#staring at #numbers to soar stars #plummet the rat-race world is a cold place #vss365 #2WordPrompt #Oulens #haiku #senryu #tanka #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poetry

Christian Paul Kusch © 2025 #writer #poetry #substack

“Who Said I Was a Wizard?” Character art I made for a D&D campaign I’ve joined after another one ended. Roan is very old school wizard coded (with a touch of druid). Portraying a witty grandfather and former farmer thrust into a dungeon crawl amid a party of otherwise young adults is good fun.

#vss365 #measure #poetry

#vss365 #law The law of a reduction still haunts me ineloquently. Ineluctably. Out of the silence of these faraway blank pages. And of you.

"You spotted me at a distance in the life bazaar and found my table intriguing. Standing across the street, a bemused grin on your lips. My wares were there to see, and you drank it all down. Made stories up in your mind, I was a #myth before I was real to you. A slow nod, a chuckle, you walk over."

𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑒𝑚'𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑢𝑠ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑛𝑜𝑤 #DailyHaikuPrompt | first snow, lush

Tales of the rails & the trails we take & the footprints we leave that lead us home or maybe further astray Who knows? We may never until we reach The End of the Line #SelfPortraitSunday #DronePhotography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows #ImageAndVerse #EastCoastKin #MicroPoetry #Prose #B&W

#Journal #A.Soul.in.Transit “There is something soothing about hearing the bluesy sound of the waves„ #ƒred-ƒorge © Photography : Heather Smith [Sun Craving]

A #sundaypoem This one is a #haibun #poetry #poems #poetrycommunity #poemsabout #poetsofbluesky #poets #poemsaboutlife #autumn #poemalttext #usealttext #AltTextPoetry #AltText

Finally a breather to be here with #PoemsAbout #lockeddoors. can't wait to read everyone's work. @thebrokenspine.co.uk. @brokenspinearts.bsky.social @alanparry83.bsky.social @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social cial #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry

@rfsmith.bsky.social @dragonslayerma.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social I’m hosting #promptcombo this week.Use the #promptcombo and post me @hool415.bsky.social for the theme of #workinglove Anything on love, work or a mix of both! All welcome till 5pm Friday!!

Circumspect desire In colorful fallen leaves Hot Carmel Latte ©️ #Seranya #Haiku🦄 #Art in my mind… #photography #Writing #Prompts🦋 #Haiku4U |Carmel Latte #PoemsAbout | #Desire #Solseed | #FallenLeaves #Bluesky #Poets #BlueskyPoets

Here's the reason I've been pretty quiet for the last few weeks - I'm very proud to unveil my website: www.davekurley.net. There are poems and photos and allsorts of stuff. I hope you like it! @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @zoomburst.substack.com #poems #poetry #website

replies Sunday, I am tied up tomorrow, so in time here is my poem about #ClosedDoors for #PoemsAbout #Poetry #MyEx

‘They call her Winter’ My chilling interpretation of the coldest season of them all… ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ #poetry #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #skypoets #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #winter

Dick White of @dailyhaikai.bsky.social and @forgottenpoets.bsky.social inspired and co-wrote a little renga with me me over the weekend. I learned from him, and had so much fun! The first haikai is by Taimu (d. 1774?), tr. Dick Whyte himself.

#PoemsAbout #LockedDoors @thebrokenspine.co.uk 🙏 to @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social & best wishes to @alanparrywriter.co.uk #poetry / #photography: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025/2024 #Symbolism #ZinaidaGippius #monochrome #ImageAndVerse #DepthPsychology #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity

Thrilled to be included in Issue 5 of @UnderbellyPress which is out today! Huge thanks to Lucy Huddlestone and all the amazing poets, writers and artists including @ghostlyverse.bsky.social ☆ Owen Townend ☆ Paul Callus ☆ @rburrows.bsky.social underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/copy-of...

Delighted to be in this wonderful new anthology from N2tS - all the recent winners including my poem that was 2nd place. Huge thanks to Richard Howitt Available at Waterstons and others inc. www.new2thescene.co.uk/product/new2... #New2theScene #BookLaunch #PublicationDay

Thank you so much @chrisarnoldinc.bsky.social #BBCUpload for airing my little beetle poem and friends last night! It was written originally for @thetoypress.bsky.social #wordoftheweek #canter www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... It’s about 16.45m in.

literature of morning stirs gently in our chest growing soft and fair oh, can you hear it the sweetest of melodies rising in this silent dawn feel, welcoming warmth blushing amber honey upon your face her poetry a sweet grace as the world above stretches in endless pink clouds #vss365

Thanks @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for featuring three poems. People do consider submitting to The Starbeck Orion. And Paul responds promptly.

The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Six features the poetry of Ronita Chattopadhyay the880.substack.com/p/the-starbe...

the language of the revenant a glance reaching through memory a smile brushing against the cheek as the wind passes a whisper stirring one from dreams, reverberating in the dark #vss365 #language #poetry

The lone survivor Mitchell P #art

Maybe I'll Just Look for Atlantis

Wonderful poet Paul Short reviews The Liminal Light of the Night published by @hedgehogpress.co.uk he has also taken the time to pair it with a beautiful playlist, including Tracy Chapman & Joni Mitchell. Thank you so much Paul! This was a lovely surprise.🖤 #reviews #pamphlet #TheBookBag #liminality

Pleased to have three poems published in The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13. Huge thanks to Editor, Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social #Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poetry

A #law of zero gravity postulates that for every atom of existence — floatsomely, a subatomic particle of existential crisis under exponential gravity is broken hurtsomely. Outlaws to experience a state of #total #shock cannot be ruled out. but it’s not #poetry #vss365 #2WordPrompt #Oulens

For #HaikuSaturday inspired by host @andrewssusanm.bsky.social the field mouse making hay in misty spray of beaver moon #Oulens #haiku #senryu #tanka #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

Limitations of the #language of words is but an excuse not to speak and let silence do the talking… but who has measured its efficiency really? What meaning does silence even have—if not for words—on tongue—inside head—on a page? #vss365 #Oulens

#red is the #language of the rose - #timeless #without words #vss365 #2WordPrompt #inkmine #Oulens #haiku #senryu #tanka #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

Pleased to have a #haiku / #senryu in this issue of Post. Many thanks to Peter Devonald @pdevonald.bsky.social for selecting this piece. 🙏😊 First posted this piece for a poemsabout prompt #Oulens

at the fringe of night the sound of a closing door creaking on its failing hinges & of crickets going quiet & of some bro- ken breaths & lost s.l.nt counts from one to ten to to naught #PoemsAbout #lockeddoors #Oulens @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social

out of #habit onions make noisy kitchen #scenes in the thick stillness of #domestic wilderness #vss365 #2WordPrompt #Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

oh, to climb all that high fluff- to pour down- an uphill path #BSPP46 Title: "Blue Sky of Mountains” #haiku #senryu #tanka #Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

…and so, we became—from #creatures #sniffing a whiff of love on #such a dreary fine foggy morn—to finger-tips that snuffed out an unlit wick on a star-studded new moon night…without no howl… #vss365 #2WordPrompt #Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

A cool collection compiled by @mrtipton.bsky.social from contributions by poets on Threads. I got one, too, in there on page no…. umm is it still there or has it poofed…🤔 Do check it out, it’s a free download #Oulens #poetrycommunity

rage against quiet sufferance cast at no cost #PJJournal #prompt 06 #suffrage #WritingCommunity #haiku #senryu #tanka #Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

. Defeated; drowning in a sea of coincidences. . #oddlyme #Emoetry #defeated #poetry #micropoetry #monoku

“Under #whose authority did no one’s #business in the no man’s #region become everyone’s….” is the greatest unsolved conspiracy exploding infinitlisimally towards the doom of this civilisation . . . without even a warning infinitesimal boom! Boo…! #vss365 #2WordPrompt #Oulens

#SenseWrds Prompt 137: Frosted Entwining Constellations #Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

a #simple tune in wind’s #music turned a leaf to #Halloween’s scream #vss365 #Halloween #2WordPrompt #inkmine #Oulens #haiku #senryu #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

This is one of my first poems on Threads posted in June2024 and spl coz it survived as poem#100 when I took to writing again. For #PoemsAbout #Blood and Thanks to hosts @alanparrywriter.co.uk @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social @thebrokenspine.co.uk #Oulens #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

A continuation…. stranger, a #ray of light is all that fills a #void #vss365 #inkmine #Oulens #haiku #senryu #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

As a struggling writer visiting France, the first French phrase I learned was: "Je n'ai pas d'argent." I put this phrase into practice when begging for bread on Rue Mouffetard. A passing critic with a fresh baguette heard me, called my delivery "derivative, lacking subtext," and walked on. #vss365

She left her head in bed, sat on the bus, feeling dead, when the driver asked where to, she shrugged and he felt himself laugh somewhere far away, soft on his pillow. Past a blow of curtains, she heard the moon snoring softly on a cloud, dripping #argent mellifluous light all around. #vss365

What are you doing? Alchemic #affirmation #experiment… Ah, #argent to gold? Why are you hammering it? Told ya…you talk a lot… Nope. Not gold. N that’s coz I’m trying to convert it to ardent. It’s gonna change tangible to intangible #awkwardness. Ok, does it make a dent…? #vss365 #2WordPrompt #Oulens

‘You partied again last night? You said you were going to relax at home.’ ‘Funny story. There was a spider in my house.’ ‘And?’ ‘Instead of killing it, I decided to take it out. Turns out he’s not a #creep. He’s a web designer. We laughed. Had a few drinks.’ #vss365