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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve two days to make a fairy house from things I’ve gathered for a year…can I get it done?

A tabletop covered with gathered natural materials for art-making, including curled green and brown leaves, branches, bark, moss, lichen, pinecones, seedpods, dried flowers, and a small woven nest-like form.

Close-up of rustic natural materials assembled on a wooden base, including weathered sticks and bark, gray lichen, dried leaves and flowers, a pinecone, and a circular form woven from dried pine needles.

Large dried brown leaves and pieces of pale and dark bark lie beside a container filled with pressed and dried leaves and flowers. A moss-covered section of a natural-material artwork is visible along the left edge.

A collection of dried woodland materials, including feathery green foliage, long reddish and green stems, dried leaves, pinecones, flowers, and a pale green seed husk, arranged across a work surface.

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 22h

I’ve been sharing in a Substack dm group, and almost wouldn’t put mine here. I’m a doodler. I don’t pretend to be anything else than I am. However, it’s been about fun - so I want to share so others might know that creating, even badly, can be enjoyable. Comments in alt-text. #inktober

Alt-text: A burgundy graphic pairing a photograph of a hand-drawn, partially cut apple beside a pen with a poem reimagining Eve’s forbidden fruit as a lemon. The poem ends with Eve handing the fruit to Adam because “She was only seeking a second opinion.”

This is so badly drawn, but it was delightful to do. Having grown up Plain-dressing, I sewed oodles of quilt tops. Log Cabin was the top you cut your teeth on - and if those seams weren’t perfect, you ripped the stitches and sewed until you got them straight. I feel like I could still sew them in my dreams. And also, we’d have never done a blue and red top like this 😱So it’s my rebellion from stitching those relics of a past way of life, but making it a small one. 😅

Alt-text: An open miniature sketchbook displaying a hand-drawn geometric pattern in red, blue, and black. Repeating nested angular shapes form a tilted, Log Cabin quilt-like design.

I know nothing about cacti.

I don’t really care to know anyway,
but hey,
I drew some cacti

as though I were
an 18th-century monk
who doesn’t believe in fancy drawings,
listening to a toddler describe them.

Alt-text: A tiny open sketchbook held between two fingers, showing a densely crosshatched black-ink drawing of several tall, branching cacti in a desert-like setting.

Meanwhile, I’m realizing how much I’ve apparently internalized the unexpected recent smacks from Life as more like death punches… 👀

*Alt text/Ai: tiny open sketchbook held in one hand, showing a loose black-ink abstract drawing. Flowing lines, small heart-like shapes, dark shading, and jagged marks suggest a fragmented figure or landscape.
Me: It’s the word Life hitting me upside the the head with eraser marks adding another aspect with the descending word ‘me’ under the stick figure.

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This year has been hard. Really difficult. And it just keeps getting worse. This pic feels like a reflection of my soul at the moment.

Weathered gray wooden panels with scratches, rust, pale green oxidation, and irregular stains forming abstract shapes, divided by a dark vertical seam.

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Swamp sunflowers. Late-in-the-season bloomers. The disk florets mature at different times, thus the changing rings and textures at the center. The way they capture morning light is breathtaking. #ECK #Bloomscrolling #MacroMonday

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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

BREAKING: Trump announces he will withhold federal funding from Ohio if they vote blue in November… Isn’t EXTORTION, a typical mob tactic?! RICO. CHARGES. FORTHCOMING. 😎✨

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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Every institution will say: 'We take sexual violence extremely seriously.' And every one will find, with uncanny consistency, reasons not to take it very seriously at all." - @moiradonegan.bsky.social

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The moment you know the family group chat started another chat without you included…

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Quick shout-out to the Glad Suite, Carly, and Michael of the Lē for curating such an awesome evening of #art and poetry at the Glad Suite. #poetry #Art #creatives

A woman speaks expressively with both hands raised inside The Glad Suite gallery. Behind her are several artworks, including a mixed-media installation of natural branches framing photographs, a blue geometric piece, and a colorful painting of trouser legs and blue shoes.

A man wearing a white T-shirt and tan bandana speaks with his hands raised inside The Glad Suite gallery. Artwork hangs behind him. Overlaid text reads, “This is what art does. It gives us somewhere to meet. ‘Here Is Where We Part’ The Glad Suite. Thanks Carly & Michael of the Lē 💛”

A diverse group of adults and a child stand closely together and smile during the Here Is Where We Part gallery event. Art fills the walls behind them, including paintings, a timeline-style work, and the branch-and-photograph installation.

Event flyer for Here Is Where We Part, a group gallery show at The Glad Suite, 1339 Linden Street, Wilmington, Delaware, on October 2 from 5–8 p.m. The flyer describes the exhibition as exploring what we are parting with, what sustains us, and beginning a new journey together. It lists participating artists, spoken-word poetry, local musicians, and featured orator Michael of the Lē.

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Kids' Bible stories told us Eve ate an apple, teeth broke through outer skin into moist, sweet flesh within. But I choose to believe it was a lemon…” The rest of the poem in alt-text. *From a sketch challenge.

Kids' Bible stories told us
Eve ate an apple,
teeth broke through outer skin
into moist, sweet flesh within.

But I choose to believe
it was a lemon
that had to be peeled,
whose juice found every cut
she didn't know she had,
whose sourness
settled on her tongue.

And when she handed it to Adam,
she wasn't tempting him at all.
She was only seeking
a second opinion.

*A hand-drawn ink sketch of a sliced apple on the back of an envelope, with a black pen lying diagonally below it. Beside the drawing on a deep burgundy background is a short poem.

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Lawrence @ldog562.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

our military,is becoming,,A religious war machine to bring on Armageddon, That is what Hegseth told our troops,, How disturbing,, Hegseth puts Musk, Luckey, Gingrich in charge of military future warfare review . thehill.com/policy/defen...

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Hegseth puts Musk, Luckey, Gingrich in charge of military future warfare review

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday announced that SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk, Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey and former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) will lead a new Pentagon effort to study…

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Astra Lumina for the night. I believe - don’t quote me- this is A Star is Born. I had a wristband that was interactive. It had the heartbeat start with the Star, then you felt it on your wrist, and then you beat in time. It was SO cool! *My videography skills aren’t the best. 😬

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Continuing the stress doodling. Although, I’ve the skeleton of three poems about the #Amish church houses of Somerset County. I also transcribed three videos of conversations with my mom about her upbringing. #WackyWednesdayArt #ColorADay #RedWed #ArtYear

A small square abstract ink drawing on white paper, resting on a dark wooden surface. Intricate black, red, and metallic gold lines twist and spiral through one another, forming sweeping curves, circles, featherlike shapes, and tiny decorative patterns. The densely layered forms suggest birds or other organic creatures emerging from the swirling design.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 29/09/2026

Our Veterans, notoriously struggling to access public services while standing on the railing of their truck in front of lakes.

A picture from america.gov where the prompt is I'm a veteran how do I get care and the picture behind it is a Ford F-150 that appears to have the bed of the truck cut a couple a Ford F-150 that appears to have the bed of the truck cut a couple of feet short and a person standing on the back railing, or maybe just floating there, and looking yearning to railing, or maybe just floating there, and looking yearning to the left. Behind it appears to be a lake and trees with a bunch and trees with a bunch of birds in the lake

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today’s #lights brought to you by Astra Lumina. It’s the highlight of my winter when I get to go! This last year, it was almost empty, and I was able to take over two hours to just enjoy. It truly is a magical adventure! This is one small part that’s not even my favorite.☺️

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I missed the day for BlueSkyArtShow and #light. So I’m going to try to post one a day this week. I love lights, esp. when they are unique. They bring me joy and feel like a small place of piece.

A softly lit bookshelf beneath a canopy of glowing white blossoms tinged with pale pink. A slender, whimsical metal figure stands among the books, while warm fairy lights shine through the branches overhead, creating a dreamy, enchanted-library atmosphere.

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not. A. Single. One. Now tell me again how the US doesn’t have a r@pe culture?

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’ve not done a lot in life, but the one thing in spite of all my mistakes, was raising men who are not only safe- but who call out injustice. That will always outweigh what it cost me in leaving my faith tradition and calling out CSA & SA. Don’t just teach. Lead by example.

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When you don’t even bother to try hiding the fact anymore that everyone in the Trump admin is a marionette with strings pulled by some regime.

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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We must confront the culture and behaviors that contribute to violence against women rather than letting the conversation get reduced to political talking points. It’s noise, not reality.

On the same day" the Cornell Seven drugged and raped a student, Cornel banned four students from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The night the nor’easter came to town. *** if i could paint the sky i'd give it waves of cold lake blue mix in a sunset throw in a sunrise capture time in impossible hues *** #ECK #ImageAndVerse #Sky #storm

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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yup. Listening to Willy Rice brag about Southern Baptist trainings on sexual abuse prevention is kinda like listening to Mike Johnson claim he wants maximum transparency on the Epstein files.

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The correlation between how the current admin handles SA is parallel to the SBC. No one should be surprised that the last two Speakers have been SBC.

