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Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@rfsmith.bsky.social and #PromptCombo #Apocalypse for Tuesday This is the apocalypse I am living through at the moment moment.

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@rfsmith.bsky.social #PromptCombo #Apocalypse There are no stars There Are No Stars No. Stars.

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Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hi Ronnie @rfsmith.bsky.social a version of a poem I posted on Substack recently. I think its not quite describing #apocalypse but I hope you feel my fear #promptcombo Thanks and have a great week.

These Days

these are the days
the end to summer
in a still garden skeins
of wild geese high above
almost touching cloud
a surprise band of rainbow
curved over rooftops

days when drought damaged trees
barely whisper in unseasonal
temperatures and wrens play
among cool crisp-leaf shrubs
these are autumn solstice
hot-air days

when we're left
to listen to ego deadly lies
scorched bluster
watch lurchers grasp anothers
sweaty palm gifting to each
stolen parts of bloodied earth
and our lives

these days

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David Birch @davidbirch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thank you, Ronnie @rfsmith.bsky.social for today's #PromptCombo which stirred some uncomfortable youthful memories. So here's a swift and awkward response which may need filtering into something more considered. Looking forward to reading other offerings later

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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nope! Here it is: bsky.app/profile/rfsm...

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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Divorce no opulent ruins, just a slow shredding of soul, leaving tiny splinters in the nail beds and dull aches in the bones; Everything has blown apart, everything is still here, everyone is still living but I, but I am the waking dead #promptcombo #apocalypse @rfsmith.bsky.social #poetry

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S. Reeson / Experimental Poet @internetofwords.com · 28/09/2026

Okay, I'm going to cheat because only three hours sleep is now really beginning to bite. #promptcombo @rfsmith.bsky.social #Apocalypse and HERE IS A VIDEO of a poem published in the 'Welcome to Britain' Anthology created by Civic Leicester in 2023. youtu.be/uLgc5STQzPs...

youtu.be

End Times in Fortress Britain

YouTube video by The Internet of Words presented by S. Reeson

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Here’s something I’ve been working on that fits with this week’s #PromptCombo theme from @rfsmith.bsky.social (Now under the right hashtag 🙄) Still a #WIP this is neither subtle or refined, much like me! Thanks for hosting. Have a good week. #poem #poetry #blueskypoetry

A poem by Debbie Ross entitled Apocalypse Now
Stanzas 1 -4
When I was young the fear of mushroom clouds was real
old men pushing buttons ending it all
and then the Sunday School doom merchants fed me Revelations of fire and horsemen the 'earth laid bare'
I thought that wars might end us the human race destroying each other and the earth rubbled with us
And the disaster movie makers had their say with meteors wiping us out
destroying everything

Stanzas 5 and 6 of a poem Apocalypse Now by Debbie Ross

thought we might live to see the sun
grow large
Finally
a red giant desiccating our planet
but now I'm not sure we'll make it that far disaster wears a human face as we melt the Doomsday ice and set the world on fire our blue green gem of a home destroyed by greed.

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here's a wee dystopian beastie mostly on topic for Ronnie @rfsmith.bsky.social and #PromptCombo #Apocalypse It's a long one, across three vignettes. Thanks for sticking with it if you get to the end!

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Ronnie Smith @rfsmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#PromptCombo Thank you to Paul Brookes for last weeks excellent prompt. This week the theme is #Apocalyse and I present a cheery wee piece about the weather. Love to all. @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @janpsolivagant.bsky.social @jenthorne.bsky.social

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thank you to @janpsolivagant.bsky.social Jan for an excellent week. Tag your contribution #promptcombo #11Lines and me. Write down 8–10 genuine workplace phrases. Add as little of your own language as possible. Add one unexpected image. Add a recurring sound. Add an odd perspective. Use Alt text.

Retails

Wheel in lorried frozen, dry, and chilled.
Empty rattling cages of the tightly wrapped.
Frozen first. Disassemble cardboad boxes.
Put plastic wrapping in plastic bags.

Face up goods on shelves. Labels at front,
not upside down.Folk buy more
when all is regimented. Barcode beeped.
Remember to upsell on the till.

One freezer must be emptied, unplugged, defrosted overnight, icewater vacuumed up.
Potential shoplifters tv and headphone tracked.

