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hi i'm mike, i write poems, some go on a podcast which already has ones of listeners ('po3try' on spotify / apple / tiny.cc/po3try)

#cats #kittens
#writing #poetry #darkfantasy #whimsy #fafo
#art #abstractart #streetart
#disabled #mentalhealth #kindness
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an eye for
craquelure
entropic
can you tell me
whence this stems?

#craquelure #photography #riddle #poetry
craquelure on a red background
October 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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everything is fine
we’re fine
the world still spins
in void
we’re fine
our choices haunt
we’re hanging on
we do out best
we’re fine

#poetry #positivethinking
a wrecked plug socket
October 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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what the fred?

someone stole my calorie
freddos with a frankly misleading number of calories. what gives?
October 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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...

overshadow
un-tidy
feel wild energy
throw your caution to winds
your dark ink to the breeze
there’s no stopping
our gloommess
our dark flaws unbound
flourish fragments and dancing
sing free
it’s allowed

#RetroArtPrompt gloom ~ mess

[full poem in alt text and soon on tiny.cc/po3try #podcast]
image shows the scribblings of a madman. on one side the word 'gloom' and related thoughts, on the other 'mess' and its ideas, somehow they meet in the middle. sorry i am not able to do full alt text for all the words. here's the full poem: I am gloom in the gloaming I lurk I obscure cos the glimmer is gone I’m the room with no door it’s a shadow of foggy a fuzzy down-sink cover goldness with sadly a shroud you can’t lift there’s no bright, clear or cheery it’s gloommas all year deck our halls with spite, shadow and doom it’s a new way of life can you feel it I’m here even shadows have dark silent muffling sound and eye muffling hope, life and you I am messy I dropped it let pile up the mess it has gravity pulling the scraps and the rest all the bits and scrogs iron shards twiglets and logs dust and new soil bits bobblers and bobs I not tidy not ordered I not put away all my tatters a shambles and mussy my hair I’m a bumbling scrumble a messy of words I entropic I here you will fall to the mess I am gloom I have minions my gloomlings are one they exude gloomy darksmoke rub eyes can’t seen none globberkins spewing bad luck cruel warping and weft and gleegobblers eat happy to leave you bereft but I mess I have messers my scrufflebock sure tip things over and drop things make mess on the floor offerkast pile of cast-offs in your house a hoard hintelpott the unsorted try hide it away for the shameful if seen it the mess with no name when we meet when we meet we’re alive in the glooming a beautiful mess in the sky a creative chaotic caress we need this for the making so arting we might glitter softly in darkness mess-gloomy starlight overshadow un-tidy feel wild energy throw your caution to winds your dark ink to the breeze there’s no stopping our gloommess our dark flaws unbound flourish fragments and dancing sing free it’s allowed <3
October 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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here's the before / after from water blending the water-soluble oil pastel crayons

+ve - smoother, less white space which i abhor in my own art
-ve - muddier, washed out colours

my next shambolic experiment in art will be layering and water blending without first finger blending

#art #oilpastels
cubist painting before water smoothing cubist painting after water smoothing
October 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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sweet butterfly
of hope
flies skywards
striving for
the rainbow light
from out of dark
she rises
broken wings
still flutter
to the night
tear-eyed
from painful growth
a sharded beauty
yet
escape she might

#RetroArtPrompt

#cubist #art #oilpastels #poetry
a cubist (?) painting (?) made with oil pastel crayons entitled 'hopeiness' or 'sweet butterfly of hope' or something like that the shadow of creation
October 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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the search posts function is broke .. but that's how i read profiles. any tips on how else to get to the posts of all my faves?
screenshot of broken 'search posts'
October 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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#FridayFavFive (5) Join #FridayFav5 Every Friday. New tag game, new connections, new friends. Who’s in your five?

@mightyathena.bsky.social
@racheldarker.bsky.social
@caterwaulerin.bsky.social
@mwplovesmusic.bsky.social
@jennnne.bsky.social

thanks for the tag @artbyseranya.bsky.social <3
an image from skirkle.me showing people this person interacts with on bsky
October 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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➡️ raggedy tree
⬇️ blasted the fence
in vehement protest
at the (in)human
devastation
of the gorgeous
⬅️ trees
⬆️ while the clouds
reel new
to the world

#tree #faerie #clouds #poetry #skypoets
a view of trees, grass and human buildings and vehicles
September 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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🐚inspiral🐚

seeing circular steps raises questions of depth ...

