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“Whoever carries over into the afternoon the law of the morning must pay for it with the damage to his soul…” — Carl Jung

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𓂀 𓆗Jay𓆗𓂀 @kitchenraptorj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Shark blood coagulates As it hits the #harbour shore With bated breath A knife unzips The flesh Mr. D was a man Of few words— He inked the cosmos On his left arm His first love was swimming The silence hit Before the rot Mr. D's stars Went supernova In an acidic soup #vss365 #horror
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𝐒𝒕𝘶𝘳 𝓟𝙤𝘦𝘵 @poetstur.bsky.social · 5h
you were the #hurricane that came that barrelled through things fought fixity turned things uʍop ǝpᴉsd∩ turned me ins OUT ide brought me to my knees deaf to my pleas please help me the wreckage has cleared the dreadweight I'd feared I'm calm or is it just the storm's unblinking eye ##vss365
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RaggaMog (Morri-Arty) @raggamog.bsky.social · 23h
In the verdant #Harbour Where the tall Ferns grow, Close to the Marshland Where the heron Brings the stillness To the wreckage Anchored To the long ago, Is a pocket Of wild quiet That unburdens The tangled mind From the Bricks and mortar Of the crowded Existence. #VSS365 #Writing #Poetry
A photo taken at the Dee Estuary of old boats living out their days. This area was once a fishing community, but it has now become marshland and the wildlife is now returning.
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Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social · 20h
I'm not gunna explain much on this one. Nearly didn't post it, still might shred it. For now, here it is. In case someone needs the message, you'renot alone. Hugs all around. 🫂 CW: implied SA #ampersandafterdark #poem #poetry #skypoem #skypoetry
I am Jane Doe - 1

