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Married #writer of #poetry and #stories of all kinds. Dreamer of dreams. Pick up that pen and dive on in! 📚✍️👓📖💙🦋 ~Danielle Grace #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity #writingprompts #writerslife #booksky #poetry #creative #vss #sff #words

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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, my brother and his wife laid their eighteen-year-old son to rest. There will never be another young man like my nephew. #Kaió
Kaió: by Danielle Grace

Your parents raised you up
To be the perfect gentleman—
A lion on the playing field,
A friend who learned to understand.

That smile which oft delighted us
and always beamed with pride
Now brightens up the heavens
Where our new angel abides;

We commit you to their numbers,
And we rejoice in having known you;
We know one day we shall reunite
In that realm to which you flew.

We could only keep you with us
For a bit of borrowed time,
Because you are needed elsewhere—
That is the Lord's design.

Please, know if you decide to be
The conscience on our shoulders,
We'll accept your grace with open hearts
And learn to live much bolder.

We shall never forget your strength
Or your embrace of pleasant laughter,
Nor the angel who now awaits us
In the paradise hereafter.
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#Poetry #PoetOfBluesky #Skywriting #MiseryLovesCompany #PoetryLovers
Misery Loves Company: by Danielle Grace

Come visit and see
What has torn me down
Sit and marvel at my frown
Watch the way my brow furrows
When sorrow neath my breast burrows
Bear witness as I confess built frustrations
And drown problems in uproarious libations
Let the tears draw pathways in my makeup
become the newest shoulder wracking shakeup
For loneliness is not stage enough to flaunt
Even if I do grow malnourished and gaunt
I need an audience to entertain and feed,
For I decree: misery loves company!
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#Poetry #PoetOfBluesky #Skywriting #Lamentation
Lamentation: by Danielle Grace

I have oftentimes
reinvented myself anew
With the rehabilitative turn
of time-loosened screws
Yet, the repair is temporary
in a woefully weary world
Where ferocious fear
and doubt attack foundations
While slick-tongued despots corrupt the heart of nations
With evil as the all-access key
to my unravelling will
And I dare to think I might be better still
relieved of all burdens
By the loss of breath
and reciprocal responsibility
I did never ask for in a soul to begin with.
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Book Title: The Price Of Jade Author: Danielle Grace Genre: Action/Sci-Fi *Available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle. #Booksky
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
@thetoypress.bsky.social #wordoftheweek #Funny #poetry #kidlit #skywriting
Too Funny by Danielle Grace


Well, there's laugh-out-loud funny
Then there's odd, peculiar, or strange
One thing we can agree on is
This funny word has range
You can use it quite sarcastically
To mean not funny at all
You can even hit your funny bone
It doesn't mean you'll have a ball
Don't be deceived by funny money
My friend, that kind is all fake
But I still prefer the hilarity
that ensues until my belly aches.
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
#ComboPrompt #Pray #poetry @dragonslayerma.bsky.social
The Ritual by Danielle Grace

Face pressed to the floor I pray
For absolution night and day
Begging for a sense of peace
That world suffering might cease

Upon my knees I ask for rest
And that the least of us be blessed
Though now I stand on shaky faith
Evil shall be consigned to waste

I see proliferations of such greed
While I'm reduced to mustard seeds
And yet I still continue on
With hope that someone listens yon.
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
#vss365 #betrayal #CivilFights #CivilRights #resist #protest
Civil Fights by Danielle Grace

All that we have marched for
Is being laid to waste—
Let us not pretend
This betrayal isn't about race;

The very same populations
You once locked up in chains
Is being painted targets on
For persecution again;

Decline in representation
Is only just the start
The ripping up of freedoms
Goes straight to the heart.
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
On The Contrary #vss365 #Intent
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
#PoemsAbout #WhatRemains @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk Last Rites When my time comes Don't put me on display Just burn my body to ash And scatter me away...
Last Rites by Danielle Grace

When my time comes
Don't put me on display
Just burn my body to ash
And scatter me away

Don't commit me wholly
Into the deepest grave
Just burn my body to ash
And scatter me away

Don't dress me up in finery
So the church can have a say
Just burn my body to ash
And scatter me away

Don't make me an amusement
Where worms and insects play
Just burn my body to ash
And scatter me away.

