#mpprompt #poetry @skullsandsheets.bsky.social inspired Should I dance a border dance? Play a mummers' play? Bid welcome to the Mari Lwyd? Or hope it goes away? Ancestors from across the pond Mixed here a New World stray But heritage stares out of the dark Their dreams still light today

Ritual sacrifice of self to the other, soul handed over through the body confessions of love whispered without words over locked lips feelings consecrated with kiss & touch— devotion in action as hands caress flesh, a sensual blessing of skin a final ecstasy of connection before communion ends.

#MPPrompt Five days a week She sat at the altar Inhaling the words Shared from the front Education freeing her Nourishing her soul Releasing her from The torture at home

The firmament shook, As men’s law took on divine Purpose. Bathed in the Ecstasy of justice some Cried, Hallelujah! #MPPrompt #vss365 #DailyHaikuPrompt #poetryprompt #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky #Poem #Scrape #SkyPoets

@malformed-poetry.bsky.social #Mpprompt #poetry Mother Mary doesn’t come to me- I have to move on get on but pieces, chunks are cemented in your graveyard

If you’re a relatively new #poet like I am, I can highly recommend The Triggering Towns by Robert Hugo. I just finished and it taught me a lot about writing poetry

Today’s #poetryprompt: Write a poem with religious imagery about anything other than religion #MPPrompt I repost replies. Follow for daily prompts

Bulging bloodshot eyes This gallivanting menace That tortured my sleep Cried petrol tears on tar skin With stained smoker’s teeth Shoutout to @strangehouse.bsky.social for the awesome artwork that inspired this piece. #MPPrompt #PoetryPrompt #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Poem #Scrape #SkyPoets

#MPPrompt Picture from @handcranked.bsky.social “A river runs through it. Buena Vista, Colorado “ There’s a place I visited over one night Couldn’t stay longer and can’t ever return For those few fleeting hours my cares took flight I return in my dreams to hear its nocturne

"There are ______er things than _____" #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writercommunity #mpprompt #harder @malformed-poetry.bsky.social @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

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@malformed-poetry.bsky.social #mpprompt #poetry Nothing is harder than marriage, except maybe ending it- telling someone you chose that you’ve stopped choosing them, saying that you are tired of fighting to make things work, watching the face that you still love, be hurt

In the months since you left I've endured Your absence And the realization of your lies While myriad emotions Smother me And make me endure All of them as well. There are crueler things than walking away - Doing it with no explanation among them. So I endure grief, anger... confusion. #MPPrompt

The blue opioid smoke of a blackthorn bush sticking it's arm out for a passing ride Two cormorants bent on a barren oak, their narrow mouths extensions of scorched branch Curved creases of azure irises greeting you awake as the sun to their sky There are holier things than gods #NatureWriting

#poetry #mpprompt No footsteps in the deeps so dark so crushing only rare submersible visitors wonder at the strange bioluminescent creatures that create life here against all odds

#poetry #mpprompt There are louder things than children but their excitement still reflects off the museum in sharp staccato bursts as they pour from the buses ecstatic to escape classrooms for a fieldtrip to touch the past & connect their own memories to how we got here

#poetry #mpprompt Winter, you & I have never been friends yet I invite you in shake the crystal ice from your cloak bundle you by the fire with a steaming mug of spiced cider bake you bread & meat pies until you begin to thaw unfurling into the gold-green warmth of spring

The cold, shocked silence after harsh words are thrown, there are lonelier things than being alone #poetryprompt

#MPPrompt Looking for peace and equity There are calmer things than piety Sanctimonious ways are lies More likely to elicit cries

There are sweeter things than honey: a lover's smile a child's laughter a fulfilling life a peaceful death. #poetryprompt #poetry #writing #writingcommunity

Today’s #poetryprompt: Ekphrastic poetry! Go find a visual artist on bluesky, and write a poem influenced by one of their pieces. Make sure you credit their work! #MPPrompt I repost replies. Follow for daily prompts

🍀💖🍀 Happy Friday ... Poetry Prompt for today #mpprompt #poetry #prompt #writing

Very young I understood there are darker things than night & realer threats than monsters lurking in the wardrobe— the one standing beside my bed, colour of rage, shape of anger voice of my mother. Only grown did I learn she was just a child inside— more broken, more scared than I. #MPPrompt

A distressing truth They’re deadlier things than guns Like the fairytales Used in place of history To excuse gun deaths #MPPrompt #vss365 #DailyHaikuPrompt #poetryprompt #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky #Poem #Scrape #SkyPoets

Just say it with me: I need a new energy, Someone with my synergy #MPPrompt #poem #poetrycommunity #writer #WritingCommunity

Hello, #Winter 👀 #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writercommunity #mpprompt @malformed-poetry.bsky.social @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

Today's #poetryprompt: "There are ______er things than _____" For example: There are sharper things than knives There are heavier things than lead #MPPrompt I repost replies. Follow for daily prompts

Opening the door The north wind made itself known Her frail figure stood Frostbitten and shivering Eyes pleading for help #MPPrompt #DailyHaikuPrompt #poetryprompt #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky #Poem #Scrape #SkyPoets

Cherry-flavored drink that's what they call #cheerwine So much that the radio advertisements extol its flavor and its virtues But the problem is that I never cared for the taste anyway. #MPPrompt #poetry #writing #writingcommunity (Cheerwine is a North Carolina thing.)

A vision hazy as a blizzard— I see you approach through the snow, a silhouette shrouded within the storm I reach for you, our fingers brush, the touch begins an unravelling your image scattered, fragmenting on the wind my spirit drifts with you, as a cold spell settles inside my heart. #MPprompt

I blame it on bad chem— #MPPrompt #poem #poetrycommunity #writer #WritingCommunity

Lord Winter's chilly touch Ice frosts over my door I offer a cup of warm tea and a place by the fire as hospitality demands He respectfully declines for such comforts undermines His rather cold demeanour. #poetryprompt #poetry #writing #writingcommunity

#writingprompt #inspiration #Writing #WriterCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Poem #poetrysky #poetry #prompt #mpprompt #oldmanwinter #naturesway #cycleofseasons @malformed-poetry.bsky.social

#MPPrompt Once a rosy cheeked child Pleased to build a snowman Now choose weather more mild Stay inside is my plan

#poetry #mpprompt You must be a dingbatter if you don't know to burn the marsh to get the sparrow-grass without burning yourn house. Up from Nahfuk, you say? Poor dit-dot, lost in Guinea. Don't let my talk mommick you none. Y'all come-here's sure confusticate easy. Shake my head.

Our local word was once "Hella" But that made some parents yell-a "It's a swear" they said So bowdlerizèd And watered it down to "Hecka"

Today’s #poetryprompt: Winter is coming. He/She is on the horizon or at your door. How do you receive them? #MPPrompt I repost replies. Follow for daily prompts

Cobbles yet traversed Usher fools forward, finding My reason immured The moss laden floor threatened Each step further in #MPPrompt #DailyHaikuPrompt #poetryprompt #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky #Poem #Scrape #SkyPoets

"Where no man has gone before." #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writercommunity #mpprompt #newplace @malformed-poetry.bsky.social @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

The Place No One Steps Foot There is a field I never go grass grown high with hesitation, roots tangled in apologies, the soil damp with memory. No one steps there anymore. Not even I, though I dream of its scent, the caress of the wind. #poetry #MPprompt

Sands trickle endlessly down walls collapse over & over each moment a rebirth rippling bending every chance builds a new branch a static instant doesn't exist past present & future interweave when you step inside time. #MPPrompt

I, sit and ignore I, shut the door, And I, think no more more more more #MPPrompt #poem #poetrycommunity #writer #WritingCommunity

#MPPrompt I found a ladder leaning against a tree A giant sequoia and wanted to see Different view and I clambered up and fell Inside that ancient tree’s trunk and rang my bell When I awoke I was farther down staring Right in my face was a huge spider glaring

#MPPrompt Look Into My Heart; Some chambers full of yearning for connection, joie de vie and l’amour. Others anger at injustice, fear of loss and failure. Pumping, pumping, which do I pump into the Universe, which do I recirculate to cleanse? #FreeVerse #Poetry #WestCoastKin #EastcoastKin

The seasons come & go, spinning with the earth's axis as it moves around the sun. And with them, here they come— the fluctuations of my moods reflecting the same inconstancy— the ebb & flow of the universe that microverse inside of me rotating with its own little earth, sun, and moon. #MPPrompt

Here they come, The lollipop guild All that sugar Reason for their faces Not just traces Mountains of sweetness They call in Munchkin Land For me it's really cool To be a giant in their small world #MPPrompt

Here they come, the ghouls Sycophants masquerading As concerned parents Educations enemy Righteous reprobates #MPPrompt #vss365 #DailyHaikuPrompt #poetryprompt #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky #Poem #Scrape #SkyPoets

Here they come, the feelings- it’s a stampede! no survivors! #mpprompt #poetry @malformed-poetry.bsky.social

; bonfire night; woodsmoke in t'air. treacle toffee smudges on excited faces; muddy wellies left in t'hall slice of parkin & a milky brew while mum patiently brushes windswept hair; gently untangles each lug. jimjams on - wriggle under the duvet; dream of fireworks. #MPPrompt #poetryprompt #writing

#poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writercommunity #mpprompt #heretheycome @malformed-poetry.bsky.social @blueskypoetry.bsky.social