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#Ambahan prompt: I take my place in the bus among people returning.
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Ambahan with Macaroni
Epic it is, and fully durum;
Depicting battles with Death-
See how this one cures him
by chanting the shibboleth
in cursive pasta, while in penne
he writhes. Such art from a smidge
of plain macaroni with glue lumpen:
O! Grandchild genius lurks on my fridge!
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@sonnetsmith.bsky.social I'll get around to yours this coming week. Apologies gor not writing.
Here you go, Steve.
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#poetry #ambahan #poetsofdoom #apocalypse #sorrow
Apocalypse awaits me:
Urgent my sorrow, to be
Trapped so perpetually
In a bleaker tomorrow
No high-minded frequency
Just brutal efficiency
& worker complacency
In this world we all borrow
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To kick things off, here is my entry for #PoetsOfDoom #Cassiopeian #WildWalkPrompt
My speech from a few hours ago about mono no aware inspired this piece. I present to you all, my very first Ambahan!
#BlueSkyPoets #writingprompt #Ambahan #NickJoaquin #5amwritersclub #poetrycommunity
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Hello, my fellow poetic doomers! It’s me, Steve (I am melting in the summer heat so bear with me here). Here is your form and prompt this week. I present to you, the Ambahan. The Ambahan is a traditional form of poetry of the Hanuno'o Mangyan people of Mindoro Island, Province of Mindoro, Philippines. The ambahan is traditionally written in the "surat Mangyan" script, one of the old traditional scripts of the Philippines pre-colonization period, carved on pieces of bamboo rods with a knife. It is a lyrical, chant-like poetry form consisting of seven syllables per line. There is no limit to the line count, and each line (at least in the Mangyan language) should rhyme. It needs not be sung, but the quality and tone of the piece must be chant-like, rhyming, and metaphorical. Your task? Write an Ambahan of any length, rhymes must be present at any rhyme scheme, and it should use one of the following lines as your title/topic, or add the line Inspired by: (chosen line of your choice) before your piece from the excerpts below that I have gathered from the most imminent Filipino short-story writer, novelist, and journalist of his time, Nick Joaquin: But alas, the heart forgets..and Maytime passes "I love" is a door girls slam in their father's faces Love in my interpretation comes once in a lifetime How we break our hearts trying to make sense of a world that's pure and utter crap... If you beget a monster of a child it could prove you were rather monstrous yourself. The hyperbole was accompanied by plain macaroni. To remember and to sing: That is my vocation Apocalypse awaits me: urgent my sorrow... I take a place in the bus among people returning Use the hashtags #Ambahan #NickJoaquin and of course, #PoetsOfDoom in your post for this week. Have fun!
Since it is Sunday, Ontario EST, I will now present your task this week for #PoetsOfDoom. It is quite a read so take your time, and have fun with it!
Tag me and my cohosts, of course!
@sonnetsmith.bsky.social
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social
@jenthorne.bsky.social
#writingprompt #writesky #prompt
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Hello,
As a reminder, tomorrow...well...later...will be my turn to host #PoetsOfDoom.
I'm just finishing up my meal prep and I'll start making the graphic for it.
I'll see you all in a few hours!
#poetrycommunity #writingprompt
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A flicker, melts the gloom of the night, A speck of shimmering light Trying hard to fight through the darkness Its only desire to part this Desolate blackness, standing alone This solo defiance is all that it's known 'Till a clone ignights in the distance A sudden, and stubborn insistence Upon resistance, so numbers grow Joining the shine, a communal glow And all of them know, they can win this As long as they're; all of them, in this Together, as one big fish in the pond And the darkness can try to respond But it's gone, drowned by the fires of Thousands of insects that fly above, Doesn't have enough strength to hold back Swarms of Adze that dare to attack And the black tyrant's defeated Every night, it's the same thing repeated Abdomens heated, bodies that burn By igniting the gasses that churn Out of them, starting to turn up the heat Its such an incredible feat For one so petite, for something so small, On its own can do nothing at all When a ball of Adze becomes Big enough it's as hot as the sun And there's nothing they can't overcome They're useless as one, but together, Together these Adze are strong!
Before this week's #PoetsOfDoom prompt swaps over, I have one more piece to share. I've been working on this pretty much all week, and... well... I think it's a rap...
It's too late to record now, but I will try and see if I can record it tomorrow.
#poetry #blueskypoet #fantasy #rap
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Bit late on this #PoetsofDoom but I like how it came out. #Haibun into a #couplet detailing an encounter with the mythical Lamush.
#poem #poetry #writingcommunity
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Syringa vulgaris 💜
#banterbabes #cassiopeian
#faesense #foxprose #bedroomeyes
#ourpoetryx #2wordprompt #loreoutloud #emoetry #outraged
#solseed #soundscape #escapade
#poetsofdoom #madeupcreatures
#wildwalkprompt #field #harbour
#bornbattleready #choices
#poemsabout #inbloom
#acrosticapril #fools
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Lioren Born from the laughter of stars, they flinch at every echo. Something ancient settles in their bones, not blessing, not burden, just older than breath. Small as a bony bird, soft as a grey pullover, smelling faintly of laundry and dust, they drift through cities at dusk singing songs that make strangers weep without knowing why, a little sorrow lifts, and the Lioren carries it away. Light bends around them. People feel the sadness but never see the source. A Lioren’s heart is a lantern, flickering, beautiful, burning quietly until it doesn’t. When they die, the sky doesn’t mourn. It just dims a little, as if unsure whether grief belongs to something so gentle and so impossible.
