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Navigating beautiful challenges. Know when to hold on and when to let go https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3p3lavk3p47dauzx5lioteun/feed/aaael34z6nm2q Creator of #7syllablesentence @blueskyrelay.bsky.social

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Gabe Valentine ~semi-hiatus~🐬🌊🏝️🧜🐳 @poetguygabe.bsky.social · 17h

The #7syllablesentence prompt for October 8 is #throes

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Allyson Joule @allysonjoule.bsky.social · 1d

Wednesday's child is full of woe.

The #7syllablesentence prompt for October 8 is #throes

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thpossiblepoet.bsky.social @thpossiblepoet.bsky.social · 19h

Confrontation

Clash:
Lawless
American
Subterfuge,
Horrifying.
Constitution?
Laughed
At.
Subjective
Hatred
Clearly
Leading.
America?
Still
Hopeful.

#tHartigan
#vss365 #clash

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thpossiblepoet.bsky.social @thpossiblepoet.bsky.social · 19h

Dust in the Wind?

All that remained
Was the ash on the ground
From the laws incinerated
Nothing else could be found

But what of the others
Those complicit in the act
Though guilty and convicted
They were all pardoned in fact

#tHartigan
#vss365 #ash

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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 14h

ash fall
striking a final blow
the timber man’s axe
#vss365 #haiku #senryu

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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 9h

Delighted to have this piece included in the long list of selections in the latest installment of Haiku Dialogue, with the theme of ‘From apprentice to master or how to walk the path of music’. Thanks so much to Guest Editor Deborah Karl-Brandt

#senryu

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A text based image of a poem. The poem reads

two left feet
she finds a rhythm
all her own

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Gabe Valentine ~semi-hiatus~🐬🌊🏝️🧜🐳 @poetguygabe.bsky.social · 7h

I suspect it's going to get worse before it gets better. Much worse than Kent State.

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 14h

tanka weekly #poetry challenge

October 9, 2025

this week’s prompt:

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

#tanka resources to develop your practice:

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edwardstjames.bsky.social @edwardstjames.bsky.social · 14h

The song of #sonder
Rings out in thunder

The lightning
It cries
A bell tolled

Living
Dead

Past
Present

#blueskyrelay #couplet #freeform #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity

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edwardstjames.bsky.social @edwardstjames.bsky.social · 13h

Dogs playing
Inside the locked gates
Howling with Father Winter

#haiku #poem #poetry #writingcommunity

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ⴽⴰⵔⵉⵎⴰ (Karima) @koelh.bsky.social · 20h

#candid
as dawn,
this truth falls clean
across my
skin.

#emoetry #micropoem #poetry

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ⴽⴰⵔⵉⵎⴰ (Karima) @koelh.bsky.social · 14h

i cupped old shards
in both hands,
listened to the last ember
speak,
then gave it
to the match;

i made smoke and #ash
of it—
a midnight flower
lifting, drifting—

and in the space it left,
my breath returned—

i exhale.

#vss365 #poetry #writingcommunity

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ⴽⴰⵔⵉⵎⴰ (Karima) @koelh.bsky.social · 11h

a deference
twisted in the fibre of being—
for it had stormed so widely,
crowding my chest
with fervour

yet still i stood—
heart a citadel of ache,
defying its own collapse.

#poetry #writingcommunity

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ⴽⴰⵔⵉⵎⴰ (Karima) @koelh.bsky.social · 9h

breathing,
slowly—
a silence absolute
emptiness, hollowing deeper,
pictures and fractures
frames and captures
of all that once was
motion
in me

and it flew—
it flew over the horizon,
where breath becomes air,
where heartbeat gains
wings

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#poetry #writingcommunity

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Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · 9h

My #blithe spirit attracts trouble

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Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 11h

; 𝓫𝓵𝓲𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓹𝓲𝓻𝓲𝓽 ; 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝓂𝓈𝒾𝒸𝒶𝓁 𝓈𝑜𝓊𝓁. 𔓘

#7syllablesentence #blithe

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charlyannd @charlyannd.bsky.social · 11h

Mid throes of passion, he croaked
#7syllablesentence

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Me @ewiggins66.bsky.social · 11h

#7syllablesentence

The #throes of longing moves us.

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Mollie Grace @msfulofgrace.bsky.social · 12h

#7syllablesentence
#throes

the throes of his grief sunk him

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Mollie Grace @msfulofgrace.bsky.social · 12h

#7syllablesentence
#throes

pounded by the throes of loss

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Nya 🧿 🇨🇦 @artbyseranya.bsky.social · 14h

Throes of sonder, I see us!
#Seranya #Writing 🦄

#7SyllableSentence #BlueskyRelay

Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 14h

In the throes of mad chaos.

The #7syllablesentence prompt for October 8 is #throes

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 14h

In the throes of mad chaos.

The #7syllablesentence prompt for October 8 is #throes

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Sanya @sanjar.bsky.social · 10h

In throes sea forgets its edge.

#7syllablesentence #throes #blueskypoets #sea #photography

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Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 1d

There is a clash in me
between angels
and maggots.
I sink inside my thoughts
as the circles bend.
The night is beaming.
So should I.
Disgust can only win
so many times
before it gets tired of fame.
My shoulders erupt
into a dream.

I take flight.

#vss365 #emoetry #poetry

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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 17h

As my life erupts,
the #ash of my goals
collects
at my feet like a gray
dusty carpet;
the rainbows and unicorns
replaced
by cats and bathrobes
while vacations become
things I once did;
this once was the thing
I wanted, and everything
I worked for,
now it’s the thing that
chokes me

#vss365 #poetry

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

#Emoetry prompt for 10/8/2025

is

#Candid

#writingcommunity #poetry @fafo-poets-society.bsky.social

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Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 15h

I sit the pain down
for a candid conversation.
I let him burst
in terrifying clarity
while reminding him
of life's absurdity.
We hold each other
and watch this burning world
as we both smile.
The ash
becomes our blanket.
We drift into dawn
with fists scabbed
and free.

#emoetry #vss365 #poetry

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