Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptJen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I am loving the way this prompt makes you think differently. Here's my offering 😊 6186
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptSuzy Dobie @suzydobie.bsky.social · 29/05/2026#Can'tUseWords @cantusewords.bsky.social #PassingTime Physiscs confuses me. 😵💫 252
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptAnn Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 29/05/2026#PoemsAbout #EarnTheRight @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk 116415
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptBrenda Blue @brendafromia.bsky.social · 28/05/2026#CantUseWords #PassingTime #Tanka Writing poetry, Reading and drinking coffee Just passing some time Starting yet another day The retired life is grand. 141
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptCant Use Words Poetry Prompt @cantusewords.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Welcome to the second #CantUseWords flash prompt. rhyming / unrhyming is permissible. Use a strict form. 70 words or less. Please use above hashtag and #PassingTime Post only on 29th May, not before on this account: 297
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptBeth Ember @ctrlaltdltffs.bsky.social · 29/05/2026she grew up fast yesterday she was little today carried her for the last time what happened? #CantUseWords #PassingTime #tanka #poetry #writing @cantusewords.bsky.social 2111
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptPaul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Cool in the air on my walk this morning, slightest watery edge to wind-breath. Under my tread the dirt path over the field looks like an aerial shot of a floodplain in the dry season, cracked mudflats, bouldered with rabbit droppings. Sudden cloud gloom. Day seems to ache for something. Perhaps I do 1121
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptTomas Lenander @mrodomino.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Having now finished all the Discworld novels I can say it has become one of my all time favorite things. The novels are a beautiful journey, they’re clever, funny, insightful and most importantly, deeply and rightfully angry. 87126097
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Just happened to open a copy of the reader Political Thought I co-edited with Mike Rosen in 1999 and it landed on a selection The Enlightened Despot by Frederick the Great. 19019
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptPaul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 26/05/2026What a strange work is Britten’s setting of Rimbaud’s Les Illuminations. Britten is so far from my idea of Rimbaud, whose language seems to demand something at once more more weird, violent & ethereal, a blend of Boulez, Stockhausen & Messiaen. Yet the music is so involving @rolandbates.bsky.socialm.youtube.comIan Bostridge - Britten - Les illuminations, Op 18YouTube video by Classical Vault 1 2114
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptRobert E. (He/him) @robertemond.bsky.social · 26/05/2026My pleasure 🫶. I grew up in LA where all the forbidden words are used to describe summer. I actually love these cool summers. Although I miss being able to swim in the ocean without a wet suit. 111
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptDaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Thank you.🌹 111
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptEric Montgomery @madp03t.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Thank you, Can't Use Words Poetry Prompt. 111
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptJen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 25/05/2026You've stolen all my lovely clichés!! I will give it my best shot, but it might be a haiku at this rate!! 111
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptJen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Oh you were breaking us in easy with the first one then!! 😵 121
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptSuzy Dobie @suzydobie.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Thanks! Very kind! 🙏 111
Cant Use Words Poetry Prompt @cantusewords.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Welcome to the second #CantUseWords flash prompt. rhyming / unrhyming is permissible. Use a strict form. 70 words or less. Please use above hashtag and #PassingTime Post only on 29th May, not before on this account: 297
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptStefanie Neumann @kokopellibfree.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Thank you. 🙏💗 111
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptUte Orgassa @uteorgassa.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Thank you 111
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptUte Orgassa @uteorgassa.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Air conditioner puddles evaporate on concrete Airplanes overhead reflect the sun The air itself is heavy with a thousand perfumes 111
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptBrenda Blue @brendafromia.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Thank you! One of my favorite types of verse. 111
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptRobert E. (He/him) @robertemond.bsky.social · 25/05/2026#CantUseWords sunny sky crystal clear cold unrelenting north wind summer in Newport natives sunning on the sand pity those who don't live here #Tanka #Haiga #Haiku #Senryu #Poetry #PoetryPrompt #SkyPoets #PoetrySky #PictureAndAPoem #Photography #WestCoastKin #ECK 1113
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptStefanie Neumann @kokopellibfree.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Komorebi light during late hours I walk crevasses turn gold - #WritingCommunity #poetry #haiku #vss365 #CantUseWords 193
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptBeth Ember @ctrlaltdltffs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Thank you! Excellent prompt! 111
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptDavy Hulme @hulme.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Singer Neil Diamond started his career as Neil Coal. He changed his name when the pressure got to him. 3245269407
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptBrenda Blue @brendafromia.bsky.social · 25/05/2026#CantUseWords #Summer #RhopalicVerse the birds sing the crickets chirp their secrets nature comes alive grass grows begging to be mowed goes to seed 252
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry Promptstace.bot @stacebot.bsky.social · 25/05/2026#Can'tUse words to describe summer #CantUseWords @cantusewords.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social #poetry #poem #writing #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets #writingcommunity 3133
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry Promptstace.bot @stacebot.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Ha to frying an egg on the pavement! Love this! 021
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptBeth Ember @ctrlaltdltffs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026can't use words? ok, I won't! 😁 instantly skin is moist and sticky my flowers all wilted in protest the kids fried an egg on the pavement #CantUseWords #summer #tricube #poetry #writing @cantusewords.bsky.social 382
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptQuill of Mnemosyne @sonnetsmith.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Hello Wild Walk #writers Caught in heaven's ray's My mind lulled in peaceful bliss To soak up the rest. Your word today is #Rays Use the image/word to inspire your writing. #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub 4368
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptPippa @pippaesque.bsky.social · 25/05/2026the same color at dawn as dusk fireflies in the sweetgum trees #cantusewords #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #writingcommunity 2276
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptTom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 25/05/2026and I listen David Ignatow 713632
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptScarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 25/05/2026The sterile, hauntological aesthetics of 1970s school text books. Today's earworm: the shrill, off-key sound of a school recorder. 128610
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptIan McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026The opening lines of Wonders of Obligation, a long poem by my favourite poet Roy Fisher, published in a beautiful edition by Braad Editions. ‘…and the afternoon/comes on steely and still/under the heat,’ 18012
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptRachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Book Cover of the Day: 218121
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptKarim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 24/05/2026A society that stops reading becomes easy to manipulate. 481173245
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptEye of Mysterioso @mysteriphoto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Dune (1965) Frank Herbert 9555961640
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptDaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Opening Day Lounging by yon sea Anticipating dipped glee Copper baked and free Beneath azure heaven climbs Cotton clouds drift above us #CantUseWords #poetry #tanka #summer #PoetsOfBluesky #SkyPoet #Skywriting #PoetryLovers 1123
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptSuzy Dobie @suzydobie.bsky.social · 25/05/2026#Can'tUseWords @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @cantusewords.bsky.social #Summer #firstdayonearth 383
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptSuzy Dobie @suzydobie.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Thank you kindly! 💛 111
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptIan Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · 25/05/2026@cantusewords.bsky.social? There appears to be a #cantusewords #can'tusewords binary issue! 231
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptSuzy Dobie @suzydobie.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Nailed it! Another excellent poem, mate. 💛 But I'm confused, it says "Post only on 25th May, not before on this account?" Am I hallucinating? Because if its okay to post now I will... Help a girl out, it is my first day on earth 🥺 #Can'tUseWords @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social 332
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptDave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Thanks so much Paul. I really enjoyed this and can see me writing more this week.... whilst I hide from the heatwave 111
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptDave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 23/05/2026#cantusewords #summer #triolet #poem This took a few minutes more that usual. Clever prompt to really make you use your vocabulary 3141
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptEric Montgomery @madp03t.bsky.social · 25/05/2026#CantUseWords #prompt #writing #poetry #poem #poet @cantusewords.bsky.social 4123
Reposted by Cant Use Words Poetry PromptJen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 25/05/2026This poem for the new #Can'tUseWords #prompt from @cantusewords.bsky.social was harder for me than I thought it would be, but it seems very appropriate for this rather warm weekend! But it's a great prompt, so have a go, follow it, and share it around. Let's get the word out! #poetry 3194