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@nelsonbrooks.bsky.social
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Combining novels, poetry and a part time PhD (end 2028) in the Officer Corps of the Royal Navy 1815-1870. Yorkshire and London. Married. No DMs. #Author|#Poet|#vss365|#tanka|#haiku|#PoetsOfBlueSky

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sea horses - equine and nautical @nelsonbrooks.bsky.social · 1h
#SenseWrds 275 #Poetry
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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 3h
for a moment impermanence takes colour persimmon clouds #PaintbyWords #Persimmon #Haiku #Poetry #Haiga #Autumn #EastCoastKin
Persimmon-coloured clouds glowing in shades of orange and peach across a blue-grey evening sky above silhouetted streetlamps.
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sea horses - equine and nautical @nelsonbrooks.bsky.social · 3h
#poetry #vss365
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 4h
Pleased to meet you greet you seat you in the wrong place at a tricky time But perhaps we met before clouds began Perhaps we’ll meet again on a railway in the sky #vss365 #PaintbyWords #OurPoetryX #Emoetry #poetsofbluesky #poetry #poetrysky #writesky #photography #wck #EastCoastkin #eck
Somewhere on Railway in the Sky
Photograph / Photo art by Winter Ives
©️2026, All rights reserved. 

A photograph of a bright blue sky with serene, billowing white clouds, expressing a hopeful reunion someday, somewhere in the sky.
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Lisa Writes Poems @lisawritespoems.bsky.social · 6h
I walked through the storm But the dark skies follow me Personal rain clouds #vss365 #Cloud #Senryu
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Lisa Writes Poems @lisawritespoems.bsky.social · 23h
A violent death Bright starry supernova Bequests a black hole #vss365 #Bequest
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sea horses - equine and nautical @nelsonbrooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Don't be offended at my fine equine hobby they are the bequest the Darley Arabian lives on in genes of horses #emoetry #poetry #vss365 #Tanka
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cry to the heavens offended poinsettia poisonous charm deceives the senses yet truth will prevail Ache of loneliness corrupt excuse when the path of the heart is inked in the blood of abused women #Emoetry #poetrysky #inkMine #poetsofbluesky #ColorADay #RedWed #Photography #WCK #ECK 💙📷 me
Path of the Poisonous Heart
Photograph by Winter Ives.
©️2026, All rights reserved. 

A photograph of dark red poinsettia leaves in shadow.  

Poinsettias (Euphorbia pulcherrima) are popular holiday houseplants best known for vibrantly coloured bracts (modified leaves) that bloom in Winter.
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Lisa @inspirationlisa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Lisa @inspirationlisa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Lisa @inspirationlisa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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sea horses - equine and nautical @nelsonbrooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#emoetry #offended #writingcommunity #poetry
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Me @ewiggins66.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#Poetsofdoom #freeform @jenthorne.bsky.social Find your rhythm Your voice Sprinkle adjectives Like falling leaves And nouns Like notes in a jazz piece Riff alliteration Punctuation The combination Drip drip drip Through a crack In the wall Settling visually On the edge Of your tongue
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sea horses - equine and nautical @nelsonbrooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#Vss365 #Poetry
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Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#vss365 a sigh, a #reprieve a heave of breath soulless at last no pain no hurt freed from the weight of a world unjust don’t envy my blood i no longer lust I rise with the wind no chain, no name no shadow to carry no past to reclaim 1/2
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
𝓥𝓪𝓷 𝓗𝓮𝓵𝓼𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓢𝓹𝓮𝓪𝓴𝓼 In the name of all good hearts you've broken I renounce you emotional vampire Bubbling holy water won't stop you Renounce you In the name of all goodness you've stolen 𝓟𝓮𝓻𝓱𝓪𝓹𝓼 𝓕𝓪𝓽𝓮 𝓸𝓻 𝓪 𝓼𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓹 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓴𝓮 #vss365 #poetsofbluesky #poetrysky #OurPoetryX #photography #wck 📷 me
Emotional Vampire 
Photograph by Winter Ives. 
©️2026, All rights reserved. 

A photograph of the full moon with light flares colourised red for dramatic effect.
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ocean Lover enjoys reprieve from duty, honour tides out, tides in push pull, push pull Fickle Sea no solitary lover knows no bounds attracted to everything the reason we drown #vss365 #reprieve #poetsofbluesky #poetrysky #TidesoutTuesday #ColorADay #BlueTue #Photography #ECK #WCK 💙📷 me
Tides out, Tides In
Photograph by Winter Ives. 
©️2026, All rights reserved. 

A photograph of the Pacific Ocean, not quite low tide, but beginning to pull back. The water, vivid shades of marine blues and greens sprinkled with white foam.
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Lisa Writes Poems @lisawritespoems.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nurture is A quiet act of Observation and measure The patient act of Showing up each and every day A cup of water offered To a seed A small ritual That can grow a forest #vss365 #Nurture
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Lisa Writes Poems @lisawritespoems.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Prompt 273 A murmuration Weaving across the dawn sky Dancing in the day #SenseWrds #Haiku
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Lisa Writes Poems @lisawritespoems.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Winter approaching The oak renounces its leaves Predicting first frost #vss365 #Renounce #Haiku
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Lisa Writes Poems @lisawritespoems.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
With every new dawn Time to purify the soul Welcome a fresh start #vss365 #Purify #Haiku
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PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
- i have missed your certainty ever since you left, faith was never a question - you knew who you were in the eyes of god and acted accordingly. there was never a need for some new Pentecost to purify you. you let the rest of us learn the taste of our new tongues. - #poetry #vss365
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sea horses - equine and nautical @nelsonbrooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
After the sheep drive we must purify the bridge from proffered blessings #Vss365 #Poetry #Haiku #SheepDrive2026 #CityOfLondon
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Rogue Nation Ghost Protocol Eastern Promises SkyFall If you're in the Spy Game reckon you're familiar with it all. One stands out from childhood Eye of the Needle Ken Follett, genius level #vss365 #poetrysky #blueskypoets #writesky #FilmSky #BookSky #photography #wck #BWFri 💙📷 me 💙📚
One Nation Under Surveillance
Photograph by Winter Ives. 
©️2026, All rights reserved. 

A photograph of road construction whereby some clever soul posted
a sign that reads: “One Nation Under Surveillance.”
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sea horses - equine and nautical @nelsonbrooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The rise of AI leaves a hunger for the past and nesitant pace but transformed tired stations returns their youth and beauty #Vss365 #hunger #emotery #nesitant #tfl #tanka #poetry
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
From: ‘Soulstice’ Prompt: ‘Nation’ Alt: ‘Country’ #WiPSnips
The teeming, overcrowded, very pungent city of Laandan had seen more than its fair share of odd occurrences. Quite frankly, the population had come to a point where they simply expected odd occurrences to happen, learned to live with brief moments of disappointment and brought folding chairs to many occasions on the off-chance they may find a good spot to observe the latest odd occurrence without much chance of getting caught up in it.

One week it was zombies, the next an invasion of feral squirrels, the next an outbreak of drunkenness, all the more odd since the prohibition laws had started to slowly come into force. Alright, that last one wasn’t all that odd but there was certain to be riots over it eventually and you needed a good spot near a bookie to make a little money on the outcomes. Riots were ten a Quarter Bit in Laandan. Twenty if the weather was far too humid for most people to think clearly, but not to the point where they just wanted to lie in the shade and reconsider their views about patriotism insofar as considering Bruta the greatest country in the world, which was debatable at the best of times.
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sea horses - equine and nautical @nelsonbrooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Busman's holiday the cellar of House Lanson for a proud Cooper. #Lanson #Reims #Haiku #Poetry
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sea horses - equine and nautical @nelsonbrooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
World hunger persists while the rich get far richer where is the justice? #vss365 #Poetry #Photography #Paris #Haiku
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sea horses - equine and nautical @nelsonbrooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Passion of the gods, Hercules is born of zeus whilst Hera looks on King Louis loved a bastard high on his Versaiiles ceilings #vss365 #poetry #photography #versailles #paris
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Glorious Narcissus resembles gratified sun but lives in brief luminosity An unforgotten woe insofar as Spring's blossoms only thrive in memory #Emoetry #gratified #inkMine #insofar #woe #poetsofbluesky #poetrysky #ColorADay #YellowThu #photography #wck #PoetryandPictures 💙📷 me
Grateful Yellow 
Photograph by Winter Ives.
©️2026, All rights reserved. 

