We sat, hands held as sunrise spilled of life and love we spoke how time did fly cross pearly sky still clasped, horizon broke #sensewrds #228 soulful perceptions ivory #poetry #poem

You called me from a place beyond time, before I found this body & called it me we danced then in a starlit ballroom, where darkness held us in eternity when earth made us finite, we learned pain but the call was the same dance with me until the universe remembers we are stardust. #sensewrds 228

a tusk patina on which our eyes rest a depth of feeling for ancient matriarch feel of earth under great, padded foot life rolling over an open Savannah boils sweet richness of life and death dancing as bowl full as could ever in full soul be the light shifting over forms rendering #SenseWrds 228 🖖

The vibrant lights of a metropolis— that's how I see you I gaze at you from the darkened hill of my own sorry soul— I watch you blaze how do I describe what I see? I wish you could sit with me and take in my beautiful view of you. #sensewrds 227 Ineffable, Colorful, City

Rendered speechless by Profound revelry, streets lit Up in carnival. #SenseWrds #Prompt227 #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @sensewords.bsky.social

Prompt 228 Ivory Perceptions Soulful Do Not use the prompt words in your piece. Please use #SenseWrds , and include the prompt number. No combo prompts. Message me if you have more questions.

Fireworks again at midnight sometimes city life intrudes least to a town girl still, what does it matter slumbering cows ask me #SenseWrds

#sensewrds 227 ineffable, colourful, city Egypt/ Fake Egypt, Las Vegas. Love is blind drunk and the chapel is Love; holy, holy, holy. In the desert, a neon prophet. In the wilderness, the Sphinx— a simulacrum, unknowable.

even now, darkness is deeper and filled with a hush that holds your shape Prompt 226 (nights, somber, loss) #SenseWrds #poetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky #WritersOfBluesky

Amid the buildings there is a cube Of four walls and windows Even enclosed you can see the sky Stormy rain clouds bridge the gap From you to me Sunshine reaches us both eventually How to speak the name then Of all that catches in my throat unheard You in your cube so far away #sensewrds 227

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#SenseWrds (Forlorn Conversations Mingling) Sad whispers blend with the sound of the thunderstorm outside. Though not understanding the words, the feeling of foreboding grows Josep Castells unsplash.com

Darkness, such ocean depths without harbours Silence from cold pillows whispers nothings Of safe ports, fingers entwined and slumbers Endless is the barren dream of wishing Of reaching out a hand to grasp in vain And know I will break with the day again #SenseWrds 226

#SenseWrds Prompt 226 The blue moon glares through the space between window frame and curtain top a sliver of glare startles her awake slowly she reaches draws the curtain back and realises remembers moments long gone now stories for another life

my appetite for tears has gone enough salt adorned my face for a lifetime I light a candle let it float on the river in a blue paper boat carrying my sorrows so I won't have to bear them anymore #SenseWrds #poetry #freeverse #poetrycommunity

Prompt 225 (fresh, chaotic, sorrow) #SenseWrds #poetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky #WritersOfBluesky

#SenseWrds #prompt 226 Nights, Somber, Lost #poetry #vss365 #Wondrous

Why is it that evenings make me saddest? Is the dark itself a portal to the past? Or does it just reflect the absence of you? During the day what's missing is filled with other things, but in the evening I sit quietly with the darkness in myself, where you used to be. #sensewrds 226

Growth silently speaks from the hands that have sown. Plot thickenings full of bloom.. #SenseWrds (222) #abstract by me

speckled clouds float by stoic to magpies’ chatter, solace whispered soft through cluttered days and tender nights stories waiting in the wings #haiku #senryū #tanka #micropoetry #SenseWrds [226]

The news arrived at 10 this morning. Two officers at my door, despite wearing green, they reminded me of ravens and Poe—nevermore. By dusk, the message began to sink in—tears, & denial failed me. But Poe echoes through the night nevermore. #writingprompts #SenseWrds 226

#sensewrds 226 night, sombre, loss There's a check shirt on the street corner, under the guttering. It's lain there for at least a week, maybe two, through rain and sun. It's been too long. By this time there'll be snails clinging to it, trailing silver while we sleep. No-one will come for it now.

Prompt 227 Ineffable Colorful City Do Not use the prompt words in your piece. Please use #SenseWrds , and include the prompt number. No combo prompts. Message me if you have more questions.

