11:44 PM, it's time to prepare for work... -Take lithium pills to start off, then wash it off with coffee -Take a shower and commute to work.... And people wonder why I drink lots of coffee daily. Working while (partially) sedated isn't fun. #NightShiftLife

It's 1:19 in the afternoon... I am filled with energy but I also want to sleep because I have to work later at 1:45 in the morning... Why? #NightShiftLife

I don't wanna sound so dejected here, so I'll just say I'll go through life as usual. Also, @daveashleypoet.bsky.social this is for FreeVerse February too. 🤭 #emoetry #rejected #BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP50 #February #poetry #poetryCommunity #FreeverseFebruary #iron

I'm pretty sure I was overthinking when I made this but....oh well. @jenthorne.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @daveashleypoet.bsky.social #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub

I was thinking of setting up a bird feeder at the mountain house but... Apparently it is forbidden by law to do so, especially for wild birds... Oh well, there goes that idea.

Remind me again why I have to work at 1:30 in the morning?

It was a great feeling even though it was from a year ago. @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social #FreeverseFebruary #electric #emoetry #regal #poetrycommunity #poetry #freeverse

Something about this month is making me more...vulnerable.. #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub#BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP50 #February #poetry #poetryCommunity

*gom - shorthand for agom, a Bicolano word for spouse. Double prompt entry for today! @malformed-poetry.bsky.social @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social #MPPrompt #emoetry #peeved #poem #poetrycommunity #writer #WritingCommunity

If he was still alive, he would have cringed at this.. But I don't care, I express my love with words, photos, and cooking. 🤭 #aperture #BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP50 #February #poetry #poetryCommunity

Halt! This is a book checkpoint 📚 Last: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire current: Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King next: Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire #booksky

@jenthorne.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social I woke up from a nap, had a brief flashback, then I remembered I had to write this. Counting syllables ground me back to reality. 😂 #rondel #snow #WildWalkPrompt #roots #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub

I was called names.. Until I wasn't me anymore. #Emoetry #Over-emotional #poem #poetrycommunity #writer #WritingCommunity

💌 a folded paper slides into an envelope tucking in my thoughts #senryu

Humanity keeps fooling itself with hypocritical promises of hope that never come true. The disposable are disposed, while the poor get poorer and the rich get richer. What will soothe the self-inflicted wounds of humanity's self-hate that never have time to heal? #vss365 #soothe

Wait, What do you mean it's February 1 already?!!!

夢を持ち続けていると花が咲く Yume o mochi tsudzukete iru to hana ga saku If you keep holding onto your dreams, flowers will bloom. Nice words to live by. Photo taken by me. © Japan Japan by Mitsuo-san (Naga City, Bicol)

Cooler in the mountains... Amazing view above Lights from the city below.. My heart is content. #AcrosticJanuary #calm @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

I became hyperfocused when I said I wanted to write something more upbeat. Turns out I still have my fangs. 🤭 #BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP49 #MPPrompt #January #poetry #poetryCommunity #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub

I hate how my new medication is making me too sleepy to function... Maybe I should start cutting the pills into 1/4 pieces so I won't be catatonic.

Forgive me, I'm running on fumes at this point. I should be sleeping but here I am writing at what feels like 3 AM. #BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP49 #January #poetry #poetryCommunity #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub

I may have been too literal with this, but it's the best I could do. This is about my experience building my own personal library at home. #Cassiopeian #libraries #BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP49 #January #poetry #poetryCommunity

To be in this world but not of this world... Old layers dissolve, Empty hands can hold the truth, All steps led to here.

Ehh, I'm not really feeling this... It must be my new medication. I hope you guys enjoy it. #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub

Fire is my name, Losing you was the game. A foolish errand it is to Make my anger cease... Entertain your foolishness no more. ...and think of you no more ...begone forevermore #AcrosticJanuary #flame @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

Tentacle, eternally grumpy, disapproves of the smartwatch he has to hold.

I just realized that all this time, I've been sharing my poetry using my phone's Notepad app... And my phone has a custom font that turns small o's into hearts... I am equally mortified and comforted by this.

I will admit...this was difficult to write... I cried somewhat while I was writing this. I'll be alright. #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub #BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP49 #January #poetry #poetryCommunity

#poetry #poems #poet #poetrycommunity #poem A poem: Something...

Woops, I slipped. I didn't mean to shade you. Liar? I know, I can be one... Denial is a river in Egypt. I don't know what I'm doing with this one 🤣 #AcrosticJanuary #wild @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

A month ago, I wrote a poem titled "Notepad" that shared this exact same prompt. But this time, I wanna be more direct with my anger towards this person compared to how I was before. I might translate this to Bicol later. #MPPrompt #poem #CPTSD #poetrycommunity #writer #WritingCommunity

Another double prompt I wrote today for someone I once knew that made me feel cold without experiencing winter... #BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP49 #horrorprompt#January #poetry #poetryCommunity

Apparently, we have a Filipino word for birch trees... It's called himbabao... So I wrote this one in both English and Bicolano, my local dialect. #WildWalkPrompt #birch #prompt #writesky #BlueSkyPoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub

I rewrote the entire poem in my native language, Central Bicol, a Bicolano language spoken in the areas around Naga City, Camarines Sur, and surrounding areas. #poem #poetrycommunity #Bicolano #Bicol #writer #WritingCommunity

Someone taught me love is grand. He's no longer here with me. I wanna honor him with this. #poem #poetrycommunity #prompt #BlueSkyPoets #love #WritingCommunity

Two prompts today! "I wish... you burned...too" #BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP49 #MPPrompt #January #poetry #poetryCommunity

Demons Everywhere and everything I look (inside you) Mastered Opportunity No Honor Simple #AcrosticJanuary #demons @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

I am not supposed to text while under the influence of sleep medication but here I am... I'm the person in the right btw. Translation in the Alt text

Let's pretend what he have will never end and while we are pretending let's make a pact to think fondly of each other afterward when we are done #poetry #poem #amwriting

I'm gonna go to my corner and cry now 🥲

This is what healing looks like. Peace and Japanese food.

When storms are forecasted to hit us, they feel like this. #AcrosticJanuary #storm @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

Allegories and caves aside, I wanna be free. #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #cave #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature

Nobody told me living in a house built on a mountain would freeze me completely. There's frost all over my garden, my pathway, my gate, my concrete wall fence...my grass....my windows... Everywhere! 😭 The sun is up and most of it is melting but now everything is muddy and wet and I hate it!

Clawed me! (until I caved and left) Left me! (until I departed bereft) A wound! (my heart and your theft) Wounds never healed six months out I'm still in pain #AcrosticJanuary #claw @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

Inside me is a Bunch of hushed flurries Keeping me still— Until I erupt again, Snowstorm and furies.. Keeping me alive Until I survive Storms imposed... on me #BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP49 #January #poetry #poetryCommunity

I suddenly had the urge to watch old Filipino superhero soap operas, and.... yeah.... watching them now hits different compared to me watching them when I was nine...ten... I can't tell anymore. They had creative ways to describe folklore however, so that was something.

I felt this....

I want fried chicken but I'm restricted to porridge for another day. 🥲

Imagine my whispers extolling your beauty #SixWords #poetry