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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I am loving the way this prompt makes you think differently. Here's my offering 😊

Hourglass

Once I was sculpted like time in a glass,
a pinch at the middle, a perfect pert ass.
Balanced and bold, with a waistline so slight,
a shape that defied even gravity’s might.

But time shifts sand with a whispering mouth,
and now all the grains have gathered down south.
My top’s still a treasure, my middle’s a tale,
but the bottom’s a banquet, robust and full-scale.

I wobble with wisdom, I jiggle with style,
no longer a timer, more a rock pile.
Still, I hold all the life I’ve known,
and wear my curves like a duvet I’ve grown.

So tip me, or flip me, I’ll still stand with sass,
for beauty’s not trapped in a curvy hourglass.

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Suzy Dobie @suzydobie.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

#Can'tUseWords @cantusewords.bsky.social #PassingTime Physiscs confuses me. 😵‍💫

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Cant Use Words Poetry Prompt @cantusewords.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

When the retired can relax, indulge their interests. Have the day to themselves. Thank you, Brenda.

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Brenda 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.

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Cant Use Words Poetry Prompt @cantusewords.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Welcome 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:

2 Post on 29th. Can'tUse the following words to describe " PassingTime":

Short Durations, Moment / Instant, .Split-second / Flash, .Spell / While, Jiffy / Shake: Span /Stretch, Eon / Infinity / Eternity, Era / Epoch:. Age: e.g., the Iron Age.Generation, Fleeting /Transient: Timeless: Precious /Valuable/Day/morning, noon, night.

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Cant Use Words Poetry Prompt @cantusewords.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Time expressed in size and weight, Beth. The idea of time carrying us as if we are bairns. Perhaps, a comforting image. Congratulations on conveying time.

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Beth Ember @ctrlaltdltffs.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

she grew up fast yesterday she was little today carried her for the last time what happened? #CantUseWords #PassingTime #tanka #poetry #writing @cantusewords.bsky.social

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Cool 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

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Tomas Lenander @mrodomino.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Having 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.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Just 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.

Thus he is culpable, if he be prodigal of the money of the people, dispersing the produce of the taxes in luxury, pomp, or licentiousness. It is for him to watch over morals, which are the guardians of the laws, and to improve the national ed-ucation, and not pervert it by ill examples. One of the most important objects is the preservation of good morals, in all their purity; to which the sovereign may greatly contribute, by distinguishing and rewarding those citizens who have performed virtuous actions, and testifying his contempt for such as are so depraved as not to blush at their own disorders. The prince ought highly to disapprove of every dishonest act, and refuse distinctions to men who are incorrigible. [..]

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

What 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.social

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Ian Bostridge - Britten - Les illuminations, Op 18

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Robert E. (He/him) @robertemond.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

My 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.

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