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@rock-rex.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 8:10 PM

"Neverland".

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

There is a small child lying in the dark,
a tight-pulled knot of hunger, thirst, and fear,
not knowing what has happened to her home
and friends
and parents.
Though she doesn’t understand,
she has a hard-gained sick familiarity
with sharp small-arms fire, dull explosions,
shattered buildings, falling dust,
has grown accustomed to the screams
and to the screaming silence,
waking and in dream.

She can’t remember who she is —
has lost her name, her playfulness,
her curiosity, affection, warmth.

She can’t remember where she lived:
in Syria, or Yemen, or Sudan, or Palestine,
Iran, Ukraine, or Lebanon....?
So many lands she might have once called
home;
they’ve merged
into a broken nightmare,
filled with smoke.

It billows from a burnt-out tank,
from blocks of flats and hospitals,
from camp-fires,
crematoria, and cigarettes
that glow in sentried night —
smoke is the substance,
grief the form of war.

earlier version published in Poems on Conflict (Chough Books, 2022)

@j-poetry.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 6:41 PM

Sometimes even the smallest piece can be the last bit to collapse a bridge. Even if you were inseparable just a moment before.
I still think about them every day though, I don't think that will ever stop.

#poetsofbluesky #vss365 #writingcommunity #friendship #poem

Poem text:
That Fight
I want that fight
One that fixes what's broke
One that voices what's unspoken

After it we embrace so tight
Wondering why we said goodbye
Wondering why we left for a lie
#
I want that fight
The kind that gives us mend
The kind that makes us brothers again

Chew angry words all night
Let's get back to you and me
Let's get back to what we could be
- J Poetry

Image behind the poem is all black save for two contrasting white male figures, their backs turned to each other and a jagged line dividing them entirely

@willowflame1996.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 6:09 PM

Exsanguinated 🩸

Ravenous appetite, never satiated.

#willowflame #PoetsOfBlueSky #horror

A square, gothic-style graphic with a vivid blood-red background fading to black around the edges. On the right, a black silhouette of a long, slender hand with pointed nails reaches upward. On the left, black Gothic lettering reads: “Grief had already bled me dry. Then, you came—demanding me to slake your thirst. Mistaking my silence for something you could drink.”

@mindheartinsoul.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 4:19 PM

#Devil #Demons #gunviolence #poetrycommunity #prose #poetsofbluesky #poemoftheday #blueskypoet #bible #endtimes #resilience #nevergiveup #braveheart #survival #poem #poet
#poetry #writingcommunity #skypoet #writer #writing #survivor
#warrior #fighter #thinker #darkpoetry #schizoaffective #poetic

@sunflowerchancho.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 3:37 PM

Chancho is behing with his poems because the Thumbs went on vacation (the Denver airport is the 9th Circle of Hell), but here is one on Chancho's favorite subject: fish!
#purretry #poem #poetry #poetsofbluesky ##poetsandwriters

@temporal3.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 3:06 PM

sanguine / autonomy / banish / Oct 04

banish free thinking
give in to autonomy
sanguineness over

#haikuchallenge(sanguine)
#BraveWrite(autonomy)
#haikufeels (banish)

#WritersOfBluesky #PoetsOfBluesky
#micropoetry #senryu #writingcommunity
#poetrycommunity #thaiku #tpoem

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baithak

@mindheartinsoul.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 2:57 PM

#Devil #Demons #gunviolence
#Tormented #Adam #Eve #poetrycommunity #prose #poetsofbluesky #poemoftheday
#blueskypoet #blackskypoet #blacksky #Emoetry #bible #endtimes #bravewrite #resilience #nevergiveup #braveheart
#survival

@negrimshaw.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 1:46 PM

10042026-1
#PoetrySky #WriterCommunity #LovePoetry
#MicroPoetry #PoetsOfBluesky #WriterSky

@mrwamble.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 11:49 AM

Poets of Bluesky — I built something small.

You send a poem to a random stranger. They read it and write back with honest feedback. No profiles, no metrics. Just the poem.

penpalpoets.com

#poetry #poetsofbluesky #amwriting

@lawrencemoore.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 10:51 AM

Here's 'Cryptic', a new poem I wrote for Matthew Bacon and Natalie Harveld's Sonnet Sunday series on Instagram.

This week's theme was Into The shadows

#poem #poems #poetry #poetrylovers #poetsofbluesky

Cryptic

I listen, raise my ear towards the vent
as independent lady, heedful gent
swap casual conversation debonair,
convene upon congested market square.

It heartens me to sample graceful sounds,
those ostentatious treats of overground,
return to my familiar dark and cold;
I am a man of shadows, truth be told.

The joy of ardour, guileless, yet sincere,
to shoot the breeze, though neither freeze, nor fear;
when steeped with passion, burning up in flight,
let notions happen, turn towards the light.

Alas, there’ll be no candles gleaming here;
all meanings creep in metaphor tonight.

@donalconaty.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 8:05 AM

Good morning. Happy Sunday!

#writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky #poetry

@willowflame1996.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 4:29 AM

Unquenchable ⚰️

But still you drank more.

#willowflame #PoetsOfBlueSky #horror

A dark, horror-themed image of an open wooden coffin with deep red tufted velvet lining, set against rough gray brick walls and shadowy surroundings. White gothic text inside the coffin reads: “I was empty, weakened—but still you drank, drank, drank... Draining more, more, more...”

@mrwamble.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 3:49 AM

I made a site where you send your poem to a stranger and get real feedback back.

No followers, no likes, no algorithm. Just your poem and someone who actually read it.

penpalpoets.com

#poetry #poetsofbluesky #amwriting

@wordwitchlife.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 1:39 AM

I wrote a #new #poem yesterday. Stop by and enjoy!

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

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@nnnnlllllnnnn.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 1:39 AM

#vss #poetrysky #Emoetry
#poetsofbluesky #writesky

@temporal3.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 1:04 AM

saffron / smite / cage / Oct 03

caged by maladies
it offers endless comfort
smitten by saffron

#haikuchallenge (saffron)
#BraveWrite (smite)
#haikufeels (cage)

#WritersOfBluesky #PoetsOfBluesky
#micropoetry #senryu #writingcommunity
#poetrycommunity #thaiku #tpoem

baithuk.wordpress.com
baithak.

@zentinl.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 11:44 PM

October moved me to a second one for #PoemsAbout #rot
Grateful to @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk for keeping us posting.

#poetrycommunity #poetry #poem #poems #skypoets #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetsofbluesky #skypoet #writingcommunity

@rock-rex.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 7:34 PM

"Lord Byron (1788–1824)".

From "Last Words", a sequence of poems each starting with the last words (sometimes apocryphal) of a well-known person.

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

Now, I shall go to sleep.
Alone, for once —
and that is as it should be
when one fears no wakening.

Of late I have preferred
my dreams to waking life:
my limping swallows
fly to nest,
and cease their restless soaring,
swooping,
skimming placid lakes.

I know I’ve done things
that the world calls mad
(I’ve done things even I call bad),
but there is more to me than that...
I promise there is more to me than that.

@bluedx.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 6:42 PM

emotion grew from the spine
and folded into the stomach,
untasted

#poem #poetry #photography #micropoetry #haiga #haiku #poetsofbluesky

Text “emotion grew from the spine / and folded into the stomach, / untasted” in dark text on a light background, superimposed over a color photograph of a bloom with flat, dark-crimson-to-black petals