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Suzy Dobie

@suzydobie.bsky.social
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Poet, lover of poetry, admirer of poets.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 10h
My aunt, the doctor, told me a new joke. She asked: How would a death from the plague get covered here? I said I did not know. So she answered: They didn’t die from the plague but with the plague, and besides they had a pre-existing condition. Neither of us laughed.
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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 16h
If you like the poems and books I feature, now’s the perfect time to grab a copy with free shipping from Bookshop! bit.ly/poetrylist
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Must-Read Poetry Books
This is a list of some of the best poetry books period, both old and new. The kind of books that will make you drop your jaw and have to set them down for a little while before moving to the next poem...
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 8h
I am still confused by Russia's story how a technician working at an "Anti-Plague Institute" can break a tube containing a sample in her lab and then just be allowed to leave and go home without any kind of containment procedure.
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 11h
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social a #tankapomegranate for your #PoetsOfDoom prompt. #Sky #Colours #Poetry #TankaPuente
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12h
There is a suspected outbreak of the plague in Russia. Yes, you read that right. And we cannot trust RFK Jr. and the Trump administration to be prepared to deal with this. We need a Democratic public health doctor in the US Senate.
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Scoop: White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia
Administration is "aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options," an official told Axios.
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B Beshoar @bbeshoar.bsky.social · 12h
Trump's dismissive remarks about an Iranian attack on LA and San Diego are alarming & unacceptable. Equally disturbing is the media's reluctance to report on the audience's enthusiastic approval of those remarks. Looking at you, MSNOW.
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 12h
@emteepoetry.bsky.social here is my second contribution for your #Winged #PromptCombo call-out #Poetry
Bat Among the Lights 

Once, weathered barns leaned
with beams whispering to the wind.
Fields were midnight seas,
and trees stretched their arms
to cradle the night. 

Now the earth is parcelled with concrete,
hedgerows clipped into obedience.
The dark fractured by streetlights,
blooming too bright. 

The bat drifts
through this geometry of glass and brick,
its wings brushing halos,
its hunger met by moths
circling the false moons. 

It's plentifully fed,
yet carries in its bones
the taste of muted evenings,
the weight of stars unchallenged,
the vastness of the black
before it was tamed. 

Its flight is a lament,
an elegy for what is gone,
a winged shadow threading progress,
thriving, yet haunted,
by simpler days.
Dreaming of a world
it cannot return to,
even as it flourishes
in the light we have made.
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Suzy Dobie @suzydobie.bsky.social · 15h
🦗 #AcrosticOctober 6 October #CHORUS #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writercommunity #prompt Thanks for the fun prompt @daveashleypoet.bsky.social
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Suzy Dobie @suzydobie.bsky.social · 15h
Hi, @emteepoetry.bsky.social Here's another offering for #PromptCombo #Winged, a favorite of mine written in celebration of "October's bright blue weather," which in these parts brings the raptors out on show. Thanks again for the prompt! #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writercommunity #prompt
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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#promptcombo #wings #poem #humour
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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Clawing my way out of bed Hitching on trousers Out into the fresh air Resplendent bird song utterly beguiles my senses Singing me to be truly awakw #acrosticoctober #poem #dawn #CHORUS
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Quill of Mnemosyne @sonnetsmith.bsky.social · 19h
Hello Wild Walk #writers Colourful display, Windows adorned by bouquet Storefront's best array Your word today is #Display Use the image/word to inspire your writing. #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub
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Quill of Mnemosyne @sonnetsmith.bsky.social · 19h
Today - October 6th - is UK National #Badger Day! So #prose, #poetry, and #artwork dedicated to badgers please. (It's also my dad's birthday... So #dad poetry is also welcome) #SomethingEveryday #prompt #writingprompt #writesky #blueskypoetry #5amwritersclub
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Malachy Moran @malformed-poetry.bsky.social · 18h
Today’s #poetryprompt Pagan dreams #MPPrompt I repost replies Follow for daily prompts
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16h
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 06/10/2026
Could we make it tonight, then? 'Cause, really, I'm exhausted.
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Ultán of Ulcer @mulvennyprospectus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@emteepoetry.bsky.social #PromptCombo #Prompt #Winged
Winged Him

