Comfort A rocking chair’s embrace, matches your youthful pace, for avoiding disgrace. The twilight year’s armchair, is built from road's rough wear, a reward for your care. #poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #art #Photography #bluesky #abstract #blueskypoetry #blueskyphoto

Sacrifice Sacrifice is a migrant, Who vanishes in workforce, Their toil a generous grant. Sacrifice is a statesman, Who cedes power for conscience, So history may keep its plan. #poetry #poemoftheday #photo #sacrifice #blueskypoetry #Photography #duty #blueskyphoto

Sutures Expertly self-deceived, The blade excises vain disguise, Tailor’s shears for hollow guise. A scalpel unyielding, Newsprint-brutal, spares no thread, Best-dressed lies stark naked, bled. #poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #art #Photography #bluesky #abstract #blueskypoetry #blueskyphoto

Urbanity Manners—the polite bow, On the volcano's brim, A quaking, formal vow. Manners—diligent queues, In vast pandemonium, A choice to still not abuse. #poem #poemoftheday #poetry #civility #poems #Photography #bluesky #photo #blueskypoetry #blueskyphoto #manners

Pedigreed The dynastic blueprint, In parchment, pale and old, A story bought and sold. The barcode—pedigree, A creature, finely bred, On past acclaim is fed. #poem #poetry #poemoftheday #poems #bluesky #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry #art #status #abstract

Catechism What lies beneath blue waves? Our plastic waste now paves. A pledge to cleanse the sea. What charge must we now keep? A binding charge we must attend, To spare the seas a bitter end. #poetry #poemoftheday #photo #blueskypoetry #Photography #seascape #blueskyphoto #environment #plastic

Tenancy Crisis—the man-made kind, holds but a brief tenancy. A short lease, then resigned. War and anarchy, like chalk, the rain must cleanse, for nature’s perfect mend. #poetry #poemoftheday #photo #renewal #blueskypoetry #Photography #peace #blueskyphoto #crisis #nature #manmade

Architects of Tomorrow The dual nature of habits, With time conspires to breed, A forest or a barren weed. Your habits are the drizzle, Which grants the sap its will, Or drowns the sapling in its fill. #poem #poetry #poemoftheday #photo #renewal #blueskypoetry #Photography #landsacpe #environment

Solar Harvest How shall we harness the sun's gentle lamp, To power the world's great renewable camp. With panels aligned in the fields so vast; We clutch at nature's gift; a future that lasts. #poetry #poemoftheday #photo #renewal #blueskypoetry #Photography #nyc #blueskyphoto #newyork #solar

The Blotting Paper The blotting paper smears with privilege's long stain; its guilt confines, restrains. Wokeness clashes with the past, yet votes persist the same; will still endures, remains. #poem #poetry #poemoftheday #poems #bluesky #woke #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry #wokeness #values

The Shelf-life of Hip Groovy—hip’s brief shelf-life, A fleeting, stylish flight, A viral dance takes hold, A passing, swift conceit, It twirls for just one beat. #poem #poetry #poemoftheday #poems #bluesky #hip #fads #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry

Muzzle Loose tongues and whispers stubbed, In vaults of strictest confidence, A legal peace, subscribed. The most delicate files, A firewall of courteous thought, From any talk defiles. #poem #poetry #poemoftheday #poems #bluesky #secrecy #power #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry #nda

Misquotes Our careless tongues of today misquote the verses past, a patchwork of our own design. Time's conveyor belt jams when old chronicles attempt to send what is not yet to be. #poem #poetry #poemoftheday #photo #present #blueskypoetry #Photography #blueskyphoto #future #history

Auto-pilot Glide or grind to a halt, On unseen lubricant, This cog's turning fault. Salvation or wreckage, On iron rails forged by Repetition, I reckon. #poem #poetry #poemoftheday #poems #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry #habits #bluesky

Habit-forming Sleek jingles in your groove, Carve out a fate's design, Through static or a tune. Toilet-trained or uncouth, It soothes the coming dread, Or leaves the madness loose. #poem #poetry #poemoftheday #poems #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry #habits #bluesky

Futile Decibels Mending your crumbling logic, Requires more than forte. Your reason’s sadly short. Hurling louder words folly, Your point shows no increase. It merely proves you trite. #poem #poetry #poemoftheday #poems #bluesky #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry #photo #Photography #futility

Good Trouble Ripples, waves and tides cheek, Muddle the still pool of State. What proper stir it seeks. Good trouble plunders the calm, Pebbles rend the glossy pond. Disrupts the settled norm. #poem #poetry #poemoftheday #poems #bluesky #change #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry #photo #Photography

The Performer The authentic selfhood, He drafts manifestos. Untrue to his triumphs. Estranged from his own truth, He performs on that stage. A stranger in his brotherhood. #poem #poetry #poemoftheday #poems #selfhood #power #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry #bluesky

Counterpart The soul’s silent whispers, In polished glass appear. A surface cracked, it answers. The soul’s stubborn heartbeat, In clockwork’s chime is found. A rather unreliable sound. #poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #Photography #bluesky #photo #blueskypoetry #blueskyphoto #newyork #nyc

How to Unspin Partisan spin—state capture, A brief inquiry. Is buried out of sight. Partisan skulduggery, A memo's stark release. A case is now unspun. #poem #bluesky #poems #poemoftheday #poetry #politics #deceit #verse #poet #blueskypoetry #blueskypoet

Bias A rainbow with a curfew, clipboard clutched, it ticks and scolds, mauve too loud, cerulean caught sans permit, fined in gold. A palette dictator barks in eggshell, gloss, and slate. Even heathens, grey and prim tremble at his swatch debate. #poem #poems #poemoftheday #poetry #blueskypoet

A Revolt of Sensibilities A revolt of sensibilities,   Principles clash like thunder,   Within the mind's dark hall,   Where certainties sunder,   Right wrestles with wrong,   In deepness, we ponder. #poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #abstract #bluesky #photo #blueskypoetry #blueskyphoto

Usurped The control tsar, binding scrolls, written laws restricting polls. Perfects the manufactured whole. The patrol car, it upholds, now pens legislative scrolls. The inversion takes its toll. #poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #Photography #bluesky #photo #blueskypoetry #blueskyphoto

Dignity Deflated A slow, protracted puncture, No pomp can quite restore. A gradual loss of stature. That nagging hiss of failure, A seepage of disgrace. The engine stalls—no honour. #poem #poemoftheday #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoetry #abstract #bluesky #leaders #dignity

Civility Rote routes to civility, A march of pre-set, vacant smiles that stretches on for endless miles. Rote routes to civility, A march of vacant, set replies beneath the same compliant skies. #poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #Photography #bluesky #photo #wildlife #blueskypoetry #blueskyphoto

Polished Fiddling When practice makes imperfect campaign vows—tarnished art? A vacuous, barren start? Does practice make imperfect the contrived, slick handshake that renders it more fake? #poem #poemoftheday #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoetry #abstract #bluesky #politics

As Right as Rain Time’s tale, chapter-by-chapter, Shows nature’s sole command. A weight for man to shoulder and stand. As right as rain—parity, Its impartial fall. Then consequence for one and all. #poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #blueskypoetry #bluesky #nyc #newyork #time #nature #rain

Cultural Blunders Awkward cultural lilts, Borrowed phrases often fall, Expecting earnest praise. Artistic gaffes laid bare, Intentions meet their doom, A twaddle—clans beware. #poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #Photography #bluesky #photo #wildlife #blueskypoetry #blueskyphoto

A Mirage’s Miracle Wary eyes saw a mirage, A fiction light deceives; The heart, however, believes. It’s merely the rehearsal, A dry run, so to speak; The final act is unique. #poem #poemoftheday #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoetry #abstract #bluesky

Austerity in Hell Once hell's PR Officer met my brief, firm, reject; His decade's hangover. Redacted with a red pen from the ledger's taut ink; He watched his prestige sink. #poem #poemoftheday #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoetry #abstract #bluesky #blueskypoet

The Campaign Invoke spit-and-polish blame, A well-rehearsed, familiar aim; Their stagecraft is a tired opera. Rival’s to blame, whack-a-mole, A judgy mallet’s pointless role; The spectacle remains the whole. #poem #bluesky #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry #blueskypoet

Eavesdrops Abstract focus groups teased out how heaven is a canvas, bare, awaits the dreamer's brush to dare. The eavesdropped silence of rain on tin tells time with plain design, on stone, a scent that proves divine. #poem #poemoftheday #poems #poetry #heaven #imagination #blueskypoetry #bluesky

Of Political Measures Scales calibrated, with backroom grease applied. By ghosts of half-made facts. Half-truth's fibbing firmware, programmed to deceive. It's pre-set to misconceive. #poetry #poem #poemoftheday #poems #truth #politics

The Curated Age Etched by the coiffed forger the new world disorder a glass case for a prosthetic grin where we all pay to get in The ever-so-polite ensure the pages, nailed tight preserve a most appropriate thought lest a dangerous idea is caught #poem #blueskypoetry #poems #poemoftheday #poetry

Curated History Curated memories, Polished baubles on display; Tarnished facts are banned. Black screen, fade-in fade-out, Certain scenes held centre stage; Others snipped right out. #poem #poemoftheday #history #poetry #poetrycommunity #memory #truth #poems #blueskypoetry #blueskypoet

Stand-in The toilet-trained hellion sports a devil-may-care smirk, whose statecraft is a pestilence disguised as civic work. Stand-in for the devil so impeccably neat, he longs to set the cat among the electorate sheep. #poem #poems #poemoftheday #poetry #politics #blueskypoetry #politicians

Tantrum Brawling, no-holds-barred, When disputes require guns, Artillery scores. Politics’ bad mood, Hurling grunts and thumps, When mere talk concludes. #poem #poemoftheday #blueskypoetry #poetry #poems #disputes #discourse #politics #conflict #photography #photo #wildlife #photooftheday

Good Sport Tacit expectations Endure the slight, remain polite While victors raise the glass. A good sport’s reckoning Knows the pawn's position found Is never monarch crowned. #poem #poetry #poemoftheday #poems #victory #defeat #dignity #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry

Body & Mind A flesh-clad engine room, Labours, leaks, and strains, Its cogs betray their flaws. A neural motherboard, Holds chaos, jumbled schemes, A tangled, fraught deceit. #poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry #photo #wildlife #Photography #photooftheday #body

Dawn: Prêt-à-porter Earth's gentle costume change, Attire worn each morn's range, Shadow’s kept accoutrements. A habitual refresh, The world exudes new scents, All made splendidly afresh. #poem #poetry #poemoftheday #dawn #photo #blueskypoetry #Photography #landsacpe #blueskyphoto #morning

Pragmatic Shroud The pragmatic camouflage, Horizon's shrug, a dulled mirage, Night's flat and practised stage. Draped across the Earth's shoulders, A spent breath, the daylight moulders, Folds as evening boulders. #poem #poems #poemoftheday #poetry #nyc #newyork #dusk #evening #manhattan #night

Delimiters Cognitive defences, stuck chanting ‘no admittance’ while waving them through. Vaccines against nonsense, yet spun like a windmill. The mad stroll straight in. #poem #poetry #poemoftheday #poems #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry #nonsense #rational #society

Homophily-Tattoo Wotcha? How do you do? Bent words bear the weight of wanting the same. The dialect tattoo, worn like family steel: "Not yours? Keep away?" #poem #poemoftheday #dialects #language #poems #poetry #bluesky #identity #community #exclusion

Outdated Authority Herding chaos with bankbooks, Attempts control prove vain, Their voting records bear strains. Herding chaos with rulebooks, Orders given fall on deaf ears; Their brittle grip escapes their hands. #poem #poetry #poemoftheday #poems #abstract #authority #control #poetrycommunity

In Plain Sight A flaming arrow drawn, Through mist its path betrayed. Seeking? Utterly absurd. Flamboyant hide-and-seek, Like some bright Whydah streak In green, futile, quite hue-less. #poem #photooftheday #poemoftheday #poetry #photo #poems #nature #bird #wildlife #Photography #bluesky

The Soul’s Toolkit The threadbare soul despairs, Bears invisible scars. This worthy guide declares No facile magic mars True spirit's slow affair: Patience effects repair. #poem #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry #poemoftheday #poems #soul #human #photo #photooftheday #Photography #landscape #fog

Plastic Straw The truth lurking beneath, a novelist’s balm, “Sunny, with chance of harm.” Collective denial, a prize for the trite, plastic bends, but not right. #poem #poetry #poemoftheday #poetrycommunity #poems #environment #plastic #degradation #bluesky #blueskypoetry

alphamutiny no more full stops period a sly dig at haughty norms cheeky poke at rules so naughty minuscule… majuscule… now both tamed by modern script fusty forms seem rather dusty #poem #poemoftheday #poetrycommunity #poems #language #communication #grammar #writing #rules #poetry

The Verdict The verdict of history - a muted tick as the last grand pretense tocks still. Catalogued—unimpressed, time lifts a brow, shuts the folio with dust. #poem #poetry #bluesky #poemoftheday #poems #history #poetrycommunity

Passive Victimhood Fleet-footed introverts, Caitiffs whilst their lunch is snatched; Tremble, whilst pert dastards act. The jungle schoolyard nerves, All legs, yet their tuck-box thieves Brought comestibles whilst they grieve. #poem #poetry #poemoftheday #wildlife #Photography #photo #power