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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom
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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · Jul 20
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©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2021 Rowboat stranded by the retreated tide on a salt marsh on the North Norfolk Coast
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daveashleypoet.bsky.social
#promptcombo #OnRoofs #poem #madrigal #winter
@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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jenthorne.bsky.social
I thought I'd try a #Dansa as suggested by @daveashleypoet.bsky.social for this week's
#promptcombo from
@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

#OnRoofs

This is an (almost) factual account of some of the conversations I overheard between the two builders who were re-roofing of my house!
You're more likely to fall off a horse than a roof Yeah mate, I suppose you're right. Clarkson said it on his tv show. He's a national treasure, dontcha know. They should make that bloke a bloody knight. Yeah mate, I suppose you're right. They are going to cut down all the trees And plant flowers instead to get more bees. I saw it on the news last night. Yeah mate, I suppose you're right. Did you see Andy scrapping in the pub with Jack? I had to keep quiet cuz of my bad back. If it wasn't for that, I'd've got in on that fight. Yeah mate, I suppose you're right. You ought to go have a look on Yahoo Loads of good stuff on there, and they've got the news too. I reckon it's a top-notch website. Yeah mate, I suppose you're right. I think being a roofer keeps you sane. The altitude lets more stuff get in your brain. I think much better when I'm working at height. Yeah mate, I suppose you're right. You'm a good listener, I like chatting to you. Our Brenda stopped listening in 2002. She says all I do is talk utter shite. Yeah mate, I suppose she's right.
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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jenthorne.bsky.social
Thank you for a great prompt @dragonslayerma.bsky.social

Here is my offering.

#promptcombo #NorthStar
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#blueskypoets
Polaris I am not one star not a single flicker trembling in the night. I am three woven in orbit a trinity of light that refuses to dim. The daughter: Polaris Ab a quick and restless rhythm in the sky carrying the gravity of distant wishes. The wife: Polaris B a circling sentinel tethered by devotion balancing orbits in constant presence. The mother: Polaris Aa vast heart, burning galaxies in her chest warmth unyielding her voice a trusted compass. Together we shine not as fragments but as one beacon shining through darkness. The daughter’s spark the wife’s glow the mother’s flame I am the constellation of woman the North Star. When you lift your eyes searching for direction find me triple whole radiant.
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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marionashton.bsky.social
Here's an offering for #PromptCombo #OnRoofs for Paul @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social Look forward to reading the other poems.
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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jude-brucemoll.bsky.social
Hi Paul @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
#onroofs
Just about to start hosting my #wildlifegardening group on pests! Including these lovelies (one I've previously shared)
Will get back to it later. Have a good week.
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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zentinl.bsky.social
Appreciate Paul @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for this prompt #OnRoofs. It got me thinking about the need to get out from under what hangs over us.

#PromptCombo #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
November 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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ignorantfairy.bsky.social
metal forest
made obsolete
by satellites
no more pigeons
roosting above us
roofs now glistening
in expectant black
dark surfaces
eating sunlight
skeletal antennae
long forgotten

#promptcombo #onroofs #poetry #poetrycommunity

@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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davidbirch.bsky.social
Many thanks, Paul @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
for your brilliant prompt #OnRoofs, which brought to mind a recent encounter with a former student. Looking forward to reading other responses from #BlueSkyPoets during the course of the week #PromptCombo
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
My starter pack of people associated with the #PoetryTheme #Prompt Includes @janpsolivagant.bsky.social @uhume.bsky.social @francesca-laura.bsky.social and many more. Please follow and repost if you can #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #writingcommunity
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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robgalpin.bsky.social
Just a short one for #PromptCombo #OnRoofs - loads on this week. Hope to catch up with others later. Thanks Paul @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
#poem #poetry
Church Roofs “Your church roof keeps out water and prevents the deterioration of your building and its content.” – Church of England official website Not, note, to protect the heads and health of the prayerful. Lead, copper, split slate and nails— all earthly protections arrayed against the literal, heavenly water.
November 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk
Hello #promptcombo crew Thanks Paul @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for this week’s #onrooftops theme. I’m just about to go out, but thought I’d post my wee offering first. Photo by me, Jerusalem rooftops looking towards the Dome of the Rock.

