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June

@tilbuj.bsky.social

#WordlePoem #PoemADay
#Wordle1665

Chocolate named in numbers
Can you guess it mate?
Twix? No. Wispa? No.
The answer’s AFTER EIGHT 🍫

January 10, 2026 at 6:27 AM

Jack Groundhog 📸📝

@jackgroundhog.bsky.social

Drop

Who was I?
A cloud in sky.
Who I am:
A leaky man —

#poem #poemaday #poetry #travelphotography #urbanphotography #monochrome #streetphotography #sky #clouds #photography

👁️ An almost monochrome image of a cloudy sky above the gilded and copper dome of the Czech National Theater as seen through the gap between buildings
📍 National Theater, Prague
📅 8 Jun 2025
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 500, ƒ6.3, -0.7 ev, 1/200s

January 9, 2026 at 7:19 PM

Richard

@subspacewagon.bsky.social

misleading, concealed frostbite and branches of bitter smoke

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#Poetry #PoemADay #PoetryCommunity #Poem #TodaysPoem #WritingCommunity #literature #art #amwriting #writing #indie

misleading, concealed frostbite and branches of bitter smoke – Richard J Tilley

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January 9, 2026 at 10:18 AM

Lin Hart

@poetry-with-hart.bsky.social

Taking a moment to breathe in between writing my more political or satirical work to gift you a different sort of #poem about a particular type of #grief I've experienced before. Best wishes 🤗

@thebrokenspine.co.uk

#poemsabout #static #poetry #5amwritersclub #6amwritersclub #poemaday #skypoem

The static of his mind
blew apart the EKG machine.

I don’t know what language
freedom, will be written in

on his hospital release papers,
or if they will ever be inked again.

He was bouncing off the walls today,
slamming pads, brick, doorways, and glass.

Demons were in his bones, he said
he was just trying to shake them loose.

They don’t like that I brought
H.P. Lovecraft among his gifts this visit.

It means they’ll be hearing about
Cthulhu in his delusional intonations

every day, for the rest of the week,
but I can’t help that it’s his favorite.

We don’t talk about the time
he tried to run for the door.

His empty-eyed defeat as the ward doors
closed in front of him, with me

on the other side. It was weeks
before I was allowed to see him again.

Instead it’s about the books and that
he noticed my hair is shorter now.

Changes from the outside world,
life going on. I leave heavier

than I arrived. I try to speak
to the Uber driver when I leave

but the words sink, and don’t make it out.
He turns on the radio to fill the void,

like the light-less city of R’lyeh,
beneath the sea. I hear only static.

January 9, 2026 at 10:15 AM

June

@tilbuj.bsky.social

#WordlePoem #PoemADay
#Wordle1664

They dug an older actor up
This film won’t be his last
His future is the future now
From the past, he is a BLAST

January 9, 2026 at 5:20 AM

Jack Groundhog 📸📝

@jackgroundhog.bsky.social

Urban shadows

Blank concrete roof waits,
pillars count the passing shade —
bike wheel spins in wind

#haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #monochrome #blackandwhite #streetphotography #urbanphotography #photography

👁️ A modernist arcaded concrete gallery in the shade on a summer day with a bike parked underneath
📍 Hauptstraße, Dresden
📅 13 Jun 2025
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ6.3, -0.7 ev, 1/125s

January 8, 2026 at 11:02 PM

Lin Hart

@poetry-with-hart.bsky.social

Came out raw and kicking. Probably needs work but I can't right now. Take care everyone. Please be safe.

#cassiopean #intentions #connections #poem #poetry #poemaday #skypoem #skypoetry #protest #resist #satire #politicalpoetry #politicalpoem

Time's up
Pencils down
Turn your scantron over
This is the final test.

Choose one:
Move the car out of the way
Or get out of it.
You must comply with orders as given.

Enforcement executioner
Blood shattered airbags
Orphaning one, the real
Questions behind the connections.

Is this division part of the intention?
Disaster after disaster
A mile apart in history
Five years apart from sedition.

