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Thank you @emteepoetry.bsky.social for your great #PromptCombo theme of #Personified

Mine's a bit long! 🫣

#poetry: ©Jan Peters, 2026

#poetrycommunity #PoetsOfBluesky #Albatross #Baudelaire #Coleridge #AncientMariner #Birdsky #Surreal

Albatross Poiesis

Knight’s-move
Thought slippage that would
Astonish André Breton:

Beak whittled into sturdy
Paperclip;

Webbed foot bloated into
Snuff pouch;

Breast plumage shaped into
Foppish muff for mariners on
Shore leave. But the

Queen’s gambit is
All mine to play:
Floating beside you without
Stir for days on end -
Gliding across swells in
Moves prompted by an
Ever-shifted lodestar.

Pulse of the voyager:
Winded up, earth-pull down -
Zigzag and tack in ship-wake.

Gut-lurch plunge into
Deep-trough gallivant,

Coming up again and again as
Lip-ride on long rollers.

Then I am
Hooked and baited,
Humiliated by the hoots of
Sailors - my wings, once fluid,
Now trail uselessly as rotted
Oars.

Bird in flight -
Bird in exile -
All Spirit
All Flesh
All Pity
All Grace.

Pied-spotted at birth,
I grow paler with each passing
Decade – with each
Wingbeat, lap-league weighted to
Rub your primordial stain clean – until

I lord it above you in
Effulgent whites of
Angelic terror.

©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026

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