The rabbit slept on the tortoise’s back, back-slept, ears #lambent sticking out—woke. Couldn’t risk losing the race again. Post the humiliating last race, old coach had lectured him an hour on #fixing attitude, and something else… games as #hunger… hunger-for-games? #vss365 #2WordPrompt #Oulens

She went with the wind. Only the wind knew the direction of her thoughts. Only the wind could cradle them in raindrops. The wind alone would drop when they fell on grass. And float a song from the blades for her blues. The wind always rode in her hair. #Oulens #SenseWrds 180 Inspired Wending Bubbles

The ambience could not dispel his #ambivalence. Even as the candles caught the light in her eyes, a hushed song from two decades back #reprised itself in the vinyl. He felt his thoughts #isolate. Between refrain and silence, the room began to #darken, gathering #ghosts. #vss365 #2WordPrompt #Oulens

The walls attacked her through her words. The sky absorbed them without a word, returning some pink absurdity. The #mirror, a mute spectator kept stealing #glances at her #pain. To #protect herself, she let the action verb expend itself mid-flight. #vss365 #2WordPrompt #inkmine #Oulens

My #soul speaks in riots quiet though they may be. Can you hear it? Or is it but a whisper a cacophony below a summer’s green, a storm folded in brooding sea. Or am I but a firefly stealing kisses from the sun? #vss365

After the storm Mitchell P #art

It's Raining Now

THE REFLECTION STARES BACK #poetry #prompt #FoxProse ⤵️ #vss365 soul #spokenword #Solseed amity #OurPoetryX ⤵️ #moonmystic ⤵️ #firewords280 ⤵️ #2wordprompt ⤵️ #WIPsnips perish #vssdaily corrupt #emoetry regaled #poetrycommunity #bravewrite shadow #RetroArtPrompt courage #DailyImagePrompt marigold

Now that the sky painted itself through her window, her #soul drifted between #zones, gathering the grammar of quiet. Each morning a pink woke her without #alarms, silently. And there remained but one #shadow, of the one who had left, still learning where light pauses. #vss365 #2WordPrompt #Oulens

Combining two #SenseWrds Prompt 179: Pacing Breezy Journals Prompt 178: Splitting Bronze Libraries #Oulens #BlueskyPoetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity

Swallow the Shadows releases with @thebellabooks Feb. 12 and everywhere Feb. 17. Available for preorders. Sloane West is back. And she wants answers. #urbanfantasybooks #mystery #lesfic #wlwbooks #sapphicbooks

I’m delighted to be February’s featured poet on Paul Short’s site, The Book Bag: Poetic Voices. I’m touched by Paul’s kind appreciation. Two poems are featured here, Late Summer Walk & Graduation, with a couple more later this month #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky @paulwritespoems.bsky.social

#HaikuSaturday Inspired by Susan’s @andrewssusanm.bsky.social lovely haikus whooshing the dough rolling to bake waves through my kid’s aperture #BSPP50 : #aperture #inkmine : #bake #haiga #haiku #senryu #tanka #Oulens #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity

For #SmallPoemSunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #Oulens #micropoetry

Really pleased to have a small poem and a micro fiction in this issue. Huge thanks to editor Jason Abbott @jason-h-abbott.bsky.social of @scifansat.bsky.social Please do check out this great issue. #Oulens

#vss365 #haiku #micropoetry Dusk let’s shadows #loom Bare fingers touch The confession of a lover

while sky takes a break branches hold cumulus clouds solidarity #HaikuSaturday 💙

attic dust caught in a splinter of light #haiku #senryu

“So there is no meaning, no grand purpose,” said Peter. It could have been a question, but it wasn’t. “Not at all,” Paul confirmed cheerfully. “No harps in paradise, no fire in hell, no regrets. Just the switching off of the ‘big switch’.” Versão Portuguesa trombalazana.substack.com/p/aproveita-...

Morning ku family photos a different world with each grandmother #haiku #senyru

Many thanks!

A poem from my 2017 collection 'A World Where" for #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils, @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk :

Here's what came to mind for me for @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #PoemsAbout #Blackveils Back to read and comment tomorrow

I've just read through all the #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils that have gone up so far. I have to say that the quality is stratospheric this week. My breath is taken away. I'd better throw my veil into the ring...

🙏 @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils #newpoem: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026 Will catch up! #Reading 👇👇 #Saturn #Goya #Melancholy #Archetype #DepthPsychology #Alchemy #DarkPoetry #poetrycommunity

Vibes to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk I did not think I could contrive something for #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils. Also sharing with #promptcombo #moment #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #newpoem

Good morning #BlueskyPoetry community @thebrokenspine.co.uk & the inestimable @alanparrywriter.co.uk joining in on today’s #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils with this wee effort Have a workshop first thing, will check back later. Have a great #poetry day. Thanks for the opp as always and to all who join in.

I'm sorry this one is so long, but once it started coming out it wouldn't stop. Thank you @thebrokenspine.co.uk for yet another traumatic/cathartic #PoemsAbout prompt. #BlackVeils #narrativepoetry

@alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils.

Good morning! This one was another difficult one from #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils Thank you as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Time for another #fridaypoem and a #poemsabout #blackveils Thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk for inspiration and curation. #poetrycommunity #poem #poetry #poets #poemalttext #UseAltText

For #PoemsAbout #BlackVeil With thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and the @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#BlackVeils #PoemsAbout #tanka Your apologies, simply black veils to cover a void of concern. Know I see through the dark gauze as I would the mists of dusk.

Had a go. Brain hurts! 🙄 @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #blackveils#poemsabout

For #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk for #vss365: #thrum #soothe @blsamaddar.bsky.social & for #inkmine : #affirmation Thanks for reading! 🙏🙏 #Oulens #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poetry

#Journal #A.Soul.in.Transit “The real sky is not above our heads, but in the space we create between our chains„ #ƒred-ƒorge © - Creamy fog over the lights - by : #Adam-Ali [San Francisco, California]

#completethehaiga 135 Overton window tryna fit in tomorrow? maybe… @lessethereal.bsky.social @completethehaiga.bsky.social #haiga #haiku #senryu #tanka #Oulens #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #completethehaiga 135

#completethehaiga 135 my skies slipping out through Magritte’s window for @lessethereal.bsky.social @completethehaiga.bsky.social #haiga #haiku #senryu #tanka #Oulens #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity

Thanks to Roberta Beach (Robin) Jacobson for including my poems at fivefleas.blogspot.com/2026/01/afte...

Melodramatic Stormy days, hopefully stick No more! Let’s undo.. #Seranya #senryu #haiku 🦄 #Art in my mind…distracted #Writing #Poems via #Poetry #Prompt #haikufeels #undo #BlueskyPoetry #PoetryCommunity

I was born in the snow in the high vale. The wolf moon was new when I took my first breath and my mother her last. Destiny chimed on the icicles and the mark on my wrist I keep hid. My heart is ever cold and I avoid all weapons. I said No to being brave and cup cocoa instead. #fromoneline #403

remarkable moss no need to rush to the store ready for a nap #HaikuSaturday 💙 #winterweather 💙 #dormancy Be safe, everyone. ❄️

Lost within the distance of time. Moments separated by expanding ocean beds. Shorelines hidden in a misty fog to a past I’m incapable of reliving. But I’m still filled with #gratitude for the moments we once shared. #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt

one cold snap of brittle fingers the world hardens in ice #♡ᝰ.🖋️ #poetrysky #poetry #poem #blueskypoets #micropoetry

Crystallised cavern, Icebound dreams sealed away, for They ruined the word. #BSPP49 #IceboundDreams #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

icebound dreams from Eden melting under global warming #BSPP49 : #icebounddreams #Oulens #haiku #senryu #monoku #micropoetry #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity

sweet blues in frayed pages of life’s little pocketbook of ironies #SenseWrds Prompt 176: Crying Resilience Broken #Oulens #haiku #senryu #monoku #micropoetry #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity

So pleased that this poem could be part of “joy” in @templeinacity.bsky.social Thanks to editor @eireneeleni.bsky.social #Oulens #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity

bending the shape of sonder river confluence #vss365 #bend #inkmine #shape #Oulens #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity