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Jen Thorne
@jenthorne.bsky.social
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In real life, I'm a working mother of two, with a boring job in IT.

On here, I am a poet, writer, artist, and crafter!
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jenthorne.bsky.social
I've been trying to get a #petrarchan to work all week, and I finally think I've done it for today's #dilemmas/decisions #promptcombo

Thanks to @hool415.bsky.social for the prompt and to @daveashleypoet.bsky.social for the form.
Stalled I freeze where familiar pavements meet, Two equal roads that circle back to home, Familiar paths lie safe when I’m alone, Yet choice itself becomes a jagged beat. My lungs revolt, each breath a broken sheet, My hands shake hard, my pulse begins to roam, The world tilts sharp; I’m caged within its dome, And silence hammers panic’s cruel repeat. Sometimes he comes, my anchor in the storm, His hand that steadies tremor in my chest, Guiding me from the corner’s rigid form. No path is worse, no path is more or less, But sameness shatters, choice becomes a storm, That traps my body in my mind’s distress.
December 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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malformed-poetry.bsky.social
Woohoo!!! My #poem “ryegrass” is available now on Sublunary Review!!

I’m really excited, this is one of my favorites from my unpublished collection.

www.sublunaryreview.com/home/ryegrass
ryegrass — Sublunary Review
A poem by Malachy Moran
www.sublunaryreview.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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darthorne.bsky.social
@po3try.bsky.social thank you for the prompt. I'm still quite new to sharing.

#RetroArtPrompt #síorghlas #evergreen #christmastree @artbyseranya.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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darthorne.bsky.social
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a rough night.

@blueskypoetry.bsky.social

#BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP48

#poetry #poetrycommunity #Glintingcorner
December 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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darthorne.bsky.social
The hardest #Decision we make every day. Thank you @hool415.bsky.social

#promptcombo #dilemma
December 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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darthorne.bsky.social
If this is a dud, feel free to send it back.
@paintbuywords.bsky.social

#vss365 #prompt #recall
December 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
jenthorne.bsky.social
😂😂
December 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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darthorne.bsky.social
Scientific examination

@ourpoetryx.bsky.social
#OurPoetryX #poetry #Examine #sciencepoetry
December 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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madp03t.bsky.social
Something leaves,
then pulled back it is.
What was settled rises,
orders turned around.
Into older motion the body slips.
Habits step forward,
decisions thinning behind them.
Finished, it seemed,
undone it becomes.

#vss365 #poetry #prompt #Recall #5amwritersclub #writing
December 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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bithipaulauthor.bsky.social
I wanted to die before you
though I was the younger one
but you're so herculean
when it came to bearing pain
I knew the day would come
and it came, Maa
I was left in a world without you
I will always #recall and regret
not being able to hold your warm hands
as you left

#vss365
December 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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ignorantfairy.bsky.social
imprisoned faeries
casting off infernal glow
boundless wings flutter

dreaming under siege
demons crowding hope's valleys
drowned by glaciers' force

yuletide rolling in
Krampus leading merry charge
conquering lost sparks

pagan spirits shine
night of approaching solstice
peace in smallest worlds
A large hall filled with people, stalls and tents
December 17, 2025 at 1:59 AM
jenthorne.bsky.social
Two very harmonious prompts today from @sonnetsmith.bsky.social and @vssdaily.bsky.social

#vssdaily #prompt #beak
#WildWalkPrompt #Blue-tit
#writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #birds
Drama at the Feeder The feeder sways in the morning light, the blue-tits dart in, wings quick as thought. Seeds scatter like tiny promises as the magpie plummets, broad shadow, sharp beak, claiming the perch as a throne. They meet in a flurry of feathers, a quarrel of hunger and pride. The air rings with small defiance, against larger arrogance. Around them, the garden watches this noisy clash of wills. Sparrows chatter their commentary from the safety of the washing line. Crows are stealthy spectators, hunting below for the spoils of war. Wood pigeons coo their approval of the morning's entertainment. And when the seeds are gone, only silence remains, a truce written in empty husks.
December 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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po3try.bsky.social
hello friends, welcome to #RetroArtPrompt week 20 for dec 13th - 19th

huge thanks to Nya (@artbyseranya.bsky.social) for letting me host this week!

it's snowfalltime, so let's go off-piste with our words!
(links and info daily)

#RAPwinner shall best nail the theme “warm winter chills”

enjoy! <3
#RetroArtPrompt week 20 dec 13-19 theme - warm winter chills 13th - jólakötturinn 14th - wassail / glühwein 15th - qaggaq 16th - krampus 17th - síorghlas 18th - reflections 19th - heartfyre <3
December 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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alibutterfly.bsky.social
#vss365 #prompt #monotonous #illicit #memory #poetry #blueskypoets

oh, how I long
for the monotony
of normality.
the reliability
of routine.
spare me from
the injury of
the illicit.
the memory of
madness.
that I may find
a sanctuary serene.
December 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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youngliz.bsky.social
#vss365

Grieving for my son
trying to create Christmas
for his children -
their mother only ashes
and a #memory.
December 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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darthorne.bsky.social
Homage to a great

@ourpoetryx.bsky.social
#OurPoetryX #poetry #wandering
December 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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darthorne.bsky.social
Life isn't a fairytale.

