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Ann Tigone

@anntigone.bsky.social
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Poet. Dramatic but lazy. Wistfully nonchalant. Passionately disinterested in oxymorons.

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February Grace @februarygrace.bsky.social · 16h
life is cruel, my dear if I could move the mountains you would never cry #vss365 #mountain
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Mollie Grace @msfulofgrace.bsky.social · 13h
#InkMine #belong often feel as if I don’t belong anywhere outside looking in
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Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 15h
Anyone up for adventure? On #mountains and beyond? #vss365 #poem
The text reads:

MANY PEOPLE TRAVEL 
OVER LAND AND SEA
UNDER STORMS WE VENTURE OUT NEVER A DULL MOMENT WE SHARE TIME FOR ADVENTURE IS ALWAYS
ANY WAY THE WINDS TAKE US 
IN STORIES AT LEAST WE'LL BE 
NOW THE TALE BEGINS

Below the poem, handwritten text reads:
#VSS365
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 23h
I hope everyone is having a good Friday. I am having a busy one, so am going to post this and run! I will leave reading everyone else's until tonight when I can hopefully relax 😌 #PoemsAbout #Rot @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #Poetry
Slow Death

My mother's garden once held itself together
the way a thought survives a sleepless night,
each bed and border aligned
to some private geometry of care.

Now rot works through it
like a forgotten language returning
to the mouth.

Apples soften where they land.
Pears remain aloft, unchosen,
moons refusing their eclipse.

The shed folds inward by degrees,
its boards separating from one another
old friends who have exhausted
every story.
Rain collects in the bench.
The wood drinks and drinks,
remembering old thirsts.
The fence gives up its straight lines.
One panel lies down in the nettles,
gravity has won the argument.

Nothing is cleared.
Leaves gather,
brown receipts from a season
that no longer keeps records.

I walk there and feel
time changing shape.
Not passing, but thickening.

Everything she touched
continues the cycle without her.

The trees stand crowded with
their unfinished offerings,
and death hangs on the branches:
a bruised apple
holding one square of light.
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Sunlit @sunblissful.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I miss starlings the fields vocal and plain golden light haloed #SenseWrds
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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gathering mushrooms In the autumn evening light, Psilocybin dreams. #DailyHaikuPrompt #Mushroom/Evening #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It was exactly one year ago I started writing poetry properly. I came home from an event to celebrate the appointment of our junior Poet Laureate and wrote this for #NationalPoetryDay 2025. This was the first poem I ever shared with anyone. The theme was PLAY and I chose to do an acrostic.
The Last Summer of Play

Packing sand around feet and legs,
Lacking supervision while parents are
Attacking seagulls that threaten the picnic and
Yakking with neighbours on the beach.

Postcard-perfect summer afternoons.
Lifeguard hut becomes a ship to
Asgard, or anywhere beyond the school
Yard from which you have escaped.

Pier jumping while adults stand and
Leer and shout out rules which you don’t
Adhere to. Not you – you’ll be bigger next
Year, and then you’ll show them!

Pour over books on seascape
Lore. Hunting for treasure washed
Ashore. A final chance to play before
You’re too old to remember how.
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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#vss365 #vsshorror #vss part 1/2 Beneath a skull shaped #cloud Crow screams a ghastly wail As the witching hour strikes and the veil is thin Ship flooded by thick fog
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Ross (RJ) 🖤🐇🤖 @rjvoidrabbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Something #Poetry #WritingCommunity #PoetsOfBlueSky #PoetrySky #Poem #Poets (Alt text has formatting removed for readability)
Something

Go
Do
Be
Something

Say
Act
Try
Something

Help
Find
Make
Something
Anything is better than nothing
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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Buttercup blossoms Popping around the haystack, Nature is painting. #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haystack/Blossoms #haiku #poem #writing #writingcommunity
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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 12h
What has happened to the wonder in me? I used to look out into the night & see the stars— now I just see the dark. You have long been my light, remind me that I am made of magic & that stars burn inside me— even when I can no longer see them. #sensewrds 276
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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 16h
I want to be good & kind & decent but I can't afford the renovations— something rotten in my foundations, long obscured by youth & charm but now I'm older & it's starting to show like woodworm in the floorboards. Tread carefully, the sign says— there are cracks in the structure of her. #mpprompt
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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What if I walked out into the night and never looked back? Blending in to the inky darkness. Would I sparkle there like a glistening star? Since in the day, beneath the light of the sun, I am nothing— a shadow. But at home, with all the other shadows, perhaps I could shine. #mprompt
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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Whisper all you remember of the girl I used to be whisper memories to fill the emptiness she left in me whisper until her name sounds like my own again whisper 'til I forget she isn't me. #sensewrds 275
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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A fire sale of my dreams— I no longer need them I just want to trade them for the energy they take & repurpose it to get me through each day who needs dreams when I can't even dream the mundane hours in front of me? #mpprompt
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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Stealing walnuts at Night, squirrel espionage, Winter sabotage. #DailyHaikuPrompt #Walnut/Night #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Magnificent once, These opulent ruins held Vast stores of knowledge. #WeirdMicro #OpulentRuins #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @weirdmicro.bsky.social
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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I squirm under the eyes of most, wishing to slink away & merge with the shadows but you are an exception. Your stare I'll hold— like a challenge or an invitation & in my eyes' reply you know you'll find all the acquiescence of a thing untamed. #sensewrds
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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Apologies to anyone who follows me and those I follow for my lack of posts/likes/shares lately. I am horribly busy and will be for a while but I appreciate you all & hope to engage more as soon as possible
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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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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Such, your radiance  that even your leaving light makes my whole world shine. #bspp57 #leavinglight #haiku #senryu #micropoem
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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Discarded lace draped upon the lampshade, patterns dancing over skin. #bedroomeyesprompt #discardedlace #haiku #senryu #micropoem
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Robert @robertthe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah, so um, listen I think you’re, well, kinda cute so, okay, cool, bye #haikufeels #cool
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Beth Ember @ctrlaltdltffs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'll never tell. #MPPrompt #poetry
if they find out my secret
they will hate me
I will lose everything, everyone
never let anyone get too close
no matter how it burns 
to push someone away out of fear
(cue loneliness)
hold it all inside, breathless, terrified
and it screams to be let out
but no, this one stays hidden
a cowardly admission remains silenced -
fear wins again
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Suzy Dobie @suzydobie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Theatre of Memories" #mpprompt #TheatreofMemories #Meditation #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writingcommunity #poetryprompt @malformed-poetry.bsky.social @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
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Sunlit @sunblissful.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My heart used to marvel at the moon can I not reach it I asked ghosts each night in the corner of my room I would imagine ribbons gently pulling her down so I could hold phenomenal light long enough to try and sleep even an hour's sleep #vss365
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Faded Romantic @afadedromantic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I write you words I gently kiss before they leave my fingers
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Bethany Samaddar - popping in & out @blsamaddar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
She doesn’t #marvel at easy words that drizzle from sugar tongues. She marvels at the #storm pausing to rest in the furrowed warmth of her palm. #vss365 #blueskypoets #poetry #poem
Lightning branches across a storm-ridden night sky.
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Matthias (watering thoughts) 🦄🧚‍♂️🐉 @ignorantfairy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
harvest moon singing silent silver symphony selenic music filling the night with quiet small hours melting away #paintbywords #tanka #poetry
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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When you walked away, Your fading footsteps followed Me for far too long. #BSPP57 #FadingFootsteps #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
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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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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lonesome in the bones, Voice cracking from lack of use, Just a background noise. #emoetry #lonesome #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social
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Robert @robertthe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Without a promise we were inseparable the shared bond of angst #haikufeels #promise
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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We won't always bring each other joy will we? Life could never be so easy- that in another we could find all that we need. But in my moments of darkness, if you could just hold a candle & I would do as much for you then that would be enough that will always be enough. #poem #poetry
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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We are shards you and I splinters with sharp edges, broken pieces of once whole things but through the fragments of you, I see how light dances and plays- I see rainbows. I hope you see them in me too. #sensewrds 273
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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When a low mood lifts I'm like a released anchor so light I'm seasick. #bspp57 #releasedanchor #haiku #senryu #micropoem
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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Storms that rage in me can't be tackled easily waves that rise must crash. #2wordprompt #tackle #storm #haiku #senryu
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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When all my self-doubts whisper in my ear, your arms are the antidote. #bedroomeyesprompt #whisperinmyear #haiku #senryu #micropoem
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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Now I recall all my lines, I didn't know them at the time we improvised, one rule only- Drama. We created theatre out of life & pantomime of love and only by the time the pain kicked in by the time it was slipping through our fingers did we realise it had been real all along. #mpprompt
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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Self-judge and jury the owner of endless guilt court oft in session. #2wordprompt #session #owner #haiku #senryu
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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Not all landings are hard. Just ask the leaf as it surrenders to the arms of a gentle breeze, falling s l o w l y d o w n and even when it reaches the ground, it can still see the sky and remember what it was to fly. #mpprompt
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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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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Passion drives each verse and love is a sweet refrain in this song of us. #bedroomeyesprompt #loveisasweetrefrain #haiku #senryu #micropoem
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her ghost @justasilvia2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Quarrels



