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Eric @madp03t.bsky.social · 3h

Looks like I have some catching up to do...

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Eric @madp03t.bsky.social · 4h

Hey @knickersnpearls.bsky.social, thank you for sharing my #poetry! 💜🫠

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Eric @madp03t.bsky.social · 5h

Written by an old sysadmin.. :)

Thanks!

Eric @madp03t.bsky.social · 5h

heh Thank you, Madeleine.. 💜🫠

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Eric @madp03t.bsky.social · 5h

She told him love was a doorway. He built one inside the wall, small enough for only a whisper to pass through. Each night, he waited beside it, listening. To build a thing is not to open it, and what listens too long forgets which side it’s on.

#SenseWrds #prompt No. 130 #writing #microlit

Sense Words @sensewords.bsky.social · 6h

Prompt 130

Enchanting
Alcove
Cherished

Do Not use the prompt words in your piece. Please use #SenseWrds , and include the prompt number. No combo prompts. Message me if you have more questions.

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Eric @madp03t.bsky.social · 5h

Hey @tampire.bsky.social, thank you for sharing my #poetry!

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Eric @madp03t.bsky.social · 7h

So. Many. Choices. 🫠

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Gabe Valentine ~semi-hiatus~🐬🌊🏝️🧜🐳 @poetguygabe.bsky.social · 11h

message to myself
I just wrote it on a leaf
then it blew away
now I forget what I said
doesn't matter anymore

#TankaThursday #message #tanka

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Madeleine Begun Kane @madkane.bsky.social · 10h

My old #earrings are feeling neglected.
They're boxed up; from my ears disconnected.
For alas, they've been banished:
My ear holes have vanished...
And the thought of new piercings? Rejected!

#vssdaily #Earrings #Jewelry #Limerick #Limericks #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse #Poems

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DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 8h

I married
My 1st cousin
Cuz we’re both
Insanely rich

It’s really
Just a money move
Don’t care for her
One bit

She’s knows
I’m gormless #libertine
Who’d never
Make her list

Our union
Will shift markets, so…
Our soulless clans
Insist
#vss365

a woman in a teal dress is sitting next to a man in an orange shirt .

ALT: a woman in a teal dress is sitting next to a man in an orange shirt .

media.tenor.com

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Eric @madp03t.bsky.social · 7h

Love it! 💜👏

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Eric @madp03t.bsky.social · 9h

Today's #WildWalkPrompt prompt was #Log. So, here's a modern tongue-twister for anyone who needs to reboot their san!ty. 💜🫠

#poet
#poem
#poetry
#writing
#prompt
#writesky
#Skypoets
#poetrylovers
#blueskypoets
#tonguetwister
#poetrycommunity

Poem/Tongue-Twister written and copyright (c) 2025 by Eric Montgomery (@madp03t.bsky.social). All Rights Reserved.

Login lag, the lines all loop,
logs on logs, a looping soup.
Linking, loading, locked in fog,
lost in logic, laughs the log.

Spin, sync, slip, repeat,
system sings in static heat.

Cache and crash in coded streams,
glitches spark in sleepless dreams.
Scrolls unroll, the data clogs,
I reboot and blame the log.

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Sanya @sanjar.bsky.social · 12h

Knell sustains, time skips a beat.

#7syllablesentence #knell #blueskypoets #zen #poetry

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Eric @madp03t.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you.. 💜🫠

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Eric @madp03t.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you.. 💜🫠

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Eric @madp03t.bsky.social · 14h

The curve beneath her hair
glimmers when she turns to laugh,
a quiet secret of skin and gold.
I watch the #earring sway,
small sun,
caught between pulse and breath.

#writing #vssdaily #prompt #poetry

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Eric @madp03t.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you.. 💜🫠

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Eric @madp03t.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you.. 💜🫠

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Alex O'Connor @aoconnorauthor.bsky.social · 18h

Celestial Saga: Dawn of the Seekers got its tenth rating on Goodreads!

Thank you to whoever it was for the new 5-star rating!

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 23h

Yearning his attention,
yet he ignores me
in #defiance.
I reach for his
#peach soft fur
but he ambles away
quickly, eyes on a bird
in the tree.

Yet on his terms,
he'll sit on my lap,
fondly batting
at my #earring.

My cute #cat,
ever showing me
that I need him
yet, he does not
need me.

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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 19h

#vss365 #libertine #madrigal #poem #addiction #drugs

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

Every act is now a defiance
of his will-
like swimming upstream she
pushes against his habit
to control;
the egg has cracked,
the jar opened,
the tags from clothing removed-
she will not return
to that world before,
she will not be abused

#emoetry #poetry #domesticviolence

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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 19h

a phase craze betrays
the #haze of the maze emblazed
seeking better days.

#haikufeels #haiku

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Eric @madp03t.bsky.social · 19h

Still here.
Not shining, not brave,
just breathing when I’d rather not.

#Defiance is not fire.
It is the whisper that says stay
when nothing asks you to.

No banners.
No victory.
Only the small refusal
to vanish.

#Emoetry #prompt #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity

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