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Jen Thorne

@jenthorne.bsky.social
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"Delightfully bleak." In real life, I'm a working mother of two, with a boring job in IT. On here, I am a poet, writer, artist, and crafter! Member of the #PoetsOfDoom crew. Member of the #PromptCombo team.

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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 8m
Fabulous poem. So atmospheric and image rich. Love it (and the picture obviously!)
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RaggaMog (Morri-Arty) @raggamog.bsky.social · 1h
Catching my cat's eye, The pressure drops And the crow Is silent; The impending storm Bruises the light In shades of Slate and ink, Turbulence crosses The #Mountains, Bringing thunder, Charging time With stillness As the feline And his nine lives Fall to slumber. #VSS365 #Writing #Cats
A black and white photo of my ginger cat, sleeping with his paw outstretched.
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𓂀 𓆗Jay𓆗𓂀 @kitchenraptorj.bsky.social · 1h
S-ucculent sights H-ear the call I-nward— N-ot letting Y-ou rise from the glimmer #AcrosticOctober #poem #shiny
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 12m
I am having a lazy restful one, so yes!
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 13m
And you ☺️
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 13m
static.klipy.com
Leonardo DiCaprio with a Flamethrower
ALT: Leonardo DiCaprio with a Flamethrower
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 19m
Sometimes there is no other option ❤️
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 21m
You are so good at these. I love this one ❤️
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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 1h
Settling sunbeams, Highlighted in gold, Icarus daydreams, Never growing old, Yesterday gleams. #AcrosticOctober #Shiny #acrosticpoem #writing #writingcommunity @daveashleypoet.bsky.social
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 22m
I love both of them, and the subversion of making the end letters the acrostic. Very cleverly done 🌟
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Fleur Du Pseudonym @fleurdu.bsky.social · 26m
#Acrostic I did #Shine then checked and saw #Shiny here goeth botheth #AcrosticOctober brought to you by the Ab-Fab @daveashleypoet.bsky.social
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 24m
Sending gentle hugs 🫂
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 24m
I missed reading them!
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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 2h
#AcrosticOctober time to get acrostic or else!!! Your acrostic prompt is #SHINY
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 2h
Ooh you haven't done one of these in a while. You are so good at them.
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Matthias (watering thoughts) 🦄🧚‍♂️🐉 @ignorantfairy.bsky.social · 2h
sabotaged sensations sickly sweet smiles severe strikes soon succumbing sole survivor sobs #emoetry #poetry #tautogram
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Matthias (watering thoughts) 🦄🧚‍♂️🐉 @ignorantfairy.bsky.social · 2h
swift airless escape drifting between cold stardust oxygen tank wanes screams won't cut deep silence space becomes a grim graveyard #firwords280 #tanka #poetry
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 2h
Oh gosh I must have been half-asleep I thought it was yours! They are great. I will give them a follow!
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 3h
They are gorgeous, and what a great name!
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Beth Ember @ctrlaltdltffs.bsky.social · 6h
he dug deep down into the ground the rain drizzled softly around fog creeped closer with every plop then he hit it with a loud pop! when he opened the casket, he screamed in rage - "not again, Marlene!" #AmpersandAfterDark 66 #poetry @madp03t.bsky.social
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 3h
What a cool cat, and cat house 😍
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 3h
I can almost smell this poem! Ugh 💜💜💜
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Eric Montgomery @madp03t.bsky.social · 5h
I think I'm a little late to this week's #PoemsAbout #Rot. But here is my offering anyway... @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #prompt #poetry #blueskypoetry #writesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poets #creativewriting
Poem written and (c) 2026 by Eric Montgomery (@madp03t.bsky.social). All Rights Reserved.

Soft, the peach goes.  
Gold into brown,  
sweet into ooze.

Under the sink,  
a slow drip ticks  
into swollen wood.

Behind the wall,  
black constellations spread  
where no stars should.

Bread grows a blue-green beard.  
Milk turns thick in the throat.

The tongue heaves back.  
A sour thread climbs  
behind the nose.  
Swallow, you cannot.
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Some scale mountains high effortlessly Reach for stars relentlessly Others admire grand tetons from afar When repulsed by vain heights and false regret remove all with one breath #vss #poetrysky #Emoetry #poetsofbluesky #writesky #photography #EastCoastKin #WestCoastKin #WCK #ECK 💙📷 me
Mountain High 
Photograph by Winter Ives. 
©️2022, All rights reserved. 

Mt. Jefferson as viewed from Crooked River Ranch in central Oregon as the sun sets behind the peak.
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G @gwill2k.bsky.social · 9h
siren speaks easy, her song sung to please thee; her entire set eases me, relaxing tones release me.
siren song heard on a walk along…
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𓂀 𓆗Jay𓆗𓂀 @kitchenraptorj.bsky.social · 11h
Desire sired A fractured painting When he sowed The seed of you In my head On this canvas There's a #mountain Between you & the moon Still I wish To claw my way Through rock & space To stroke The craters On your face I want to see What all the fuss is about When you tremble At hello #vss365
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𓂀 𓆗Jay𓆗𓂀 @kitchenraptorj.bsky.social · 9h
Red flags I struggle with Asking for help The spotlight touch Burns like fuel I'm indecisive Caught between Destroying danger & the urge to flee My empathy Can take me To higher places & dark spaces I welcome grey thinking Like uncarved stone Flawed But never claiming To be perfect #poem
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 11h
This is heartbreaking but excellent. Nice write Dawn 👏 👏👏
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Dawn McLachlan @deemclachlan.bsky.social · 11h
A poem here from a new #blueskypoet Something for the @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poemsabout #rot #poetrycommunity #gothicpoets
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 11h
Thanks Dawn ☺️ 😊
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 12h
😂
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 12h
The bent back and hobbling maybe, but I've been rocking the bag lady look since the 90s and I ain't changing now
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 12h
😂😂😂 Yep, we could be twins!
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G @gwill2k.bsky.social · 13h
#SongsofBlake #MusicChallenge Coming Soon. Are you songs of innocence? or Are you experienced? Quote Post with a song of your choosing, inspired by the artwork of William Blake. Oct 15th - Oct 31st. #musicsky #musicchallenge
Adapted from:

Ode for Music, commisioned by Thomas Gray

DATE between 1797 and 1798
MATERIALS & TECHNIQUES

Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
DIMENSIONS

Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
INSCRIPTION(S)/MARKS/LETTERING

Inscribed in black ink upper right: "1"; on verso in black ink upper left: "2"; in black ink center: "Ode for Music | 1. Fame | 2. A bird singing | 3. A Genius driving away 'Comus & his | midnight crew' | 4. Milton struck the corded Shell | Newtons self bends from his state sublime | 5. 'I wood the gleam of Cynthia silver bright | When willowy Camus lingers with delight' | 6. 'Great Edward with the lillies on his brow | To hail the festal morning come' | 7. 'Leaning from her golden cloud | The venerable Margaret' | 8. 'The Laureate wreathe' | 9. 'Nor fear the rocks nor seek the shore' | 10. Fame."
Lettered on inlaid page: "ODE FOR MUSIC. | Performed in the | SENATE-HOUSE | at | CAMBRIDGE, JULY 1, 1769, | At the INSTALLATION of his Grace | AUGUSTUS-HENRY FITZROY, Duke of | GRAFTON, CHANCELLOR of the University."

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3687
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 13h
You will have if you stick with the cross trainer!
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 13h
No I think its apt - cross dressing is hard work and often annoying, but by 'eck it makes you look fit!
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 13h
Oh. I was in Morecombe!
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 13h
Often in very different ways!
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 13h
How can this be beautiful and yet gross at the same time?!!
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 13h
In love that you are cross about the cross trainer!!! (I may be on strong painkillers)
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 13h
I will make sure I'm not eating when I read them (had to put my sandwich down for a few minutes after I resd this one!)
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 14h
It does seem that way
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 14h
Me too! We weren't together we're we????
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 14h
Just brilliant 👏
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Talah Reed @talahreed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A small study in distance, denial and cut flowers. #poemsabout #rot #poetrysky #poetsky
STILL FLOWERS

The flowers lasted eighteen days.
I know because I counted.

By six, the water had gone cloudy.
By nine, the first stem bent.
By thirteen, they had started
leaning on each other
for structural reasons.

I changed the water anyway.

From the kitchen door
they still looked like flowers.

I tried the hallway.

Still flowers.

The sofa:
flowers.

Three feet away:

less convincing.

Up close
they had become
a collection of failures,
minor and major.

Apparently beauty
has a minimum viewing distance.

Nobody tells you this.

Museums know it.

Pointillists knew it.

By eighteen
I knew it too.
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 14h
The last stanza is my absolute favourite thing I've read today is think. The whole poem is great though 😍😍😍
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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#PoemsAbout #Rot @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry / #photography: ©Jan Peters, 2026/2024 #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #MushroomSky #Fungi #Mycelium #Abjection #FolkHorror
Eyeless in Mycelia
 
Become the 
Predator you 
Purport to
Be:

Soften your gaze,
Relax your focus, 
Suspend your watch, and
We will 
Scatter-gun your 
Retina with our
Fruiting forms.

Pluck and
Pluck again -
You cannot
Kill us. These are not
Blossoms, but
Excretal blooms of our
Ungual-plated
Needlework.

Your
Delight at our 
Fetid, fleshy
Polyp rooted no doubt in 
Unchecked pica: 
Oyster-grit nose junk,
Salted-crunch eye gunk,
Gristly scurf-scab.

Masters of abjection, we
Cannot be seen,
Cannot be unseen.

Masters of degradation, we 
Repel nostril,
Addle decorum, 
Reek of your
Fragility.

You keep upright
Stinkhorn hidden away under 
Lock and key from
Wanton maid and stable lad; 
Cremate its tumescence in 
Drawing-room
Fireplace.

Unbeholden to your
Sighted kind, we are 
Pitch-black, eyeless 
Viscera and lumina -
Blind-tangle of filament
Free-forking over 
Mile and
Millennia.

In
Frosted charnel grounds, we
Erupt as
Thawed corpse-fingers,
Feeding indigent folk at the
Dead heart of
Winter.


©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026


 

 




©Jan Peters, 2024

Image of fruiting bodies of Coprinus comatus glistening in the autumn sun
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 14h
This made me laugh. Love it mate 👌
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John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#PoemsAbout #Rot @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will put a reading in the comments.
KNOCK GO GENTLE

round here
knock gentle
better yet holler

anything made of wood
termites have
probly obliterated

holeyer than your mama’s
teeth on the nightstand
that kind of fit so you share them

the buckets catching drips
from the ceiling
themselves leak through rags onto the floor

if there was a doctor in these parts
they’d tell you speaking of holes
your liver weren’t none too good neither
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 14h
What a beautiful take on the prompt. Gorgeous poem. Absolutely gorgeous 💖💖💖
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