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Matt Guntrip @matt-guntrip-music.bsky.social · 5d

A #poem for Sunday. Stuck in a hotel with Plath thinking.
Taking a knife to the knots of narrative; you to the art form itself is truth...but at least you won’t read it.

Esher

#poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writingcommunity #narcissist

Esher

Esher, post-gig hotel
your old poetry haunts
halcyon, elite education

A shared city, never met
just a toxic app
and toxic you, now I know duplicity

I accept, your manipulation
controlling each reply or post
I reject, all your daily venting
at sisters, for writing beautifully

Recognition craved, was no excuse
Accolades at your feet now
one hundred yet?
Spiritual poet they say,
dark make up selfies for awards

..and yet you called them whores
for sharing just a smile
all the while, ice back-up on the side

The darkest part of the spleen ?
I loved your prose from day one,
witnessing that psychopathic cruelty
behind your art
destroyed my faith in poetry itself

Then again I’m just a burnt-out accolade
that never was

Matt Guntrip

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Sanya @sanjar.bsky.social · Aug 25

after she manifoldly
collided with walls of flesh
making her truth
derail from the path
she awakened
as if by fate
an #audacious gaze
that bridges the real
& defies singular time

in the throat of days
she raised
the sovereign vision
& became the vessel
of her own dawn

#vss365 #poetry 🖼️StockCake

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Arliden the Bard @arliden.bsky.social · Aug 25

tell me
more stories of your life
happy or sad
for I know they will
transport me
and I shall watch you
study your face
and I will know
your heart
at the moments
that made you
who you are
and always will this have
depth
the bass tones
of the beat I hear
with my ear
pressed against your chest

#vss365

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Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · Aug 22

Nice to write something fresh for #poemsabout #chandeliers after a week away, hope you enjoy it. Thanks as always @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the great prompt and everyone for the wonderful poems I'm enjoying reading instead of getting work done! #poetry #poemsonbluesky

We follow the drove roads in late summer

the moon is new
when night finally comes
where starlight and satellites hang
like chandeliers above us
already what we see is history

now the sky dances just for us
a reel we both know so well
and your eyes as bright as any star
as you trace the old drove roads

where shooting stars
follow the paths our ancestors walked
across the heavens
signals crossing stone
and stardust

we lie on our backs in the heather
you take my hand
beside the old shieling
in the briefest night
and the world is fine

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Dawn McLachlan @deemclachlan.bsky.social · Aug 22

A #FridayPoem for #poemsabout #chandeliers

The background image this week is my own painting of the same name as the poem.
Phthalo Blue

#poetry #poetsofbluesky #poemAltText #chandelier #poetrycommunity #poetrysociety #poems

Pthalo Blue
by Dawn McLachlan

I think I must have known all along
Because in that long winter night
When the air prickled
with new possibilities
I felt a cool rush
chase the breath from my lungs
Beneath a chandeliered sky
Hushed by the whisper of the tides
I stepped forward
and reached out into the blue

*****

The poem is white upon a background image of deep blue night sky and sea painted by the author. Oil on canvas.

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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · Aug 22

for #PoemsAbout #Chandeliers
and @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#poem #poetry

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Diabolical G @gwill2k.bsky.social · Aug 22

the outer #edge
tinged with echos
of the past

empty out the silence
& raise a glass

ready my fortune
#even out the divine
call on mantras
bat bashful eyes

embrace the #mundane
& toast whats left

reverberate in stasis
form new ideations
life subsides
peace in my own
creation

#2WordPrompt #vss365

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · Aug 22

‘We were mirrors of each other:
Clockhouse labels, Opal Fruits,
laburnum flowers in our hair,’ 🪞 🍬

@louloumach.bsky.social from ‘I Am Not Light’

shorturl.at/m5IM1

#poetry #writing #books #poetic

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · Aug 22

For #poemsabout #Chandeliers
@thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Chandelier Spider

Once I had to constantly remake home
when it was destroyed. I patiently made
restrung each strand between brightnesses, honed
each line for those who reluctantly stayed.

Now, dust dulls the shine, I repair damage,
less. There are many more of us making homes in the still air. Some brightnesses
fall,
raise clouds below while I make a restring.

Air is no longer heated, sharp coldness.
Soon my bairns will eat me alive as I
ate my mam too. They will make their lines fresh
homes elsewhere, after they have fed on my

body. A life rich in captured surprise.
Soon they will eat the brightness of my eyes.

