"The Cheshire Cat?" from my sequence "Alice's Adventures through the Wonderground" #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #alice #lewiscarroll #tenniel

#vss365 #WIPSnips

One at a time. Lift off just one Stone at a time. Lest the heart’s Spooked by your might. Lest it Collapses in shock Of lightness. #vss365 : #spooked #inkmine : #mighty #Oulens #poetrycommunity #BlueskyPoetry #writingcommunity #poetry

TIME #poetry #prompt #spokenword #vss365 oddball #vssdaily elevator #WIPsnips benefit #Solseed New_Year #emoetry heartbroken #OurPoetryX start_fresh #Dailyimageprompt snail #foxprose resolved_retention #2wordprompt standard, partner #moonmystic in_a_misty_morning #firewords280 trampling, treachery

some words, still ethereal to free my ink— tucked, in each little loose crease of this butterfly origami—should it spread its wings on some stormy evening . . . #SenseWrds Prompt 167: Folding Beautiful Difficulties #Oulens #micropoetry #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poetry

#PromptCombo #Nightfall #vss365 #spooked @dragonslayerma.bsky.social #newpoem / #photography: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025/2025 & 2021 #WinterWords #poetry #woodland #nature #WolfMoon #HungerMoon #ecotone #solitude #deathpositive #monochrome #BW #Tuesday #LifeAndDeath

Hey you! Running ‘round this lonely planet Hey you, of free-wheely limbs— the #audacious #oddball — bouncing on a sandpit that caves in Yes you—who escaped the city’s noise Did you quiet the din within? #vss365 #inkmine #Oulens #poetrycommunity #BlueskyPoetry #writingcommunity #poetry

Here are the 7 phenomenal BlueSky versions of my 1/3/26 #HaikuSaturday #haiku posted so far. I'll post the complete list on Monday so more people can join in if they wish to do so.

#vss365 when the bolder haunt balderdash minutiae their lesser dreams perish #balderdash

getting balder- a dash of hair was all that Goldilocks required #vss365 #balderdash #Oulens #haiku #senryu #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

crunching cookies #balderdash splattering—so unfortunately #vss365 #inkmine : #fortune #Oulens #haiku #senryu #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

Along a frozen path Of ice and of snow Are pieces of a puzzle Scattered and hidden By what I don't know Somewhere between The good and the bad Seeds of a friendship And love that you show To carry me through Winter's long night Thoughts unspoken So then, thank you #poem

Winter skating Mitchell P #art

ignoring my foggy breath sun rays tap-dance on January frost #HaikuSaturday Inspired by Susan’s @andrewssusanm.bsky.social lovely haikus and combining with #BlueskyPoetry #BSPP49: foggy breath & January frost #Oulens #haiku #senryu #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity

Pt352 In this dream, it was possible to #begin again, she thought with #delight, not like the Rulers with clones & AI, but like Motsé'eóeve did every time he travelled to Bear Butte & came home young again. He did that until he was 446, when he spoke at Devil’s Tower before dying. #vas365 #WIPSnips

Many thanks to Ed. Jack Caradoc of @dreich.bsky.social for publishing my 4 poems and 5 senryus in Jan issue. One I’d written for a #PoemsAbout prompt; the toffee-wrapper poem for a #vss365 employed #abstraction by #removing logic to #redefine its size in The Candyman’s Trumpet🎺. #Oulens #2WordPrompt

Delight waits where nothing happened yet. Time leans, listening. Delighted speaks from the future. Already felt, it says. Meet in the middle, they do. The moment survives. #vss365 #delight #prompt #emoetry #delighted #poetry #writing #readpoetry #poem #poet

“There’s always a price,” said the wizard. “I can grant you a life free of despair, but you will never again know delight. You will live a mundane, grey existence without ambition, and without the knowledge that life could be different.” #vss365

#vss365 #delight #emoetry #delightful #poetry First post of the year, and a twofer at that! The poetry gods can be kind. This was written to be read out loud with the last stanza having a different tone, and the 'clunk' is intended. A touch of sarcasm. I am sure you are shocked! 😁

Here's my offering for the theme of #delight Big thanks to outgoing #vss365 host @JanDubovan for a great fortnight of stimulating challenges and hello to Francis @Dreamheadz our new vss365 host. Photo by Luke Ellis-Craven on Unsplash #vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

#vss365 Leftover after- noon impulses To swirl #delight

'morrow care Winter delighted heartbeat hearth seats, window sill and wear weathered seasons, eons in the rain i remember not remember anything feeling alive aside her scent delight cascading between us teaches Spring blooms in ground reaches Ostara afoot core apple Sun mare marrow #vss365 #emoetry

#allrightsreserved “The poppy, like a red butterfly, is only fully alive when it dances freely in the wind„ — Fred Forge | #Notulite | Excerpt from : A Soul in Transit Fine art photography : Nathalie Bekker

Delight - #vss365 Special / frame - #2wordprompt Rather than count the cold quiet days prior to Epiphany as boredom, I conceived of them as a special case of the wave function of delight — framing matters.

