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Holly Jahangiri @jahangiri.us · 29/09/2026

rollercoaster thrills: new fears unlocked - snakes and leaves fall from skeletal branches — riders scream — nothing but an old urban legend #tankapoem #tankathursday #micropoetry #poetry #thrill

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Holly Jahangiri @jahangiri.us · 03/09/2026

Knock, knock. Ding, dong, ditch. Adults expected to yell, "Get off my lawn, kid!" Not pump them full of buckshot. Killing children. Trick or Treat. #tankathursday #tankapoem #micropoetry

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Holly Jahangiri @jahangiri.us · 03/09/2026

@evecastle.bsky.social thanks for reminding me about Bluesky Wrapped. I'm now determined to exude positivity and get rid of my #1 word. That said, I'm also realizing the difficulty of this goal. It's a useful little word. www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap... Alas, it's been #1 two years running.

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jahangiri.us's Bluesky Wrapped 2025

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Holly Jahangiri @jahangiri.us · 22/07/2026

Dear Bluesky friends, my shameless plea: Run over here, and vote for me! lonestarlimericks2026.shortstack.page/Wvp7NX?sre=6...

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Corbett Buchly @buchly.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

PST's Book of the Year is out! A lot of great poetry here, but also maybe, it has 6 of my poems - two on the topic of kindness and two of my space poems (part of a chapbook manuscript). (Poetry doesn't have to add up.) #poetry #poetrycommunity #astronomy #kindness @poetrysocietyoftexas.org

Poetry Society of Texas: A Book of the Year 2026, cradled in the bowl of a tree

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Holly Jahangiri @jahangiri.us · 27/06/2026

Is Bluesky "dead"? This would suggest otherwise: resourcera.com/data/social/... Is it hard to "gain traction" over here? Maybe, if social media is just a numbers game to you and "success" is measured in reaction emojis and bot views. Is it an "echo chamber"? Maybe...by our own design.

A visual snapshot of my activity on Bluesky, so far, in 2026, from https://www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrapped/

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Holly Jahangiri @jahangiri.us · 26/06/2026

Liberty, lantern raised — grows weary carrying hope, justice, warm welcome. They would make her promises a lie. Yet, her words endure. #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry #lantern

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Holly Jahangiri @jahangiri.us · 24/06/2026

No platform wants you dragging its users off-site. Can't really blame them, but when they actively try to prevent it by refusing to show your friends your links - e.g., to your blog, your books, your art - like Facebook does, then maybe they're rendering themselves obsolete in the long run.

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Holly Jahangiri @jahangiri.us · 12/06/2026

I'd read this. The world needs respite from the world and a renewed belief in the possibilities of happy endings.

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Bruce Coville @brucecoville.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Jane Yolen passed away this morning and I am in deep mourning. I had the great privilige of being friends with her for over four decades. We laughed together, did panels together, edited each other, and eventually wrote a book together. She was my editor for several books . . . 1/2

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Holly Jahangiri @jahangiri.us · 12/06/2026

Good morning, Bluesky. Happy Friday! Stay cool and hydrated. Wear sunscreen. It's kind of sad that "Facebook Outage" is trending on Bluesky. Just enjoy the blue skies, the peace, the relative lack of spammers and scammers... You know it won't last. You know it's just a temporary glitch.

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Holly Jahangiri @jahangiri.us · 11/06/2026

grackle dreams being crow — crow dreams being raven — raven circles sun. raven dreams technicolor, pities small birds with small dreams #tankathursday #tankapoem #micropoetry

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Holly Jahangiri @jahangiri.us · 10/06/2026

sparkle vamps inspire reluctant readers to read — bloody hard to hate the sunny Meyer lemon high school horror confection #tankathursday #tankapoem #micropoetry

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Holly Jahangiri @jahangiri.us · 27/05/2026

sargassum floats, dark tangled sea berries - drowning trap - gasping, grasping delicate dream algae, fine filaments of sleeping fear #NaTankaMo #MayTanka #TankaPoem #5lines

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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Thank you January House Lit in sharing my work. #poem #poetry #amwriting

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Holly Jahangiri @jahangiri.us · 14/05/2026

splatter fountain glows, roars — Earth shudders with birth pains, overflows, crimson heat hardens, forges first love: a seed's fertile foundation #NaTankaMo #TankaThursday #5lines #TankaPoem #micropoetry #Kilauea #Hawaii www.youtube.com/live/gXKuUyK... SOON!

