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Mo Schoenfeld

@moschoenfeld.bsky.social

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Published poet, writer, parent, married, works part time in the humanitarian field. #haiku #poetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity. Unless cited, writing, photos/videos are my ©, she/her, ally 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧡 #SupportTheNHS

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Mo Schoenfeld @moschoenfeld.bsky.social · 18d

Damien & issue co-editor @rhonagreene.bsky.social, are bright lights, who bring beauty to the world w/their talent, their own works, & their generous, genuine support, lifting other artists. It's an honour and a thrill to have a #poem included!

#poetry #prose #art #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity

Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 18d

Meet the Issue V Stormers

Mo Schoenfeld’s work appears in Irisi Magazine, Fevers of the Mind, Wombwell Rainbow, Haiku Crush’s Best Haiku 2021-2024, Sidhé Press’s Our Own Coordinates: Poems & A Thousand Shades of Green podcast

The Storms is supported by #fingalarts & @dublincityoflit.bsky.social

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 15h

each poem
a beacon flashing
a message
into the darkness
of the world’s long night

By M. Kei

#tanka #5lines #tankapoem #poetry

#TankaThursday message

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NPR @npr.org · 5h

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says. n.pr/47hcegr

Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 1d

tanka weekly #poetry challenge

October 9, 2025

this week’s prompt:

message

write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry

#tanka resources to develop your practice:

tankasocietyofamerica.org

Tanka Society of America:

www.tankasocietyofamerica.org

Tanka Society of America

Welcome to the Tanka Society of America website. Here you can learn more about the society, its activities, and membership benefits. You can also learn more about our journal, Ribbons, our annual tank...

www.tankasocietyofamerica.org

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#Whistpr Daily Word @whistprword.bsky.social · 15h

A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for October 9, 2025: #PEACH

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

Drawing of a hoopoe, a large bird with long sharp black bill. The bird's head and fan of head feathers, neck and shoulders are a peach color. The rest of its body and wings has striking black and white stripes. It is perched on a branch and there is blue sky with peach at the bottom of the background indicating perhaps a sunrise or sunset.

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 20h

she is
an unfit container
for all they want her to hold

she has
shaped herself
into this flat aspect

a table
when all they want
is a bowl

#poetry

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 3d

“Frog,” asked Toad, “did this really happen?”

“Maybe it did, and maybe it didn’t,” said Frog.

Toad questions Frog about the veracity of his ghost story, an animated look on his face.

From "Shivers"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 23h

Chilly morning hike
even the forests and fields
dressed for October

#haiku

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Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Reneg8d) @diasporter.bsky.social · 23h

What about—

a trace of the moon
in the midnight sky—
almond blossoms

#haiku

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404 Media @404media.co · 22h

BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE

🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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Piper @yourfriendpiper.bsky.social · 3d

I do feel scared when people are making new protest celebrities out of teenagers. You’re making targets

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Mo Schoenfeld @moschoenfeld.bsky.social · 22h

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 22h

This #buyastrangerabook offer from @notmoro.bsky.social is still up for grabs.

Jess is offering to buy one lucky person the book of their choice, up to £20!

So, if there's a particular book you're after, let us know!

UK only

Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 1d

More #buyastrangerabook day action!

@notmoro.bsky.social is offering to buy one lucky person the book of their choice, up to £20!

So, if there's a particular book you're after, let us know!

UK only

Jess (Eldritch mode) 🎃 @notmoro.bsky.social · 1d

Yes please, I would like to BUY A STRANGER A BOOK, up to £20. ("Strangers" can include mutuals I don't know very well, unless I have already bought them a book previously.)

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 2d

Any trans person who begins their transition today is exhibiting more courage than most people will in their entire lives.

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Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · 22h

Hey Bluesky fam, the ‘With Love, Grief and Fury’ paperback will be in bookshops tomorrow so if you preordered it you may find your copies landing too, a big box of books just arrived. Here’s a fuzzy shot of me getting excited in my room about it, I’ll share more book joy in the morning! 📕❤️

Photo of Salena on her own in her room holding her new book to her face and smelling it

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Mo Schoenfeld @moschoenfeld.bsky.social · 22h

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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 22h

bright canna still blooms
long after spring, now autumn;
will she last till frost

or will she succumb to this
somber, ashen existence?

#vss365 #prompt #ash #tanka #haiku #poetry #photography #bloomscrolling #depression #ptsd #anxiety

Things in the US are crumbling, and many of us can't focus 💔

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 1d

kinda sweet that bookshop.org's anti-prime sale overlaps with banned books week, which means today you can get free shipping PLUS 20% off their banned books list! bookshop.org/info/banned-...

Banned Books

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Sky News @news.sky.com · 1d

Dolly Parton is 'going to be just fine', country singer's sister says

Dolly Parton's sister has said that the country singer is "going to be just fine" after worrying fans by asking for prayers.

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are very few industries in which Britain can genuinely still claim to be a world leader - two of them are the creative sector and higher education. You'd never know it from listening to the Tories, lol.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 2d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 2d

Toad stayed in the bed, and Frog stayed in the closet.

They stayed there for a long time, just feeling very brave together.

Toad hides under his covers and Frog hides in the closet.

From "Dragons and Giants"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 1d

I’m not planning to leave bsky, at least not at the moment, but I am planning to split my social media time a bit more evenly with my masto account from now on.

There are great communities over there, and it doesn’t do to have all your eggs in one basket!

ChrisR @carusb.bsky.social · 1d

To #BelieveInFilm Users With Dormant Mastodon Accounts, please give Mastodon another try. It's changed. Solid tech, 500 character posts, Edits & Quote-Posts. With your help we can build a powerful truly decentralized public social media counterweight to centralized corporate media.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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Julie (Mae) Cohen @juliecohen.bsky.social · 1d

My alarm clock this morning here in France

A big window in an old house. Between the shutter and the pane is a pigeon. He is very noisy and his name is Pascale

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