#poetry #poem
A poem by Debbie Ross entitled, Domes Stars and Steeples text as follows From up here the churches, mosques and synagogues glint in sunlight, perfectly co-existing. Rooftop views can be deceptive. On the ground invisible barriers fracture communities. Nationalism, religion and fear keep people apart. Down in the narrow tangle of alleys and streets we found communities that mixed. A glimmer of hope in a desert of grief. A view across mostly flat rooftops - with TV aerials and shade shelters - towards the Dome of the Rock
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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helenlaycock.bsky.social
Thanks, Paul, for the #promptcombo #OnRoofs
@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

Here's my contribution.

#poetry #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets #skypoets #winter
November 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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sueimnw.bsky.social
For #PromptCombo #OnRoofs with thanks to wonderful host, Paul, @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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hool415.bsky.social
Hullo @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social and to #promptcombo #onroofs
Love the theme, as great as Fidel’s from last week!
Ben Nevis First seen from a petrol forecourt as perching on top the next block’s trading estate: it’s not a good look, this mountain’s all slouch, no poised, sky-scratching nib of summit, but a fist of dull clenched crayons, though I can just pick out its small menagerie of pepper-corn birds. There should be more aloof arrogance here for I stand at the foot of the roof of the land, yet this peak is drawn and redrawn behind net-curtain clouds: an unexpected shyness tentatively peeping back and forth.
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
Thank you @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for last week's stormer. All are welcome to contribute to this week's. I am the host. Please use hashtags ##promptcombo #OnRoofs and tag me @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social:
The Roof He needs a hit, so on the roof of the ex bank, ex post office needs to break in sees somebody spot him so he changes his mind shouts I will kill myself. Ambulances and police talk him down.
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 AM
janpsolivagant.bsky.social
🙏 @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social #PromptCombo
Out of season & they nest under #eaves, rather than #OnRoofs, but fits, I guess. 😁

#poem: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025

#swifts #swallows #NaturePoem #BirdPoem #poetrycommunity #bskypoetry
Swifts, Swallows Swifts, swallows: ghostly Doubles meeting at Whitsun - Sky god’s full-throated Season echoing the Abyss. Forebear tongues and Sagas revelled in Whirlpools and swallies, Devoured by the sweeping, Churning presences Glimpsed in sky and sea. Swifts, swallows: ghostly doubles, Aerial nomads, Custodians of Ancient songlines etched with a Thumbtack of neurons. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025
November 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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my-solastalgia.bsky.social
“We must dream our way.” ~ Pablo Neruda ~
#small #blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin #autumn #solitary #solitude #melancholy #contemplative #darknature #blackbird #moodylandscapes #atmospheric #treephotography #lateautumn #bnwbutnot #monochromatic #treeandmood
Photo: A few craggy trees stand in silhouette against a gloomy grey sky. A small blackbird flies away from the trees, into the distance.
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
janpsolivagant.bsky.social
youtu.be/o9K7BmjUnkw?...

Seems apt for an early cold snap! Enjoy!

