David Birch

You're very welcome - yes, the discipline of being economical was interesting!

Sadly true. I was relatively lucky

Yes, indeed. We struggle to get it right for people who are near the end of their careers

That's very true. I was grateful for the opportunity to vary tje work I did before finally retiring

Slightly novel to find such brevity in your work, Jan, but this is sharp and lively

Three Haiku on Nature I Consider the drone: Haploid lover, scion of Fibonacci swirls. II Vixen stalking prey, Sun-dazzled, maw agape with Studied playfulness. III Willow’s fitful twitch – Nonchalance of ages at Job’s pained irony. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2014-15

🙏 @hool415.bsky.social #PromptCombo #free40 - This weighs in at 39 😁

#poetry: @Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2014-15

Out all day, will catch up

#Haiku #NatureHaiku #poetrycommunity #BlueSkyPoets

This is great! You've balanced the need for brevity with language that's full of life and movement

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

Gentle, hopefully writing, Andy

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

The language of promo garbage has been duly nailed!

@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.

@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

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.

Very nicely done!

Haha! Thanks for that!

Cheers, Ju. In my case it's been quite prolonged!

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

This is rather beguiling!

Hooked It’s sky-fishing really, a kite: the bait, turning something so insubstantial above into attachable weight. The purity of this tussle over nothing: always a strung-out stalemate.

Hullo @janpsolivagant.bsky.social @rfsmith.bsky.social @dragonslayerma.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social
Tag me @hool415.bsky.social #promptcombo #free40 Post anything but 40 WORDS MAX! It’s micro-write week!Everyone is doing it these days! (Till 4pm Friday)

Form Sucks by S. Reeson The requirement to tick a box to show willing when every end is a beginning less. Indulgence more resistance starlings murmuration into vision. That I am unwilling to jump through hoops can become a sign. Not training but instead rebelling.

Monday, you say?
@hool415.bsky.social
#promptcombo #free40

I am not a fan of restriction.

Heya, Ju. @hool415.bsky.social
Here's my contribution to your fab❤️u❤️lous #free40 Post anything but 40 WORDS MAX! It’s micro-write week for #PromptCombo

36 words including the title!! Big ❤️ Love to everyone.

Thank you so much, Stace

Thank you so much, Debbie

Haha! I suspect @bennewmark.bsky.social would have disallowed the choice in that case

So sorry for the confusion 😕 in choosing the name of an album (by EBTG) snd the singer from a band of the same name

Thanks Rachel!

Penguin Eggs is a great choice!

Street Legal is hugely under-rated

1. Jokerman - Bob Dylan
2. Sailing to Philadelphia - Mark Knopfler
3. Before the Ruin - McCusker, Drever, Woomble
4. Rumour and Sigh - Richard Thompson
5. Idlewild - Everything but the Girl
#FridayFive