#PoetsOfDoom
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Midnight strikes; as bells ring through the town To beckon in the hour of the arcane. When lightning; charged with magic, ripples round The streets, creating sights secret and strange. Illusions thunder in between the brick And mortar, dancing as the city sleeps, A midnight ballet, whose conductor sits On nearby roof to watch her masterpiece. With fur of grey, she sits in vulpine grace, Nine tails coiled up around her paws, And stretched across her orange tinted face, Grow cobwebs, from her eyes down to her jaw. The regal witch grows tired of her ballet So gives a flick of tail, tipped in blue, And at the whim of mistress Vixunè The dancers stop, and bid the world adieu.
My contribution to this week's #PoetsOfDoom prompt.
I don't think it's finished, I think I need to add a few stanzas in the middle to showcase the dancers, and how the Vixunè controls them. But I'm pretty happy with the start
#poetry #blueskypoet #poem #fantasy
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Slug god in gooey
Glory, oozing underground,
Shellecabookie.
#PoetsOfDoom #MadeUpCreatures #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
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Here's my contribution for this week's #PoetsOfDoom #AmpersandAfterDark 013
(note, my Japanese is rusty so if this needs correction, please be respectful.)
Omokage, the demon from my dreams and my past.
#poetryprompt #poetrycommunity #writing #poetry #prompt
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...now to see if I can blend it with today's #PoetsOfDoom prompt.
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Hello #PoetsOfDoom people.
Feel free to run riot with this week's prompt.
The only restriction is your imagination.
If you can, tag us so we don't miss it, and use alt text on images to help out the visually impaired
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I can't wait to see what you do ❤️
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#PoetsOfDoom
This week it is my turn to set the prompt!
I want you to write a piece about a creature that doesn't exist!
I want the strange, the mythical, cryptozoological, let your imagination run wild... ical...
@jenthorne.bsky.social
@phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social
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in the valley of our disaster i wait like an animal before it knows what it is looking for before the human catches up with the body before the heat enters the flesh i like how long it takes for something that looks like the truth to arrive the quiet recalibration between being and knowing in that space i like myself best coherent illusive still intact until something with teeth opens within me
#ignored
#Emoetry
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#embarrassment + #ILike #PoetsOfDoom
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#MadMarch 28
#illusive
@darkxfer.bsky.social
#vss365
@vss365hq.bsky.social
#prompt #poetry #poem #writing #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets #writingcommunity
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A Haibun On Comforting Things Bluebells and whistles and fine, trimmed down nettles. Sleeping magnolias and a hundred dahlias. Peppers and crawlers and some other things. These things are some of my comforting things. Whatever may happen persevere I'll ever, things that don't matter they'll never be my weather. The highlights of my day all in these things, I'll comfort myself with my favorite things... When the bugs bite, or when bees sting, or when I'm feeling down. I'll simply tender to my favorite things, and I know I will be alright. Dogs, they sometimes bite Days when I'll feel sad, I know I will be alright.
My second entry for #PoetsOfDoom, my latest entry for #WildWalkPrompt, #Cassiopeian.
More of my favorite things that exist in nature.
#prompt #writesky #BlueSkyPoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub #haibun #俳文
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#vss365 #tempest #melt #poemsabout #Ilike #PoetsofDoom #PromptCombo #nothing #freeVerse #poem #nature
#MadMarch #Black
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I like the tickle of moss under my palm cold stream water gasping at my feet the clack of pewter pebbles prised from the cold beach wind seizing my ribs the underside of birds flashing their pale bellies
a kite dragging its blue argument through the sky laundered sheets snapping on the line marigolds squeaking against plates hung to dry yellow udders dripping I like waiting for the hiss before the needle lets me in
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Thanks @daveashleypoet.bsky.social for a therapeutic poetry prompt about #ILike
Here's my like list.
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I like
fresh juice in the morning
I like
bone crushing hugs
I like
your eyes talking of
forest ponds
I like
your mouth keeping
deep quiet between
fleeting kisses
I like
the hollow under
your long neck
I like
watching you rise
watching you sleep
our laughter in the rain
#poetry #Ilike
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I like fizzy water, the anarchist of beverages, hissing at me like it’s got opinions. I like my cats, tiny domestic rent-dodging tyrants who file complaints with their eyes and still expect treats for their apathy. I like big comfy striped jumpers that make me look like a disgraced sheep hiding from the bumblebee committee. I like seaside towns where everything smells of salt and nostalgia and chips and firewood and childhood. I like chips in the paper, grease maps of a country that doesn’t exist but absolutely should.
I like twinkling eyes, the kind that wink I know something you don’t and dare you to ask. I like pointy teeth because symmetry is a scam and a little menace keeps the universe alert. I like being warm in my car on cold rainy days, engine humming like a bored dragon, windows fogging, the weather trying to lick its way in. I like… the chaos of liking things. It’s messy. It’s loud. It refuses to sit still. And honestly, so do I.
Hey #PoetsOfDoom
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@phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social
It's taken me a while to find things I like, but there are some.
He is my poem 🖤💚🩵🩶
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#PoetsOfDoom - #ILike
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I endorse the quiet of bird song the dusty pink of Hanami the dreamy taste of wild strawberries the spicy scent of Momijigari the waking brush of wintry gales the gentle gleam of Komorebi the ... -re is so much more Thus I regret to inform you that this list will always be incomplete © Stefanie Neumann - @KokopelliBFree
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