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emotion grew from the spine and folded into the stomach, untasted #poem #poetry #photography #micropoetry #haiga #haiku #poetsofbluesky

Text “emotion grew from the spine / and folded into the stomach, / untasted” in dark text on a light background, superimposed over a color photograph of a bloom with flat, dark-crimson-to-black petals

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am grateful to Thin Places Journal for including my poem "St. Francis Gives a Sermon to the Birds" in their latest issue 🐦‍⬛ thin-places.org/2026/09/29/i... #birds #poetry #poetsofbluesky

Text "My avian brethren, my ornithary sisters" from the poem "St. Francis Gives a Sermon to the Birds" in dark text, superimposed over a color photograph of 85 pigeons perched across three telephone wires against white clouds in a blue sky

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the moon was an opal blister in a black pelt #moon #fullmoon #poem #poetry #photography #micropoetry #haiga #haiku #poetsofbluesky

$Text “the moon was / an opal blister / in a black pelt” in light-purple text superimposed over a color photograph of the moon with its light diffracted through messy clouds in light blue, grey and black$

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Hi, I’m Melanie. I’m a librarian and poet living in the eastern United States. I love the end of the “Lua” duet by Conor Oberst and Gillian Welch when they repeat “so simple in the moonlight, so simple in the moo-oon-light” Would you like to introduce yourself with a small song moment you like?

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Lady Demeter, You come too early. Your daughter has only wandered down the road. #poem #poetry #photography #micropoetry #haiga #poetsofbluesky

Text "Lady Demeter, / You come too early. / Your daughter / has only wandered / down the road." in light text on a green background, superimposed over a color photograph of a small patch of leaves turning flame-colored orange in the midst of still-green trees

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A not admitting of the wound can strip the bruises from my skin, can smooth the wrinkles out of truth. Triolet fragment after Dickinson (1188) #poem #poetry #photography #micropoetry #emilydickinson #poetsofbluesky

Text “A not admitting of the wound / can strip the bruises from my skin, / can smooth the wrinkles out of truth. Triolet fragment after Dickinson (1188)” in black on a grey background, superimposed over a color photograph of a gash in a tree trunk oozing rust-colored liquid

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

take what leaves, help the rest when show won’t tell anyone art is a truth that cells divide #poem #poetry #micropoetry #aphorisms #poetsofbluesky

Text “take what leaves, help the rest / when show won’t tell anyone / art is a truth that cells divide” in black on a tan background, superimposed over a color photo of yellow and grey carpeting reminiscent of a Klimt pattern

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

#NationalPoetsDay Love y'all. Image: stonemason’s heart marque de tâcheron, Louvre Fortress circa 13th century #poetry #photography #poetsofbluesky

Text #NationalPoetsDay in purple font superimposed over a heart carved into stone

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You want to live like spreadsheet people You want to see whatever spreadsheet people see You want to sleep with spreadsheet people You want to sleep with spreadsheet people like me? But she didn't understand She just smiled and held my hand

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

conclusively proven: if you play “Love Is Everywhere (Beware)” by Wilco in your car, this rainbow will appear #photography #micropoetry #wilco #poetsofbluesky

Text "conclusively proven: if you play “Love Is Everywhere (Beware)” by Wilco in your car, this rainbow will appear" in black on a light blue background, superimposed over a color photograph of a rainbow over clouds and trees against a vivid blue sky

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We deallocated the memory, pulled out the threads, moved the words to other storage #poem #poetry #photography #micropoetry #poetsofbluesky

Text “We deallocated the memory, / pulled out the threads, / moved the words to other storage” in white text superimposed over a color photograph of a doe standing the middle of a suburban street at dusk with trees and a traffic sign in the background

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Describe your musical taste in three artists, no genres: Franz Schubert Depeche Mode Kate Bush

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I dug the thickness flat. I scratched away the interference, made the words bleach themselves silent. #poem #poetry #photography #micropoetry #poetsofbluesky

Text “I dug the thickness flat. / I scratched away / the interference, made / the words bleach themselves / silent.” in white text on a gray background superimposed over a color photograph of beige and gray pavement patches on a parking garage floor.

