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edwardstjames.bsky.social
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Short story writer and poet, stories and chapbook now up on Amazon! Follow below:

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edwardstjames.bsky.social @edwardstjames.bsky.social · Sep 17
For those who like my poetry, you can check out my chapbook Brace Yourself here!

www.amazon.com/Brace-Yourse...

It was self published so I appreciate everyone who does take a look :)
Brace Yourself: A Poetry Chapbook
Amazon.com: Brace Yourself: A Poetry Chapbook eBook : St. James, Edward: Kindle Store
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edwardstjames.bsky.social
That silver #tongue whips
Insults that sounded better
In your shaken head.

#senryuslam
February 16, 2026 at 1:57 AM
edwardstjames.bsky.social
Man on the subway
Singing his favorite song with
Deadly #decibels.

#senryuslam
February 16, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
Delighted to have a couple of poems in the excellent Eunoia Review. This is the first. Homecoming. #poem #poetrycommunity #booksky @eunoiareview.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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irishlisa.bsky.social
stumbly landing
flat against the winter wind
peanut first, of course

#haikufeels #Flatten #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Nature #WildlifePhotography #Birds #Birding #BlueJay #Haiga #ImageAndVerse #Winter #EastCoastKin #BirdOfTheDay
Blue Jay landing on the back deck railing in snow, body flattened forward, tail raised, peanut held in its beak, bare branches and snow-covered ground blurred behind it.
February 15, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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stimpycole.bsky.social
après nous, le déluge
#imageandverse #orangesun #EastCoastKin #photography #CloudscapeClub #StormHour
Close up of a turbulent swirl of fiery orange clouds at sunset. September 2025 Famour Quote from Madame le Pompadour, the favorite of Louis XV, translates as ‘after us, the deluge’
February 15, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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daveashleypoet.bsky.social
#kiss #vss365 #sonnet #love

an old sonnet I wrote, but I think it fits for Valentines
February 14, 2026 at 1:14 PM
edwardstjames.bsky.social
Spring’s #lush forest thrives from Winter’s frozen desolation of thick ice.

#monoku #wildwalkprompt #oneline #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
February 15, 2026 at 2:36 PM
edwardstjames.bsky.social
To #flatten the world
Down to this little pond, it’s
Turtles sunbathing.

#haikufeels #haiku #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
February 15, 2026 at 12:56 PM
edwardstjames.bsky.social
Love is so last February
With the baked goods and hearts
We’re #overit come January.

#emoetry #poem #poetry #tercet #micropoetry #writingcommunity
February 14, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"I sit just above the sternum, where Christ’s unblemished mercy meets freckled cleavage. I hang, heavily and blessedly, where divinity schmoozes décolletage on the clavicular altar of Florida’s own Evangelical Barbie."
I Am Pam Bondi’s Shiny Gold Cross Necklace
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was “accessorize.” I am equal parts holy relic and regional pageant tiara. I...
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February 14, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk
For #PoemsAbout #undressed for today’s prompt from @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk I offer this wee poem. It was all that came to mind. No doubt could do with work. Will read as and when my head allows. Have a good #poetry day folks.
A poem by Debbie Ross entitled Not So Artificial Manipulation text in two stanzas as follows: They used to undress us with their eyes, on tube trains and buses. Now they undress us with Al in their homes, on their phones, those sick, sleazy Grok guys.
February 13, 2026 at 6:23 AM
edwardstjames.bsky.social
Sound dances along
The ground, good vibrations that
#Carry endless bliss.

#haikufeels #haiku #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
February 14, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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ignorantfairy.bsky.social
"let's seal it with a kiss"
the succubus crooned
as she let her take a tad
of that excess energy
immediately stopping
her floral frenzies
serene smiles bloomed
on both of their faces

#vss365 #poetry
February 14, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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poetry-with-hart.bsky.social
The second of the two I wrote this week for #poemsabout #undressed. I believe it also incorporates a #horrorprompt from earlier this week of #silentrage, if I'm not mistaken.

