Greetings, for #fragmentsfriday a bit of a throwaway written after the passing of Dolores OโRiordan. Many thanks to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for hosting.
This weekโs Friday Video featured U2โs Stay (Faraway, So Close!), a recording heavily influenced by the song stylings of Frank Sinatra.
And if you look, you look through me
And when you talk, you talk at me
And when I touch you, you don't feel a thing
m.youtube.com/watch?v=UGAO...
Grateful to America Magazine for publishing my poem "Bad Timing."
www.americamagazine.org/poetry/2026/...
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
A new verse from returning contributor J. R. Wilkerson:
๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐ด๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐๐๐ฐ๐ต
got my spine
got these thumbs
got this family phone plan
โ J. R. Wilkerson
Greetings, my #fragmentsfriday contribution today for
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
#poetry #zoo #primates #magic
Photo of a poem I wrote. It was a timed exercise set for me by a MH support worker. Text: 5 mins #3 Sad songs. Sad little bird. I held open my hand and you folded like fingers. Iโm still sore about it. Thinking about that time you said โforever forgetโ and it meant nothing, but fell like a tree inside me. I wonder if it is ever winter where you are. Like, does it ever snow? Is it a forest, and are you there, with red breasted robins all along your arm, like a postcard? Or are all your trees blossomed and pink, like the best of all possible springs?
So good.
Many thanks to Kellie and the folks at @rfpress.bsky.social. In honor of this issue, am posting a pic of the โ94 Beretta that got me through college. Sweet ride, though the floorboard would get waterlogged every time it rained. โ๏ธ
Bonjour.
The shortest month of the year deserves the smallest and mightiest issue of the year. Tell your local short king.
www.roifaineantpress.com/blog
#writingcommunity
My contribution to #fragmentsfriday for
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
#haiku #senryu #poetry #micropoetry
guy who found my phone
called mom,
dadโs
old numbers
rank strangers,
everyone
Dear beautiful internet people:
Not to be overdramatic, but if you ever cared for me at all I beseech you to check out my lil poem โbloodworksโ as well as some other amazing scribblers @rfpress.bsky.social this Sunday 2/23. ๐ฉธ๐ฆ
Todayโs Friday Video featured Robert Nesta Marley, born this day in 1945
๐ฏ๐ฒ
#BobMarley
The Wailers will be there
The Damned, The Jam, The Clash
Maytals will be there
Dr. Feelgood too
m.youtube.com/watch?v=SBAi...
our best
friends
arenโt blind,
but impartial
to hubris
#paintku
#senryu
For those who observe, from a wintry corner of Virginia:
All on that charming coast is no bitter snow and frost,
Like the lands of Virginia-ginia, O;
There streams for ever flow, and there flowers for ever blow,
And alas! I am weary, weary O!
- The Slaves Lament
#RobertBurns
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
#Paintku Tuesdays Week 3
Todayโs pick: Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876)
I fell in love with the painting the first time I saw it, back in high school.
the laughter
of dancing couples
twilight long
Feel free to join in with your own haiku.
joie de vivre
joined in
adornment,
flecks of
daylight
#haiku
#paintku
Enjoying the new #RitesandTrials anthology from @thebrokenspine.co.uk and Iโm chuffed to have a lil piece here from my wayward youth. So many great writers here!.
Todayโs Friday Video featured Bruce Springsteenโs Nebraska album, not to be confused with his time with E-Street Band:
License, registration
I ainโt got none
But I got a clear conscience
โBout the things that I done
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wpvX...
Todayโs Friday Video featured the B-52โs Rock Lobster, a tune John Lennon credited for getting back in the recording studio in 1980.
According to Lennon, "it sounds just like Ono's music, so I said to meself, 'it's time to get out the old axe and wake the wife up!'"
m.youtube.com/watch?v=n4QS...
A new verse from returning contributor J. R. Wilkerson:
๐ด๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฎ ๐ณ๐ถ๐๐ต
for a
lifetime
heโll remember
to
take the
cannoli
โ J. R. Wilkerson
Reposting this:
Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very rich are a poor bunch of bastards.
- John Steinbeck, East of Eden
A new verse from new contributor J. R. Wilkerson:
๐ฎ๐น๐น ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ดโ๐ ๐ต๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐
came ill-equipped
in mending
the eggman,
his
goo goo
gโjoob
โ J. R. Wilkerson
Cake still going the distance
Nevermore
Going through an Elvis Costello #elviscostello phase
m.youtube.com/watch?v=snPD...
Iโm a sucker for van Gogh, I like to get thisclose to see the paint textures
Beautiful piece, reminds me a bit of the view from the train
A sweep is as lucky as lucky can be
๐
