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I watch. I think. I write.

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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A ‘fistful’ sounds like more than a ‘handful’ even though it’s probably less. #words
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So squeezable!
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
lol, ‘Je suis celui qui suis’
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
What a lovely image, dear Lys. I will keep it in my thoughts today, and re-imagine it frequently. Thank you. 😊
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dirt of the looming dawn @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026
lucille clifton JASPER TEXAS 1998 "i was chosen to speak by the members of my body" "i am done with this dust. i am done."
i am a man's head hunched in the road.
i was chosen to speak by the members
of my body. the arm as it pulled away
pointed toward me, the hand opened once
and was gone.

why and why and why
should i call a white man brother?
who is the human in this place,
the thing that is dragged or the dragger?
what does my daughter say?

the sun is a blister overhead.
if i were alive i could not bear it.
the townsfolk sing we shall overcome
while hope bleeds slowly from my mouth
into the dirt that covers us all.
i am done with this dust. i am done.
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Oh, good. The platinum bob is cute, but I love your long blonde hair.
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
One word: ‘spanking’. (You know you want it) 😈👋👋👋
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Ooh, can I help design the suit? Crotchless tights, open bustier … haha, yes, the utility belt …. *rubs hands together*
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Diva: one upon whom all attention is rightly focused. So, still a diva, darling, even when sweaty and flushed.
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Prue Paimon @pruepaimon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Fine. #poetry #poem
Fine.
Something you pay
when something is wrong.
A coin dropped into the mouth
of a machine that never gives change.
A word left on the table
after every other word
has been taken away.
It means agreement
when you have no fight left.
It means acceptance
when acceptance is the only thing
still within reach.
It is the sound of surrender
dressed up as composure.
A tiny word
with an entire war
hidden inside it.
Fine.
Something you say
when nothing is right.
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“Yes, ma’am,” replies the National Guard, standing at attention and saluting.
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
In drought, the birds fight Over the fresh-filled birdbath. No one gets to bathe. #poetry #haiku
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
So, we would watch you draw while wearing… 😛
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
MCU cosplay: yourself, as Spidergirl, captured by sex toy Dr. Octopus. 😛
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Happy birthday, dear
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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I'll never get over this poem. From Dorianne Laux's book, Smoke: bookshop.org/a/862/9781880238868 #poem #booksky #writing
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It’s good when it goes ‘BOOM’!
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The problem with entitlement is You never have enough. So no matter how long you live, Or how much you get, You die wanting. It’s a bad way to live, And a bad way to die. #poetry
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
lol, I’ve always thought the Sheela’s were such cuties.
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Sheela na gig: medieval European stone carvings of naked women squatting and displaying an exaggerated vulva. Found in Romanesque medieval churches in Europe and GB. 😋
Sheela na gig: medieval European stone carvings of naked women squatting and displaying an exaggerated vulva.
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
🥰
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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
From E. E. Cummings's book, Etcetera: bookshop.org/a/862/9780871401762 #poem #booksky #writing
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Prue Paimon @pruepaimon.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A Bluesky Bedtime Fairy Tale: The Queen Who Collected Skins In a kingdom stitched from dandelion fluffs there lived a Queen who collected skins…. #poetry #writing #fairytales #myth
The Queen Who Collected Skins

In a kingdom stitched from dandelion fluffs
there lived a Queen who collected skins.
Each morning she wore a different one.
A fox’s for its clever tongue.
A lion’s for courage.
A swans for beauty.
A menagerie in her closet of selves. 
The people cheered.
“How perfect she is.”
So she gathered more.
Until her tower was filled with hanging skins,
each one a promise
Be this and you will be enough.
Years passed.
The queen grew weary.
The fox itched.
The swan pinched.
The lion’s mane was heavy in summer.
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One night, while wandering the forest,
she met a ragged old woman feeding crumbs to crows.
“What skin do you wear?” asked the queen.
The woman laughed.
“My own.”
The princess frowned.
“But it is ugly.”
“Sometimes.” The old woman said.
“Wise?”
“Occasionally.”
“Brave?”
“When required.”
“Then how do you know you’re enough?”
The old woman scattered the last of the crumbs.
The crows rose like black leaves into the sky.
“My dear,” she said,
“an acorn spends its whole life trying to become an oak. It never wastes a single day trying to become a swan.”
The forest grew silent.
For the first time, the queen noticed the trees.
No two were alike.
The bent ones touched the stars.
The scarred ones sheltered birds.
The hollow ones sang when the wind arrived.
And none of them apologized.
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The next morning she returned to her tower.
One by one, she opened the windows.
The skins all scattered on the breeze
fox and lion, saint and swan
all but one remained.
Her own.
It was plain.
It was patched.
It carried every scar she had earned.
And when she slipped it on,
it fit perfectly.
The kingdom said she seemed smaller somehow.
Less magical.
Less perfect.
But for the first time in her life,
she was not trying to become someone.
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Mmmm…
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Prue Paimon @pruepaimon.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Life Advice #poetry If I had one piece of advice, it would not be to chase happiness, for happiness is like the weather beautiful, brief, and beyond your command.
If I had one piece of advice,
it would not be to chase happiness,
for happiness is like the weather 
beautiful,
brief,
and beyond your command.
I would tell you instead
to learn how to sit beside yourself
when things darken.
Make peace with uncertainty.
Speak kindly to the frightened parts of you.
Do not waste your years
waiting to become someone else
before granting yourself permission to live.
Love recklessly,
but not at the expense of your own becoming.
Remember that grief
is not proof that something went wrong,
but evidence that it mattered.
Create things.
Even badly.
Especially badly.
A life measured only by perfection
is a life left mostly unlived.
Because in the end,
you will be remembered
by the softness you offered,
the courage it took to stay,
and the moments you chose
to be fully, imperfectly,
alive.
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
If something is ‘bunk’, and then you ’debunk’ it, what is it then?
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
lol, you got me, love. Read my mind.
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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
From Ada Limón's book, The Hurting Kind: bookshop.org/a/862/9781639550494 #poem #booksky #writing
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Prue Paimon @pruepaimon.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The seams… The knots begin, as they always do, with a single thought pulled loose from the fabric of an ordinary day. Suddenly my mind is connecting catastrophes from patches of the past, running ahead of me. #poetry
The knots begin, as they always do,
with a single thought pulled loose
from the fabric of an ordinary day.
Suddenly my mind is connecting catastrophes
from patches of the past,
running ahead of me.
It calls fear preparation,
calls panic wisdom,
calls certainty from evidence
of fibers that no longer hold. 
What do I know for sure right now?
Not what I fear.
Not what I predict.
Not what old wounds insist will happen.
What do I know?
I know that in this moment
I hold the needle.
I know that anxiety is a seamripper,
not a stitch. 
So I return,
again and again,
with my needle
to this mending of truth
I do not know what comes next.
and that is not the emergency
my fear insists it is.
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Food only smells good if it’s yours 🧐
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Almost anything can be made Beautiful If you polish it Enough. #poetry
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Prue Paimon @pruepaimon.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A dangerous moment For one dangerous moment, I begin to believe That tomorrow is promised And today matters because of it. But I have learned Even if tomorrow never comes, #poetry
For one dangerous moment,
I begin to believe 
That tomorrow is promised
And today matters because of it.
But I have learned
Even if tomorrow never comes,
Today is the only day that matters
Because everything else
Is memory or imagination,
The past cannot hold me,
The future cannot save me.
All I have
Is this small breath returned,
This heartbeat insisting upon itself.
This chance to witness
What is here before it is gone.
And perhaps that is enough.
Not because tomorrow waits for me,
But because today arrived.
Because life is not measured
By the promises it makes,
But by the moments we dare to inhabit
Before they pass.
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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
#vss365 #Life Before birth, I was part of my mother’s body. She was once part of her mother’s body, as was her #mother who was once part of her mother’s body . . . . . . and so on for tens of thousands of mothers’ mothers. This living chain makes me 2 billion years old, later this month.
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
There is no cold; It is only the absence of heat. There is no stillness; Only the absence of motion. No dark, though The shadows do appear to move. #poetry
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Sounds like denial to me. Knows the name of his repressed desire.
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I still can’t bring myself to lick my fingers. Stupid bags.
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Anti-AI sentiment spilling over onto digital art. Art-medium purism is an inevitable consequence.
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It’s not really my thing, but … I can’t deny the appeal. It’s not the panties themselves, you understand. It’s you. It’s the thought of a whiff of your scent, an echo of the touch of your skin. Sort of like a lock of hair, maybe, to someone of a bygone era. It’s visceral.
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I sure wish I could feel that.
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Prue, you are the best poet on this platform, IMHO. I’m shocked that your every post doesn’t garner hundreds of likes and thousands of views, and I’m delighted to see others beginning to recognize how extraordinary you are.
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Prue Paimon @pruepaimon.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
@prettyvulgar.bsky.social @donkee.bsky.social submission. This has been edited again slightly. Love letter Dear me of tomorrow: I hope this poem finds you well. Are your hands steadier? is your breath less negotiated, your heart no longer asking permission to beat? … #poetry
Dear me of tomorrow: 
I hope this poem finds you well. 
Are your hands steadier?
is your breath less negotiated,
your heart no longer asking permission
to beat? 
I hope you have stopped apologizing
for the way you take up space,
for the way you stay
long after others would have left,
for the way you still believe
in something soft
after everything that tried to harden you.
Tell me
did you learn how to rest
without calling it lazy?
Did you find a way
to hold your grief
without letting it become your name?
I’d like to think
you walk differently now
not lighter,
but more certain.
Like someone who knows
the ground may give way
but has learned to dance there anyway.
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If you are scared,
I hope you remember me
this version of you
who kept going anyway,
who grasped for meaning
inside confusion,
who loved you enough
to imagine you whole.
And if you are loved
fully, gently, without condition
I hope you let it stay.
I hope you don’t reach for the exit
out of habit.
Tomorrow me,
you are not a destination.
You are a continuation
of every small, defiant act
of choosing to live.
I am proud of you already.
With hope,
and a kind of faith I’m still learning
you are loved. 
Me
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Oh, honey, you could be frozen in a block of ice, and you’d still be delicious.
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Prue Paimon @pruepaimon.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
At the edge of it you hesitate because something in you recognizes the gravity of the door. Thresholds whisper a frequency of skin prickling with the knowing that who you were cannot follow where you are going. #poetry #tarot #witchcraft
9 of wands, 2of cups, 4of wands At the edge of it
you hesitate
because something in you
recognizes the gravity
of the door.
Thresholds whisper a frequency 
of skin prickling with the knowing
that who you were
cannot follow where you are going.
Fear stands there first.
Not as an enemy
but as a sentinel,
asking quietly,
Are you willing to lose what you’ve outgrown?
You are touching the architecture of becoming.
Every step forward
is a small undoing
a loosening of names,
roles,
stories stitched too tightly to your ribs.
You feel the terror of the unknown
and call it danger.
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But listen
on the other side
is not emptiness.
It is love,
unfamiliar at first,
because it does not come from survival.
Others who stood where you stand now,
heart hammering,
grief and hope braided together,
who will nod
when you arrive
and say,
We know.
We were afraid too.
So step.
Not because you are fearless,
but because the fear itself
is the invitation.
Not because you are ready,
but because something deeper
already crossed
and is waiting for you
to catch up. 
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
“A robot is beating human pros at table tennis. Its maker calls it a milestone for machines.” — AP News Seriously? Never heard of ‘Pong’?
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Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired ~ K.E. Sermonté "I want quiet. I want the mercy of being unseen without being unloved."
What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired

I don't mean I want to sleep.
I mean I want to disappear for a while.
To be rain on a stranger's roof.
To be smoke rising from someone else's fire.
I don't want to die.
But I do want to rest in a way
the world has never allowed me.
I don't want comfort.
I want quiet.
I want the mercy of being unseen
without being unloved.
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Prue Paimon @pruepaimon.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The Loneliness of Clarity The loneliness of clarity is not silence it is noise no one else can hear. It is standing in a crowded room while the walls whisper truths through their cracks, and everyone else calls it stillness. #poetry #SenseWrds #prompt205
The loneliness of clarity
is not silence
it is noise no one else can hear.
It is standing in a crowded room
while the walls whisper truths
through their cracks,
and everyone else calls it stillness.
You learn quickly
that seeing is a kind of exile.
That naming the shape of things
makes people flinch
like you’ve turned on a light
they did not consent to.
You watch patterns repeat
like rituals without awareness
pain dressed as personality,
harm disguised as habit,
control mistaken for love.
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And I
I cannot unsee it.
I speak less,
not because I have nothing to say,
but because truth
sounds like accusation
in the ears of the comfortable.
So I carry it quietly
this knowing,
this sharp, clean edge of reality.
I grieve things
before they happen.
I recognize endings
in their earliest breath.
I feel the fracture
long before the break.
And sometimes
I wish for blindness
for the soft mercy
of not understanding,
for the warmth of shared illusion.
But even in the ache,
there is something sacred here.
Because clarity
is also a kind of devotion
to truth,
to seeing,
to refusing the lie
even when it would let me belong.
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Prue Paimon @pruepaimon.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The Magic of Words Words are small things until they are not. A whisper can bend the spine of night, it can slip beneath a locked door, and coil around a tired heart. #poetry #magic #witchcraft
The Magic of Words
Words are small things
until they are not.
A whisper can bend the spine of night,
it can slip beneath a locked door,
and coil around a tired heart. 
Some words are meant for quiet
spoken into the hollow spaces
where secrets live before one dies.
But other words demand thunder.
They rise in the chest
a swell of storms,
clawing their way past teeth
until they break loose
shouted across rooms,
across oceans,
across years of silence.
A whisper can summon ghosts.
A shout can banish them.
Both are spells.
Both reshape the present
and leave fingerprints
on the invisible.
Because language
is the oldest magic we know
breath turning into meaning,
meaning turning into fire.
And every time we dare to speak
soft as a confession
or loud as a revolution
the world tilts.
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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
From The Essential W.S. Merwin: bookshop.org/a/862/9781556595134 Merwin passed on March 15, 2019. #poem #booksky #writing
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Outright smut can be nice, but I think an image that skirts overt lewdness—making one fill in the missing bits from one’s own over-sexed imagination—can make the greatest impact.
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OlYello @olyello.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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