The shot, a crack, opened another
in the darting figure above,
"only winged him" groused the gunman,
reloading for a second attempt,
his beaked nose wrinkling in reproach,
"I'll get the next one, I feel it in my bones,"
he continued, his booming voice hollow
to my ears, an ancient raptorial cruelty
evinced across a face that although now chubbed
with age and the rich eating that comes with standing
was still fierce of bred hawkish aspect. 
I thought of the bloated Henry, 
bound to earth by ulcered leg,
and his sugar parties
where the nobles ate sculptures of confected swan,
arranged for tasteful delectation in cygnet rings
and their teeth slowly rotted. 
As my acquaintance blasted the skies once more,
I watched silently as the bird righted itself and soared.
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Ronnie Smith @rfsmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@emteepoetry.bsky.social #PromptCombo Hi Em. Thanks for this great prompt #Winged and here is my contribution. Best wishes and love to all.
Poem - Neighbours
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Dean Norton @zentinl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you @emteepoetry.bsky.social for this week's #PromptCombo #Winged. I've been pulled away for some weeks but delighted to be back reading. #poetrycommunity #poetry #poem #poems #skypoets #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetsofbluesky #skypoet #writingcommunity
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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 52. Bumblebees have hearts but they are not ❤️ shaped. Bee hearts are straw shaped organs and run the entire length of the body. #bees #nature #biodiversity #bumblebees
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Suzy Dobie @suzydobie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hi, @emteepoetry.bsky.social Here is an offering for #PromptCombo #Winged The piece was originally written for a prompt by @malformed-poetry.bsky.social , but I am quite fond of it, and I hope it fits the bill. Thanks for the prompt! #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writercommunity #prompt
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@emteepoetry.bsky.social here is my offering for #Winged. This is an old one, but I love this #PromptCombo, so there may well be more to come. #Poetry
Ghost in Feathers                               

The barn walls drink the last of the light.
Shadows bloom like bruises across the beams.
The swallows sleep in cloistered hush;
the oxblood tractor ticks,
a cooling beast slain at sunset.

Moths rise, dust-winged,
erratically searching
for the memory of light.
Spiders unfurl their wire legs,
threading tremors through webs.
Bats spill from broken gables,
their flight a soft percussion
through the dark.

The barn's hushed breath is silenced.
But the night's chorus is not complete.
One nocturnal spectre lingers.
Watching.
Seeing all.

Talons unfurl, rusted hooks sear
through feathers pale as bone.
She ends her vigil with a haunted cry,
and the scuttling things below
wonder if they are the who she calls for.

There is no fanfare, only death on wing.
Silent, surgical, inevitable.
Rending flesh, she claims her prize,
then slips between the rafters,
folding into their oaken skin.

Though night wanes, she remains:
perched, unmoving, unblinking.
Waiting.
A ghost in feathers.
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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
deep in the woods a bird I cannot name does not require one #haiku
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Suzy Dobie @suzydobie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My great-uncles, Swedish immigrant farmers, kitted out to serve in the Great War (from my grandmother's collection). #OddChallenge #Oldphoto #Poetry @zoomburst.substack.com #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writercommunity #prompt
From my grandmother's album: her older brothers, my Lonn great-uncles, Swedish immigrant farmers uniformed to leave their Minnesota farm to serve the US in WWI.
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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
high in the clouds geese call down a road I cannot see #haiku
A flock of geese flies high across a vast blue and gold sunset sky above a winding river, wooded countryside, and distant Virginia hills.
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Suzy Dobie @suzydobie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🐿️ #AcrosticOctober 5 October #SQUIRREL #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writercommunity #prompt Thanks for the fun @daveashleypoet.bsky.social
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I shared dawn with the birds today and wrote this as it happened. I would normally spend ages editing, and I know it needs it, but I also like the untamed flow of it! #PoetsOfDoom #Sky #Poetry #Dawn @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social
Dawn Study

As inky blackness breaks,
gives way, fades grey, to dawn,
I sit on the garden bench
still and chill,
watching cigarette smoke
coil itself against the sky,
trying to name, to frame,
its cold colours.

I could call it blue.
That would do.
It would be true.
Yet blue won't hold
the whole fold of it,
won't catch the rich pitch
of that deep sweep,
that vibrant expanse
drawn and gone across the heavens.

And now it shifts, drifts again.
What colour is this?
Blue, yes,
but blue alone cannot own
every hue
in this delicate, gold-souled,
light-rolled blanket overhead,
this fabric of morning
threaded with silver,
with butterscotch, 
with hints that resist
the insistence of names.

Again it changes.
The smoke melts away.
The shadows resign.
The sun has risen,
and the sky,
after all its layered displays,
its veils and trails,
its subtle disguises,
is finally,
simply,
blue.
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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#AcrosticOctober the tees around here are turning a rainbow of Autumnal colours, alive with squirrels harvesting Your prompt #SQUIRREL
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Quill of Mnemosyne @sonnetsmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hello Wild Walk #writers Ever shedding fur, Carpet and clothes all covered In what she casts off. Your word today is #Fur Use the image/word to inspire your writing. #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub
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Quill of Mnemosyne @sonnetsmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today - October 5th - is global #JamesBond day (marking the day he first appeared on the silver screen. So I'm giving you all a licence to write #Spy #poetry, #prose, and #artwork please. #SomethingEveryday #prompt #writingprompt #writesky #blueskypoetry #amwriting #5amwritersclub
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Malachy Moran @malformed-poetry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today’s #poetryprompt: Mummification #MPPrompt I repost replies Follow for daily prompts
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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
a squirrel dropped an acorn on my car Newton gets another chance #haiku
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My #PoetsOfDoom #Sky poem came out a little less cheerful that I had hoped for, but sometimes that's the way it goes. @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social
The Last Sky

Pale peach tendrils 
reach out across the denim horizon.
A new day starting 
despite the weight  
of indigo laden clouds.

I could not stop it. 
I would freeze this moment. 
Spend forever with you within 
the faded mint walls 
of this medical mausoleum. 
I couldn’t.

The sun continued rising, 
bright amber matches glint 
in the windows opposite.  
Their flames are cold. 
I share tears with the sky 
but we cannot dout 
the bitter light. 

The day still comes.  
And you still go.
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50_Shades_Of_Pedro_Pascal @reginaphalange1234.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#mpprompt #writingcommunity #poetryprompt @nathanbrazil.bsky.social @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @jackdaniels75.bsky.social @museumlara1.bsky.social @suzydobie.bsky.social @anntigone.bsky.social
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That ys me yn the cornir That ys me yn the spotte lighte Sendinge myself a fyle quicklye yn email and nevirthelesse typinge "best wisshes" by cause it wolde not do to be rude to myselfe
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI is being used to... -Facilitate online scams -Process health insurance claims, leading to wrongful denials -Price gouge customers via surveillance pricing -Set higher car insurance premiums using personal data The dangers of AI aren’t in some far-off future. They're already here.
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Suzy Dobie @suzydobie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#PoetsOfDoom #Sky #3color #Tricube Thanks, Dave and the Doomies! 😘 @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social @jenthorne.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @daveashleypoet.bsky.social
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Suzy Dobie @suzydobie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#AcrosticOctober 4 October #SERENE #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writercommunity #prompt Thanks for the fun @daveashleypoet.bsky.social
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Quill of Mnemosyne @sonnetsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hello Wild Walk #writers Light winds blow through trees, Branches slowly beckoning Everyone outside. Your word today is #Outside Use the image/word to inspire your writing. #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub
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Malachy Moran @malformed-poetry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Today’s #poetryprompt: I think there’s a lot to say about putting value in whats left behind. Write me a poem about Leftovers #MPPrompt I repost replies Follow for daily prompts
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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sauntering pearlescent ivory clouds edge slowly over the azure firmament Ranging towards the hazy horizon Echoing their glory in cream shades nascent sun painting them with hues enveloping them in peach like warmth #AcrosticOctober #PoetsOfDoom #Sky
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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#PoetsOfDoom this week I am your hosty-chap. I have been out getting a certain amount of peace looking at nature... and drinking tea! This week I'd like you to write any poem featuring the #Sky BUT to make it tricky you have to include three or more colours. Any form, any time, anywhere!!
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A new #PoetsOfDoom week begins and this time its @daveashleypoet.bsky.social inspiring us with colourful #Sky This is going to be great. Tag us so we don't miss anything @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social @jenthorne.bsky.social Happy writing folks ☺️☺️☺️
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Quill of Mnemosyne @sonnetsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Today - October 4th - Is world #Animal day. So a very broad spectrum... I want pawed #poetry, Feathery #prose and Noah's Ark #Artwork Give me fish, fowl, bug and beast, so much to choose from, get #writing #SomethingEveryday #prompt #writesky #5amwritersclub #blueskypoetry #writingprompt #writesky
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The Owl @451degrees.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I was out sunbathing when this little tree frog crawled up onto my leg and decided to join me. 💚 #Photography #Frog #ColorADay #GreenSat
A little green Pacific Tree Frog sitting on my leg and basking in the sunlight.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yn Boston do thei call the fantasye series 'The Witchah'?
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Some smal horses trye to go on showes Thei get called 'out of fashion' That nevir happenid to Lil' Sebastian
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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
one acorn falling through ten thousand years of oak into this moment #haiku
Photograph taken in central Virginia of the base of an oak tree in the woods with acorns scattered before it. Through the foliage in the distance, you can see the river. Sunlight is streaming down through the branches. 
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Fleur Du Pseudonym @fleurdu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
October 3rd #mead #Cherita #SomethingEveryday #prompt #writingprompt #writesky #blueskypoetry #amwriting #5amwritersclub
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