This is the final test.
Coincidence doesn't exist
With armed masked men in the streets.
Terrorism scapegoat bleating

“Believe your eyes
Disregard state sanctioned lies
Or watch in HD as the next
One of us dies.

We've reached that point
In history where any one
Can be part of
The final solution.

This is the final test.
Coincidence doesn't exist
With armed masked men in the streets.
Terrorism scapegoat bleating

“Believe your eyes
Disregard state sanctioned lies
Or watch in HD as the next
One of us dies.

We've reached that point
In history where any one
Can be part of
The final solution.

January 8, 2026 at 7:53 PM

Lin Hart

@poetry-with-hart.bsky.social

Night falls on us
and we grimace
feign acceptance
that this, is justice.

#nightfall #promptcombo #poem #micropoem #micropoetry #poem #poetry #poemaday

January 8, 2026 at 7:49 PM

Richard

@subspacewagon.bsky.social

Hagar’s Coins and Horses
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takersmiths and bounty ignoring adults
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Hagar’s Coins and Horses – Richard J Tilley

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January 8, 2026 at 10:36 AM

Welsh Country

@welshcountry.bsky.social

Winters are Gold by Jane Griffiths-Jones

www.welshcountry.co.uk/winters-are-...

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetryisnotdead #poetrysociety #PoetryCommunity

#PoetryIsLife #InstaPoetry #Poemaday #LovePoetry #PoetryAddict #PoetryOfTheDay #PoetryInMotion #WriterCommunity #PoetryLovers

January 8, 2026 at 9:40 AM

June

@tilbuj.bsky.social

#WordlePoem #PoemADay
#Wordle1663

Dad said we can all have nuts
She can, he can, we can!
Go to the store - no ifs, no buts
Get a bag of PECAN !

January 8, 2026 at 5:58 AM

Jack Groundhog 📸📝

@jackgroundhog.bsky.social

Pandoora

Watchful white columns
flank the gate to darkness —
iron key caked in rust

#haiku #poem #poemaday #monochrome #blackandwhite #symmetry #photography

👁️ Tall neoclassical columns frame a dark wooden door in an imposing palace entrance
📍 Schwerin Castle
📅 20 Aug 2025
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ10, -0.7 ev, 1/80s

January 7, 2026 at 7:53 PM

Owl in the Attic Books

@owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social

I love poems that surprise me. The opening image of this Kim Addonizo poem has stayed w/me for 20 years. The journey of this poem is long & fast.

"You don't know what love is

but you know how to raise it in me
like a dead girl winched up from a river."

#poetry #booksky #kimaddonizio #poemaday

Kim Addonizio's poem, "You Don't Know What Love Is"

YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS

but you know how to raise it in me
like a dead girl winched up from a river. How to
wash off the sludge, the stench of our past.
How to start clean. This love even sits up
and blinks; amazed, she takes a few shaky steps.
Any day now she'll try to eat solid food. She'll want
to get into a fast car, one low to the ground, and drive
to some cinderblock shithole in the desert
where she can drink and get sick and then
dance in nothing but her underwear. You know
where she's headed, you know she'll wake up
with an ache she can't locate and no money
and a terrible thirst. So to hell
with your warm hands sliding inside my shirt
and your tongue down my throat
like an oxygen tube. Cover me
in black plastic. Let the mourners through.

January 7, 2026 at 5:05 PM

Richard

@subspacewagon.bsky.social

takersmiths and bounty ignoring adults

Dedicated to Angel Batista

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takersmiths and bounty ignoring adults – Richard J Tilley

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January 7, 2026 at 4:18 PM

Lin Hart

@poetry-with-hart.bsky.social

I think I wanted to address more with this, but for now it suffices. I used the British English form of antennae to apply to the electrical kind, cuz... bite me? I dunno, I think it works. Enjoy 🤗

#banterbabes #poem #poetry #poemaday #skypoem #skypoetry #specpo

Antennae
of the modern age, body borne
radio transceiver picking up
emotions like radio waves.

The everyman
keeps it as a simple rod buried
in the basement of their bones,
receiving only one channel, their own.

