iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 12h

Repulsed it is quite a thing to fear mirrors #emoetry

081

Reposted by Steve Westby

𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This right here. This is how you respond to their bullshit.

372123643683

Reposted by Steve Westby

Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 13h

We need more of this

29068031221

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pleased somehow we don't identify with it i mean, we call ourselves sad like a sad person or a grumpy one and yes, some might say they are grateful but we mistrust ephemeral pleasure and relegate it to a state maybe Nevada #emoetry

051

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Cloud behind the ice cream castles and the dark and the shifting, crystal forms the clear sky is always there though it is also true as Eeyore must have known the sky itself is dark roughly half the time #vss365

0123

Reposted by Steve Westby

Suzy Dobie @suzydobie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dunno if this is my favorite, or best (as there is little distance between my best and worst). But it is my Braveheart speech to poets and creators all. ❤️ #SomethingEveryday #NationalPoetryDay #NeverDenyYourGift #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writercommunity #prompt @sonnetsmith.bsky.social

464

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Green so... I work in mental health and my office has taken to giving away plants and I love the idea of a difficult session being followed by growth #poetry

080

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reprieve it enters in the chest soft light like freedom or joy dissipating tension and spreads to where the gut longs for silence and the cords of us untie #vss365

1172

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mournful I wonder if the mountain weeps as each melt and rainfall slowly tears away what fiery magma bestowed #emoetry

0101

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Purify look healing is just bringing love where hate was so we don't need some kind of excision of soul simply shower the grumpy sides of you with reckless adoration until Oscar blinks #vss365

0172

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lonesome a hallway a between space red brick and metal where the rush of crowd so focused on what's next never looks up #emoetry

181

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hesitant look let's just love on hesitant calm gets the kudos courage the applause but kind, sweet indecision fills poetic hearts besides she blushes when we do it's adorable #emoetry

0112

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reckon I've given up on thinking or choosing And decided instead to reckon Which, you may say, is the same thing only it isn't partner #vss365

1174

Reposted by Steve Westby

Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I know I've posted this many times - needs to flood the media until election day.

517176029443

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Gratified i wonder if she thinks it's because she took out the garbage or paid that extra bill or let me rant on politics for thirty minutes when actually it's the way her eyes turn soft when i stub my toe #emoetry

1102

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hunger yes, there is a craving for food but more pervasive, i think the hollowing out of love's absence the way hate fills in the gaps and we think it's us #vss365

0266

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Frantic I mean... you smiled at my joke but then surely you're a smart person who will notice most of my cleverness is just borrowed Monty Python and who the hell brings Connery into that skit about soccer philosophers and why gods why did you laugh and make me want to do it more? #emoetry

071

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Passion Juliet was 13 and were a play today to show that realistically? it would be closed before the first show was over so... maybe we should think again on judging the Capulets #vss365

071

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I poem feelings the ones I don't understand or that infuriate me I think they enjoy being the main character their energy finding voice cadence image and the way when the poem ends I nod and say yeah. that's me too. #poetry

040

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Paul someone wondered where death kept his sting so I asked him and he looked up, surprised and said: birthdays #poetry

180

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Exuberant we named our cat after Susie Derkins from Calvin & Hobbes and... she loves her mom LOVES HER plops on her chest at any given moment and purrs as if heaven itself had opened its doors but Sunday she crawled up quietly as I sat cross legged on the bed and let me pet her #emoetry

0163

Reposted by Steve Westby

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Can you give my dad back? I miss him.” 💔 ICE kidnapped her father Luis at a DOT inspection. Her mother says he is legal and did everything the right way. #AbolishICE

29852122400

Reposted by Steve Westby

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wilber’s attorney: “Wilber has a bullet lodged near his spine and is losing feeling on the left side of his body.” #AbolishICE @DoorDash

19539911880

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Weather we walk through cloud I think it is only the droplets have yet to coalesce in our eyes #poetry

060

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

After a grumpy night where i slept in the boy's room I crept beside you sleeping and kissed your cheek before I left on an hour's commute to madness #poetry

071

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Embark somehow we do this just throw strangers together in rows of rooms and beds and say: someday you will think of this as your best years and these faces as your dearest friends and it's gobsmacking, really how often it's true #vss365

0142

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Experiment I sometimes wonder what would happen if we sent kind people to bars and parties to look for the despairing to listen and sit with them in their story and just say: you're beautiful you don't have to do this #poetry

060

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Discarded i tried it once took a chance asked her out the kind one the one i thought must be the one she said no kindly and it affected me so i tried it again and again and once more with the same result because something resonated in being worth the question #emoetry

081

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Stormy you think stormy and maybe you think thunder and downpour or intense winds but mine was the drizzle the silent storm of endless sorrow that you see through the window and think ah yes again #vss365

2256

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Conflict the six year old in me notices your morning breath the eight year old in you calls me dumb and wonders why i'd say that and suddenly inner children across the ages are up in arms except the littlest hoping to be held #vss365

0155

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Blemished i see them now as crazy bits of biology skin lesions that just appear apparently to horrify teenagers who clearly don't have enough on their minds causing them wonder if they reflect some deep defect to all who see and now my mind manages that trick without the red marks #emoetry

051

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Marvel i used to think Jubilee would be fun to meet but now I lean toward Jean Grey because it turns out troubled minds that break the world are more my type #vss365

0143

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Explore once i imagined it might be mountains or the moon or other worlds but instead i spend my days in the mysteries of soul and folks i tell ya it's wild #vss365

1102

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Anxiety I have learned a soft affection for my worry how it spins wild stories of endless creativity knows precisely the topics to get my attention and now when I see them in terror and doubt I whisper terrible dad jokes until they giggle #poetry

0131

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sonnets I like to remember how they were written before deodorant before baths were easy things and still we adored with words that scraped the heavens #poetry

160

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wonder the cashier girl wished me a wonderful day and somehow it happened not that things changed and I woke up in Oz but I found if i looked close enough in any given moment wonder was there #poetry

040

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

First Breath there are those who say it is the arrival of soul when flesh expands to take in life and blurry eyes cast about to find the beat that filled their dreams #vss365

091

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yielding once i thought it close to godliness and cheeks turned but now i wonder at the cost of sacrifice when Abraham's son is us #emoetry

061

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Autumnal it's strange to say an energy bill freed me but yesterday I received the first power bill from a blistering August and somehow my winter fears from a decade in North Dakota vanished #vss365

0151

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Involve i mean it's good, right if we're involved, it means you liked me enough to date but also...bad because involved means i had something to do with calamitous fate and i look at the two and hope the former isn't just the latter before you know #VSSdaily

071

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sanguine gods, I miss it the being in love the reckless danger of furtive conversation of screaming to the night yes. this. me. choose me. in terror and unreasoning courage because this joy this beating, unbridled heart makes all the pain worth it #vss365

0153

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Red he finds them somehow even after we put them up because somehow matches make power ranger battles better than imagination so we douse them until risk and dream disappear #AmpersandAfterDark

040

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Esoteric the problem is not that we lack wisdom it is that the words of wisdom like: listen or patience mean nothing to sides just itching to fight #vss365

0203

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Honor honor is not in the killing and perhaps not even in the saving it is in the decision years later to stay in the hospital another two weeks refraining from drink to get into a PTSD program #bravewrite

030

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Eloquence my autistic son tells me it is lunchtime and i joke with him that i'm happy to make him a dirt and worm sandwich and he looks at me shocked then laughs and says "funny" #vss365

1242

Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Naivete once i believed they just wanted lower taxes and smaller government #vss365

062