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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dramatic morning, Squirrel hurling abuse at Bemused passers-by. #WildWalkPrompt #morning #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @sonnetsmith.bsky.social

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AdamBurnel @sirangus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not posted for a while. Part of a WIP. #poetry #poems

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was going to write about beauty— something about leaves falling & how the wind carries them away then I saw a photograph of a child— looking at a drone just before it kills him and now all I see is an empty space where a child used to be. #sensewrds 269

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You're the waiting tide To my restless shore, before The coming tempest. #BSPP57 #WaitingTide #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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AdamBurnel @sirangus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Don’t usually put this kind of thing on here but there’s bad stuff going on, and I need to do something. Proud to support people who save lives of folks in difficulty at sea. Whoever those folks are. #rnli

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AdamBurnel @sirangus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Anticipating some very talkative friends coming to stay….. #poetry #haiku (ish) #friends Friends’ visitation. Wondrous waterfall of words. Whole silence after.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/09/2026

Just gonna share this again.

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

At the end of the day what's left is my years— hanging over me like an old coat tiredness that extends from my eyes deeper down to where sleep can't reach I crave a type of rest that's the white space at the end of a paragraph. I want to sit in the white space & become a deep breath. #mpprompt

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AdamBurnel @sirangus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Met up with a couple of co-conspirators. As usual wrote to some agreed prompts And agreed time limits. Prompts were: Cavernous Provise Hermetic. Here’s my offering #poetry

Poem in white text over green/blue background

Sometimes I seem to see
Ahead of me.
Accepting your promise
Provising our kill switch.
Hermetically sealed in pregnant sound.
There’s no way past,
Nowhere to the outside allowed.
Changeling mind breaks in two.
Perhaps you
Did find a way.
I’m left in this cavernous ground.
Following your footsteps round and round.
Sometime I seem to hear
All around me
Thickened glass and broken ground.
All there is to see ahead of me.

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AdamBurnel @sirangus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Not written in a while. So here’s a wee haiku-ish piece. Does anyone know? Cos I don’t know anymore. Too much stuff inside. #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Sometimes I write feminist poetry when I’m meant to be sleeping. Tonight is such a night. ❤️

they dressed her up
their wee, quaint doll
sit still, sweet girl
sit still, sit small

[pretend you’ve got
no voice at all]

wait and wait
in case they call
hang yourself
upon their wall

[sit still, in case
sit still, sit small]

contain yourself
no need to sprawl
lift them up
until you fall

[sit still, or else
sit still, sit small]

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I've just finished adding these four tote bag designs featuring some of my photos of Glasgow to my online shop, and they give a nice and unique flavour of the city. If you're interested, you can find them at www.thisismyglasgow.com/product-cate.... #glasgow #totebags #scotland #visitglasgow

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

My stall today at the Wilson Street Makers Market in central Glasgow is opposite this rather wonderful decorative frieze. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #merchantcityfestival #sculpture

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Sand remembers sea, Shoreline remainder of their Embrace drying out. #BSPP55 #ShorelineRemainder #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts has been put up for sale. The loss of the CCA was one cultural tragedy; the loss of this building as a cultural asset will be an act of willful vandalism. Sign here if you believe it should be kept in public hands. www.change.org/p/save-the-c...

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AdamBurnel @sirangus.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Sometimes I am stupefied By how difficult I find it To just Be kind.

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IrishLisa 🌈 @irishlisa.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

embrace the Almost some days Nearly is the door that lets Hope come in #vss365 #Embrace #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets

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AdamBurnel @sirangus.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

A little piece of light relief. #poetry #limescale #haiku Limescale guerrillas Attacking forever, but Shower spray awaits.

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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

@madp03t.bsky.social I have been so busy I have slacked with the #AmpersandAfterDark prompts so please accept this combo one for the last two as penance! 💜💜💜💜

Circling

Yesterday’s rain left a silver skin
on the dustbin lid,
a sky in miniature
where roses drown in moonlight.

You are lightning:
bright, certain,
striking where you choose.
I am thunder:
slow, echoing,
arriving after the flash cools.
The roses offer their scent
as if to quell the coming tempest.