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Lisa (SoldierGirl)💔🤍💙 💙🌊💙🌊💙🌊💙🌊💙🌊 @soldiergirl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tell Congress: Impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts 👇 Write a letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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Tell Congress: Impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts

Contact Congress today!

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Jaye @jaybird54.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Jason Watson is still on my mind, and I don’t want him to slip from yours. He took a stand for what he believes in, and he’s still being held. Please keep saying his name, asking about him, and showing him he hasn’t been forgotten. @goodtroublesquad.bsky.social @defendersofourrepublic.org

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God @thegodshow.com · 24/09/2026

Stephen Miller is TERRIFIED. It’s glorious.

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Hawtorn V. Rabot @hawtornvrabot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

a temporary bloom lasting one day beneath the sky who will notice if it's here or gone perhaps life is not a stage but a garden and we are not players but flowers needed by the whole no matter how briefly we bloom 🌺 Hibiscus photo shoot. #VerseAndImage #ECK #ColorADay #BWFri

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

sometimes i feel sharp naked all bone and branch no leaves to make music upon the wind #ColorADay #BWFri #ClassicMono #Nature #ImageAndVerse #ECK

A tall, bare tree with stark, angular branches stands among a dense woodland of green-leafed trees. Its pale, exposed limbs reach upward against a soft blue sky, contrasting sharply with the lush foliage surrounding it.

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rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Mr. President, the American people are dying to know: what the hell is wrong with your ass?"

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🐊 🐸 Allie-froglegs 🐸🐊 @allie-froglegs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Also, Nolan’s cell was accessed & info deleted after time of death. Attorney Liza Park went over one of two autopsy reports and said this one revealed that there was no water in the stomach or the lungs, despite reports that this could have been an accidental drowning. www.wesh.com/article/nola...

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Forensic team reveals cellphone findings months after Nolan Wells found dead on Mississippi Island

Forensic experts are set to reveal what they found on Nolan Wells’ phone months after the Mississippi college student was found dead on an island.

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Never trust a partnership between religion and money…

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the predator spins where hunger feeds but its silk reflects a light human eyes cannot see #ImageAndVerse #ColorADay #Yellow #ECK #Bloomscrolling #Nature #Ecopoetry

Close-up of an orange-yellow wildflower with a dark golden center, its petals curling and overlapping. Fine strands of spider silk stretch almost invisibly across the flower, catching the light against a softly blurred green background.

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Where you can find me: It means a great deal to be part of Here Is Where We Part, bringing poetry, writing, and visual art together in one space! www.instagram.com/p/DdmEp4-ShA...

Promotional graphic for “Here Is Where We Part,” an exhibition at The Glad Suite, featuring poet, writer, and visual artist Joyce Enzor Maust. A large circular portrait of Maust appears beside a vintage microphone illustration. The Wilmington Art Loop event is Friday, October 2, 2026, with the exhibition from 5–8 p.m. and performances from 6:45–8 p.m., at 1339 Linden St., Wilmington, Delaware.

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Everyone’s focusing on the wrong words that Trump used yesterday! THESE are the words that should be of most concern: “Do I drive them into hell…” We’re underplaying the religious component of Christian nationalism & their End Times beliefs. We keep analyzing politics and overlooking theology! 🧵

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nature factoid: Milkweed bugs have mouthparts like straws, wear orange-and-black warning colors like monarchs & live a molting life. They shed one body for another as they grow. We wear ‘camo’ that keeps us alive, but it’s hard to molt from lives we’ve outgrown. #ECK #Nature #Bugs #Insects

Close-up of an open, dried milkweed pod with orange-and-black milkweed bugs clustered among the pale brown seeds and curling plant fibers.

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Lindsey Rachev @lrachev.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We are not moving on from the Epstein files.

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AutumnE56 @autumn55.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Want to go as RFK, Jr for Halloween? Just dust off your Grim Reaper costume.

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Beneath my feet, life and death mingle in the details. #Nature #natureJournaling

An open cream-colored sketchbook resting on dark fabric. On the right-hand page, a detailed black-ink drawing captures a small patch of forest floor, tangled with leaves, stems, grasses, berries, and decaying plant matter. A brown ribbon bookmark falls between the pages.

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TovahR 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇲 @tovahr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

youtube.com/watch?v=t5Qp... Adam Mockler breaks down Trump's UN General Assembly performance, from Cuba's delegation walking out after being called a "failed state" to Trump sitting beside a visibly uncomfortable Zelensky while claiming Putin "wants to see the war end," & it gets worse from there..

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World Leaders Publicly TURN ON TRUMP

YouTube video by Adam Mockler

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