Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by life of a poet

Paul’s Pics @paulspics.bsky.social · 1d

After a full day of intense wind and rain on the west coast of Ireland the storm is suddenly pushed out to sea and the late evening sun kisses the Cliffs of Moher

#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow
#Photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky
#LandscapePhotography

A rain storm is moving out revealing a warm sun glowing off the cliff face

2 9 97

life of a poet @lifeofapoet.bsky.social · 19h

RIP. Saturday. October 11, 2025.

#dianekeaton

2

life of a poet @lifeofapoet.bsky.social · 3d

Imagination. Words. Images. Story. Tapping into places never seen before. All’s good today. Thursday. Saw a butterfly glide a spider’s web.

#poetry
#poet
#blueskypoetry
#writers
#writingcommunity
#imagination
#writing

6

life of a poet @lifeofapoet.bsky.social · 5d

Agreed.

life of a poet @lifeofapoet.bsky.social · 8d

Nothing like a breakthrough. Poem works. Meaning clear. Cadence beating. Saturday. Good. Morning.

#writing
#blueskypoetry
#poetry
#poet
#writingcommunity
#October
#writinglife

7

life of a poet @lifeofapoet.bsky.social · 10d

RIP. Wednesday. October 1. 2025.

#janegoodall

1 4 22

life of a poet @lifeofapoet.bsky.social · 11d

For me the path has never been perfectly clear. I’ve had to look for clues. Pay attention.
And trust. Tuesday. Last day of September. Fire in woodstove. Wind howling. Much gratitude.

#poetry
#poet
#writingcommunity
#fire
#writing
#journey
#mindful

1 9

life of a poet @lifeofapoet.bsky.social · 13d

Been thinking about the magic. of books. How when you open a book and start reading shit just happens. Inspiration. Learning. Fascination. Encouragement. Support. Solutions. Engagement. Understanding. Empathy. Critical thinking. Analysis. Magic.

#magic
#book
#books
#writingcommunity
#blueskypoetry

5

life of a poet @lifeofapoet.bsky.social · 13d

Exactly.

life of a poet @lifeofapoet.bsky.social · 13d

Always so nervous when I make a submission but feeling good about these three poems.
Sunday. Wildfire. Smoke skies.
Was called a hothead today. Been liking my dreams.

#aries
#poet
#poetry
#writingcommunity
#art
#writinglife
#blueskypoetry
#books

1 1 5

life of a poet @lifeofapoet.bsky.social · 14d

Looking inside. Small opening of light surrounded by shadow. New project moving slowly. Mindful. Finally. Saturday. Water still running through canal. The air is still.

#writingcommunity
#poetry
#poet
#blueskypoetry
#bluesky
#writing
#saturday
#september

Photo I took, barn window, Pete French Ranch, Harney County, Oregon

5

life of a poet @lifeofapoet.bsky.social · 15d

Three poems ready to submit. Friday. Setting intention to re-envision life moving forward. Not for indulgence, but survival. For survival. I think everyone knows what I mean.

#writingcommunity
#blueskypoetry
#write
#writinglife
#poetry
#poet
#aries

4

life of a poet @lifeofapoet.bsky.social · 17d

Went to buy some new running shoes 10 days ago, couldn’t decide @ $49.99 went back 4 days ago (just six days later) @ $114.99 …..but there’s absolutely no inflation….nuttin’ to worry about.

2

life of a poet @lifeofapoet.bsky.social · 17d

It runs so deep. Ands it’s so evil. Seriously. What are we going to do?

#today

2

life of a poet @lifeofapoet.bsky.social · 17d

The way the clouds covered the sun. Light to dark on the brick laid road. Remember. The two of us on bikes through the morning streets of Loreto. As we did before. Laughing. Roosters crow. Wind blows along the malecón. Echo of a lost dream.

#writingcommunity
#writing
#write
#poetry
#poet
#mexico

2

life of a poet @lifeofapoet.bsky.social · 19d

Every bone has a story. Tuesday. Challenged. Looking up at September blue wishing I could do more. Today’s word, “knotty.”

#writingcommunity
#writing
#write
#poet
#poetry
#bones

1

life of a poet @lifeofapoet.bsky.social · 20d

Sun almost. Outside, dog sniffs, cars pass, tires hum loud, east through Dry Canyon. Hum miles away. Hum countries away. Hum continents away. Hum and whir and screech across this precious Earth telling the Universe: we don’t care.

#monday
#writing
#write
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#blueskypoetry

5

life of a poet @lifeofapoet.bsky.social · 21d

😘🖤

1

life of a poet @lifeofapoet.bsky.social · 21d

Two days straight— happy. Pretty good. Fall equinox. Lots of Libra.

#happy
#poetry
#poet
#poetry
#writingcommunity
#blueskypoetry

6

life of a poet @lifeofapoet.bsky.social · 21d

Right!?

life of a poet @lifeofapoet.bsky.social · 21d

👏👏👏

life of a poet @lifeofapoet.bsky.social · 21d

Thinking about how poems are built. Saturday. Sun. Building first poem — The Querent — of my new project. A few moments of panic before settling in.

#poetrycommunity
#blueskypoetry
#poets
#poetry
#poem
#writing
#september

Unfinished jackrabbit homestead I found the Mojave.

11

Reposted by life of a poet

C. Oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social · 23d

My today’s contribution for #PoemsAbout #SilentPlanets, expanded from a small post written for combined #vss365 ( #style, #flinch) & #2WordPrompt ( #distance + #daughters). Have retained the prompt words here. For
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
#Oulens
#blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity

First page of the poem

Distancespeak
by C. Oulens

Look, I know our stars have lost their
#style
The enigma
of unknown #distance . . . no more
You n I
like their sons n #daughters
once scattered dust
seafarers
gold-spun
now revolving ‘round
a same blaze
gold-bound
on separate tracks
on the same plane
#flinch
. . .the distance-decimated light too bold
. . . the distance-through-relativity yet cold
1/2

$Page 2 of the poem 2/2 But look, somewhere out there there’s night still . . . a thousand n one light-years . . . of mystical elegance . . . slivers of silence . . . loosely . . . closely held (and a fraction of that . . . of a non-deterministic relevance . . . You n I in style in syzygy on contrary ends of a sun . . . soaking unmeasured warmth in slivers-in-silence constellated on an incomprehensibly cold probabilistic cosmic blackboard . . .) Could distance not remain yet be declared . . . null-n-void . . .$

13 17 78

life of a poet @lifeofapoet.bsky.social · 23d

Finding words in my shadow. Friday.

#words #word #writing #write #poet #poetry #shadow #shadows #shadowwork #writinglife #friday

1 7

life of a poet @lifeofapoet.bsky.social · 23d

For all who write.
#write #writers #poet #poetry #book #books #novelist #thenovel #create

3 6