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Francis H Powell writer and poet

@fhpowellwriter.bsky.social

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I'm an artist, musician, poet, writer, a creative being. I live in France, but born in the UK. I have written anything from horror books to a children's book. Vegetarian, dog lover, anti war maybe a bit woke Follow me if you can. #vss365 #writingcommunity

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Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · Jul 3

Buy a book that will make a difference, helping a great cause The Road to Recovery project which transports injured Palestinians to hospitals.
the book is live on Amazon:
www.amazon.co.uk/All-Live-Und...

#humanitarian #anthology

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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 6h

Scratching feathers sere
My face in the mirror scarred
Caged parrot vanished

#horrorprompt
#Haikuhorrorprompt
#vssmystery
#vsshorror

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Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · 3h

Utter madness, many of these subjects are Britain's strengths...who came up with this idea?

Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · 3h

My #blithe spirit attracts trouble

#7syllablesentence

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Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · 3h

I was at art school when Thatcher was prime minister and slashing art school budgets, equally people who have studied at art school have contributed to the British economy, it seems that this party is still a narrow minded bunch of philistines.

Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · 3h

He was a #Junior Doctor
With #distinct purple hair
some people stared at him
but he simply didn't care
He was serious in day time
and wild at night
he really loved his hair
that was bold and bright

#2WordPrompt

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Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 1d

Lost in my own mind….

#wordprompt
#writingcommunity
#VSS365 #Whistpr #VSSDaily
#VSSMagic #Emoetry #WIPSnips
#BlueSkyRelay #WoTtober
#WeirdMicro

Lost
Sometimes I feel like an #insect
Unworthy of notice, hiding.
Never finding my #niche

I see others #beaming, shining in Light
They’ve been #granted special things
Not a depraved hack like me.

I hide in the darkness, as the #rain pours.
That’s where I feel #safe. Secure.
This appears to be my niche in life

My goals often #clash, though…
My feelings is #ineffable always.
Never easy to say or explain.

Lost in my own mind, between all
Thoughts and feelings’ clash
Safe, but never found.

#VSS365 Clash
#Whistpr Insect
#VSSDaily Grant
#VSSMagic Niche
#Emoetry Beaming
#WIPSnips Safe
#BlueSkyRelay Ineffable
#WoTtober Rain
#WeirdMicro Depraved Hack

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 12h

That touch, #feather light,
Tickling, driving them insane,
'Please...' he begs, '...no...? More...

🪶 😵‍💫

#HorrorPrompt #DailyPrompt #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #ThreeLines #DarkHaiku #SensoryHorror #PsychologicalHorror #PsychologicalTorment #Sensory #PleasurePain #PainParadox #Endurance #Torment

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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 1d

My dogs
#bark
like they weigh
100 pounds
but only
weigh 20;
love to pretend
they all
that

#wildwalkprompt #poetry

Quill of Mnemosyne @sonnetsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Hello Wild walkĺ

It keeps trees warm, fed, protected! And it can be nice and pretty too... (but I bet you write about dogs(🤣

#Bark

Use the image/word to inspire your writing, then post using #WildWalkPrompt

#prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub

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Kindle Promos and More @kindlepromos.bsky.social · 12h

Follow @mthart.bsky.social for more daily lifts to promote your books!

MT Hart @mthart.bsky.social · 12h

#writerslift! Time to promote yourself on this #WerewolfWednesday!
READERS find your next read here!
ABP=Always Be Promoting!
Post your links, websites, books, art audiobooks, pages, WhateverItTakes! #ShamelessSelfPromoWednesday
BUY A BOOK!

a werewolf with its mouth open is standing in the dark

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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 13h

Morning my pen & pencil wielding friends its time to enter week 2, it's day 8 of our musical mystery tour.

