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@waterfordrhyme.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 4:35 PM

Every #Wednesday we'll share a #waterford. Respond with your own (4 lines; 8, 4, 4, 8 syllables; ABBA rhyming scheme). These are slices of feel-good art so keep them positive!

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Image of a waterford printed in black on a white brick background.

Gluais Dán by Bernadette Gallagher

Bhí mé ag siúl síos an cosán
mé ag smaoineadh
ar dán caoineadh.
Ansin chuala mé ceol canrán.

This week's waterford is a winner of the 2026 annual waterford competition, as chosen by Molly Twomey. It appears in "Duanaire - collected waterfords", the world's first poetry collection of waterfords which is edited by Kevin MacAlan, and features over 300 poems written by more than 90 poets from all over the globe. Copies of the anthology are available now: waterfordrhyme.com/#buyduanaire

@poetkatiratejeda.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 8:57 PM

My lightlessness…

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@rock-rex.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 8:26 PM

"Indoctrination".

(Response to a photo by Alicja Posłuszna.)

#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

there are secrets hidden in the way
that you reflect the cobbles,
revealing more
than what is on display.

the pigeon
revels in its special power,
and siphons water from the street —
sucks ripples
from your spinning head.

will you rebel?
prise stones from round your mind
and hurl them
as you guard the barricades?
send shards of granite flying,
and the slate-grey birds
in startled clouds
into the reeling pewter sky?

@sinnaluvva.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 11:26 AM

Midwinter Trees
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poem #poetsonBluesky #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetsonBlueSky #skypoets #bskyart #blueskypoets

@sinnaluvva.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 11:20 AM

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poem #poetsonBluesky #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetsonBlueSky #skypoets #bskyart #blueskypoets How Short is Time!

@sinnaluvva.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 11:13 AM

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poem #poetsonBluesky #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetsonBlueSky #skypoets #bskyart #blueskypoets Coniston Water - Langdale Pikes 2 poems by Malcolm Evison

@wordwitchlife.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 4:57 AM

I posted up a #new #poem today!

#amwriting #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky #skypoets #chronicillness #mentalhealth #writersofbluesky #bskypoets #blueskypoetry #writersky

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@poetkatiratejeda.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 12:20 AM

Actions, proof, show what you mean…

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@rock-rex.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 8:25 PM

"26. Chessboard"

From "Hard Graft on the Half Shell" - a sequence in which each poem is grown from a graft - a line from another poet's poem (indicated by a sans serif typeface).

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(graft from “Lament for the Makers of Songs” Kenneth Patchen, in "Red Wine & Yellow Hair" (New Directions, 1949))

through the swirling flakes
there are glimpses of mud
and shattered shapes
scattered across the valley floor

a white crust
has already formed
and is thickening
looking soft yet brittle

all we can hear is
the cry of the bitter snow and
the croaking of crows
that peck at the covered mounds

each mound is a sculpture
formed of frozen tears
each flake a lie
that no-one’s left to hear

@wordwitchlife.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 8:00 PM

Check out the #new #poem I posted earlier. Enjoy!

#amwriting #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky #skypoets #chronicillness #mentalhealth #writersofbluesky #bskypoets #blueskypoetry #writersky

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@wordwitchlife.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 5:07 PM

#New #Poem up today! Give it a read and enjoy!

#amwriting #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky #skypoets #chronicillness #mentalhealth #writersofbluesky #bskypoets #blueskypoetry #writersky

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@poetkatiratejeda.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 5:01 PM

Poetry…

#poem #poet #poetry #beinghuman
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@rock-rex.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 12:52 PM

"The Zombie Apocalypse"

from "Contact Light" (Alien Buddha Books, 2025)

#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #contactlight #alienbuddhapress #promptcombo #apocalypse
@rfsmith.bsky.social
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@markknight63.bsky.social

All of Earth’s surfaces are rough and dry,
with unhealed wounds that fester and degrade;
her once-bright seas are yellow-brown and still
beneath the scum of plastic, sunlight-bleached.

Even her skies are scarred by streaks of high
and soiled-white clouds that drift and give no shade,
that never rain upon her grassless hills,
that hold their acid moisture out of reach.

Somehow the planet staggers on her course
around the sun, long dead, decayed, but kept
in motion by a dark, unvital force.

@lagahoo.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 10:41 AM

Purify your soles
Fresh eucalyptus can cool
Smoking sage will cleanse

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@lagahoo.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 10:40 AM

Passion’s flame burns bright
Purifying the mournful
Memories in light

#Emoetry #vss365 #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #BlueSkyPoets #WriteSky #Poem #SkyPoets #HaikuCommunity #MusicSky

@wordwitchlife.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 1:34 AM

Today was a long day so no new #poem. Instead, take a look at yesterday's!

#amwriting #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky #skypoets #chronicillness #mentalhealth #writersofbluesky #bskypoets #blueskypoetry #writersky

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@rock-rex.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 7:23 PM

"Crime and Punishment".

#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #ballad

There’s a flame at the heart of the gem,
and a gem at the heart of the flame,
for the fire burns green in the eye of a god
in a temple that no-one can name.

But the twin of the eye is not there —
it was taken by scholars who came
from an empire whose greedy and arrogant hands
spanned the oceans and stole without shame.

Though the god in the temple is small,
and of worshippers now is bereft,
yet it has enough power to reach out one last time
to achieve its revenge for the theft.

There’s a flame at the heart of the gem,
and a gem at the heart of the flame,
for the fire burns green in the eye of a god
in the hand of a thief who lies still in a quad
on his back with his mouth full of rain.

@poetkatiratejeda.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 6:45 PM

Your suplications…

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#spicy

@lagahoo.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 10:50 AM

His promises are
Lies cloaked in faith, but I love
You. Now renounce him.

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@lagahoo.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 10:50 AM

Renounce the old oaths.
Lay thy lonesome burden down,
And let bliss take you

#Emoetry #vss365 #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #BlueSkyPoets #WriteSky #Poem #SkyPoets #HaikuCommunity #MusicSky