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Bleu @bleuowl.bsky.social · 1d

Touch of Gray :

Compelled by nature,
A silver barn Owl, …. Cherished-
Beyond all Compare ~

#haiku #HaikuSaturday #poetry
#haikuchallenge #poet @bleuowl.bsky.social
Compel* Cherish* Compare*
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Bleu @bleuowl.bsky.social · 2d

“Scotland the Brave”: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Nurturing balance,
Sounds of Highland Bagpipes … Play-
A forlorn Ballad ~

youtu.be/7rLgAN-z8bo?si… #senryuy#Scotlandn#poetryry#haikuchallengeg#poetet @bleuowl.bsky.social
Balance* Ballad* Bagpipe*

Dark Isle Bagpiper: Scotland the Brave

YouTube video by Dark Isle Bagpiper

https://youtu.be/7rLgAN-z8bo?si…

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Bleu @bleuowl.bsky.social · 2d

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Bleu @bleuowl.bsky.social · 2d

#haikuchallenge

Hello, good day to everyone.💙🦉
Here are the (optional) #prompt
words for- 10/11-10/13 2025

10/11-Cherish
10/12-Compel
10/13-Compare

Definitions and notes are attached, just expand the thread to view them.

#haikuchallenge

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Bleu @bleuowl.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you for the inspiration. Your poem can stand on its own, I connect them only to demonstrate that the poem inspired my Tanka. Again, Thank you ~

🙏💙🦉🪶🤌

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Bleu @bleuowl.bsky.social · 5d

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Zach Bryan - Bad News [Unreleased]

YouTube video by Zach Bryan Archive

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Bleu @bleuowl.bsky.social · 5d

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Bleu @bleuowl.bsky.social · 5d

Welcome to all the BlueSky community.
Any variant of a given word is fine.
As always the words are only suggestions and optional at your own discretion. Be encouraged to express yourself freely and write your own haiku, senryu,tanka or short poem-
Whatever inspires you“In-Joy”~

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Bleu @bleuowl.bsky.social · 5d

#haikuchallenge

Hello, good day to everyone.💙🦉
Here are the (optional) #prompt
words for- 10/8-10/10 2025

10/08-Balance
10/09-Ballad
10/10-Bagpipe

Definitions and notes are attached, just expand the thread to view them.

#haikuchallenge

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Bleu @bleuowl.bsky.social · 6d

My pleasure 🙂

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Margaret Lee @margaretleeauthor.bsky.social · 26d

Excited for the publication of my first full-length work crafting poetry inspired by Sappho. Pre-order available now: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/sapp...

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Bleu @bleuowl.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you for following and supporting me.
I appreciate you.
Sapphic Sisters are welcome, surely.

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Bleu @bleuowl.bsky.social · 6d

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Dog Pack Plays in Giant Leaf Pile || ViralHog

YouTube video by ViralHog

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Bleu @bleuowl.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you so much.
I appreciate you, and I enjoyed your poem very much.
I wanted you to know that …
“I see you” and care what you have to say.~

🐦‍⬛🙏💙🦉🪶✍️

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C. Oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social · 6d

Inspired by @bleuowl.bsky.social
a #senryu for
#haikuchallenge #aesthetics
also for #poemsabout #mannequin

soulless prosthetics
of pre-approved aesthetics
trapped in plastic mire

#Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

Bleu @bleuowl.bsky.social · 7d

Minds Eye :

Soulless posed statues ,
Being trapped within … themselves-
Fashioned #Mannequins ~

Adorned adoration … for-
The only thing they look at~

#tanka #senryu #poetry
#haikuchallenge #poets @bleuowl.bsky.social

C. Oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social · 9d

For #PoemsAbout #Mannequin
a little rushed up piece… but didn’t want to skip another week.
For hosts @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Looking forward to reading all the fabulous pieces.
#Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

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Bleu @bleuowl.bsky.social · 7d

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Cal Men’s Rowing 4/5V8+ raced their own 2N8+ in Newport Beach, CA #rowing #crew #calbears

YouTube video by The Rowing Channel

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Bleu @bleuowl.bsky.social · 7d

Just a thought … 💭

Timing meets Opportunity-

Together.~ 😎

Go 🐻

Photo: calcrew.com

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Bleu @bleuowl.bsky.social · 7d

“ Land of the free, … Home of the brave.”~

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 7d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Bleu @bleuowl.bsky.social · 7d

Minds Eye :

Soulless posed statues ,
Being trapped within … themselves-
Fashioned #Mannequins ~

Adorned adoration … for-
The only thing they look at~

#tanka #senryu #poetry
#haikuchallenge #poets @bleuowl.bsky.social

C. Oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social · 9d

For #PoemsAbout #Mannequin
a little rushed up piece… but didn’t want to skip another week.
For hosts @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Looking forward to reading all the fabulous pieces.
#Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

Mannequins That Wear Menace
- C. Oulens

Mannequins of designer dreams
High on pedestals
Rightly placed
so they can look down upon
from their vantage point
my wayward flab

I’m not bothered I don’t mind
I don’t stare back at them
They may have a right to frown
(though they’d rather die than do that
for fear of fine lines and crow feet)
They seem harmless anyway

They’ve worked hard for
that chiselled shape
I on the contrary have not
earned their wardrobes
neither through god’s flawed design
nor through my own efforts

And believe it or not
though I may not
openly (shh) admit (after all,
who says they love sour grapes!)
I’d happily accept a designer bod
if it was sent to me gift-wrapped

But I’m wary of those
other types—those beheaded
mannequins walking in
silicon heads—dubiously thin
Transplants
on toughened lards

swaggering on the weight of
factory-churned or limited edition
designer dreams—smirking with
sly menace at my artisan
spindle hums or at unravelling
of my wayward spins

That’s when I wonder if
I should don a Snow White-
in-Black cape and crack
some minor magique mirrors
tuning up some elfin cackles
pinched (shh again) from friends

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Bleu @bleuowl.bsky.social · 8d

Aww Tre’…🙂‍↕️🙂‍↔️

🙏💙🪶☺️🫠🫠

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⋆｡˚☆⋆Tré⋆☆˚｡⋆ @tregallery.com · 8d

✨️🌬🌲🌳🌲🌬✨️

Relax

Zoetic dawn
Fog of a thousand breaths
Unwinds daybreak

#BlueSkyArtShow #Relax
#EastCoastKin
#haikuchallenge #Zoetic

#haiku #俳句 #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Forest #Wolftwin #Fall #Landscape

This is a landscape nature photo I took this morning of fog coming up over the forest. As the sun rose, rays of light and layers of mist curled through the cedar, pine, and poplar. In the distance, five crows scattered from left to right, just over the hazy mountains.

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