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Faded Romantic @afadedromantic.bsky.social · 9h

She knows what I want It is her

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of his greatest poems. • Seamus Heaney •

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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

René Magritte (1898-1967) The Princess of Autumn, 1963. Oil on canvas

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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This dramatic black-and-white street photograph was captured by Portuguese photographer João Cabral in Porto, Portugal.

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Faded Romantic @afadedromantic.bsky.social · 9h

As autumn leaves turn and the air grows chill I long to wrap you in my cloak hold your sweet body close and share my heat

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Faded Romantic @afadedromantic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I see you I read you I feel you I inhale the essence of you I am enchanted captivated compelled

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It was just a dream we had, a photograph we never took but my heart tells the sweetest lie & calls it memory— you & I, strolling hand in hand through a field of gold by the glow of an endless evening— as if time & fate had never erased the possibility of us. #sensewrds 274

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Quiet Mountain, west of Ireland, painting by Padraig McCaul, Irish artist with studios in Mullingar and Achill Island.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Alice Through the Looking Glass" bronze sculpture by Jeanne Argent, located in the Guildford Castle Grounds in Surrey, England.

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Faded Romantic @afadedromantic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You have no idea how much you fascinate me

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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Excerpt from the poem "Fire" by Nikita Gill, published in her collection Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty.

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Creeping up my spine, The promise you failed to keep, Paralysed by lies. #Haikufeels #promise #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity

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Faded Romantic @afadedromantic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You have what I want what I need what matters

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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Time passes. Could it be that I never believed it? Did I believe the blue nights could last forever? — Joan Didion, Blue Nights John Dowd (American Artist, born 1960)

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Shonna White @shonnathewhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of the hardest things about being an author is NOT TELLLING EVERYONE ALL THE COOL SHIT YOU HID IN YOUR BOOK BECAUSE YOU WANT PEOPLE TO DISCOVER IT THEMSELVES. But you are also really passionate about the shit you hid in your book.

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Faded Romantic @afadedromantic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I yearn for the dark poetry in your eyes I yearn for the siren song of your thighs

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lisa Benson (British Artist, born 1958) "Lunar Light", 2019. Linocut Print, 37.5 × 48.5 cm. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 26/09/2026

If you can catch a hare and look into its eye, you will see the whole world… —Anna Crowe, “A Calendar of Hares” from A SECRET HISTORY OF RHUBARB (Mariscat, 2004) #BookWormSat #poem #poetry annacrowepoet.com/2021/04/21/a...

A Calendar of Hares
Anna Crowe

for Valerie Gillies

1. At the raw end of winter
the mountain is half snow, half
dun grass. Only when snow
moves does it become a hare.

2. If you can catch a hare
and look into its eye,
you will see the whole world.

3. That day in March
watching two hares boxing
at the field’s edge, she felt
the child quicken.

4. It is certain Midas never saw a hare
or he would not have lusted after gold.

5. When the buzzard wheels
like a slow kite overhead
the hare pays out the string.

6. The man who tells you
he has thought of everything
has forgotten the hare.

7. The hare’s form, warm yet empty.
Stumbling upon it, he felt his heart
lurch and race beneath his ribs.

8. Beset by fears, she became
the hare who hears
the mowers’ voices growing louder.

9. Light as the moon’s path over the sea,
the run of the hare over the land.

10. The birchwood a dapple
of fallen gold: a carved hare
lies in a Pictish hoard.

11. Waking to the cry of a hare
she ran and found the child sleeping.

12. November stiffens
into December: hare and grass
have grown a thick coat of frost.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Boys playing marbles, Leeds, 1962, photo by Paul Berriff.

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

she doesn’t know how to save a poem for later she chain-smokes words till her lungs are f u l l the remnants cling to her skin like ashes #poetry

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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Love, the most hardy bloom doesn't need or want like an incensed child Perhaps grace is eternal Love's most luminous aspect Star-kissed Nerium Love shall survive the inconstant moon and passionate sun #Emoetry #inkMine #writesky #poetsofbluesky #poetrysky #photography #wck #eck #GreenSat

Nerium at Night.
Photograph by Winter Ives.
©️2026, All rights reserved.

A photograph of Nerium (White Oleander) aka “Hardy White” stalks against the black of night, giving off a star-kissed quality.

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Faded Romantic @afadedromantic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can you imagine the ways I imagine having you?

