“Time as Substance”
What is given is
already withdrawn.
No moment remains
where it appears.
The hand moves,
and finds what is not there...
#RaymondStoic #stoic #stoicism #affection #poetry #philosophy
Apr. 21: "After the Old Photograph"
Faces maintain their distance,
light arrested in a former moment,
and stillness retains
what motion once inhabited.
#BlueSkyRemnant #BlueSkyPoetry #Poetry #Poem #WritingCommunity
Apr. 20: "After the Whisper"
Air resolves softly behind it,
a trace too slight to retain,
yet something remains listening
within the silence that follows.
#BlueSkyRemnant #BlueSkyPoetry #Poetry #Poem #WritingCommunity
Apr. 21
Hollowing willow stands
along the flooded verge,
rings thinned beneath
a split of dampened bark.
Current threads the open trunk
with a cold rush,
reed-shadows trembling
along the emptied wood.
#BlueSkyPoetry #prompt hollowing willow #BSPP52 #AprilStormlight
A daily reminder presses
through paper’s deepest fold,
ink darkens where the desk
receives repeated pressure,
a thumb smooths the same crease
without looking up,
dust settles into the line
that refuses to lift.
#OurPoetryX #prompt daily reminder #PoetryCommunity #poetry #BlueSkyPoetry
Faith is bound
to doubt within.
#7syllablesentence #prompt #bound #amwriting #BlueSkyPoetry #poetryCommunity #MicroPoetry
Apr. 21 — Lanterns glimmer in attics.
Stored lights endure.
#ThreeWordGenre #prompt #April #BlueSkypoetry #poetry #writingCommunity #amwriting #writersCommunity #poetryCommunity
Harbor awash in iron-gray light,
ropes slack against the pier,
gulls carving the wind’s edge,
distance folding into tide.
#firewords280 #prompt awash in #PoetryCommunity #poetry
The inquisitive eye
moved onward,
over hill and
hollow straying,
as a traveler follows
an unmarked road,
with patient steps
and lifted gaze,
and the dust ascending
softly at his feet.
#OurPoetryX #prompt #inquisitive #PoetryCommunity #poetry #BlueSkyPoetry
Apr. 20
Suffocating sunlight leans
through the open doorway,
African lilies glazed in
unmoving brightness,
dry earth cracking
beyond the threshold,
trees holding a strained,
reluctant green.
#BlueSkyPoetry #prompt suffocating sunlight #BSPP52 #AprilStormlight
Apr. 20 — Wind winds through gullies.
Traverse hidden paths.
#ThreeWordGenre #prompt #April #BlueSkypoetry #poetry #writingCommunity #amwriting #writersCommunity #poetryCommunity
Walking through years
like flooded streets,
levels shifting under
slow erosion,
sock saturation gathering
with each step,
time left clinging where
passage has passed.
#firewords280 #prompt sock saturation #PoetryCommunity #poetry
Quiet Continuance
To those who read, pause, or return—thank you.
These words begin quietly, but they don’t remain alone.
Your presence gives them a second life beyond the page,
and that is something I carry with me, more than I say.
#PoeticReflection
#PoetryCommunity
#MicroPoetry
#ReaderAndWriter
A brief reflection on
the nature of listening—
how it asks not for reply,
but for restraint, and how,
in that restraint,
something truer
is allowed to be heard.
#Poetry #Listening #Patience #Restraint #QuietStrength #LiteraryPoetry #Poem #Writing
BlueSkyRemnant — Write what lingers.
Daily Prompt — Apr. 19:
"After the Evening Star" ⭐
Write a micro-poem
or micro-writing piece
from the remnants
and aftermath of
the evening star.
Where light withdraws but leaves its quiet trace.
Use #BlueSkyRemnant so your piece can be seen and shared.
April #BlueSkyPoetry Prompts
Theme: “Rainbowed April"
“Let April’s storms color the page.”
Use the exact hashtag #BSPP52
to share each of your creations
for any of the days of April
that you choose to write.
#BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP52 #April #poetry #poetryCommunity
Week 17 — Active Stewardship
Mon: Protect what matters.
Tue: Guide with purpose.
Wed: Safeguard lasting value.
Thu: Foster mindful growth.
Fri: Sustain meaningful impact.
Sat: Nurture entrusted resources.
Sun: Uphold considered responsibility.
#ThreeWordGenreQuotes #quotes #inspiration
Memory drifts
out of reach.
#7syllablesentence #prompt #drift #amwriting #BlueSkyPoetry #poetryCommunity #MicroPoetry
Trust breaks first
in the taste left.
#7syllablesentence #prompt #taste #amwriting #BlueSkyPoetry #poetryCommunity #MicroPoetry
A revolutionary idea forms
beneath thought as pressure,
old rules soften into silence,
new order rises
from fractured certainty,
systems return altered,
holding a shape
that resists settling.
#OurPoetryX #prompt #revolutionary #PoetryCommunity #poetry #BlueSkyPoetry
Apr. 19: "After the Evening Star"
The sky settles into absence,
a tempered hush where
radiance once abided,
and the gaze persists,
seeking what has
already withdrawn—
a thin line of light smudged
across cooling glass.
#BlueSkyRemnant #BlueSkyPoetry #Poetry #Poem #WritingCommunity
Apr. 19
Wind drives them flat,
storm-bent daffodils,
necks creased near breaking,
petals cupping mud and rain.
Stems hold a buried curve,
green memory under strain,
slow lift already written
along the bend.
#BlueSkyPoetry #prompt storm-bent daffodils #BSPP52 #AprilStormlight
Apr. 19 — Grass bows beneath sunlight.
Yield to radiance.
#ThreeWordGenre #prompt #April #BlueSkypoetry #poetry #writingCommunity #amwriting #writersCommunity #poetryCommunity
Elegiac mayhem settles
across the emptied room,
balloons slackening
as helium drains
into ceiling air,
a half-folded napkin
caught beneath
a chair leg
while goodnights thin
into the pulse of
the hallway light.
#firewords280 #prompt elegiac mayhem #PoetryCommunity #poetry
Sapphire sky,
Hushed homestead,
Elder oak.
@trilisypoetry.bsky.social #amWriting @fravery.bsky.social
#BlueSkyPrompt13 #poetryCommunity #poetry #poem #BlueSkyPoetry
What is held
loosens as it is held.
The mind corrects,
and the correction
is already late.
Resistances rise,
then fall without witness.
Names drift from
what they tried to contain.
Nothing stays where
it appears to stay.
Warmth moves on
without departure.
Passing continues,
unclaimed.
#RaymondStoic
The poet was inspired,
as rain fell upon
the quiet town,
and the sound gathered
upon roof and stone,
like footsteps in a
corridor without end,
while the lamp burned low
in the still chamber,
and night came slowly
into the room.
#OurPoetryX #prompt #inspired #PoetryCommunity #poetry #BlueSkyPoetry
Apr. 18: "After the Letter Was Sent"
It leaves the hand mid-release,
paper and seal thinning into distance,
silence takes the weight of it,
and the room holds what is gone.
#BlueSkyRemnant #BlueSkyPoetry #Poetry #Poem #WritingCommunity
Apr. 18
Iridescent fog lay
upon the fields,
spreading from the river
into resting pastures,
as a bride moves
through a wooden hall,
pausing, lifting her veil,
fading away,
leaving the lanterns
dimmer in her passing.
#BlueSkyPoetry #prompt iridescent fog #BSPP52 #AprilStormlight
Honey hides
the bitter truth.
#7syllablesentence #prompt #honey #amwriting #BlueSkyPoetry #poetryCommunity #MicroPoetry