Image sourced from: Unsplash. Fire burns bright for revellers.

Singing strings tune smiles,
Top hats, coat tails twirl in flight,
Fire lights faces.

Heartfyre’s yearning beats loud,
Kinship glints in loaded crowd.

#RetroArtPrompt #tanka #haiku #po3try #poem #heartfyre #party

A mirrored reflection acrostic inspired by #RetroArtPrompt (reflections). This also ties into #po3try #prompt (experi : mental) from the final episode of Season 1's podcast. It was an enjoyable bit of fun to have a play with words and structure. On the left, black text on white background. On the right, in a mirrored reflection, white text on dark grey background: Really - Every Feeling Loosens Enlightenment. Co-Exist Together. Imagination Overcomes Negative Shadows.

#RetroArtPrompt | #reflections
#acrostic #poetry
#po3try #podcast #prompt | experi : mental

Twelfth night wassailing,
Fiddler revels fruity loot,
Beside her cider.

#wassail #haiku #retroartprompt #paganfolklore #po3try

Beware Yule Cats gaze,
Wool socks or new frocks avert,
Crazy sharp claw paws.

When the snow lay round about,
Heathen feline seeks you out!

🐾 🐈‍⬛

#RetroArtPrompt #Jólakötturinn #caturday #yulecat #folklore #haiku #icelandicfolklore #poetry #writingcommunity #po3try

Soft neck inflict waste,
Tortured eyes tail brazen haste,
Tangled loves’ light dims.

#senryu #horrorprompt #po3try

He abandoned her before Death’s breath.

His pride did not hide,
Seven deadly sins, hollow,
She could not follow.

#Horrorprompt
#Sevendeadlysins
#Po3try
#Horrorinsix
#Senryu
#Halloween
#Writingprompt

#zerostarsinhell in #Terzanelle "Boooo!" Are those ghosts or merely haters? zombies lacking comprehension wasted words confuse creators Thanks though for the attention turn my gaze, fill yards with stone zombies lacking comprehension Werewolves biting to the bone mummys out there decomposing turn my gaze, fill yards with stone Vampires and thirsty posing manor minding my own scripture mummys out there decomposing Making my own muse with sutures jaded envy yeah I get it manor minding my own scripture Throw your daggers at my wit "Boooo!" Are those ghosts or merely haters? jaded envy yeah I get it wasted words confuse creators

#zerostarsinhell in #Terzanelle

This is prompted by @po3try.bsky.social's most recent (and brilliant) podcast episode. I encourage everyone to go check that out!

#poetry #po3try

A man is stuck in quicksand - picture found on Google images - references how I feel sometimes during the creative process.

The Creative Process

Sludge-filled fatigued brain,
Torpor scatters magic tide,
Lighthouse craves return.

#zerostarsinhell #creativeprocess #po3try #haiku inspired by @po3try.bsky.social

boo!

this #horrorween
I’m posting daily scaries
from Phil’s (@pgpayt.bsky.social) prompts:

#horrorprompt - daily tale
#haikuhorrorprompt - daily haiku
#HorrorInSix - 6-word vvss challenge
#vsshorror - tag to use

join in the spooky fun!
write some too!
tag #po3try #horrorween for a ghost repost

👻

Selkie overlooks gorse filled with dancing fae, looking out to emerald seas, across stony beaches under cloud filled skies.

Dreamy seas and sky,
Gorse-homed fae watch from on high,
Quick Selkie skips by.

#haiku #folklore #gorse #celtic #seascape #photography #poetry #po3try #selkie #fae #fairyrealm

Brimstone Butterfly feeds on Buckthorn, often mistaken for the Brimstone Moth, whose caterpillar feeds on Rowan Trees.

#DailyHaikuPrompt #butterfly #haiku

Brimstone upheaval,
Buckthorn retrieval,
Differentiates.

#po3try

butterfly-conservation.org/butterflies/...

#2WordPrompt Compel & Normal

Normal is for bores,
Compel me to break the rules,
Attached hearts shatter.

#haiku #po3try #poetry #writingcommunity

Prompt no. 1553: splintered

Beneath orange teeth,
Splintered wood falls past long tail,
On dark trail to death.

#haikuhorrorprompt #po3try
#haiku #darkpoetry

mariner carves wood--
racing days of zipping wind,
keeps old heart at bay.

#RetroArtPrompt #zip #senryu #po3try #micropoetry #haiku

BTW I finished listening to #Po3try #Podcast at 9:45 … If you like #numerology it’s the powerhouse Number Nine that relates to #action #power among other #energy

Affirmation: I put positive energy into my work, and the results are powerfully reflected in my life.

Wow, please Checkout & Follow the out of this world amazing 🤩 🎭m i k e✨ @po3try.bsky.social as he rules #RetroArtPrompt with his own #CubistPoem #Prompt #Twig #Gloom #Mess

I’ve always said I’m not a poet but I write poems… In the #po3try #podcast episode 8 Mike features my #DailyPrompt & interview!

It’s a challenge but let me try to turn your wonderful #poem into a #cubistpoem (don’t expect anything in the calibre of #po3try though)
… …
Give me a few …

Oh what to say
This bee…
was in my way.
At the very least…
It wanted to be seen,
as some kind of beast.
It must’ve been looking,
for a way in…
But I was King!
Love nature ‘til it’s near.
Don’t want to be stung…
That much is clear.
Hid in my car,
drove off fast.
Bee flew… Far!
#Seranya #Poem🦄
#Po3try

#BlueSkyArtShow | #TheRoad
#photography #mobilephotography
#po3try #acollectionofbeautifulmoments
#inkMine | #concern
#poetry

wood xylarium
milled memory extrusion
of dream's intrusion
🌙
#haiku #micropoetry
#vss365 #extrusion
#po3try #acollectionofbeautifulmoments
📖

liminal space speaks
in subtle transparency
surreal vibrancy

#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #subtle #micropoetry #po3try #acollectionofbeautifulmoments

{Beautiful collage scape Breonny Lee, thank you for inspiring in hypnagogic dream! 💙}

A collage depicting overlapping lines in wild array, imaging volcanoes, to pillows, to brain, to wires. Text including "bottom: the public balcony is restored to the chamber" and "you have been rescued"

#Collage as #Ekphrastic

Clutch goldenrod pillow
to halt volcanic overflow
framed by juxtapositions

Tucked pocketed brain
a public viewing balcony
"you have been rescued"

#poetry #po3try #collage #art

A bit late with some scribbling for episode 5, but here I am 😊

I took a little creative liberty the spelling of the word #prompt, m i k e 🕊️😇

#kindfulness #po3try
#kindfullness
#kindnessmatters
#randomactsofkindness

seeing circular steps raises questions of depth will they lead me to up, in or down am I spiralling upwards and I have to climb or descending through echoes unloud seventeen stealthy footfalls slithering soft but the steps are uneven, sometimes it takes more so I lose orientation, aloof is aloft just the steps, endless turning, the door there’s a door in the wall here, a choice in my path if I open it I could explore but my pegs keep on stumping and now I’ve gone past and it’s steps, balustrades, nothing more just the stepping, descending, ascending the stairs I’m spiralling tighter, my thoughts looping wild I have always been walking ahead on this trail never thinking and nothing to find let me stop, sit, consider while resting my legs but the world keeps on turning, it’s darker down here it’s not right but descending is all I have left along pathways long written, through shadows unclear pic: anthology magazine

🐚inspiral🐚

seeing circular steps raises questions of depth ...

> full poem in alt text
> hear it on the #podcast tiny.cc/po3try
> #prompt - write a poem inspired by *any* picture #po3try #acollectionofbeautifulmoments ;)
> 7 / 7 we done! <3

#photography #poetry #skypoets #spiral #staircase

inky-furred shadow she’s darker than night her eyes luscious blackness sharp peering she pads oh so softly relaxed yet awake always ready to spring pouncing, tearing open mouth scents the air in her flehmen response sifts your traces to track you gets bearings you will never once sense her until she appears from the darkness a terrible roaring then she’s on you, she’s caught you in teeth and in claws it’s the law of the jungle the huntress and prey shriek delight and you laugh as she strikes, it’s adorbs because nobody died tiny kitten just plays pic: william burrard-lucas

🐈‍⬛shadow prowling🐈‍⬛

inky-furred shadow ...

> read it - full poem in alt text
> hear it - #podcast tiny.cc/po3try
> write it - #prompt poem inspired by *any* picture #po3try #acollectionofbeautifulmoments ;)
> 6 / 7 we nearly there!

#cats #catsky #caturday #panther #photography #poetry #skypoets

I want you to know adorn precious with love I don’t have memories to dispose develop feeling a vessel my love and my pain I care deeply overtaken by feelings unfair treatment of black people something to touch us live forever decipher the past multi-layered my subjects I’m close to, I love I like frames with a history byzantine art giving people their flowers while they are here never-fading love I have for you pic: anthology magazine

👩‍🎨the artist in her studio🎨

i want you to know ...

> read it - full poem in alt text
> hear it - #podcast tiny.cc/po3try
> write it - #prompt poem inspired by *any* picture #po3try #acollectionofbeautifulmoments ;)
> 5 / 7

#art #artist #blacksky #photography #foundpoetry #poetry #skypoets

yes, all flowers are monsters we know this is true they growl deep in the dark place below vase their colourful corpses and watch them decay reds, greens, yellows and greens fade to brown as we all shall decay if we’re cut from the soil without sunlight there’s no way to grow why not wear them outside on our faces and lives on our shirts, trews and chapeaus, our gowns precious beauties, our darklings resplendent they shine wear our flowers outside and we show that our true selves exist that our monsters are real and to grow in rough soil is allowed pic: anthology magazine

💐wear your flowers🥀

yes, all flowers are monsters ...

> full poem in alt text
> hear it read #podcast tiny.cc/po3try
> #prompt write an #ekphrastic poem inspired by *any* picture #po3try #acollectionofbeautifulmoments ;)
> 4 / 7

#art #photography #ceramics #flowers #poetry #skypoets

two paths diverge through the crookedy town sure there’s one leading up while the other leads down there’s no humans for they are constrained by the road leaving digital choices of where they can go go on up or go down, evil-good, you or me fight or flight, black or white, you must lose so I’m free two-legged humans insist to be first in the frame always trapped in their digital zero-sum game … but I spider! / I eight legs / eight eyes / many brain I climb up / down the wall / i get wet / in the rain spin a web / on the wind / and I fly / where I need making home / in the window / or under the eaves / or in leaves one-two paths / make me tickle / in spiderous glee any route / that I need / is the pathway / of me many colours / and textures / I sense / as go by upside-down / inside-up / lefting rights / in the shadows / am I see my cobwebs?/ each straight / but together / they skew a silkiferous / patchwork / just like / my way through come with me / on the third path / through earth, sky and wall made of obstacles / path ways and stand / spider-tall and remember / to land / upside-up / when you fall pic: ros woodham

three paths

two paths diverge through the crookedy town
…

> this one has a spider! 🕷️
> full poem in alt text
> hear me read it on the #podcast tiny.cc/po3try
> #prompt to write a poem inspired by any picture #po3try #ekphrastic #acollectionofbeautifulmoments ;)
> 3 / 7

< 3

reality rendering Reality renders at gravitous pace Expect glaciers to pass it as snails race on by Nother pixel, another, just frames with no face Distant thunder convulses the sky Every piece glitches past and another is drawn Rusted metal in oxygen burns In the turning of galaxies, new life is born Now a picture emerges, another day turns Go on back, back to go, start again ~ pic: jennifer hart

reality rendering

Reality renders at gravitous pace
…

> full poem in alt text
> hear me read it on the #podcast tiny.cc/po3try
> #prompt to write a poem inspired by any picture #po3try #ekphrastic #acollectionofbeautifulmoments ;)
> 2 / 7

< 3

#po3try #kindfulness #poetry

It is friendship,
presence,
love,
the beauty
of knowing
someone in the world
sees you
as you should
see yourself;
and then,
you do this
again and again,
spreading
acceptance