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Ronnie Smith @rfsmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The harsh rasp of a tree-saw growls across the street. No amount of rain will ever be able to wash away the blood. Tears fill the eyes of the mournful starlings; I bow with them among the splinters on the street. ©️September 2026

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Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

William Carlos Williams was born on this day in 1883. Here he is on hubris and the indifference of the world, from Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962). #poetry

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’m delighted to be in the current wave of iamb👇, with 3 poems, text and recording: In the Time of the Ice Saints (with thanks to @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social), Metronome (with a deep bow to Beethoven), & Late Snow. My thanks to excellent editor @markantonyowen.com #poetrycommunity #poemsaloud

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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Thanks @emteepoetry.bsky.social for last week's excellent prompt! This week's #PromptCombo is #The90s Use hashtags & tag @janpsolivagant.bsky.social to take part Currently en route - will catch up! #poetrycommunity #GenX #80s #90s #ColdWar #TheBomb #RaveCulture #RiteOfSpring #Stravinsky #Bez

Rite of Spring II –
End of History

Unforeseen
Redemption of the
Pledge broken after
Pražské jaro - the
Rite of Prague Spring.

Gen-X urbex vanguard now
Probes the freshly-breached
No Man’s Land of the Cold War;
Scouts the bohemian outposts of a
Siberia deemed vanquished in
Prenzlauer Berg and Kraków -

The End of History
Convulsed by
Haman’s Rape of Kuwait, his
Poison-tipped scuds
Primed and pointed at
The Holy Land.

As
Teens, mounted dispatchers from
Armageddon’s Badlands would
Stalk their nightmares:
Dream-censor admitting only the
Terrifying wait before the
Three-Minute Warning -
Never the firestorm, poison rains or
Unending solar eclipse of the
Aftermath.

Now they dance - in
Disused hangars, warehouses,
Husks of factories, cotton mills:
Devastation wrought not by
Bombs, but by GATT,
Knowledge economies in utero, and a
Ten-year crusade against the unions.

Now they dance -
Enacting the Rite of Spring’s
Tableaux from eighty years ago:

Roerich’s peasant smocks echoed in
Lurid, baggy fashions;
Crashing, snarling beats and drones;

MDMA-tinged bacchanalia fusing the
Tribes of Neo-Mod, Rude Boy,
Indie Girl and Crusty Juggler;

Frenetic shadows – cut adrift from
Nijinsky’s original castings;

Elders scoping the heavens with that
Lost, abstracted look – not unlike
Bez from the Happy Mondays when
Shorn of his maracas.

Ecstatic Dance-to-the-Death, but
No Chosen One propitiates the
Spirit of the Earth.

Death by Water, but not in the
Raven coils of the Rusalka,

Nor by
Ducking stool,

Nor as live offering to
Chaac in a Mayan sinkhole . . .

Intoxication: a
Lucozade-and-water-laced
Misadventure.

© Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025

Bez of the Happy Mondays in his early-'90s pompt with signature maracas which, if they weren't silent, probably held his secret cache of disco biscuits! :D

Roerich-designed costumes from the Nijinsky ballet version of Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps (Rite of Spring)

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Ronnie Smith @rfsmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it.” The prophetic opening lines of the movie, ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Our #poet of the month on the #SilverBranch project for Sept '26 - L.J. Ireton @literaryvegan.bsky.social 'The sun burns a butter-pearl disc 🌄 in the smoke-silk fog, the trees turn gothic in the veil.' shorturl.at/DMRXC 🔗 #poetry #poetrylovers #imagism

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

All are welcome to contribute. Please use hashtags #promptcombo #Personified and tag @emteepoetry.bsky.social Emily bsky.app/profile/emte...

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Ronnie Smith @rfsmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A cold sun sweeps low across the impeccable January Sky. A north wind has blown since dawn, ignoring coats and scarves. Now branches lash back and forth with greater violence. As if the moon has captured our once tideless sea. January 2023

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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Big thanks to @rfsmith.bsky.social for hosting #PromptCombo last week. Now it's my turn, and inspired by this amazing picture from @gwill2k.bsky.social, the word for this week is #Morning Love them or loathe them, we all have to deal with #mornings so send me your take on them. ❤️❤️❤️

Morning

The sun lifts its gaze,
a soft gold unfurling.
Light gathers slowly,
thick as honey in the clouds,
bruising them with violet.

Dew wakes on the grass.
Birds stir in silhouetted trees,
rising to bathe
in the filtering rays,
mapping out the day ahead
in their lines.

Nothing rushes.
The world expands by degrees,
each new shade a declaration
that the dark has loosened its grip,
the widening light
a reminder:
the day is beginning
whether you’re ready or not.

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Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

@rfsmith.bsky.social #PromptCombo My last of the #Era for Friday. Have a great weekend.