Don't leave me to rise up again
When this world has fallen prey
Just burn my body to ash
And scatter me away

Let me be the lucky one
To have my very last say
Just burn my body to ash
And scatter me away
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
#BornBattleReady #Hunger #poetry #WritingCommunity #PoetryLovers
Hungry by Danielle Grace

In your eyes, I see it there—
Through blood it flows
So sharp I can taste it
Every bit of IT grows
Enveloping your being
Driving you to dizzying heights
Calling back to lovers
And ancestors of your birthright
Rising to devour knowledge
Rich in essence unopposed
Lapping at experience exposed
Along paths born from nothingness
Your appetites are wildness
Existing in untapped forms
For now—contained—
But you should never be
One iota ashamed
To let that power sprout
Not by fear, nor doubt
In the end—
Hunger will win out!
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
#BornBattleReady #poetry #Skywriting #Drama
Existence At Play by Danielle Grace

I was born into it:
The drama of life—
Beset by fits of laughter and tales of woe
Questioning soliloquies of reason 
spoken in lonesome spotlights...
How have I made it so long 
on this spinning marble 
without drinking draughts of poison?
Curiosity has my banner;
I must know!
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
#BornBattleReady #Choices #poetry #SkyPoets #PoetryLovers #PoetsOfBlueSky #Rememory Between them, blinks go by I consider them before I lie —maybe not, then cry...
REMEMORY by Danielle Grace


Between them, blinks go by
I consider them before I lie
—maybe not, then cry

Whatever shall I wear?
How should I style my hair?
—or what should I procure, if bare?

From some, consequences scatter
Even the tiniest ones matter
—in a tapestry or batter

Big ones decide fate of others
Yes or noes may gather lovers
—depending upon one's druthers

Ultimately it is our choices
That quantify remembered voices
—consider them more carefully.
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
#CanIGetAWitness #poetry #resis #protest #resistance #politics
Can I Get A Witness 
By Danielle Grace

Raw footage plays before our eyes
Refuting flows of government lies
And agents with blood on their hands
Are masked as heroes in murder scams
No justice levied for fallen victims
No punishment for the ones who kill them—
While an authoritarian regime
Says don't believe what you have seen.
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I have released a chapbook of poems to mark this vital point in history. Here are my views in the #poetry of #resistance and #protest. Lines Drawn In the Sand: The Language of Resistance by Danielle Grace. a.co/d/bxgh1h0 #Writing#Community #politics #resist #booksky #blacksky
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
#BornBattleReady #Moxie #Differences #poetry #protest #resist #PoetsOfBluesky #Skywriting
Differences: A poem by Danielle Grace.

There are facts that some are now recognizing
Which I've known all my life,
The color of one's skin
can cause entire races public strife;

The gender of a birth can suddenly void one's proven expertise,
And if you change that gender some think your sense has ceased;

People call you out of your name for loving differently than religious laws,
Some just assume you are not equal if your views don't mesh in voting stalls;

People put you into foreign boxes when your moxie inspires movements,
So many try to tear you down through violence,
If peaceful protest yields improvements.
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
#P #POC #F The Price Of Jade Jade Cortlandt would love to mind her own business, but an obsessed general won't leave her alone. It isn't her fault she's a biological weapon. She didn't ask for governmental interference in her birth, or to be caught in a game of cat and mouse. *Available on Amazon.
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Love it!
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Tried my hand at drawing my character Dravidian Penedon Orion. Immediate heritage background: Roman/S'varrian (father), Indian/Portuguese (mother). #art #writing #character
Picture of Dravidian Orion. He has long black hair, leaf green eyes, bronze skin, and is wearing a green shirt that is open in the front.

Art by Danielle Grace
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Blustery.
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
#WIPSnips #clobber #writing
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
#BornBattleReady #Candid #poetry #poetrylovers #PoetsOfBluesky
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
#WritingCommunity #CreativeCommunity
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
#BornBattleReady #content #poetry #SkyPoet #PoetsOfBluesky #Skywriting #DearSanta
Dear Santa,

I will never be
The one content
To simply sit upon your knee.

I demand your attention
In every possible universe—
I am a star around which 
worlds revolve in awe
And lesser beings burn.

Do not ask me to give time
to the next thing stood in line;
Ask only what I desire
For, the cosmos cannot rest
until I deem it so.

I mean to devour
all your power, so know...
I can never be content
To simply sit upon your knee.


