Should've seen it as A warning Should've cut and run Before the heartache But that smile had me Pinned A beetle Under glass An object of interest Treading water when I thought I could swim Should've said no But, my god He was too addictive For that The boy with the piranha tattoo #vss365 #piranha

Her mouth A skywards vase Of exceptional blooms Her redemption song Spreads butter Against the grains Of the sinners bread She is starlight Sunday salvation In a red dress #WritingCommunity #poetry #BlueskyPoets

you hold a candle beside the moon and task me to choose between them as if I could know which to name numerator or denominator instead I recall a day when hillsides dressed in heather blew us skylark kisses a collection of rainbows in the lining of your raincoat #vss365 #raincoat #writingcommunity

what kind of lover do you seek? a rose, perhaps? wild and delicate tender beauty fierce thorns or a poet? passionate and melancholy lyrically loyal utterly unobtainable

where low light lends warmth in lazy patterns insects appear rise and fall rise and fall rise and fall repetition becomes elastic simplicity stumbles into hypnotic a host of tiny yo-yo's toys at play in invisible hands #vss365 #elastic #blueskypoets #writingcommunity

Freedom of speech An oasis Turned mirage Raw throats Parched Dried up at source We intersect Hands cupped for succour Your dark clouds Weep upon my riverbed scar #vss365 #oasis #blueskypoets #writingcommunity

We are October When we used to be July A second breath Peppermint fresh with frost Windfall pulp Imperfect, yet still sweet An occasional occasion Richer in colour But fading #vss365 #pulp #blueskypoets #writingcommunity

Scrutiny seeks out the loose stitches Slips its tendrils in Flips through manuscripts Internal dialogues Deciphers goosebump braille Paws over secrets Tastes the depth of stain On hidden pages Digs into decay Like worms In a mind of falling leaves #vss365 #scrutiny #WritingCommunity

Silent movement Black cat locomotive Toe to toe with its shadow

on the lawn a jackdaw cocks his head one blue eye to the sky

with time and patience perhaps we will learn that this journey has so much to teach us from chaos to completion true beauty is the sum of realising all our parts #vss365 #writingcommunity #BlueSkyPoets #perhaps (My photo)

tiny ripples across fallen leaves still holding on to last nights rain #smallpoems #BlueSkyPoets

#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 19: with over, under, through, or around These guys are among my favourites to see live 💥🎶 youtu.be/KM8YGrV-sTA?...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 18: 'all' or 'nothing' youtu.be/PuMOWrRZ0HA?...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 17: awesome drumming youtu.be/Et51PwPWFX0?...

fallen pine already sprouting ferns in the scar #haiku #poetry

#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 16: with 'and' or '&' youtu.be/F6Felo3l0vQ?...

for too long I let doubt lead let it drag me through thicket and thorn faith in myself brought forth a certain contentment happier hands relinquish those #reins #vss365 #BlueSkyPoets #WritingCommunity

#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 15: An item of clothing or accessory youtu.be/9Qp_SrTgBBs?...

Prompt 119 Tempted Inertia Caress Thank you, @rayhourigan.bsky.social , for providing the prompt words! 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 about the prompt. Happy writing! ~M 🙏🏻

I am the blink you deny, a nerve sparking against reason. Your mask cracks the instant I arrive. I wait in the breath you hold, a shadow stitched to your skin. #vss365 #prompt #flinching #poetry #poem #poet #writing

Autumn rose Beneath her petals A ladybird waits, out of the rain #smallpoems #blueskypoets

the innocence of a kiss I revel there in the seconds during & after after your hands have returned to your sides mine remain gathering memories shape warmth the texture of your shirt and then you're gone again rug pulled away from all my #calm I exist wanting more than I dare to ask for #emoetry

It used to surprise me How fast the temperature Would drop The way a look Could make me #flinch And the sudden dryness Of a tongue Conditioned to lay still #vss365 #writingcommunity #blueskypoets

#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 14: from a movie/theatre From Waitress: youtu.be/53GIADHxVzM?...

In between trees I consider my absence From their healing The colour of morning Raising bright sensations In the homeland Of my soul #poetry

Thanks for keeping the thread alive on Friday. This week’s theme drifts into deep space: #PoemsAbout #SilentPlanets 🌌 Post your poem this Friday. Tag it and tag us: @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social Read. Repost. Reply. Prompts arrive Saturday: shorturl.at/oEXAM

VEINS OF GLASS —where silence keeps its ledger Some #dilemmas do not ask for answers, only endurance. #creationkisprints #poetrycommunity @creation_ki_sprints ✍️ #sochpublicationhouse

For #PromptCombo #ClocksTicking & #PoemsAbout #Candlelight, this was in Autumn Sky Poetry, Nov 2020. Bit bleak, but long past. Currently in a season of renewal, & if you've gone through this w/ family, wishing you peace. 'Remember the year a fox' @dragonslayerma.bsky.social @alanparrywriter.co.uk

#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 13: A featured artist youtu.be/5EkWpXfQA-Q?...

mining some ink? spill it #prompts Sept 12, 2025 Weekend #Prompt - TRUTH (any form of the word) sixword~tenword~tanka~haiku post with the hashtag: #inkMine

#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 12: for stargazing youtu.be/7hhV4nrs7gk?...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 11: A word ending 'ing' youtu.be/yLA3wEiX5Ic?...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 10: A song you love that someone recommended youtu.be/kniyHjg5NSE?...

#Emoetry prompt for 9/9/2025 is #Wanderlust #writingcommunity #poetry @fafo-poets-society.bsky.social

#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 9: with a 9 letter word youtu.be/HlLx7oE7q3I?...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 8: about sex youtu.be/8hhu-OyHqZM?...

Movers and shakers love it. The #vss365 prompt for 8 September is: Power. “But there is only one thing that has #power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.” (Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country) #prompt #power

like smoke through the doorway to dreaming I drift #vss365 #SmallPoemSunday #doorway #BlueSkyPoets #WritingCommunity

A new path appears. The #vss365 prompt for 7 September is: Doorway. “Flowers you can get every year, but only with time the tree that shades your #doorway and grows into the house with each year's sun and rain.” (Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine) #prompt #doorway

landing between us unexpected butterfly laughter thaws the chill #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #laughter

#Emoetry prompt for 9/7/2025 is #Uneasy #writingcommunity #poetry @fafo-poets-society.bsky.social

I don't often write beyond the character limit. Sometimes, though, it flows.... Loves sweet surrender... For #vss365 #chance #writingcommunity #BlueSkyPoets #poetry

#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 7: featuring a piano youtu.be/FRD0W2-tr64?...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 6: reminds you of school youtu.be/RCdneDxFRYQ?...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 5: with a flower, tree, or plant youtu.be/9nIOx-ezlzA?...

I have watched the breeze Turning feathers into spinning tops Slender pinpoint ballerinas Coming softly down to land And I have felt that fall As it spirals down from head to heart #conscious only of unravelling While euphoria expands #vss365 #poetry #BlueSkyPoets #writingcommunity

#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 4: A song you love from a movie you hate youtu.be/nLt60MUv7AU?...

An #arbitrary foretelling your name amongst rainfall salt-wind gleaned spiralling in my ears the whispered overture of feeling filtered through shingle hymnals wound around a rosary of winkle shells how imagination vibrates echoes of longing blooming dark and wet beneath the moon #vss365 #poetry

#emoetry Shouting made her fear Quaking of the streams and earth Trees crack like gun shot #haiku #quaking