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Raymh
@rayhourigan.bsky.social
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I've worked in factories, hospitality, cleaning, until my knees and mind went 😅 living a much quieter life, posting stuff I write/make. Irish poet living in Glasgow, I make collages! Just doing my best to help anywhere I can to support artists/activists 💚
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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · Mar 18
So, for context, for any new folks, I'm pretty much self-taught in everything, not here for profit, just hoping to inspire others if possible, share others' talent when I can. The poems I'm sharing from books I've since taken off amazon in protest. Just gonna throw it all out here for free.
rayhourigan.bsky.social
Fatally slippy,
Rimed, the roads,
Overcoats on,
Shimmying toads,
Tentative steps,
Yule's tide explodes.
#AcrosticJanuary #Frosty #acrosticpoem #writing #writingcommunity
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 11:59 AM
rayhourigan.bsky.social
Democracy had
Died, people all curled inside,
Yet a dude abides.
#Haikufeels #abide #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
January 6, 2026 at 11:19 AM
rayhourigan.bsky.social
Still at an early
Stage, but with time to mature,
Dinosaur babies.
#2WordPrompt #Stage/Mature #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@jason-h-abbott.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 9:19 AM
rayhourigan.bsky.social
Days rise, such is their
Nature, night however, is
Forever falling.
#PromptCombo #Nightfall #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@dragonslayerma.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 9:17 AM
rayhourigan.bsky.social
youtu.be/Ul8vqaGGnY0?... the energy we all need going into this year 🖤🤘✨️🎶
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Rockin'1000 That's Live Official
YouTube video by Rockin'1000
youtu.be
January 6, 2026 at 8:16 AM
rayhourigan.bsky.social
Ice on windowpane,
Temperature unchanged
In our inferno.
#BedroomEyesPrompt #IceOnWindowpane #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@oldsoulprose.bsky.social
@southernjam.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 7:24 AM
rayhourigan.bsky.social
Skittish, more than a
Little spooked, breath on my neck,
Yet no-one in sight.
#vss365 #spooked #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@fhpowellwriter.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 7:18 AM
rayhourigan.bsky.social
It became too much
To bear, the burden you were
Never meant to share.
#vssmagic #share #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@vssmagic.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 7:15 AM
rayhourigan.bsky.social
Wild accusations
Exchanged in the restaurant,
Public kerfuffle.
#BraveWrite #wild #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@bravewrite.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 7:11 AM
rayhourigan.bsky.social
The cliff face had two
Crystal brows where waterfalls
Had frozen solid.
#BSPP49 #CrystalBrows #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@blueskypoetry.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 7:04 AM
rayhourigan.bsky.social
Where the trail leads, we
Won't know if we don't go, so
Let's walk together.
#WildWalkPrompt #trail #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@sonnetsmith.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 6:57 AM
rayhourigan.bsky.social
Curious candor,
Cockamamie compunctions,
Cold calculations.
#firewords280 #CockamamieCompunctions #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@artinwords.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 6:54 AM
rayhourigan.bsky.social
Bride of Frankenstein
Missed her cat, asked for darling
Reanimation.
#WeirdMicro #DawnChorus #DarlingReanimation #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@weirdmicro.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 6:51 AM
rayhourigan.bsky.social
Radio crackled,
Literary distortion,
Speeches from the past.
#WeirdMicro #GrimScribe #LiteraryDistortion #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@weirdmicro.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 6:47 AM
rayhourigan.bsky.social
Popping knuckles, pink
Echidna readying for
A sonic beatdown.
#WeirdMicro #PoppingKnuckles #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@weirdmicro.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 6:43 AM
rayhourigan.bsky.social
Juxtaposition,
Justified a genocide
Using real estate.
#emoetry #justified #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@mwplovesmusic.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 6:39 AM
rayhourigan.bsky.social
Subtle witchcraft, chance
Happenings here and there led
Me right to her door.
#PennedReveries #witchcraft #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@dmiddleham.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 6:29 AM
rayhourigan.bsky.social
How to balance life
With violent strife, we may
Never understand.
#OurPoetryX #BalanceLife #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@ourpoetryx.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 6:27 AM
rayhourigan.bsky.social
About to embark,
A long journey through the dark,
Better hit the mark.
#vssdaily #embark #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
January 6, 2026 at 6:21 AM
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anntigone.bsky.social
A pheasant flying
In front of a morning cloud
Dawn's phoenix rising.

#DailyHaikuPrompt #Pheasant #MorningCloud #haiku #senryu
January 5, 2026 at 9:34 AM
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bundtkake.bsky.social
#emoetry #glowing #poetry

Taking a moment to take stock and realizing how far I am from where I was, and how much further from where I wanted to be
Deny You can only deny your place for so long You feel the slipping but deny the action See the glow but deny the radiation Feel the rain but deny the mud and puddles Hear the sermon but deny you're the target You can only deny your fall while falling Soon enough the ground will force a perspective You can look straight up and deny the distance But you can't get back to there without climbing
January 4, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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silby.bsky.social
kelpclad, barnacled
once-regal bronze emperors
of sunken domains
rayhourigan.bsky.social Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · Nov 9
Unmapped region, deep
Beneath the ocean, rows of
Statues in legions.
#vssmagic #region #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@vssmagic.bsky.social
January 5, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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koelh.bsky.social
to know it came from love,
of last words— #heartbroken
i heard familiar e c h o e s,
i watched a ghost grin;

this bare back,
p i e r c e d by arrow,
a wounded look
caught in-b e t w e e n—

#emoetry #poetry
January 5, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Reposted by Raymh
odragonku.bsky.social
New, empty squares wait,
I will not fill every one,
Space is a holy thing.

🗓️ ✍️

#MicroPoem #ThreeLines #SelfCare #NewYear #NewCalendar
a penguin is sleeping next to a calendar that says december 31
Alt: a Finch from the Finch Care App is sleeping next to a calendar that says december 31 then awakes and tears off the day to 1st Jan
media.tenor.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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ignorantfairy.bsky.social
My contribution to #promptcombo nightfall is found in alt-text

Thanks to @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for hosting!

#poetry #photography #FaeSense
nightfall across my forehead chasing comets made of flimsy fantasies riding fiery tails — abundant delight circles my face is a murder of crows soaring sharp-beaked, flocking on dogwood tree branches in full bloom meadowsage and rosa canina morning air filled with quiet wonders coming up for a gasp of sharp coldness soon drowning again in flights nightly freedom provides matthias geh A crown held in a translucent globelike bubble
January 5, 2026 at 9:13 AM