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Willow and Crows, by Katushika Hokusai, 1841

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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Salvador Dali, Two dancers, pen and paper, 1949 #Art

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Faded Romantic @afadedromantic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I could stare at you for a lifetime and never tire of the view

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Matthias (watering thoughts) 🦄🧚‍♂️🐉 @ignorantfairy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

softly curling fog blanketing sleeping clearing crows perch on beeches #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #poetry

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𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙼𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗 @standingmountain.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A human being is a temple of opulence— ancient roots descending beneath, singing of rivers as veins through the wondrous body of Earth. the old waters remember; the mountains keep their silence. We carry forests in our blood, stone in our bones, oceans in the hidden chambers of our becoming. #🌎🌍🌏

‘𝙽𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚎𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎.’
𝙱𝚛𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚕𝚢𝚗 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚘𝚛𝚔, 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛'𝚜 .

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USA @usamailbox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#StreetArt Three Reflective Faces Share One Blue Wall Title Graffiti in #Northampton, #UK

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Faded Romantic @afadedromantic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I imagine tracing my name high on your inner thigh with the tip of my tongue

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 25/09/2026

Shop Front, Puebla, Mexico Irving Penn, 1942.

A spotted toy or carousel horse standing inside a dark shop doorway beneath a small lamp

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

All we are not stares back at what we are. W. H. Auden

Photograph monochrome

impressionist tree-line reflected in lake

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Faded Romantic @afadedromantic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This hunger is eating me yet all I want to taste is you

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

By Aleksander Lindeberg

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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I kissed you and for a moment the empyrean was not above us it was here in the silence between your lips and mine #PoetrySky #WritingSky #Poetry #AbstractArt #AcrylicOnCanvas #EastCoastKin 🎨mine

Abstract acrylic painting in deep blue, violet and turquoise, with pale luminous forms flowing through the centre like light opening through water or sky.

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Faded Romantic @afadedromantic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I long for you longingly at length I become long for you

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Though brief and fleeting, Love is a sweet refrain from Reality's rain. #BedroomEyesPrompt #LoveIsASweetRefrain #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @matthew-ds9.bsky.social

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tamisar @tamisar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Unforgivable Sin -a long #FreeForm #poem by~Mischa💞revised since He 1st✍️it-Time put much into perspective. Yet #sorrow & #guilt linger…a need for #forgiveness 💔Deep gratitude to any & everyone who takes time to read this🙏~💞 #BraveWrite #forgive #poetry #Emoetry #writingcommunity #blueskypoets

The Unforgivable Sin

So gentle, seeming sweet, and so innocently
That heart of hers appeared to be surrendered,
So freely and so utterly to me given...
Unworthy Soul, felt I, e'er to have received it,
Not knowing yet what seethed beneath "gentility..."

Oh, wouldst that I could have Loved her Better
And yet I loved with everything I had:
Gave her my Heart's awakened and impassioned verse...
All of my Self and all her dreams envisioned...
My disembodied Soul somehow "embodied" just for her,
Striving to be more than I e'er meant to be...

Only to watch in horror as her mask began to melt,
Revealing her true nature: heartshaking the Reality...
My conscience torn and tortured by the Truth
I tried to love her still, even knowing I'd been misled...
Til my disillusioned, yet guilt-riven Soul - gasping for freedom -
Finally broke with her and sadly fled...

My Heart ached with her pain as well as my own...
I watched thereon from afar safe distance
As, uncloaked, her madness burgeoned, violently let loose...
Leaving all destroyed, Love strafed by Lies witnessed...
And I left with one unanswerable question: had I been Seducer
Or - by her mask of sweetness - been Seduced?

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."
~Mischa Sarcassian💞June 2001-July 2026
~ End Quote by Sir Walter Scott

We realise this may prove unfathomable by many a reader-if any do take time to read it all. For those who endeavour to not only read such a long confessional & deeply personal poem, but to possibly understand even a bit of its meaning, I am humbled and most grateful for your patience. If you choose to leave a Like, I thank you once more. If not, however, believe me, I understand. This is a tale I found hard to tell and yet it simmered in that well of Being called Conscience for so long, I could not help but✍️it down, revising it over Time as the Reality of what happened seemed clearer…yet still it troubles my Heart to this day. I wish Her Well…in every way…~Mischa💞

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Jones’s Corner Shop, painting by Salford artist Tom Brown (1933-2017).

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Faded Romantic @afadedromantic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I enjoy dancing but I adore you dancing for me

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

His fading footsteps haunt my dreams, retreating but never fully gone. #bspp57 #fadingfootsteps #haiku #senryu #micropoem

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Kjcole 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♏️🦂🕊️🐞🦋🐇🍀 @kjcole.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

She will light your way through darkness In a world so dim and silent She sees the struggles, knows the pain Of a weary soul that seeks the rain She walks a path, in winds that show no mercy Though storms may rage and blow, you’ll always hear her raspy voice calling your name #BluSkyPoetry

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Faded Romantic @afadedromantic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wanting you might just be the only habit I know I cannot stop

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