the art in the re-start; the bless in the mess

Memorial #poem #poetry #writing

may this season transform your life & may flowers spring from the places you thought were broken forever

“If I wander til I die, may I know whose hand I’m in. If my home I never find, then let me live again.” Peter Bradley Adams

Glorious image Of aureate syzygy, Shining alignment. #firewords280 #AureateSyzygy #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @artinwords.bsky.social

My cat died today. Suddenly. Very traumatically. I can’t have kids, and he was literally my everything. He followed me everywhere, really. I can’t believe he just won’t be here to do our routine in the morning, or any other morning. I thought we had so much more time. 💔

A token to she who keeps grites as the keys inside naivety's plushies; whose writes are all lyrically gushing notations, depths of the oceans in sentence formation; whose music has managed evasion of a shallow nation. Her place is a heaven wherein ‘in’ is art. #bravewrite #moonmystic #vssfantasy

Well-worn paths can leave us hungry, scenes picked clean of healthy fungus Constant borborygmus can draw us to ingredients that slowly leak poisonous things; mortal rapidity crashing straight into starving while eating the kryptonite of living art. #bravewrite #firewords280 #OurPoetryX

Lamb storms are like spring rain on blossoms— soft at first, but heavy enough to bend every branch of the heart. #firewords280 #prompt lamb storms #PoetryCommunity #poetry

Exaggerated Appelations, sincere as Satan or Santa. #firewords280 #ExaggeratedAppelations #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @artinwords.bsky.social

Yes — “The older I get, the more I realize, I don’t want a busy life. I want a deep life. Slow mornings. Focused work. Calm people. Meaningful progress. Good books. A quiet mind at night. Nothing flashy. Nothing trendy. Just a life that feels good to live. Depth over noise. That'll do.“ Karun Pal

Size defeats us, this Complex macrocosm of Untold potential. #firewords280 #ComplexMacrocosm #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @artinwords.bsky.social

pockets of quiet she's resting in her word nest built from sweet longing #poetry #senryu

She is against a brick wall. A sum of faults and woes, all volcanic dominoes to fall if she swivels positions. She can't escape the mission. Over the wall is a great disappearance. a limit no human surpasses. She can make peace with the ashes to ashes, or panic ‘til lifeless, dead gone.

Our view via train is a blurry racing through anarchy, country whizzing til the city, the sea, all the peaks, bleed to one. Hard to see sun amid queasy, tricky half-realities spilling our coffee + putting opposing minds to sleep; dizzying fantasies, credos staining every seat. #bravewrite #foxprose

Flight (2014) oil painting on canvas, by artist Nick Fedaeff

to change your life, you don't start by moving mountains. you start by dismantling the words that hold you back from what's already reaching for you. more often than not, it isn't the mountain that stands in your way, it's the story you keep telling yourself about why you'll never make it to the top

chilly spring morning seething wind yammers alone mourning dove asks why #poetry #micropoetry #haiku #emoetry #seething #prompt

She keeps treading water, unable to swim. Durable flotsam will always be him. Her anchor, a ship, her salvation ashore. Her anchor, a grip that now lives in her core. Her anchor, her grounding. Her anchor, his weight. His face was her strength. Now her strength is at stake.

tall pine surrendering to the wind #inkMine

Springtime at the Arch (2025) Oil on linen, by artist Daniel Heidkamp

Lip service artists leave turpentine kisses across symbolic canvases, mocking halcyon processes with tampered displays of the trashiest kind. Converting a genuine, bold creativity to dripping verbosity only; non-sticking paint for the empty exhibits adorning their halls. #bravewrite #firewords280

walking the rows of nature’s prose a rainbow of sweet magnolia plants a healthy fungus as the dirt on my hands spurs on our creativity yet all told the marigold offers the incoherent testimony ever flowing from your lips #366FF #BedroomEyes #firewords280 #BraveWrite #loveletters #WeirdMicro

shedding layers, defense mechanisms to be capable of loving, trusting, living #bedroomeyes #firewords280 #poetry

Missing when the world Was steadily progressive, Not so long ago. #firewords280 #SteadilyProgressive #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @artinwords.bsky.social

Found this in my notes today — "Spend your life doing what you love. Be focused and disciplined. Collaborate." (Good advice)

Spring Puddles acrylic painting on wood, by artist Cedar Lee (United States)

Nocked urges tend to foment snoozing passions, tug in endless fashion until they awaken a safe hibernation, force us to forage past sleep; leap out of lethargy, keep dedication. We walk w. intention again, arrows pointed at every "wanted no more." #bravewrite #firewords280 #foxprose #moonmystic

Aggressions could collect uncleanly, ugliness leaking like low-level effluence, alluding in appearance; alluring thirst to taste test e.stuary's excrement - d.angerous disease. #bravewrite #firewords280

I can't get caught up in the brambles of external gardens, staying stuck in places I really don't belong in, allowing what grows ever determine the worth of MY garden again.

#March1 #Poem from #prompts #BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP51 Verge #Emoetry Bitter #OurPoetryX Fierce #HorrorPrompt Flames #Firewords280 duplicit commonalities #Foxprose prelude to insight passes #2wordprompt publish & extend #poetrysky #poetry #writesky #poetrycommunity

Sullied by mildew, Gossamer wings fell afoul Of human-made grime. #firewords280 #MidewWings #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @artinwords.bsky.social

#wip #writingsociety #writer #CharacterCrafting #writerssociety

lately I just want to exist in a way that feels natural. no over explaining, no performance, just moving through life in a way that makes sense to me. slower, softer, more intentional. less about proving, more about being

#OurPoetryX @OurPoetryX Prompt for 7 March -Sharp intake- That gasp of breath meant to flood your body with oxygen to help it act, think, and react. The suddenness hits me… how quickly the subconscious awakens, how quickly we become hyper-alert. From the vault: Adore

Remember when we cancelled cable to save money? Now I pay more than cable ever charged me to subscribe to 12 streaming apps and still rent the one thing I actually want.

Ahh when the springtime air hits! The #firewords280 prompt theme for March 2026 is Weird Science. 🍀 🧪 🍄‍🟫 Feel free to use the pairings as a phrase OR separately! Include the hashtag for RP consideration. No AI or quote posts. Thanks in advance.

Set your pen where thought hesitates, where silence coils around half-formed words. Slaying struggle in the tangle of sentences, clarity rises like slow, patient moonlight, spilling across snow-covered slates of possibility. #firewords280 #prompt slaying struggle #PoetryCommunity #poetry

We spend so much time on impermanent ventures, chasing external conditions, convincing ourselves that we can't spare a second on inner improvement or growth.

"So don't let the world bring you down. Not everyone here is that fucked up and cold. Remember why you came, and while you're alive, experience the warmth before you grow old." Incubus 🎶

drink up making a flower vase out of a wine bottle Basho

Feb 27 #Poem from #Prompts #bedroomeyesprompt is this love #poemsabout spent #emoetry affected #2wordprompt artifact & threat #ourpoetryx merciful #BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP50 Veer #retroartprompt search of my treasure #firewords280 sacred fulfillment #foxprose our garden inferno #freeverse #poetry

slow living is about aligning, not proving

Her sensory underload comes from the motions minus the sacred fulfillment; repetitive actions computed as merciful, but muted. Monotonous movement that lacks, lax in input. Foot after foot after foot, no enjoyment. Auto-pilot output saving effort, wasting time. #bravewrite #firewords280 #OurPoetryX

Hey friends, how do you stay creative? Today, some thoughts on artmaking, attention, and how we see the world. LMK what you think! www.flakphoto.news/p/how-do-you...

#pale pastels the colours of spring of renewal, new life when the earth awakes from its long winter sleep and from somber grey bursts a rainbow of hues #vss365 #poetry #writing #writingcommunity

Rekindling ash: an impossible task we ask of ourselves every day. Fire isn't made this way, precursory to burning. Who are we to try reversing nature's determining process? Divinity laughs at resistance. Insanity, by definition rubs in the sin we're too stubborn to change. #firewords280 #OurPoetryX

"She pictures the broken glass. Pictures the steam. Pictures a soul with no leak at the seam." Peter Gabriel 🎶

Sometimes, second chances come wrapped in the ugliest packages. Sometimes old dreams become nightmares after we track down the entrances. Sometimes what we needed isn't what we wanted. Sometimes our wants are misguided, eclipsed by our counterfeit gods.