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The Odyssey: my film experience in 165 emojis. I cannot explain why I spent time on this. #theodyssey #odyssey #cinema #epic

Castle, turkey leg, glass of wine, turkey leg, glass of wine, eggplant, eggplant, eggplant, eggplant, boy, woman, yarn, blind man, dog / Beach, fairy woman, bearded man, fishing rod, fishing rod, lotus flower, lotus flower, lotus flower, lotus flower, lotus flower, lotus flower, lotus flower, lotus flower, lotus flower / Sunshine, horse, soldier, soldier, bearded man, soldier, soldier, soldier, soldier, soldier, soldier, soldier, shrugging man, blood / Boat, boat, boat, island, sheep, bearded man, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, eye, blood, fire, logs / Boat, boat, boat, island, fencing man, fencing man, fencing man, fencing man, bearded man, fencing man, blood, blood, blood, blood / Boat, island, lion, tiger, deer, witch, soup, soup, pig, pig, pig, pig, bearded man, crow / Boat, snowy mountain, goat, blood, bearded man, shrugging man, ghost, zombie, ghost, sunglasses face, ghost, ghost, ghost, ghost / Boat, rocks, singing woman, musical notes, singing woman, rocks, spiral, rocks, octopus, rocks, island, steak, sun face, thundercloud / Beach, bearded man, superwoman, wave, temple, blood, boy, castle, blind man, turkey leg, glass of wine, eggplant, eggplant, eggplant / Crying face, crying face, crying face, crying face, crying face, crying face, bearded man, dog, crying face, crying face, crying face, crying face, crying face, crying face / Hatchet, hatchet, hatchet, hatchet, hatchet, hatchet, bearded man, bow and arrow, blood, blood, blood, blood, blood, blood / Horse, temple, fire, fire, facepalming man, crowned prince, castle, woman, man, boat, sunset

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

a sense of agency, dense adjacency, tense with latency: commence blatancy. #poem #poetry #photography #micropoetry #clouds #poetsofbluesky

Text “a sense of agency, / dense adjacency, / tense with latency: / commence blatancy.” in white text superimposed over a color photograph of a stack of dark clouds over blue sky over white clouds over trees, photographed through telephone wires at an intersection with two red lights.

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Wind for the hearing Gravity for the sticking Memory for the seeing #poem #poetry #photography #micropoetry #poetsofbluesky

Text “Wind for the hearing / Gravity for the sticking / Memory for the seeing” in white text superimposed over a color photograph of a path between two rows of trees, partly in sunlight

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

can life become only what falls through the sieve, so my poems can rest, distilled to a trace #poem #poetry #photography #poetsofbluesky

Text “can life become only / what falls through the sieve, / so my poems can rest, / distilled to a trace” in pink text on a transparent grey background, superimposed over a color photograph of river rocks under rippling water

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Make the algorithm sit in the corner and think about what kind of randomness it wants to be #poem #poetry #photography #algorithm #poetsofbluesky

Text “Make the algorithm sit / in the corner and think / about what kind / of randomness / it wants to be” in pale yellow text on a transparent blue-to-yellow gradient background, superimposed over a color photograph of wedges of wood joined together on a central point

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Dream: My cat became a woman She read all of the books in my library That’s how she became human #poem #poetry #photography #cats #internationalcatday #poetsofbluesky

Text “Dream: / My cat became a woman / She read all of the books in my library / That’s how she became human” in white text superimposed over a greyscale photograph of a cat in loaf position looking through sheer curtains

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

old photo of the sky— a younger sky, light of limb, easily amused #poem #poetry #photography #sky #blue #poetsofbluesky

Text “old photo of the sky— / a younger sky, / light of limb, / easily amused” in white text superimposed over a color photograph looking up through a bare tree at a vivid blue sky

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Can she draw again from the deck shuffled yesterday, or does randomness go stale? #poem #poetry #photography #poetsofbluesky

Text “Can she draw again from / the deck shuffled yesterday, / or does randomness go stale?” in white text on a dark background, superimposed over a color photograph of a peeling birch tree

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A Cartesian sky two-dimensional rotates on the day’s origin Image: Louvre glass pyramid #poem #poetry #photography #haiga #haiku #poetsofbluesky #mathematics

Text “A Cartesian sky / two-dimensional / rotates on the day’s origin” in black text on a grey oval, superimposed over a color photograph of the glass-paned ceiling of a Louvre pyramid

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

the mouth of the forest, the eye, the arms holding the light #poem #poetry #photography #poetsofbluesky

