Here's one about one of my maverick heroes for #PromptCombo #Mavericks. Thanks @janpsolivagant.bsky.social!

Hello @jenthorne.bsky.social and all! Here's my #promptcombo #stand. A work in progress. Keep going back and forth between prose poem and stanzas.

Grateful to have been selected for this. Looking forward to working with the WFOP calendar team! I know I'm following some pretty impressive past editors. www.wfop.org #poetry #poets

Thank you @rfsmith.bsky.social for this week's #PromptCombo, #RealPeople. Here's my contribution.

Contributor copy of the Spring '26 issue of Bramble Lit Mag arrive today. Happy to have my poem "Unmoved" among so many other great pieces. www.wfop.org/bramble-lit-...

Great #promptcombo Jen! Here's my contribution. #monument @jenthorne.bsky.social

Ha! Yes. Tongue in cheek. We have a goldendoodle. Though there certainly are days! Thanks so much for your kind words. Love the idea of an ethical taxidermist, but sure sounds gross.

Thanks, Paul for this week's #promptcombo #NothingMakesSenseNowadays. Here's my contribution. @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

Love this week's #prayer #promptcombo. Thanks @dragonslayerma.bsky.social! Here's my contribution.

Happy Monday. Here's my #home #promptcombo contribution. Did a little tweaking of this one from its original publication in The Avocet last fall. Thanks @rfsmith.bsky.social!

Hello @victoriaspires.bsky.social. Here's my #inthestyleof #promptcombo.

Hello @janpsolivagant.bsky.social. Here's one for your #TotemTree #PromptCombo. Thanks!

Happy Monday! Here's my #NatureHasWeapons #promptcombo. Thank you @dragonslayerma.bsky.social

Here's my #visions #PromptCombo. Inspired by the movie Burnt by the Sun. Thanks, @rfsmith.bsky.social!

Here's my #poemsabout #inbloom. @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk This just appeared in America Magazine www.americamagazine.org/poetry/2026/...

Thanks for this week's #Nothing #PromptCombo @janpsolivagant.bsky.social! My poem here appeared in the Winter '25 issue of @doorisajarmag.bsky.social.

Here's my #free40 #promptcombo. Hope it doesn't offend. @hool415.bsky.social

Happy #smallpoemsunday! Here’s one from my recently published chapbook. @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

I've never posted twice in one week to #promptcombo, but I think this one fits the theme of #powerless and the times we live in. @rfsmith.bsky.social

Thanks @rfsmith.bsky.social for this week’s #promptcombo #powerless. Here’s one about the powerlessness that comes with an aging body.

Happy Monday. Thanks @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for this week's #AChangeOfUse #promptcombo. This was inspired during a trip a couple years ago to visit our daughter studying in New Zealand.

I'm only now learning that #smallpoemsunday is a thing (thanks to a lovely posting I just saw from @victoriaspires.bsky.social). Here's my first crack, and it's even about a Sunday.

I initially thought too narrowly about #ecstasy and was going to sit this one out. Then I remembered the ecstasy of a boy enjoying a bit of illicit freedom. (The Bellevue Queen was a restaurant along the banks of the Missouri River.) Thanks, @dragonslayerma.bsky.social, for this fun #PromptCombo!

Thanks @hool415.bsky.social for this week's #promptcombo #tracks.

As true and necessary now as when Thomas Merton wrote it nearly 50 years ago. #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #resist #thomasmerton

Good morning! Here is my #promptcombo #moment. This is from my recent chapbook. @rfsmith.bsky.social

So cool to be featured in my town's newspaper. #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Stopped by @woodlandpattern.bsky.social book center in Milwaukee and was happy to see my new chapbook on display. Such an awesome store and promoter of poetry!

Very kind words from my publisher at Rockwood Press and a nice reminder about my book signing on Saturday at WordHaven BookHouse in Sheboygan, Wis. www.wordhaven-bookhouse.com/new-events/s...

Wishing all of my Bluesky writing friends much joy and plenty of quiet this holiday season! #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity