Contributor copy of the Spring '26 issue of Bramble Lit Mag arrive today. Happy to have my poem "Unmoved" among so many other great pieces. www.wfop.org/bramble-lit-...

Great #promptcombo Jen! Here's my contribution. #monument @jenthorne.bsky.social

Thrilled to have my poem "America 253" featured on The New Verse News. Thanks @jamespenha.bsky.social! newversenews.blogspot.com/2026/06/amer...

Thanks, Paul for this week's #promptcombo #NothingMakesSenseNowadays. Here's my contribution. @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

Love this week's #prayer #promptcombo. Thanks @dragonslayerma.bsky.social! Here's my contribution.

Happy Monday. Here's my #home #promptcombo contribution. Did a little tweaking of this one from its original publication in The Avocet last fall. Thanks @rfsmith.bsky.social!

Hello @victoriaspires.bsky.social. Here's my #inthestyleof #promptcombo.

Proud to have a poem in the latest issue of Mobius: The Journal of Social Change. mobiusmagazine.com/poetry/theyv... #poetry #poem #poetsofbluesky

Hello @janpsolivagant.bsky.social. Here's one for your #TotemTree #PromptCombo. Thanks!

Reading all of these #naturehasweapons #promptcombo contributions this morning in the context of today being #EarthDay has been quite enjoyable and inspiring. Thank you all for sharing your art!

Honored to have been a guest on the Wisconsin Writers Association Midwest Writers Room podcast during National Poetry Month to discuss my book and my journey to poetry. #nationalpoetrymonth #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity youtu.be/aVyI03pBUGA?...

Happy Monday! Here's my #NatureHasWeapons #promptcombo. Thank you @dragonslayerma.bsky.social

Very kind of you to do this, @rodmannix.bsky.social. Thank you! #writingcommunity

Here's my #visions #PromptCombo. Inspired by the movie Burnt by the Sun. Thanks, @rfsmith.bsky.social!

Here's my #poemsabout #inbloom. @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk This just appeared in America Magazine www.americamagazine.org/poetry/2026/...

#PromptCombo #Nothing @janpsolivagant.bsky.social l www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Qq...

Thanks for this week's #Nothing #PromptCombo @janpsolivagant.bsky.social! My poem here appeared in the Winter '25 issue of @doorisajarmag.bsky.social.

Here's my #free40 #promptcombo. Hope it doesn't offend. @hool415.bsky.social

Happy #smallpoemsunday! Here’s one from my recently published chapbook. @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Anyone else here lose the whole week's string of #PromptCombo posts? When I checked in this morning, wanting to read through some older posts, it only showed me new ones from just today. Had to add #Powerless to my search to get it all back, and still not sure it's all there.

Recently discovered the online journal Dissident Voice. They publish a handful of social justice-themed poems each Sunday. Here's one of mine from last week. dissidentvoice.org/2026/03/haun... #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Thanks @rfsmith.bsky.social for hosting this week's #PromptCombo #Powerless. Here's a fairly literal response which turns a little gloomy at the end. Looking forward to reading other offerings from the #PoetryCommunity in due course

I've never posted twice in one week to #promptcombo, but I think this one fits the theme of #powerless and the times we live in. @rfsmith.bsky.social

Morning, Ronnie @rfsmith.bsky.social and the rest of the crew, thanks for this week’s #PromptCombo #powerless This was what came to mind and as you can tell I’ve not spent any time working on it. #poetrycommunity #poetry

Thanks @rfsmith.bsky.social for this week’s #promptcombo #powerless. Here’s one about the powerlessness that comes with an aging body.

Grateful to America Magazine for publishing my poem "Bad Timing." www.americamagazine.org/poetry/2026/... #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Thank you very much @victoriaspires.bsky.social for your #PromptCombo #Rupture. Inspired by @sueimnw.bsky.social's witty #haiku I was hoping to produce something light and witty about 'a secret rupture' but it all got a bit gloomy....

Good morning. Happy #smallpoemsunday. Just saw news that Saint Francis's bones have been put on display again. Assisi can get quite overrun with tourists. The saint's bones displayed crowds clamor 'round his glass case calm coffee with birds @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #poem #poetry #blueskypoets

Hello #PromptCombo crew. Thanks for this week’s #AChangeOfUse @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social My offering is a #WIP. I don’t think we’ll get the decision now until after the Scottish elections but I will never forgive them if they destroy Coul protected habitat. www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...

Happy Monday. Thanks @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for this week's #AChangeOfUse #promptcombo. This was inspired during a trip a couple years ago to visit our daughter studying in New Zealand.

I'm only now learning that #smallpoemsunday is a thing (thanks to a lovely posting I just saw from @victoriaspires.bsky.social). Here's my first crack, and it's even about a Sunday.

I initially thought too narrowly about #ecstasy and was going to sit this one out. Then I remembered the ecstasy of a boy enjoying a bit of illicit freedom. (The Bellevue Queen was a restaurant along the banks of the Missouri River.) Thanks, @dragonslayerma.bsky.social, for this fun #PromptCombo!

So cool that @doorisajarmag.bsky.social hosts a virtual reading with each new issue. Happy to have been one of their featured authors! (Though is anyone ever happy with the way they look and sound on video?) #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Thanks @hool415.bsky.social for this week's #promptcombo #tracks.

As true and necessary now as when Thomas Merton wrote it nearly 50 years ago. #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #resist #thomasmerton

Just listened. Made me tear up. This is so needed right now. Thanks for posting, Jacob.

Good morning! Here is my #promptcombo #moment. This is from my recent chapbook. @rfsmith.bsky.social

In honor of Robert Burns on his birthday, I'm sharing a poem of his that served as a nice dig toward those who practiced injustice against their fellow Scots. (I expect he'd be singing a similar song if he were in the US today!) Happy Burns Night! #poetry #scotland #robertburns #burnsnight

When my daughter read this, she said "You and Mom are a good combo. The recovering cynic and the recovering always-looking-at-the-bright-side." #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

So cool to be featured in my town's newspaper. #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

#PromptCombo #Subtext @victoriaspires.bsky.social Literally If they actually, suddenly took their god as written, it would be impossible to find a spot to fish among the pharisaic barkers crowding the pier with millstones around their necks.

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

Stopped by @woodlandpattern.bsky.social book center in Milwaukee and was happy to see my new chapbook on display. Such an awesome store and promoter of poetry!

Thrilled to be one of the readers for this event! #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Very kind words from my publisher at Rockwood Press and a nice reminder about my book signing on Saturday at WordHaven BookHouse in Sheboygan, Wis. www.wordhaven-bookhouse.com/new-events/s...

So many wonderful and true images!

Wishing all of my Bluesky writing friends much joy and plenty of quiet this holiday season! #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Thank you @hool415.bsky.social for this week's #promptcombo #dilemmas/decisions. This is very much a work in progress. Wrote it over the past hour or so while all the "normal" people keep sleeping.