Our love cast a long
Shadow, years later shrouded
In the voices past.
#BSPP58 #SomethingLeftBehind #TheLongShadow #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@blueskypoetry.bsky.social

Eldritch eclipse
shadowing the islands,
stygian currents swell
spindrift bites cobwebbed debris,
deadly revenants emerge
from ghostly shipwrecks,
macabre maelstrom spins
entombing the crews,
lanterns flickering low
&siren's morendo
waving goodbyes
#vss365 #inkmine #vssfantasy #BSPP58 #BlueskyRemnant

The long shadow of family
hovers over my shoulder
the sins of the mother and father
follow wherever I go
I see it in my children
I see it in the past
I thought I broke the cycle
but some things remain
and recycle through the years
All I can do mitigate
the damage it has done
#BSPP58 #poetry #writing

night falls unseen
a beat between dusk and dark –
spilled ink and stars

#bspp58
#haiku #senryu

long shadows
having long
dragge
their feet

picked up
the pace

with a skip
a jump

and rush

wanting
to be present

for every
face to face

#BSPP58 #poetry

She
counted
the
bells
at
the
unopened
door
grounded
in
the
difference
between
empathy
as
enigma
and
beating
hearts
standing
with
her;
are
we
all
mere
lonely
butterflies
without
hope?

#FromOneLine 431
#WriteMap 604
#BSPP58
#FoxProse
#MoonMystic
#loveletters
#OurPoetryX

Leaves fall
in the autumn
they do not
plunge straight down
the breeze pushes them
to and fro as it tries
to keep them aloft
as long as possible
but inevitably
it touches the ground

#BSPP58 #poetry #writing #writingcommunity

5/6

...care of it.

The aspen heart lands the instant the first drop of blood hits the floor.

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#BraveWrite #horrorprompt #vssmagic #WeirdMicro
#WildWalkPrompt #thingstowriteabout #AmpersandAfterDark 68 #MPPrompt (2026-10-07) #BSPP58 #firewords280
#UnchainedSymphonies #WriteMap 604
...

Walls crumble, empires
Drown, if hope can be found, it's
Where we all fall down.
#BSPP58 #WhatFalls #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
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sickle moon laments
of universes yet undreamt
of fallen petals,
fragments of small tales, we cradle
in baskets woven of time

#haiku #tanka #micropoetry #bspp58

what falls
must fall

frost
and leaf

moving
through
the quiet sky

surrendering
to time and age

#BSPP58 #poetry

Who will take the empty chair
fill it with wisdom
burning with hope
that thirteenth chair
lays naked and bare
and whispers circle round
the table

#BSPP58 #TheEmptyChair #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@blueskypoetry.bsky.social

#BSPP58
#theemptychair
#poetry #prompt
#writingcommunity
#blueskypoetry

The padded chair
still has a newspaper
folded on the cushion
the house slippers in front
with its toes faced outward
the cat wanders aimlessly
as it tries to get comfortable

#BSPP58 #poetry #writing #writingcommunity

5/5

... #Emotery #thingstowriteabout #BSPP58 #firewords280
#bionicanadian #DeCrescent_prompt #OurPoetryX #FoxProse

the porch chair
where he used to sit
to shine his shoes

#bspp58
#haiku #senryu

Frozen furnishings,
The empty chair laughs at me,
Holding onto ghosts.
#BSPP58 #TheEmptyChair #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
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to many
the passerby

the rambler
appeared
abandoned

a relic
of an ex-pat

now gone

but the spongey
groove

under the rickety
empty chair

and the dusty
afghan
scratchy
with dog hair

were subte
clues

he made
this home

#BSPP58 #poetry