To bloom, despite.

Please take a moment to engage in mindful breathing and find calm in the present moment. 🌬️ Embrace inner peace. 💕

everything has its own cycle. endings, beginnings & growth. lean into the flow

Sundays show us glimpses of how life could be if we didn't know bondage to bosses or clocks.

Plenty of shoddy workmanship occurred out there during the moral construction. So we're not out of these woods yet per the sylvan gumption! The dice roll, either a deadly seven instead of a lucky one! It's all out of control, quickened corruption? #GrimScribe, #firewords280, #PoisonPen, #366FF

The trees themselves pitched In to help, sylvan gumption Helped to stem the flow. #firewords280 #SylvanGumption #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @artinwords.bsky.social

Paternal interests always left messes instead of a home. She crumbled in hells not her own. Stumbled alone, in dysfunction. Wrestled his demons to fix broken pieces. Collected the acumen needed, greeted a luminous life. Her tea lights do not invite strangers claiming they're fathers to stay.

Firewords280 is springing into May! This month's theme is Sage Advice. 🌸🦉 Feel free to use each pairing as a phrase OR separately! Include #firewords280 and @ARCAngela0519 to be sure I see what you've written. No AI or quote posts for RP consideration. Happy creating to all!

Reality’s beastly. Nature receives a short stick. Humans inflict far more damage via flick of wrist than the environment's fury. See a hand exploring, puncturing floatation; necessity barely a reason. So many fingers are brazen, injure a person for fun. #bravewrite #firewords280 #foxprose #vssmagic

When people ask, "How can I promote my art when the world is going to shit" I hear that as, "How do I have the right to make art when the world is going to shit" And... We need art more than ever during such times. You need to be making art more than ever during such times.

I'm looking for creative people who are still hanging out here on Bluesky. If that's you, drop me a line!

go on. bloom, baby. you're headed somewhere beautiful

Night Swim (2024) Oil painting on panel, by artist Nadezda

Dreaming of a world where talent is the trend, the internet isn't illusion, and affluent humans contribute to bettering the planet, instead of hoarding excess while others are desperate to thrive.

promote yourself to healer. saver. influencer. teacher. leader. prime investor. firm believer. protector. partner. ruler. repay yourself through your own love.

Maybe the craters are moon scars. Maybe our pain's not the center. Maybe the stars fall and wonder why we stand under, don't bother to do something other than watch.

cold shoulder lingers- kalopsia unravels, frames fall out of place. reinforced, i redraw the line; truth tears through what i once held. i call into the quiet - distance answers #tanka #monoku #firewords280 #poetry

Mispent youth, entire Early twenties was one long, Nasty fylleangst. #firewords280 #NastyFylleangst #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @artinwords.bsky.social

Glitzy stoating, not A stitch visible, coated In a fine glitter. #firewords280 #GlitzyStoating #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @artinwords.bsky.social

Spring Colorful Bouquet (2024) oil painting by artist Hayk Miqayelyan

A butterfly lands on a finger. Bees linger, pollenate flowers. Forests whisper answers. We deliver poisons. Fortuitous sunblinks on oceans exonerate pollution hidden underwater. We taste fear, forget we're the monster. Declare a god's there, but take over. Who controls the stars? #bravewrite

"You can't tell that you're bigger than the sea that you're sinking in. And you don't know what you've got, but you've got it at your fingertips. You've got it in you." BANNERS 🎶

nourish your body honor your soul protect your peace

Indeed — “Each image made by the camera is a silent prayer to being there." Richard Quinney

The idea that we have to just suffer on through 'til we earn the right to happiness, success, respect, and rest? Absolute nonsense to keep us in check, working for elitists while they all live their very best lives. Don't subscribe to lies. Live for yourself while there's time.