The band played downstairs 
friends of friends of my ex
who moved out two weeks ago
still on good terms, I thought,
small party, for a three story house
ten people, their ten closest friends
I went to bed early, morning exams
double locked door, spread
in what passed for pj's, 
Body warm, sleep consumed
meat on the mattress.
I forgot that night, my balcony 
shared with my housemate,
the one with the pretty girlfriend
out of town visiting her family,
I forgot that night to check the latch.
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𝐒𝒕𝘶𝘳 𝓟𝙤𝘦𝘵 @poetstur.bsky.social · 19h
safe #harbour for it all come storm or shine accepting all the parts are mine fear, joy pride the urge to destroy tongue-tied but here for it all and searching once more for the little boy lost once shitting screaming beaming at a rainbow he had then learned not to know his self #vss365
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𝐒𝒕𝘶𝘳 𝓟𝙤𝘦𝘵 @poetstur.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
imagine being able to reconnoiter the future see the misteps the pitfalls obstacles that befell your way plot out a path around the suffering get here 'in one piece' only to realise you won't exist #vss365 #Reconnoiter
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𝐒𝒕𝘶𝘳 𝓟𝙤𝘦𝘵 @poetstur.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
the silhouette of what I'm not yet beckons me from the gilded horizon line back-lit by the dying sun it fades servant to the stars #vss365 #silhouette
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𝐒𝒕𝘶𝘳 𝓟𝙤𝘦𝘵 @poetstur.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
#horror of my own making shaking with tears bound by fear of my own creation a world not out to get me yet one I sought to flee achieve! the belief to relieve the ache of me get to the next success don't stop don't rest the best is yet to come But now I've learned to listen to my breath #vss365
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𝐒𝒕𝘶𝘳 𝓟𝙤𝘦𝘵 @poetstur.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
evermore becomes the nevermore paradigm shift from the wayward drift train tracks turned to hovercraft wide open sea rat race fades as I elevate not chasing tales but making my own way self worth a legacy dare to follow me freedom now without bound —aries #vss365 #evermore
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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
#vss365 Crush-hour wet pavements hold the sky upside down until a stray boot disrupts the signal. the sky slinks back to where it belongs: above the people who never look up. #signal #poetrycommunity #writerscommunity #poetry #poem
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Gréachán @greachan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
If love could throw a silver thread across this deep crevasse, I’d speak my presence into thee as tides through moonlight pass. #vss365
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𝐒𝒕𝘶𝘳 𝓟𝙤𝘦𝘵 @poetstur.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I can — not read poetry with hiccups but I — can write poetry with hic — cups to be read #fromoneline
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TaintedTrailer @taintedtrailer.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
RED SNAIL He cracks a smile, Dry skin popping off his face like plaster, A deep #crevasse beyond those yellow teeth, All the way down to the concrete room. Fluid drips from the hole in the ceiling, A red snail inches up the walls. #vss365 🐌
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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
When remorse laps my shores, wrapping around me like seaweed, my inner critic glares in judgement she interprets only at the level of 'should've' or 'shouldn't', my deeper feelings denied then I must run to my softer side, the mother in me who knows to be quiet & let me cry. #vss365 #judgement
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beth death & the slay-belles @dumb-belles.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
#vss365 #crevasse It gapes at you. Sit on the edge & dangle your feet. It started as the tiniest of cracks Like a deja vu cat It stood at the gap & meowed. You think it's wide enough But then there's always more. More gap, more edge, More downward hurtle. Maybe you're a superhero. Leap across.
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𝐒𝒕𝘶𝘳 𝓟𝙤𝘦𝘵 @poetstur.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
you crevassed usㅤㅤyou caused a riftㅤㅤ never tried where our lightㅤㅤto bridge could not burnㅤㅤthis rift iced edgesㅤㅤ I made a sharpㅤㅤ plan to between us span the divide can you but you you even ㅤwould not hear my cryㅤㅤreturn ㅤ fromㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤmy thereㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤcall #vss365 #crevasse
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𝐒𝒕𝘶𝘳 𝓟𝙤𝘦𝘵 @poetstur.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
sundae temptation the weak's resistance melted — better scene: not heard? #WildWalkPrompt
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𝐒𝒕𝘶𝘳 𝓟𝙤𝘦𝘵 @poetstur.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
🕊️ a n x i e t y 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟦Ⓘ🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦Ⓜ🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🐟🟦🟦🟦🟦Ⓜ🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🐠🟦Ⓔ🟦🟦 🟦🟦🐙🟦Ⓡ🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 Ⓢ🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟦🟦Ⓔ🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦Ⓓ🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 𝒎𝒆 finding ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ ↘️ 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 set (𝗺𝗲) 𝓯 𝓇 𝓮 ℯ #vss365 #immerse
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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
She a silhouetted embodiment of poetry dances with my rib-caged-in heart Unlike a pirouetting bird I can’t set her free Her smiles & sighs #tether me to her butterfly spirit My chest stutter flutters where words should speak stolen by her rhythmic magnetism #vss365 #poetry
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Gabe Valentine ~ hiatus ~🐬🌊🏝️🧜🐳 @poetguygabe.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
this moment in time tethered to past and future the place where I live flows between what used to be, what is, and what's yet to be #vss365 #tether #tanka
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silentcrystals.bsky.social @silentcrystals.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
As the tea lights flicker the morning after I feel the rain, it lingers fresh tethering me to a constant outcome we dare not whisper #BraveWrite #2WordPrompt #vss365 #loveletters #WriteMap 497 #OurPoetryX
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Rachel @rachelnewcombe8.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
t e t h e r No matter how much she tried, still a refusal to tether her desires. #vss365 #tether
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TaintedTrailer @taintedtrailer.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
LIKE A ROCKET 🚀🧠 Mental health awareness cycles Encourage a community's point 'n tap strategy, Unless the illness or the face doesn't fit, Then it's a silent rock floating through space. So we #tether ourselves to more useless tags, As our heavy sense of yugen fades to gimp 🤐 #vss365
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RiddleyThomas @0ffkilter.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
A quieted breath slows thoughts of ones fragile introspection. A #tether pulling backwards, binding the heart to those most distant. As the mind traces questions of what could have been. Whilst preferring the comfort of forgetting. The silence resonates loudest from their empty spaces. #vss365
A quieted breath
slows thoughts of 
ones fragile introspection.
A #tether pulling  backwards, binding 
the heart to those
most distant.
As the mind traces questions of what
could have been.
Whilst preferring the comfort of forgetting. 
The silence resonates
loudest from their
empty spaces.
#vss365 




*My words written for today’s prompt of #tether.

