life comes, life goes the blinking of a tearful eye a skein of mournful geese in passing the tossing of God’s dice like raging thunder #vss365 #caprice #poem #poetry #5lines #tanka

𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐢𝐳𝐳𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐨⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ we will be much better off⁣⁣ without these souls⁣⁣ clinging to our stanzas⁣⁣ like tattered flags⁣⁣ in passing storms of ghosts⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ #vss365 #caprice #poem #poetry ⁣⁣ #5lines

and every truth a-bashéd across the pond that orange scum of nonsense flows in stinking depths an older darkness squirms and grows forest frogs are lost to broken gps and foreign interference and everywhere the sound of water running for its life #poem #poetry #haiku #basho #news #vss365

.⁣ 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡⁣ ⁣ a little appreciated fact ⁣ is that inadequate contraception ⁣ causes Donalds, and Roberts⁣ and pyramidal greed⁣ ⁣ everyone should take more care⁣ a cap is not a cure⁣ be it dotted, starred, or striped⁣ or simply red⁣ ⁣ #poem #poetry #autism #science ⁣#vss365

the bellwether's bollocks redcap sheep flock quickly to the precipice playing leemings leap with everybody's lives listen to their cry MAAA #vss365 #bellwether #poems #poetry #autism #tylenol #paracetemol

Hello #promptCombo folk! A moments reflection on #ancestry #poem #poetry “standing by”

. standing on the bridge surprised perhaps this is a sliding door moment #vss365 #perhaps #poem #poetry #senryu ❗️ #smallpoemsunday #specpo #sfpoetry #enterprise

.⁣ 𝐛𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐬⁣ ⁣ infinite space does⁣ indeed⁣ serve a purpose⁣ so God need not hear⁣ our screams⁣ ⁣ #PoemsAbout #SilentPlanets #poem #poetry ⁣

= the criminal has left the building, but = the king is in his counting house looking for his money the queen is on her parlour wishing it was funny the fool is in the garden still dressed as english rose when down comes a blackstone to lead him by the nose through poisoned stocks to slaughter

"Fossil Fools". #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #promptcombo #history @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

Fe2O3 #promptCombo #history & @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social #poem #poetry #specpo #sfpoetry

THE DAILY HAIKEWS! Today's story Genocide Genocide confirmed, War crimes now all official, Israel exposed. Join in with your own short news poetry in the comments, or post with #Dailyhaikews #Haiku #news #poetry #blueskypoet #israel #endgenocide #freepalestine #Gaza

preserving the bloodline

Do we all wear our histories as performance? Or just a heavy cloak. And scuba tank For this week's #promptCombo #history, and @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social here's: = an ocean current, cold and deep = #poem #poetry

another day another transatlantic wave tearing at our shore with all the stink and style of sewers #vss365 #style #poem #poetry #5lines

= in the style of edward hopper = where do you go when i pull back the shades and that tired old sun invades our room with one more smiling day alone #vss365 #style #poem #poetry #melancholia

#poetry #magneticpoetry #poetrycommunity

Yesterday i heard several news network reports concerning Charlie Kirk. Every US report (that the bbc played) said he had died or passed away. All non-US stations said he had been shot. The #potential to mislead about the dangers of a gun-owning society, perhaps? Or careful manipulation … #vss365

the thought police are out casting all their darkest nets about for any laugh or slight or bold remark closing every throat with iron fists their meagre wit exhausted but hope is slim and so escapes this drought of caring #vss365 #exhausted #poem #poetry #resist

. there are lights on mars peering spectroscopically tasting crystalled life ancient leopard spots that change slower than the stars #poetry #blueskypoets #poem #specpo #tankathursday #FromOneLine 389 #vss365

written today, a combo response to #promptcombo #clocksticking and #vss365 #bearable the unbearable remains #poem #poetry

As often happens for the #PoemsAbout prompt, I spent hours toiling over a messy sketch, scrapped it and wrote a #facades poem in a few minutes. Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for making me bin things.

