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Rick Milone @rwm1955.bsky.social · 41m

Life's not easy. Nothing is for certain, but she braved the trials & tribulations of her being with an accepted air of positivity. Some days were like riding a bull in a rodeo, but she held the rope & stayed on no matter how she was tossed. #BraveWrite

Rick Milone @rwm1955.bsky.social · 52m

He unclipped the buckles on his bloodied raincoat, peeled it off & hung it on a peg in the mudroom. He propped his axe up in the corner & pulled off his galoshes. His descent into madness began weeks ago & he was confused. He'd killed another neighbor tonight. #vss365 #Satsplat

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A s p e n🕊️©️(AspenBrave®️™️) @aspenbrave.bsky.social · 1d

remember always
you matter more than you know
to this fellow soul

#BraveWrite #vss365 #haiku #verve
#senryu #poetry #poet #poem
#WorldMentalHealthDay

Braving life together~
I so love & thank you all,
Aspen🕊️
👇
youtu.be/lwgr_IMeEgA?si…

From a tree~A shadow of a person reaching up…quote by Aspen @AspenBrave on BlueSky reads, “Even if all you have is your own shadow…Never stop risking to reach to spread love.” ©️

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Rick Milone @rwm1955.bsky.social · 1d

He watched the dandy libertine gracefully move carefree about the ball. A man who'd defiled his sister. He could smell the miasma of the moralless man. The retched, foggy odor, not real, but filling his senses. He'd wait outside for the lothario & disembowel him. #horror #vss365

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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 2d

The thing about the game, one of the many things Rory loved about it, was that characters could be practically anything. The brooding warrior. The flamboyant mage. The exquisitely dressed #libertine. Even as monsters.

There were very few limitations. And he had Kluhm dressed as a sorcerer.

#vss365

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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 2d

Dylan had no time for egos and #libertines. They were here to do a job, nothing less, nothing more, and he was going to make damned sure they would perform it.

With the man still writhing on the ground, he made it perfectly clear, if he hadn’t already, that he wasn’t taking any more of it.

#vss365

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Lee Bailes @leebaileswriter.bsky.social · 2d

#vss365
He hadn't been out in so long. Unused as he was to such frivolity as dating, he was confused by all the buckles and straps. And the nakedness. His mostly.
He squinted away the nausea, as the freshly cleaned instruments glinted and steamed, neatly organised on the tray.
#libertine

A deranged and overly long skeet draft screengrab. it reads: "#vss365 "Sorry... is this normal?"
He hadn't been out in so long. Unused as he was to such frivolity as dating, he was confused by all the buckles and straps. And the nakedness. His mostly.
He squinted away the nausea, as the freshly cleaned instruments glinted and steamed, neatly organised on the tray.
"Erm... 'scuse me-"
Her gloved hand gripped him and cut off his pleas, as her lips stole the air from his lungs. What beautiful eyes she had. What fierce red hair.
The renowned cocksman and virgin hunter, the Third Duke of Wimbourne was only swollen with an urge to flee, once he saw the prosthetic jaw she attached as she then knelt before him. Such chompers she had.
"Um... h-h-how's your dear g-Gran doing?"
#libertine "

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Sheila Burpee Duncan @sheilabduncan.bsky.social · 2d

#vss365

steamy rendezvous
libertine librarian
orders wanton soup

#libertine #haiku #senryu

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Mollie Grace @msfulofgrace.bsky.social · 2d

#vss365
#libertine

The new man in town hung out at the bar, The Canteen
Women were flocking as if they were again thirteen
He was easy on the eyes
Ladies swarmed around like flies
Soon they realized he was a rakish libertine

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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 2d

My effort

#vss365

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#libertine

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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 2d

In #defiance she smiles
It lifts her body she floats
A butterfly of hope she flies

#emoetry #micropoetry

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Dripping With Words | Intuitive Writer @drippingwithwords.bsky.social · 2d

..and i am the person with 50,000 photos of the moon in my phone.. that look like a dot.. that’s my reality. dots. not moons. dots. i have 50,000.. dots..

-> so go ahead..drop your "dot snaps" below..

#thoughts #moon #photography #quotes #zen #light #art #nature #fullmoon #sky #landscape #nightsky

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Sanya @sanjar.bsky.social · 2d

#libertine at heart
she leaves no #message behind
only her own flame
the air parts to let her through
she's home wherever she lands

#vss365 #tankaThursday #tanka #poetry
#art by Marta Wiley

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Sunlit @sunblissful.bsky.social · 1d

She's carrying herself away
the rain with her, the thunder
woven into her fluid being

she's carrying herself away
and holding her sway, the grey
soon to be a cool, calm blue

I thank her with gentle smile
for the downpours, I'll miss her
monsoon's last jolt of power

#Poetry

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Lady3jane @plinkfm.bsky.social · 1d

Julie laughed when Pete told her he looked like a #libertine with a single #earring in one ear and had started writing poetry. Oscar Wilde he was not.
Julie suggested he try doing things more suited to his age.
Angry, he says just because he’s 80 it doesn’t mean he can’t do them!
#vss365 #vssdaily

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Rick Milone @rwm1955.bsky.social · 2d

He watched w/a great deal of angst as the pendulum brushed thru the ash of his crumbled time machine. His concern as a chronographer was how he'd travel to the breaks in time to repair them. Perhaps the Head Chronographer would shift his duties to a cohort. #vsstimetravel #vss36

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Rick Milone @rwm1955.bsky.social · 2d

He was sequestered amongst a copse of ash trees. The new moon provided no light. He rubbed the feathered end of the poisoned blow dart across his cheek. A man walking his tiny dog sauntered casually by his hiding place. He loaded the blow gun & blew with force. #vsshorror #vss365

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 3d

A mound of ash ... bright feathers ... your friend missing. Some of the ash is scattered on the apartment floor, and in that there's footprints - and more feathers, like something molted. Drawers and cupboards ransacked.
Is this what it means to love a phoenix?
#horrorprompt #vss365 #ash

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Author Robert C. Madison @robertcmadison.bsky.social · 3d

Cigarette butts nestled upon cold #ashes loiter in a tray beside a plate of forgotten #peas. Best accompanied by an empty glass and hardened memories. Maybe tomorrow's sun will hatch better times.

#vss365 #vssdaily #amwriting

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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 3d

As my life erupts,
the #ash of my goals
collects
at my feet like a gray
dusty carpet;
the rainbows and unicorns
replaced
by cats and bathrobes
while vacations become
things I once did;
this once was the thing
I wanted, and everything
I worked for,
now it’s the thing that
chokes me

#vss365 #poetry

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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 3d

Here's my effort

#vss365

Dustrophy

(ASHES)
(ASHEs
(ASHes
(AShes
(Ashes
ashes
ash
falls
from UPPER
to lowercase,
the unstoppable
journey
to trophied
dust.

#ash
#poetrycommunity
#writerscommunity

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UkuleleCLE @ukulelecle.bsky.social · 3d

One day my ashes
Will be mixed into records
As my vinyl wish

#vss365 #haiku

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C. Oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social · 3d

the colour
of our #ashes I found
was red
when I inked our story
on this un-
clippable page

#vss365 #ash #Oulens
#haiku #senryu #tanka
#blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

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Sheila Burpee Duncan @sheilabduncan.bsky.social · 3d

#vss365

autumn’s ashes
riddled with embers
sept, nov and dec

#ash

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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 3d

ash fall
striking a final blow
the timber man’s axe
#vss365 #haiku #senryu

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