A poem written and Copyright (c) by Eric Montgomery (@madp03t.bsky.social). All Rights Reserved. Keep to the edge. Keep watching, as it moves. Keep up, you can’t. Keep the Zagglewump away. Keep what it leaves. Keep feeding it, you are. Keep still. Keep out of it. …as the Zagglewump keeps you

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Light skies open the morning,
Light boulders can be moved up the steep hill,
Light blue eyes mesmerise dark souls,
Light a fire to keep us warm.

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Today's #poetryprompt:

Combine one soft word and one hard word that should not normally go together (like Leonard Cohen's "daffodil machete")

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#AmpersandAfterDark /:\ Challenge 13 for March 29, 2026

Every sentence in your piece must begin with the same word.

But the meaning of that word must change each time.

Be sure to tag me and use the hashtag so I can see your post.

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FROM THE PENTHOUSE by CATHERINE A. MACKENZIE
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As this week's #PromptCombo #Nothing concludes, I'd like to thank everyone who warmly welcomed me to & participated in my inaugural #PoetryPrompt.

A new prompt posts tomorrow under the versed auspices of Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

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The skies scream
boots crack paving stones
windows shatter
all is not lost
hope is not dead
we carry on
till total darkness

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"_is not dead"

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Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the awesome poetry prompts (as always!) along with the Bluesky poetry community, and @stacebot.bsky.social

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Today’s #poetryprompt:

_____ is not dead

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a bee is sitting on top of a daisy with the words happy spring written underneath it ALT: a bee is sitting on top of a daisy with the words happy spring written underneath it

This week’s #poetryprompt from my kidlit Rhyme Time group:
Write and acrostic poem: SPRING
or
a rhyme where “spring” (any tense, any meaning) is central to the poem

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A poem "Bridge to Change" by Robert Emond. Sitting in the sun by the sea in the paradise of So. Cal. Hopelessness overwhelms. Money, work, kids - stress - can see no change. Sitting in the dark of the hospital. Heart succumbed. Told very high likelihood of being dead in 5 years. Sitting in mortal contemplation. Hopelessness evaporates. Happiness, love, acceptance - peace - time to change. Sitting in the sun by the sea in the paradise of Oregon. Heart healthy. Made the choice to change, to live.

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"Bridge to Change"

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Today’s #poetryprompt:

Write me a poem about a pilgrimage

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He doesn’t touch her—
not yet—

just watches,
like he’s trying to memorize
the exact shape of her breathing

It should unsettle her

It does

But something in it—
that quiet, consuming attention—
doesn’t feel like danger

It feels like being chosen

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I have never broken— not once, not even quietly in the dark with my teeth sunk into a pillow so the world wouldn’t hear me unravel. I have never loved someone who did not love me back in the exact same language, with the same urgency, with hands that never hesitated. I have never stood in a room full of people and felt like a misplaced object— something set down temporarily and forgotten. My body has never betrayed me, never carried the evidence of time or memory or survival. I have never rehearsed conversations that never happened, never built entire futures on a single look, never mourned something that was never mine. And when the night comes, I sleep— easily, without ghosts, without echoes, without the quiet, persistent ache of almost. This is the lie: that I have lived untouched— unmarked, unmoved, unmade by everything that ever tried to take me apart.

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Today’s #poetryprompt

Tell me a poetic lie

“The daddy longlegs is not a true spider: it actually belongs to the Seratonio crime family.”
-Leonard Cohen

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the tight juicy grape
burst open in her mouth
a sweet symphony

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A Short Story

Electricity
Felicity
Domesticity
Duplicity
Mendacity
Toxicity
Reciprocity
Terminal velocity

Today's #poetryprompt:

If I could cut a skylight into your skull and look inside your thoughts, what would I see?

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#AmpersandAfterDark /:\ Challenge 12 for March 25, 2026

Your piece may not use any words related to sight.

No words related to sight. No words like see, look, watch, view, observe, etc. No color, light, or visual description.

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kettle hum
a spider lowers itself
into steam
pipes ticking

the window loosens

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The citizens of authenti-city

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On the hill far from the sea
Audac-city stands
No shine on towers gray
Denizens spend their days
Toiling endless fabrication lines
Built on excess promotion
For only ideas mine true gold
So they gather in cathedrals of nothing
Worshipping pantomime smiles

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AUDACITY

How dare you! They cry
You had no right!
Uppity, insolent, rude are the shouts
At those just trying to be themselves
Fingers pointing
Yet blind to themselves
Stay humble
Stay human
Don't slide into the pit
It can be a long way down