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December 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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December 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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December 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Congrats to all the Pushcart Prize nominees! 🔥

Chaun Ballard
Liza Michelle Bevams
Justin Danzy
Asli Mahdi
Dana Murphy
Arianne Elena Payne

You can find their works in Obsidian 49.2 and 50.1

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December 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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#poetryofthedark
#darkverse
#shadowpoetry
#blackpoetry
#noirpoetry
December 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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This is one of my favorite pieces.

THE POOL PLAYERS.
SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.

We real cool. We
Left school. We

Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We
Die soon.

—Gwendolyn Brooks

#GwendolynBrooks #BlackPoetry #PoetryOfBluesky #BIPOCVoices #Booksky
December 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Call for Submissions: Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring 2026--Environmental Reckonings)--Deadline December 12

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December 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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I wrinkled my nose @ scents of a technological onion in #2025,
& being the #MWGIC,
I wrote of the time that #poetry became wild & dangerous,
4suddenly #poets were the geniuses of tech,
And where there is #blackpoetry there must be #whitepoetry, & maybe gray, like #magic

futurism.com/artificial-i...
Scientists Discover Universal Jailbreak for Nearly Every AI, and the Way It Works Will Hurt Your Brain
A simple trick involving poetry is enough to jailbreak the tech industry's leading AI models, researchers found.
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November 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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I actually like how this poem turned out. So, I'm gonna share it before I find something wrong with it and change my mind. #Blackpoetry #Blackpoet #intimatepoetry #poem
A screenshot of a poem in white letters on a black background lined to look like notebook paper. The poem has the bold and underlined title "Sweet Enrapture". It reads as follows: I want to inhale you into the depths of me like you are breath itself, become one with you like roots in earth and blossom forth into a pleasure untold. To consume your immenseness into my depths, feeling you blend into me, a warm pulsating fullness in the soft embrace of my most sacred spaces. I want to envelop you welcomingly into the purest of ecstasies, intertwining and unraveling all at once, becoming the most beautiful scene of hedonistic passion wrapped in sweet reunion.
November 23, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Speaking thoroughly
Points observed and challenging
A tea cup painting

#haikufeels (speak) #dailyhaikuprompt (tea) #blacksky #art
#3lines #blackpoetry #blueskypoets

#makesomenoise
November 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Pine cones decorate
Among colorful fashions
Becoming mature

#dailyhaikuprompt (pine) #blacksky #art
#3lines #blackpoetry #poetsofbluesky

#makesomenoise
November 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Gingerbread cookies
Plated, waiting to be dipped
Enjoyed flavors

#haiku4u (gingerbread) #blacksky #art
#3lines #blackpoetry #blueskypoets

#makesomenoise
November 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Mandala these fabrics
Materials of color
A finished product

#haikuchallenge (mandala) #blacksky #art
#3lines #blackpoetry #poetsofbluesky

#makesomenoise
November 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Fireplace smolders
Chipped blazes of small timbers
Roasting for hours

#dailyhaikuprompt (fireplace) #blacksky #art
#blackpoetry #3lines #blueskypoets

#makesomenoise
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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An early Haki Madhubuti book of poetry from when he was writing as Don L. Lee, from 1970! And signed?!?! A mainstay of Chicago's poetry scene (plus, plus so much more) for decades.
#BookSky #BlackPoetry
November 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Recited a poem of mine aloud, to myself tonight. Just had to get going, getting started

Overcame Resistance

#poet #poetry #writingpoetry #spokenword #poetryrecitation #poetryrecital #blackpoet #blackpoetry #poem
November 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Warped in a frenzy
Emotions scream its whispers
Clashing solitude

#haikufeels (warped) #blacksky #art
#3lines #blackpoetry #blueskypoets

#makesomenoise
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Breezes blows across
A porches slowed rocking chair
Memories gone by

#dailyhaikuprompt (porch breeze) #blacksky #art
#3lines #blackpoetry #poetsofbluesky

#makesomenoise
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Soft whispers flowing
Echos its Autumn breezes
Carried on the wind

#vss365 (whisper) #blacksky #art #haiku
#3lines #blackpoetry

#makesomenoise
November 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Perfection follows
Ultimate thought allowing
A grand finale

#haikufeels (perfect) #blacksky #art
#3lines #blackpoetry

#makesomenoise
November 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
lilswordgreymatter.bsky.social
Creatures hidden
In velvet tears
Awaiting voices
Of turbulent echos
Resonates below

#vss365 (creature) #tankaSunday #blacksky #art
#5lines #blackpoetry #poetsofbluesky

#makesomenoise
November 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
lilswordgreymatter.bsky.social
Fighting boundaries
Making choices continues
No answer quitting

#haikufeels (quit) #blacksky #art
#3lines #blackpoetry #blueskypoets

#makesomenoise
November 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
lilswordgreymatter.bsky.social
Silence reaches in
Taking away quiet waves
Interrupted seas

#haikufeels (silence) #blacksky #art
#3lines #blackpoetry

#makesomenoise
October 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
lilswordgreymatter.bsky.social
Narrow crevices
Hidden in crackling walls
Shows a wicked grin

#haiku #Halloween #blacksky #art
#3lines #blackpoetry #blueskypoets

#makesomenoise
October 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM