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following at a distance
measured

the body learns
your shape
from absence

#assimilation begins
as calibration

a shoulder adjusts
a breath matches
nothing touches

your pulse
falls into line

desire
pursuit

the body
converging

@poetguygabe.bsky.social
#BlueSkyRelay @blueskyrelay.bsky.social
December 29, 2025 at 2:21 AM
stacebot.bsky.social
#mars
@paintbuywords.bsky.social
#vss365 @vss365hq.bsky.social
Mar as a verb only gives you damage without spectacle, harm without myth, consequence without escape. without villains. harm too small to litigate. it doesn’t stop anything. it is not crisis. it does not announce itself. it just stays. still functional. not to be believed. not enough to matter.
December 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
stacebot.bsky.social
it is no surprise to me
that #whimsical comes from
the earlier whim-wham—
a trick,
something untrustworthy.

leave it to the world
to let that slide into
feminine charm,

pedantically
adorable.

#Emoetry
@fafo-poets-society.bsky.social
@mwplovesmusic.bsky.social
December 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
stacebot.bsky.social
An ode to identity error under conditions of consequence.
#poetry #poem #gmailtwin
gmail twin There is a version of me who is about to give birth. Her emails arrive as if we were the same person. Ultrasound appointments. Registries. Check-ins. Each one lands in my inbox like an assignment I can’t carry. I am not unhappy for this other me, having the same name, haunting a threshold I never crossed— the system’s inability to know the difference.
December 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
stacebot.bsky.social
Inspired by @neonpajamas.bsky.social #Poem + #Prompt 051: a mining poem by Fiston Mwanza Mujila. Link to the magical piece in the comments.
when we are disowned our family will fill our space with other things they love— fancy gadgets, fast cars, expensive holidays when they tire of luxury from expense or boredom they will find something worthy, more narratable than us when that runs dry they will ask for pity for their losses they have been abandoned they have been abandoned they will need witnesses to tell them they are not wrong
December 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
stacebot.bsky.social
#vindicated
#Emoetry
@fafo-poets-society.bsky.social
@mwplovesmusic.bsky.social‬

#air
@paintbuywords.bsky.social
#vss365 @vss365hq.bsky.social

#appraise
@poetguygabe.bsky.social
#BlueSkyRelay @blueskyrelay.bsky.social
i’ve been writing you a letter about fail safes, about risks and appraisals, about the neighbor’s dog. sometimes it begins with a moment of vindication that relieves nothing, and sometimes it doesn’t. sometimes i write about the coldness of the air and how it reminds me of gravity, the weight of things that have consequence—about air in the lungs on long runs and how it reminds me of my refusal to retain anything. i never talk about opening. i don’t speak about freedom. when i read the whole thing back slowly, carefully, i see that it reads like distance masquerading as clarity. there’s no relief in it. the dog keeps barking. i keep trying to touch the ground.
December 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
stacebot.bsky.social
Thank you @poetguygabe.bsky.social for the #BlueSkyRelay #prompt #reverence
@blueskyrelay.bsky.social.

This piece was also inspired by:
#uncertain
#Emoetry
@fafo-poets-society.bsky.social
@mwplovesmusic.bsky.social‬

#struggle
@paintbuywords.bsky.social
#vss365 @vss365hq.bsky.social
reverence all day long I think of you light that won’t hold— stalled on the floor changing i can’t pin it down— certainty behaving like arrogance awe mixed with fear of losing you or letting go not kindness restraint, held
December 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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i learned to be #thoughtful
like an animal learns
not to show its teeth.

the wanting
stays intact.

#Emoetry
@fafo-poets-society.bsky.social
@mwplovesmusic.bsky.social‬
December 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
stacebot.bsky.social
Christmas is inspired by the word #survive.

@paintbuywords.bsky.social
#vss365 @vss365hq.bsky.social
christmas it is christmas day and nothing needs to be decided. holidays, like most things, don’t resolve anything. neither does surviving good love. all day long i confuse ritual with contentment. i forget which ones are just continuation without permission.
December 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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inspired by Clarence Major's novel Reflex and Bone Structure which changes me forever every time I read it and the following prompt words:

#shoot
@paintbuywords.bsky.social
#vss365 @vss365hq.bsky.social

#replenish
@poetguygabe.bsky.social
#BlueSkyRelay @blueskyrelay.bsky.social
this is not hunger. this is bone structure and reflex. the body knows when to hold and when to shoot. the sky swells with snow— heavy, waiting to break. below it, something hot moves anyway. i trust this.
December 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
stacebot.bsky.social
wrap me in #scorn
like it’s shelter.

say only
what won’t collapse.

i can live
inside that.

#scorn
#Emoetry
@fafo-poets-society.bsky.social
@mwplovesmusic.bsky.social‬
December 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
stacebot.bsky.social
maybe. this one.

i want to put my #forgettery
with your forgettery
side by side,
no questions asked.

we can trade
what’s too heavy.
keep what still hums.

leave with less
than we carried,
not nothing.

@poetguygabe.bsky.social
#BlueSkyRelay @blueskyrelay.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 5:12 AM
stacebot.bsky.social
this wasn't it.
#forgettery
@poetguygabe.bsky.social
#BlueSkyRelay @blueskyrelay.bsky.social
ust saying jiggly janglely pick it up funny-sad bad luck plink pluck mac truck heart attack won’t stop don’t smile like that— face stuck mud duck bad spell flowers go wonders with— forgive me this forgive me not i know this isn’t what you thought looking for a place to stop foretoldlery forgettery i shout out loud meet me under the mistletoe but say it fast so no one knows
December 24, 2025 at 4:52 AM
stacebot.bsky.social
i want to put my #forgettery
with your forgettery
until we both get
what we came here for.

just enough forgetting
to keep going,
just enough remembering
to know why.

@poetguygabe.bsky.social
#BlueSkyRelay @blueskyrelay.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 4:47 AM
stacebot.bsky.social
my cages, #rattled
#Emoetry
@fafo-poets-society.bsky.social
@mwplovesmusic.bsky.social
rattled all day long something rises— won’t stay still. the space before a body jumps at ordinary things. a memory of your voice. air, moving wrong. readiness. not undone. alert. every nerve holding. every muscle remembering the ache to forget. how you rattle my cage— if you need a word to call it.
December 24, 2025 at 2:42 AM
stacebot.bsky.social
a small #gift for @archivewhisperer.bsky.social. x
gift for christine not everything precious arrives wrapped. some things are kept-- catalogued, shelved, rescued from being misplaced. a receipt tucked into the right book. a note in a margin that says: this mattered once. it still does. today, i wish you a year that handles you gently, of finding what was almost lost, of knowing that attention is its own kind of abundance-- that you deserve.
December 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
stacebot.bsky.social
changing the sheets with my son
#Patronized
#Emoetry
@fafo-poets-society.bsky.social
@mwplovesmusic.bsky.social‬
changing the sheets with my son the fitted corner snaps loose and we both laugh our hands fumbling to cover the mattress, again. we’re running through vocabulary words for school-- telling stories to make them stick. he makes a joke about a lost charger, times tables, asks me to say what patronizing means. i say it plainly— it’s when someone talks down instead of helping. but who wouldn’t just help, mom? he asks without looking up. he says it confident like it’s obvious. like it’s allowed. like it’s something he’ll never have to know.
December 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
stacebot.bsky.social
#Saturn devours his children

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#vss365 @vss365hq.bsky.social

#déjàvu
@poetguygabe.bsky.social
#BlueSkyRelay @blueskyrelay.bsky.social lay.bsky.social
Saturn devours his children this is how it starts— some familiar distance. a slow orbit. the long arc of our lives. time. gravity. returns. the body knows already: the damage, the pattern, the route to survival.
December 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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sensewords.bsky.social
Absolutely love this!! Stunning write.
December 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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I am sure that everyone who follows me is already following the amazingly talented and generous @arwashington.bsky.social. If you aren't please do so immediately. ❤️
December 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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#yearn
@poetguygabe.bsky.social
#BlueSkyRelay @blueskyrelay.bsky.social
on yearning the tide returns. i watch it long enough to understand what moves does not need permission. nothing crosses. nothing ends. connection simply continues. the pull shared. the distance holds. me anchored where i am.
December 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
stacebot.bsky.social
For @sensewords.bsky.social #Prompt 160: #Whimsical #Resplendent #Coins, I was thinking about bright things that pretend to be small but carry consequence.

#poetry #poem #writing #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets
this is what is true— we are taught to believe love consumes. what i know of love is how it stays. a light i carry unchanged. not warmth. not safety. evidence. it does not ask for my life. it reminds me what is possible.
December 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Look what @shiihs.bsky.social did with this #PoemsAbout #imps piece!

@alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk -- thanks for making things like this happen by bringing people together. #KeepWriting
December 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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stacebot.bsky.social
This is amazing! Thanks so much to @shiihs.bsky.social for creating this lovely piece!
December 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
stacebot.bsky.social
This is amazing! Thanks so much to @shiihs.bsky.social for creating this lovely piece!
December 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM