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Raymond B. Steinmetz

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"To write is to pluck a star— bright, distant, alive in ink, falling softly onto a page, waiting to ignite another soul." — Raymond B. Steinmetz #writer #poetry #writing #poet #BlueSkyPoetry (All rights reserved®) http://raymondstowers.wordpress.com

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Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 8h

Old windows gaped like
#vacant #sockets in the empty house,
remembering the voices they once framed—
its halls still holding the weight of past laughter,
its rooms echoing the hush of who used to be there,
while rain weeps on the windowpanes,
mourning the one who remains.

#firewords280 #poetry

fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 1d

William Hays, American, 1956
Spring Shower, 2016.
Linocut

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Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks Laura!
Hope your day is going well.

Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 14h

“Laughing Roses”

The fleeting nature
of ephemeral joys,
like laughter and roses,
which bloom brightly
but are short-lived,
emphasizing the importance
of cherishing and savoring
each moment of happiness.

@dyadigmas.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social #poetry #amwriting

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Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 15h

Faith is trust held beyond proof.

#Aphorism #prompt #Faith #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #PoetryCommunity #microwriting #maxim #adage #microfiction #epigram #axiom #precept #dictum #epigraph

fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 1d

Jef Bourgeau is a curator, artist, and founding director of Detroit's contemporary museum.

Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 19h

Many thanks again!

Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 19h

Thank "you"!

Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you Vana!
Have a good day.

Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 1d

A palm lifts its fronds
like a conductor’s hands.
Silence flows.
Harmony swells
before thought.
To witness it
is enough.
They orchestrate calm.
The world listens.
The body remembers
the silent score.

#amwriting #poetryCommunity #poetry #poem #palms #palmtree #BlueSkyPoetry #SkyPoet

Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 1d

In a velvet cloak adorned
with twinkling jewels,
I unfold across the
world each dusk.
I cradle dreams in
a sea of darkness,
where celestial dancers
pirouette in silent harmony,
and secrets of the universe
whisper to stargazers below.

What am I?

#scribtober #prompt #darkness @vonasvald.bsky.social

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Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Lori!
Have a nice rest of the week.

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Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 1d

B ooks of memory rest within the skull’s quiet halls,
R are ideas drift along shadowed aisles,
A rcades of thought echo with rustling stories,
I nnermost pages hum with secret knowledge,
N ooks of wonder cradle dreams between the covers.

#scribtober #prompt #skull @vonasvald.bsky.social

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Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 1d

Candle flame -
past melts and
present flickers.

#scribtober #prompt #candle #writingprompts #writingchallenge #october #writingcommunity #blueskywriters @vonasvald.bsky.social

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Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 1d

Are you sure it's safe to walk on here?
-Yeah, I've done it tons of times,
even when was I was kid.
But how do you know if it isn't too thin to walk on?
-Keep an eye out for cracks or bubbles.
Geez!
-And clear ice is stronger than cloudy or white ice.

#WIPSnips #prompt #safe #WriteSky #AmWriting

Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 1d

The vastness
of the cosmos
and the silence
of deep space
pulse with
ineffable wonder.
Time stretches,
thought falters,
and the mind
tastes infinity
as silent stars keep
vigil beyond all words.

#BlueSkyRelay #prompt #ineffable #amwriting #writingCommunity

Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 1d

Paradise-
Feathers rest,
Flower crests.

@trilisypoetry.bsky.social #amWriting @fravery.bsky.social
#BlueSkyPrompt13 #poetryCommunity #poetry #poem #BlueSkyPoetry

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Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 1d

To sacrifice is to place meaning above comfort.

#Aphorism #prompt #sacrifice #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #PoetryCommunity #microwriting #maxim #adage #microfiction #epigram #axiom #precept #dictum #epigrap

fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 1d

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Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 2d

#Green #pastures
are a story people tell
when days feel too ordinary,
a quiet confession
wrapped in hope,
that somewhere
the air is cleaner,
the clocks slower,
the voices kinder,
and the self
somehow restored—
as if contentment
were a landscape,
not a discipline
quietly practiced.

#OurPoetryX

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Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 2d

Streetlight fades
from wet pavement,
a bus exhales at the corner,
bread cools on the counter
beside unpaid bills.
Somewhere,
a sparrow stirs the gray air—
a small, persistent rumor
that better days have
not forgotten the address.

#OurPoetryX #prompt #better #days #writingCommunity #poetry #poem

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Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 2d

#Gruesome #notions
scuttled like cockroaches
under the floorboards of her mind,
refusing to be swept away,
hiding in the cracks
where daylight never reached,
nestling into corners like shadows,
demanding attention without mercy,
staining memory with its lurking persistence.

#firewords280

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Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 2d

Birch trees are the
silent ivory of the forest
pale and resilient
holding the weight of sunlight
like piano keys that
have felt decades
of music pass over them.

#BlueSkyPoetry #amwriting #writingcommunity #SkyPoet #SkyPoem #poetry #poem #poetryCommunity

fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 3d

Aspen Grove at Dawn in Autumn
By Jeff Stanford, 2025

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Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 2d

Glad you liked it, Vona.
Have a great week.

Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, Laura.

Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! We're having a beautiful bicycle day here in Madrid. I hope you are too. Have a nice week!

Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 2d

Two bicycles drift through
the hush of stone lanes—
one wheel turning memory,
the other, promise.
The old man’s laughter
bends the wind,
the boy’s echo follows,
two tides pulling toward
the same blue inheritance.

#amwriting #poetry #poem #writingCommunity #poetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoetry

fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 2d

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Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks Laura!
Have a great week ahead.

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