We circle each other
in the garden,
two storms
with different languages.

The roses bow their heads
as if they know
we were never meant
to share the same sky.

This is the argument
no one can win:
lightning cannot wait,
thunder cannot hurry,
and the distance between them
is the whole night.

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Sunlit @sunblissful.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I no longer sing to demons the moon keeps them busy ghosts, I've let go from heart this jagged mind, as advised so what is left, other than to love, cherish and heal simply complex beautifully full circle tea that never gets cold #poetry

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IrishLisa 🌈 @irishlisa.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

clenched hard in my chest softens when I remember I was scared, not bad #vss365 #Clenched #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/06/2026

I remember the bombs. I remember walking past burning cars to get to work. I remember the shootings. I remember the fear. I remember the hope everyone felt as we voted for the Good Friday agreement. I remember us believing that future generations wouldn't have to suffer this.

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Sunlit @sunblissful.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I asked the wind to join me in setting free some hurt I can no longer carry trees laughed whispered hold my branches this was at 1 p.m. does emptiness count as a successful spell? #OurPoetryX

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AdamBurnel @sirangus.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Not posted anything for a while so Here’s a little mindful whimsy #poetry #mindfulness #internalmonologue

Poem in white lettering over a blue background with a trace of cloud along the right edge.

Monologue

I am here
This is now
This is real.
Oh, wait.
That’s the wrong order.
I am this
Now is real….
Oh.
That’s not right.
Wait
It’s not the order that matters
That’s only a distraction from
Accepting all of the here/now/real.
And now I feel I want to tidy that up
Cos it’s a bit messy.
But
That’s just another distraction from
This.

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AdamBurnel @sirangus.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Ups and downs. Sometimes you have to say “Enough” #poetry #enough

Poem. White letters over peachy orange background.

The Icicle child.

Fire forms crystals
In your eyes.
Just you.
Just you seeing the hell
Of
Your own Ice and fire.
Alone together in the scare bound
Horror of your past.
Like some hell bound version
Of your ice bound prismatics,
These people in your life
Only
Follow the folly of parents past.
As far as you can see.
As far as you can tell.
We’re all still in hell.

But when I last looked
Life was good.
Mum died sure enough
And your husband nearly died.
But yesterday the sun shined
And
I ate the best seafood.
It’s only you
Who
Lives in Hell.
I’m done with this.
Well
Pretty much.

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Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com · 25/05/2026

Okay but where is the hilarious night out?

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Mother to us all, And how we repay her, she Dies before our eyes. #vssmagic #mother #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @vssmagic.bsky.social

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Ash & Ink @bundtkake.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

#vss365 #evenfall #poetry #blueskypoet The #prompt made me think of sunset, and that made me want to play with sunsets. Which leads to change, which leads to here, and here is a #poem.. (Also are these 'process' blurbs enjoyable or are they pretentious and I should just post the damn things?)

Evenfall

The sun didn't set
So much as it fell
And I bore witness
And I said nothing

The air dropped from pleasant
To decidedly chilled
And I felt it change
And I said nothing

All just out of step
In a no more than a single step
offensively obvious
And I stayed silent

I didn't approve
I just didn't engage
I spun like a child
On the ball of my foot

I walked away
Out of step
In the cold
In the dark

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

What is left of me, Either to buy or to sell, What value this soul? #BraveWrite #value #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @bravewrite.bsky.social

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AdamBurnel @sirangus.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

A bit weird this one. Not sure where it came from. Me I suppose.

Poem. White letters over browny variable background.

Life span

Like a place I used to visit,
Born in blood and joy.
Across the arc of years
Bit by the next spit.
The slow seep of your peak
Into next year’s sleep.
I never realised how slow
A cancer grows
Until now.
Slick
With time’s slackening
Grip
I feel the sickening
Slip
Of your decaying
Trip.
Sad to see
Kneeling knee to knee
Our destiny
Entwined with inevitability.

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AdamBurnel @sirangus.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

This one a wee bit more serious. As my dear father in law would say “It’s no very cheery”. #notescapril #endure #poetry

Poem. White letters over a dark brown background.

