Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom

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On the the #BBC world service -
"Can poetry change how we think, feel and act? We're looking at how poetry is being used in some innovative and unexpected ways."

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Crikey! Likely to bloom here in the next few weeks.

Photo: An ICM closeup shot of a pink and white magnolia bloom in spring

Our magnolia is blooming! ~ #icm #icmphotography #magnolia #fineartphotography #bloomscrolling #pinkmon #coloraday #ECK

Classic!

Painting: An abstract watercolor in portrait orientation featuring angles and some geometric shapes; colors are muted greens and blues

Working out a new idea with this piece ~ #intuitivepainting #Abstractwatercolor #womensart #intuitiveabstract #intuitiveart #painting #traditionalart #abstract #abstractpainting #bluetue #coloraday #ECK

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Longer edition of a previous haiku! Some great work today and all week as ever!👍

@hool415.bsky.social
#promptcombo #free40

You're welcome!

Many thanks, Sue! 🙏😁

Most welcome! 😊

This is Tuesday's offering. The name of a band I used to really like, gave me the starting point. Have a nice day.

@hool415.bsky.social #promptcombo #free40

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For this week's #PromptCombo #Free40 - a tricky challenge from @hool415.bsky.social - I think I've just scraped in under the limit. Will try to catch up with others later.

I love the bold music and mischievous sensuality of this piece. 😁🙏🌠

You're welcome! Crows are also quite amusing, and raven vocalizations sometimes have the quality of a Python sketch. 😅

Also sounds like those occasions when you run out road and/or f-ks to give in your professional life, and that can happen well before retirement these days, alas. 🙏🌠😁

A synaesthetic delight, Fidel! 🙏🌠😊

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So well & wittily observed! 😁🌠

Pithy and profound! 🙏🏆

Feel better soon, Jen! Pretty good use of such recovery time, I'd say. 👍😁

"All you can meet!" - saw that once at such an establishment near Frankfurt Airport! 😁 I'd certainly go for the "eyeball-tickling retinal scan." 😅🌠 This nails that godawful corporate-speak!

Evening @hool415.bsky.social - thanks for this nudge of a prompt. Here is a bit of silliness from two mates I see on my dog walk everyday. 😊 #PromptCombo #free40

@hool415.bsky.social
#PromptCombo
#free40

Hi Jools, I couldn't resist a little contribution

@hool415.bsky.social

My contribution to #PromptCombo #free40

Trying

I tried to shower
again today.

To get up,
clean up,
wake up.

Instead I stayed down.

Chased prompts
and planned what
I'll do

tomorrow.

@hool415.bsky.social
#PromptCombo
#free40

Your Birthday

lost daughter

small girl once held so close in the dark

forever touched now by unfathomable distance

whilst she holds her anger
closer than

her lost mother

@hool415.bsky.social for #PromptCombo #Free40 (37 words excl. title). I don't usually write poems like this. Just messing around with those easiest of targets, corporate gobbledygook & corporate surveillance. With ASMR thrown in as a bonus.

PS: I do quite like ASMR videos sometimes.

Soon there will be lambs signs of spring light chasing calves chasing each other even the fallen trees bring new life soon there will be lambs wild garlic transforms the woods nettles regrow the world beyond desolate cold

Ju's #promptcombo #free40 this morning was tricky! I had a go at something seasonal, trying to remember that the real world rests and restores regardless of human ignorance and stupidity. Thanks @hool415.bsky.social for the prompt I'll try to read others later! #poems #poetry #writingcommunity

My #promptcombo #free40 for @hool415.bsky.social could almost bookend @dragonslayerma.bsky.social lovely poem. Written early when the noisy pigeons woke me up.

Freedom within limits from @hool415.bsky.social for this week's #PromptCombo #Free40. Here's my response, off-the-cuff if a touch melancholy. Looking forward to reading other responses from the #PoetryCommunity during the week