Poem by Danielle Grace
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
#vss365 #Reflection #poetry #poetrylovers
Reflection

Rejoice in life and happiness
The ringing of every bell
Resounds to the tympanic essence
That echoes through your mind

Forget the thoughts of innocence
Each new birth renews its meaning
Permits melodic pureness to fade
Forever to disintegrate in time

The voices call a thousand times
But what fate is to capture the sound
Of reason and listen to hear
The sweet soprano of their harmonic song

The heart twines with a million strings
Plucked into a blazing symphony
The rapturous calliope lost in soft
Caresses of beauty and delight

Release the tone of vibrance
Cry out to your own desires
The orchestra of Passion’s slaves 
bow low in pain and wondrous pleasure

Let the music sweep you away 
into the deepest depths of your soul 
know yourself in the intimacies 
Of a life inside these mirrored walls.

Poem by Danielle Grace
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
#demolished by grief torn down from heavens above love's fallen victim #RetroArtPrompt #Demolish #sundaysenryu #senryu #poetry #art Destruction (2021) Painting by Anna Gorbacheva
Destruction (2021)
Painting by Anna Gorbacheva

Image of a person with a dark black cloud overhead running down in liquid-like smeared tones of red brown and black on a formerly white canvas.
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
#PoemsAbout #Desire #poetry #poetsofbluesky #skypoet #skywriting @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk
Insatiably Me

Heat rises from fantasies
Burning me up with fire
To touch and taste
To have and hold
Both corporeal and soul
Yet, I need more than
hollow ghosts to own
I want more than more:
Serve me things and flesh
Secure me riches and glory
Where everything and everyone
becomes mine in entirety:
Give me whatever stirs desire!
Fulfill me until I explode,
Then give those pieces of me even more...
There is no shame to tame
this constant hunger.

Written by Danielle Grace
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
An old art project from my son from about 5 years ago. Guess what he likes.
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
#BornBattleReady #whisper #poetry #poetsofbluesky #skywriting
Or So I've Heard...

On wind into ears carried
Swirled under sands hastily buried
By a lover's soul nixed
over impropriety unfixed
Secrets of iniquity
Treasures of antiquity
bandied upon waves
Conjured from rebel slaves
Behind split backs and
down train chain gang tracks
Echoing from old smoke stacks
Legendary whispers
breathing new life.

Poem written by Danielle Grace
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
#BornBattleReady #Vellichor #poetry #poetrylovers #poetsofbluesky
The Bookstore

When my slow walk begins,
I take it in through my skin
in sacred volumes—

Sweet vellichor like the stores flowing 
in ancient gods’ veins alive again
carrying pearls of knowledge 
long  forgotten—

Sitting upon perfumed  shelves
unplummed for hourglass turns
like the Sahara spreading
before travelers set for 
adventure and much more:

Alexandria's legacy at its core.

By Danielle Grace
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#BornBattleReady #poetry #poetrylovers #skywriting #poetsofbluesky #skypoet
Existential Matrix

Fostered in primal protection
first shrouds of life resolved evolving—whole

Ideas fold into singular being
released in breaths to receive—ponderance

Filtering formidable experience through hope, pain, pleasure—deposited

Weaving wings to worthy worms 
while others woefully wallow—
worn

Unchanged by sovereign cacoons 
of prismatic turns grown—
yet, enlightened.


Written by: Danielle Grace
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
#BornBattleReady #Democracy's_Death_Rattle #poetry #porked
(Poem written on white background with a black scythe)

Democracy's Death Rattle

Conformity porked originality
Settling standards for those in lock-step
Like masses who follow one order by intercept—

One master crushing creativity underfoot;
Punishing open kindness
In favor of cruel intent—

A nation drowned in favored revenge
For which all laws are bent...
Like a scythe blade damned.

By Danielle Grace
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Here is the #Inktober2025 list from Inktober.com If you wish to use it as #Artprompts or for #writingprompts.
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
#BornBattleReady #guardian #poetry #Integrity
Integrity

A guardian stands in armor
Of promised indestructible ideals,
but the being inside eventually decays through bloody grooves infected by injustice and corruption

As tempers and tensions rise,
the steely figure heats like an oven roasting inner souls with overdone control or squalid abstention 
for evil's sake;

Soon, there is nothing left
to keep harm at bay
As ashes of original intent
become a defense blown away.


Poem by Danielle Grace
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
#PoemsAbout #NeverAgain #poetry @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk
Blindspot


They always say
"Never again," while
Blinking in moments Authority goes too far
Pulling over cars
For driving while different
And denying rights
For the once marginalized—
women, disabled, neurodivergent, racial minorities, LGBTQ, migrants, natives—
Again.


