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Ash & Ink
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Chapter historian/steward Antifa local lodge 313. I will stand in the way. I promise. Malignant poet.
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Hello #Writers & #Poets!

Today’s #BlueskyRelay writing #prompt (Nov 26, 2025):

“the sky saved room for one more” (#theskysavedroomforonemore)

A soft invitation to begin the week.

If you would like to host #BlueskyRelay next, let me know!

#writingprompts #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
November 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
#vss365 #reflection #poetry

Thinking a lot about this, these days. There is never enough time, and days go by so fast.
November 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Upon #Reflection

Aging freckled face
with a gray stare
and used-to-be sexy
pouty lip-
Moments that have come
and gone
cannot be redone
decisions made
cannot be unmade
lessons learned
shouldn’t be unlearned;
chaos
in all that was so carefully
plotted-
a woman reborn

#vss365 #poetry
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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I see in my
#Reflection
Vivid mirror of my peace

But something
Always mars it
Sure as sunrise in the East

The ripples
Never bother me
Not one bit in the least

I build my joy
On gratitude
A choice my own to keep

So even when
The gruel is thin
I claim it as my feast
#vss365
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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The sky
saved room
for one more tear
and I supplied it
earnestly

it rolled slowly
down my cheek,
onto the ground,
from where
it travelled
to the clouds

when the
rain poured
it returned,
so I cried
once more—
for you, for us

for the endless
boundaries
our souls
can't cross.

#BlueSkyRelay
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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LIVE LONG, LEARN HARD.

Coincidence or #timed?
Benefit of the doubt?
You didn't see the signs?
You didn't suss him out?
So cynically I smile,
but years are on your side,
next time won't be the same,
with your eyes open wide,
you will prevail.
Next time.
#vss365
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
#vss365 #timed
#Emoetry #inattentive
#poetry

A for sale sign on the pearly gates?
November 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Is democracy relevant,
when guilty no longer get trials,
is freedom relevant,
when not everyone has equal
access to it
is safety relevant,
when children do active shooter drills at schools
is education relevant,
when the ignorant run the show

#vss365 #poetry #politics
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Three pennies
On the floor
Wishing
It were more
Not quite
Enough
To be picked up
Unless of course
A shoestring
Needs tending
Shine all gone
Blending well
Soon to be
Forgotten

#poetry
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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there seems nothing left-
even poems are written
in tainted blood
no one dares read for
morality clauses;
I look to the gaps between
my books,
wonder what went there
and why it no longer matters
in this timeline;
Gaps between hearing
a compliment go wider,
and my pen breaks

#poetry
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
#vss365 #relevant #poetry

404 error
Imagination not found
November 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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For #PoemsAbout #DogTags
Will come back later to read others and comment. A slightly long poem today, will understand if you give it a miss. Thank you! 🙏 💫

@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
#Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #poetry
November 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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For #PoemsAbout #DogTags I did not feel I had the right to write. Finally, a meager offering emerged. Thank you to all those who serve and have served.

Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk.

#poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
November 22, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Found this through @bundtkake.bsky.social piece which I reposted and then Decided to give it a try myself.

#poem #poemsabout #dogtags
November 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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A still-life study that took me 17hr and 45min :)
#oilpainting
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Rory couldn’t point to anything #specific that brought him back to the game over-and-over, above every other game he had played.

The graphics weren’t the best, there were glitches, some of the quests were boring and the monsters not that varied, but it all worked for him.

It was special.

#vss365
November 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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They folded the flag
corner by careful corner
honor kept in a triangle box.
One dog tag,
medals with meaning
illegible with distance and time.
Mantelpiece memories,
all that remains
are echoes of the coffin closing.

@thebrokenspine.co.uk

#poemsabout #dogtags #poem #poetry #4amwritersclub #poemaday
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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We four, trauma-bonded
children of war,
trapped between
two superpowers—
Him and Her...

#DogTags #PoemsAbout
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 7:25 AM
November 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Tomorrow we mark the moment: #PoemsAbout #DogTags. Not just war—what we carry, what we’re called. Post from Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout or you’ll vanish in the feed. Use Alt Text. Get your prompt boost: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
November 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
#Emoetry #casual #poetry

"Sharp teeth, pretty teeth.
Pretty pretty sharp teeth all in a row...."
- Specimen
November 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM