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Arliden the Bard

@arliden.bsky.social
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I am an educator, atmospheric scientist, and poet. My poetry: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:brm2o4aer5… My book: Love, Stars, and Paradigms. Available on Amazon. Co-host of #QuickQuill (@quickquill.bsky.social)

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Arliden the Bard @arliden.bsky.social · 2h
it's better to look back than to think about the empty space even if some day nature returns so I turn the darkness into a frame and I see you there that smile. when you're thinking of me and in the silence of being lost looking at your face I hear that faint hum our connection #SenseWrds 275
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Jane @jcm444.bsky.social · 15h
in the hurry flurry worry of just getting it all done one thing is real and true: you just one glance up to see you leaning in the doorway the whole quiet beautiful universe in your eyes is such comfort sweet #reprieve from all the tedious bullshit make believe #vss365
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Arliden the Bard @arliden.bsky.social · 16h
feel me respond to your touch every new place changes the breath adjusts the length of my moan the depth of my growl read the words "closer" and "more" in my eyes make my need rise as you advance turn me to ravenous as you withdraw each reprieve a tease filling my mind with silent screams #vss365
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~ Alison Peace @irishali13.bsky.social · 17h
Poem for Tuesday 9.29.26 Seemed appropriate for now. a good girl ~Alison Peace —Some days I wear sadness, like a heavy cloak, a Halloween costume that's happy, so maybe no one knows Smile, they say/When I'm depressed my therapist says —don't get in your bed until the sun goes down —
—a good girl
Some days I wear sadness,
like a heavy cloak, a Halloween costume that's happy, so maybe no one knows Smile, they say,
I say "F-off" in my head Some days I wear weary
I wear it until I can lie down.
When I'm depressed
my therapist says —don't get in your bed until the sun goes down
Is that when I've smiled enough for you I crawl in, pull the blanket up like that cloak Some days, I disappear when the sun goes down, and I wear the sadness like the years of being verbally assaulted bullied and tormented
the high school teacher who touched my bottom, the boy who punched me in the face when I said no.
The things I can't say out loud, the predator who broke in, I tell my therapist
- But I was
a good girl, a good girl —I smiled
Alison Peace
For every survivor
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Jane @jcm444.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
drown me wash over my soul bay and cedar sage and sweetgrass oil and water holy, holy, holy #purify my every cell in the divine spell of you the sacred smell of you the consecrated swell of you so I may forever dwell of you #vss365
Gustav Klimt - The Kiss
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Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 17h
#vss365 #Prompt #Reprieve Day 14 - Death is a #Reprieve cause it teaches us to just be The long exhale. Names loosen. Edges soften. Old recriminations fall away. Nothing left to prove. Only the quiet of letting go. 🖤🖤🖤
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Arliden the Bard @arliden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
places I've never been with you became memories blue skies & breezes old forests with mossy beds soft blankets on lush grasses where real worlds are unwelcome and our world the universe where fantasy and sanity intersect and even this beauty would disappear once I touched your skin #SenseWrds 272
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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every woman you know does so much mental math on the regular regarding her safety. When to smile politely. When to confront someone. When to walk away. When to cause a scene. Who’s safe? Who’s not? Who sees her as a person? Who doesn’t? Women are taught to never leave their drink unattended.+
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Solace @attentionundressed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The cool air trailing its tongue along my bare skin— bathing by the moon #HaikuFeels #Poetry #Senryu
Illustration of a woman bathing in water under the full moon
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Void Poetry @nightagainpoetry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i yearn to be away, let the evening bleed to black while the frozen floorboards moan i yearn to smell the sea damp upon my skin, to crawl behind your eyes and look back at me to drink in every word that reaches beyond tonight— held beneath the weight of this lonesome shadow. #emoetry #poetry
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Bethany Samaddar - popping in & out @blsamaddar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Don’t show me your face, it’s too intimate a note to weave. Don’t pause in front of my eyes while your breath remembers the imperfections of my craving skin. Stand in the shadows, far from the faintest of light— spare me the #conflict of loving you. #vss365 📷 Pixabay
Dark forest at dusk, trees fading into blue mist.
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Arliden the Bard @arliden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I see the eyes look a little too long you turn away a little too late speech stumbles as your mind wanders you try to change topics talk about the mundane or the intellectual as if it might purify your thoughts like you weren't thinking of all the ways you want me to take you make you... #vss365
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Arliden the Bard @arliden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
how I would love to watch your walk through life to see what makes your eyes light up and what makes them go dim I just know they would be full of lessons and love nearness to her there would be an ignition inspiration passion burning to red flame lost and found drawn and free #SenseWrds 274
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Arliden the Bard @arliden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's hard to believe that Republicans can constantly lie about trans issues and the only response democrats can muster is to partially capitulate to Republican lies. There has to be a better way. Either you conclude that transgenderism is real or that it's not. 1/ www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
cnn.com
Facing a barrage of Republican anti-trans ads, some Democrats are mirroring the GOP message | CNN Politics
Two years ago, President Donald Trump’s campaign buried Vice President Kamala Harris with ads on transgender issues as he stormed back into the White House.
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Jane @jcm444.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
drop the heavy load take the open road grab keys from off the shelf #renounce the burden focus on one's self when storms have run their course seek fresh resource the phantom weight can fade beyond suffocating shade an unwritten path will begin to gleam for the author of a brand-new dream #vss365
photo of an open two-lane road between mountainous trees with a double rain-bow visible in the distance
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Solace @attentionundressed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Heat fixed in your gaze— I felt your mind make a vow. Come keep its promise. #HaikuFeels #Poetry
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Jane @jcm444.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
starving I #hunger for the taste of you the heavy press of lips the heated storm firm and fierce the glorious mess of us the aftermath consumes me pull me in erase the space between us lock me away in the cage of your ribs where our hearts match time leave the world behind just hold me #vss365
abstract painted image of a man and woman in a tight golden embrace
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Arliden the Bard @arliden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
unforeseen objects collide orbits change forces shift a new balance must be found but there are parts of this system within that are inviolable no power can make me renounce the gift of you for then I am no longer me if I am to preserve this ecosystem I must remember evolution takes time #vss365
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Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#vss365 #passion so many signals hidden deep and yet they reveal the color of our monochrome skin black, white, grey as passion burns orange beneath, a flame we learn to dim protected from envious whims. 🖤 #ωнιѕρєяѕ
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Kieu Anh @k13uanh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
a slideshow of faces comes into view the aperture adjusted to isolate the subjects wrinkles gathered at their eyes smiles beam at the lens his shoulder an intruder sliced out of frame his silhouette blurring into the background #emoetry #lonesome #writingcommunity #poetry
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Arliden the Bard @arliden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A series through various stages of tonight's sunset. #sky #photo
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Arliden the Bard @arliden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I can find no peace the collision between what was and what is, is like the pouring acid on a base without ever reaching neutral what do I do if I can't accept reality? I see what I can't control I'm just screaming at it do I nurture fantasy to feed faith? what if I can't pass this test? #vss365
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Arliden the Bard @arliden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
which one of us is stranded? all I know is you are unreachable reality cannot give me peace I would make fantasy a refuge but the story of us is in pieces as elusive as quicksilver in my grasp perhaps if each morning I could sew a little more of the tapestry I could keep the faith #SenseWrds
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Arliden the Bard @arliden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
youtu.be/FALYmqt-7TQ?...
youtu.be
Cissie Redgwick - Gimme That Swing ***(AVAILABLE 14.2.14)***
YouTube video by Cuckoo Leeds
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Jane @jcm444.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
all the whys and the wherefores beckoning a reckoning what might we gain what might we lose how do we choose to take the chance on romance the harbor? or the water? dive into the deep? take the leap? hmmm… because it’s him I #reckon I’ll swim #vss365
a woman in a red bathing suit top and skirt leaning back on her arm, sitting on a rock in the ocean looking out on the water
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Void Poetry @nightagainpoetry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
i fed the #hunger beneath my tongue, and it asked for more. #vss365 #micropoem
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Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#vss365 #embark my heart wants to embark to the unfinished, to that almost kiss. the door left ajar. the cloudburst we escaped still dry. the blues of blueberries we forgot to taste. perhaps this time you will remain in love. 🖤 #ωнιѕρєяѕ
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Arliden the Bard @arliden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
marveling at the sky as it climbs clouds become gilded for years I sought your beams the comfort of warming skin the spectacle of glinting mesmerizing reflections the wonder of your light split into colors but now it burns my skin leathered cells crumpling sun. will you face a reckoning? #vss365
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Arliden the Bard @arliden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Anybody else being inundated by bot accounts today? 9 so far for me.
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Stars don’t defy Evenfall’s passion what is felt in the barest whispers of time No use pleading with the sun, love Even shadows can’t deny you are mine where the fields are black #vss365 #passion #poetrysky #inkMine #poetsofbluesky #FromOneLine 430 #poetry #photography #wck #photoart 💙📷 me
Where the Fields are Black
Photograph by Winter Ives. 
©️2026, All rights reserved. 

A photograph of leaves in silhouette against concrete. Photo art expressing shadows; a field of black.
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sarah 🥀 @sarahmillswrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Love Poem Written on the Eve of the Apocalypse" in DMQ Review 🖤
Love Poem Written on the Eve of the Apocalypse, by Sarah Mills

Everyone talks about the apocalypse like it's all zombies and asteroids, but nobody mentions the quiet parts. Here I am, kissing your microplastic lips, pulling ash from your soft hair. I tried to be a minimalist because I knew how suffocating the landfills would feel at the end of the world. I became obsessed with letting go, throwing away things I needed, practical things like a hammer. The sky is cleaved open, its insides shining like the pipes from an organ I saw on a curb outside a church. I wondered if it could still make music. Your irises are glowing from staring at the radioactive Milky Way, its purple stars wetting your cheeks. Did we have enough time to do all the things we loved? I took so many long drives with my car packed and the windows down, trying to escape Sadness, the name of my shadow. The feeling of aloneness pressing against my face—or was that just the wind? What struck me was that I still had so much room for hope. I paid for it like an extra carry-on, lugged it through the squeaky halls of my life on broken wheels, its contents spilling out. I held each item like a favorite sweater or beloved book, running my hand over it the way I am grazing your cheek now, burning red like embers. I love this one, I said so many times, stuffing it back in, deciding to keep it.
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Arliden the Bard @arliden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
tell me what's on your mind what thoughts have your hips shifting bottom lip biting hands sliding unconsciously down your chest along thighs is it just my imagination that your legs are slightly parting a little lubrication is starting an unsated restlessness tell me how much you hunger #vss365
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Jane @jcm444.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
in every dream I know your hands your skin the rarest sweet and savory touch in every scheme a whisper, a storm a quiet tide, shifting current tender, strong, and warm the puppet master controlling my every breath gentle power and #passion praying a fervent prayer to soft, succulent flesh #vss365
black and white image of a man's hand touching the small of a woman's back
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Once I stood by the sea exuberant embrace washed over me Once I stood by a river mournful peacock cry a reminder Once I stood by your side We embark on tenacious journeys Love never tells when it’s leaving #vss365 #inkMine #BlueTue #poetrysky #poetsofbluesky #photography #wck #emoetry 📷 me
Star of India 
Photograph by Winter Ives. 
©️2026, All rights reserved.  

A photograph of clipper ship, Star of India located in San Diego harbour.
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Solace @attentionundressed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Starry-eyed beneath rose lenses, imagination soaring, having run away from her again. Harvesting passion from all her hopes. There may be nothing on the other side, but she’s still dreaming that there is. #vss365 #poetry
Collage created by
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A surreal close-up of a blue-gray human eye emerging from the ruffled center of a pale pink peony, its lashes blending with the flower’s veins and petals while buds and stems curl against a dark background.
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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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PoetessOProinntigh @poetessoprunty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
fall was falling in my lap maples received their tap, tap, tap buckets hanging all in a row as the sweetest sap began to flow the farm where I was free to play building tunnels in the late season hay washing over me this cold, rainy day are memories time begins to fray ~ OProinntigh #poetry
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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A poem wrote itself in my head today. It climbed out from under the rubble and made a daisy chain out of ruin— stringing words together as if creativity can be conjured out of nothing, out of air. A poem wrote itself in my head today but I was not there. #sensewrds 272
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Arliden the Bard @arliden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it was definitely passion not some passing fashion & if you're presuming, it came close to all consuming dangling at the edge of obsession as if my very will was not in my possession, then you know the pull that only she made me feel full if I could just absorb her heat then I'd be complete #vss365
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Kate @katsyarina27.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Stormy existence Heart like a lighthouse shining Hope and despair mixed #vss365 #stormy #haiku 📸 Pixabay
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Arliden the Bard @arliden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Going to the store isn't a journey. Journeys are when you don't know where you're going and you don't know where you'll end up, but you really just liked that direction. We met...'met' is just 3 letters. But it began a universe. I had no idea the journey I was embarking on. Thank you. #vss365
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Kieu Anh @k13uanh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#vss365 #EMBARK #poetry #poetrysky
Title: Sovereign  Souls
Poem: 
Epitaphs held the shells of
Marauding souls sinking into meadowlands
Belying a dim restfulness
Awakens glints of marigold across the sky
Rivers wept during their slumber once more
Kindred memory flows through upended fates
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Jane @jcm444.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
in the beginning just learning morning arrives hushed a grey slip of light across the floor the shape of you feels suddenly close we map silence test the weight the warmth in shared space not quite grand yet a quiet promise tucked in a glance the world softens we #embark and take the chance #vss365
images of buds beginning to bloom on branches
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Arliden the Bard @arliden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
it was the best of beginnings somehow through a screen you felt like home for years you went with me wherever I'd roam easing my mind swelling my heart bound to my blood you were never apart it was the best of beginnings we were instant friends we embarked on a journey is this how it ends? #vss365
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SoulScratches @soulscratches.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
this would be the line drawn by experience quiet streets shining with unspoken questions and memories edging closer to the present day echoes attracting what the eyes cannot see night scores in the sky #MonoMonday #Poet #Writer #BlackandWhitePhotography 🖤🤍
Black and white nighttime slanted photo of a walk through Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia. A ferris wheel, trees and a water feature, enhance the tall slender buildings in the scene.
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A Simple Poet @asimplepoet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Kate LaDew @kateladew.com · 22/09/2026
#vss365 #embark #PoliticalPoetry #Poetry #LitSky #AmWriting
it is beyond all comprehension that anyone could see this 

and think good
and think yes
and think anything other than no no no
but you do not see
I push the images towards you
they were alive, they are no longer alive, 
look
see
and you push them away
the way someone pushes away an unsatisfying meal,
picking out what you want leaving behind what you don’t
look
see
it is beyond all comprehension 
so you do not comprehend
to do so would mean you’ve been tricked, duped, made a fool
we have embarked on a journey to save our country
yes 
yes 
yes
you would rather believe a lie than be wrong 
I would rather not know the truth but can’t look away
because in the secret space of my heart, I believe god sees 
and if he sees this, he sees me
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𓂀 𓆗Jay𓆗𓂀 @kitchenraptorj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I don't perceive Black or white Thinking Humans Are anything but I'm wired for grey tones & #stormy weather— Breaking bottles Of lightning Against ideas Meant to be dissected Not buried Curiosity lures Like a seductress To clients Unlike her I hope my words Will keep us Together #vss365
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Arliden the Bard @arliden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
how I would hang on every movement as if they were notes of a favorite tune and my limbs just wanted to reach as if you were the sun drawing me like a tree into the sky you made me feel like I could glide effortlessly that my sight was far soaring over horizons and into the future #SenseWrds 271
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Jane @jcm444.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
a #stormy swirl of sorrow brings forth tears in each tomorrow without you moonlight dims to dark can’t find the spark without you the ache the pain the endless rain without you without you… #vss365
silhouette of a woman sitting on a large window sill looking out onto a gray rainy day through open windows on each side of her
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