My dog was long dead and returned to my dreams once again to be petted, sharing his texture, pawing my hand deep with force, his horny skin felt in the small of my palm, heat of his pawpad in mine: A feeling that lasted long after the dream stopped, and lasts still of love. #MPPrompt

#vssfantasy #vss365 #vssmagic #FoxProse Success- #the_sweetest_flex of #obession, #our_guardian_inferno which #pours fire into our actions in hopes of meeting #destiny- When we actually do and we wonder at our lives created in the process; would we have dared, if not driven?

#Emoetry #haikufeels #crash #uncomfortable Uncomfortable will crash you out of gentle equilibrium. #Senryu

#FreeVerseFebruary #LAID Laid: past participle of "to lay" As such, it never should be left dangling or unclear who did what, or what who, Or how the whole thing would lay, and on what bed, couch, or other surface when a sentence must get "laid." Thusly this point is laid: details matter.

#WeirdMicro THE #GRIMSCRIBE'S LOVER LONGS Under the #skeletal_framework scaffolding his vitals, the clockwork of his heart became a #litany_machine, droning pleas with every valve click.

Skiing under the snowfield, whelping place of glaciers far from all warmth He shyly unpacked a purse to hold out to her to open. A ring and necklace shone within. He did not kneel; never on skis. Eyes wide, she nodded then skied back, leading him to warm lodges. #GLOWprompt romance, snowfield

The #GRIMSCRIBE PONDERS Who would #yen to be A purple #eggplant #poet, tumescent in the #snow poring the #arcane_corpus with #improper_curiosity? #freeverseFebruary #snow #vssmagic #poet #silly #weirdMicro #GrimScribe #OXJ

#GlowPrompt He scraped the ice cube tray eyeing askance at the arsenal as he squeezed one last chunk in the barrel "what's the deal anyhow? Why not use the real ammo?" His boss pointed south at the foe. "Fire, and you'll see." He saw, as he created ghosts.

Dig up something buried long ago #MPPrompt Aging keeps a blasted messy attic. What was to be kept forever, remains. only some weirdo's (read: YOU, hah) has put flower & teapots, silly hats, lots of train-themed thermal underwear atop that one sweet, glowing memory: Then as one mucks around-- bam!

#vss365 Unrefined nature #WeirdMicro Glyph engine #GrimScribe #WildWalkPrompt #FreeVerseFebruary Earth cancels raw #velocity of #snow's #unrefined nature, Disseminates icy shockwaves With absorbed radiation, watering new #snowdrops a-bloom, nature's glyph engine signalling spring.

#haikufeels #cluster Solid block of fur, clawed toes clustered below: A cat lying snug.

@glowprompt.bsky.social Adventure. Write me a poem about something dragged up from the deep. #MPPrompt #WIPSnips #Science A sinkhole ate a huge warehouse giving the landscape a rude haircut, rendering houses into toothpicks. Rescue was engineered for the trapped: humans, technology, science.

#Emoetry #seen #FreeVerseFebruary #Nightmare The Nightmare Seen They said one was a dark horse coursing the dark seas of the moon Floating over sleepers' tears A sea of molten basalt tears One horse imprinted crises lingering after severe impacts One known to seven rangers was seen and tamed-

#WeirdMicro #GrimScribe #MMPrompt The lies they tell #haikufeels #bastardpoetsofdoom #Buried_aeons smother the lies they tell; #aged_parchment gets a new look, whispering new detail, before #time crumbles all. Lying in the #park: Sky, greenspace, towering crowns. Lungs and #time dilate.

#WeirdMicro #GrimScribe A #reluctant_architect built a manse of #decorous_dread, then vanished in the water heater. His voice is heard In all hot showers: "This bathroom to be built on the old plague pit. Got it. The gallows will be where you lay your heads to sleep? So. Master bedroom..."

#emoetry #overjoyed #pensive Pensive brain-lifters know precisely when their thought becomes overjoyed.

@weirdmicro.bsky.social #WeirdMicro #GrimScribe #vssfantasy #trust #vssdaily #lawless #vssmagic #chimera THE #GRIMSCRIBE'S ALLERGY A #cryptic_codex was my #gracious_undoing. I trusted the #lawless dealer denying the vellum was made from chimera skin. Now I must conjure mucinex.

NOTICE FROM MANAGEMENT: Not quitting Bsky for Lent, Ramadan, or anything else. Just... busy. With cookery. Balky laptops. Tea kettles. Rainbows on kittens. That kind of thing.

👉"The GLOW of #Hushed_Despair" Prompt credits: #GLOWprompt #WeirdMicro & #GrimScribe February 16-18 prompts #Foxprose #InventedIdentity #IciclesforArmor #Slipperytwinstwist #WildwalkPrompt #twists #bedroomeyes #maneater #willyoustillloveme #vss365 #bouncy

Quill's stem erupted through the screen, fast becoming a full cyber-stalk. (Cough cough.) All words have stems; not all STEMS have words-- x=(a^2b^2) Stumped by #stem's roots? Stamp them in German *Stam, kin to stamnos, and stand.

#GLOW WHERE LOVE RISES (1/4) I #feel that #without_abandoning_myself #My_love,_an_infinite_summer for me will come, #crimson-laced, with many blood tests, files and calculations which you will not see. #"My_darling_who_knew?" Love always knew yet made all #endurable until #nevermore.

#promptcombo for this week is #AChangeOfUse Pleaseuse the above hashtags & tag me @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social OMINIOUS TELETYPEWRITERS Phoning on my TV set texting on my phone, using laptop for both, a printshop at elbow, using radio waves for all. I remember when that wasn't.

#ourpoetryX #vss365 #WeirdMicro #GrimScribe #FoxProse The GRIMSCRIBE'S PLEA #Bend_a_little, #kiss_me_hard, create #minuscule #inscriptions on my cheeks, whisper to me your #foreplay_of_the_soul. Capture my heart; burn it now before my #trusted_blade's_thrust of rebuff turns #unavoidable_reality.

A benefit of free buses I hadn’t heard enough about until this piece from @galvinalmanza.bsky.social

#haikufeels #flatten #admit Hand flattening hair Admits spark before glance does- Tentative, but real. #senryu

#WildWalkPrompt #beak His hawk beak dramatic was, against the windswept moor-- Such a majestic proboscis some men by birth do procure.

#FreeVerseFebrusry prompt is ARGENT or SILVER THE ORIGINAL DREAD PIRATE 'Twas common assent that Long John Silver be the perfect Arr gent.

Twinkle, twinkle, little bat (Carroll) ..Like a tea-tray in the sky. When the blazing sun passes When he nothing maces Then you show your format, Echo, echo, you wee bat! Then the traveller in the dark Shrieks full at your alarm bark: He would not know which way to fear, If you did not swoop so!

Hey lovely friends, do you fancy having a go at this and helping Eric get his prompt up and running? @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social @madp03t.bsky.social @suzydobie.bsky.social

@madp03t.bsky.social #AmpersandAfterDark Challenge 001: Two dogs and one parrot. My failson dogsitter ran out of (redacted); while bartering for it, He left my two dear pups with a dogsitter psitticine; A pirate's shoulder-piece. Alexa was still on. And it wasn't crackers that ol' Polly wanted.

#MPPrompt "Gathering Molasses" Slow were our tiptoes under the sassafrases, hunting wild molasses. Apparent morasses were dark and sweet crevasses. Its collection requires glasses upon glasses and masses of jugs, while bearing shovels on nocturnal trespasses. Our life slows, gathering molasses.

#FreeVerseFebruary #deliquesce #sciencepoetry #naughty On his kiss my gloom deliquesced to a puddle Me, too. He painted an elm deliquescing its branches upon my trunk. The results tickled us both. I was fungal; he fungi, our bodies fruited. As we tired we deliquesced back to earth.

#successor #VSSMagic #GLOW The office lottery was lost again, for the biggest and most expensive chocolates he had ever seen. The winner? His office foe & successor, who hated chocolate and had left without them. Ethics failed him; his spells did not. His wife adored the nougats; he the caramel.

