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Fiona Turner

@fifi65.bsky.social
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Lived experience of mental illness. Schizoaffective disorder. Love books, science, poetry, music, and life. You only get one life. Don't be an arsehole. Play nice.

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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 4h
I've been robbed of time. My world has become so small. Dreams that used to fill my head, never came to be. Such promise, such hope, died in my bones. Now here I am, worn and shrunk. Wearing my age like a punishment. As the hands of the clock tick away to my grave. #poetry
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Alpenglow Raevyn @landseasky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Jackals roam free While safety’s distance Takes illness for excuse What story’s told For the shaking and torn Tending wounds still weeping They say it’s madness Fearing the keeper’s whip Who joined the jackals jaws Madness may murmur But some wounds see Before the crimson bite #poetry #ptsd
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is so very funny youtu.be/SHUvSffmLIQ?...
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Most TV is Just This Now
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Survivors Once my father said I let it happen, recently he said why did you stay, easy to say he’s old school or dismiss him as a boomer; His words, those ideas, are not unique- I don’t hear the rapist could’ve done something different or the abuser could’ve left; #poetry #survivor
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Each week you think: Braverman will never outdo this. She'll never say something madder than what just came out her mouth. And each week, she proves you wrong. Just the maddest fool on earth.
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When life has pushed me beyond my limits, will you pick me up off the floor? When my words have dried upon my tongue, will you help me find my voice? When all I need is for someone to be near, will you sit with me in my silence? When my pain subsides, will you still be there? #Poetry
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SoulScratches @soulscratches.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#poetry #photography #writer
A piece of poetry that is written on a photograph of a burnt orange, grey and red sunset across a peaceful river.
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Cosmos and Nebulae @cosmos-nebulae.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Walls - #30daysofpoems #poetry #writing
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is so true.
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🥀 𝚂𝚞𝚜𝚊𝚗 𝙱.🖋 🚫 No DM’s @sbwordmuse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Poets do not wait for peace to arrive. They write when they are afraid or uncertain. They write while the world is unresolved. They respond to life bleeding out in words. #poetry #poets
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/09/2026
Epstein survivor Danielle Bensky describes the isolation she experienced and the realization that came from finally seeing the scope of the case: “It’s weirdly vindicating to sit here and see in the files like, ‘Oh no, I’m not crazy. This really happened and it happened to so many people.’”
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greyverse @greyverse.eu · 19/09/2026
#Writing #Poetry The Grim Reaper spoke: I did not touch him with cold hands. I was the weariness flowing through his veins, the heaviness that closed his eyelids. When his heart beat for the last time, it was not an end, but a coming to rest. A ceasing of resistance against the inevitable.
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This poets malady. This dose of doubt. A Pen picked up only to be discarded, disheartened. Snippets of verse tease, retreating without structure or shape. I mope through dull days. A poet without a poem. Swimming in glue. #poetry
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 19: A song with through, around, under or over in the title. Going Underground - The Jam
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Going Underground
YouTube video by The Jam - Topic
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Prue Paimon @pruepaimon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
fuck this fuck the pretending that everything happens for a reason. fuck the lessons we’re supposed to be grateful for because suffering apparently needs a silver lining. #poem #poetry (As my dad would say I’m currently having an angry miss him)
fuck this
fuck the pretending
that everything happens
for a reason.
fuck the lessons
we’re supposed to be grateful for
because suffering
apparently needs a silver lining.
fuck becoming stronger
when sometimes
we just wanted
to be left unbroken.
fuck the endless instruction
to heal,
grow,
forgive,
begin again.
some days
the most honest prayer
is simply:
fuck this.
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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
she’s got moonlight in her m o l e c u l e s and sea salt in her hair the wind has been her lover—twice and the trees have stripped her bare #poetry
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 15: A song with an item of clothing or accessory in the title. Dress - PJ Harvey
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Dress
YouTube video by PJ Harvey - Topic
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Raymond Bevilacqua-Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I send my silence south for winter where warmer days can loosen its wings where distance asks nothing of it It crosses the border of speech and settles beyond the light When spring returns it comes home carrying the unsaid #MPPrompt #PoetryPrompt #poetry #PoetryCommunity
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 14: Song from a stage/theatre musical. Let's Do The Timewarp Again - Richard O Brien, Patricia Quinn, Little Nell. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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Time Warp
YouTube video by Little Nell - Topic
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We grab every morsel of contentment But never have our fill Victorys and joys are buried by time Lost in the business of being And in our hurry to live We forget how to be alive #poetry
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Without science We breed ignorance Where conspiracy dwells Reaching conclusions On the edge of delusion And books penned by men Of prophet's and Gods Become truth As despots fill holes Left by the loss of reason #poetry #science
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Prue Paimon @pruepaimon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Somehow I always miss the mark. The answer keeps moving. It always moves. And I keep chasing it with a red pen, marking myself wrong before anyone else gets the chance. I fail myself with such precision that there is nothing left for anyone else to criticize. #poetry #littleconfessions
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I Pressed fast forward Without a pause If the sun shone I didn't feel it's warmth My dreams seep into a tomorrow coloured grey Mirrors crack with the pain of my reflection Time relentless whittled me down I'm one step away from dust And still unfound #poetry
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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I was not taught how to ache how to hold want —this tidal thing —in hands that only know how to fold they made me too flat to hold it all they made me into paper d r e a m i n g of the sea #poetry
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
DWP's own documents say they were told to hide this from scrutiny. Parliament hasn't even been briefed. I've signed, please add your name too 👉 the.organise.network/campaigns/ne... Urgent ‼️
the.organise.network
Don't let untrained staff decide our PIP claims
Add your name:
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Ms. Crow @matoyax.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🦀 The Bucket What happens when the place that once felt like belonging becomes too small for who you’re becoming? A little piece about the complicated side of growing. #Poetry #WritingCommunity #PersonalGrowth samanthacrow28.substack.com/p/the-bucket...
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The Bucket
We were close
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scoopskie.bsky.social @scoopskie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I thought all traces Of you were lost But the broom swept In corners and sought Errant hairs and skin That had become dust I held you then Knowing life is unjust But even a remnant Is sometimes enough #vss365 #broom #writingcommunity #poetry #prompt
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Loneliness is a loud silence The loss of touch and a thousand smiles It's the distance between alive and living A memory of being When being is not enough #poetry
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 31: A favourite song by a favourite artist. Them Heavy People - Kate Bush Found it hard to choose a favourite song or artist. I've got so many. But Kate is right up there And this song has a lot of meaning for me.
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Them Heavy People
YouTube video by Kate Bush - Topic
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yeeorcas poems 🌱 @yeehawpoems.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Phylica pubescens #poetry
Phylica pubescens

Some poems don't ask to be written
but demand through shaking hands
and teardrops disappearing down
into the pillow case overdue for washing
and the lines don't look nice
nor split into stanzas because
the body keeps the score

And as I write it
in hopes of educating
survivors or people who never had to
I realize it's ineffable

Remind myself I'm safe now
covered in your blanket
and 
put the poem down

Falling asleep but awakened
upon realizing, then forgetting

Then another tear and thinking "fuck it"
recalling the terror scraping at my heart
at the verge of climax, then release
blissful for a fucking moment then followed
by tears of shame for fucking decades
because of men who sexualized me as a kid
and that idea of stolen purity turned into
a raging reminder of what we're fighting for
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Your nasty mouth Hurls insults like bricks Bitter words batter my senses If it shines If it rains You rage Your fists never punch It's all hate exploding Shards of verbal shrapnel Shatter me Nothing left but pieces of pain And love imploding #poetry
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 30: The last song on an album by a band that starts with the. 3 Imaginary Boys - The Cure ( Boys Don't Cry)
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Three Imaginary Boys
YouTube video by The Cure - Topic
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 29: A one hit wonder from the decade you were 10 Money - The Flying Lizards (1979)
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Money
YouTube video by The Flying Lizards - Topic
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge ##MusicSky Day28: A song with more than 4 words in the title by a band with more than 3 words in their name. (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
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(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea (2021 Remaster)
YouTube video by Elvis Costello - Topic
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 27: A song with and or & in the title by a band beginning with D. In The Sweet By and By - Dolly Parton R.I.P
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Dolly Parton - In the Sweet By and By (Audio)
YouTube video by Dolly Parton
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Life could be sweeter If all the arseholes Started playing nicer Life would be more hopeful If all the bastards gave us more Life might just survive If all the tyrants ceased their madness . Life needn't be a car crash If all the psychopaths Took a one way trip to Mars #poetry
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Mental illness consumed me Your space in my life forgotten My mistakes you paid with pain Failures that are mine to own alone If only my love could undo the tangles Knotted in your head There's no sorry good enough To heal your hurt I hold up my hands I fucked you up #poetry
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
You shone brighter than most A jewel fashioned from tennessee dirt Smokey mountains in your soul A love filled golden heart Beating to its own rhythm American icon Who conquered the world Goodnight and God bless Dolly May your light never be forgotten R.I.P #Poetry
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Whistlertim🇨🇦 @whistlertimbc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
#ও☉❢☉✑ #poetry #writing #micropoetry #blueskywriters #writingcommunity
Pinesong

The fire has faded out,
Leaving only the cool, grey stone.
I walk the ridge where pines whisper,
Tracing the shape of an ancient song
Left behind in the empty wind.
The shadows mirror a cloud adrift,
And I am weightless,
A fallen needle
Borne softly on the breeze...
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 26: A song by a solo artist with a mode of transport in the title. Black Horse And The Cherry Tree - KT Tunstall
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Black Horse And The Cherry Tree (Radio Version)
YouTube video by KT Tunstall - Topic
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My sadness didn't slowly drip It poured down heavy A deluge of demons Flooding my senses Keeling and reeling I flail and founder Drowning in overwhelm Signalling sos Send out the boats Toss me a life belt Fill it with hope Before I slip under The blackest of seas #poetry
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 25: A song with an alliterative title from the 2020s. Dark Days - Yard Act (2021)
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Dark Days
YouTube video by Yard Act - Topic
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 24: A song with a month or day in the title by a band with a one word name. Bank Holiday Monday - Stereophonics
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Bank Holiday Monday
YouTube video by Stereophonics - Topic
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Standing on the shore Small waves gently lapping over my feet Boats bobbing in the distance As sea sprayed sailors made their way home I thought of lands yet to be explored How the ocean spoke of longing and unfulfilled dreams A single tear fell Tasting of salt and regret #poetry
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 23: Song with a body of water in the title from the decade you left school. Martha's Harbour - All About Eve (1988)
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Martha's Harbour
YouTube video by All About Eve - Topic
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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 22: A song with a number in title by a band with more than 4 members. Reasons To Be Cheerful, Pt. 3 - Ian Dury & The Blockheads.
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Ian Dury and The Blockheads – Reasons To Be Cheerful, Pt. 3 (Official 4K Music Video)
YouTube video by Ian Dury & The Blockheads
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Especially #3.
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Ash & Ink @bundtkake.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
#poetry #noprompt #blueskypoet #fuckICE #resist I don't like look at me stuff, but goddammit I was out since 9am this morning, giving info, and support to torn apart families until I was at a rally on city hall steps then I dropped two people home who didn't have rides. Where is everyone? WHERE?
Legal Observer 

I do what I can
It's never going to be enough
And it will use me
It will use me up
And I understand 

Today all I could do
Was bear witness
And that isn't enough
And that will burn me
It will make me ash
And I understand

Everyday I do what I can
Everyday I fight where I can
And I can't win
And I know
And I understand 
But when history speaks of me
When my children speak of me
I hope they understand
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Jen J.C. @jennnne.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#poetry #cptsd #survivor #healing #growth #freetobeme 📷 : pexels
Many had buried me
And plucked me
And buried me
And plucked 
And buried

How fortunate, that!
For I was born without root
Tossed about at the mercy of a wind
That had none

I found purchase, at long last
And held fast
Enriched in earth, warm and fertile

I reach toward the sun now
Grounded in strength
And blooming in love
For little things
For me

J. C. 08.20.26

Alongside this poem is a close-up photo of a sunflower being pollinated by 2 bees. A sunny blue sky is in the background
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I just knew we'd get this bollocks. Farage - like the Telegraph- doesn't want progress or anything to improve he just wants Britain to sit in a miserable slump in which he can holler constantly about "migrants" and drink pints in slow motion videos with people who pine for WW2.
Farage: Burnham's pledge
to house homeless will
attract more migrants
Reform leader says rough sleeping plan
sends message that you get 'everything for
free if you come by boat
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