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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦

@jempoetry.bsky.social

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DE House Poet Laureate📝24 DDOA poetry Fellowship📜Social justice advocate⚖️Survivor:Plain-dressing community🗣️Always curious & learning📚 Random ADHD spiciness w/cPTSD plot twists. Aspiring forest crone🌳🧙‍♀️she/her #BlueCrew 🇺🇦 www.jempoetry.com

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · Feb 11

No one cares until it’s too late.

Until warnings become reality.
Until the fire reaches their door.
Until the system fails someone they love.

But justice & change are needed before the breaking point.

Justice demands more than words, it demands action. So, let’s do the work.

‘let us not be scared of the work because it's hard let us move the mountain because the mountain must move.’
Danez Smith

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 3h

But they are just as smart and trainable. My sister used to raise them for police training. I know collies are used as ‘herders’ for kids who run. But as an adult, I’ve always wondered how well the gentle Shepherd pups would’ve worked with autistic kids. They make great guide dogs.

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John F Leech🦋💙 @jfleech3.bsky.social · 3h

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 3h

Goodnight 🦋

May the path before you curve gently, and may you never walk alone.
For the forest knows your name,
and the mycelium beneath your feet remembers the way home.

A path gently curves in the green woods - where light and shadow play.

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 5h

I fell in love with ‘Waiting for Godot’ my junior year in HS. Below is the proof - I still have it. In college, I wrote a paper titled: Waiting for Godot: A String Quartet. Seeing it on Broadway’s a pipe dream for me. However, if you get a chance to see it? Please fill me in on all the deets!☺️

An old ‘Literary Cavalcade’ with a black and white picture of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot.’

Corner of the mag with a Jan. 4, 1984 date & a phone number I’ve no clue what even the area code would have been for it. 🤷🤣

A photo of part of the play. Paper yellowed with age. Asterisk and lines. A handwritten note on the bottom: Vladimir restates. Estragon stays the same.

Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 18h

My pic is nothing compared to the actual work where the gold shimmers. Just astounding - each piece✨

Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 1d

Goodnight 🦋

Check out the Freiman Stoltzfus gallery in Lancaster. www.freimanstoltzfus.com

Cathedral arches painted behind paper white flowers. Gold behind and traces of music.

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 1d

Neoregelia bringin’ sexy back.
It was at the Philly Flower Show in the red light district. 😉
#ColorADay #PinkMon

A photo of a plant and a sign identifying it as ‘Neoregelia “Sexy Pink.”’ It was under special lighting which made it bright pink.

Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 1d

Gripe of the day. First world & privileged problems.

I hate Google Docs. Please don’t use them for surveys, etc.

Carry on.

Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 1d

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Jeff Day @thejeffday.bsky.social · 2d

Sunshine Through the Sails...
Is the #BlueSkyArtShow theme still #glow? If so, I think this fits. This is the centerpiece #sculpture in #Kelowna, BC. It's called 'The Sails'. I sold a print of this to a resident there for their home. #photography #ClassicMono #art #myart #bc #blackandwhite #bnw

This is Kelowna's centerpiece sculpture. I liked this image as the sculpture framed the sunshine rays and shadows on the hills in an artful way.

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 1d

2 AM & the howling wind keeps setting off the motion detectors.

My heated blanket turned to ‘high.’

2 AM & my aching body keeps reminding me of how much it hurts.

My brain turned to ‘Tired, no sleep.’

Waiting.
Waiting for the need to sleep
to eventually outweigh the pain.

Exaggerated lighting of blue, green & purple on a ceiling.

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Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the art challenge cheat sheet for October 13-19! Enjoy!

The host list and posts from hosts are in the comments.

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#dailyart #art #traditionalart #painting #drawing #onlybeautifulthings #artchallenge #artprompt

Art Challenges: October 13–19

Monday, October 13
#BlueSkyMonday (anything blue)
#MacroMonday (any macro)
#MountainMonday (mountains)
#MinimalMonday (minimalism)
#ColorADay (#PinkMon)
#Spooktober (#TrickOrTreat)

Tuesday, October 14
#RockinTuesday (rocks)
#TidesOutTuesday
#TagTuesday (graffiti/street art)
#AnimalArtTuesday
#ColorADay (#BlueTue or #CyanTue)
#Spooktober (#cobweb)

Wednesday, October 15
#WaterfallWednesday
#WindowsOnWednesday
#WackyWednesdayArt (odd/unusual)
#ColorADay (#RedWed)
#Spooktober (#witch)

Thursday, October 16
#HumansOfBlueSky (people)
#UrbanGaze (anything urban)
#PalacesAndGardens (#stairs)
#ColorADay (#YellowThu)
#Spooktober (#darkness)

Friday, October 17
#scape (any kind of scape)
#FishyFriday
#ForestFriday
#FoodOnFriday
#FlyDay (critters that fly)
#ColorADay (#BWFri)
#Spooktober (#alien)

Saturday, October 18
#BNWmacro
#ColorADay (#GreenSat)
#BlueSkyArtShow (#vertical)
#Spooktober (#mummy)

Sunday, October 19
#Stunday (stunning)
#ImageAndVerse (photos with
poems written by you or anyone)
#BNWmacro
#ColorADay (#OrangeSun)
#SelfPortraitSunday (#ForgottenCorner)*
#Spooktober (#SeaMonster)

ALL WEEK
#31DaysOfHalloween (anything fall, Halloween, or spooky)
#ArtYear (any art)
#ArtOfSelfPortraiture
#BirdOfTheDay (see Alan H or Rob Crank for daily prompt)
#ClassicMono (monochrome)
#smArtist (purposeful art of any theme)
#AlphabetChallenge (#WeekPforPink)
#SensoryArt (#transportation)

*Pose in a location you’ve always overlooked

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 2d

Oodles and oodles. lol

Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a three-dog-night, but not in degrees! They decided to lay themselves in a line formation on my legs. They shall soon be moved.

Aside: It’s not me they love so much as the heated blanket on my legs. 🤣

Goodnight, BlueSky🌙

Three mini-goldendoodles lying in a row to the bottom of a bed.

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 3d

My fairy house blended right in☺️ Yes, I wore wings🧚 And the Maypole may not have been done perfectly, but it was perfectly done💛
@adkinsarboretum.bsky.social
#fairies #FairyHouse

A fairy house of pine cones, leaves, and dried flowers blending into the leafy background.

A bridge into a forest with lime green paper lanterns at the entrance to the Fairy House Trail.

A lady with white hair wearing green wings.

The top of a Maypole. There were definitely some creative steps, as seen by the unevenness, as many were learning on the spot. But, oh, so fun to watch!

Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 3d

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 3d

🤣🤣Yes. And there was an entire field of them. The ground was very sparkly.

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 3d

Let the Fairyfest begin! Rain or shine🧚

Older woman with white hair, sparkles and green and gold make-up.

Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 3d

Gossamer-white & weightless, milkweed’s floss glows.

Many times we overlook quiet magic found in the shadows of larger wonders.

#glow #BlueSkyArtShow

A milkweed seed in full ‘bloom’ with its floss glowing white in the sun.

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Loretta Robinson @lorettarobinson.bsky.social · 3d

Sunset Beach in #Vancouver, Canada. Public art of whale ribs.

#BlueSkyArtShow #glow #EastCoastKin #Photography

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 3d

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As a ‘feral’ & CSA wounded child that roamed a 600 acre farm next to a 5000 acre state forest, it was where I found the ‘magic’ in life. Where safety lay. No one assaulted me, made fun of me, nor had ...

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 4d

Wish God still used the mythical lightning bolt…

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John F Leech🦋💙 @jfleech3.bsky.social · 4d

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 4d

Oooh, watch out for the scary antifa animal crossing in war ravaged Portland 😂

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 4d

Brigid’s Hope: my fairy house for @adkinsarboretum.bsky.social Fairyfest. Pink petals in remembrance of my friend &hearth tender, Hope Anne. A bird’s nest for my Uncle Francis, an avid birder who made birding trails at the Maust Memorial and maintained the birdhouses. Weaving mourning into beauty.

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