the opening beckons, whispers, promises power "enter and be transformed!" it reads on the plaque it doesn't clarify what shape you'll have once you made it through ~ barely hanging on to your wits power always demands a price, some part of you shaved off "You won't even notice!" 1/2 #vss365

#vss365 #lacuna

#triolet #support #friend #poem

#dark #poem #poets #lacuna #poetry #vss365 #prompt #writing #5amwritersclub #poetrycommunity

#poemsabout #poetry #poem #undressing #writingcommunity @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk As I've done of late, I've let Poems About add onto a draft of a larger project. This segment is a sonnet broken up into other segments and ending in a haiku. I hope you enjoy it.

she is undressed, her modesty dissolves, his bedroom eyes tracing her frame, those curves, an ancient refrain- every kiss a sweet soft raindrop, every touch, a reminder of what love could be #poemsabout @thebrokenspine.co.uk #foxprose #ourpoetryx #grimscribe #wildwalkprompt #bedroomeyes #poetry

The second of the two I wrote this week for #poemsabout #undressed. I believe it also incorporates a #horrorprompt from earlier this week of #silentrage, if I'm not mistaken. @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #skypoem #skypoetry

For #PoemsAbout #Undressed with thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Afternoon Friday here’s my little ‘throwaway’ poem for #PoemsAbout #Undressed and thank @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry #poems and hope everyone everywhere has a great weekend 🛋️🛋️🛋️

CW: drug mention Ecstasy undressed me flashbang brain, lights tasted of licorice, drug to mask the pain, keep dancing, never stop you won't feel a thing. @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poemsabout #undressed #promptcombo #ecstasy #poem #poetry #micropoem #micropoetry #poemaday #skypoem #skypoetry

@sonnetsmith.bsky.social This is my offering for your most excellent #WildWalkPrompt today. I hope you are feeling a little better 💚 #Raindrops #Poetry

@daveashleypoet.bsky.social I wanted to come up with some clever wordplay and hidden meanings, but I'm tired and have a cold, so this is the best I could do. #FreeVerseFebruary #Parapraxis #Poetry

For context "Tightrope" is a song by a band called Lacuna Coil. @nathanbrazil.bsky.social #vss365 #Lacuna #Poetry

#vss365 #lacuna #magrigal #war #resist #poem #ukraine

It's Friday, and #PoemsAbout. Welcome all who write, read, like, comment, share. I went down a dark path this week for #Undressed, the outcome of watching a documentary series about propaganda; vulnerability from the wrong angle. After a hasty Thursday rewrite something more mellow emerged.

#poemsabout #undressed

Here's a poem I wrote for this week's #poemsabout #undressed. Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk & @alanparrywriter.co.uk for the prompt and everyone for already amazing contributions! #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity

Intriguing #PoemsAbout prompt today #Undressed, so it will be fascinating to see what the #PoetryCommunity makes of it. Here's my response, a sideways take on the oldest story of all. Many thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

#PoemsAbout #Undressed

Another one of those weeks when we've all written about exactly the same thing for #PoemsAbout, right? Ah well. #Undressed @thebrokenspine.co.uk #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poetry

A granular, visceral account of depersonalization and/or body dysmorphia! 🙏🏆

@thebrokenspine.co.uk This is the second of two poems I've written for #PoemsAbout #Undressed #Poetry #Allergies

@thebrokenspine.co.uk This is the first of two poems I've written for #PoemsAbout #Undressed #Poetry

This #PoemsAbout #Undressed is a true one - names and nicknames changed - slightly! 😂 Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #poetry

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

#vss365 without a warm voice in my head can't keep those inner demons from feasting they know all my soft places know just the right words "uncomfortable" "weird" "pathetic" "unwanted" and they tear me to pieces until there's nothing left just a #lacuna where i can store my darkest thoughts

Your #vss365 #prompt for Feb 13 is #lacuna “lagoon? No, lacuna . . . different from lagoon. Not a cave exactly but an opening, like a mouth, that swallows things. He opened his mouth to show. It goes into the belly of the world.” Barbara Kingsolver #13 Definition: Lacuna - Unfilled space, gap

Soft steps borrow the floorboards Not seen is my favorite shape Every pause opens a door Air learns my outline Kept quiet, I pass #thingstowriteabout #prompt #sneak #acrostic #poetry #writing #5amwritersclub

Fingertips curl tight. Eyes narrow to a point. Restraint thins quickly. Outward calm misleads you. Control is not my concern. Impact speaks plainly. Teeth bare without warning. Yield, I do not. #emoetry #ferocity #prompt #poetry #acrostic #writing #poem

#vss365 #dark #poetry #writingcommunity #blueskypoetry

From a Peculiar Writer Who Learned from some Pros How to Write some Peculiar Prose #poem #poety #writing #poemsabout #undress #undressing #lowfatfundressing #brokenspine

Our prize matters as much as any other — which is to say, not at all. That’s the point. One editor’s favourites. Some cash. No myths. You raised the money with us, shoulder to shoulder. #TheBrokenSpineAward #ByPoetsForPoets #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky

Hello Wild Walk #writers Not the best image of these... but they really aren't the easiest thing to take a snap of... sorry 🤣 #Raindrops Use the image/word to inspire your writing, then post with #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub

13th #FreeVerseFebruary prompt is PARAPRAXIS - a slip of the tongue motives disclosed with parapraxis need

This is my Thursday offering Orwell in reverse. @dragonslayerma.bsky.social #ecstacy #promptcombo.

#madrigal #poem #BedroomEyesPrompt #ifyouseemewalkingby #silly @oldsoulprose.bsky.social @southernjam.bsky.social

Dark, the absence of light in my mind that drags me into that abyss of loathing. No sacred sense of serenity as again I tear myself apart. Bleeding and crying in the dark. (Im really in a good mood) @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social @edwardstjames.bsky.social #TheRivals #Dark #vss365

#mpprompt #vss365 #dark #dansa #poem

@malformed-poetry.bsky.social #MPPrompt

layer one— this layer is for everyone, it's shy, yet friendly & overly nice to keep the peace— just keep the peace then layer two, this one's got opinions & feelings she keeps in beyond this the layers are endless— molten, ice, fire, glass all the way down to the scared little girl. #mpprompt

#inkmine #seismic #promptcombo #ecstasy #triolet #poem

The Howl trial was a landmark case for free speech. But ask yourself: How should the state judge "#artistic merit" and does it have a right? Ginsberg happens to be one of my favorite #poets so, with pleasure, here is Howl. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/...

#emoetry #ferocity #poem #sonnet

#dansa #promptcombo #ecstacy #vss365 #dark

Today's #poetryprompt: Open yourself up like a nesting doll. Take me through all the layers of you. #MPPrompt I repost replies Follow for daily prompts

THE MARRIAGE PROPOSAL #marriage #marriedlife #marriagehumor #engagement #judo #judolife #martialarts #martialartslife #withalttext #asmr #poem #limerick #funny #spokenword #spokenpoetry #spokenwordpoetry #poems #reallife #book #comedy #humor #humour #foryou #joke #jokeofday #poetry #poetrycommunity

#daffodil #wildwalkprompt #dark #vss365 #ecstacy #promptcombo

#economists #inlineRhymes #FreeverseFebruary #Flummery

a poem that takes me to a place i have never been a bridge over a generation that never meets in the middle understanding the words of the story unfolding but ecstasy a word only never a sensation for in my day it was drowned a night out was a back door into darkness ecstasy what’s that not me