Another great folk ku journal from King River Press is available on line. The theme of Issue 6 is trees. kingriverpress.com/wp-content/u... #haiku #FolkKu

It was all well-planned. #Delight was to be captured in #frame when it made its #special guest appearance for a hankering audience, but keeping the plan under carpets was a big ask from a wee- #willed paparazzi, & the moment arrived & left without being special. #vss365 #2WordPrompt #inkmine #Oulens

but I don’t owe you a thing unless you could teach me how to fling to release a top from its string and make me spin with its spin & spin & spin a thawing grin #SenseWrds Prompt 163 Icicles Merrily Beginnings #Oulens #micropoetry #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poetry

Thanks for sharing this @havehashad.com - a ☠️ for all the 4-legged friends we still miss. P.S. If this isn't enough 💔 for your day, torture yourself more with this other thing I wrote: "Deadlines" (issue 28, Black Fox Lit Mag, free download @ blackfoxlitmag.com).

I have opened this with immediate effect, submit people! Those waiting on responses ought to get them this week, for past calls.

“I need to cry”, said I to the #dream in my dream… “but it is”, said the dream, “a happy new year…” “…that is why”, said I, “my dear, that is why.” #vss365 #Oulens Happy New Year 2026 to all my connections! 💫🫶🙏

Here are the 6 marvelous versions of my 12/27/25 #HaikuSaturday #haiku posted so far. I'll post the complete list on Monday so more people can join in if they wish to do so.

Great to see 2001:A Space Odyssey on tv with mesmeric music by Ligeti. Here is my poem about my first experience of it featured in @thebrokenspine.co.uk anthology "Reels":

A single line #haiku published today!

Strip to the bone Spring's gaudy finery Summer's green mantle Autumn's jeweled harvest The dead time's come 'round. Skeleton trees point Accusing fingers at the gray sky Impact clouds Casting down Dagger sleet To stab the graveyard ground #2WordPrompt

flash of scarlet cardinal in falling snow startling contrast #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #northerncardinal 🐦

storm clearing— you too are allowed to arrive #haiku #poetry

✨️🔖🌺⏰️🌺🔖✨️ placeholder hibiscus counts down to springt i m e #ImageAndVerse #EastCoastKin #OurPoetryX #Stunday #Haiku #MicroPoem #俳句 #Freeverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Macro #Bloomscrolling #visualpoetry

ornamental smile— she said it may be time to turn down her sunshine #haiku

#Journal #A.Soul.in.Transit “Who knows what fate has in store for us ? It is a privilege to simply enjoy and appreciate things that seem mundane, opportunities that seem normal !„ #ƒred-ƒorge © Photography : Yoshizumi | Lake Minami-inaga

A creature of water… A Jane Hirshfield gem for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #poetry

For #SmallPoemSunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

G. Condemned. Charcoal on paper. A condemned man , semi collapsed, surrounded by dark figures holding a bright knife, lit by candlelight. [ Prints : james-mccormack.pixels.com/featured/con... ] #condemned #figures #darkness #sombre #BuyIntoArt #knife #blade #candle #despair #ArtStore #ArtShop

∴ werds… shoot… from noddle bifore… kin-dling thoughts… catch fyre egg nog… maybe helps ∴ #vss365 #haikufeels

Women are from Venus, and men are from Mars. But my best friend is from Earth, her body made of motherly dust, and the atmospheric blue of her eyes gently reflecting love back to me, every time I look into a mirror. - #WritingCommunity #vss365 #thingstowriteabout

#vss365 we chase celestial ghosts hoping to decode and time the end of our universe no longer gods to us #Mars, Saturn and Jupiter have been replaced by dark energy & dark fears though we see their forms their location is changing but for how long will we remain in this snapshot of death light

This #autumn on #Mars arrived late. It was #impacted by flurry of soft rust-coloured meteor flakes…or maybe, of memories…or perhaps, of promises on its way from earth, leaving its mark upon landing—settling stillness through thin #air over a weight of reddening silence. #vss365 #2WordPrompt #Oulens

May 2026 be a symphony of happiness where every note resonates with love, peace & shared laughter. May your projects blossom like rare flowers & your 💗 always find a warm haven in friendship & tenderness. A beautiful & magnificent year, my friends ! C U on January 3rd to write a new chapter. — ƒƒ

#HaikuSaturday Inspired by Susan’s @andrewssusanm.bsky.social lovely haikus, a #tanka today... just when you thought you had buried that cold cold winter a new ash on frost deluging mindscape #Oulens #haiku #senryu #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity