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Mark Bird
@dreambeastpoems.bsky.social
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I write poems for children & teens. Published in Macmillan anthologies and several others. Creator of poetry prompt: #senryuD #HaikuD

📕 🦘My picture book, Out Now: The Klangaroo https://t.ly/TdXh-

My Website & Blog: dreambeastpoems.com/blog
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dreambeastpoems.bsky.social
Oh Christmas past
where have you gone
I’m getting old
and I need something to rely on

#keane #christmasversion #somewhereonlyweknow
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
dreambeastpoems.bsky.social
Before I close my curtains
there’s this star I see
that helps me make sense of me

#senryu #haiku #haikuprompt #micropoetry #vss365 #star #curtains
December 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
dreambeastpoems.bsky.social
night’s palette of golden stars
and silvery moons
inspire me to paint a dream

#moon #dream #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #senryu #micropoetry
December 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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dubeateo.bsky.social
Your body is away from me
but there is a window open
from my heart to yours.

From this window, like the moon
I keep sending news secretly.

by Rumi

#grief #Trauer 🖤
December 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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jocelynx44.bsky.social
every night she
paints the moon
a different way

#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku
December 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
dreambeastpoems.bsky.social
Your #childhood is not the definition of you. You are defined by the hours, minutes and seconds of today #micropoetry #poetrycommunity
December 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
dreambeastpoems.bsky.social
This is dear to me. As a teacher, the power of #PlayDoh
never fails to astound me, especially for my non-verbal kids. And one song we all love singing: You Are My Sunshine - so I combined the two #playdough #Dough #poetrycommunity #poems4kids #poetryforchildren #SEND
December 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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danigracewrites.bsky.social
Enchanting Treats

#Dough of anticipation
Stacks up imaginations
With holiday creations—
Inside yummy pies,
Sugar cookie sheets wide,
and breads on the rise before hungry eyes
Spying ovens glow &
Sprinkles of sugary snow
Enough to make Santa go "Ho, ho, ho whoa!"

@thetoypress.bsky.social
#kidlit
December 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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ianbrownlie.bsky.social
Yes, I did watch The Sound of Music recently, how could you tell?
@thetoypress.bsky.social #WordOfTheWeek #Dough
#WritingCommunity #WritingForChildren #PoetryCommunity #PoetryForKids #KidLit #WordPrompt
Dough-Ray-Mii Dough, some bread, some sourdough bread Ray, had Georgia on his mind Mii, an avatar’s big head Fart, it comes from your behind Sow, some seeds to spread about La, is half of a friend of Po Tee, a shirt with Homer’s shout That will bring us back to Doh!
December 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
dreambeastpoems.bsky.social
we're solid, liquid and gas
bodies of matter
will we matter once we've passed

#matter #senryu #haiku #death #legacy
November 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
dreambeastpoems.bsky.social
early darkness, winter nights
unlike summer suns
shroud me in blackened safety

#haiku #senryu #darkness #safety
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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carmellapoetry.bsky.social
Happy launch day, issue 6 of the Madrid Review! Glad to have a little poem within! It's called 'The Jaws of the Sun.' Congratulations to the editor James Hartley and to everyone involved in this beautiful edition.🔆
#themadridreview
#newwriting
@madridlitmag.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/GsU6H...
THE JAWS OF THE SUN 🔆 by Carmella de Keyser
YouTube video by Poetry with Carmella
youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
dreambeastpoems.bsky.social
window screen winter canvas
a fractal fern frost
ice flowers fear antifreeze

#haiku #frost #cars
November 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
dreambeastpoems.bsky.social
bare trees block the winter sun
casting veins of shade
grasping distant blades of grass

#haiku #haikufeels #vss365 #micropoetry #winter #trees
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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wolftwinthomas.bsky.social
breaking wave —
I keep teaching myself
to surface
#haiku #poetry
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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dreambeastpoems.bsky.social
Inspired by the children I teach - making sense of the world with their glorious imaginations #wordprompt #imagination #poems4kids #watercycle #water #poemsforkids
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
dreambeastpoems.bsky.social
Inspired by the children I teach - making sense of the world with their glorious imaginations #wordprompt #imagination #poems4kids #watercycle #water #poemsforkids
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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shaunjexauthor.bsky.social
Thanks to the @thetoypress.bsky.social for a brand-new #wordoftheweek. This week, the word is "cycle," and it got me to wondering...

#poetry #poetrycommunity #kidlit
The Ulster Cycle At home, I learned that tricycles have not two wheels but three I heard the explanation, and it all made sense to me And so a unicycle uses just one wheel, not two But what exactly does the stinking Ulster Cycle do? Poem © Shaun Jex
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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ianbrownlie.bsky.social
Lots of kinds of #Cycle to choose from for @thetoypress.bsky.social's #WordOfTheWeek. So I didn't.

#WritingCommunity #WritingForChildren #PoetryCommunity #PoetryForKids #KidLit #WordPrompt
The Life Cycle of a Poem Motorcycle Riding fast Unicycle Clown flies past Spin cycle Wash with haste Recycle Eco waste Water cycle Land, air, sea News cycle Update me! Batcycle Comic fun Broken cycle My job’s done
November 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
dreambeastpoems.bsky.social
I #timed how long
it would take
for your vicious words
for my bullied brain
for your seared hate
for my painted smile
to stop hurting
to recover and heal
to rediscover me

the stopwatch read
Eternity

#vss365 #poetry #hurt #eternity #micropoetry
November 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
dreambeastpoems.bsky.social
your ticket
to visit
Earth's museum
is #timed

#vss365 #poetry #micropoetry
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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wolftwinthomas.bsky.social
evening kitchen
the apple
glinting like a planet
#haiku #poetry
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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daveashleypoet.bsky.social
#promptcombo #OnRoofs #poem #triolet #winter #Christmas
@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

I'm a month early with this but was feeling festive
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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fliddais.bsky.social
Just as before
It happens again
We dig up the bones
Tell a story that bends
We burn and destroy
A means to an end
Bury the ashes
And start over again

#wildwalkprompt #ashes #poetry #writingcommunity #blueskypoetry
sonnetsmith.bsky.social Quill of Mnemosyne @sonnetsmith.bsky.social · 9d
Hello Wild Walk #writers

The remains of a campfire (still very warm) uncovered in the woods... someone was burning books...😡

#Ashes

Use the image/word to inspire your writing, then post with #WildWalkPrompt

#prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
dreambeastpoems.bsky.social
A poem for kids about those days when #imagination was king #imaginaryplay

www.dreambeastpoems.com/post/imagine...
Imagine Poem for Kids - The Sofa Ship about the Joy of Imaginary Play
Imagine Poem for Kids - The Sofa Ship about the Joy of Imaginary Play
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November 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM