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Princess Boscoe
@princessboscoe.bsky.social
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Plays with poetry, puddle jumper pilot, retired children's librarian, preschool teacher
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Cormorants standing sentry in war-ravaged Portland #pdx #warravagedportland @wyden.senate.gov
October 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Comorants on sentry duty in war-ravaged Portland #pdx #war-ravagedportland
October 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
An invasion of cute in war-ravaged Portland. #pdx #warravagedportland
October 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
A riot of water lilies in war ravaged Portland #pdx
September 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Good morning! A poem - more of a rant ?- for #poemsabout #riots @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk Thank you!! I am looking forward to reading all the wonderful poems later in the day. Can't wait! #poetry
Portland Lament Sirens scream slicing sleep these cleavers of quiet are honed nightly knife-edged precision begetting a riot of police fueled chaos rubber bullets flash bangs stun grenades tear gas tornadoes exploding again and again and again brewing a miasma of fear to seep under window sills to smother babies’ cribs and pummel placard-holding grandmothers bloodying the chanters and marchers and mothers fathers sisters brothers neighbors our hearts and blood rioting in response reverberating endlessly hopelessly hopefully Jacqueline Dempsey-Cohen
August 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
“A house you can rebuild; a bridge you can restring; a washed-out road you can fill in. But there is nothing you can do about a tree but mourn.”
― Louise Dickinson Rich, We Took to the Woods
#BookWormSat
August 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
My offering for @hool415.bsky.social's #promptcombo #MyGod. Thank you so much for this opportunity! I have been so angry and heartsick I've almost forgotten how to speak. This is my fledgling attempt to express my heart. #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity
Soullessness This faithless god kneeling in cloisters stained with butterfly dust and crusted tear tracks keens unheard and unmourned except in abattoirs of mangled hope and fertile fear. when god’s tears burn dry who will cry for us? Jacqueline Dempsey-Cohen
July 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Once again my late #poem for #PoemsAbout #BurnItDown. Thank you so much to
@alanparry83.bsky.social
and
@brokenspinearts.bsky.social
Aftermath Fireweed spears flesh pink as toddler cheeks Scattershot steeples amidst blackened blisters of bark and bones where pitchforks of hellfire tongued trees licked limbs gorged on wild hearts and sleeping souls ravaging millenia of life slash and burn of nurture Fireweed spears cradle pink flames of fragile hope Jacqueline Dempsey-Cohen
July 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Hi folks! A poem for #PromptCombo #trainsandstations. Thank you @hool415.bsky.social and poets! My power is off for the afternoon, so I will back to read later. #poetrycommunity
Library Storytime in a Retired Train Station train whistle dopplering onomatopoeia of wanderlust coming to rouse hoot and whoop of toddler joy engines, hoppers, tank cars too rocking rollicking eating the tracks causing a rumble and tumble of tiny limbs lungs chug-chugging hearts a-clickety-clacking feet twitch-twitching as dreaming eyes ride the rails reaching lands far far far away once again picture book storytime has left the station Jacqueline Dempsey-Cohen
July 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Celebrating 42 years of laughing loving working wandering creating and playing together! #anniversary
June 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
An older poem (Slightly edited) for #PromptCombo theme
#Bliss ✨for @dragonslayerma.bsky.social Thank you all! Looking forward to reading later! #poetrycommunity
Coffee Ah, bliss Just a whiff of mist rising licking my waiting lips. This fragrant kiss too rich to resist. still I linger Watching a finger of steam rise, A swirling cirrus blurring the blue And lifting my eyes to rippling sky loud with clouds tossing sparrow song, crow clamor and inner chatter Asunder. A moment of wonder winging, singing, flinging me into caffeinated solitude. So much gratitude. Ah, bliss. Jacqueline Dempsey-Cohen
May 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Greetings! I'm embracing a bit of frivolity to get through these days. Thank you for this wonderful magical place. #PoemsAbout #Glory @brokenspinearts.bsky.social
@alanparry83.bsky.social #poetrycommunity I will be back soon to to read.
Unedited Glory This tiny garden bursts with verbosity in endless phrases of crimson and candyfloss strewn by chortles of daisy yellow punctuated with orange poppy exclamations A lusty language of overblown blossoms vining climbing drooping dancing in undulated syncopated jubilated rhythms the rambling opus of warbling chorus ravishing flourishing glorying the sidewalk Jacqueline Dempsey-Cohen
May 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Good Morning! I have this small poem for #Poemsabout #saltwater for @alanparry83.bsky.social
@brokenspinearts.bsky.social. Thank you for reading! Looking forward to reading all the glorious poems here.
Undulation the sea’s womb cradles us parched and girdled in faltering pulse of grief its saltwater lullaby the woosh and suck of breathing onomatopeia of survival in exquisite soporific echo Jacqueline Dempsey-Cohen 4/11/25
April 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Marched in Portland Oregon with 14.000 others. Good trouble! #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Good evening #promptcombo! My poem about #together Thank you @rfsmith.bsky.social and lovely poets! Will return later to read!
Breathing Together on our Balcony Coffee steam curls - white wisps of cirrus clouds circling our heads our steeple-high evergreen twins Genevieve and Josephine lean gracefully toward us branches bowing and curtseying, limber ballerinas spilling their freshening breath fragrant and green as the memory of spring to mingle soothingly with the soft huff and hum of the lingering ease flowing between us our little sanctuary Jacqueline Dempsey-Cohen
March 28, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Greetings poets! Here is my contribution to #promptcombo #aura @rfsmith.bsky.social Thank you for this golden opportunity - I am so tickled to be among these fabulous poets!
Under the Aching Sky The siren call of drowsing persists - this tangle of afternoon light lazing over creeksong and birdbabble, sliding down moss-spangled banks into the burble and giggle and leaf must an iridescence evoking lisping rhymes and whispered secrets- subvocal lulling limb and ligament into reverie dreaming memory Jacqueline Dempsey-Cohen 3/2o/25
March 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Greetings! This is my late contribution for @dragonslayerma.bsky.social & #PromptCombo for the theme of #Worship. Thank you! I will return later to read all the delicious poems. (I don't know why it is so small..)
Faith There is a Sunday silence among these ancient trees. Just a vesper of leaves, blessing the evening mist and a whisper of bat wings unfurling in lancet cathedrals of flight Rising ever upward silent, certain, resplendent in a glory of purpose while below twilit branches hold steady in the dying light. Jacqueline Dempsey-Cohen 4/2025
March 13, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Greetings! Here is my late poem for #PoemsAbout #OldSkin with many thanks to @brokenspinearts.bsky.social. I will be back to read!
Cartography of Old skin calligraphy of bird tracks thin as splinters highlighting storied striations of worm burrows while long-legged blue tributaries of veins wind unmapped beneath freckled rust of mole hills persistent itch of memory etched between the knees Jacqueline Dempsey-Cohen
February 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10
#BookSky
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#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
November 30, 2024 at 6:14 PM
On the Wonder of Reaching 70 Old age Tastes of memory, -of snowflakes and Guiness - frosty syrup softening December gray of hair and dreams Warming waning bones. Wrapped, Tinseled, Beribboned and bestrewn In cloves and wistfulness Wrinkling sated tongue with dusk’s sweet grief A gleam on papery skin -So thin- that blood and breath mingle in a singular sigh So brief replete.
January 9, 2024 at 8:35 PM