Eve Castle

Picture after a heavy snow in November 2024 in Colorado. A heavy blanket of pristine snow surrounds the base of a young crabapple tree. The snow is heavily weighing down the tree’s branches. The branches droop down toward the snow covered ground.

Hello BlueSky.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed or burdened — I hope whatever is weighing you down will melt away like snow in spring.

Hang in there. Remember to be kind to yourself. It’s simple: You’re you. You’re perfect!

#BlueSkyMonday #PhotoShareMonday My 📸
pic from my iphone / to public domain

I believe I saw that film . . . from what I recall it was very 70s —experimental & trippy.

I’m no longer in Texas so I can’t vote against him but I’m trying to help by donating to one of his challengers. We can hope. He’s been awful his entire time in Congress. 🤮

Please follow author Michelle H. Davis on BlueSky: @lonestarleft.com

After reviewing the candidates in the primary against Henry Cuellar I will be donating to Ricardo Villarreal. I can't do much but I would like Cuellar off the ballet. We shouldn't have a Trump pardoned House Rep in Congress.

How To Vote Henry Cuellar Out Of Office On March 3 How one congressional seat shapes national politics.

A critical U.S. House Congressional primary is happening in #Texas District 28. Early #Vote Feb 17-27. This article is an amazingly well-done overview of the Primary race and why #HenryCuellar needs to go. Cuellar voted w/Republicans to fund #ICE & for the #SAVEAct

open.substack.com/pub/lonestar...

This is horrific.

Black text bubbled in a light peach background on a periwinkle background. Text reads: “Join these poets in Shō No. 9 Summer Issue.” Poets listed: Madeleine Bazil · Isha Camara · Piera Chen · Jordan Cobb · David Eileen · Rebecca Hawkes · Jacob Herrera Spears · Lucas Jorgensen · Sophie Kaiser Rojas · Sheema Kalbasi · Eli Karren · Victoria Kornick · Ethan Kwak · Carolene Kurien · Jenny Molberg · Alia Shaukat · Nora Sullivan · Aspen Taylor · Preeti Vangani · Jeff Whitney · Andrew Chi Keong Yim · Hananah Zaheer · Joshua Zeitler

Shō No. 9 Update: We’ve accepted 34 poems from 23 poets for our summer issue, and we’re looking for more strong work!

Submissions are open until March 15, 2026 (11.59pm MST).

Submit here: shopoetryjournal.submittable.com

What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.

Here's what the first draft of a novel looks like. I finally made it to Level 2. The level of most evil edits. Look at me killing my darlings.

I've been having life issues and have been absent here. But as you see, I aint been idle.

Every trail run
A pilgrimage
To my breath

#haiku
#dailyhaikuprompt pilgrimage

Blue’s return

For @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social on fragments -a short silly contribution.

Valentine’s Day is always
Better than Friday the thirteenth
Unless you have an axe
To grind.

With profound apologies 🦋

this is a great poem . . . thanks for sharing 💝

When all else fails read books and listen to vinyl records.

5 miles from home
No point goin further
It's freezing and empty inside
From the boy I was
For the man still alive
Time stole the fire of pride
Absent bodies of pictures
Shrouds for the martyrs
Outlined in nicotine stain
Blast shadows of life
All that I killed for
Love, now a Ghost of Pompei

#poetry

these aching bones
held tight
in a
shallow shell

#vss365 #bones

PERSON OF THE DAY. 15 February 1965. Nat (“King”) Cole died of lung cancer (aged 48). He sold over 50 million records during his career. His hits included When I Fall in Love, Unforgettable, Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer, Frosty The Snowman, Mona Lisa and Smile.

My embarrassment as an American will end when we oust the fascist regime at the midterms and I’m doing everything I can to help make that happen.
Join me by doing your best— Write ✍️ Call 📞 Protest 🪧

we decided to undress Each garment was dropped carelessly to the floor as we revealed the secrets of our flesh It took some time Our movements not being as nimble Our limbs not as lithe as before Stiff, feeble fingers fumbled adolescently with buttons, belts and clasps. Until we stood before one another Shrivelled Sagging Slack and In the buzzing glow of the electric fire. Beautiful

#PoemsAbout #Undressed

; ...and in that moment, the stars

aligned; kindred spirits; two

souls; hearts fated to entwine.

#7syllablesentence #kin #micropoetry #writing

#7syllablesentence
#kin

some are born kin, some evolve

Hello everyone.

The #7syllablesentence prompt for February 15 is #kin

Feb 11-24 @ignorantfairy.bsky.social
Feb 25-March 3 ?

Let me know if you want to host #7SyllableSentence

Thank you for your fabulous posts! 🐬🦋🏝️🌊🐳

When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my moldering lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the very devil burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse, perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to commit outrages, to pull off the wigs of a few revered idols... Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse is one of my favorite novels of all time. Below is an excerpt.

#Hesse #Steppenwolf #BookSky

drinking wine
more and more sleepless
snowy night

#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho between 1684-1688
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry

digging out
your Vietnam love letters
rereading them
the man in the moon
weeps over my shoulder

—Pris Campbell
Waka Society of America, 2025 Premier Edition, #Waka in English

#micropoetry #tankapoem

Happy Valentine's Day!

icy river
breaking, mending
breaking again—
dark water threads
toward the sea

#micropoetry #tankapoem #5lines #tanka #poetry

#tankapoem, #tankathursday

end of summer romance
until we meet again
on our usual beach
you bring a rose
I bring some poems

Fatma Zohra Habis

#tanka #TankaThursday
#vss365 #Romance #poetrycommunity #poetry #inkMine

“Why do you run around looking for the truth? Be still and there it is, in the mountain, in the pine, in yourself.”

— Lao Tzu

Natasha Newton (UK)