sharing @stacebot.bsky.social's #Melt & #Bloom again, for our poetry collaboration from @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoetryPrompts
Looking forward to keep working on our collab, and can't wait to see what @stacebot.bsky.social write's next!
I’ve made a bitter dark chocolate bunny out of my pain, So I can eat it and wipe the tears away. The trauma comes back over and over again. 🐰
#poetry #poet #poem #easter #haiku #bunny #chocolate #poetscafe #poetryprompts
Summer is like the flaming star, Summer is the flaming star, in a pinkening purple-orange sky, daylight on daylight, hazy heated highs, as clouds, silver clouds, thin with our worries to firefly light.
I loved you so fiercely even silence learned your name and stayed beside me long after you died. ~ cmj
Hullo @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and to the 18 words of #fragmentsfriday #poetry
@jackdaniels75.bsky.social #ThisIsWhereYouDied #PoetryPrompts #WritingCommunity #PedroPascal
#vss365 #crazed #poetryprompts #poetry
Crazed —
not broken, just
cracked enough
for the pressure
to speak.
#FreeVerseFebruary #shelter #poetryprompts
Shelter
Sometimes it is only
a doorway you did not notice before—
paint peeling, hinge complaining,
a narrow slice of dim light
that promises nothing.
You step inside anyway.
Outside, the sky is breaking itself apart,
rain coming sideways
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the frost that answers nothing by: chandra jordan because it is almost morning and the heat has not yet chosen a side because the coffee tastes like something burned on purpose because the sink is full of last night’s confessions because the dog will not look at me when I say your name because the phone screen glows like a small, private moon because I keep turning it face down as if that matters because the house remembers the shape of your boots by the door because the dust keeps settling where your hands once were because the mirror refuses to blur my outline because the whiskey is cheaper than honesty because I said I was done and meant only for an hour because silence has a pulse and I press my ear to it
because the field behind the house is all frost and wire because something small out there keeps trying to live because I do not know how to help it because I have rehearsed leaving more than I have left because the truck starts on the second try because I wait for a sign and call it weather because there is always a reason that sounds like mercy because there is always a reason that sounds like love because I am still here, and that must mean something
@perugiapress.bsky.social #PoetryPrompts #Poetry
THE FIGURES THE WATER REMEMBERS
— a woman’s version of living
They look like many figures.
They are one life, revised again and again.
A meditation on what women carry,
and how that carrying continues.
@writers_community._ #wc_nf #poetrycommunity #poetrychallenge #poetryprompts #pictureprompt
Gaining your affection is like chasing butterflies Somehow I can’t get the right traction It’s like something around my feet is tied And I can never jump high enough to reach where you would give me your love And if I still cannot make you sway after a lifetime, I will sleep, I’ll dream these superstitions away Black cats aren’t ill luck, they just go deep And for a token of you, a gaze, a kiss, I will summon for you, the ghosts that you miss Lynn Peyo
Oh, it’s that day of the year.
I spent it deep in the snowy, sun-filtered woods ❄️
Home for some word smithery.
#vss365 #vssmagic #kiss #MoonMystic #ChasingButterflies #InkMine #Superstition #poetryprompts #poetry #poetsofbluesky
CARTILAGE CONSTELLATIONS
— a maternal cosmology of aftermath
For my mother… where grief acquires syntax, absence glows, and the body learns to carry galaxies instead of ghosts.
#flawedpoetssociety #poetryprompts #writingprompts #mentalhealthmatters
VERNALUX
—where winter mislays its crown
Moonlight scripts pale sigils across the river’s obsidian spine
I cup the cold like canon, until its vowels thaw into mercy
Under stone, spring conspires—teaching frost the syntax of bloom
@mbs2803 #poetryprompts #bts #arirang #poetrychallenge #sijopoetry
126 Poetry Prompts for Writers
Need a direction for your next poem (even if it’s your first)? Find here 126 poetry prompts to get you poeming.
www.writersdigest.com/be-inspired/...
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THE ETIQUETTE OF SURVIVAL
— when restraint becomes a form of courage
When the mind screamed its unsayable truths,
I answered with a #silentsurrender—
not collapse,
but consent to breathe,
to endure,
to remain.
#flawedpoetssociety #flawedpoetssociety_prompts #poetryprompts
Nocturne 83 By Dawn McLachlan Fast on slick black roads In a night that tasted Like lip gloss and bravery Don't let go Lean into the electric night Heartbeat like the static Of the tuneless radio Sodium light pulse Tearing out sleeping streets Into the endless deep blue Whipping stars in branches Above the hollow ways And the sweet cool wind Like a baptism
For the #poemsabout prompt #static
Thanks as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk
#poetrycommunity #poetsofbluesky #poetryprompts #poemsaboutlife #poets #poems #PoemAltText
Working Title: The Icy Edge of January Silhouettes
New piece featuring prompts from IG:
Midnight is my Mood
Goosebumps
A Champagne Kiss
Enjoy!