> full poem in alt text
> hear it on the #podcast tiny.cc/po3try
> #prompt - write a poem inspired by *any* picture #po3try #acollectionofbeautifulmoments ;)
> 7 / 7 we done! <3

#photography #poetry #skypoets #spiral #staircase
seeing circular steps raises questions of depth will they lead me to up, in or down am I spiralling upwards and I have to climb or descending through echoes unloud seventeen stealthy footfalls slithering soft but the steps are uneven, sometimes it takes more so I lose orientation, aloof is aloft just the steps, endless turning, the door there’s a door in the wall here, a choice in my path if I open it I could explore but my pegs keep on stumping and now I’ve gone past and it’s steps, balustrades, nothing more just the stepping, descending, ascending the stairs I’m spiralling tighter, my thoughts looping wild I have always been walking ahead on this trail never thinking and nothing to find let me stop, sit, consider while resting my legs but the world keeps on turning, it’s darker down here it’s not right but descending is all I have left along pathways long written, through shadows unclear pic: anthology magazine
September 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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🐈‍⬛shadow prowling🐈‍⬛

inky-furred shadow ...

> read it - full poem in alt text
> hear it - #podcast tiny.cc/po3try
> write it - #prompt poem inspired by *any* picture #po3try #acollectionofbeautifulmoments ;)
> 6 / 7 we nearly there!

#cats #catsky #caturday #panther #photography #poetry #skypoets
inky-furred shadow she’s darker than night her eyes luscious blackness sharp peering she pads oh so softly relaxed yet awake always ready to spring pouncing, tearing open mouth scents the air in her flehmen response sifts your traces to track you gets bearings you will never once sense her until she appears from the darkness a terrible roaring then she’s on you, she’s caught you in teeth and in claws it’s the law of the jungle the huntress and prey shriek delight and you laugh as she strikes, it’s adorbs because nobody died tiny kitten just plays pic: william burrard-lucas
September 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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👩‍🎨the artist in her studio🎨

i want you to know ...

> read it - full poem in alt text
> hear it - #podcast tiny.cc/po3try
> write it - #prompt poem inspired by *any* picture #po3try #acollectionofbeautifulmoments ;)
> 5 / 7

#art #artist #blacksky #photography #foundpoetry #poetry #skypoets
I want you to know adorn precious with love I don’t have memories to dispose develop feeling a vessel my love and my pain I care deeply overtaken by feelings unfair treatment of black people something to touch us live forever decipher the past multi-layered my subjects I’m close to, I love I like frames with a history byzantine art giving people their flowers while they are here never-fading love I have for you pic: anthology magazine
September 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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💐wear your flowers🥀

yes, all flowers are monsters ...

> full poem in alt text
> hear it read #podcast tiny.cc/po3try
> #prompt write an #ekphrastic poem inspired by *any* picture #po3try #acollectionofbeautifulmoments ;)
> 4 / 7

#art #photography #ceramics #flowers #poetry #skypoets
yes, all flowers are monsters we know this is true they growl deep in the dark place below vase their colourful corpses and watch them decay reds, greens, yellows and greens fade to brown as we all shall decay if we’re cut from the soil without sunlight there’s no way to grow why not wear them outside on our faces and lives on our shirts, trews and chapeaus, our gowns precious beauties, our darklings resplendent they shine wear our flowers outside and we show that our true selves exist that our monsters are real and to grow in rough soil is allowed pic: anthology magazine
September 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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three paths

two paths diverge through the crookedy town
…

> this one has a spider! 🕷️
> full poem in alt text
> hear me read it on the #podcast tiny.cc/po3try
> #prompt to write a poem inspired by any picture #po3try #ekphrastic #acollectionofbeautifulmoments ;)
> 3 / 7

< 3
two paths diverge through the crookedy town sure there’s one leading up while the other leads down there’s no humans for they are constrained by the road leaving digital choices of where they can go go on up or go down, evil-good, you or me fight or flight, black or white, you must lose so I’m free two-legged humans insist to be first in the frame always trapped in their digital zero-sum game … but I spider! / I eight legs / eight eyes / many brain I climb up / down the wall / i get wet / in the rain spin a web / on the wind / and I fly / where I need making home / in the window / or under the eaves / or in leaves one-two paths / make me tickle / in spiderous glee any route / that I need / is the pathway / of me many colours / and textures / I sense / as go by upside-down / inside-up / lefting rights / in the shadows / am I see my cobwebs?/ each straight / but together / they skew a silkiferous / patchwork / just like / my way through come with me / on the third path / through earth, sky and wall made of obstacles / path ways and stand / spider-tall and remember / to land / upside-up / when you fall pic: ros woodham
September 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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reality rendering

Reality renders at gravitous pace
…

> full poem in alt text
> hear me read it on the #podcast tiny.cc/po3try
> #prompt to write a poem inspired by any picture #po3try #ekphrastic #acollectionofbeautifulmoments ;)
> 2 / 7

< 3
reality rendering Reality renders at gravitous pace Expect glaciers to pass it as snails race on by Nother pixel, another, just frames with no face Distant thunder convulses the sky Every piece glitches past and another is drawn Rusted metal in oxygen burns In the turning of galaxies, new life is born Now a picture emerges, another day turns Go on back, back to go, start again ~ pic: jennifer hart
September 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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muses

it’s the danger of poeting
slow through the world
…

> full poem in alt text
> hear me read it on the #podcast tiny.cc/po3try
> #prompt to write a poem inspired by any picture #po3try #ekphrastic #acollectionofbeautifulmoments ;)
> 1 / 7

< 3
muses it’s the danger of poeting slow through the world they lurk round every corner awaiting to dance beauty muses I see you I hear you, I feel then I have a new story to tell tales of shadowy palettes all twisted and skew making rainbows with crazy refractions leave the ocean in flood waves of rose-violet-blue drench the parched earth with curious abstractions ~ pic: tawny chatmon via anthology magazine
September 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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perfect puzzle
imperfections
tell a better tale

#poetry #jigsaw #puzzle #senryu
a completed jigsaw puzzle of the solar system with one piece missing
September 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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sometimes
trees dream
to the clouds
they haven't heard
it's not allowed
and so they dare
to rise above
feet in the soil
and hearts
that grace
the
sky
with
love

#photography #micropoetry #poetry #skypoets #tree
possibly a rowan tree (plantnet gives 45.5% chance) either way it dares to dream all the way up to the clouds :)
September 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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we all have texture
every thing
a knife's sharp edge
seen close
the photons in your eye
may seem
reality
but in your dream
they craquelure
and sing

#craquelure #poetry #skypoets #texture

p.s. i see texture .. craquelure .. but where did i take this?
craquelure i saw today
August 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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hello friends,

#podcast episode 3 is all about the threes

to listen - tiny.cc/po3try
rss feed - feeds.libsyn.com/589515/rss

this week's prompt: #po3try #threeling

also an insight into the creative process and the trí i mentioned :)

#poetry #skypoets #haiku #senryu #skypoets #tercet #threeling
draft list of episode contents trí or tree diagram where words fractal out into more associated words
August 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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here's a tasty pack of inner peas
they also sell inner beans which makes no sense
inner peas snack
August 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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hello friends,

i made a podcast called po3try in which i read some of my poems.

to listen - sites.libsyn.com/589515/1-i-h...
rss feed - feeds.libsyn.com/589515/rss

and a new prompt where you can post anything you've created with the episode's hashtag #po3try #ihaveavoice

✌️💖🫂 enjoy!!! <3
a pic of rustclaw with the word po3try - it's the podcast artwork :)
August 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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#rustclaw observed this strange #spiderlike creature emerging from the parched earth at the centre of a stone circle

could they be an ally?

#horrorprompt #skypoets #vss #vssfantasy #vss365 #vssdaily #vsspic
a strange spiderlike creature emerges from the ground at the centre of a stone circle arranged on dusty, dry earth
August 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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black-eyed susan winks
another bumble captured
plaintive buzz grows still

#allflowersaremonsters
#flower #macro #photography
#dailyhaikuprompt #fantaiku #haiku #haikuchallenge #haikufeels #haikuhorrorprompt #micropoetry #poetry #scifaiku #scifaikusaturday #senryu #senryusunday #skypoets
a black-eyed susan with one winking eye a black-eyed susan with two glaring eyes glistening angrily with the juices of trapped bumblebees
August 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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#completethehaiga 109

#dailyhaikuprompt #fantaiku #haiku #haikuchallenge #haikufeels #haikuhorrorprompt #micropoetry #poetry #scifaiku #scifaikusaturday #senryu #senryusunday
romeodile trysting at the water's edge julietgator
August 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM