Maple tree drama Orphans spill into gutters-- Time to clean 'em out.

JUST-SO TALE OF THE BHUPATHY PURPLE FROG Froggy a-courtin' met Miss Mole; sparks of dirt flew. Purple offspring hatched.

#NamesNotNumbers @thebrokenspine.co.uk Thank goodness for names! Wouldn't it be awful to recite umpteen numbers for a hi? Touch phones to forehead QRS codes Or worse yet do a barcode buttwipe at grocery stores before small talk. ('Though we're half there with 2F verification.)

Make the title a nationality and a place #MPPrompt American_crumpet_shops confuse. Some stumble in for Persian carpets, leave with buttered toast and Rule Britannia ringing in their ears. Anglophiles weep at all the English muffins and teas in these profitless fronts for ex-pats.

#MovieMay #WeirdMicro #GrimScribe #PoisonPen We rowed to the #island of the #dark_apostle then fought a labyrinth to a statue colossal built of unknown technology; a cultural fossil of #obscure_origins out of time jostled by #illogical_authority, then moss hung like a dossal.

Yes sporadic proof of life. I'm working in a different genre and it's taxing my time. Thank you Bsky poetry community for being so creative; you have helped me out of my creative funk more than you will ever know.

@phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social‬ #PoetsOfDoom #waka #balloon @jenthorne.bsky.social @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social BALLOON Elastic membrane, Boyle's law of gasses toiling. Swell in hard vacuum, shrink in high pressure; Balloons go both ways.

#WeirdMicro #GrimScribe #PoisonPen (May 3 and 11) #The_immaculate_void of #voluntary_blindness to #unbrindled_wrath Forms a #conceptual_landscape which spurns truthtellers; Mere #delusional_prophets wielding #blasphemous_tomes. That neatly categorized, their sinister lacunas of mind continue.

#MMPrompt Write about your hands. #alienated #emoetry My hands are alienated. One acts without the other knowing. They criticize, wrestle, slap and scold each other. Other body parts sometimes get drawn into their debate. They stay in harmony only on their keyboard dance-offs.

This was at the Chihuahua Taqueria in Byron Bay, NSW Australia, when I visited there in 2019, the food was really good. Donald Trump is a joke even around the world.

@malformed-poetry.bsky.social You just had to keep digging #MPPrompt Some bodies are made to run; others' bodies to their prey stun; Mine was made for none but to dig, muscle forth, to bite and eat my prey. Soil and flesh crumple before my flay. This is the badger's way: I the earth rejig.

#PoetsofDoom #WildWalkPrompt #emoetry #woeful THE WOEFUL KEN OF BADGERS If a stray #badger you daftly try to snatch You'll be bit straight into a #woeful #patch where his scratch will dig. This mustelid lesson do not muff: This dude's a weasel really gruff and muscled tough; he's no baby hedgepig.

RECIPE I JUST READ Temper spices, add. Lime juice marries coconut. Marinade thickens. #haikufeels #marry

@malformed-poetry.bsky.social Thank an item in my house. O humble grounded electric outlet, with your little face and aghast mouth! So small and rudely used- Yet without your service, My electronics would fail, Keep the current alive- and me too!

#MMPrompt Write me a poem that is AGGRESSIVELY human No-coffee morning rages make people aggressively... something. Bleary-eyed: humanity still rebooting. Bleary-hearted: humanity still offline. Sometimes it's not about the coffee.

#emoetry #mighty #WeirdMIcro #creeping_void That one final night Into a mighty creeping void launched the raven

#haikufeels #enrich Cherry blossoms fade Green envelops fruits to be Dog enriches trees.

#haikufeels Yoga- #inflate lungs, pause, exhale slow. The true breath which balances the body.

#haikufeels #remain Packed luggage sits; Clothes arranged on bed, ready. The shoes remain.

#MPPrompt #Wherehaveyoubeen #manifestoes I have been with my toes, my many toes, busily festering As I plot poetry (AHHHHH AURGH!) with new feet called pterodactyl: DUM da da AUUGH ARGH e.g. Hickory AUGGGHH ARGH take a lil Mulligan AUUGH ARGGH That's my manifesto, Malachy AUUGHH ARRRGH

#WildWalkPrompt #Aubergine M-W EXPLAINS Purple fruit of India: Baingan Exported by the Arabs with Al- tackled on, Shipped as Alberginia to Catalina. French palates oiled it to au-ber-zhin-- As of 1767 The British call it aubergine. Americans just say eggplant: That new word of 1775.

#AcrosticApril #emoetry #greed #KITES Keeping high on breeze In instant sky greed Touring the landscape: Espionage tool once, Still kids' low-tech drones

#MMPrompt #BrokenSpine #You_never_loved my gravity; you were always deflected by others' brilliance Always drawn to others' magnetism. I had hoped our love was strong Instead you craved electric, yet weak interactions. If you had loved my gravity More than a passing crush You would have stayed-

#emoetry #wildwalkprompt #emotional #geese #patterns Silver lake shines gold. Geese fly in caret pattern: Emotional honks.

#Emoetry prompt for 4/11 is #dejected #charmed Some lives are charmed. Others are dejected; It all depends on who beholds from inside or outside; Many lives are both at once.

#AcrosticApril #PUNCH #MUSIC Percussion's Magnificat: Unplugged Underscore Nihilistic Strikes Chiming Instrumentals Harm-on-yo's Crescendos

#WildWalkPrompt #Tragedy #emoetry #blistered #AcrosticApril Fireplace sadness warms Legs linger by the light Aimless thoughts flicker Mourning old tragedy Emotions still blistered Smoking hearts with silence.

