Prompt 95 Frayed Timbre Lull Close your eyes, and let the words lead you. What do they make you see...feel... Now, write about it. I want to Challenge you! DO NOT use the words in your piece. Post your original work to #SenseWrds, along with prompt number. No combo prompts, please.

Behind wardrobe doors
Crinkles
Ironed out, Held
Within careless tucks
Wait hushed
To emerge
Concentrated
Along folds, Clinging
To skin
Heart-sores

#SenseWrds Prompt 95

#BlueskyPoetry #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity #poetry #PoetryAsActivism #Oulens

O look! They have
survived;
It’s no femicide!
The sex ratio
on papers
is still neat.
They be just
walking dead
in patriarchy’s
patronising grip.

@arwashington.bsky.social
#July 2025 | #Femicide 🌼
#SOLSEED. #PlantSeeds
#PoetryAsActivism #BlueskyPoetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #poetry

‘Occupy Whiteness’ by @jzthepoet.bsky.social published by @deepvellum.bsky.social

#poetry #poetrycommunity #hybridlit #bilingualpoetry #bilingualliterature #erasurepoetry #decolonialpoetry #immigrantpoetry #politicalpoetry #nativepoetry #poetryofwitness #poetryasactivism #literatureasactivism

To honor #NationalPoetryMonth, I share with you #poetryasactivism in the form of a #protestsong. This is 10,000 Maniacs' adaptation of Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum est."

10,000 Maniacs with "The Latin One"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOEc...

Second Nature’ by Chaun Ballard @boa-editions.bsky.social

Congratulations to fellow UAA MFA alumnus, Chaun Ballard!

#poetry #poetrycommunity #nationalpoetrymonth #poetryofidentity #familypoetry #blackhistorypoetry #poetryinspiredbyhistory #poetryasactivism #chaunballard #chaunballardsecondnature

Happy World Poetry Day 2025! 🌐✨✨✨🌐
Theme-'Poetry as a bridge for peace and inclusion'.
Here is a poem by Muriel Rukeyser entitled 'Wherever' taken from her collection 'Breaking Open' 1973.
#poemsforpeace
#murielrukeyser
#harlowcircleofpoetry
#poetryasactivism

‘Bloodroot’ by Annemarie Ní Churreáin, published by @doirepress.bsky.social

Beautiful poems that give voice to the voiceless.

#poetry #poetrycommunity #connectiontonature #historicalpoetry #poetryofplace #culturalpoetry #feministpoetry #poetryasactivism #irishpoetry

‘loudest when startled’ by @lunareyhall.com, published by @yesyesbooks.bsky.social

Such a complex book of beautifully written poems about personal & societal impacts of United States gun culture.

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetryofviolence #familypoetry #culturalpoetry #poetryasactivism

‘How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems’ by Mikeas Sánchez, translated by Wendy Call and Shook, published by Milkweed Editions

in Zoque, Spanish, & English

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetryintranslation #poetryofplace #poetryofmexico #feministpoetry #zoquepoetry #poetryasactivism #indigenouspoetry

'Still City' by Oksana Maksymchuk, published by @upittpress.bsky.social

#poetry #poetrycommunity #ukranianpoetry #warpoetry #ukranianwarpoetry #poetryasactivism #poetryofwitness

'Watermelon' by @amalieflynn.bsky.social, published by Alien Buddha Press

#poetry #poetrycommunity #warpoetry #poetryaboutgaza #poetryasactivism #protestwithpoetry

'Ancient Light' by Kimberly Blaeser, published by The University of Arizona Press

lovely and piercing

#poetry #poetrycollection #poetrycommunity #ecopoetry #ecocultural #decolonialpoetry #poetryasactivism #protestwithpoetry #nativepoetry

'The Sky was Once a Dark Blanket' by @kinsaledrake.bsky.social; @ugapress.bsky.social

#literaryactivist #poetry #poetrycollection #poetrycommunity #southwestpoetry #familypoetry #feministpoetry #nativepoetry #poetryasactivism (1/2)

'Dreamer Paradise' by David Quiroz, published by What Books Press

#poetry #poetrycollection #poetrycommunity #poetryasactivism #protestwithpoetry #dreamerpoetry
#supportdreamers #protectdreamers

'Whereas' by Layli Long Soldier published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social

Poems that are appreciated more and more with each reread are the best.

#reread #poetry #poetrycollection #poetrycommunity #motherhoodpoetry #nativepoetry #poetryasactivism #protestwithpoetry