Excited to share that my poems and senryus accepted for publication in The Candyman’s Trumpet @dreich.bsky.social in TcT 7 (The January 1st Edition). Huge thanks to Editor, Jack Caradoc for accepting my works and especially for his very kind feedback. #Oulens #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets

My today’s contribution for #PoemsAbout #SilentPlanets, expanded from a small post written for combined #vss365 ( #style, #flinch) & #2WordPrompt ( #distance + #daughters). Have retained the prompt words here. For @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #Oulens #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity

For #promptcombo #ancestry and host @victoriaspires.bsky.social Also for #vss365: #Reinvigorated #perhaps #2WordPrompt : #turn #design #Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

#Eventuality showed A dead end dream Dead end love Falling falling Into that out of control zip line Parachute dive A klunkity klunk waltzing funk #vss365 #poetry

*MEDITATION UNDER...* #tanka #poetry #prompt #writesky #skypoets #micropoetry #spokenword #poetrylovers #blueskypoets #emoetry #malice #poetrycommunity #vss365 #eventuality #blueskyrelay #watercolor #RetroArtPrompt #barefoot #moonmystic #flying_away #2wordprompt #attach #excuse *Audio On, Pls.*🗣️🎙️

#vss365 in his new, whiny Hell all of his stoicism’s lost in his catastrophe #catastrophe

wayfarer settles, nesting inside my tree talkative night owl #haikuchallenge #haiku #poetry #photography photo by Kalidasan Gopi

river carries off the last of my footprints- I walk without legs #haiku #poetry

hot bunking the poems window sills and stardust

An excuse attached To every apology, Empty promises. #2WordPrompt #Attach/Excuse #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity

Bathing in sun's rays, Solitary vagrant smiles In understanding. #SenseWrds #Prompt123 #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity

Scarecrow: I fear the eventuality of the fading of the siren's song. Magpie: The song is rooted within you. Listen - until it sings in your blood and your soul. Listen to the sound of eternity between heartbeats. Listen as the song roars over the storm. #vss365 #eventuality #photography #nature

Really pleased to have my three poems selected for this October anthology of The Starbeck Orion. Huge thanks to Editor, Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social 🙏😊

*THE AUDACITY...* #tanka #poetry #prompt #writesky #Skypoets #micropoetry #spokenword #poetrylovers #blueskypoets #vss365 #stock #vssdaily #stride #whistpr #sparkle #poetrycommunity #emoetry #generous #blueskyrelay #nefarious #OurPoetryX #happy_trails #RetroArtPrompt #bitterness *Audio On, Pls.*🗣🎙

Hi Paul @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social just a 🚧stanza for #PoetryTheme & #AMPHIBIAN coz I need to give the frog sm time to see where it’s headed to. I’ve a tinglin it’s gonna globe-trottin (pond-hoppin?) n I may follow it to see it doesn’t fall in sm fortuitous/devious well ‘long the way… #Oulens 1/2

Hullo @victoriaspires.bsky.social and to #promptcombo #ancestor

false prophet church bell chimes, yet the clapper doesn’t sway— the birds remain unmoved #haiku

Thank you to @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for hosting last week! This week's #promptcombo is #ancestry. This piece was published in Freeverse Revolution Issue XII & is something of a letter to my younger self. Also doubling up as a fairly seamless segue from #history 😁 Tag me/use # to join in

The #promptcombo challenge this week (set by @victoriaspires.bsky.social) is on the theme of #ancestry. As luck would have it, I recently finished this little poem – a brief comment on my noticing that my late paternal grandmother's eyebrows had made their way, genetically, to my daughter's face.

A quote from my poem ‘Reconciliation of Parts’, featured at the wonderful #poetry platform @iambapoet.com Auditions are open until September 27th.

Hi @victoriaspires.bsky.social Vic, hope you have a great week. Here's my first:

🙏to @victoriaspires.bsky.social as #promptcombo host #Corvid & human #Steppe #Ancestry #Poetry: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 #Rooks #Jackdaws #Prehistory #Analog #Radio #Radiogram #NeolithicFarming #DawnChorus #Aubade

For #promptcombo #ancestry and host @victoriaspires.bsky.social Also for #vss365: #Reinvigorated #perhaps #2WordPrompt : #turn #design #Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

Also for #solseed #finite for host @arwashington.bsky.social #Oulens #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity

The first #PoetryTheme prompt is #AMPHIBIAN Nature's amphibians move across habitats. Metaphorical ones might shift in class or identity Take your time. Post a poem by the end of 30 September. Tag @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Use #PoetryTheme & #AMPHIBIAN hashtags & please say if you want DM comment

#perhaps also for #vss365 ? #Oulens

be the pine survive this fire

After Dark. G. Drawing showing the city after dark, with four dark figures sleeping on a bench, close together for warmth. Where do people go if they have no home, no place? [ Prints : james-mccormack.pixels.com/featured/aft... ] #afterdark #night #city #homeless #ArtStore #BuyIntoArt #ArtShop

Que sera sera, Perhaps the future is ours To see, whatever. #vss365 #perhaps #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity

but for my heart’s infinite music silence #haiku #haikufeels

above and below… it is impossible to count the stars #GreenSat #haikusaturday #shahai #moss #haiku #haikuchallenge 📷 my iPhone

midnight canyon- my howl splits into seven wolves #haiku #poetry #wolves #wolftwin

Sorry, had to delete and repost 🙏😊 Also for this week’s #HaikuSaturday #haiku #senryu For host @andrewssusanm.bsky.social Adding a short form: orange leaves at russet sunset bless my blues #Oulens #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity

The profusion of chants emanating through the #extrusion of his soul via the protrusion of his mouth, infused with new- #found sounds of cataclysmic nature from the clouds, the #priest informed, was the only way to save my doomed words from their amorphous #catastrophe… #vss365 #2WordPrompt #Oulens

corn moon laughter drifts over the pond last glow of summer #dailyhaikuprompt #glow #haiku #poetry

‘slivers-in-silence constellated on an incomprehensibly cold probabilistic cosmic blackboard’ dazzling and disorienting. This fractures language like starlight, letting distance itself become music. #KeepWriting #PoemsAbout #SilentWorlds

My today’s contribution for #PoemsAbout #SilentPlanets, expanded from a small post written for combined #vss365 ( #style, #flinch) & #2WordPrompt ( #distance + #daughters). Have retained the prompt words here. For @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #Oulens #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity

Lying on bed Eyes closed Word buds Petal-touch Tickling lashes To unfurl Unmoved I say Go fill Another vase Today #SenseWrds Prompt 119: Tempted Inertia Caress #Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

i keep writing you a letter #SenseWrds #‪Prompt 118 @sensewords.bsky.social #Fractured #Correspondence #Undone #poetry #poem #writing #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

Really pleased to have another #haiga #haiku included in Haiku Pause at Substack. Many thanks to the Editor. #Oulens substack.com/@coulens/not...

Beautiful drenching poem of missing. ‘… and your ability to sew, to patch up things that seemed irredeemably torn.’ Sweet tea and love by @ronita.bsky.social templeinacity.com/poetry-ronit...

Here’s the 2nd of of my poems selected by editor ✨ #DJTyrer ✨ for the mighty #575haikujournal. It’s dedicated to my brother BIll. #poetry #haiku #blueskypoets

#DailyHaikuPrompt (rose) #Haiku Iwardo*— your roses still woven in my hair *Iwardo is my ancestral village; its name means “spring of roses” or “eye of the rose.”

Also for #SOLSEED #treasure for host @arwashington.bsky.social #Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

#exhausted of li’l #bravados, clinging the whole while to little fears #vss365 #WordedArt #Bravado #Oulens #haiku #senryu #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

#potential #pleasure… in the #smell of cookies baking at neighbour’s #vss365 #2WordPrompt #Oulens #haiku #senryu #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

#SenseWrds Prompt 118: Fractured Correspondence Undone #Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

Look I know the stars have lost their #style an enigma of #distance. . .no more You n I like their sons n #daughters scattered dust once gold-bound now #flinch. . . . . .the light’s too bold But there’s night still. . .a thousand light-years . . . of elegance held #vss365 #2WordPrompt #Oulens

#wordedart #vss365 Until. . . . A slow blue no-tomorrow. Leftoversbbubub in insouciant no-potential enchilada sandwiches. Will wrap his story. Because there would be no end to thb….. ubbuububbibuuuububbbbhbbhhb tribuuule CThj ban arning.sj dfghbbjkktreahk #wrap #potential