Cobweb bottom cocktails, Arachnids unseen until sipped. Preened celebs swallow with gossamer lips, contagion transformation. Ventriloquist puppets with thunderous beats. Creepy crawly underneath. Sliding, leaky rainbows. Pots of gold, infested. Magnetic infection. Gold sting. #bravewrite #foxprose

Letty, after letty, after inconvenient letty. Enlightenment, heavy, but blearly. Divergently rising means capsizing; trying, but dying again and again. Sputtering breath at the last brutal second, convergent in effort, yet never reward. #bravewrite #firewords280 #foxprose #OurPoetryX

Tulips White 2 oil stick painting on paper, by artist Rakhmet Redzhepov

It wasn't easy, Ceding frigidity for The eternal flame. #firewords280 #CedingFrigidity #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @artinwords.bsky.social

I used to be good at rembering things now I’m undecided, uninvited to the party with pretty laughing people; Remember I was open to change, the third third version was not acceptable; My immortal identity tattooed on my arm, a thing in itself, sin born of sin, avoided, disconcerting #poetry

#OurPoetryX @OurPoetryX Prompt for 6 April -Open to change- We know it’s always coming, but are we open to change? It’s easy to stick with what we know, what’s comfortable. But we need to let things go to welcome in new things. From the vault: Encourage

I just want to live my best creative life. Happily pour out my time into a happy grind, enjoy all the coffee shop vibes, nature, music, reading time, spiritual quests on the side, with genuine friends. Artsy scenes. Passion in everything, not in between. It feels like a pipe dream today.

With the way everyone ignores book threads, you’d think books were fully extinct…

trusting the unseen growth. reconnecting with the natural world. learning to be softer with what’s changing within me. knowing that every beginning is a seed, waiting to grow

What’s everyone reading this month? #BookSky

The might of us mightn't cause ruckus, nor be the focus of any applause, nor show its claws in the toughest of moments. Maybe the mightiest focus on closeness and softness, silence the violence with dances through perilous pain; only the rain to bear witness to strength. #firewords280 #moonmystic

The sky wept razor Droplets, acid rain, cutting Stone, shredding metal. #firewords280 #RazorDroplets #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @artinwords.bsky.social

spring acrylic painting on canvas, by artist Claire Biette (France)

april, show me a version of life where i'm not constantly recovering

In scanty attire, she set thoughts afire. Some felt warmer veneration. Others offered condemnation, intended to scar her w. hatred. All of it, every sentiment, razor droplet traction. She only had interest in self-satisfaction; mysterious attraction to one opinion: dreams. #firewords280 #moonmystic

Warm weather is finally here! The #firewords280 prompt theme for April 2026 is Rainy Day Parade. ☔️ 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.

Hummingbird vibrations, due to a coffee shop residence. Caramel crests of caffeination leave her with yogic resistance, but energetic opalescence. Her legacy isn't just stillness. It's frothed with oscillation. A latte creativeness lives in the thrum. #bravewrite #firewords280 #foxprose #vssfantasy

Yogic resistance To the swole bro goon squad, core Strength hums in the bones. #firewords280 #YogicResistance #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @artinwords.bsky.social

Love Poems Acrylic, Oil and Pigments on Canvas by artist Bat Ella

A life touched by loss is not ruined, just altered; new pictures retaining old colors, just along the edges; bleeding into sections, regardless of their absence in all the subsequent scenes.

notice the moments that bring you peace & choose more of them

Failed simulation, Hypothesis still valid, To the drawing board! #firewords280 #SimulationHypothesis #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @artinwords.bsky.social

"I've been worryin' that my time is a little unclear. I've been worryin' that I'm losing the ones I hold dear. I've been worryin' that we all live our lives in the confines of fear." Ben Howard 🎶

She wanted to scuttle in orphic excitement, move into titanic destruction 20K meters sunken. Be one w. crustaceans who spluttered enjoyment when opposite outcomes presented. Live benthic, repurpose the wreckage. She wanted a palace regardless of riches in ruinous graves. #bravewrite #firewords280

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