The divergent
carry an isotropic radiator atop
the roofs of our minds, feeling all.
We are not the same.

January 7, 2026 at 2:56 PM

June

@tilbuj.bsky.social

#WordlePoem #PoemADay
#Wordle1662

Give it some welly
Put your foot down
Speed up your wheels
All over the town
Don’t go ZERO MPH but
Ready, steady - OOMPH !! 🚘

January 7, 2026 at 5:50 AM

Jack Groundhog 📸📝

@jackgroundhog.bsky.social

Snap, shot

Street tram rumbles through
camera viewfinder’s tight frame —
fractured clock tells time

#haiku #poem #poemaday #poetry #travelphotography #monochrome #blackandwhite #streetphotography #photography

👁️ Tightly framed street scene with a street tram and parked car in a cobblestone street before an old decaying building
📍 Prokopská, Prague
📅 11 Jun 2025
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 400, ƒ6.3, -0.7 ev, 1/800s

January 6, 2026 at 8:09 PM

June

@tilbuj.bsky.social

#WordlePoem #PoemADay
#Wordle1661

There once was a Jockey named Billy
He really was awfully silly
He sat on some cheese
Which oozed through his knees
When they told him to train on a FILLY

January 6, 2026 at 5:49 AM

Lin Hart

@poetry-with-hart.bsky.social

Cliche maybe, but it says what it needed to. Best wishes and enjoy.

#emoetry #heartbroken #poem #poetry #poemaday #skypoem #skypoetry

When my heart broke,
it wasn't a loud sound.
It didn't announce itself,
cry havoc to the rafters
or howl alongside the dogs.
No war was waged
underneath my skin
or within my mind.
It was merely the whisper
of a match, blown out
As I stopped lighting
myself on fire,
to keep everyone warm.

January 5, 2026 at 11:37 PM

Jack Groundhog 📸📝

@jackgroundhog.bsky.social

Façade
A #poetry thread

—

i.

Worn windows watch with patient sight,
set deep in stone once cut to stare:
they mark by day and peer by night,
glass eyes affixed in masoned squares.

🧵👇🏼

#poem #poemaday #monochrome #blackandwhite #urbanphotography #cityscape #photography

👁️ An elaborate repetitive stone façade with many windows
📍 Palác Adria, Prague
📅 8 Jun 2025
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 500, ƒ22, -0.3 ev, 1/160s

January 5, 2026 at 10:21 PM

June

@tilbuj.bsky.social

#WordlePoem #PoemADay
#Wordle1660

Missy Lizzy overpowered
Her nature was so bossy
If mates went missing anytime
Missy sent out a POSSE

January 5, 2026 at 5:39 AM

Lin Hart

@poetry-with-hart.bsky.social

First #banterbabes #poem of the year. Definitely peppered with our sense of humor, to put it lightly. Its both on my blog in the link below, and in the screenshots attached. Enjoy 🤗

wp.me/pgq6Am-73

#satire #politicalpoetry #humor #poem #poetry #resist #protest #skypoem #skypoetry #poemaday

Feed us
with AI slop
and pink slime.

Season us
with America first rhetoric,
ignore whispers of war crimes.

Wash it down
with dye-free soda pop
or gluten-free beer.

Placate us
with half redacted truths,
never mind the fear.

Broil us
in another
unwinnable war.

Pacify outrage
with Patriot Games
so we never know the score.

Add sexism,
racism, ageism, ableism, and
homophobia to taste.

Brush heavily
with neo-christo-fascism
as a baste.

Keep us quiet
until the slaughter,
stress spoils the meat.

We are shackled
inside the ovens of failed systems,
and it’s almost time to eat.

History proves
the rich will devour the poor,
before they ever let us free.

January 4, 2026 at 8:28 PM

Jack Groundhog 📸📝

@jackgroundhog.bsky.social

Scaffold
A #poetry thread

—

i.

In the sun-warm sandstone
of a dark Gothic cathedral
stands a stranger’s steel throne
that is not medieval —

🧵👇🏼

#poem #poemaday #travelphotography #gothic #photography #silentsunday