Endure.

Should the quiet dead
Arise
And through their hollow sockets
The news acquire.
Hundreds of thousands virus riddled
joined them.
Thousands more bodies blasted in bits and burned alongside.
A multitude shrunk to corpses just still alive before they too died.

Would they raise up leached bony
Hands in a fist of rage
And shriek
“No more
No more
No more!”
Or
Just the silence of the grave
Endure.

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AdamBurnel @sirangus.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Oh dear. Escapril may have started the motor. And now I can’t find the break… #notescapril #slow #poetry

Poem. Ale yellow letters over pink background that looks like material.

Slow

Oh no
Too slow.
Did you not know?
Don’t stop.
Don’t drop
Behind.
Left like some sour sow
Bacon rind.

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AdamBurnel @sirangus.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Just squeezing the last one in on time. Well it’s been a blast. Thank you to all who read, commented and reposted. I may do this again in 2027! #escapril2026 #last #poetry

Poem for Escapril 2026. White letters over varied pink background.

Last

At last
This is your goodbye.
A month gone by
And we’re somewhere past
Where we started from.
Thirty times zero
We climbed
And we peered
Oh.
All those poor rhymes
Indifferent times
We stopped.
And shook ourselves
Till something at last
Made sense.

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AdamBurnel @sirangus.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Seems appropriate I’m late for the penultimate one. Strange weather here. #escapril2026 #sit #poetry

Poem for Escapril 2026. White letters on a dark variable background.

Where I sit

Thunder loud inside
Yet the sky is still blue.
Trees’ green leaves
Still lighten my eyes
Though storm lightening still darkens you.
This is the split
Where I sit and I sit.
Watching the sea rage
Whilst the gulls simply
Dance
Their sky given dance
Above all of it.

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IrishLisa 🌈 @irishlisa.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

kindness has a shape it looks just like someone’s hand left open for yours #haikufeels #Shape #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets

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AdamBurnel @sirangus.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Nip and tuck once more. But who’s keeping score? Another random one. #escapril2026 #truth #poetry

Poem for Escapril 2026. White letters over sky blue with wisps of clouds.

Truth.

Double trouble
In Babel’s bubble.
Babylon’s burnt down
Into its rubble.
My minds’s a puddle
My plan’s a muddle.
I can’t think straight -
Too many thoughts to juggle.
What’s direct?
When all my compass says is
NOT PERFECT!
All my shedding soul’s reject
My tongue’s selected
Truth.

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

she speaks in sparks and soliloquies her lips taste of tangerine and sunlight birds nest in the glory of her hair and the wind [oh the wind] presses its air into her luscious lungs #poetry

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AdamBurnel @sirangus.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Good grief and it’s not even the afternoon! A bit out of left field this. Not sure why. #escapril2026 #other #poetry

Poem for Escapril 2026. White letters on a purplish varied background.

Other

What it means to be the other
My mother
Taught me this.
What is to be done when the other
Is a tougher
Stain by far.
What will occur when my other
Is discovered
By those who really belong.
I long
To be a them
Best in creation.
But all I have is the fear of humiliation,
Recrimination
When I, and my
Other
Is uncovered.

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AdamBurnel @sirangus.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Another on time. Not so easy a day today. But the weather was nice. #escapril2026 #sun #poetry

Poem for Escapril 2026. White letters standing out due to a shadow effect. On pale graduated blue.

Sun

This day is done.
No idea where it went.
Battles fought behind noisome frowns.
Silent words in sideways towns.

All the way from here to there
I stopped to look,
Found no-one anywhere.
Only echoes sliding beyond my sight
A frightening glimpse of what’s not quite right.

All day I walked beside you.
No-one else came, not one.
When all is said and done
Today
At least we had the sun.

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AdamBurnel @sirangus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Went to the baths today. Not been for a while. Loved it! #escapril2026 #swim #poetry

Poem for Escapril 2026. White letters over a deep bluey green. Looks like the sea.

Swim

Taking in
The swim.
Lying into the water.
Head under like an otter.
All my limbs
Will begin.

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