#poetry #poetrycommunity #romanticism #Coleridge #RichardBurton #frost #midnight #winter
Richard Burton reads Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem 'Frost at Midnight'.
YouTube video by metrisch
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November 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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zentinl.bsky.social
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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paulrapley.bsky.social
a little sketch...
#poemsabout #DogTags #KeepWriting
thanks again to
@alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
#poetrycommunity #poetry #PoetsWhoSupportPoets #PoetsOfBlueSky
Attributes Landscape of dust and bitter wastefulness! Flogged catamite of the pubescent bros, Submitting to them as they soil and mess With gangue the grace that through our Eden grows; They choke with tailings ancient hills and trees, And excavate with coldness hallowed rock To plunder ground and seize the rarest earths To ship back homewards; thereby adding stock Upon stock of so-called servers for our data, Trapped in fortress clouds to play us later, Whose keystrokes, screenshots, will yield grim afterbirths. Paul Rapley 2025 (with acknowledgement, 1820) #DogTags
November 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
For #poemsabout #Dogtags @alanparrywriter.co.uk @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
Dogtags Since the autocracy got in promising more freedom, less immigrants, reduce crime figures we wear Electronic Dogtags. Those who refused were deported. Natives, close friends, the sick and elderly. Surveillance tags used to buy goods and services prices tailored to your job, and where you live. Injected Just above your fifth vertebrae, so removal will break your spine. Links to ai in your phone and Appliances in the home, who decide when you eat, exercise, have sex, your social life. For your own safety, and those of others.
November 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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paulwritespoems.bsky.social
For #PoemsAbout #DogTags here is ‘Memorial Service’

Will catch up later @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Memorial Service He’s bought medals from eBay. Bought the uniform from Army Surplus. War stories stolen from Hollywood and Pinewood. Burton, Savalas, Caine. At the Cenotaph, He swaps salutes with the wounded, scarred, nervous, whose eyes he can’t hold, but tales he’ll recycle. His legs bolt a rapid one-two retreat at confrontation. In the safety of his home he reloads, more medals— delivered in 4 working days.
November 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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dnwritespoetry.bsky.social
Happy Friday #BlueSkyPoets! #PoemsAbout #DogTags
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@karenpgonzalez.bsky.social
Have a glorious day and weekend! Excited as always to read the amazing artistic work presented here!
November 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social
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
Of Certificates and Of Those Missing - C. Oulens I was born happy and blue! A little confused coz there seemed a lot of hullabaloos over this fact and that I did not wail and kept my eyes shut—they even discriminate against babies that are introvert! Oh c’mon, what’s the deal with this—I thought—should I gawk wide at the beauty of sunshine? Can I not let it seep in with time? Have they not learnt from dawn, of light’s slow release? Should I let the sun jump on me and damage my eyes? Let’s say I concede to that, but why, oh why—should they want me to shriek? Then I heard my mom’s wail—Yeah, well, emotional blackmail commences as early as that—even before they’ve prepared your destiny’s sketch (and the many certificates of mismatch). Besides, they were shaking me (and what not—uncomfortably)—so, with an eye roll, I kindly complied and delivered a heart-rending scream—an encore to my mom’s premature mournful cries (it seemed she thought I got born with an intent to die)—and to my bafflement—followed by a roomful of applause and cheer—it now appeared I had claimed my first entitlement of existence—certified in a registry. … and that, in short, is my introduction to a kind world that said—undocumented—you’ve had your heartful—henceforth the world would appreciate if you kept your screams inside and your tears dry—there’s too much, anyway, to pass by. And sunshine I found is not infinite—how can it be when some are looking to steal from you with a sleight of hand—but some, at the edge of abyss, will find a bagful of a warm wish—unclassified, uncertified. I am not happy but I’m happily blue. I stole too—some stars—of a blue moon—committing poetry—without standard devices—without requisite licences—without certificates to earn.
November 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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johnchmura.bsky.social
I don’t usually post #PoemsAbout @thebrokenspine.co.uk this early, but I’m taking some antihistamines and may sleep through a good portion of the night, or not. Will post a reel for #DogTags in the comments.
DOG TAGS Send them into space, all of the dog tags and toe tags, Trumps’ three Purple Hearts, and the mindset of men who pay dear and trade cheap that the God who abandoned this sorry blue world might see the joylessness of man’s desiring and act as a “signpost up ahead” so benevolent passengers may be forewarned drifting near our debris field on their judicious excursions coming from and returning to, hopefully, better planets smelling of ginger melon balls and mint, where space travel was a glorious culmination, not an escape or an escapade, where they needn’t keep people like me as pets or souvenirs anymore.
November 21, 2025 at 5:45 AM