Text “the mouth / of the forest, / the eye, / the arms / holding / the light” in yellow-green text superimposed over a color photograph of a grove of trees at night with an unseen spotlight shining down on the grass in the middle

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

white fur tuft two teeth holes the housebeasts misbehave #senryu #cats

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

the lines were abstract we could give them our own meaning #poem #poetry #photography #poetsofbluesky

Text “the lines were abstract / we could give them our own meaning” in red superimposed over a color photograph of stacked stones with grey, brown and red color

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

deprivation of air : feather and coin hit the ground together #poem #poetry #photography #haiga #haiku #poetsofbluesky

Text “deprivation of air : / feather and coin hit / the ground together” in white superimposed over a red-tinted color photograph of hanging wire sculptures reminiscent of Ruth Asawa

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

the attempts to be superhuman that end in being human #poem #poetry #photography #poetsofbluesky

Text “the attempts / to be superhuman / that end / in being human” in white superimposed over a color photograph of a pigeon standing on a mascaron of a human head that has been weathered by the elements

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Shuffling the deck forgives the insanity of expecting different outcomes from the same behavior #poem #poetry #art #poetsofbluesky

Text “Shuffling the deck forgives / the insanity / of expecting different outcomes / from the same behavior” in black on a green background, superimposed over a color photo of tree roots carpeting the dirt

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

all of the white in the image like drops of water that never fall #poem #poetry #art #haiga #haiku #poetsofbluesky

Text “all of the white in the image / like drops of water / that never fall” in white superimposed over a color photograph of white four-petaled flowers from underneath against a blue sky.

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

blue, never naked red, never sleeping blue, always listening to the others #poem #poetry #color #poetsofbluesky

Text “blue, never naked / red, never sleeping / blue, always listening to the others” in white superimposed over a color photograph of red, blue, and red-white-and-blue-flowered origami paper on a woven beige mat

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

as some other measure of time pressed its thumbs into me #poem #poetry #art #poetsofbluesky

Text “as some other measure / of time pressed its thumbs / into me” in pink superimposed over a color photograph of a spiderweb in sunlight against a background of brown wood

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

can't see the trees for the leaves, the bones for the skin #poem #poetry #art #poetsofbluesky

Text “can't see the trees / for the leaves, / the bones / for the skin” in white superimposed over a color photograph of a bare, pruned tree in front of a leafy, full tree

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

join me in the where-beneath, the other-under afterworld #poem #poetry #art #poetsofbluesky

Text “join me in the where-beneath, / the other-under afterworld” in pink-to-yellow gradient on a green background, superimposed over a color photo of a portion of a mushroom fairy ring in suburban grass

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

cloud malaise : particular delirium in gauze, inhaled whole #haiku #poem #poetry #art #poetsofbluesky

Text “cloud malaise : particular delirium / in gauze, inhaled whole” in peach on a green background, superimposed over a color photo of trees against a light orange sky

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

sometimes, art was what someone else brought to completion #poem #poetry #art #poetsofbluesky

Text “sometimes, art was what someone else brought to completion” superimposed over a color photograph of the side of a building with distorted reflections in rectangles of glass

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

the songs only start when the drums when the drums Sculpture by Kenneth Snelson #poem #poetry #art #poetsofbluesky

Text “the songs only start / when the drums / when the drums” in red superimposed over a color photograph of a sculpture of silver-colored cylinders

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Hi. Thank you for following my image-poems. I enjoy creating them. For a celebratory 25th image, a glimpse of a resident cat in blue data house with some of her epithets, that maybe make a poem in themselves. Wishing you biteless peace 💙 #cats #poem #poetry #art #poetsofbluesky

Text “my names for my fair lady cat: / baby girl / miss baby cat / miss kitty girl / miss princess kitty / princess sharkbite” superimposed over a color photograph of the cat with closed eyes between two curtains

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

took a speculative nonfiction class today with @writesloud.bsky.social via @poetcamp.bsky.social and now my grandfather clock is talking to me 😊

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

we were running from the dead-leaf jaw of time #poem #poetry #art #poetsofbluesky

Text “we were running / from the dead-leaf jaw of time” superimposed over a color photograph of wilting white roses

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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

fireflies were the stars that made it to earth #poem #poetry #poetsofbluesky

Text "fireflies were the stars / that made it to earth” superimposed over two layered color photographs yellow flowers and foliage

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