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C. Oulens
@owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social
Poet, thinker, dreamer, scribbler… in ascending order
differently logical . . . I sense, I feel, I write . . .
Winner, 3rd Annual Poe-it Like Poe Poetry Contest 2025 by sixdegreesofpoe
For my recent posts: #Oulens

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For #PoemsAbout #DogTags
Will come back later to read others and comment. A slightly long poem today, will understand if you give it a miss. Thank you! 🙏 💫

@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
#Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #poetry
Thrilled to have my poem “the output…err…the outcome (well…whatever…if ever) of a therapy
session” in this #Rites&Trials anthology. Huge thanks to EIC Alan Parry @alanparrywriter.co.uk , @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Many wonderful pieces including by Alan Parry, @pdevonald.bsky.social and more…

#Oulens
Also out today, dual launch of festive short fiction and this coming of age poetry #Slimline #Rites&Trials

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November 29, 2025 at 5:07 AM
white memory flakes
softening cobbled stones
a warmth for gone cold

#SenseWrds
Prompt 151 : Snowfall Dimming Sidewalks

#Oulens #haiku #senryu #monoku
#blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #poems #poetry
November 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
For #PoemsAbout #NoFuture , , , and maybe breaking the hourglass?
Will return later to read others’. Thank you for reading! 🙏💫

@thebrokenspine.co.uk
#Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #poetry
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Beneath the
frolic of words
Above the
mush of verse
was a hymn
without a
language’s syntax
you’d have heard
had you let it in
through your breath

#SenseWrds
Prompt 150: Blessings Misty Hold
#Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #micropoetry #poetry
November 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
November 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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What bounces back
was never gone.

A lake,
a mirror,
a thought too long rehearsed.

Each truth reappears,
distorted or clear,
in the quiet that answers.

#vss365 #reflection #prompt #poetry #blueskypoetry #skypoets #writing #5amwritersclub
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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I’ve Been Meaning To – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

For Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge No. 40, Double Ennead Photo: found at thegardenfixes.com Melissa Is our host and she invites us to - write Double Enneads. The Double Ennead is a form created by Colleen Chesebro for 99-word stories at Carrot…
I’ve Been Meaning To – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
For Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge No. 40, Double Ennead Photo: found at thegardenfixes.com Melissa Is our host and she invites us to - write Double Enneads. The Double Ennead is a form created by Colleen Chesebro for 99-word stories at Carrot Ranch. The Double Ennead is composed of three stanzas of 33 syllables each, for a total of 99.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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“It’s good!” Thoth said.

“It is?”

“Trim a few words, and it’ll be great!”

“It’s a spell?”

“It’s poetry.”

“But I want to be a wizard, not a writer!”

The ibis-headed god laughs. “You are already what you seek: All words are magic. All writers, magicians.”

#vss #sff
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Final thread of all my starter packs for the year by way of thank you to all the people who have helped and supported me this year. First: Great Writers in Search of an Agent starter pack. @shinewoman.bsky.social @clareobrien.bsky.social @tooriekep.bsky.social & many more. Please follow & repost
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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God is a Word
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 AM
a bold tune
caught in the wind at the throat
of a lonesome flute
floatin’
in
a vale of tears

#SenseWrds
Prompt 149: Hollow Surrounding Fearless

#Oulens #haiku #senryu #monoku
#blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #poems #poetry
November 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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So delighted to be in this wonderful anthology which is out now

Great review here: Thanks to Greg Freeman for posting it and also Tim Fellows for making this wonderful anthology

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Coalface scars: poetry anthology marking strike anniversary looks at mining's past and its aftermath | Write Out Loud
Coalface scars: poetry anthology marking strike anniversary looks at mining's past and its aftermath
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November 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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IN CUSTODY OF... 🗣️🎙️

#poetry
#prompt
#spokenword
#whistpr dash
#emoetry hard
#vss365 relevant
#poetrycommunity
#blueskyrelay gaslight
#OurPoetryX foundation
#RetroArtPrompt shadow
#moonmystic heart_song
#2wordprompt type, strong
#firewords280 flouncy, faҫade
#foxprose trapped_under_roots
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
A thought as I thought of “I think, therefore I am” hit me this a.m.—perhaps on account of the #strong tea I brewed—that if I already think & if I already am, is it #relevant to know ‘where’ I am and out of the various #types of wheres, which where would think that I am…
#vss365 #2WordPrompt #Oulens
November 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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No longer #relevent
Are the seasons all four

If it rains it rains
If it shines sun it shines sun

Colourless are the snowflakes
Dead brown the leaves

I don’t care
My pockets are flooded
With rainbows

#vss365
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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#Journal #A.Soul.in.Transit #Notulite

“Behind certain appearances lies the sensitivity of those who know how to surpass themselves„

#ƒred-ƒorge ©

Photography source : U.A.G.
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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do not forsake when rhythm and melody find
a score rich tapestry of happenchance and incidentalisms
not rent a breath schisms we might imagine sold futures with
but rather how ants dreams of being aardvarks one day
i suppose we all know of specificity in the gleams
night sky tombstone alchemies
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Evening Sunday
a bit late for #PoemsAbout #dogtag
And thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
#poems #poetry
have a great week everyone everywhere 🚶🏼‍♂️‍➡️
November 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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∴ skitterd sideways fate
achievable mischief drips
crow-crowned micklewit ∴

#vss365 #haikufeels #senryusunday #leakyfaucet #dukkha
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Thank you @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for last week's stormer. All are welcome to contribute to this week's. I am the host. Please use hashtags ##promptcombo #OnRoofs and tag me @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social:
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Another tiny tale from my grandmother’s childhood for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM