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@haikushackmag.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 3:40 PM

The deadline to submit to The Haiku Shack Anthology has been extended to October 7, 2026!

If you write haiku, it's your time to shine. Submit to us for a chance to be featured.

Guidelines: creativeramblings.com/haiku-shack-...

#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets

The deadline to submit to The Haiku Shack Anthology has been extended to October 7, 2026!

If you write haiku, it's your time to shine. Submit to us for a chance to be featured.

Guidelines: https://creativeramblings.com/haiku-shack-anthology/

@willowflame1996.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 3:13 PM

The Last of the Wax 🕯️

I had nothing to give, and yet you still took from me.

#willowflame #PoetsOfBlueSky

A nearly burned-out candle sits in a soot-stained glass jar on a dark wooden table, with only a short blackened wick and a thin layer of melted wax remaining. The dim background is softly blurred with warm amber lights. White text reads, “I burned down to the wick— then you scraped the glass for the remnants.”

@mrwamble.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 11:49 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

@lawrencemoore.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 11:14 AM

Here’s ‘The Sum of His Doubts’ from my latest poetry collection This Joyful Interlude, out now ✨

Book links (or pm me for a signed copy)

UK amazon.co.uk/dp/1068432330
US amazon.com/dp/1068432330
CA amazon.ca/dp/1068432330
DE amazon.de/dp/1068432330

#poem #poems #poetry #poetsofbluesky #books

The Sum of His Doubts

She lay on the chaise, scrunched into a ball,
dress hooked high above her head,
praying to God for the front to call;
stayed sprung in that ball instead.

The cat without care (or perhaps too much)
soft puddypawed skin this while.
When nestled against her naked flesh,
still struggled to raise a smile.

'Your intentions are pretty, but unlike you kitty,
my lives have all been spent;
it is only the boy who can save us now
as I banish these routes well lent.'

From rock-strewn verge, one ball, full grounded,
hard pounded on faux suede shore,
though no matter how bitter a brow compressed,
no teardrop to eye was lured.

An hour later, encamped at keyboard,
made speech for bewhiskered bro:

'The depths of my heart naively greeting,
the sum of his doubts chose no.
Now all that remains is to slave from the darkness,
insisting in time, I'll glow.'

@rock-rex.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 8:13 AM

"National Poetry Day".

Time to bring this out again (posted annually since 2017).

#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #nationalpoetryday
@poetrydayuk.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk

This day is set aside for poetry,
is in the calendar, is set apart
like dates for dental check-ups or podiatry.
This day is set aside for poetry —
is in the calendar, no room for spontaneity.
As if to celebrate some long-dead art,
this day is set aside. For poetry
is in the calendar, is set apart.

@nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 7:05 AM

It's National Poetry Day and my new pamphlet is officially out!

Please support poetry, and give mine a try if you fancy something very visceral and very hopeful!

Signed copies on my site or from my press: vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/my-body-is...

#poetrycommunity #perimenopause #PoetsOfBluesky

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@mrwamble.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 3:50 AM

The mailbox is quiet today on Penpal Poets.

Someone out there is waiting to read your poem. Send it to a stranger. Get real feedback back.

penpalpoets.com

#poetry #poetsofbluesky #amwriting

@robertemond.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 2:35 AM

#Cassiopeian | #hearts

Heart forcing growth
Spirit free and light now
Still at home?

Easy to be free in Japan hospital
Hard in living room in Newport

@yeehawpoems.bsky.social
#Tanka #Poetry #PictureAndAPoem
#WCK #ECK #Sketches
#PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoetry
#BlueskyPoets #PoetsofBluesky

A photo of a note book showing a poem and a drawing of a pagoda and pond with stepping stones. There is a pen laying on the notebook. The poem by Robert Emond reads:
Heart forcing growth
Spirit free and light now
Still at home?

Easy to be free in Japan hospital
Hard in living room in Newport

Drawing and photo by Robert Emond.

@michellemybelle75.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 12:56 AM

An old photo and poem 📸✍🏼

We are two sides
of the same coin~
both want to be heads
even though
tails never fails

#poetry #photography #inkmine #eck #naturephotography #poetsofbluesky #redshoulderedhawk #westcoastkin

Two Red-shouldered hawks with wings spread battle for territory in a neighborhood front yard.

@bluedx.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 12:32 AM

I am grateful to Thin Places Journal for including my poem "St. Francis Gives a Sermon to the Birds" in their latest issue 🐦‍⬛ thin-places.org/2026/09/29/i...
#birds #poetry #poetsofbluesky

Text "My avian brethren, my ornithary sisters" from the poem "St. Francis Gives a Sermon to the Birds" in dark text, superimposed over a color photograph of 85 pigeons perched across three telephone wires against white clouds in a blue sky

@niagarapoetry.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 11:18 PM

I have just created a Niagara Note explaining the Niagara Falls #Poetry #Map, which links #poems on my website to specific #Niagara locations. Please click and learn how to further delve into the poetry of #NiagaraFalls.

niagarapoetry.ca/2026/09/30/n...
#maps #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity

An illustration of the Niagara Falls Poetry Project Poetry Map main page

@kingzsck.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 7:58 PM

Poetry books in bio ❤️

A poem about escaping your comfort zone

#writingcommunity #paintbywords #poetry#nature #art #tether #blueskypoets#blueskypoetry #blueskypoet #words #kingzs#poetrycommunity #poetsofBluesky#writersofbluesky

@rock-rex.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 7:28 PM

"Home".

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

the arid scent of boredom
drifts from a ground-floor window,
primary-colour plastic frame
and white net-curtains flapping,
catching on the metal bars.

a glimpse of lilac-tinted
thin white hair,
each lacquered strand alone,
apart,
a flying buttress curving
over blotchy skin;

she waits for one last gust of wind
to strip her dandelion clock,
to tell the final number
of her years.

@mrwamble.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 11:49 AM

Send a poem to a stranger.
Get thoughtful feedback back.
Become pen pals if you want.

That's it. That's the whole site.

penpalpoets.com

#poetry #poetsofbluesky #amwriting

@michellemybelle75.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 4:10 AM

🤍

If you wait
long enough
life decides
for you~
Hastiness
can be
a friend or foe

#poetry #photography #inkmine #eck #bloomscrolling #poetsofbluesky #westcoastkin #writingcommunity

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@mrwamble.bsky.social Sep 30, 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

@willowflame1996.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 1:40 AM

Pixels 🖼️

A new voice buried in the infinite feed.

#willowflame #PoetsOfBlueSky

A square digital artwork made of large, colorful pixel blocks arranged in a rainbow gradient, shifting from dark blues and purples at the top left through greens, yellows, oranges, and reds. Centered across the image in large, off-white typewriter-style text are the words: “I pour my soul into pixels.”