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.

And when the sky comes to life, how can you not wanna share that with someone

Today's weird #poem Prompts: #emoetry illicit #retorartprompt immense delight #firewords280 pale differences #foxprose a trusted blade's thrust #vss365 kiss #vssdaily lovers #bspp50 uncertainty #ourpoetryx bend a little #2wordprompt under/route #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #rhymes #musings

She was tired, like a woman who lives.

I enjoy coffee on special occasions Like "being alive" & "existing"

to normalize 'love' as an action, instead of a person... place... thing

splendour in the skies mutagenic emotions subject to change as colours awaken the slumbering city #firewords280 mutagenic emotions #poetry #smallpoem

#PromptCombo #Poem #bedroomeyesprompt if you see me walking by #emoetry ferocity #2wordprompt urban/return #bravewrite garnet #blueskypoets #bspp50 resonance #moonmystic a bit of you #wildwalkprompt daffodil #retroartprompt release the arrow #firewords280 blatant mission #foxprose rain on the moors

Where they claim garnets and rubies, she only sees bloody demise; crimson lies spreading, while battle cries disguise viscous colors as riches. Vicious, blatant missions, saddled with resistance, are marketed into existence to limit what healers can do. #bravewrite #firewords280

I refuse to base beliefs on past indoctrination, or ignore the conscience that tells me it doesn’t add up.

BlueSky #firewords280 writers: due to my own user errors, I wasn’t receiving all notifications, and only discovered so many of your poignant poems today. Your future writes won’t have such lengthy delays before being acknowledged. Now more than ever, art matters! Keep up the fabulous work. 🖤

In winter, the heavens disclose spilling success: stars rekindled, the moon lifted toward fullness, simplicity rising into exalted light. #firewords280 #prompt spilling success #PoetryCommunity #poetry

Longing falls to magic's bent will. Who will take a stand with freshened quill and end this ache of what life breaks with a penned potion of mutagenic emotions, moving actions from thought to ought. To what will be, if we'll only see. #vss365 #retroartprompt #firewords280 #foxprose #blueskypoetry

if only we had heeded the premonitions ... #firewords280 heeded premonitions #poetry #poetrycommunity

The joy of unbecoming what the world told me to be, and listening to me.

Misshapen mind of Mutagenic emotion, Constantly shifting. #firewords280 #MutagenicEmotion #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @artinwords.bsky.social

“Maybe my inability to adapt to the world is not because I’m crazy but because I’m paying attention. Maybe it’s not insane to reject the world as it is… Maybe it’s exactly right to be a little crazy. Maybe the truth is: world, you need my poetry.” Glennon Doyle ✍🏼

let today be the start of something new. let it be the day you stop dreaming & begin living

She smashed her goals out of the park; bashed the whole stronghold apart with a hallmark, beautiful maneuver. A prodigal earthmover, sour balls viewed her as pinata master; blasted far from her sweet zone. #bravewrite #firewords280

For the #FebruArty theme of #flock... I have much much bird art but this is the only one that comes to mind that features multiple birds #art #BirdArt #birds

Plagiarism will never be an acceptable form of artistic expression, and there's no excuse that will suddenly cause it to be acceptable.

“I began to widen. I was unlearning the white-washed version of American history I’d been indoctrinated into believing. I was discovering that I was not who I imagined to myself to be. I was learning that my country was not what I had been taught it was.” Untamed by Glennon Doyle 📚

“Privilege is being born on third base. Ignorant privilege is thinking you’re there because you hit a triple. Malicious privilege is complaining that those starving outside the ballpark aren’t waiting patiently enough.” Untamed by Glennon Doyle; page 181 excerpt 📚

New month, new book picks! What’s everyone reading month two of 2026? #booksky #February

We didn't lose positions via valid deficits. Calls for automation: plutocratic reasons. Humans need fair workplace treatment. Healthcare. Retirement. AI needs none of it, fattening wallets. Working all hours. Not threatening power. Leaders knocked us down the ladder unless we could pay to hold on.

Aphrodite launched from Hephaistos' device chain of broken hearts who would have ever thought of catapulting deities? #firewords280 #tanka #poetry #poetrycommunity @artinwords.bsky.social

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

is it seasonal depression or are we simply out of alignment with nature & being forced to be productive in a season that calls for rest & rejuvenation

Some don't fit into the puzzle because they weren't cut out to be a missing piece, but to create new beauty; weren't meant to lock in dutifully, trapped inside somebody's frame.

Annie Herzig (illustration, c. 2021)

“I looked hard at… my entire life, and asked: How much of this was my idea? Do I truly want any of this, or is this what I was conditioned to want? Which of my beliefs are my own creation, and which were programmed into me?… Who was I before I became who the world told me to be?” Glennon Doyle ✍🏼

Grief The ball gets bigger, Eclipsing the sun, What comes next? I don’t really know. Just put one step in front of The other And pray. #poetry #writing #poetrycommunity

I have noticed people feel a type of way when you choose a quieter path. When you do not want the limelight, do not want to perform online, do not want to become a brand, or adopt society’s idea of success, it unsettles them.

removing your presence from places you don't feel loved, valued or respected is top tier self care

Snipping the strings, this Traitorous puppeteer has Seen enough dancing. #firewords280 #TraitorousPuppeteer #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @artinwords.bsky.social

Her soul veers this way, soul veers that; held by the fact that she lacks true release, and traitorous phalanges cannot grasp peace. She meets a despondency, tangled in puppetry. Needs the sharp reality to cut her free one final time. #firewords280 #vss365