#vss365 #vssdaily #vssfantasy #kiss #lovers #beloved I'm quite the lover; my beloved today will be engulfed by my mouth-- kisses aplenty until exhausted. O Hershey! Today you're my only chocolate crush.

#emoetry #overit Bah you lovebugs, I'm so, so over it. The sugar comas, The frenetic hallmark glitz, the merchandising of affection even in our personal lives, Way so over it, I had to prove it by writing protest poems about lovebugs. How I miss when Lupercalia was just about wolves.

I'd Do Anything For Love (But I won't Do That) Mon chou, ma beaux cherie Je t'adore, m'amie. I will do all for you, always. Wait. Go out? Tonight of all nights? My wallet's beaucoup lean and my ardor suddenly #withers... #WildWalkPrompt

Polite unease #WeirdMicro Ancient refrain #GrimScribe Polite unease: neither weird or micro, alas, but an ancient refrain in life.

Poetry occurs in tongues' lacunas where lexical lack creates ineffablity to leap thoughts across, dancing between raindrops much as how impulses leap the lacunas between the synapses of neurons glowing with potential. #vss365 #lacuna #emoetry #glowing #raindrop #wildwalkprompt

Open up like a nesting doll, take me through all the layers of you #MPPrompt Try to decant me like a doll, you'll find I'm wise to you. Ask me to dance the seven veils, I'm poof, golden smoke before the last veil lands. Cut me like an onion, I'll make you cry, sir. You open up first, sweetcheeks.

#WildWalkPrompt #Daffodil #Vss365 #dark CRIME NOIR The doors of winters thudded. I dove for my trusty piece. In came a dark daffodil, dressed jonquil-bright, well-armed with a pistil and far greater style. She aimed, ready to pollinate my guts. "Alimony's in the mail," I promised once again.

👉A Mythic Perpetuity of Love Vortices Cryptozoic beasts fall into transcendent, timeless, boundless love. Prompted by Writers_Community on IG: 1) Feb 10 monthly prompt, all rewritten, then a poem created. 2) theme poetry challenge 3, which evoked the romance of Scylla and Charbydis.

#GrimScribe religious scholars probe apostate tomes analyzing heresy's nuances in the #doctrine_grinder Meanwhile there rattles a taxi with a rearview mirror counting its rosary beads, Hindu gods nodding on dashboard-- #Confused_devotion? Rigorous experiment? #WeirdMicro

Strangers tread heavy gravel, whispering poetry into phones this cold, aloof February night. "I caught the moonlight leaving" one calls, looking up at me. "Clouds closed over its silver comfort-" Two-thirty in the morning! I think you're right. I must be phosphorescent. Why else call me moonlight?

#bedroomeyes #More_than_words_can_say In trading words of love too much must be unsaid. memories rustle like veils breathing in silence; Eyes embracing eyes, Scent whispering presence, the skin alert where ears fail, mouths subsuming speech.

#SenseWrds #183 After morning ablutions weight drips over scale, proving hearty subsistence.

#VSS365 #touch #WildWalkPrompt #Ridges FINGERPRINTS Your ridges of touch brush across my chest their invite so soft, so potently supple.

#emoetry #empathy Empathy leads to mad waltz with others' feelings but you merit, too.

Ah, "of Circe" in the Odyessy. :D LE BOOB TUBE Light dawning Between eyes' awnings and in porches of ears Wherein enter fears you pump noise in the brain's static ertia's abscission circean poison Television

"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher." - Socrates Beneath the wit lies a sharp insight into human relationships: Joy may make life pleasant, but adversity often makes it meaningful.

I barely begun here, took a few days off, and now per #MMPrompt I must write my eulogy. A threat implied? 🤨 Prompt call roll: #WeirdMicro #peculiar_proposal #Grimscribe #vellum_pact #Vss365 #bones #pale #emoetry #challenged #blissful #WipSnips #airports #freeversefebruary #return #grumpy