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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Dead years ago i suggested my son consider sending fewer texts to this girl he liked so he didn't risk appearing desperate and he turned to me sincerely and replied "but I am desperate" #vss365

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

i start my poems thinking maybe i have something to say i probably don't i mean, if by that you mean something planned or wise or learned or quoted in books anyway here we are nearly out of characters and just now getting to my point: wisdom starts in doubt so maybe there's a chance #poetry

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Gosh, this clip is from 2024. I wonder what it could be that’s causing it to go viral today?? What could it possibly be? 🤔🤔🤔

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Bravery it is not the hard thing you prepared for all your life knowing you could do it it is your darkest day when even breath is a struggle and you get out of bed #vss365

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Sound I hope I remember the timbre of my father's laugh rare and precious from stoic lips hinting at some capacity for joy I might bring his day and I worry the fleeting sense will be lost amidst the memory of his silence #vss365

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

when i fall behind on sleep ASDF I think of typing JKL; the patterns of it the repetition QWERTY and how fingers UIOP just figure shit out #poetry

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Delta something inside decides there's a better way the old feelings that guided you give way and an age-old heresy somehow feels right #vss365

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Juggler it is good practice when there are so many things in the air balls and torches and schedules and deadlines and the occasional chainsaw to let it all catastrophically just fall #poetry

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Calm the wind is brisk at eighty-five degrees such warmth fleeting in October gusts rob branches of their gold colder days beckon Halloween ghosts in sheets of white the silence of fallen leaves #vss365

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

Kinda thinking Norway should put "keeper of the indelible stain" on it's bio now.

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

no apologies needed. divorce is awful, even under the best of circumstances. wishing you comfort.

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

Quake in the old stories gods noticed the sins of men sent plagues and locusts and struck down the firstborn child and i look warily at war and firing squads and tax cuts as the earth trembles #vss365

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sin they say the first was knowledge of good and evil but that seems silly I mean, had we asked them if love was good would they truly have shrugged? I wonder if instead it was power the kind that led to Abel's fate #vss365

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Betcha so the thing to know about Minnesota nice is that it doesn't erase fury it just sets it outside in January morning waits and then places it in our stare #vss365 #vindictive

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Island they say no man is but...I am oh, indeed so I have built trenches that became rivers that eroded land to make seas and eventually oceans such that now all my touch is by wi-fi #vss365

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Weary it is one thing to live in a red state knowing that so many are happy with ICE raids and press freedoms destroyed and trans people in fear and, i assure you, it can be soul crushing but somehow it is another to have a POTUS call for cities to be nuked and have your neighbors cheer #emoetry

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sail my first time sailing was on a larger boat that sat maybe 20 and we were boy scouts (no, literal ones) and somehow they found this crusty old sailor who yelled at us as we fumbled with ropes and the angry sea eyed us with hunger #vss365

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Absolutely 👇

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Applause he was here in my state joking about annihilation about cities far away turned to ash deserving the fate because they're coastal and blue but here hidden behind the corn and bigotry there were cheers

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Uneasy I mean... I wonder how the mind does it because we habituate to damn near everything like smells and darkness and snakes as long as it's constant and our brain figures out death has not, in fact, appeared so how is it this vague sense of unease persists? #emoetry

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thank you, Cyn. That's kind of you to say.

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hurricane there's fierce, unrelenting rain that separates us as the waters rise slowly and then all at once as we said our goodbyes and then there was the storm #vss365

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tormented listen i know you hate it but if i didn't point out your every flaw the thing might happen you know, THE thing and you might feel that way again so i kept sending you painful reminders inside your head to make sure it doesn't and, yeah, my job sucks #emoetry

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Harbour after rocky days of stormy thoughts I moor myself in your hand #vss365

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It is an indictment of the Chaplain Corps if their voices fail to strike terror into the likes of Mr. Hegseth.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Count on it 👇

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sabotaged i saw Desiderata and remembered how i used to think wow, that's wise but it was my friend's favorite and he died through self-destruction so now i see only the limits of written wisdom and despair of poems #emoetry

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Lure it isn't hard, to be honest it could be just a bit of (forbidden) doctor pepper a cookie a smile that says hey, you seem nice and the likelihood is i'd follow through Hades' gates and say you seem nice, too #vss365

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Repulsed it is quite a thing to fear mirrors #emoetry

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

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

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We need more of this

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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

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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

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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

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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

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