Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom (@janpsolivagant.bsky.social)

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@deemclachlan.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 9:18 AMReposted by @janpsolivagant.bsky.social

A poem for the @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetryprompt #bites
My slant on it after the wind blew in from the sea.
#poetrycommunity #poets #poems #poetsofbluesky #poemsabout

Westerly
By Dawn Mclachlan
On that day
an insistent breeze
came from the west
and gathered in its bite
the siren's song
of far dark oceans
It sung of moon guided ships
and the endless horizon
In the teeth of the moment
I felt it
the hard urge to follow
the tugging of the tide
a kiss of salt upon my lips
as a run away wind
called my name

@janpsolivagant.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 9:06 AM

Beautiful encapsulation of the duality/duplicity of my favourite season, which is October. 😁🙏👏 Feel better soon! I'm feeling a little under the weather too.

@vientoverde.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 2:24 PMReposted by @janpsolivagant.bsky.social

@thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #Bites

I tried. As much as a woman with a stomach ache on a Friday afternoon can. I will be reading the rest later.

October Drizzle

I am the line between the pink silkiness of a sparrow's chirp and the cobalt anvil of an owl's hoot. Once a blanket of clouds covers me, I turn into an October drizzle. Then, I seep into the basement of your dreams. Slowly, like drops of navy blue onto the remaining song notes.

Even though you're pulling them shut, the doors swing on the threshold of my low voice and an underground quiet. They're ajar, sliding between uncharted moonlight and your carpeted imprints.

midnight —
settling into the background
of your sleep

@janpsolivagant.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 8:48 AM

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@stacebot.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 6:24 AMReposted by @janpsolivagant.bsky.social

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

@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk

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

the smile problem

my mother always told me
not to show my teeth
in photographs

you see,
a smile and a threat
are simply
the difference between
having teeth and
using them

sometimes
i still catch myself
smiling into the dark
like a feral animal
searching for meat
between the teeth

@janpsolivagant.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 8:47 AM

Marvellous! 🙏🌠👏

@suefinch.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 7:56 AMReposted by @janpsolivagant.bsky.social

'I've Nothing to Offer the White Horse in the Dream' for #PoemsAbout #Bites @thebrokenspine.co.uk

I’VE NOTHING TO OFFER THE WHITE HORSE I DREAM OF
Head down shy
a white horse senses me,
whinnies – as if a desire to gallop
is rising inside.

She comes right up to the fence.

Spider-leg eyelashes frame her eyes,
defined jawbone
makes her almost too thin.

I want to touch
the coarse hair of her mane
to know if her blood warms it.

I am wishing now for an apple
or a carrot.

As if reading my mind her mouth opens,
those pupils flash wild.

I have nothing to offer.

A cloud of hayed breath
puffs between us.
Before I can release myself from her gaze,
she clamps my arm.

When I was young
I used to bite my forearms
to feel the resistance of flesh
imprint my incisors.

I bit my brother once.

Now there is a horse,
with blunted yellowed teeth,
latched on hard, biting my skin to burst it

to taste the metal of my blood.

@janpsolivagant.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 5:05 AM

Great sonic and visual evocation of the season! 🙏🌠👏

@janedougherty47.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:00 AMReposted by @janpsolivagant.bsky.social

One for #PoemsAbout #Bites @thebrokenspine.co.uk
#poetsofbluesky

@janpsolivagant.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 5:03 AM

This is so right about the nature of memory! Great writing! 🙏🌠👏

@pvcannon.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 1:01 PMReposted by @janpsolivagant.bsky.social

For #PoemsAbout #Bites

with much thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

A free verse poem that explores bite as sensual.

@janpsolivagant.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 4:59 AM

Thank you! Yes, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. 🙏😊

@janpsolivagant.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 12:32 PM

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@merrildsmith.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 12:05 PMReposted by @janpsolivagant.bsky.social

Good morning! My poem for #PoemsAbout #Bites is a revision of a poem I wrote for Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social ekphrastic challenge with art by @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social Thank you as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk I'll be back later!

Poem:
Choices: Divergence, Convergence

In the woods, you choose a road,
this one, or the other,

perhaps they are the same—or not—

perhaps you meet a snake with jeweled
lapis scales,

perhaps he offers
you this or that,
his tongue flicking words
you catch poison-sweet
on your tongue--

perhaps instead
you see a wave of wildflowers,
nodding their heads,
scenting the path

just before the strike, the bite.

Art work by Karen Pierce Gonzalez, a snake in spring green, aqua, yellow, and orange, studded with round blue jewels or buttons. Black background.

@janpsolivagant.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 10:37 AM

15% of my DNA originates from the Wadden Sea coastline, from the Netherlands right up to Denmark.

@janpsolivagant.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 10:33 AM

😅 Me too! Thank you! 🙏