My black and white image the beach and shoreline as the waves come in at sunset.

#vss365
#poet #poetry #Photo #childhood #EastCoastKin #ImageAndVerse  #writer #writingcommunity 
#grief #life #poem #words #story #Australia #BlueSkyPoetry #photography  #past #time
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𝐒𝒕𝘶𝘳 𝓟𝙤𝘦𝘵 @poetstur.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
connection constraint kept close kept away horizons bound comfort maintained needs looked after needs restrained reassuring anchor stifling leash dragging chain familiar relief t e t h e r 𝗺𝗲 give me... release #vss365 #tether
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Marian Rivoire @metalreverie.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
In spring, when green hues glow against grey skies, when birds finally serenade the sun - I tiptoe in a whisper, grass tickling between each toe, to espy newly-planted rows with childlike eyes, #impatient for the seeds to grow. #Emoetry #prompt #impatient #poem #poetry #ToMom
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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Perhaps you have no idea How your poetic words Command to #linger In the clouds all day And the stars all night Perhaps you know exactly In the echoes of their whispers Reverberating within my ribcage perfectly #vss365 #poem
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Alexandra Williams @alexandrawilliams.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Sand in my hair salt on my skin & the light lingers                just            enough           to take your hand and     suddenly         the world softens again #vss365 #nature #photography
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PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
- i see you at a club, sequins capturing fluorescence then casting it forth to blind your suitors champagne or ambrosia – who can say? but i feel the purr numb my throat silence lingers between us like smoke, the surreal of thresholds, & the haze aches so pretty - #vss365 #poetry
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Vironika Wilde @vironikawilde.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Like weeding a garden, we must free our heads from the #lingering voices of those who never wanted to see us grow. #poetry #vss365 #linger
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Gabe Valentine ~ hiatus ~🐬🌊🏝️🧜🐳 @poetguygabe.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
When the past lingers longer than I prefer, I nudge it back where it belongs. I say, "goodbye," and tuck it safely in a memory that is no longer alive, as long as I let it stay dead. I won't allow the past to rip my heart out again. I allow the present to heal me #vss365 #linger Gabe's Little Book
This morning's cloudy sunrise at Bay River, Bayboro, North Carolina
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Peter James Martin @authorpjm.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Our love is old clothes #Lingering threads hang loosely Our own ties fraying #vss365 #haiku #poetry
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𝐒𝒕𝘶𝘳 𝓟𝙤𝘦𝘵 @poetstur.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
shed skin still clings newborn form imprisoned by the dead a shadow self outgrown for an eternal moment lingering in the in-between trapped/almost free but new scales harden shine become beautiful shed skin can't cling the shape within at last is free #vss365 #linger
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Writing Off the Mother Wound @4islesbookshop.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
#vss365 #Luminous My phone lights up. It's a text from you. I awoke this morning feeling quite blue. Your luminous words light me up from within. Now I sit here, staring at a phone, wearing nothing but a gigantic grin.
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𝐒𝒕𝘶𝘳 𝓟𝙤𝘦𝘵 @poetstur.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
barren furrows stretch towards the field edge beneath a bruised pink sky beyond the sea buckthorn a path hides beneath the wind defended by the brave gorse at the foot of the cliff the waves continue their march gulls brace against the breeze #vss365 #barren
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Black wings#vss365 #host 5-16 thru 5-31 @blackwings182.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Good morning fellow word slingers. It’s an honor to serve as your #vss365 host. I’ve scheduled my prompts to drop each morning at 9AM GMT or 5 AM EST. Today, May 16 2026, your #vss365 #prompt is #Barren.
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Lee Bailes @leebaileswriter.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
#vss365 #forgivenness She couldn’t turn the other cheek. It wasn’t that she didn’t believe in it. There just wasn’t the room, stuck as she was in the coffin as grasping grey hands split the wood above her face and it splintered before her eyes...
A screenshot of a skeet draft. It reads: "#forgivenness 

She couldn’t turn the other cheek. It wasn’t that she didn’t believe in it. There just wasn’t the room, stuck as she was in the coffin as grasping grey hands split the wood above her face and it splintered before her eyes. 

She’d woken from a day of bed rest, after a cold, 6-feet under and encased in silk-lined wood panels. Woken by the scratching on the exterior, which she’d figured was rats. 

She didn’t know who was more scared, when they found her alive and screaming and she saw the drool and flesh between their sharpened teeth.  "
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𝐒𝒕𝘶𝘳 𝓟𝙤𝘦𝘵 @poetstur.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
second arrow more painful than the first stuck fast the wound festered as his thoughts congealed worm-ridden birthing flies writhing mass that buzzed revenge his daughter came near the end to rest her hand on his aged wrist and gave him the #forgiveness he could never give himself #vss365
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Bithi Paul @bithipaulauthor.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
#vss365 #prompt for 15 May 2026 is #forgiveness I smile as you hug me from behind the morning after a nightlong argument this is your way of saying sorry and mine is to hug you back our wordless exchange of forgiveness makes our love deeper
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Bithi Paul @bithipaulauthor.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
#vss365 #prompt for 14 May 2026 is #unalloyed the journey of us keeps bringing moments of unbridled and unalloyed joy making me grateful for such priceless gifts
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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
#vss365 #poetry Impure ones bond together Stable scaffolding Holding them up They’re not so Perfect Eyes say Hearts say Pretty Tho’ they are Many a flying Firefly shining bright Surrounded in pure #unalloyed darkness
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Mo Hayes 📚📖👩🏼‍💻 @mohayeswriter.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
‘That’s a beautiful dog.’ ‘Thanks. She comes from a long line of pedigreed, #unalloyed canines.’ ‘Why don’t you take her to the park? I bet she’d love it.’ ‘I took her there once but the ducks kept biting her.’ ‘I wonder why the ducks bit her.’ ‘Well, like I said, she is a purebred.’ #vss365
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𝐒𝒕𝘶𝘳 𝓟𝙤𝘦𝘵 @poetstur.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
strange searching for peace through anger unalloyed not tarnished by impurities of guilt or regret just the honed blade of righteous fury rather than this turning-in to cure the semblance of sin the blistering heat erodes my insides shield turned to sighs #vss365 #unalloyed
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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
#vss365 #poetry From its roots to its blooms The rose works with great #diligence To bring an aroma of romance As do the blushing Veins on my cheeks Stemmed from my soaring heart Planted deep in my rib cage You do not see Neither rose nor I tire, trying
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Backstage feels like organised chaos as she slips into her outfit every movement guided by the same quiet #diligence that got her thru rehearsals When her turn comes she steps onto the runway with her heart pounding #vss365
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RaggaMog (Morri-Arty) @raggamog.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The soft descent Of evenfall Quickens the blood Of crepuscular souls, As they hover On the borderlands Of betwixt and between... The hare, the fox, Creatures that stir In wisps of Twitterlight, Enchanting, elusive, Only half seen. #VSS365 #Writing #Poetry #Evenfall
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PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
- i can’t stop staring at the branchless tree singular among its peers a snowflake a thumbprint yet it’s alone perhaps it's forgotten the memory of fullness what it means to bloom i feel cold storing pretty thoughts with diligence like a squirrel before the snow - #vss365 #poetry
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𝐒𝒕𝘶𝘳 𝓟𝙤𝘦𝘵 @poetstur.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
silken threads meticulous masterpiece mapping death clockwork diligence suddenly sisyphean — wandering the narrow path home unseeing not unfeeling the fibres stretch break will you be able to begin again #vss365 #diligence
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Bithi Paul @bithipaulauthor.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
#vss365 #prompt for 13 May 2026 is #diligence I won't wait for you to love me as much as I love you with diligence I'll just love you more as loving you isn't a thing under my control
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𝐒𝒕𝘶𝘳 𝓟𝙤𝘦𝘵 @poetstur.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The end rarely comes in a welcoming manner. Sier Karma hadn't prepared for this truth. No stately ushering into the annals of history, for him. It didn't matter what he did. Or didn't do. The facts never matter. Unless they pay. Sier's coffee cooled: morning papers; tired eyes. #fromoneline
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