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[V3cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (south Halemaʻumaʻu crater)

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Necia Campbell @vtpoetess.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Please take 30 seconds and cast a vote for my poem, Sugar Shack! ❤️ maple-festival-voting.vercel.app/vote/poem

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $271B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $231B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

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Holly Jahangiri @jahangiri.us · 22/04/2026

Renewal: Day 18 of National Poetry Month jahangiri.us/2020/renewal... (OK, not "Day 18" - more like "18th letter of the alphabet," so Day 18 of A to Z, but I'll catch up, I swear.)

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Renewal: Day 18 of National Poetry Month | Holly Jahangiri

Does "recreation" require destruction? Does "rebirth" require death? Do opposites attract or repel?

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Holly Jahangiri @jahangiri.us · 22/04/2026

losing track of hours — sweet afternoon somnolence — thick chocolate dreams melt #senswrds #prompt212

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 19/04/2026

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

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Joshua Seigal - 'YAPPING AWAY' out now! @joshuaseigal.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

My family fled Fascism in the 30s. To see its resurgence is gut-wrenching & heartbreaking. I’ve been sharing this poem a lot, but it’s my history. Words are all I have. Forever grateful to @poetrywales.bsky.social for publishing: joshuaseigalpoet.blogspot.com/2023/11/here... #Trump #Orban #poetry

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Holly Jahangiri @jahangiri.us · 12/04/2026

The road stretched endless, full of expectation — full of "it's the journey not the destination. Parched, I drove, mad thirst unquenched by water's salt-tang on my tongue like tears and longing for a life that never was. #sensewrds #prompt207

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Holly Jahangiri @jahangiri.us · 11/04/2026

Stay near, but let my hand slip softly from your fingers breathe the words — the unsung lyrics of goodbye. I'd take you with — the view from here, breathtaking — but it's a one-way ticket and I only have the one. #sensewrds #prompt208

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 07/04/2026

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Speaker Johnson, we are calling on you to bring the House back to DC IMMEDIATELY! The Cabinet needs to invoke the 25th Amendment. But Congress can’t just sit on its hands and wait for that to happen when the President is threatening to commit war crimes TONIGHT.

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 07/04/2026

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/04/2026

23 people could stop this genocidal war criminal. That’s it. 23. 20 Republican senators and 3 republican reps in the house and he’d be out of politics forever. But they won’t. They’re addicted to power. A drug so strong they’d rather see a civilization die than give it up.

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Holly Jahangiri @jahangiri.us · 07/04/2026

i no longer know if future-me exists - can't see past today #senryu

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Holly Jahangiri @jahangiri.us · 04/04/2026

Cacophony and CBD: Day 3 in Nonsense Verse and Found Poetry jahangiri.us/2020/cacopho...

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Timothy Fox @timothyfox.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

You can get a copy for a complete stranger, too, if you want to do that. We’ll pick a name out of the phone book if you want and send it to them. (We’d do that, wouldn’t we, @kymdeyn.bsky.social?)

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Holly Jahangiri @jahangiri.us · 28/03/2026

That was the RIGHT answer.

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Holly Jahangiri @jahangiri.us · 27/03/2026

Arizona morning: parched khaki desert opens its mouth, green tongue blooms fuchsia, sunrise yellow, smoke-white and blush - even the rocks redden in dawn's sight, clothed in pale blue sky. #poemsabout #inbloom