Dishwasher Blues I call them nothingdays. You get up just to go to sleep again. What to do until the pills kick in? Doomscroll, Dead Sea Scrolls, prophecies. Stale dreams. Schroedinger’s sanity. You can’t sit still and stare into the abyss for too long because you forgot to fill the Ritalin prescription. The fever sweats you out. A ring of salt around your sickbed, where you huddle like a dethroned king overlooking the descent of his empire into waste. A long night has come to greet you, your name is impending doom. Yesterday’s pizza crusts, bent spoons, tea leaves, and coffee grounds. Trash, trash, trash. You have seen the future and you want no part of it. All you are is either past or the desperate grief of a now that won’t end.

For #PromptCombo #Nothing ✨

with thanks to host @janpsolivagant.bsky.social

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

Thank you so much Victoria. Completely thrilled. I mentioned to Fidel that #promptcombo was so important in making me welcome on here, for which I’ll always be grateful. And yes I’ll definitely keep friends like you posted on events and whatever Broken Sleep has planned.

Hope all is well 🙏💙

Ah, Fidel, thanks so much. Getting involved with you and the #promptcombo team really got me going on here and I’m eternally grateful for your support and encouragement 🙏💙

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Have a great weekend
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🙏 Your own supportiveness is legendary in the #poetrycommunity Paul.

(I’m also very grateful to the #openmic #promptcombo and #poemsabout communities for their generosity.)

By Louise Gluck 'The Past' (2014, Faithful and Virtuous Night)

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becoming nothing,
one pixalated present
moment at a time.

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#PromptCombo My #Nothing for Thursday
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My short & late write...

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For this weeks #promptcombo #nothing hosted by @janpsolivagant.bsky.social

nylon lifted in a slow arc
crackling

discarded—
wool clumped
on the chair

cool sheets
unshared

Here goes nothing! (Sorry!)

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𝐥𝐚𝐳𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬⁣
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eventually⁣
the laughs and loves and lives⁣
becoming losses⁣
pile upon your heart⁣
crushing everything that's left⁣
to nothing⁣
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Thanks to all for likes and comments and JanPeter
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Echoes of Absence In the silence between words, The past presses the text breaks: through its gaps, a line missing, refusing completion. a name thinned by time. Rome speaks Where Carthage smoulders in fragments, half-told in the histories that survived it, not in marble or myth, but in what it has let fall away. absence enters not as void, but revision. And still, we answer it, in small, defiant acts of presence: Each gap, a monument. not ruin, but interruption. the clothes we choose, the taste we acquire, A sentence severed mid-claim, a fleeting recognition an empire speaking that says: we are here. through what it refuses to keep. We inherit these silences These gestures, too, are texts: as if they were whole. minor, momentary, legible against forgetting. We read ourselves the same way, assembling from fragments: So we gather what will not hold: a misquoted memory, broken lines, absent names, a gesture stripped of its moment, histories told sideways. the echo of a voice We read the silence carefully. we can't place, only repeat. not to resolve it, but to remain, Absence shapes the structure, where meaning is made dictates the rhythm: in returning ellipsis, break, return. to what was never fully there. What is missing organises what remains. A lost line in a poem still leans toward coherence.

Inspired by Elena Giusti's work on absence in Roman literature and her argument that gaps, silences and erasures function as generative, structuring forces. This takes that idea inward: if history is assembled from what survives, so too is the self #promptcombo #nothing @janpsolivagant.bsky.social

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Another #nothing poem for #PromptCombo 😀.

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With thanks to our luminous host, Jan @janpsolivagant.bsky.social here is my #PromptCombo for #nothing

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depression eats away at your soul, taking pieces from you like a black hole rolling around inside you sucking up joy and memories into that void of nothingness, ripping you apart from the inner seams until you're destroyed, like you're nothing - which is all you are and ever will be

Here goes nothing...

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Thanks for this week's #Nothing #PromptCombo @janpsolivagant.bsky.social! My poem here appeared in the Winter '25 issue of @doorisajarmag.bsky.social.

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#Nothing

Not a man to stop your talking
even tho we walked away

Now we will not hear your singing
as of Saturday

So in choir I reprised
- at higher pitch - your party piece

Pray for us, lost Angel,
in the hour of the final note
that you released

A poem by Debbie Ross in one stanza Entitled More Text as follows I tell myself that I am not nothing. I am bone, not shell, dark mass, not empty vacuum, whatever I may feel, whatever he may tell me.

Good Morning, @janpsolivagant.bsky.social and #PromptCombo #poets
For week's prompt #Nothing I offer this wee morsel. Will probably be something longer if I ever get the time and focus away from other projects to look at it again. It is personal, not current.

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