#poetry #poet #poem #poetryprompts #iamlaurengreenprompts #rebelbloomstudio #promptsbyjasmine #electricinfamy #neonsunrisepublishing #spilledink
At the river’s bend, “faces of water turning into themselves”
practice anonymity.
Above it all, lengthening light confesses—
“the shadows carry the whole story.”
@profkiki-poetry.bsky.social #PoetryPrompts
WHAT REMAINED AFTER BELIEF
— a record of staying
What remained after belief was not certainty,
but staying.
Writing this as an act of witness, not resolution.
@flawedpoetssociety #flawedpoetssociety_prompts
#poetryprompts #writingprompts
#journalprompts #flawedpoetssociety
THE STAIN THEY COULDN’T CLEAN
— joy, misfiled as survival
Joy isn’t light here.
It’s what refuses erasure.
A garnet-cut piece for Voices in Stone—
joy as defiance, residue, forbidden shine.
#stonewitnessed @thistooisholy #voicesinstone #thistooisholy #poetrychallenge #poetryprompts #justatry🙈
In my latest post, I offer examples of classic poems that deal with time and four enticing writing prompts to kick off your New Year. 🎉⌛️ #poetryprompts #newyear
www.jenmillerpoetry.com/post/poems-a...
A poem: The Pet House The dog goes moo! The cow goes quack! They all swapped voices, There’s no turning back… The duck goes roar! The horses go woof! Sadly looking down, At their muddy little hooves. ©️MNN-B 2025
My 8yo wrote a brilliant poem using #JosephCoelho’s #PoetryPrompts book. I wanted to share it with the world! Bit of a Julia Donaldson vibe to it 🥰
#KidsWriting
#OnomatopoeiaPoetry
#FutureWriter
#Poetry
Working Title: Sleepwalking and a Frozen Fever Dream
A newer piece using a few prompts:
The Frost has Teeth
Evergreen Lanterns
Enjoy!
#poetry #poet #poem #writeeveryday #poetryprompts #writingprompts #electricinfamy #neonsunrisepublishing
The King raised a goblet To all in his land For good health and happiness He lofted his hand. But Gremlins, you see Are a race, scropholitic And upon the King’s word They all felt terrific. Their warts were smoothed out Their skin a nice hue Their bodies less crooked And their hair grew back too. So thanks to that gesture In a land far away Are some damn hunky Gremlins That you might meet some day.
@wipsnips.bsky.social #poetryprompts #goblet
Imagine by @jenthorne.bsky.social
The Light Hangs Low It swung back and forth like a pendulum, its cord too long. The electrician wanted to leave as quickly as he could. You had bought a job lot of coloured bulbs, a different colour for each room. It was clearly a bad idea, but I was seven, I didn’t know how to tell you yet. When you realised, you pulled them down. We lit candles for a week until the council sent someone. You were in crisis by then. I didn’t know. I didn’t have the words. I just knew the fun, spontaneous mum came at a cost. I had my bag packed when the police woke me at 3 a.m. You were wrapped in blankets as they loaded you into the ambulance, the neighbours watching on. You smelt like whisky and blood. I could wait in the station until they found somewhere for me.
@blueskypoetry.bsky.social #poetryprompts #hanginglights
@annemorrigan.bsky.social #haikufeels #threshold #poetryprompts
The doorway effect
Threshold takes my thoughts away
Why am I here now
@blueskypoetry.bsky.social #twinklingsmiles #poetryprompts
Twinkle, twinkle, little child,
sitting there, so meek and mild.
Until you smile within your cot,
and I wonder what you plot.
Light moves slow across your skin,
finding what the dark forgot.
Breath meets breath,
a quiet recognition.
Nothing claimed,
yet everything remains.
the space between us still learning warmth.
#SenseWrds No. 50 #poetry #writing #blueskypoetry #skypoets #poetryprompts
I'm having so much with #poetry! Check out this idea, which uses Denise Duhamel's 'in which' poems...
#amwriting #amwritingpoetry #creativity #poetryprompts
www.kaeceymccormick.com/post/poetry-...
WHAT IF THE CHILD NEVER LEFT?
— on grief looping inside the grown body
Some memories don’t disappear.
They just learn to stand beside us
without asking to be understood.
#promptsbyleta @tangledflxwers #justatry🙈 #poetryprompts #prompts #poetry #poem #poet #creative #art #writingprompts