A CU photograph of a bunch of bright yellow Narcissus. Spring blossoms.
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sea horses - equine and nautical @nelsonbrooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We see the passion before entering Versailles Eglise notre dame 350 years this church has supported faith #vss365 #tanka #versailes
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Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs Podcast @shipwreckspod.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
⚓New episode! SS Caribou: Newfoundland's Deadliest Night. German U-69 torpedoed and sank the passenger and cargo ferry SS Caribou on 14 Oct 1942, killing 136, including 10 children. #maritimehistory #Canada #Newfoundland #WW2 #WWII #navalhistory #militaryhistory shipwrecksandseadogs.com/136
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SS Caribou: Newfoundland's Deadliest Night
The passenger and cargo ferry SS Caribou was sunk by U-69 on 14 Oct 1942, resulting in 136 killed.
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sea horses - equine and nautical @nelsonbrooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Horse racing in France Parisienne odyssey exploring new tracks a tower in the background gives the location away. #vss365 #tanka #paris #auteil #Poetry
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sea horses - equine and nautical @nelsonbrooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No stormy shower, just a fabulous fountain, In autumn sunshine #vss365 #poetry #haiku #reims #france
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sea horses - equine and nautical @nelsonbrooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In Reims cathedral No images are discarded Imi knoebel rocks #emotery #poetry #reimscathedral #haiku #Photography
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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Crushed glass on hardwood crushed dreams swept in dustpan, love turns conflict love turns hate what have I done #emoetry #vss365 #poetry
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sea horses - equine and nautical @nelsonbrooks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Conflict on the track as athletes tow their pilots such amazing sport come to Paris, see trotting Experience excellence #vss365 #paris #tanka #poetry @hippodromevincennes
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sea horses - equine and nautical @nelsonbrooks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Walking round Paris early on sunday morning with my eyes open avoiding tourist footprints as i capture the splendour #poetry #bravewrite #paris #tanka
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sea horses - equine and nautical @nelsonbrooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thunder to Paris Eurostar is a marvel, fuelled by rose wine, five days of racing beckon with fine bubbles to follow #vss365 #tanka #paris #horseracing #poetry
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
River child grown wild tangled weeds in your hair your quiet eyes saw the truth Some magic occurs whilst barefoot long forgotten Trapped in shoes with no river to smell we're closer to the sky but farther from Earth #inkMine #poetrysky #writesky #poetsofbluesky #photography #wck #eck 💙📷 me
River Child. 
Photograph by Winter Ives. 
©️2025, All rights reserved. 

A photograph of a river with a tree branch hanging overhead.
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sea horses - equine and nautical @nelsonbrooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Waiting for a train exploring statiom confines discovering blooms my heart sings with sunflowers late season blast of colour #vss365 #Poetry #tanka
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V2Melody @v2melody.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Decorative poem card on cream paper with watercolor washes of deep blue and gold-leaf botanical sprays (leaves and stems) in all four corners. Centered black serif text of a 16-line tribute poem:
Brooks, thirty years thy pen hath glean’d the day,
And laid its fleeting plenty up in store;
Yet all thy gather’d songs cannot allay
The appetite that sends thee forth for more.
Where London’s buried chariots shake the ground,
Each station lends thy patient verse a name;
Where graves keep watch, thy listening art hath found
A leaf that asks no monument of fame.
Japan’s brief measures school thy lavish care;
A feast, a hoofbeat, furnish what they need.
Thou weigh’st a stranger’s word against the air,
And sav’st from waste what haste will never heed.
Thou dost not write to make the moment last,
But give it passage when its hour is past.
And still thy door stands wide, thy table free;
The next chance guest may bring a world to thee.
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sea horses - equine and nautical @nelsonbrooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#vss365 #OurPoetryX #Bravewrrite #Emoetry #poetry @v2melody.bsky.social v2melody.com/public_poem_...
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Melvin 🍁the 🍊💩hating cat -💙🦋🐧-my human is not a fan either . 🇨🇦💙🦋 @vespavixen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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sea horses - equine and nautical @nelsonbrooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#SenseWrds Prompt 270 #AFairerWorld #Poetry
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💞ClearCharm💞 @clearradiance.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
✨A Note of Gratitude✨ To my amazing followers I want to take a moment to recognize the beauty in each of you. It’s not just about the likes or comments, but the heart and soul you bring into this space. You are the spark of creativity, that makes this community so special. With love and gratitude💕
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𝓕𝓇𝒶𝓃🌹𝓛𝒶𝓊𝓇𝒶 @franlaura.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🦢 We had a visit from Chippy earlier, looking for some breakfast. He's such a sweet, solitary little soul with his chipped beak. Even Sam stays perfectly quiet around him; I'm convinced the two of them are friends. 😊🤭
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Immature lightning breaks sky's heart zealous attempt to gain affection Some say it's only an ancient god selfish punishment No one knows Nature's secrets Space is indeed a scary place but sunlit grace sustains us all. #vss365 #emoetry #poetrysky #writesky #poetsofbluesky 🎨Sasha von Dorp
Sasha von Dorp, Sound Bending Light (CU detail of Sunlight)
Photograph by Winter Ives.
Artwork © 2021. Sasha von Dorp www.sashavomdorp.com

A CU photograph of Taos-based multidisciplinary artist Sasha von Dorp’s amazing capture of sunlight via sound bending through water, resulting in a vivid prismatic effect of all of the spectrum’s colours.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Catching dinner "on the fly" IG: @mark.smith.photography• www.instagram.com/mark.smith.p...
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