This morning's sunrise above Bay River, Bayboro, North Carolina

bound to suffer ... bound to heal

#7syllablesentence #bound

#InkMine
#soften

#7syllablesentence
#bound

I’m bound by code of kindness

#7syllablesentence
#bound

I’m bound where the road leads me

We're all bound to lose our minds
#7syllablesntence #bound

#AprilAcrostic
#Truth

The hard reality that he was a
Rogue interested in what he could take
Unable to care about anyone else
Totally self-absorbed in his pleasure
Hit her hard when she saw her empty bank account

#7syllablesentence
#bound

Are you free or are you bound?

TRUTH   Time and time again, I Rummaged through your words, Undoing each vow, each promise of love, Testing what held and what fell away, Hoping to find something that stayed.  

@daveashleypoet.bsky.social

#AprilAcrostic
#Truth
#Poetry

Hello everyone.

The #7syllablesentence prompt for April 21 is #bound

April 19-25 @451degrees.bsky.social
April 26-May 2 @deepsouldiver.bsky.social
May 3-9 ?
May 10-16 ?

Let me know if you want to host #7SyllableSentence

Thank you for your fabulous posts! 🐬🦋🏝️🌊🐳

#NatureHasWeapons 🦠

My pandemic poem for #PromptCombo @dragonslayerma.bsky.social

CW: sentimental, especially w/ the music, but it's a tribute (though I'm told med workers didn't want to be heroes; they were doing a job, an immensely difficult one)

*In Northern New England Review 2020
#PoemsAloud

#vss365 #poetry

I wonder
What the aroma of you be…
Musky strong mythical Adonis
Sandlewood tobacco dreamer
Leather and grease oiled biker

This some kind of idol I see
What would the wafting breeze
Beneath sapphire skies
Above meadows #jade gem green
Bring to me, I wonder

Tell me a story,
Riddle me this,
Untold, the glory,
Talking pure piss,
How can I believe you?
#AcrosticApril #Truth #acrosticpoem #writing #writingcommunity
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social

@jenthorne.bsky.social‬

#PoetsOfDoom!!

Tell me one more time,
Repeat the words
Underlined with feeling
Then smile so I believe, give my
Heart and you chew

#aprilacrostic #poetry

Engage a seer,
steeped in ancient thought,
to find pure jade
hidden deep in river beds
and tall mountains.

Read the spirit in its shape.
Make your offerings
to your ancestral past
a gem to protect
the living and the dead,
a stone alive with meaning.
#vss365 #jade

It's just bound to be good news

#7syllablesentence #bound

It's bound to end in tears...right.

#7syllablesentence #bound

Tear it out and say it as
Rumor floods the gaps where
Understanding breaks so
Those who dodge it get
Hit with what remains

#AprilAcrostic #prompt #truth #poetry #writing #blueskypoetry
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social

you and me bound together

#7syllablesentence #bound

never be bound to failure

#7syllablesentence #bound

Are we all so duty bound
#7syllablesentence #bound

This prompt is bound to succeed

#7syllablesentence #bound

#ThickTrunkTuesday #naturephoto #photshare #trees

#ThickTrunkTuesday #naturephoto #photshare #trees

#ThickTrunkTuesday #naturephoto #photshare #trees

He was invited on a podcast. A well-known writer, he often got these kinds of invitations. The podcast began cordially, but when the subject of his ex-wife was brought up, he flew into a rage. What was recorded would never be erased.

#pod. #wss366.

Those ancient words inscribed in stone,
Resting firm, enduring time’s decay,
United in unbroken belief,
Trusted by watchful, scholastic eyes,
Held fast through the weight of history

#AcrosticApril #Truth #acrosticpoem #writing #writingcommunity
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social

@dragonslayerma.bsky.social‬

#PromptCombo It's #NatureHasWeapons for Tuesday.
Have a great day wherever you are.

The main characters of Journey to the West: the Monkey King, the Jade Dragon, the pig demon, the sand demon, and the Longevity Monk.

It's April 21, 2026, and today's mythology-inspired #vss365 #prompt is #jade! Like the Jade dragon from Journey to the West.

This culturally defining Ancient Chinese epic features a wonderfully colorful main cast, helmed by the wonderfully rebellious Monkey King!

#jade #vss365