• In waters’ darkest, shine thrives •

#7syllablesquad prompt is #Shine
#7syllables #7syllablepoems #poetrycommunity
#poets #poetry #poetsofbluesky
@deemclachlan.bsky.social

LEE Y COMPARTE EL #PoemaDelDía

"El camino", de Elie Ramanankavana (Madagascar, 1995)

Círculo de #Poesía (México, 7 de septiembre de 2025, trad. de Mariela Cordero).

#poems #poets #poetrylovers #libros #books #writingcommunity #booksky

For this week's #PoemsAbout #Bites I'm thinking about how much we can do with our teeth without ever biting anyone.

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#prompt #poetry #blueskypoetry #writesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poets #creativewriting

Complaining about the cost of eggs and gas…
A bitter memory as they deport your family and send you to concentration camp
ignorance won’t save you
in the face of fascism
as you clung so desperately to your racism
They said it couldn’t happen here
#poems #booksky #poets #fascism

They said it couldn’t happen here
now your future is a boot heel on your neck
choking off your dreams of freedom
they don’t keep their fascist dreams hidden, kid
making excuses for missing fascists in plain sight
smiling behind blue suits and lies as they steal your rights
#poems #poets #booksky

My frank case against the #Trump presidency in 10 parts...#TheTrumpYears is a #poetic howl about living under the daily nightmare of the first #Trump administration
It’s very relevant for the horror we are living through today...
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#booksky #indie #books #poetry #poet #poets #ebooks

Lovely evening listening to @faberbooks.bsky.social poet Daljit Nagra read at Southern Maltings, Ware; thank you, Ware Poets.
#poetry #Poets #BlueSkyPoetry

Totaled my 2025 poetry submission fees for my tax appointment today: $1,223.75. Way up from 2024, mostly because I was sending out my debut full-length (about 55% of it).

Dolly always said it costs a lot to look this cheap. Poetry, it turns out, costs a lot to get rejected so often.

#poetry #poets

These days...
Freedom's Kiss
tastes like enduring a
tongue kiss
from an old
rotting
decrepit
loser
reeking of
halitosis
fascism
and ugly lies
Leaves me retching
choking
on the implications
of all we've lost
and a fading future
Everything seems
hollow now
the land of once free
#poetry #poets

medium.com/luminasticit...
a mad bad and dangerous poet to know should also be someone who is a good poet. Just because some guy robs a bank and shoots the sheriff minutes after writing a limerick about a girl from Nantucket does not really put them in the running here.
#poets #badass

Need profound, prophetic, ruminative #poetry?

Look no further than our T.S. Eliot-inspired anthology 'Shored Fragments'.

www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm...

#poetry #modernism #poets #eliot #wasteland

#PoemaDelDía Hoy estamos leyendo

"Despedida", de Verónica Volkow (México, 1955)

Poetas latinoamericanas. Antología crítica (Escuela de Estudios Literarios, Universidad del Valle, Colombia, 2009, selec. de Carmiña Navia Velasco).

#Poesía #poems #poets #poetrylovers #writingcommunity #booksky

St John Henry Newman a Convert from the Anglican Church - his Motto was Cor ad cor loquitur - Patron Saint of #Poets - Saint of October 9
www.catholicnewsworld.com/2026/10/st-j...

Today (09 Oct) is #Poets Cafe @southstreetarts.bsky.social so I can just listen to the #poetry and let someone else do the organization.
Still get a chance to read at the #openmic

Today’s #7syllablesquad prompt is #wind

Is the wind lifting your soul
Or does it grind you right down?
Can the wind treat you gently
Or does it sweep you away?

#7syllables #7syllablepoems
#poetrycommunity #poets #poetry #poetsofbluesky

LEE Y COMPARTE EL #PoemaDelDía

"Despedida", de Verónica Volkow (México, 1955)

Poetas latinoamericanas. Antología crítica (Escuela de Estudios Literarios, Universidad del Valle , Colombia, 2009, selec. de Carmiña Navia Velasco).

#Poesía #poets #poetrylovers #writingcommunity #booksky

These days...
Freedom's Kiss
tastes like enduring a
tongue kiss
from an old
rotting
decrepit
loser
reeking of
halitosis
fascism
and ugly lies
Leaves me retching
choking
on the implications
of all we've lost
and a fading future
Everything seems
hollow now
the land of once free
#poetry #poets

Complaining about the cost of eggs and gas…
A bitter memory as they deport your family and send you to concentration camp
ignorance won’t save you
in the face of fascism
as you clung so desperately to your racism
They said it couldn’t happen here
#poems #booksky #poets #fascism

They said it couldn’t happen here
now your future is a boot heel on your neck
choking off your dreams of freedom
they don’t keep their fascist dreams hidden, kid
making excuses for missing fascists in plain sight
smiling behind blue suits and lies as they steal your rights
#poems #poets #booksky

This is the state of our disunion
A notice of dissolution.
Failures of communication

Embracing fantasies and easy lies
instead of hard solutions
until it’s too late to heal all the
heartbreak.

#Booksky #poetry #poet #poems #ebook #poets #reading #read