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · Aug 18

1/3 Thank you to all the folk who made the second half of The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Of Artwork And Poetry such a repast:
@sprihakant.bsky.social, Vidya Hariyan, Anthony Brough, @lawrencemoore.bsky.social @feversof.bsky.social
Patrick Wright, @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social @sueimnw.bsky.social,

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Spriha Kant @sprihakant.bsky.social · Aug 18

Love you, Paul 🥰😘
You always keep on motivating us.. that is what we all need. Again, none of my words for thanking and praising are gonna overshadow your generous deeds. So, no more words🙈🙉🙊

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · Aug 16

A poem by me 👇

Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · Aug 16

‘We have eyed the mystery of one another’ 👁️

‘Wren’ by @racheldeering.bsky.social from ‘In the Shadow of Gods’, out now on Amazon.

www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering

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DW Keene @dragonandelf.bsky.social · Aug 14

There's no angel in this house
Nor devil
No feathers drop from wings
No fires burn to ash
Mercy for myself is oft drowned or kicked out
It may feel like a devil on my shoulder
But the face in the mirror looks over my shoulder
And leaves nothing to say
#vss365

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𝑨 𝑷𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓 @apoeticwhisper.bsky.social · Aug 14

I clipped my own wings
for quite some time
loyal to a heart
that could never be mine

But I burned through the chains
left the ashes behind
now I fly where I please
and the sky is all mine.

#vss365

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · Aug 5

Branscombe Coast. A #poem of mine first published by the wonderful @wavelace.bsky.social in @indigodreamspub.bsky.social's The Dawntreader #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #booksky

Branscombe Coast. A poem by Paul Connolly. First published in The Dawntreader.

Branscombe Coast

Eroded chalk bobbles
nodular like an organism
an exotic succulent
or afflicted face

mudstone looms in a
sudden Colorado
near bloodied sea
the red cliff’s low portions
throb out
hearts arteried and veined
with gypsum

and spat gobs
of stone gristle
and bleached bone
strew the beach

and the sea
flows round destruction

and I am one come from afar
who’s stumbled on ruin
felled pediment and capital

and scent the thrill
and taste the agony
of boundless possession

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Spriha Kant @sprihakant.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thanks so much😇

Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · Aug 10

A #lifttothesky for @sprihakant.bsky.social poet and supportive member of the #poetrycommunity

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · Aug 10

A #lifttothesky for @sprihakant.bsky.social poet and supportive member of the #poetrycommunity

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Spriha Kant @sprihakant.bsky.social · Aug 11

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Spriha Kant @sprihakant.bsky.social · Aug 9

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Spriha Kant @sprihakant.bsky.social · Aug 9

Thanks @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social 😇

Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · Aug 9

Welcome To The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Of Artwork And Poetry Issue Eleven Day Sixteen featuring more of the artwork by @sprihakant.bsky.social Spriha Kant
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Welcome To The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Of Artwork And Poetry Issue Eleven Day Sixteen featuring more of the artwork by Spriha Kant.

A Feast Of Words And Image

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · Aug 9

Welcome To The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Of Artwork And Poetry Issue Eleven Day Sixteen featuring more of the artwork by @sprihakant.bsky.social Spriha Kant
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Welcome To The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Of Artwork And Poetry Issue Eleven Day Sixteen featuring more of the artwork by Spriha Kant.

A Feast Of Words And Image

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Sue Finch (she/her) @suefinch.bsky.social · Aug 8

#SturgeonMoon

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Matthias 🦄🧚‍♂️🐉 @ignorantfairy.bsky.social · Jul 30

ogres!
wails echoing
through forlorn
hamlet
grotesque beasts
stepping out
behind tree cover
swamp brown
hide
piercing gaze
eyes glowing
like embers
at night
no one lived
to tell the tale
only bones
licked clean

#BlueSkyRelay #poetry #specpo #fantasy #poetrycommunity

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Eileen Curley Hammond @curleyhammcozy.bsky.social · Jul 30

Eloise spread the blanket, arranged snacks, and sat, back against the #elm. Then she lifted her laptop.

It had been ages since she ventured from the house—the moist heat was beyond oppressive.

A caterpillar eased onto her shoulder.

Today her muse would return. #vss365

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Diabolical G @gwill2k.bsky.social · Jul 30

a blush of haste
leaning in
from the kiss before

an acquired taste
on the face
of “what was that #for?”

lips lovingly laced
intertwining mouths
form a safe harbor

#danger abates
sensuous #sapphires
blink half open

the beating heart
a shimmering swoon
that hope elopes in

#2WordPrompt #vss365

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