Today's word is inspired by a sci-fi infused indie classic Girl From Mars, our #vss365 #prompt for 08/10/25 is #ash. Happy writing 🎶✍️🎶✍️

What's your favourite sci-fi movie or programme?

a woman talking to a man with the words " you 're from mars " on the bottom

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Kindle Promos and More @kindlepromos.bsky.social · 11h

It's Wednesday and time for your daily #writerslift and to promote yourself! Post your links, websites, books, art, audiobooks, pages,#WhateverItTakes! #ShamelessSelfpromoWednesday
BUY A BOOK! Weekly pinned tweet promo spots a top 5 profiles open on x, 2 hear on bluesky, DM for details :)

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Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · 12h

My ancestors
a life remote from mine
no technology
or home comforts
no nuclear bombs
no global warming
a kind of purity
innocence
in a world about
to go all totally wrong

#2WordPrompt #Global/Technology

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 14h

Global race for arms,
Technology found it's feet,
Running past us all.
#2WordPrompt #Global/Technology #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity

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wunderrealz @wunderrealz.bsky.social · 12h

sitting around
the fire pit
the ashes cooling
they wait
unmoving
unmoved and
wonder
if the other
would be the first
to experience sonder

#blueskyrelay #sonder #vss365 #ash
#amwriting #writesky #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #Micropoetry #Poem #Poetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #wunderz

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funnyfrogget.bsky.social @funnyfrogget.bsky.social · 1d

two words #clash
in a swirl of autumn letters
onomatopoeia

#vss365

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Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social · 12h

I waltz in sonder-form
daydreaming thru other lives
so completely, my voice
matches a different pitch,
my gait changes and
I doctor my coffee
differently today.
I accept their lives as
an extension of the tapestry
we all weave together, as one.

#blueskyrelay #sonder #6amwritersclub #micropoem #poem

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Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · 12h

She crossed a bridge
edging closer
As she crept along that lonely path
the divide between the living to the dead
The sky overhead
was grim and foreboding
Volcanoes erupted
with the anger of the Gods
thick #ash spewed
the fires from hell spread
her fears mounting
for what lay ahead
#vss365

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Drew, Allegedly @thescribblings.com · 1d

Tuesday, October 7th ~ #WritingPrompts 1/4

#2WordPrompt Junior & District
#BedroomEyesPrompt Barracuda
#Bonktober Swamp
#BookishTues Only One
#Firewords280 Talkative Umbra
#FoxProse Entangled Intensity
#HorrorPrompt Feathers

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 14h

Mind wandering, I
Pondered long, growing sense of
Sonder, in wonder.
#blueskyrelay #sonder #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity

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Dripping With Words | Intuitive Writer @drippingwithwords.bsky.social · 12h

so it crumbled..wrote a short notepad thought & quote below from it.
—READ CLICK👉 tinyurl.com/av8bnsev

for creative, artistic, thinking, philosophical minds—anyone ’alive’..

©️dww
#thoughts #quotes #zen #photography #spirituality #art #music #booksky #philosophy #writesky #nature #bluesky #substack

Dripping With Words (@drippingwithwords)

forgive me if i like 3 am best.. could stay forever here… just me, the night… but the llusions.. they broke-open today.. did you know? no. no you didn’t. i didn’t tell you..i didn’t tell anyone at all...

tinyurl.com

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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 14h

Sonder

The world full of people wandering
through life, not part of my solipsist
thoughts.
Caged, discerned and given breath
by my will, my imagination.
Flowing into them,
but in reality, just them, just
they give the world shape.
I must ask
Do they shape me?
Am I their figment?

#poem

Kunal 🌅 @poetickunal.bsky.social · 14h

Hello, fellow travelers of the inner world! 💫

The #BlueSkyRelay #prompt for 8 October 2025 is #Sonder 👥

Let the vividness of others inspire your words today.

#Poetry #Poem #Micropoetry #writingcommunity #Poetrycommunity

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DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 1d

I woke up
In World
Where everyone
Was made of glass

Yet and still
We fall to tribes
With walls
No one can pass

Even though
We look alike…
Still find pretext
To #clash

Does sapience
Doom us to
Nitpick
Until we crash?
#vss365

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Dawn Colclasure Wilson @dmcwriter.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks for the reposts!
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@mhallarts.bsky.social @sylvia-rose-books.bsky.social @stefanangelinam.bsky.social

groot from guardians of the galaxy is dancing in a pot and says you 're awesome

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Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · 12h

#vss365 #ash

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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 12h

Misty haze floats across
My brown eyes to black
A flurry of melancholy
Begun as a pleasant reverie
Then the dark shadows
Crept way on in

Sun kissed days
Picnic baskets
Strawberries and cream
All crushed to #ash
All berries now taste sour
No longer are you mine

#vss365

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