By: Danielle Grace
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
#poemsabout #Candlelight Candlelight Rites By Danielle Grace
Candlelight Rites

Fire tongues flicker
Lit in solidarity knighted
Celebrating tragedy
Memoriam sighted

Dancing flames contained
Seduce by eye dialation
Romancing darkness
Inviting consummation

Tiny torches multiply
Yearly widening berths
Wicks burning fingers
To ashes here on Earth.

By Danielle Grace
#PoemsAbout
#Candlelight
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Daphne Saved from Apollo Nature's victory halo Chaste Laurel leaves weaved Painting: Apollo Pursuing Daphne by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (National Gallery Of Art). #SenryuSunday #poetry #ekphrastic #3lines #poetsofbluesky #WritersofBluesky #skiwriting #skypoet #classicalart #art
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
#BornBattleReady #Embers #poetry #poetsofbluesky #Creative_Flux
Creative Flux by Danielle Grace

When last sacred wind extols,
dynamic embers of a soul
burn down in that final breath,
then body's shell is left bereft;
Only then will new sparks fly,
delivering starlit lullabies
while siring sages throughout ages
who swell hearts with blessed pages—
Shut up tight inside bard bones
destined to raise blazing oms.
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I did say I was gonna try this month, so excuse my tardiness. I'm working forward on #DavidsMonthOfMusic Day#1: a song with "in the" in the Title Artist: Michael Jackson Song: Man In The Mirror youtu.be/PivWY9wn5ps?...
David's Month of Music Prompt.

#DavidsMonthOfMusic

Day1: A song with "in the" title.
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
#PoemsAbout #Riots Rebel Season Beyond the Pale
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
#BornBattleReady #Selenophile #poetry #poetsofbluesky
Selene
By:Danielle Grace

Selenophilic masses
gather in the night
To gaze at magnificence
Shining so bright;

Our graceful goddess
Who inspires deep love
Luminescent mother
Delivering new cubs;

Kissing the ocean
In reflective waves
Waxing and waning
While hosting wild raves;

Dreamweaver rocking
Daywalkers to sleep
Immutable orb lingering
just out of reach.
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
#Emoetry #Caged #Anthropomorph_Caged Anthropomorph Caged Locked inside beings Made of skin and bone Dressed in societal patterns with parameters sewn...
Anthropomorph Caged

By: Danielle Grace


Locked inside beings
Made of skin and bone
Dressed in societal patterns
with parameters sewn
Decided fates spun
before forecasts of birth
Chained to an atmosphere
fused to unprepared earth
Spiritual focus embossed
as fostered religion
Autonomy lost to time
preordained by decision
Proper paths certified
by pillars of humanity
No matter their faults
of proven insanity.
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
#BornBattleReady #poetry #Gifted
Wonderfully Made

We stand out as gifted
Not based on opinions of man,
Inner souls we develop from
Become the stuff of “I am.”

Traditions kept sacred
With new discoveries made,
Form a wrapping of self
Patterned in sunlight & shade;

An originality of being
Grows from deed & philosophy
Both carefully curated 
Weaving bows of personality;

We stand out as gifted
By eschewing all doubt
That our intrinsic value
Survives in all we give out.

By: Danielle Grace
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
No, no, no excuses. They are who they reveal themselves to be. Always listen to Auntie Maya.
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Pansy Parade Fragrant golden eyes Framed by #violet petals Northern lights arrayed #vss365 #poetry #haiku #3lines
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
#BornBattleReady #Lyrical #poetry #poetsofbluesky #poetrylovers "Lyrical Insight" by Danielle Grace
Lyrical Insight


Inner words may be heard laid bare
Tumbling from lips of mothers,
fathers, children, lovers, and others
Echoing tender as admiration and care;

Sometimes sung as iambic frisson
Carrying waterfalls of despair toward
Rivers driven by shriven tongues and
Plumbed human conditions;

Or sacred alms releasing delights
Flowing as melodic verse in phases
Stretching from joyous praises
Into rhythmically contrite fights
Throwing directly reflective gazes.
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Today, I play.
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
#BornBattleReady #blossom #Poetry #Booksky
First breaths serve up worlds
Eyes, wings, petals open
Leaves and limbs unfurl
Marked in seconds of step progressions

Fully #blossomed
Bold souls pause at prime
Gazing sign at perfection sublime
Drawing down in hurried spirals
Looking back on Time's design.

By Danielle Grace
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
#dailyhaikuprompt @dailyhaikai.bsky.social
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DaniGraceWrites @danigracewrites.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
@picchiboo.bsky.social 😁🥳🦋🎂🎁🎈
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