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Tracy Shawn

@tracyshawn.bsky.social

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#Author ✍🏻Novels: Floating Underwater and The Grace of Crows, Second Edition www.tracyshawn.com/ Editing/Revising third novel📖 Member of The #AuthorsGuild 📚She/Her https://www.tracyshawn.com/novels-by-tracy-shawn/

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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 18h

www.tracyshawn.com/2025/10/06/w... #Writing #ChallengingTimes #Anxiety #WritingCommunity (one-minute read)

Writing Through Challenging Times - Tracy Shawn, Award-Winning Author

Please note that this post was first published in Women Writers, Women’s Books on July 1, 2025 by Tracy Shawn It takes energy, determination, and focus to get those words down. And it ca...

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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 3d

Much gratitude, dear @drippingwithwords.bsky.social 💙!

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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you so much 🤗

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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent prose, @kitchenraptorj.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽!

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𓂀 𓆗Jay𓆗𓂀 @kitchenraptorj.bsky.social · 3d

Trapped in an #advert not of our making

We fall, thinking we're free but we keep sinking

I'll surrender when you realize we're raindrops in a sea

I'll drop the mask when you wake & break free

The storms ahead don't matter
so long as we're not dead

Still sinking, keep breathing

#vss365

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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 3d

Beautiful prose, @drippingwithwords.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽!

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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 3d

Ad Shamed

Let our company fix you
Of those embarrassing smells
Unruly hair
Age spots, wrinkles, spotty complexion

Let our adverts shame you
Into a plastic-smooth existence
Where the real you forgets how to frown, smile, cry, laugh.

#vss365

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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 4d

#booksky #videos #ContemporaryFiction #WomensFiction

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Tracy Shawn’s Novels

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Tania Carina Pires @taniacarinapires.bsky.social · 7d

And by long walks, I mean ‘loooong walks in the book aisle.’📚

#Booksky #Bookworm #ReadingCommunity #WritingCommunity

I'm a simple girl who just likes long walks in the book aisle.

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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 6d

The sky no longer holds us
No oasis of imagined loyalty
No star-filled light of hope

Alone, my heart wonders
Why your heart folded

To the drag of crouching habits
To the velocity of lies
#vss365

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C. Oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social · 7d

blurs of time
deepening
in my wrinkles

#vss365 #blur #Oulens
#haiku #senryu
#blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

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Jami-Jam @jami-jam.bsky.social · 7d

‪
Jane Goodall, born April 3, 1934, Passed October 1, 2025. Dr. Goodall emphasized that there can never be world peace until we learn to live in harmony with nature, promoting environmental harmony. 🌹Thank you beautiful lady for your tireless work for the animal kingdom and our world.

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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you for writing such mesmerizing prose💐!

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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 12d

Powerful!

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Marcía Lynn Paul - Author/Poet @marcialynnpaul.bsky.social · 15d

*BEWARE OF THE...*

#tanka
#poetry
#prompt
#writesky
#spokenword
#poetrylovers
#blueskypoets
#solseed #finite
#whistpr #cottage
#poetrycommunity
#emoetry #lethargic
#blueskyrelay #frost
#vss365 #bellwether
#OurPoetryX #tied_up
#RetroArtPrompt #false
#2wordprompt #truth #wall

*Audio On, Please* 🗣️🎙

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Maria Carvalho @immcarvalho.bsky.social · 17d

Oceanside garden—
#Perhaps waves sing lullabies
And flowers dream of the sea

(My 📸) #vss365 #haiku #poem #FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling

A large garden with blooms of pink, purple, and white. It's bordered by a white fence with the ocean and a clear sky in the background. This is the entrance to the Marginal Way, a gorgeous coastal path in Ogunquit, ME.

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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 15d

I think I might name a character ‘Bellwether’ and have everybody listen very closely to what he said and then do anything *but* what he wants them to do. 🤔😅

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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 15d

Wind,
The unreachable air
Of change

But, still, he thinks he catches it
Fancying himself a bellwether
Expects all to follow his lead

Yet nature has her own wild flight—even, at times,
The human nature that sways within its path

#vss365

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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 19d

Much Gratitude☺️💕! I love your work, as well📖!

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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you, @marcialynnpaul.bsky.social 📖🦋!

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Deborah League @deborahleague.bsky.social · 20d

Hibiscus in the garden.

ART - deborah-league.pixels.com/featured/del...

#art #artshop #artstore #ayearforart #buyintoart #wallart #homedecor #artforsale #artist #blueskyart #giftideas #lifestyle #colorful #artwork #artprints #flowerart #floral #hibiscus #photography #digitalart #gardening

White bloom tinged with pink and purple against the varying greens of the garden foliage.

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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you, @drippingwithwords.bsky.social ☺️!

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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 19d

I extrude my dreams
Press them into so many hopeful shapes

Bake them until they’re warm and crisp and finally done

Only to have them break into so many crumbs
Only to lean my head onto the table

The exhaustion of reality
Crushing

#vss365

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Dripping With Words | Intuitive Writer @drippingwithwords.bsky.social · 22d

..sometimes you just need to sit alone. on the floor. in a quiet room. let the sun dance away into the night–and forget about the world for awhile..

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#quotes #photography #zen #sunset #spirituality #amwriting #nature #sunrise #sky #art #landscape #music #beach #philosophy #writingcommunity

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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 20d

We are seeing a roll back of the freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and freedom of the press not just on late-night, but at all levels of society, we must stand united for our freedoms.

That’s why announcing the NOPE Act to prevent presidents from using government to punish critics.

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