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

#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #skypoem #skypoetry
The mirror judged in silence her eye seeing all of me in her glass pain asking without speaking as to why I stood before her, masked and hidden from her gaze. I tried to tell her it was necessary, but necessary for who? I tried to answer it kept me safe but she knew, I was as much a danger to me as anyone else so it was a lie too. I tired to say it was habit, my mother and her mother, we all wore masks carefully constructed calm compliments to the ancestral mask making matron tying our expressions to the needs of others, eyes are the mirrors of the souls, don’t you know? And the mirror laughed a trill of glass striking silver as if to dare me, for once take the mask off. So I did… at least… I tried. But another was under the first and then another and another all with different nicknames different roles different selves to be. I ripped and tore tore and ripped plaster cracking paper mâché crumbling clay paint chip drop smash crack, till finally the last mask shattered concrete on the floor and the face that stared back at me in the mirror’s eye was nothing more than a silent rage.
February 13, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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bluehaiku2.bsky.social
What have you done, my love
tampered with our time
turned perfect grace
to the grotesque
a bruised and bloody kiss

#5lines #micropoetry #poetry
February 13, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social
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One Poem by Concetta Pipia
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Edited by Strider Marcus Jones Poet - Publishes poetry and fiction online and in print periodically. https://lothlorienp
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February 13, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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anntigone.bsky.social
#poemsabout #undressed
February 13, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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ignorantfairy.bsky.social
Not an easy write this time
Here's my offering for #poemsabout undressed

Again I didn't went the literal route.
#poetrycommunity
between the tents stripped of anything they wore rights, dignity and clothing because clothing constitutes identity and identity means nothing between the tents between the fences where every snap becomes a threat — electrified truncheons electrified minds detention centers modern euphemism for concentration camps where your voice becomes a hush, a whisper, then nothing worse than underfunded federal prisons, where at least there is a future outside stripped of anything they were rights, dignity and clothing because clothing constitutes being human and between the tents that's where humanity gets lost — between confiscated jeans and jewellery
February 13, 2026 at 3:40 AM
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poetkatiratejeda.bsky.social
My first #watercolor of 2026 #wet on wet is unpredictable) and my #13 overall. I’m proud about how the cutie #chickadee turned out but I still have ways to go to perfect my leaves.

Anyway, enjoy!

#bird #painting #colors #art #katart #katwatercolor #hobby #fun #creative
January 5, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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daveashleypoet.bsky.social
#vss365 #lacuna #magrigal #war #resist #poem #ukraine
February 13, 2026 at 10:18 AM
edwardstjames.bsky.social
#poemsabout #poetry #poem #undressing #writingcommunity

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

As I've done of late, I've let Poems About add onto a draft of a larger project. This segment is a sonnet broken up into other segments and ending in a haiku. I hope you enjoy it.
February 13, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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poetry-with-hart.bsky.social
CW: drug mention

Ecstasy
undressed me
flashbang brain,
lights tasted
of licorice,
drug to mask
the pain, keep
dancing, never stop
you won't feel
a thing.

@thebrokenspine.co.uk

#poemsabout #undressed #promptcombo #ecstasy #poem #poetry #micropoem #micropoetry #poemaday #skypoem #skypoetry
February 13, 2026 at 1:21 PM
edwardstjames.bsky.social
He is #glowing on the dance floor-
Sweat pooling over his forehead-
His feet take him on a grand tour
To the man and woman that he leads.

#emoetry #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity
February 13, 2026 at 1:06 PM
edwardstjames.bsky.social
#Admit omissions
We erased between the lines
Of all the lost love.

#haikufeels #haiku #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
February 13, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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davidbirch.bsky.social
So delighted to hear this week that two of my poems, which began life as #PoemsAbout, will feature in upcoming @thebrokenspine.co.uk slimline anthologies: 'The Lunar Man' in Verdigris and 'Crash Test Dummy' in The Havisham Steps. Many thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk!
February 12, 2026 at 3:50 PM