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ALT Text Poet
@alttextpoetry.bsky.social
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• 76% water
• 22% assorted stardust
• 4% eternal sliver of the one universal consciousness
• All bad at math.

Name's Darren. Find my poetry by clicking the ALT. Find me by clicking here ↙️
@DarreninBelleville.bsky.social
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alttextpoetry.bsky.social
Here's a piece from a couple years back to, I dunno, maybe make the cold a little better? 'Praise Winter!' - click the alt for the poetry.

#Poetry #Poem #PoetrySky
Praise Winter! Ah, sweet frozen sleetsnow falling! So speak of my fragility! blow spears of shredded cicles - glaze the world in icy whiteness 'cross the bricks and mortar surety of our crystal snowflake weakness to show how thin our modest comforts are with coldest arctic airs; and wreak your howling vengeance on our humbleness laid bare as you scream in whitewinds wending that our lives you could be ending should we stray into your frozen fury more than minutes-briefly, without our fleece-lined, zippered gortex. You command and you receive our vilest respect When your bitter ice-lined message with our very bones does intersect and I glory in the wonder of your winter-whistle blast that speaks of all the souls you stole in your season's kingdom past I cherish every frozen shard that patters on my face I value every frigid hammerblast of your freezing arctic mace For you speak in a simple, violent honesty that puts the grandness of humanity and all the arrogance of our supposed mastery in it's rightful place.
December 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
alttextpoetry.bsky.social
I presented this at a Krampusfest show downtown with Bad Tractor as musical backdrop. Please enjoy 'Conceit for the True Christmas GOAT.'

Just click the alt!

#AltTextPoetry #Poetry #Krampus #Christmas
Imagine for a minute You're a creature that is in it Just to clobber all the worst of all the kids Get a club and make'em hobble Just a little for their trouble While all the love goes to the man in red Like a trip on amanita Of reindeer through aurora Flying across the sky to bring the gifts He's slippin' slyly down the chimneys While you're kickin little Jimmies He gets all the glory, better story — you get sticks That you crack across the legs Of snarky little Pegs Hack at knees of the Jacks and Steves that shun their chores While he snacks on milk and cookies You're out there smacking bullies Whack a swatch across a shoulder, make'em sore! His red suit and polished boots - A fine filigree for fools! You've got fur and cloven hooves and crooked horns In lieu of his smiling visage You strike a pose that's purely savage A figure roundly ridiculed and scorned His laugh a warm benevolence Your duty, doling violence He's the happy hallowed saint of holidays But for some moral justice You are just the consequence The devil that collects what devils pay... So to heck with jolly old Nick You're the OG paygan prick! We should get you into malls like all the Santas! In this late day and age there's many deserve your rage Get in line all snotty scoundrels — time for Krampus!
December 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
alttextpoetry.bsky.social
Happy #WorldPoetryDay! I know I've been AWOL for AWHILE, but I'm coming back today to bring you some verse from all over! Let's start in Canada!
March 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
alttextpoetry.bsky.social
I'm going to try to publish a piece every Saturday. Especially since I've abandoned all billionaire-media. (I often posted directly to Facebook, like I would have this, especially).

Please enjoy 'A Tarnishing of Silver':
Image for ALT shows five silver spoons, with the last one heavily tarnished. A Tarnishing of Silver I mentioned you at work When asked about the first Time I felt the universe collapse So quoted them that line From halfway back in time Of a memory of a sharing, safe and wrapped. And so they asked to see you And I made a beeline here to Show the beauty in the smile I used to trace And that's when I discovered Our Facebook friendship overed: A perfect stranger only found your face. And it really doesn't matter It's stupid that it matters But an old and precious shattered As a melancholy settled into place... Sometimes I wish I wasn't me But rather cloud or sparkling sea Instead of skin and memory Unencumbered by a history Or the tarnishing of a silvery.
February 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
alttextpoetry.bsky.social
Please enjoy this piece from 2021; "Cavelight". Just click the ALT in the image to read the poem!

#poetry #poem #AltText #AltTextPoet #Cave
Cavelight Somewhere there's a cave Deep and dark Cold and damp Roamed by eyeless things In scurry and crawl And on the furthest wall On a certain day But only if the leaves far above behave And clouds abstain For just a few short minutes A beam slides in, Washing darkness into dim In a tiny finger of glinting light To warm a spot the size of a dime For just a few moments' time, Just a few times a decade, And it Knows what I can't describe.
December 12, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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sarkastiklover.bsky.social
Reposting this one because the original lacked alt-text.

BROKEN LANDS

#art #digitalart #illustration #scifiart
An illustration of a guy with a metallic arm and a sword of the big ass variety and his companion, a small, glowing, winged cat, standing on top of a dead God's skull, overlooking a vast alien desert. In the distance you can see a broken moon, and a celestial being rising.
November 20, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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neerzlu.bsky.social
Still been adding new artists to this starter pack! We are up to 81 artists! If you are an artist that would like to be added to the pack, please just leave a comment! No AI art allowed.
#art #artists #promosky #starterpack

go.bsky.app/DGRYv32
December 10, 2024 at 5:18 PM
alttextpoetry.bsky.social
Awake and bored
Of all the words
And all the things
Within my reach
Don't want to sleep
Can't stay awake
Like fuel no fire
Like forest no lake.
#micropoetry #NonAltTextPoet?!
December 12, 2024 at 6:59 AM
alttextpoetry.bsky.social
Now that I'm starting to get some followers here, I wanted to share this again. Here's 'The Grand Hegemony'.
alttextpoetry.bsky.social ALT Text Poet @alttextpoetry.bsky.social · Nov 17
One of my favourite poems from my first book of poetry, "Tatterdemalion". Here's 'The Grand Hegemony.'
Just click the ALT!
#Poetry #PoetSky #AltTextPoet
There was once a worm that lived in a fish And everywhere the fish went, the worm went too Because that's what you do When your submarine home Has to move to exist And if it stopped - so would you - both moving and existing - But the worm didn't know that Or need to And the bottom and mudmuck below Silvery undersurface shine above Or static of rains-splatter bubbles downbouncing The slow sway of silky weeds, and swirls of bits Sunken sticks and snails - None of these exist for the little worm inside the fish In a pond - or a lake (The great debate continues) But you've been there before Standing on some shore: A bipedal hominid of a trillion cells and more, most of which aren't human, all of whom are cousins, A terranian alien mansion to that little worm To whom you don't exist - Or for that matter the fish But the thing of it is... For you -- neither does it. Two universes, apart but the same Just fifty short feet away And everything is made like this And that sameness is this Secret.
December 10, 2024 at 12:14 AM
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basiliskonline.bsky.social
Hey! I'm gonna start compiling some more lists/starter packs for #ttrpg creators that use alt-text, please read below (2 posts!) and reply if you want!

The Olivia Hill Rule is full in place: Fascist, bigots, cops, etc... are not welcome in here.
In red text: Are you a ttrpg creator, creative or designer that uses alt text?
December 9, 2024 at 6:50 PM
alttextpoetry.bsky.social
ALT Text isn't just for sneakily sharing longer pieces of poetry - it is integral to the community-building and the online experience of all our cousins. Use it!
kathleenn.bsky.social Kathleenna @kathleenn.bsky.social · Dec 3
Here are some other accounts to explore:
@please-use-alttext.bsky.social

@alttextpoetry.bsky.social

If you can't do #ALTText for some reason, you can reply to your photo post with @alt-text.bsky.social . It will reply with a blank photo placeholder. Click on photo to access the text.
December 9, 2024 at 7:06 PM
alttextpoetry.bsky.social
Wrote this last week in bed! Please enjoy my most recent poem, 'Winterwake' by clicking on the ALT!
Winterwake Cold claws in around the corner Of balcony door Looking for bones And here's a pile for it to tickle Starting at poked out toes To tip of a nose So the curtain falls to fresh snow Like memories of normal Ten hundred trillion crystals Clawed to ground Like trying to hold on Against a widening worsening inevitable As late middle-aged man Standing alone at a window.
December 9, 2024 at 7:02 PM
alttextpoetry.bsky.social
@alttexthof.bsky.social hallo fellow ALTer!
December 9, 2024 at 6:39 PM
alttextpoetry.bsky.social
Hey who loves #Poetry?! Come check out a cool way to share it! Alt text poetry!!
November 21, 2024 at 4:41 PM
alttextpoetry.bsky.social
Hey! Read poetry!!
November 21, 2024 at 3:05 AM
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bsky.app
Thanks for your patience as we navigated some technical difficulties today! Moving forward, the performance issues you may have noticed should hopefully be resolved.

TL;DR we're so back
November 20, 2024 at 9:58 PM
alttextpoetry.bsky.social
Please enjoy my shirt poem 'Bombs' - by clicking the ALT!

#AltTextPoetry #Poetry #Poem #Bombs
Bombs have no qualms Over right versus wrong Nor hearts that swell If a band plays well The anthem That also Made them.
November 18, 2024 at 1:15 AM
alttextpoetry.bsky.social
Likewise!

I never did gain much traction over There, but here I've got twice the word count to play with!
seamorphus.bsky.social Seamorphus @seamorphus.bsky.social · Nov 17
Just landed on Bluesky and already loving the fresh air! 🌤️ It's amazing to connect with so many creative and positive minds. Ready to leave the chaos behind and build something meaningful together. Let's make this a space where everyone can shine! ✨ #Bluesky #Community #NewBeginnings
November 17, 2024 at 11:42 PM
alttextpoetry.bsky.social
One of my favourite poems from my first book of poetry, "Tatterdemalion". Here's 'The Grand Hegemony.'
Just click the ALT!
#Poetry #PoetSky #AltTextPoet
There was once a worm that lived in a fish And everywhere the fish went, the worm went too Because that's what you do When your submarine home Has to move to exist And if it stopped - so would you - both moving and existing - But the worm didn't know that Or need to And the bottom and mudmuck below Silvery undersurface shine above Or static of rains-splatter bubbles downbouncing The slow sway of silky weeds, and swirls of bits Sunken sticks and snails - None of these exist for the little worm inside the fish In a pond - or a lake (The great debate continues) But you've been there before Standing on some shore: A bipedal hominid of a trillion cells and more, most of which aren't human, all of whom are cousins, A terranian alien mansion to that little worm To whom you don't exist - Or for that matter the fish But the thing of it is... For you -- neither does it. Two universes, apart but the same Just fifty short feet away And everything is made like this And that sameness is this Secret.
November 17, 2024 at 11:29 PM