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poetrader.bsky.social
@poetrader.bsky.social
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Horse lover, gardener, nature and animal lover, published poet, perennial black sheep.
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#Trilisypoetry

November

Frozen buds
Pruning stems
Cutting hopes
Flowerhead of bright blue lace cap hydrangea with papery, frost-bitten blooms open in random places.
November 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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#Caturday #Catsofbluesky

Photo on the left is not the proper use of a horse's fly mask.

Photo on the right shows proper installation.
A plaid horse fly mask lies on the floor as an orange and white cat has crawled into it with only her rump sticking out. Head of a Paint horse showing her wearing a plaid flymask.
November 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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#TrilisyPoetry

Erasure:
Ripped paper -
Poet's scar
A crumpled piece of paper with black writing on it, lying on a wood floor.
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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#blueskyrelay #prompt #morrigan #poetry #blueskypoetry

Goddess crow of victory
Kaws on the fight,
Knowing she cheers both sides
Waiting to peck out the sightless eyes
November 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Hey, #Catsofbluesky Mom wrote a poem about me, Tais, for #Caturday. Here it is!
Text of a poem. Photo of the hindquarters and tail of an orange and white cat with the rest of her inside a large tube on a cat tree.
November 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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#ForestFriday #Nature #Autumn

November woods
A single small tree with bright yellow leaves shines among bare tree trunks and feathery white pjnes. In the foreground are moss covered logs.
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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"It's a silly thing, but in the hands of people who know how to instill a serious, beating heart inside of a silly thing, so that it’s not just a lark for us to forget as soon as we walk out of the theater, but a whole emotional center that can stick with us and keep making us smile."
Mythic Pixie Drone Quarrel — “Predator: Badlands”
“Predator: Badlands” is very good. It’s fun, it’s crowd-pleasing. It does what it says on the tin. It’s two giant, 45-minute roving action set pieces that orbit around 10 minutes …
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November 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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#poetry #blueskypoetry

"Gather Ye Rosebuds"

Unspent rosebuds,
Wasted small change of the fall,
Bladed soon by secateurs -
or scimitars or bayonets or bombs
A single deep red rosebud with some dark shading caused by frost damage against faded, yellowed rose leaves.
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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#Alphabetchallenge
#Weektfortelevision

The Great Pottery Throwdown

Brought to you by the cat...
A pottery tea pot wjth a broken handle lies on a red figured carpet.
November 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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#Rosewednesday #Redwed #Flowers

In from the cold.
Left to right:
Simply Magnificent,
Munstead Wood,
Gertrude Jekyll
Three roses in a green vase (not shown). An almost fully open magenta pink, a very plump blood red rosebud, and a partially open clear pink against a black background.
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#Alphabetchallenge #Weektfortelevision

"I've Got a Secret"
An orange and white cat sitting on a table leans in as if to whisper to a large dog seated next to her.
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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#twosday #nature

Autumn cleanup crew on hosta
On yellowed hosta leaves, two slugs, one on a top leaf, the other on a lower leaf, are doing fall cleanup.
November 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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#Alphabetchallenge #WeekTfortelevision

Really enjoy nature documentaries,like "Savage Kingdom."

Never watched "Only Murders in the Building" -at least not on tv.
Photo of a tuxedo tabby cat on her side on the floor having been play attacked by an orange and white cat that is lying astride her biting her neck.
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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"If her novel is grief caught in amber, his film is a lens through which we can see how desperately it tried to reach out, to breathe, to last another moment, both grief and griever alike; to become something else, to transmute meaning from suffering, to justify endurance."
Empathy First, the Rest Nowhere — “Frankenstein”
The characters in Guillermo Del Toro’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” only ever encounter empathy briefly. It never lasts. Life, for them, is an endurance, and yet through …
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November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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#Pinkmon

"Gertrude Jekyll" with another last rose of summer...
A pink double rose with greenery in the background.
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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#Magentamonday

Another rose surprise, "Simply Magnificent" decided just one more.
Close up of a partially opened magenta rosebud in the rain. Surrounded by its leaves and wearing raindrops.
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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#poetry #blueskypoetry #Veterans'Day #RemembranceDay

Battleship Grey

Something disquieting
Even of gentle waves
Whipped cream waves-
Hypnotizing.
Lulling.
All the time rocking
The coffin-cradle of lost ships.
November 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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thejenniwren.teamlh.social Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 7d
Thank you to Senator Ron Wyden for letting us know the MAGA Senate Republicans are trying to slide a nationwide abortion ban into the shutdown negotiations.

Hell no! They want to control every part of women’s lives and we aren’t having it.

F the patriarchy.
November 9, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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#Sundayyellow #Autumn

My leaves have frozen, but I still bloom
Yellow orange nastutium blooms half covered in brown tree leaves and its own frost-ruined leaves.
November 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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We will remember them

Not just today, but in every quiet moment.
In stories passed down, in poppies worn with pride
In the silence that speaks louder than words

Their courage shaped our peace.
Their sacrifice lives on

Today & Forever
November 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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#Autumn #Nature

-Wasp nest, visible when leaves have fallen
-Red maple
-Closeup of feathery dawn redwood against ble sky
-Holly ready for the next season
Against bright blue sky a leafless, grey tree reveals the nest of paper wasps. Against bright blue sky, a bright rose red ornamental maple fills the photo Against blue sky the feathery soft coppery branch and needles of a dawn redwood. This tree is green in summer and copper-apricot in fall, and loses its needles for winter. Bright green holly leaves in sunshine, with a full cluster of red berries
November 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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#Nature #Trees

The normally green Dawn Redwood changes colors and loses its needles seasonally. This color must be how it got its name.
Photo of a tall tree with its branches covered in coppery-apricot billows. This is a Dawn Redwood, which loses its needles for winter and greens again in spring.
November 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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#Nature #Flowers #Autumn

Today's Garden
Leaves in the rain barrel
Cuphea
Past and future? rose
Cuphea up close
A yellow maple leaf and an orange pin oak leaf float in a rain barrel, the water reflecting the sky on the left and showing leaves deeper on the right. Five long, tiny trumpet shaped blooms of cuphea. They are rose red at the base, soft yellow at the wider opening. Past and future rose. Two green, bulbous remains of rose blooms and a blood red bud that may never open in the cold. Close up of red and yellow cuphea trumpets touched by autumn's weak sunlight
November 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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#caturday #catsofbluesky

Nabi here: wake up, coffee's waiting!
A tuxedo tabby stands next to a coffee machine with a cup full of coffee ready.
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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#Foodonfriday

Before and after:
Pumpkins ready for baking. Pumpkin Basque cheesecake. Pumpkin cranberry bread.
Two pumpkin halves on a baking sheet ready for the oven. In parchment wrapping, a pumpkin Basque cheesecake cools on a rack. On a small silver tray on a honey colored wooden table a dark loaf of pumpkin bread sits ready.
November 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM