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Karla NAFO fella
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Award-winning poet | Global Public Speaker | Pan-European
Taking part in Ukraine's cultural renaissance
⚡Volunteer in Ukraine. Language teacher. Trusted advisor.
— Mistress of Alt0151 — #AI-free.
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To be #adamant, steadfast, unwavering, uncompromising despite epistemic uncertainty—is a quality I deeply respect.

Are you in the "We shall overcome" timeline?

Today's prompt is "adamant".

Now follow @madp03t.bsky.social (erudite wit, #prompt) & write together in #blueSkyRelay, 11/26-12/2/2025.
Cartoon. An office. Two stubborn people, one sitting, the other with folded arms. The expressions of both, adamant. The seated person says, "Being adamant is, I believe, MY prerogative, Halbersham."
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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...and so they departed near dawn
spirits upon a #gasllt street

Therefore, the #blueSkyRelay #prompt for Monday 24th November 2025 is #gaslight. Any grammatical form of the word will do.

#Hashtags, alt text, show & tell welcome. Photo by Matthew Stevens
Photo of a gaslit street, foggy night, by Matthew Stevens
November 24, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Rattle that sabre
High on hooch
Moscington, I call your bluff.
Dictate what my problem is, then
Dictate the only solution
Or I can fight my little heart out?

A proper Casey Jones, you.
Go train, go!
The Special Military Operation
Is back on track
The flagman was ignored
The fireman already jumped.
Stamp featuring Casey Jones and his overstoked steam engine. By U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing - Smithsonian National Postal Museum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=153397768
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Love this and I have quoted it from time to time, most recently during my inconclusive experiment with joining a political party. Perhaps I ought to perform it. Also love the play by Robert Bolt, and this speech:
November 23, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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My countryman, Vincent van Gogh, inspired many a poem.

Folks, the #blueSkyRelay #prompt for Sunday 23 November 2025 is #wave / #waves !
Hashtags, alt text, show & tell svp. Extra credit for pronouncing the artist's name right.
Vincent van Gogh painting of waves and sailboats, and a poem: Don't dwell on grey ocean waves. It's a bright day! Accept humbly What present hours give us. These waves pass all too quickly.
November 23, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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November 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Looking for an emerging poet to host #BlueSkyRelay for the week beginning 3rd December.
The "how" is well-documented. Previous hosts are there for you! Reply to this post with interest!

So. The #BlueSkyRelay #prompt for 22nd November 2025 is #sideeye / #side-eye —
Hashtags, alt text, show&tell svp.
November 22, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Comme ça ?

Hail Mary Full of Grace
And Devil profound, keeping pace
Despite all their prevention
A Bartender's intervention
Caused a limerick to fall into place.
"Let's Socialise", a poster for a social gathering in Kyiv, depicting a coctail with two lavender blossoms floating in it.
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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The #blue note is exquisite to my spirit.
November 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Something #blue.

What excellent responses to the #blueSkyRelay #prompt of today. Poised expectantly, to see what you do next !

#poetry #poem #blueskypoet #blueskypoetry
perched on the roof of the Tardis, watching the stars go by.
November 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Ancient Greeks hadn't a word for the colour blue.
State of mind, a cultural lens?
Feelings, great music?
Zen story: Two monks argue. Flag's waving or wind waves? Teach sez, the mind's moving.
Folks, the #BlueSkyRelay #prompt for 21 November 2025 is #blue / #blues
Hashtags, alt text, show&tell svp.
Kathrine Sasser, "Hues of Blue". https://katherinesasser.com/hues-of-blue/
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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G'day! Folks, the #BlueSkyRelay #prompt for 20 November 2025 is #mercurial

A definition: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...

Mind your hashtags: #blueSkyRelay in your posts!
If you are kind with alt text, even better.
Vincent van Gogh, a self portriat
November 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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CORRECTED DATE
Mono-no-aware #物の哀れ, the very thing of #pathos, or Virgil's rerum lacrimae sunt—challenges our sense of static order...the universe is in flux, and so to appreciate, tend, and add to its beauty in each moment.

The #BlueSkyRelay #prompt for 19 November 2025 is #transience / #transient
Woodblock painting, drunken men dancing for a Samisen. Attributed to the 1890s by both the Museum of New Zealand and the Princeton Art Museum, although this time period succeeds Hokkei's death by four decades. Neither indicate that this is the time of its discovery, although Princeton does write "after Totoya Hokkei"
November 19, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Mono-no-aware #物の哀れ, the very thing of #pathos, or Virgil's rerum lacrimae sunt— challenges our sense of static order, reminding that the universe is in flux, and so to appreciate, tend, and add to its beauty in each moment.

The #BlueSkyRelay #prompt for 28 October 2025 is #transience / #transient
Woodblock painting, drunken men dancing for a Samisen. Attributed to the 1890s by both the Museum of New Zealand and the Princeton Art Museum, although this time period succeeds Hokkei's death by four decades. Neither indicate that this is the time of its discovery, although Princeton does write "after Totoya Hokkei"
November 19, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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"I want my time with you."
Your host from 19 – 25 November 2025
Posting the morning #blueSkyRelay #prompt keyword by 0500 (5AM GMT), midnight in NYC, 7:00am Kyiv Time.
And we are looking for a new, emerging poet to host beginning 3 December. Reply w/ interest !
#blueSkyPoets #blueSkyPoetry #poetry
"I want my time with you." —neon public art in St. Pancras, Eurostar arrivals.
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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#EU preparing €90 billion in grants for Ukraine if the plan to use frozen russian assets fails. #Belgium continues to block the full use of the €200 billion held in #Euroclear. —Bloomberg

Not out of character for our politicians to stay in the comfort zone of forcing working people to pay more.
Affluent Belgian leader, who opines that he'd rather force European taxpayers to pay, so that the russians don't have to pay for their aggression.
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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#Leprechaun #archetype #blueSkyRelay #prompt #writingCommunity #poetryCommunity
The Leprechaun wields power to change fate To break chains of destiny To free us from compulsion To remind us of the better folk we *could* be. But "always after me lucky charms" they also Remind one not to take onesself too seriously Bring ya down a notch or two, or punish hubris Through a healthy blend of mischief, snark, and rapier-like wit. Myth is no less real than reality, when we learn its lessons When we disregard religion taking myth literally Sects, cults, and crusades, missing the point entirely. Leprechaun is a word for lessons born of something like a soul.
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Source: kyivindependent.com/4-s-400-laun... #smekalka
Satirical collage of cartoon and satellite imagery as art, entitled, "Always Hide in a Place Where There Are a Lot of the Same Thing".
November 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Was born about 3 years later, but my parents walked the talk, inspired by #RubyWalk. Mum was a second-wave feminist whomade it possible for me to work in offices. Dad was a "ratcatcher", successfully catching 'em during the Blitzkrieg. Yes, many a #vatnik in #WW2 too! Just simpler to deal with.
November 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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This is my **Victim of the Putin**
For an art piece combining dystopian current events with social science and Taoist wisdom.
#Emoetry #Victimized #FAFO #NAFO #СлаваУкраїна #bullying #rape #patriarchy #СмертьВорогам
Victim Of The Putin: Russia's Victimhood Talk is Part of the Crime When you fight back The bully can play the victim And people vouch for his character That's the #victimized bully's system! From rape to invasion (and rape) It starts at the gaslighting And if not defeated, disarmed, it Ends at the exterminating. Lao Tze taught us long ago, how to listen And not use victimhood as a crutch: Those who know don't need to be explained Those who don't know, are explaining too much.
November 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Mr. Christ will be on the unemployment queue soon.

As a migrant, not from around these here parts, he'll have to get a visa as well, or be "mass"-deported.
November 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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#blueskyrelay #prompt #nixie #warCoffee
#writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
Cold fixes my awareness Where we once held the earth, Commanded myriad potentials. The #Nixie draws me deeper, deeper Past swimming kernels of ideas Literary allusion teasing and darting about. They are a most patient spirit Caressing, guiding me slowly, Bubbles following my course deeper, deeper To a moment within which nobody can find me And to which I now know how to return.
November 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Schoolchildren know how to do it.

Regarding russian asset Fico:

The vassal's sanctimonious polyphony
Has fallen under a most modern #scrutiny
Working for the kremlin
A career as its gremlin
'til elections serve up his ignominy

dennikn.sk/minuta/49695...
November 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Why burn up the russian refineries?
Train tracks, and bombers, and ISP's?
An terrorist that once thrived
Is a terrorist now deprived
Of his means to make war — and of his adorees.

#poetry #warCoffee #poem #NAFO #Europe
#poetrycommunity #writingconmunity
Explosions and a fire have been reported at an oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk, russia. The cause and extent of the damage are still being clarified.
November 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM