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Ash & Ink @bundtkake.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you so very much! 🙏

Ash & Ink @bundtkake.bsky.social · 4h

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🖊️👍

Ash & Ink @bundtkake.bsky.social · 8h

Time for an #Autumn evening firepit. A little spooky to make sure I stay on brand!

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Ash & Ink @bundtkake.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you! I appreciate the feedback! 🙏

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Ash & Ink @bundtkake.bsky.social · 11h

Welp, freezer space is now needed for other things. Guess I gotta drink all these lol

#ghostbusters #ectocooler

Probably gonna die

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Ash & Ink @bundtkake.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you! 🙏🙏

Ash & Ink @bundtkake.bsky.social · 13h

Excellent!! 'Lament' is my overall favorite

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Ash & Ink @bundtkake.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you so kindly for the feedback!! 🙏🙏

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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 17h

Here's my downbeat effort for such an upbeat word

#vss365

Verve Averse

verve
lurks,
lumps of shine
glaring,
teeth points shArdened

I
sl
um
p,
hands empty,
spine soft,
in fear
of the
pouNCE.

#verve
#poetrycommunity
#writerscommunity

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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 19h

I did a second poem for #poemsabout because I wasn’t totally in love with the first one #poetry #domesticviokenceawareness

@alanparrywriter.co.uk

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Ash & Ink @bundtkake.bsky.social · 13h

Good one!

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Ash & Ink @bundtkake.bsky.social · 13h

I feel that

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 16h

Lying in satisfied
silence as we
"smoke cigarettes"—
old Hollywood
movie code to keep
the censors happy,
hair as disheveled
as my sense of self,
responsibilities
trapped in
ruffled bedsheets,
wondering if I should
have said "no"
when he asked
if I needed anything.

#BedroomEyesPrompt
#Ishouldhave

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Lady G @jagrafton.bsky.social · 1d

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 23h

My contribution for #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe, this is Flood..
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk

Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · Apr 28

Flood.. #poetry #poem #writing #writingcommunity

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Quill of Mnemosyne @sonnetsmith.bsky.social · 22h

My contribution to #poemsabout #imperfectme
It's a piece that I've been meaning to write for a few weeks but never got round to it, so thank you
@alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
For the push.

This is

Cracks In the Mirror

#poetry #blueskypoet #poem #mirror #identity #lost

It stares at me, from the other side of an empty room,
A face familiar, but still unrecognizable.
Silvered glass, which was not cracked last time I looked upon it
Now shattered into fragments, in each one an impostor.

A thousand faces trapped within; not one is whom I seek,
It stares at me, from the other side of an empty room
And I stare back, wondering who this man before me is
The man with cracks that crawl across his myriad of masks.

I know him not; I never have, but somehow he knows me
His crooked smiles, and weary eyes drill deep into my soul
He stares at me, from the other side of an empty room
From in between the cracks; a man I thought I used to know.

Once upon a time I saw my own face in the mirror
A bright and beaming smile; that was who I'd always be,
But somehow I cant see him in the faces of the beast
That stares at me, from the other side of this still empty room.

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David Birch @davidbirch.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks again @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for an excellent #PoemsAbout prompt #ImperfectMe. Here's a poem about the imperfection of yielding to hope over experience

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Ash & Ink @bundtkake.bsky.social · 18h

I put this on yesterday, start to finish. Great choice.

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Matt Guntrip @matt-guntrip-music.bsky.social · 21h

I’ve lost my faith in poetry, a personal experience, yet when I saw this brilliant prompt #imperfectme from @thebrokenspine.co.uk & host @alanparrywriter.co.uk it triggered something; so here’s a contribution. It opened it door & could start an avalanche; tread softly..

Je vous remercie
#poemsabout

Track

Another mistake
along the vinyl groove
destination certainty
as if the end will beat
a rhythmic slow-clap
to every personal error
the flawed shoe-string songs
squeezed out of economy-size mediocrity

Errors, meanness, naivety
deficits of courage in adversity
and a few words harvested
from barren rocky soil
too many degrees south
of arable pasture

Matt Guntrip

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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 23h

#PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#adaptation: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025

#Expressionism #Trakl #PoetryInTranslation #DepthPsychology #TheShadow #CainAndAbel #Blake #Nightmare

Dread

After Das Grauen (1909) by
Austrian Expressionist poet, Georg Trakl (1887-1914)

I drift through deserted rooms.
Frenzied stars dance upon a blue backdrop.
Dogs bay in beck-rimmed yards.
Manic chinook roots through the treetops.

Then all stir ceases.
Aglow with choleric ardour,
Venomous blooms sprout from my mouth.
Blood-drip sap from marred branches
Shimmers pale as dew.

From the mirror’s specious void,
From the mirror’s pearly shade,
Contours merge vaguely into the
Visage of Cain.

Curtains rustle softly.
The moon stares vacantly
Through the window.
I’m alone with my killer.

Free adaptation from the German:
©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025

"The Body of Abel Found by Adam & Eve", William Blake, circa 1826

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Ash & Ink @bundtkake.bsky.social · 18h

Well done! 🖊️🔥
Excellent

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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 18h

The Fatigue

I feel like a parrot,
a broken record-
people ask
how does it happen?

pieces chip over time,
voices become reality,
your choices add on-
you are cemented;

tired as I’ve ever felt,
days never ended,
always on edge
waiting to be reprimanded

#emoetry #poetry #domesticviolenceawareness

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Melissa M Poulton (she/they) @melissampoulton.bsky.social · 21h

Today's #PoemsAbout theme is #ImperfectMe It is quite fitting that it's on #worldmentalhealthday Today is also my 13th week without alcohol.

@thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

#poetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets

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John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 1d

#PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
I will put a reel in the comments.

IMPERFECT ME

On days my son was measured
in length rather than height
I held him shirtless in one arm
while I lathered my face to shave.
Leaned on my chest, warm,
he plunged an explorer’s hands, decisive,
into my foamy cheeks, gaining agency,
the intimation of form, and play
affirmed in his corporeal birthright.

And me, significant, generative,
like the god of the psalmist,
I could do no wrong.

Whiskey it wasn’t that imperfected me
in his eyes. I may never know
which particular betrayal
inspired that loss of grace.
But it did boost his swagger to say
for the first time fuck you, Dad,
and I absorbed the preordained assertion,
concussive, cracked like a plastic bucket
abandoned on the back porch
when water expands into ice.

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Ash & Ink @bundtkake.bsky.social · 18h

Good morning!!

a man in a blue shirt is changing a tire on a machine

Alt: a man in a blue shirt is changing a tire on a machine

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