For #promptcombo and theme - #allowed - a poem about shedding worry on the wheelroad of life and duties.
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For #PromptCombo, I've shared this before but not in this format. With thanks to poets whose recent #PoemsAloud reminded me of it. 🐦⬛
The process of writing & recording these bittersweet poems has fully #allowed me to look ahead & enjoy writing other things.
(Poem in Autumn Sky Poetry 2020)
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In my idle time,
These volatile crocuses
Are cared by myself,
This I allow myself to
Allow my joy to exist.
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#promptcombo #Allowed #BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP52 #April #OurPoetryX #poetry #poetryCommunity #tanka #短歌
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Allowed I am not allowed out of here, bound to the life that lies withering. I am not allowed to leave. Promises have to be kept. I am not allowed to run free. Duty sits deep, binding my hands. I am not allowed to be clean, stains ingrained over years. I am only allowed to be what is needed. An obituary for a misremembered existence.
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Here is my contribution for
#PromptCombo
#Allowed
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For #PromptCombo #Allowed and @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
It's a running joke in our house that I'm a rule follower, which is partly by personality and partly by conditioning - it was quite a cultural phenomenon, growing up.
Not sure about this one, vague musings here. Thoughts welcome!
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I made this poetry film today to celebrate the publication of the Unwhispered Legacy anthology but wanted to also share it for your #PromptCombo theme, as it very much explores the concept of whether or not something is #allowed, and what we can choose to do about it.
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Here's my somewhat off the cuff response to this week's #PromptCombo #Allowed. Many thanks to Paul @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for hosting. Looking forward to reading other offerings during the week
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#PromptCombo - My Tuesday #Allowed poem
based on a podcast I listened to with Jimmy Carr
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Paul Short’s brilliant poetry anthology Unwhispered Legacy is out!
(See below👇; & please donate to MSF)
Here’s a recording of one of my poems in it, which also fits @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social’s #promptcombo theme #allowed
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With thanks to Paul @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for this week's #PromptCombo theme #Allowed
#poetrycommunity #poetry #poem #poems #skypoets #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetsofbluesky #skypoet #writingcommunity
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A poem in 7 stanzas and by Debbie Ross entitled Reading the Small Print Always told to constrain myself, not be too much, or too little, too quiet or too loud. Don't wear short skirts and paint your nails red, don't wear frumpy jumpers or old lady hats. Do smile at the boss but don't converse, my idea of conversation topics are too out there, apparently. Don't go swimming on your own and don't go with the friend from work, don't speak to other men. Don't read so much, don't take offence, don't put pressure on me, don't criticise. Just don't. Why do you get to tell me what I am not allowed to do? I didn't see 'total control' in the small print.
Hey Paul @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social thanks for this week’s #promptcombo #allowed A bit of a lengthy one for me cobbled together over lunch. Ham-fisted, unsubtle and not particularly poetic, but I might work on it at some point. My 1st husband was very domineering.
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You are enough. You are allowed. Ignore all messages to the contrary.
Going minimalist for this week's #promptcombo #allowed, hope you like it! Thanks to @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for another excellent prompt #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
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#allowed #promptcombo
@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social I thought this poem deserved a bit more context as it may seem like a quick warm-up when in reality it's crystallised MONTHS of mental health disquiet.
Thank you for allowed as the prompt.
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#PromptCombo This week, your host is the wonderful Paul.
The theme is #Allowed
Tag @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social & use the hastags to get involved. Everyone welcome!
Have a great week hosting, darlin❤️📚
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@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social is this week's #PromptCombo host, with the theme of #Allowed. Get involved all week by using the hashtag & tagging him.
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Wicker Man Sequel II: Afterlife, 1974 He goes quietly - Too quietly, in fact. Eyes downcast, he is sullen, Resigned, Relieved. No struggle, No frenzied pleas, No execrations, No desperate screams - Even the animals Fall silent. Such an anticlimax, some Dare say. We are leaderless. Later that year, a Plummy-voiced fugitive with Caddish moustache offers to be Our Laird. But we’re a religious people - We don’t do murder here, and won’t Countenance spouse killers. And, to Be honest, we’re sick of the Notoriety. In fact, everything becomes an Anticlimax: the Unrelenting waves of Orgy, Feasting, Carousing, Innuendo, Bawdy song, Ritual mirth, Communal rejoicing. We seek the sublime Thrill of transgression – that Dire-edged, dark delight made Keener by the dread of Censure and chastisement. Our Christian neighbours revel in it: Shame-filled, knee-trembler sex in barns, Caves, cubicles, hallways, back alleys; Shebeens, whisky bothies, Gambling dens – skulking, winking Furtively at bored menfolk on the Sabbath; Malicious gossip about the Manse family. As if divining our silent prayer, a large Consignment of oatcakes arrives from a Nearby island. Brittle, friable biscuits – Hebridean fortune cookies Revealing Aphoristic Bible Quotes that promise Hellfire and damnation with a Faint chance of Salvation. We shudder in Anticipation. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025
🙏 @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social as host of #PromptCombo - my perverse take on #Allowed 😁
#poem: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025
#FanFiction #TheWickerMan #LordSummerisle #LordLucan #FolkHorror #poetrycommunity #Satire #Parody
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I Don’t Make the Rules by S. Reeson the unexpected an explosion in the desert misinterpreting reality as libertarian a statement the dreams that never make it past the details the ticket you forgot to buy and now do first before anything you imagine is allowed to come to pass the process on to someone else is all that life was supposed to be about a meaning that’s governed with every scrap of language a step closer to nirvana to your God I’m simply here to mark the path
#allowed #promptcombo
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It’s a good day when a) they write themselves and b) they become a mirror of the reality without effort.
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Roll up, roll up to this week's #PromptCombo, which is #Allowed. Please use the hashtags and tag @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social to get involved.
#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetryprompt #bskypoets
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To Know is weakness. Not to know is power. Knowledge leads to prejudice. Don't tell me anything. I don't want to know. News is forbidden. Information cannot be allowed to undermine society. Wear gloves so you can't touch. Ear plugs so you can't hear. Ideally your tongue should be removed. Don't listen so IGNORE THIS MESSAGE.
Thank you @janpsolivagant.bsky.social Jan for last weeks amazing stint. The #promptcombo for this week is #Allowed
All can contribute. Please use the above hashtags and tag me @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
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At any given time, you are allowed to change.
You don't have to keep being the same person you used to be. ♡
#you #are #allowed #to #change
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You are allowed to outgrow the version of you that only survived.
You were meant to thrive.
And it's ok to live like it. ♡
#allowed #to #grow #thrive #change
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