#vss365 Skinfluencer They told me to be famous I must “have the glow.” So I bought a discounted ring-light, hugged it until my skin shone like bruised silk Now my followers emoji-drown me, tell me I'm "lit", while I suffer from third degree heatstroke. #famous

#vss365 Sun-spurned There'll be no writing today I’m burned. Icarus slyly nods. the sun flew tooclosetothepage heliacal words melted my pen and I d r o p p e d with only scorch-marks to say I was here. #heliacal #writerscommunity #poetrycommunity

#vss365 #heliacal #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #write #writingcommunity #gorhyme A Plotted Ellipse

We need a different kind of #education not just another brick in the wall. Not bound by reservation but free & fair A syllabus that unites not divides that teaches peace, not war. We need books that breathe love with lessons that shape gentle hands & open hearts ~rev #vss365

she was a poet inhabited by many tongues held tenacious within her words stirred as jasmine tea rose to her lips & the room soaked in aroma of musing after she slipped beyond the hour we remember her & her tribe #famous by keeping the rest of us a tiny bit more alive #vss365 #poetry

found My light Radioactive In sunlight Our reservoir With embers Intoxicating And wild I sit In slumber All disaster Surrounding I found My life Succumbing To death

Pick-up sticks and jumbo shrimps stuffed deep in weak-piss-yellow pants Trauma pain and blood red stains the skeleton of a nightingale #Domestic flights after all-day fights ancient wisdom stamped on trading cards An open meadow’s majesty ancient pagan pageantry a host, a graft in mortal combat

your #famous maneuver a dagger to the heart cliché but effective a river of blood flowing in tributaries to an ocean of grief we embark there on a viking ship chromosomes on the wind we set sail to a future but the ancient horizon is always looming the ancient horizon looms forever #vss365

~Faced With Slings and Arrows~ I have thick skin From head to foot Except Over my heart So sometimes I need to curl up Into a ball To protect myself #poetry

Thank you @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for this..

The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Eleven features the artwork of Spriha Kant open.substack.com/pub/the880/p...

🙏 @rfsmith.bsky.social as #PromptCombo #Storm host #newpoem / #photography: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025/2021 #Expressionism #Trakl #feverdream #delirium #darkpoetry #deathpoetry #monochrome #scape

Hi @rfsmith.bsky.social Ronnie. Thankyou for the timely #promptcombo #Storm. Here's my first response. It's from my collection "Wolf Eye Territory:"

#promptcombo #Storm @rfsmith.bsky.social

I've read some great responses to @rfsmith.bsky.social's brilliant #PromptCombo #Storm. Here's mine: a fragment of memory which might be worth developing a bit more #BlueSkyPoets #PoetryCommunity

THINKING ABOUT TURNER There I was strapped to a mast paintbrush in hand trying to capture the power of a storm as the wind rushed brushing my face only a madman would go to such lengths but I am man whose passion for art runs deep @rfsmith.bsky.social #promptcombo #Storm

called my self tornado- hurricane, self deprecation of my destructive nature; I’ll build a house tear the roof off, erect a tower demolish it, make bridges burn them, this is my story; sound the siren changed paths don’t get caught in the fray #promptcombo #storm #poetry @rfsmith.bsky.social

A #poem for Sunday. Stuck in a hotel with Plath thinking. Taking a knife to the knots of narrative; you to the art form itself is truth...but at least you won’t read it. Esher #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writingcommunity #narcissist

after she manifoldly collided with walls of flesh making her truth derail from the path she awakened as if by fate an #audacious gaze that bridges the real & defies singular time in the throat of days she raised the sovereign vision & became the vessel of her own dawn #vss365 #poetry 🖼️StockCake

tell me more stories of your life happy or sad for I know they will transport me and I shall watch you study your face and I will know your heart at the moments that made you who you are and always will this have depth the bass tones of the beat I hear with my ear pressed against your chest #vss365

Nice to write something fresh for #poemsabout #chandeliers after a week away, hope you enjoy it. Thanks as always @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the great prompt and everyone for the wonderful poems I'm enjoying reading instead of getting work done! #poetry #poemsonbluesky

A #FridayPoem for #poemsabout #chandeliers The background image this week is my own painting of the same name as the poem. Phthalo Blue #poetry #poetsofbluesky #poemAltText #chandelier #poetrycommunity #poetrysociety #poems

for #PoemsAbout #Chandeliers and @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poem #poetry

the outer #edge tinged with echos of the past empty out the silence & raise a glass ready my fortune #even out the divine call on mantras bat bashful eyes embrace the #mundane & toast whats left reverberate in stasis form new ideations life subsides peace in my own creation #2WordPrompt #vss365

