DAYLIGHT & TENFOLD ORIOLES was released last week. FREE pdf! donated words poetry with lots of writers & contributors in the mix! there’s tons of very cool collaboration happening in here! not to be missed! doing a walkthrough of this collection in the near future!🧡 tinyurl.com/2025daylight

I donated a word to this

The words I had to use in the poem were “simultaneous,” “regent,” and “siphon.” It ended up being a birdwatching 🪶 poem. Go grab the PDF and enjoy all the fine work!

i donated a word to daylight & tenfold orioles i'll give you the password to my coinbase account if you can guess which one

I’m very grateful to @midwesternskirt.bsky.social for creating this fantastic project involving poets writing using donated, assigned words, and proud to have “Simultaneous Fields” be among them. I would likely never have used a couple of those words otherwise! Looking forward to the whole thing.

Excited to be part of a collaborative project organized by K Weber. Check out all the poems/microfictions including my piece Shadowcast.

DAYLIGHT & TENFOLD ORIOLES is here! this free PDF is packed with writing created by 17 authors that incorporates words contributed by many people! lots of thanks to all involved! everyone who took part is tagged in this thread! get the PDF here: tinyurl.com/2025daylight

when i start wrapping up my donated words projects i like to get my HUGE spreadsheet of related data together. since 2018 this has gone from about 150-200 rows filled in to 1255! excited to release this new collection wednesday. i made a trailer for this project (!!!) & it’s in my previous post!!!

COMING WEDNESDAY! FREE PDF!

happy belated 4th birthday to TEAMWORDK! this collection of donated words poems was released on august 30, 2021! it has a FREE pdf version & an AUDIO version where i read aloud & there’s background music i made! tinyurl.com/teamwordk2021

looking forward to sharing more about the forthcoming donated words collection soon. 17 people wrote original works that incorporate a wonderful selection of donated words! there are 16 poems & 1 microfiction piece! i am so very happy to feature all of this soon in a free PDF!

exciting update!

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this poem will appear as the opener in the forthcoming collection currently in progress. although the other poems will follow a different collab style, “Tenfold” features the original donated words poetry characteristics. great to have another (online, free) collab collection coming before 2026!

this is *not* the poem i am working on for the latest donated words/collaborative writing collection😆 but i certainly was inspired by the windy garbage stuck on my neighbor’s balcony!

ASOOPP1 turned 3 on june 2! this collection features 19 poems that include 226 words donated by over 100 people! free in PDF format & as an MP3 with me reading the edition aloud & i made all of the musical soundscapes in the background! download PDF and/or MP3 at tinyurl.com/2022asoopp1 💚💛💚

all donated words & challenges have been sent to those who signed up! grateful to all word contributors & all writing original pieces for this quietly collaborative effort that will speak volumes! if for any reason you signed up to write a poem & did not get a message from me… DM me asap!🩷

THANK YOU!💚💛💚

May 30th is almost over! That’s the deadline to sign up for my latest project. I am overwhelmed in the best way to have more people participating so far than I could have imagined! But this is last call… so DM asap if you are interested!

just 2 days left to sign up! thanks again to everyone who is participating & cheering on this project!❤️

still more time to sign up to write poems for my/our latest donated words (& more!) collection! 17 donated words excitedly await poems. this time, i am writing 1/a few poems. the focus of this project is on others crafting poems with a few of those words each. see previous posts for details! ⭐️

HEY THERE! write poems using words contributed by others with me! there will be some other twists, too, if you are up for the challenge. all info in the original post below!

i am so thrilled that several people have already signed up to take part in this writing adventure! you can sign up by may 30th to join in!❤️ DM if interested!

FINALLY! the announcement i said i’d announce on monday! very excited to announce that i am announcing it now! 😊😊😊

this is to announce that i still have not announced the announcement i announced i would announce yesterday. thanks for hanging in with me. 🤣😆😊

happy to update that i will be announcing my/our next collaborative project on monday, may 12th! i received 17 donated words recently (thank you!) & look forward to what is ahead for this next collection! probably silly to announce an announcement (lol!) but that’s fairly on-brand for me! 🩷K

words are still being accepted through the end of the month/tomorrow/wednesday, april 30th! details in the original post! big thanks again to all who have provided a word so far!!!

still a few days left to send a word my way! please see the details in the original post below before sending! thank you so much for the words donated so far & for those to come! 🩷K

it’s time to start creating some collaborative poems again!!! i am looking for word donations through end of the day/month(!!!) on wednesday, april 30th, wherever you are! DM *one* word only per person! there will be a second part to this to be announced later next week! DM ONLY PLEASE!!! thx! 🩷K

HAPPY 7 YEARS OF DONATED WORDS POETRY!!!❤️

a quick note about another fun thing i am doing this month: posting some prompts during NaPoWriMo each Wednesday. follow @midwesternskirt.bsky.social for more! maybe something will stir up a new line, feeling, image and/or poem for you! hashtag for this series is #NaPoWedPro! no rules, no pressure!

poetry month is always filled with good writing & great prompts. the donated words poetry collaborations and collections started in april 2018! i’ll be offering up some more opportunities to create together beginning this month! it’s been awhile! stay tuned & happy poem-ing! 🩷K

happy 2nd anniversary to A SUM OF OUR POETIC PARTS: VOL. 2 (ASOOPP2)! 🩵🩷🩵 tinyurl.com/asoopp2pdf this is a free PDF collection that contains poems i wrote using words donated by lots of other people! has some ekphrastic work and 4 “exquisite corpse” poems!!! free audiobook version is in progress!

hello and happy 2025! i have been a bit out of the poetry loop the past 2 months, but look forward to striking up some collaborative poetry again sometime soon. thanks for so much support & participation when it comes to donated words poetry & other poem experiments since 2018!!!

thanks to all who kept the collaborative poetry going this year!!! was so happy to get A SUM OF OUR POETIC PARTS: VOL. 3 published (free online, as i do!) this year! 7 collab poetry collections since 2018! more to come in 2025 as we enter the SEVENTH YEAR of donated words poetry (& more!)🩷

happy 5th anniversary to THIS ASSEMBLY! this was the first collaborative poetry collection i put together. there were 150+ participants. people donated words, lines, themes… some wrote poems… several helped edit… there were polls & music inspiration! free in PDF & audio! tinyurl.com/thisassembly...

thanks again to all who took part in my collab poetry & ASOOPP3 this year!!!💜

i have said this all before. i don’t see a problem reminding people that they don’t have to exhaust themselves to be a part of the “poetry community.” 2024 wore me out and all i did was write, do collabs and get some things published. never feels like “enough” and i’m kicking that mindset down!🩷

i played around with some more of these poems i have been writing where i only use letters from the title i chose. the best part of these is the challenge of having the poem make sense even within the bounds of which letters i could use. if you try something like this, i’d love to read it!!!

FACEMASK (Palindrome) Put it on. Knot it up. Walks a man, in a mask.... Law: Put it on. Knot it up.

fondly remembering when i got to donate words to a poem crafted by @kileylee.bsky.social for THIS ASSEMBLY (2019)! also, kiley read her poem aloud in the audio version! such a highlight! free PDF & MP3: tinyurl.com/thisassembly2019 and time really flies: THIS ASSEMBLY turns 5 in december!!! 💜🩵🩶♥️

my personal account is back up at @midwesternskirt.bsky.social. i will continue to keep this account focused on my collab projects!🩷

for this collab poem from REUNION FRUIT SYNERGY (2023), 15 people donated a word & 1 person donated a line of text! free PDF at tinyurl.com/rfs2023 contributor credits in 🧵!

still planning to do a new project filled with collab poetry experiences soon! likely not until the new year. have been posting a lot of past collabs here to look back at some lively team-effort pieces! hope to try some different ways of collaborating with this upcoming collection, too. stay tuned!

from 2021’s TEAMWORDK! this poem is in the dizain form. i chose words starting with B to incorporate here. word contributors: @kabpoetry.bsky.social @tomsnarsky.bsky.social Stephanie Benton Jeff Weber @emilylauracosta.bsky.social free PDF & audio: tinyurl.com/2021teamwordk

sometimes i create a title & write a poem using only the letters in it. try it?!! sunday poet on a heating pad dotted an i and then i shut- eyed too hot. i put odes in, snug; anapests nested. dotted a tea stain on today’s hopes. i napped so tepid yet did not nothing. - K Weber #smallpoemsunday