Eric

Night crowded with stars
Reflections of lives past
Collected by constellations
On a background so vast
Each had its own story
As the generations passed
Memories faded away
Leaving space to be recast

#blueskyrelay #theskysavedroomforonemore #vss365 #reflection

The puddle holds a jovial reflection: one tricked to master memories of how to make a happy face; one taught to never betray the hermetic secrets of the heart unbound. Those secrets carry thoughts of personality inside this liar’s mask, as the costume party continues and the puddle becomes a mirror inside a house I’ll never understand. As the day becomes itself again, but night this time, tomorrow this time, morning this time: a thousand new ways to see the same face I’ll never quite belong to. The face I’ll never quite be wrong to. The face I’ll never quite remember, beyond the feeling it must project. I could protect it, could comply more to the bore, but this soul recalls the sky saved room for one more. One more. One more actualized being, held inside this shell, this face, this mask. That truer self, that one I return to in mind, and will one day, find again, away from reflection’s grasp...

Self Portrait.

"The puddle holds a #jovial #reflection:
one #tricked to #master #memories of
how to make a happy face..."

#emoetry #vss365
#blueskyrelay #theskysavedroomforonemore
#foxprose
#firewords280 #hermetic #secrets
#poem #WriteSky #Nov26
#writingcommunity #poet #poetrylovers
#prosepoetry

#Theskysavedroom
one last #race
stars #meshed & took their place
#champion come #tomorrow
#challenge be the brightest shine
#impede not thy foe's twinkle
tho in #reflection
last yr's objections
snuffed out the dullest 9
#Blueskyrelay
#Whistpr
#vssdaily
#2wordprompt
#inkmine
#WIPSnips
#vss365

Actually, speaking as the current #blueskyrelay host, the Nov 26 prompt is not capitalized, nor is it a complete sentence. It's a... starter, or to be included within something.

Lovely write, Prue.

#Theskysavedroomforonemore moment
a final inhale, a pause
like the world was trying
to remember itself.
#poetry

Are you shooting for a novel? Or just whatever works? Of course.. wait until the rest of my prompts are out. :)

I find that trying to stretch a short story deeper gets harder and harder. Probably why i stick to short stories. lol My brain says knock it off.

He held her hand as they crossed the quiet boardwalk. The clouds opened in a small bright break that seemed to wait for them. She tilted her head and said it seemed like the sky saved room for one more, and he felt her hand relax softly into his.

#blueskyrelay #theskysavedroomforonemore #writing

#BlueskyRelay #theskysavedroomforonemore

I have a friend
He is a builder
Let's call him Stevie
He shuffles
With broken legs
And bent back
Steelworking strength
He always says
When it comes to carports
He's got one more in him
We play music
When we down tools
The unbuilt sky waits for us to resume

There, that wasn't so bad was it? Great write, Chris!

1541Burmese Empire She spent a week in the village, learning the myths and legends of the locals. All the while enjoying nightly displays of brilliance by the meteor slowly moving above. Until, at last, the sky made room for one more to take its place,The jovial villagers freely spoke of myths and ancient happenings; of a dragon to the north, bonded with a human. Zeh’ra thought the dragon was called Druk. Apparently, in ancient times, he was said to ascend to the skies from the deep void, bringing the peoples back after the great desolation. Vastly different to the prophesied dragon from my old life. Each night, while it lasted, her eyes wandered to the luridly orbic object in the heavens above, so vivid for the seventh night. Not growing larger, or smaller it seemed. She felt the power of the celestial traveller, enjoying quiet reflections within while watching. The villagers also took on a more somber tone when they heard her goal of reaching the capital of the Sin Empire. They told her that the Ming Empire had closed its borders, no foreigner was allowed within. She didn’t think it would impede her much, her life wasn’t a race. Though, she didn’t say as much of that to them.Another fascinating revelation was that the whole empire was contained within tall stone walls. This she had to see! Was it a mesh to ensnare the people of Sin? Or was it a web to keep others out?The girl, Hnin Thiri, was as powerful as she felt now, which strangely was more than when she arrived, but less than that of her old life. Hnin Thiri had a good grasp of her abilities, saying that her spirit was old but her body new. Zeh’ra didn’t know what to believe. She would stay with the village until the next caravan heading north passed through. She’d become a travelling woman for a while, a nomad. #VSS365 Reflect #Whistpr Race #VSSDaily Mesh #VSSMagic Meteor #Emoetry Jovial #WIPSnips impede #BlueSkyRelay Theskysavedroomforonemore #WeirdMicro LuridlyOrbic

In today’s vignette from Zhe’ra’s life, she’s still visiting with the remote Burmese village, learning myth, legends and more…

#wordprompt
#writingcommunity

#VSS365 #Whistpr
#VSSMagic #vssdaily
#Emoetry #WIPSnips
#BlueSkyRelay #WeirdMicro

Prompts and full text in alt!

Nicely done!

#vss365 #blueskyrelay

We hiked
To our place
Overlooking
The sea
After you passed
Cried out
Exhausted by life
And found
The sky
Saved room
For one more
#reflection
Of your smile
Contagious
To the end

#theskysavedroomforonemore

Glad to share such beautiful writes!

Thank you.. 💜🫠

I've got something.. but I'm going to mull it over while I do my 4 mile sunrise walk and stairs workout.. :)

When she fell her arms were outstretched. In the space between falling she imagined she had wings. A fairytale that stitched nettles into cotton shirts and turned her into a swan. When she fell she soared and
the sky saved room for one more.

#blueskyrelay
#theskysavedroomforonemore

Hello everyone.

The #blueskyrelay prompt for November 26 is #theskysavedroomforonemore “the sky saved room for one more”

Eric @madp03t.bsky.social is the #BlueSkyRelay host
November 26-December 2.

Thank you for your fabulous posts!🐬🏝️🐳

Always loved this song..

It's a challenge for me as well! :)

A beautiful write, Ann. 💜

The sky
saved room
for one more tear
and I supplied it
earnestly

it rolled slowly
down my cheek,
onto the ground,
from where
it travelled
to the clouds

when the
rain poured
it returned,
so I cried
once more—
for you, for us

for the endless
boundaries
our souls
can't cross.

#BlueSkyRelay

Hello #Writers & #Poets!

Today’s #BlueskyRelay writing #prompt (Nov 26, 2025):

“the sky saved room for one more” (#theskysavedroomforonemore)

A soft invitation to begin the week.

If you would like to host #BlueskyRelay next, let me know!

#writingprompts #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity

Chivalry is an open door,
Valour is a medal,
Knights now ride the bus,
Giving up their seats.
The dragons are in power,
Still hoarding gold,
We recite fairy stories,
Fed to us in headlines,
Armour now in labels,
Hashtag at the end of stories.

#thingstowriteabout knight

blurred…
all those sparkly #reflections
on glimmering frost

#vss365 : #reflection
#BSPP47 : #glimmeringfrost
#Oulens
#haiku #senryu
#blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

tricked into mastering
memory,
#understanding
the worst things can’t be
forgotten-
#elaborate #emotional edifices
won’t stop the #racing
pain from getting through,
no #championing of this mind-
today, or #tomorrow-

#foxprose #inkMine #retroartprompt #2wordprompt
#poetry

“Please help me,” Amy asked, approaching cautiously. “I need a ride.”

The unicorn bowed its horn to the US Army corporal.

“Dark Lords of Chaos invading Des Moines or not,” she said, climbing on, “at least I’m fulfilling a childhood dream trying to stop them…”

#vss #sff

By a warming fire
The hush of hands stroking skin
Passions flame within.

#haikufeels #hush #haiku #senryu

Just a spark when the lights feel low,
Often mistaken for something whole.
Voices rise, then fade to hum,
In laughter’s echo, all grow numb.
All that glitters stays for show,
Lingers brief, then lets go.

#emoetry #jovial #prompt #skypoets #blueskypoetry #5amwritersclub #poetry #acrostic