Skylar Beaufort

Thanks for the repost! I'm going through the same here. I know it will be worth it too, though yesterday I was overthinking it some

Questions

Is it worth it to give up extravagance,
And everything you've ever known
For a chance to own your life?

Is making your quality of life physically worse
Worth the pursuit of happiness and novelty?
Honestly, I don't have the answers

#BlueSkyRelay #extravagance #poems #poetry

No Answers

Is there something I could have done?
Or is it not possible for fate to be outrun?
Thoughts like these will continue to be spun
Answers to these thoughts, will be none

An answer that I will wish for
That will never come ashore
That will never be fulfilled
Answers remaining a blur
#poems

Unknown Reasons

People leaving for unknown reasons
Reasons that you'll never come to know
Sometimes people only exist for a single season
And then you go on without them

Forever

#poems #poetry #bskypoets #poetsofbluesky

Sweet tea, gentle breeze,
Prize-winning squash... a scream?
... Where's the village squire?

🍈 😱

#HaikuChallenge (Fete) #DailyPrompt #Senryu #MicroPoem #PoetrySky #MidsomerMurders

Current host for #vss365, March 1-15 is

@ha-ok.bsky.social

Give Camila a follow, if you haven’t already!

The book's cover features a square-shaped artwork by Polish artist, Julian Stanczak, entitled 'Concurrent Colors'. The painting creates an optical illusion of vertical moving curved lines in red and blue, giving the impression of moving waves or sand dunes. At the edges of the painting the lines thin out so that they resemble a comb effect. The painting has a darker blue framing band around it, filling the extent of the cover. The title of the anthology 'VERSUS VERSUS' is in a large red font at the top of the cover, and the subtitle, '100 POEMS BY DEAF, DISABLED & NEURODIVERGENT POETS', is in a large blue font underneath the square painting. The editor's name, Rachael Boast, is in a smaller red font beneath the subtitle.

Coming soon! Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets. Three months until official publication in the UK and Europe (22 July elsewhere), this anthology is up on the Bloodaxe Books website, with pre-orders via Amazon now available.

www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/...

Change
#booksky #resist #poetry #poem #author #bookish #change #art

Ice-cold, winter wind
Coldness ignored, when with you
My focus on you

#blueskypoetry #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #poetry #bskypoets #poetsofbluesky

Writing in resistance to the State is one kind of activism; writing about anything else is another. You don’t know what might help someone—what might meet a reader’s fear, grief, rage, confusion. It might be a poem about snow or shoes or the confessing mirror. Poetry is an endurance technology.

#vss365 host for February 15-28 is:

@jamescutley.bsky.social

Prompts will drop daily at 0600 GMT (London)

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Resistance is not futile
It is only futile if we don’t resist
One step in front of the other
One time in front of the another
Each moment changes the next
Take one step
Just one step
Celebrate the step
One step - one time
And it begins
#poem #poetry #poet #writer #blueskypoem

Days

Days where the sunset was watched
Days where my heart, fell in love
Days before we grew apart
Days where you were my beloved

#blueskypoetry #poetry #poetsofbluesky #tanaga

Old Stones Haiku

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I wanted to bring some more attention to Inlandia's 2025 Spring Issue, as I'll be one of the editors.

Inlandia is currently having their call for submissions. This issue is ONLY for work by teenagers and is edited by teens only too.

inlandiaaliteraryjourney.submittable.com/submit/314756/

#poetry

Thanks for the compliment!

An after-poem on the process of researching your genealogy, inspired by "Ruins" by Torrin Anaïs (@psycheascends.bsky.social).

#afterpoem #BlueskyPoetry #poem #poetry #poetsofbluesky

It’s true that lingering in the past too much can inhibit your future, but if you know what to look for, it can also predict what's to come.

Go back to harvest the best parts of what you've lost, then leave.

#Poem #Poetry #Poetryprompt #Writingprompt #BlueskyPoetry #PoetryCommunity

Liberation from home,
Roaming the world in freedom.
Being able to write your own life,
With no one else to cause strife.

#vss365 #liberation #poetry #poetsofbluesky

A poem on parents struggling to accept children change as they grow up.

#blueskypoetry #bskypoets #poems #poetsofbluesky #poetry

Lilies Haiku

#blueskypoetry #bskypoets #haiku #poetsofbluesky #poetry

Decided to make a haiku inspired by playing Killer Chat.

#bskypoets #haiku #killerchat #poetry

"Forgetting A Relative," my first blackout poem I made today.

#blackoutpoetry #bskypoets #poetry #poetsofbluesky

A poem about parental expectations.

#blueskypoetry #bskypoets #poetry #poetsofbluesky