#emoetry #Agony We bewailed our agony as rant to the agony aunt prim in her corset and brolly grim in pen's scold and hair quite bouffant; So her profile did vaunt. We got a reply postmarked from the local gaol ready to aid our bullies' avaunt (she went from advice to putting people in vises.)

#WildWalkPrompt #Seashell Seashell be by the shore Shell coming over the sand when she comes (Splish splash!) Shell be sailing over six waves when she comes (Splish Splash!) Whelk be out for the beachcomb under the bright jelly sun (dizzle dazzle!) Seashell be by the shore waiting--

#haikufeels #target #latch Dog's mouth on the leash Magnetic latch on collar Outdoor time's asked for.

#haikufeels #happen #ignore Sparrows ignore cats behind glass doors for dead grass. Nests slowly happen.

Random ideas: Dead Men Do Wear Plaid. The Sporranmaker Tartan, Lord of the Apes The Bagpipes Redemption Star Wars: A New Plaid

#Emoetry #wounded #AcrosticApril #STORM #MPPrompt Sky wounded in sharp flashes Tornado watches spinning, Overcast and ominous Rain with deep rumbling: Monsoonal meteorologies.

#MMPrompt sciences, pluralized A disciple asked her guru, why stop the cycle of death and rebirth? He replied: "All these thanatologies, All these obstetricses, to endure, rarely recalled- and you must ask why people want nirvana?" "Well, frankly, their music..." she replied.

#MMPrompt, sciences pluralized One multi-cosmologist sighed how all these ontologies trying to describe the multiverse in multi-volume papers were entirely becoming on-too-long-logies.

#MPPrompt Sciences, doubled. The tapdancer surprised his friends with a double major of exercise science and physics in a song and dance: before they need a helping hand, he'll step in time to research how people step without rhyme, All kinesiologies are a step in time--

#MPPrompt Sciences, pluralized. The careful ethologist tackling the science of cynology Must recall that two ethologies simultaneously occur in the act of research: One in which we observe, one in which we are observed as fellow animals, with equipment beyond our ken- Dogs are tricky that way.

#MPPrompt Sciences, in the plural. The tinfoil-hatted stargazer knows well that two astronomies exist: one where we analyze distant stars And one where they analyze us. Multiple aeronomies arose from the upper echelons of arguments on "where" the heavens begin, now nimbly sidestepped as moot.

Use a word for a type of science, pluralized (biologies, anthropologies, chemistries, etc.) #MPPrompt AFTER GOLLUM WENT CRYPTO It's Economicsses my preciousses! Mathematicsses of monies poisons themses. Bad peopleses! Bad hobbitses! All wanting my preciousses PINSes! They shall not have! NO!

#Emoetry #Undecided I am as a poet; unsettled my emotions. Of wist I'm lacking tonight. Collies took off with my melons already. Angst took the weekend off. Oh as a poet, I'm so undecided.

Ambahan on Bus Wheels I take the bus among people who are returning Their old tongue. Seats go sprung. They chatter yearning for more earning or learning and discuss how best to spurn their patter. None care on what walls their old tongue might be hung.

Ambahan with Macaroni Epic it is, and fully durum; Depicting battles with Death- See how this one cures him by chanting the shibboleth in cursive pasta, while in penne he writhes. Such art from a smidge of plain macaroni with glue lumpen: O! Grandchild genius lurks on my fridge! #PoetsofDoom

#Wildwalkprompt #wave A perpendicular displacement Transversing the axis of motion: sine graphed, a quantum field, A vibration, or a huge wall of water crashing down on the seashore.

#AcrosticApril #BATH #WATERFALL Brimming Water Attracts Aching Torsos. Two Humans Expand Residual volume Filling excessively Antics expel Leaping liquefaction Lingering pools on floors.

@daveashleypoet.bsky.social #AcrosticApril (double: DESIRE SPRING) Delectably Strong Emotions Press, Simmer, Roil, Irritate. Instincts Rouse Need, Exploration, Gratification.

#PoisonPen #WeirdMicro THE #GRIMSCRIBE'S FEAR From a #monolithic_shrine in #vaporous_heavens comes a #sober_philosophy of #diverting_novelty, regarding an #uncovered_grave with #leaping_shadows which elude the #nimble_fingers of the #sacred_trickster- Sent to one unable to speak, just woof.

THE GRIMSCRIBE'S GUILTY PLEASURE She admits to the amorphous shadows a reluctant fascination with these who oppose with calculated vitriol poured into hyperbolic notes Full of grotesque charisma and gross misquotes. #weirdmicro #grimscribe #poisonpen

Fools in #ceremonial_procession Outraged by #anonymous_testimony On their reprehensible crimes Look we've all heard it more or less #verbatim So let's not #exalt them or be #nonchalant #AcrosticApril #Emoetry #WeirdMicro #vss365 #GrimScribe Man, if we could cram them in this one day, forever...

#Wildwalkprompt #Sway Sashay with tail sway, without pants on as usual-- Cat walks sofa top.

#MadMarch #Cup#PoetsOfDoom Imaginary critters Cup-boarder collies cache tea about to steep; Stealing tea balls, they flash to the kettle's whistle, fetch tea cups and any sleepy dormice, herd people to their chamomile or thistle, then clap down to watch their flock's sleep become ginormous.