𝐢𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 ⁣ ⁣ one short affair ⁣ trust fund running out of trust ⁣ quickie divorce⁣ ⁣ #senryu #dailyhaikews #bonsaiku #news #labour #poem #poetry ⁣

Not sure if I can be around this weekend (yeah, I know, how could you tell?) so here's a *slightly* early #poem for #poemsAbout #Facades and the perpetual motion machine that is @alanparrywriter.co.uk / @thebrokenspine.co.uk

= the unconscious muse = but wait what foolishness is this when poetry inspired by words most arbitrary flies like rain swept from an eagle's wing to dry tomorrow #vss365 #arbitrary #conscious #poem #poetry

arbitrary flies from careless to callous but evil soars on dark intention's wings real death as sport by Calvary #vss365 #arbitrary #poem #poetry #5lines

oh no, the muse is running hot this week. #promptcombo #winged and @hool415.bsky.social - Standing By #poem #poetry

Dear @hool415.bsky.social For #promptcombo #winged

oops accidentally deleted this: for #PromptCombo #winged & @hool415.bsky.social some thoughts on absent wings the bleak memorial squadron #poem #poetry context: #neonicotinoids #immigration

And now for something completely different for #PromptCombo #winged Nightfall #poem #poetry and thematically #vss365 #elude

#promptcombo #vss365 @hool415.bsky.social #winged Poison Plum A Dunnock sits atop The weeping poison plum Hidden in magenta leaves Peep peep, a warning For little hands not to touch His song the sound of Whiteboard markers Scribbling his message ‘Do not eat these plums They are all for me.’

our souls like grass all yearning for a loving sun before the roaring lawnmower comes #vss365 #yearn #smallpoemsunday #poem #poetry #soundslike v2

.⁣ 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐫𝐞⁣ ⁣ what a riot⁣ as puppets whirlwind through the streets⁣ believing all in anything ⁣ but pungent webs of corporate string⁣ ⁣ and scissors⁣ ⁣ #poemsAbout #riot #poem #poetry #5lines #vss365 #pungent

a #poem for #PoemsAbout #Riots - or another Shameless rant with delusions of #poetry You choose 🙃

. = that urban fear = a malignant drone or alien dressed as streetlight hovering in the night uncounted stars alone witnessing your disappearance (in another million years) but do not hear your scream #vss365 #malignant #poem #poetry #vsshorror #specpo #sfpoetry

trying to look cool fake japanese poetry refrigerator #promptCombo #banality #poem #poetry #ironic #haiku #senryu 😉

. how many dolphins will it take standing on each others backs to eat the moon asks the burning man so proud, of his vaulted, faked intelligence . #vss365 #sentient #poem #poetry #cherita

On the theme of #banality for #promptcombo another pretence at #poetry in the shape of a #cherita: one small #poem (They *will* shrink if your water is hot enough)

#smallpoemsunday #poem #poetry #1line #micropoetry #oneline

death star rising now labelled Rebel Fighter banana republic #senryusunday #smallpoemsunday #poem #poetry #resist

for stationary travellers everywhere, another #malformed #poem Tie a Yellow Garmin Round The Old Oak Tree (in #response to an ephemera from Julian @hool415.bsky.social ) #vss365 #Poetry

𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐤⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ the way to ostracise ⁣⁣ a genocidal nation⁣⁣ is not by sticking⁣⁣ 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳⁣ head ⁣ in the sand #vss365 #reek #poem #poetry #5lines #warcrimes #ostrich

i see you in electric glass #vss365 #reek #poem #poetry #specpo #sfpoetry #ai

to defuse any confusion amongst readers of #PoemsAbout #Chandeliers, "harryhausen" was to help understand dragon's teeth and skeletons metaphor. Everything else derived from 21stC. mea culpa

I saw and loved this on a visit to Poole Museum, Dorset, in 2018, but I can't find my notes, so don't know anything about it. Help! #photo #photography #pottery #ceramics #poolemuseum #poole #dorset @wessexmuseums.bsky.social

The meeting began with an icebreaker: “which horror movie do you think you could survive?” and as I looked around at all the maskless faces I was tempted to say that I was focused on surviving a virus movie, but instead I just said: “Jaws, I’d stay out of the water.”

I've just seen this and couldn't resist a homage to Walter de la Mare. For #promptcombo #woods @victoriaspires.bsky.social

Worldly like the stone buried ages alone for one to find in the fullness of time, Like earth that cloisters secrets as oysters do pearls, or geode's dull skin grows gems within. Grounded, #mundane but never truly plain. #vss365