@blueskypoetry.bsky.social

#BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP48

#poetry #poetrycommunity #GoldenThread
December 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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darthorne.bsky.social
My first attempt at prompts
@paintbuywords.bsky.social

#vss365 #prompt #Memory
December 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
jenthorne.bsky.social
I have given up the notion that I will ever inspire a love poem, so I wrote my own (before I started working on making my poetry more concise!).

Thank you to @poetickunal.bsky.social for hosting.

@blueskyrelay.bsky.social
#Blueskyrelay #Prompt #Love
#LovePoem
The love poem I wanted   My bejumpered, bespectacled beauty With corn silk hair a crowning halo, Shining above a graceful landscape: Eyes the summer pools, In which my heart swims. Lips a field of poppies, Mesmerising, undulating, dangerously tempting.  Cheeks the rosy apples offered by witches  Sustaining me on my journey   How you burn every room with your fire, How you break every bridge that won’t stand, How you rise from each fall, climbing higher, How you conquer with will, not with hand.   My bejumpered, bespectacled beauty.  Reaches out arms that embrace  with warmth, strength, longing.  Sheltering those within their reach From the cares and harms of the world. There I escape the boundary of my being My heart is wrapped inside. Captive, captivated.   Trapped forever, content to be so.    How you wrestle each problem with reason, How you kindle a smile through the pain, How you battle the night and its demons, How you rise up to fight once again.   My bejumpered, bespectacled beauty  Whose passion could shatter the moon And replace the sun with a fire more fierce Blackening my nights and  Scorching my soul with bright embers. My heart is warmed by their glow. They light the way ahead. Illuminating our path, Together through the dark.    How I love you with all that I am, How I breathe only under your skies, How I follow wherever you stand, How my world lives and dies in your eyes.
December 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
jenthorne.bsky.social
A great first prompt from
@paintbuywords.bsky.social, thank you.

#vss365 #prompt #Memory
#illustration #charcoal #scarf
The Scarf - a charcoal drawing of a scarf and poem: Found folded in a charity shop bin, smelling faintly of lavender and dust. Each stitch hums a name I’ll never know fingers that looped love into wool. Now I wear it, and it warms me twice: once from the yarn, once from the memory of being made for someone.
December 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
I would love to feature three of your unoublished poems, short fictiond, artworks on the theme of "endings"
bsky.app/profile/thep...
thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 6d
Don’t miss @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social’s submission opportunity. Paul is a fine editor. His online periodical, The Starbeck Orion, mixes written & spoken poetry. The #NotAdvent theme suits these dark times. Share the opportunity, repost & send him your best stuff #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky
thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 11d
SUBMISSION OPPORTUNITY. The Starbeck Orion is asking for #NotAdvent departure, disappearance, breakout, abandonment, withdrawal, exodus, retreat, evacuation, absence, Extinction Event. Closing date extended to 16th December.
Here are contribution details:

open.substack.com/pub/the880/p...
December 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
jenthorne.bsky.social
@onlypoemsmag.bsky.social - I steal mine!
Borrowed Light   The moon wears  A stolen shimmer. Sunlight softened  Like breath on glass.    I walk through its spill,  Barefoot on dew. Each step a theft  Of silver.    Trees hold their shadows  Stretching like memory  Across the skin of night. Aching to be seen.    I am A flicker in the dark,  Carrying what I can  Of the light that isn’t mine.
December 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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victoriaspires.bsky.social
Very lucky to have had poems selected for two gorgeous anthologies, both out just in time for Christmas.

One poem in @blackcatpress.bsky.social's nature anthology 'The Water Knows I Love You' and two in @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social's annual Christmas/winter anthology. Fantastic writers in each! 👌🏼✨
December 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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davidbirch.bsky.social
Morning @hool415.bsky.social and many thanks for your excellent #dilemmas/decisions #PromptCombo. A bit pushed for time this week so this is one posted a few months ago but it does deal with one of the toughest decisions a man has to make
December 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
jenthorne.bsky.social
I'm really excited and so happy to say that the marvellous @helenivory.bsky.social has selected one of my poems to be published in the @inksweatandtears.co.uk 12 Days of Christmas feature.
If you don't already, follow them and look out for my poem on the 21st ❤️
December 15, 2025 at 4:00 AM