, a li’l #shy, unaware of her unruly #boho -dyed hair in uneven streaks of cinnamon auburn & midnight blue streaming wild #memories on scatters of dark grey suits,and as she boarded the train, sanity was restored on an insanely grey #platform. #vss365 #2WordPrompt #Oulens

Prompt 159 Hesitant Waning Face Do Not use the prompt words in your piece. Please use #SenseWrds , and include the prompt number. No combo prompts. Message me if you have more questions.

I've got memories of felled trees and fire of broken homes and desire of a ruined world and its ruiners and its inhabitants, all the same I've got memories of hands bigger than me reaching of warmth and closeness of love all long lost I've got a place I want to go back to long gone #memory #vss365

#vss365 #prompt for December 16, 2025 is #Memory

Love does not need a map to find her way back to me

poetry prompt of the week: tell me where you get your light and where you put it. if it's in your body, is it light in your hands or burning hot on the back of your neck? if it's sourced externally, do you dig it up or does it descend with the rain?

It was something Dylan didn’t like to do, but was part of his job now. He liked individuality, a little breathing room for the flyers, but this guy had too much #Boho attitude and not enough professionalism. There was a balance. Chewing out the guy felt like a betrayal of his old self. #vss365

#TopTweetTuesday This week our host @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social has us write a fresh, imagistic poem in 60 words about a festive event using - a lesser known colour shade - 2 words that are hardly used, including an archaic word - an extravagant simile - a wacky / unexpected metaphor #blueskypoetry

Just heard we lost a holocaust survivor yesterday. Anyone lost to terrorism (and any and all gun violence for that matter) is one person too many. But that loss in particular weighs on my heart.

#vss365 #boho Feet stitched to the fabric of reality, I ran away, wherever walls diminished my free-spirited ethos, the meager gateway of paper-realm called to me; and eclectic boho muses shrivelled in cataclysms flew right in for sanctuary.

#poem #poetry #vss365

Prompt 158 Sleeping Wispy Persimmon Do Not use the prompt words in your piece. Please use #SenseWrds , and include the prompt number. No combo prompts. Message me if you have more questions.

we had reached our #apogee of the planet x15 of our catalogue as far as our sensors could discern there was plenty of life down there obviously some tech ability as we were being monitored friendly or unfriendly we thought till atomic rockets started to come unfriendly then #vss365

"I am stuck in a #rut; it's #monotonous To study philosopher Plotinus. Though folks warned I'd be bored, Their advice went ignored... Cuz they used the non-word 'misbegottenous.'" #vss365 #Monotonous #vssdaily #Rut #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse #Poems

Love arrives in waves— journey through "Apogee" where poetry meets the farthest points of the heart, exploring what happens when we die a little by not living enough. ✨ #poetry #spokenvoice #vss365 #amatory #Amatory #loveletters #FromOneLine #inkMine #spokenword #blueskypoetry

#apogee love, I adore these tender moments these unclothed desires but must you name the goal an apogee? the word seems so distant and somehow unobtainable #vss365

Love her like a poem…protect her like a promise…..

#vss365 #prompt Dec 13 #apogee #Amatory 'Fading into grace', 'Awaken the dawn', 'Listen to silence' #loveletters 'Unwrap my kiss' - 'silver and gold' - 'tied with a bow' #FromOneLine 398 #prompt 'When there were clouds' #inkMine wherewithal #blueskypoetry

One Monday morning, the Moon reached its #apogee, then just kept on walking. Our brightest and best looked up, confused, as it shrank to a tiny dot in the sky. As it left us behind, chaos fell. The tides broke. The Earth's skin began to crack open. But really, who could blame it for leaving? #vss365

Time flies when you're doing what you love! Stories and Stanza is nearly 2 years old with 100+ episodes, 14K subscribers, 100K views. Through Between The Lines & Fail With Me, we've built a community celebrating authentic voices & vulnerability. 🚀 New one-pager: bit.ly/snsonepager #podcast

Fall —— #vss365 #Last #FromOneLine 397 #inkMine Elaborate, scree #FoxProse ‘Locked in natures perfection’ #KayTPoemPrompts #OurPoetryX ‘Kissed By Starlight’ #366FF Gibberish #BraveWrite Threshold #Brknshards Going Solo #blueskypoetry

i enter a world without words the fragrance of Laelia and Camelia form a path to her we speak not of love but in colors she in morning and mint me in apricot and cinnabar she's encased me in a gilded cage with lightly plucked harp notes #bewitched me tamed my wild bow with soft regret #vss365

the beauty conjured by a name think about you is like being lost in the perfection of magenta the word the color the mood they fit we fit I know I'm always the wordy one but right now it feel like I'm only speaking in soliloquys lights are dim over the audience I hope you're out there #vss365

Prompt 156 Quiet Dazzling Mercy Do Not use the prompt words in your piece. Please use #SenseWrds , and include the prompt number. No combo prompts. Message me if you have more questions.

Disappearing like snowflakes All those hours All those days Can’t catch a break You did it With your lies But they stick Like webs On the twigs of a bare tree This is just a goodnight To the echoes of you Haunting lullaby 🎶🎶🎶 #poetry

Sensational write!!

#vss365 Looking back on my wedding day, I see now I should’ve run away. #Augury and omens I ignored for the boy I adored. A butterfly fluttered My bouquet fell from my hand. A baby cried. He lost our wedding band. Years have passed; we bicker and fight. I wish I’d heeded the warnings that night.

Breathless Eulogy #SenseWrds Prompt 155 #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity

There are days that still get the better of me…I utter your name and just like that my heart finds peace….