‘We were mirrors of each other: Clockhouse labels, Opal Fruits, laburnum flowers in our hair,’ 🪞 🍬 @louloumach.bsky.social from ‘I Am Not Light’ shorturl.at/m5IM1 #poetry #writing #books #poetic

For #poemsabout #Chandeliers @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

1/3 Thank you to all the folk who made the second half of The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Of Artwork And Poetry such a repast: @sprihakant.bsky.social, Vidya Hariyan, Anthony Brough, @lawrencemoore.bsky.social @feversof.bsky.social Patrick Wright, @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social @sueimnw.bsky.social,

A poem by me 👇

There's no angel in this house Nor devil No feathers drop from wings No fires burn to ash Mercy for myself is oft drowned or kicked out It may feel like a devil on my shoulder But the face in the mirror looks over my shoulder And leaves nothing to say #vss365

I clipped my own wings for quite some time loyal to a heart that could never be mine But I burned through the chains left the ashes behind now I fly where I please and the sky is all mine. #vss365

Branscombe Coast. A #poem of mine first published by the wonderful @wavelace.bsky.social in @indigodreamspub.bsky.social's The Dawntreader #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #booksky

Thanks so much😇

A #lifttothesky for @sprihakant.bsky.social poet and supportive member of the #poetrycommunity

Thanks @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social 😇

Welcome To The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Of Artwork And Poetry Issue Eleven Day Sixteen featuring more of the artwork by @sprihakant.bsky.social Spriha Kant open.substack.com/pub/the880/p...

ogres! wails echoing through forlorn hamlet grotesque beasts stepping out behind tree cover swamp brown hide piercing gaze eyes glowing like embers at night no one lived to tell the tale only bones licked clean #BlueSkyRelay #poetry #specpo #fantasy #poetrycommunity

Eloise spread the blanket, arranged snacks, and sat, back against the #elm. Then she lifted her laptop. It had been ages since she ventured from the house—the moist heat was beyond oppressive. A caterpillar eased onto her shoulder. Today her muse would return. #vss365

a blush of haste leaning in from the kiss before an acquired taste on the face of “what was that #for?” lips lovingly laced intertwining mouths form a safe harbor #danger abates sensuous #sapphires blink half open the beating heart a shimmering swoon that hope elopes in #2WordPrompt #vss365

Thanks so much,dear Paul.

Welcome to The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Of Poetry And Artwork Issue 11 Day One featuring the artwork of Spriha Kant open.substack.com/pub/the880/p...

fly into the #starscape to look back at earth see no lines feel no hurt one world swaths of land & sea clouds swirl mystery I drift down beauty fades now closer to the pain thru ozone low as planes see fire feel acid rain return to dirt war & hunger injustice like gravity pulls me under #vss365

The record hasn't broken yet. @anoushkashankar.bsky.social never fails to mesmerize me by her music. I've listened to her album "love letters" a lot many times but was unaware of the track "Sister Susannah!!!." But this time, I am feeling very empowered as a woman.

#ekphrasticchallenge2025 2 days to the launch of this 7th year of the challenge as 90 artworks by 3 artworkers, 3 a day, provide inspiration for 12 writers over 30 days. Join us on this adventure: Image by Spriha Kant:

Hello everyone, @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social has invited submissions for issue 10th for his webzine on the substack app "The Starbeck Orion."If anyone is interested, please submit the poems/artwork. There's no theme also.

At the hospital They wanted to put Several injections On the pitbull's bite I freaked out They gave me some pills To relax The #soporific effect Must have started When I sang "Life is a highway" Between some words And gibberish Without knowing The lyrics #vss365

#BlueskyPoetry #poetry #writing #storm

With heartbeats in sync, we drift fast asleep -- this #soporific is terrific drumming tranquilly. A hypnotic narcotic wrapped up in a dream; her worries aphotic when she rests upon me. #vss365

Clouded night Soporifics dulled senses Morning yields no comfort There's only wandering for this Into the darkest woodlands of the soul To find some safety at the Baba's hut Here death is certain If you do not speak with cats And sharp-toothed latches As you work To find a light #vss365 #poetry

#poem #values #kindness #humanity #wildflowers #bloomscrolling What kind of people are we? What defines greatness If not kindness And generosity A willingness to be open Humility and humanity Courage to be ourselves Live by our values Love and stand by our neighbor What kind of people are we?