your pupils open into aphotic wells as you bid the moon goodnight absentmindedly turning your hand over to collect a touch of starlight on the softness of your wrist I dissolve into your whispers every thought of leaving futile and flawed #vss365 #aphotic #WritingCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

one last shot aimed low screaming at stones as if that would move them or turn them to sand this is how we descale picking truth from between our teeth before decay takes hold before the rot sets in or sometimes, after #vss365 #last #writingcommunity #blueskypoets

Wagamama's before the Wolf Alice gig. Hello Birmingham 👋 #SaturdayVibes

mining some ink? spill it #prompts Nov 28, 2025 Weekend #Prompt - AMAZE (any form of the word) sixword~tenword~tanka~haiku post with the hashtag: #inkMine

old bookshelf one empty space breathing #haiku #poetry #booksky

And so it goes The wind blows The rain splatters And the sun tries To stay relevant The story Of the winter season In a mild climate #vss365 #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity

to stay relevant keep your smile bright and your sadness secret the doctor prescribes a blister pack of daily masks #vss365 #relevant #WritingCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

the brevity of romance when winter reveals your breath will I still see my name #poetrycommunity #Blueskypoets

I took the #option to walk at first light among swathes of bluebells my soul sought out the #specific type of peace #achievable deep within this unwinding answers came when I made the switch from thinking to being a heart shift #measurable in clarity #vss365 #WritingCommunity #Blueskypoets

there were days that began without a #goal slow lazy mornings when we banished time sleep intermingled with affectionate kisses a lace doily moon still imprinted overhead there were days that began with a oneness of two back when we curated the meaning of us #vss365 #WritingCommunity #blueskypoets

#DailyHaikuPrompt #sap depth of old age... the sticky pine sap flows so slowly

Sometimes we need intimacy a closeness of touch gilded words shared between two people other times we need solitude to be alone in our own thoughts an island in an endless ocean a solitary swan drifting away #Photo and #poem Francis H Powell #ImageAndVerse #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin

he wears the day about his finger as though wedded to its flux a simple soul, equidistant between hours, casting shadows from both Moon and Sun he stays silent through the cycles of strange weather, waiting for the universe to issue a response #vss365 #issue #WritingCommunity #blueskypoets

sometimes no-one's to blame the journey just comes to an end Our recent past like silk in soapsuds no grit, no thorns the rug returning to atoms beneath our feet store cupboard memories in labelled jars somewhere sweet to dip our fingers from time to time #blueskypoets #writingcommunity

Saturday night a glut of cars the scent of rain exploring instead blankets and butter biscuits the shelf above the bed #measured in books dialling out the noise tuning into a bandwidth of #literature how free we become when we board this mode of #transport #vss365 #writingcommunity #blueskypoets

Winter morning steeped in fog a woodland blooming with fruits of the fallen (My phone pic)

how might it react this tongue to the flex and vibrate of a new language an alphabet redistributed spliced and wrought into new formations I am weighing vowels for emphasis misinterpretation rubs its hands waits for my fall #vss365 #language #poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity #blueskypoets

In every heart there is a corner of wilderness that no one can reach.

You know the door. It doesn’t creak—it clenches. It holds what shouldn’t be let out. Or in. This week: write the barricades. The silences. The don’t-go-there moments. Prompt opens Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors. Use Alt Text. Inbox prompts? Sign up: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

outside she finds a chance for internal peace she connects with the clouds taps into a memory bank of rain songs heralds a lullaby wind soft among chimes her demons spiky creatures not quite asleep but quieter for now #vss365 #creature #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets

You pay, I'll find She built a cigarette as she spoke I knew how it worked. We'd done #business before Spark. Flame. The reek of carcinogenic consumption Yellowed fingers scraping the envelope from the counter I ordered lilies and a new black dress #vss365 #WritingCommunity

Fireside glow copper burnish on his skin My heart tries to escape through every pulse point Like a swan beating the lake with leaden wings desperate for flight He scoops me up into the ether of his eyes #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets

I have thought of it often His hunger His mouth His hands His scent His fervour His sighs His waist With my legs cinched around It is insanity This impossible desire Envisioning All the sinful ways I could be His unholy experiment #vss365 #experiment #WritingCommunity #poetry #blueskypoets

Ash and ember Oak and thorn Creep of mist Before the dawn Standing stones Ancestral tales Betwixt our worlds Thinning veils Raven dark Violet sweet Weaving paths With dancing feet #vss365 #creep #poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity #blueskypoets

you fill me with love with boundless hope with the conviction of Icarus rising and I offer without question a sunflower heart gold and nectar turning always towards you in heliacal magnetism boldly ignoring the way this might end #vss365 #heliacal #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets

Welcome, lovely writers 🌍🌎🌏 I just want to say I've been blown away by everybody's writing. There is an immense amount of talent out there 👏👏👏 An obscure word for today. Relating to or near the sun. The word for Oct 26th : HELIACAL #vss365 #prompt #heliacal

these last ripe fruits sinking slowly into winter on cold autumn earth #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

#poet #poem #poetry #writing #tongu #prompt #vssdaily #writesky #Skypoets #poetrylovers #blueskypoets #tonguetwister #poetrycommunity

I caught him whispering want disguised as prayer. Light kissed his throat and he let it. I waited, patient, tasting the air. When his thoughts turned indecent, I slipped inside to taste his sin from the source. #bedroomeyesprompt #writing #poetry

Nature Duelling With itself Adolescent trees Crescent bent By invisible terror Willpower battle cries Thrum, enraged The antithesis of debate Soft bodies Seek shelter Among brick piles When wind and wood collide #vss365 #terror #poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity

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 🙏🏻