iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In late October, as we both hung, I felt this pang under the ribs, longing ghost, surely not #hunger or lust long lost on us skeletal fiends hanging 'round gallows, guillotines. So I pushed it down, loudly cackled as to work my bones hoping they'd adjust, ...but it persists. #vss365

0133

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Dear canine companion we're about to #embark bark bark I saw your struggle waggle waggle to contain your joy good boy when I mentioned the park bark bark but calm down woof woof you silly goof #vss365

0142

Reposted by moniker

~Carobuggy~ @carobuggy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Hi guys, sooo... I came here to say that I have k-fi now! For now I am only opened for character fullbodies in two styles, but I plan on adding an option for full arts in the future. Gotta still figure out how to promote this thing, lol #digitalart #artcommissions #buymeacoffee #characterart

ko-fi.com

Carobuggy's Commissions

Commissions Open! Click to see Carobuggy's commission menu.

021

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

meant to take a quick shower young me took an hour (no haste) looking at ways to wear a #towel round the waist. And it makes sense, how else, but towels? where else, but showers? whose else, but hers? that girl's. In a showerhead's reflection taking time to pose (a question) #vss365

0172

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#SenseWrds 67 Whom shall I give the flower? Whom? The question seems to loom o'er poor ol' me as days pass and I fuss o'er its poor petals. With time it becomes clear to see the flower's just for me and I don't have to settle.

191

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#SenseWrds 66 Whenever I'm let be, look back and start to flee, Vampires haunting me, fears I won't let enter, lest I face what's at their centre, that behind me a mirror and it couldn't be clearer, I'm not letting reflection work on me.

171

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#SenseWrds 65 birdsong means it's gone what feels the night of our lives worry not, the Sun still heralds future joys

151

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#razor cuts what irks and leaves what works hair, skin, body, soul, cuts small wounds on all leaves small wounds on all #vss365

0333

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A #kettle or kerfuffle, Temperature runs high and I stir up, stew in my feelings, they bubble up, let them fly evaporate, cease. I'll have my morning tea in peace, please. #vss365

0154

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Sensational! The talent, vocal, instrumental and the showmanship! Go see him if you can!

020

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

May the odds be ever in your favor!

020

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

A novelty, I love her such #novel soul, this lover brought me a four-leaf clover to be treasured and discarded wrapped in velvet, pick-apart-ed be trusted, be shunted in our small, sun-dappled garden where grass grew w/ no abandon & she grew as nought could hold her another four years older #vss365

0142

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I played Blood on the Clocktower, a social deduction game on a Minecraft server this evening. Got assigned the role: Virgin and wrote this little book in game to share and pass the information along.

040

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

#cats got your tongue they all own it collectively each time they pass your taste apparatus calls "pspsps" as to confess its allegiance and it's greatest taste in adoring the regal adorableness that is cats #vss365

0201

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Bought a ticket for Jalen Ngonda's Warsaw show in August. It's around my birthday. Can't wait! ^^

020

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

there lazingly devoid of care devout maiden of sofa won't fly from her perch so far as can be thrown lovingly embroiled in some sort of spat with the ever so patient cold floor lonesomely sinking further into comfort and maybe she'll fall further still maybe words could move her maybe nothing will

0112

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I would... write, but I sit here, at ends with each sentence, searching for a keepsake's remembrance, the testament's last... rite, this e x c r u t i a t i n g l y slow death of the art — no, that's not... right, much as it often hurts to give a fuck about, it's me who dies. Poems live on without.

1100

Reposted by moniker

Simply Shevek @surelyshevek.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Held In Tension by C.M. Shevek. A poetry collection available for free here: mega.nz/file/rt5RiBT... The cover art was designed by @paulwelsh89.bsky.social, taking inspiration from the title poem Held In Tension. It was written over a period of deconstruction + transformation, may it give you hope.

Front cover of a book titled "Held In Tension" by C.M. Shevek. Text in white smallcaps serif, title at top, author at bottom right. Cover art is centered with a white border and red background. Art is a collage of traditional art pieces, top is a painting of a volcanic eruption overlaid with textiles, papers, jewelry in an evocative style, bringing about an emotional yet serene scene.

Red background, white serif text. Top says “Dendritic tendrils extend to the heavens,
clawing at the stars, prophetic plasma slipping through the filaments like smoke through a sieve.” in italicized font.
Middle says "A story of transformation in three acts, told through melodramatic poems of self-reflection, often utilizing metaphors from science and the natural world to match the perceived weight of experience.

C.M. Shevek languishes in passive self-hatred and a longing for innocence/ignorance in Act I, lingers in a black hole of depression and non-existent self-image while processing tragedy and personal breakdown in Act II, and rebuilds themself in Act III to a muddy clay of acceptance and mindfulness, forming a worldview that can be beaten but cannot be broken. A worldview that holds both mankind’s need for meaning and the harsh meaninglessness of the world in clear, absurdist clarity.

Find hope through camaraderie in the honest, unflinching distillations of life and emotion in this collection." in smallcaps font.
Bottom says "Follow @surelyshevek.bsky.social for poetry updates
Cover art by @paulwelsh89.bsky.social" in italicized font.

Screenshot of a poem, page 28. Black serif text on a white background
Held In Tension

Emotional outbursting
seams reigned back,
garroted; deprived of
life and another’s sight:
my held-in tensions.

Held intention
and unoffered redemption
wrecked my mind;
here, have it all—it’s gushing
from my pierced side.

Views of grace compete
with toxic waste leaks,
and the frog with
three eyes sewn wide
holds itself
in tension.

Dangling from the heavens
with a single finger
embedded in the clouds;
They hold me taut,
a wound snare drum
sounding out.

196

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Some pains painted painless, acts endorsed by endorphins, orgasms or exercising. When shortness of breath, sounds so enticing, I'd say I've chosen wisely. #vss365 #endorse

0183

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I #mediate spats between my needs and wants, running losing races like two left feet. (I fuse loose musings for my own amusement.) I trip, lose the race, shoelaces loosened. I lost so much already, so I'm footloose. #vss365

1164

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Understated — the sweaty #splendor of hard earned respite where despite goals seeming distant perspired perservered #vss365

0202

Reposted by moniker

~Carobuggy~ @carobuggy.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Had a lot of fun moments during another long session of @monikerpoems.bsky.social 's D&D campaign, playing as Niharika Love the political intrigue going on, and the table is really fun to roleplay with. I absolutely gotta doodle the moment when Niharika scared a guy shitless during interrogation

011

Reposted by moniker

yeeorcas poems 🕷️ @yeehawpoems.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Seasonality delightful as pink blossoms we're ephemeral #haiku 💕

071

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

#Kiss it better? As if. What a silly belief. You may try a kiss so light as to only delight, however something tells me, Am I wrong? kisses don't belong among bitter pills of medicine. Rather when I'm kissing and being kissed in turn I'm hissing for your lips burn. #vss365

0132

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

At the pawn shop browsing through the pans young punk rejects all sleazy puns. Round skillets he seamlessly disregards — too full of themselves. Feeling resigned, goes back to square ones, tho it irks to call them kettles. These metals really testing his mettle, but he knows he'll have to settle.

070

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Mon amour, now #unmoored, let go to see new sights. We bid them leave, as not to live so tethered to their mast. But as we breathe, we won't forgive if horrors come to pass. We stay awake. For goodness sake, return home safe to us! #vss365

0244

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I got to run a #DnD one-shot in a setting I've had in my head for 7 years. Feels euphoric to give life to this world, which I've carried so close for so long. And I feel like I've managed to adapt it to fit around the characters of my players, giving them some joy as well. Future one-shots ahoy!

061

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

#SenseWrds 64 I delect in the sin having stolen emergency supplies dissolution on my tongue the undoing of vows I need to remember lest I come to regret this last hidden stash of chocolate

183

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I would love to get up today, get a job, earn some cash, swim about, make a big splash, but reality's harsh and I'd rather lash out on my socials @ clownfish in #slapdash rants bout the issues, like the dying coral reefs, which I wish mattered more to the big fish. Man, I wish... #vss365

0294

Reposted by moniker

Lanie Lanawits @pressingstories.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

From Renée Nicole Macklin Good's #poem: now i can’t believe— that the bible and qur’an and bhagavad gita are sliding long hairs behind my ear like mom used to & exhaling from their mouths “make room for wonder”— 💔 #RIP #MakeRoomForWonder #Poetry #Peace💔 poets.org/2020-on-lear...

poets.org

2020 Academy of American Poets Prize

On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin

0102

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

At some silly symposium some attempted synthesis of poetry and science. The agitated chatter somehow all in #symphony, talk about lack of money. In the back of this choir, that long forgot its chorus, Somnus sleeps harmonious. #vss365

1223

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

"What happens to a #dream deferred?," Langston Hughes once asked, looking perhaps like me into an empty flask. I have simmered on his words, dynamite of want ready to blow. Whatever happens happens. It often seems explosions end up being just for show. #vss365

1203

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

As a form of monikerpoems wrapped I can proudly say I wrote ~75 #blueskyrelay poems/stories this year, (and hosted 14 days,) which is not a lot, (I took long breaks and stuff,) but I'm still happy with the statistic. ^^ again, thanks for the prompt @poetguygabe.bsky.social! It's been lots of fun!

170

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Two oh two six already looking bleak. I think I will take it day by day, week by week.

051

Reposted by moniker

yeeorcas poems 🕷️ @yeehawpoems.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

#Okapi What a lovely animal to learn about, I can only hope I did a justice for this one. Thank you @monikerpoems.bsky.social for promoting my awareness about this cutie. #poetry

#Okapi

It's a zebra! It's a deer!
No! It's more like a giraffe!

Within the dense rainforest
stirs a shadow, until realizing!
Not a shadow, but an adapted
baby with water resistant pelt
and long melanin tipped tongue
communicating in infrasound
and scenting feet glands

Endangered and elusive
stealthing in the Congo
a test for humanity
to value life over
poached greed

2222

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

#SenseWrds 63 Upkeep The world saw battles, but at last, the dust settles. The last stone is cast. The victors get to pick up what's left of the past and forge their new paths. So here I am — Atlas, making sure nothing's lost. Someone's got to pay the vast cost.

1111

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I hang up the laundry on the strings to dry, I #air out my laundry for the neighbours to see, I hope some of the laundry might just disappear, but I pick up the laundry and it's all there and clean. I wish all this laundry wasn't mine, wasn't me. #vss365

1337

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Christmas Eve table set with Coca-cola branded glass You'd expect there to be sharp contrast. But what do I know? Giddy up let's go! Enjoy the show!

0110

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

#SenseWrds 62 thinking back to summertime, eat a lil' sumthin' sumthin' with the sweetest wine, complain it's still too bitter

182

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Dashing — through — the snow! — Oh no! We sleighed too hard!

182

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

#SenseWrds 61 Used to climb this tree at 5 years old. Its branches easily held my world. Nowadays I listen, hear it strain. With age comes weight and growing pain. In its trunk, in my bone, oh, how heavy we've both grown. But seeing it, nevertheless, I get to feel somewhat weightless.

163

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

#SenseWrds 60 This paintbrush pressed to open wound, shows me where it hurts

1113

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

#SenseWrds 59 that day friend said 'it is what it is' in a tired voice I wished to speak, chime in, perhaps offer some recourse it struck me then, that all I'd do is add to all the noise 'it is what it is,' a simple phrase made me lost for words I stood silent by my friend feeling I was exposed

171

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Yearly pokemon out of #gingerbread and a nod towards my favourite christmas movie.

Gingerbread cookie depicting the pokemon Natu, a small round green bird.

Star-shaped gingerbread cookies decorated to spell out "Yippee ki yay!!!"

041

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Success or? No one will speak to me bout my great successes No one can follow me to my mind's recesses Who next to carry on my brain's thought processes? Who new to come upon my many lived lessons? Someone please find time to note down my presence Anyone give a dime & preserve my essence #vss365

1184

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

#SenseWrds 58 They call it morning haze when spotting nightmare with toothbrush sticking out in the bathroom mirror when spotting spider's careful cobweb weaved within an upper nook when washing face find old mascara (it's the spider again) accepting how things look

171

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

#SenseWrds 57 Was Orpheus good with the lyre or was he that good a liar? Like these actors now professing love in their played part, was it all staged from the start? To show us how easily her hopes could come apart? Surely, if he loved her like his lyre, they wouldn't ever part?

1102

moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I'm sad to see it go, but I'm happy to have been a part. Thank you for the wonderful year of relay, Gabe! Take care!

140