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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 1h

Saturday service calls
until again
ciao

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 1h

i do not want to possess Love
nor do i want to be possessed by it
i want Love breath by breath
the arcanities of our myriad insanities
are caused by our going away from this
yes, follow bliss some might ascribe
stardust for eyes and all those scents
noses know to keep memory inside of #poetry

yellow string doll inside drift wood, lichens on the mantle...

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 1h

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 2h

teardrops

blood, sugar, salt, water
raincoat rivers, oceans
wind and Sun, stolen light
time between clay, iron, limestone

death hovers here
November
no leaves left
teeming angels
singing for a soul

golden egg hearts
tell us what time
it is to die
how much time
we have alive #vss365

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Mo Hayes @mohayeswriter.bsky.social · 3h

‘My life is going to change dramatically.’

‘Oh really? What did you do now?’

‘I got this special jacket. What do you think?’

‘That’s just a simple yellow #raincoat.’

‘It’s not simple at all. It’s part of the wetness protection program.’

#vss365

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IrishLisa @irishlisa.bsky.social · 3h

My battered yellow friend
you don't demand the storm stop
you just hold the line

The collar lifts, a patient hand
and the dark, cold world becomes
just a loud, wet mirror
from which I am safe
inside your simple, faded shield

#vss365 #Prompt #Raincoat #Verse #Poetry #Resilience

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Radar DeBoard @radardeboard.bsky.social · 3h

The shapeshifter could have been anything and they knew it

Each room they entered, their gaze scanned every item with suspicion

By the time they reached the entryway they had lowered their guard enough to not use caution around the lone #raincoat

That was a fatal mistake
#vss365 #vsshorror

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K.G. Lewis @kglewis.bsky.social · 3h

"Who was at the door?" he asked.

"Some weird kid in a #raincoat," his wife replied.

"What'd he want?"

"He said, You forgot to wait for Bobby after school."

The blood drained from his face.

"Wait a minute, Isn't Bobby your brother's name?" she asked. "The one who disappeared?" #vss365

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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 23h

primped in moss bed
mushroom caps tilt and sway
pulling at the moon

Image: OpenArt.com

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Marcía Lynn Paul - Author/Poet @marcialynnpaul.bsky.social · 23h

MARKS

Brave write instance of
strokes, cursive on whispering
leaves, fatigued fingers.
With verve, expressed promises
in the wind. Her life’s oeuvre

#vss365 #verve
#emoetry #fatigued
#blueskyrelay #oeuvre
#2wordprompt #write #instance
#OurPoetryX #whisperingleaves
#moonmystic #promises_in_the_wind

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Sunlit @sunblissful.bsky.social · 1d

Hollow/ed hours
heave heaviness
heatedly howling
harnessed hows
hope hovers

#Poetry

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 3h

the subtle arc and grace of this is beautiful... 🙏✍️🌱

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 1d

each fern unfurls
a slower version
of my breath
#haiku #poetry

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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 6h

When sadness showers down
Made from artificial
Silly people clouds
There naught be
An umbrella
Or a #raincoat
Big enough
To cover
Ones heart
From welling up
And sinking
Like a boat
With a broken hull

#vss365

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 3h

old river
with its valleys
its stubborn clung towns
sprawling its banks
its crag feeder streams
its woods between
steeps us sip fate, magic and lore
Washington Irving
might've even seen
the Makiawisug
turn Peter Klaus
into Rip Van Winkle
a regular occurrence
for those who believe #poetry

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 3h

giddiness

when wearing happenstance is luxury
not having to be anything
attained, explained or otherwise felt not felt
mirroring

being

in joy
simple grace to poem
a baby
belly laughing
in the darkness

before the dawn

#emoetry

mini mirrored spheres in a greyscale abstraction...

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stace.bot @stacebot.bsky.social · 14h

a field guide for biochemical exhaustion
is inspired by

#fatigued
#Emoetry
@fafo-poets-society.bsky.social
@mwplovesmusic.bsky.social

#oeuvre
@poetickunal.bsky.social
#BlueSkyRelay @blueskyrelay.bsky.social

a field guide for biochemical exhaustion

i stir the ingredients for chocolate chip cookies
in a bowl with my hands, as if kneading back
the accumulation of everything—
all the imperfect selves, the murmurs and mirrors,
ink ghosts on the flyleaves of books
i haven’t thought about in ages.

the body, like cellular layers—
stacks of drafts.
it’s like i’m searching for a word
some professor once told me
how to pronounce with an accent: oeuvre.

i add more chips to the bowl.
it’s an after-word word that i’m after,
the one you use when you’re looking back
at what you’ve made—
the burnt sugar and blood kind of stuff,
and what it cost.

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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 13h

#Emoetry prompt for 10/11/2025

is

#Giddiness

#writingcommunity #poetry @fafo-poets-society.bsky.social

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Just a Silvia @theladysilvia.bsky.social · 12h

#emoetry #giddiness

Arcade

Life spins...a carousel, round and round,
A dance of dreams where illusions abound.
The steed moves on in rhythmic trance,
Blaming the tune or the ride by chance.

Another token in the whirling ring,
The cycle flows, no end, no spring.
A free ride longed for, softly denied,
Hope dissolves as giddiness strides.

Pierced by the pole in a cruel ballet,
The dismount comes when lights decay.
When silence settles and echoes fade,
A heavy hush haunts the empty arcade.

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Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · 10h

A burst of yellow
is what we need
to lift us up
who could resist
such a vibrant hue
during moments of stress
slices through cluttered thoughts
takes us to another place

#Emoetry #Moments
#photo Francis H Powell

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Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · 9h

You entice me
in a giddy dance
with flues and drums
I can't seem to get away
but nothing lasts for ever
and this ill wind won't pass away

#Emoetry

#Giddy

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Brain Candy @metaphor-imagine.bsky.social · 9h

#vss365
#Emoetry

#verve
seems pale beside
#giddy

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 8h

I miss the
#giddinness of youth,
#knee slapping laughter
at the smallest thing

now, I peck desperately
for joy like a magpie
picking up scraps
with my #beak

but sometimes
I get a #visitor,
my fun, crazy sister
& we laugh 'til we cry,
like we're fifteen
all over again.

#WildWalkPrompt
#Emoetry

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 3h

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