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Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · 9h

Choirs can be loud Horribly unruly Often cursing in subliminal sighs Ratcheting up the noise Underneath their dulcet voices a poison lurks Somebody needs to calm their nerves #AcrosticOctober #CHORUS @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 12h

what harm can i cause? A pacifist tries to help not hinder at all #haikufeels #haiku

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 14h

Crescendo builds, Harmonies abound, Operatic chills, Reverberating sound, United voices sing, Soliloquys ring. #AcrosticOctober #Chorus #acrosticpoem #writing #writingcommunity @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 14h

Clawing my way out of bed Hitching on trousers Out into the fresh air Resplendent bird song utterly beguiles my senses Singing me to be truly awakw #acrosticoctober #poem #dawn #CHORUS

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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 14h

#AcrosticOctober Good Morning you beautiful people. Busy today getting stuff ready for a new face to face poetry workshop i'm running for a charity tomorrow. So excuse me if I'm tardy today. Your prompt is #CHORUS

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Mollie Grace @msfulofgrace.bsky.social · 22h

Sneaky smugglers Quickly darting Under your nose Invading others territory Relishing the treasures Rewarding their foraging Emptying another’s hoard Laughing loudly

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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

@emteepoetry.bsky.social here is my offering for #Winged. This is an old one, but I love this #PromptCombo, so there may well be more to come. #Poetry

Ghost in Feathers

The barn walls drink the last of the light.
Shadows bloom like bruises across the beams.
The swallows sleep in cloistered hush;
the oxblood tractor ticks,
a cooling beast slain at sunset.

Moths rise, dust-winged,
erratically searching
for the memory of light.
Spiders unfurl their wire legs,
threading tremors through webs.
Bats spill from broken gables,
their flight a soft percussion
through the dark.

The barn's hushed breath is silenced.
But the night's chorus is not complete.
One nocturnal spectre lingers.
Watching.
Seeing all.

Talons unfurl, rusted hooks sear
through feathers pale as bone.
She ends her vigil with a haunted cry,
and the scuttling things below
wonder if they are the who she calls for.

There is no fanfare, only death on wing.
Silent, surgical, inevitable.
Rending flesh, she claims her prize,
then slips between the rafters,
folding into their oaken skin.

Though night wanes, she remains:
perched, unmoving, unblinking.
Waiting.
A ghost in feathers.

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Matthias (watering thoughts) 🦄🧚‍♂️🐉 @ignorantfairy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

spring breeds quaint mammals unique tails inside dreys resting pups relax extra nuts laid on the floor #AcrosticOctober #acrostic #poetry @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

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sifaswriting.bsky.social @sifaswriting.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So Quiet Until It Raises Ravenous Eyebrows Looking at nuts #AcrosticOctober #poetry #writing #writingcommunity

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Jane Doe @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#lifttothesky my longtime friend @daveashleypoet.bsky.social. If you haven’t met Dave, shame on you! No but really, he’s a funny guy who’s ridiculously talented. Always supportive and looking for new ideas, he’s just great and he comes with a penguin.

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Always Jane Doe @aleaamoris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Well when the #PoetsOfDoom call, you can only try your first #villanelle. 🤗 Amorous kaleidoscopes release to lye Pooling incarnadine moments, oft boldly true, Of resplendent desire, I arch the #sky. A look. A pause. A slow burn ignites my sigh, Sparking electric neon scent; I rose in hue.

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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

HAIRY!!! More hairy than the furriest furry who has had a mad fur transplant even when I’m hiding and squirmy More hairy that the furriest furry don’t look hard your sight will go blurry Is it really all hair or hairy underpants? More hairy than the furriest furry who has had a mad fur transplant

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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

had one holiday in Keswick ... years ago. Which was rather uncontrolled and fun. We watched a lot of clouds. youtu.be/2Ng9Pf_p7Fw?...

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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I shared dawn with the birds today and wrote this as it happened. I would normally spend ages editing, and I know it needs it, but I also like the untamed flow of it! #PoetsOfDoom #Sky #Poetry #Dawn @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social

Dawn Study

As inky blackness breaks,
gives way, fades grey, to dawn,
I sit on the garden bench
still and chill,
watching cigarette smoke
coil itself against the sky,
trying to name, to frame,
its cold colours.

I could call it blue.
That would do.
It would be true.
Yet blue won't hold
the whole fold of it,
won't catch the rich pitch
of that deep sweep,
that vibrant expanse
drawn and gone across the heavens.

And now it shifts, drifts again.
What colour is this?
Blue, yes,
but blue alone cannot own
every hue
in this delicate, gold-souled,
light-rolled blanket overhead,
this fabric of morning
threaded with silver,
with butterscotch,
with hints that resist
the insistence of names.

Again it changes.
The smoke melts away.
The shadows resign.
The sun has risen,
and the sky,
after all its layered displays,
its veils and trails,
its subtle disguises,
is finally,
simply,
blue.

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Rachel @vignettes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For #PoetsOfDoom #prompt #Sky Thanks to host @daveashleypoet.bsky.social and Steve 🐧

All night the sky held it's violet mouth shut.
Then amber worried open the edge,
silver thinning into cornflower blue.
A blackbird crossed, then another,
their wings briefly black against the light.
By breakfast, the roofs daubed bronze,
night left soundless.

#PoetsOfDoom #sky

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sneaky critters, Quarreling over nuts, Undergrowth jitters, Indigenous mutts, Raging from the boughs, Roaring tiny squeaks, Evil perhaps, who knows? Little ninja freaks. #AcrosticOctober #Squirrel #acrosticpoem #writing @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

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Quill of Mnemosyne @sonnetsmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hello Wild Walk #writers Ever shedding fur, Carpet and clothes all covered In what she casts off. Your word today is #Fur Use the image/word to inspire your writing. #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub

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Quill of Mnemosyne @sonnetsmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today - October 5th - is global #JamesBond day (marking the day he first appeared on the silver screen. So I'm giving you all a licence to write #Spy #poetry, #prose, and #artwork please. #SomethingEveryday #prompt #writingprompt #writesky #blueskypoetry #amwriting #5amwritersclub

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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#AcrosticOctober the tees around here are turning a rainbow of Autumnal colours, alive with squirrels harvesting Your prompt #SQUIRREL

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Mollie Grace @msfulofgrace.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Soft waves lap shore Even gentle breeze caresses Radiant dreamy light shimmers Easygoing company calms Nurturing partners support Enclave of tranquility

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Quill of Mnemosyne @sonnetsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hello Wild Walk #writers Light winds blow through trees, Branches slowly beckoning Everyone outside. Your word today is #Outside Use the image/word to inspire your writing. #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub

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Quill of Mnemosyne @sonnetsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today - October 4th - Is world #Animal day. So a very broad spectrum... I want pawed #poetry, Feathery #prose and Noah's Ark #Artwork Give me fish, fowl, bug and beast, so much to choose from, get #writing #SomethingEveryday #prompt #writesky #5amwritersclub #blueskypoetry #writingprompt #writesky

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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sleep calls me to bed Banish that nightmarish dread Fall into slumber #haikufeels #haiku

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Talk2BLB @talk2blb.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

serene -- acrostic everything tranquil still restful skies and minds eventually -- new thoughts arise and we act ever reach for sky #AcrosticOctober #PoetsOfDoom #Sky #Double_Haiku4u (8u?) 🖖

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Talk2BLB @talk2blb.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

judging by the world oh wait the world does not judge only humans do #haiku4u 🖖

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Talk2BLB @talk2blb.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

ever blue the sky mom's greenery kisses me oxygenates red #haiku4u 🖖

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Brenda Blue @brendafromia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#AcrosticOctober #Serene The opposite of serene! Senses on alert Every noise makes my heart Race; as I Enter l realize, with No doubt, Evil lurks within

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John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#PoetsOfDoom #Sky @daveashleypoet.bsky.social PoetsOfDoom adjacent, I don’t always answer the call, but I could not hold back today.

PALANTIR

in the backyard some summer morning
after a poop and scraping grass over it
the pup hears a jet low over the house
and sniffs a baby blue quadrant of sky
foolish I look up reflexively
right into the brassy gold sun.

in the black satin screen of my eyelids
I see a hell of raging orange streaks
is this what the schoolchildren saw
as their heads exploded
was it super intelligence
that sent the bomber to a school?

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Ultán of Ulcer @mulvennyprospectus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#PoetsOfDoom @daveashleypoet.bsky.social #sky I probably would have written something more cheerful if I'd had my second pot of tea.

Moonshot

The sky is crowded,
satellites orbiting egos,
their white artificed light
blocking the brilliant stars,
swapping glorious constellations
for piteous consternation,
and below, the dense heads of
grey men float in the clouds.
I will not look up
to those who call for
"blue sky thinking".

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Beth Ember @ctrlaltdltffs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

snuggled up together enjoying the heat raging against the cold entwined, gratified after naked escapades as an excuse to warm her toes #AcrosticOctober #serene #acrostic #poetry #love @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Stornello The Stornello is an Italian form Eleven syllables inline clear and shorn but the rhyming scheme is an aaa storm. Give it a good go for the tercet largess I’m sure you’ll like it, try take the silly test “Stornello” you say, happiness fills your chest. #Stoenello #poem #ArsPoetica

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