#Sensewrds Prompt 226 #night #somber #loss

One fiery orange bloom The moon remains alone In the blackest of blackness #sensewrds 226

Forever twilight, Whiskey drips, the friends gone, glum Musings by the fire. #SenseWrds #Prompt226 #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @sensewords.bsky.social

#SenseWrds (Conforming Distant Breeze) So far from home. This world seems so alien. Until a soft wind caresses my cheek, as if assuring me this will also become home. flflflflfl pixabay.com

#SenseWrds 226 Nights Somber Loss The sisters took turns sleeping in the next bedroom while their mother slowly vanished with each rattling breath, and they found they had stopped speaking. It was as though they were trying to give their voices to her, all the words they wished she had said.

Once I got used to an empty bed I could no longer have your body next to mine, it became a gravesite for our love #sensewrds #poetry

#Sensewrds Prompt 225 #fresh #chaotic

Grief was the garden where you found me, hope was the flower that you sowed and from such small beginnings, new shoots began to grow you left within me a riot of colour, where you met the darkness in my soul. #sensewrds 225 Fresh, Chaotic, Sorrow

I devoured her ripe, plump fruit in a manic fashion, and now I lament the loss. #SenseWrds prompt 225 #poetry #writingcommunity #chollop

pristine freckle constellation on shoulders above a wrapped towel, hair still untidy wet, skin toweled pink, pining for kisses being offered. now just lips, dry towel hanging, the gloom of anguished absence. oh, how I sent you back to the shower messy and dripping delight. #SenseWrds n.225

Prompt 226 Nights Somber Loss Do Not use the prompt words in your piece. Please use #SenseWrds , and include the prompt number. No combo prompts. Message me if you have more questions.

Meaningless sleeps where the imagination awakes.. m.youtube.com/watch?v=hArk... #SenseWrds (218) #nature

#sensewrds #prompt225 #poetry #blueskypoet Gray morning, empty house And a very strong awareness of space Here is a #poem...

Strawberries picked A bushel from our garden Until the dog came running #sensewrds 225

Don't start a new day with woe is me convinced in shambles your life be but flip those thoughts and you'll soon see contentment comes most easily #sensewrds #225 fresh sorrow chaotic

Cooling wind carried A thousand stories of grief Clashing together. #SenseWrds #Prompt225 #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @sensewords.bsky.social

#sensewrds 225 fresh, chaotic, sorrow Her grief makes weather. The snow is pristine, not even marked by cat paws or bird prints. It settles in her backyard, three inches deep, while the sun bakes the rest of the street in record-breaking May sunshine. It hides the mess of gravel, weeds & cat-shit.

It breaks through everyday, pulling my crust apart, jaggedly ripped right to the core, sadness usurping more and more #sensewrds 225 #poetry

#Sensewrds 225 my thoughts still, the jumbled swirl of emotions becomes softened, the edges of grief smoothing out the longer i sit in the sunshine in a peaceful garden by his gravestone i am and always will be proud to be the president of the rose growers apprecistion society

You left the light on in me when you had to go, your song still playing on the turntable of my soul our last conversation is a letter I re-open and read at the table, your kiss etched on my teacup a candle burns for you in the window of my heart 'til you come home. #sensewrds 224

#Sensewrds Prompt 223 #fragrant #snippets

There is nothing the daisy says that I don't hear in you— when I look upon its centre like a little sun and its petals white as seagulls— I feel the sunny day you make in me and I want to fly to that daisy like a little honey bee. #sensewrds 222 Illustrated, Voiceless, Garden

#SenseWrds (Dreamer Resting Hollow) Deep in the forest lays a slumbering beauty. A peaceful face, showing a face devoid of nightmares Mysticsartdesign pixabay.com

The humble blackbird once a guide homely song I made the bed so they said and lay in it the consequences mine to mark rain follows languidly #SenseWrds

never sent @sensewords.bsky.social #SenseWrds #Prompt 224 #Brightly #Lingering #Melodic #poetry #poem #writing #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets #writingcommunity

The night air was made of jasmine promises— a dark sky, it's shadowy co-conspirator they whispered in hushed tones, subtle as the buzz of electricity wires the evening seemed to hinge on what tomorrow might bring & amid that thrum, rhythmic as a pounding heart— I thought of you. #sensewrds 223

Prompt 225 Fresh Chaotic Sorrow Do Not use the prompt words in your piece. Please use #SenseWrds , and include the prompt number. No combo prompts. Message me if you have more questions.