The muse has left me,
tired of my whys and my hows.
The muse has left me
for I wouldn't let it use my eyes. 

The muse has left me,
layers hurled, calling each other dead.
The muse has left me;
its absence crushes as it spreads. 

The muse has left me
with its scent of minor key and migraine.
The muse has left me,
imprint of fingers meant to restrain. 

The muse has left me
but won’t drift too far from home.
Nothing creates itself from nothing,
nothing destroys itself alone.
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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fragile clumsiness, #Dovetails with a dropped guard... As they hit the mat. 🥊 💥 #WSS366 #DailyPrompt #PoetrySky #ThreeLines #MicroPoem #CombatTactics #WritingCommunity #MicroWriting
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Matthias (watering thoughts) 🦄🧚‍♂️🐉 @ignorantfairy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
carnation clings on pink and red petals resist autumn's cold breezes #bravewrite #haiku #poetry
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Reading Raindoe @readingraindoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
leaves in the woods their crackled dry tongues whispering #♡ᝰ.🖋️ #haiku #poetrysky #poetry #poem #blueskypoets #micropoetry
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Ash & Ink @bundtkake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#AmpersandAfterDark #poetry #blueskypoet @madp03t.bsky.social Something true must sound like a lie. I will leave it up to you as to which side, or neither, or both, are being honest Here is a #poem...
Leaving

When I tell you that I don't care
You absent mindedly touch your hair

When I tell you that I am done
You open the box of doughnuts and take one

When I say that I have had enough
You give an ornamental pillow a fluff

When I stand and turn to go
You begin to look up very slow

When I take that first loud stride
You finally put the doughnut aside

When I say that it's too late
You toss your hands and rage 'thats just great'

When I simply just don't turn back
Your voice raises in a panicked attack

When I open the front door
You sob breathlessly on the floor

When I leave because we're through
You cough out 'but I love you'
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Glorious Narcissus resembles gratified sun but lives in brief luminosity An unforgotten woe insofar as Spring's blossoms only thrive in memory #Emoetry #gratified #inkMine #insofar #woe #poetsofbluesky #poetrysky #ColorADay #YellowThu #photography #wck #PoetryandPictures 💙📷 me
Grateful Yellow 
Photograph by Winter Ives.
©️2026, All rights reserved. 

A CU photograph of a bunch of bright yellow Narcissus. Spring blossoms.
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