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I have no idea what possessed me to attempt rhyme and syllable count, or emulate a famous poem, but here we are! A poem for @rfsmith.bsky.social for the #PromptCombo #Eras

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Fiftywords @fiftywords.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Here’s my contribution #PromptCombo #Era It’s one of the chance-based cut-up poems made from fragments of my own reading notes over the years @rfsmith.bsky.social

Versions of Experience what other units are doing or whether the orders reaching them make sense. complicated theological and institutional process tidier than it more about how political enemies were discredited than about Theodora.
continually tried to understand often more persuaded by the insight than by the route used displayed an unexpectedly modern ability to transform mockery into further
possibility of belief after the catastrophes of the twentieth century.
certainty can compress complicated histories into a rather stark division between Time too becomes almost physical. excluded how someone like Cahill greatness lies partly in forcing us and moves around the Roman
range of his work
institutions through which that freedom is exercised Biography can become a key that supposedly unlocks philosophy received narrative sometimes leaves the reader with complexity any suggestion that classical civilisation had simply vanished until Irish monks image of the detached cultural economic settlement she created
equality of human worth Thurber's portraits of family and acquaintances are
affectionate without turning eccentricity into mere sentiment.
It also makes clear why Spinoza expertise should be questioned intelligently
rather than dismissed because it is expertise "Glory years" inevitably encourages nostalgia we actually inhabit rather than continually a way of resisting the temptation to make reality
extraordinary significance from ordinary Dublin life a point where one begins to suspect beauty after him answered the social questions he spent
trying to gain access to an authority that everyone accepts Saints are not merely historical Christians judged to have behaved exceptionally well. early Wilde understood that cultural authority could be created
continues the work begun in The Silence of the Girls
Ulysses is therefore also a history subsequent executions also cast such a long shadow physical awkwardness and his increasingly elaborate attempts
is already

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

@rfsmith.bsky.social #PromptCombo #Era 🌳 Strong smell of sweat, one Hand to the rail, the other The phone, crammed, work bound scrolling scrolling scrolling ... Pivots To tall mullein, lowly sage, red kite call and owl feathers, Windfall apples and lavender The #Era of tending the garden.

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David Birch @davidbirch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Many thanks @rfsmith.bsky.social for your thought-provoking hint alongside today's #PromptCombo #Era. I hope I've done it justice albeit in a round about sort of way

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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

we cut cords, carried black mirrors instead of memorized numbers, cameras followed everyone, capsulized everything, digitized moments and you, and I and us became data, let go of written notes, spoken conversations and privacy, then heart #promptcombo #vss365 @rfsmith.bsky.social #poetry

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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

@rfsmith.bsky.social here is my offering for your excellent #Era #PromptCombo callout. #Poetry

Millennium Mountain

They were all thirty that year;
I was younger, still catching up.
But we agreed it mattered
as Ben's chimes rang out
and the sky erupted in fireworks.

We took off
coordinated the trip
on our new mobile phones,
tapping out messages
with missing vowels,
ghostly green faces
as we sped along the road
curving around the sleeping mountain.

We climbed as the night thinned,
the peak rising ahead of us,
a dark shape waiting.
Even those carrying two
kept their pace,
determined to reach the summit
before the sun.

At the misted summit
soft and uncertain,
we stood together
and held hands for auld lang syne,
small
against the widening sky.

And we felt it
the era of darkness loosening,
the new decade opening
in a thin, bright seam
along an unseen horizon.

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S. Reeson / Experimental Poet @internetofwords.com · 25/08/2026

#PromptCombo @rfsmith.bsky.social #era and apologies for being a day late, there was other #poetry that needed writing… so, what have we here? It’s List Poem time, and apologies for the Reality this early in the day but… yeah.

The Anthropocene
1. Instead of staring down the gun barrel crawl into it to avoid the heat.
2. 1638 versions of pizza still cannot hide the lack of health benefits.
3. The game is still beautiful but could do with less corruption.
4. Accept that Golden Era is long gone and it will be easier for everybody.
5. It is time to make oil and gas unfashionable for good.
6. Do you know how many toothbrushes sit in Landfill?
7. The more you try and pretend it’s not happening the worse it gets.
8. You are a finite resource and should start treating yourself accordingly.
9. This moment is insignificant in the history of the Universe.
10. This moment however may end up ruining it for absolutely everyone.

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Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 25/08/2026

Taken me a day to come up with something for #PromptCombo #era (and it's still a bit tenuous 😳). Thanks @rfsmith.bsky.social for the challenge! #poems #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Espresso

this machine
has followed me
across continents
and around my kitchen
for more than twenty years

it is fickle
scolding the grounds
when it suits
yet sensitive and vain
it spits out morning

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Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Traditional house white picket fence, garden, two white blonde boys, yes we have a faith thanks for asking. Sure we tried a chatbot once, now it's time for you to go, in hopes you won't look closer at the gaps in our floorboards, for what lies beneath. #era #promptcombo #poetry #6amwritersclub

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