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poetrader.bsky.social
@poetrader.bsky.social
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Horse lover, gardener, nature and animal lover, published poet, perennial black sheep.
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#catboxsunday #catsofbluesky

Tais speaking: Nabi thinks she's so smart. Hah! Look what the box says. Advertising can't lie, right?

Nabi here: this is not the original contents. That was horse vitamins....
An orange and white cat peeks out of a cardboard box full of brown paper. The box is labeled Smartpak.
November 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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#wildwalkprompt #tanka #blueskypoetry

Wilding of the green
Tamed herbs meant to spice the pot
Now grow as chaos
What was meant for cook's magic
Now a source for witches' spells
A collection of grey pots overgrown with a variety of green herbs
November 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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#Poetry #Blueskypoetry
The Squash Field Why plant unless to harvest Why seed unless to grow? He plowed his squash crop under, And why, I do not know. It served a second purpose- Fed many a coal black crow. He plowed it under once again, And why, I do not know. Perhaps it is good farming, Perhaps he hates the crow; But squash and birds are gone now, It saddens me to know. In front of a grey tobacco barn, a flock of crows picks over a sandy field under a bright, blue sky.
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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#trilisy #trilisypoetry #blueskypoetry

Birth split weed
Silk swaddling
Butterflies
maribean.bsky.social MariBean @maribean.bsky.social · 2d
Milkweed pods and seeds.
2 milkweed pods, one open and sending seeds into the air. The background is a blurred beach and water, blue sky.
November 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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I am Taiz, and this is how I'm spending #Caturday morning. Just wait till one of them comes down stairs! They'll go whoopsy...

Nabi here: she doesn't plan well. They're all down in the kitcben already. I'm off to scrounge toast crumbs.
An orange and white cat lies across a carpeted stair awaiting someone coming down who may not pay attention.
November 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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#Foodonfriday #Alphabetchallenge #WeekVforVowel

Homemade Orange Marmalade.
Tea anyone?
A jar of marmalade flanked by a teacup and a small teapot with lemons painted on them on a blue and white mat.
November 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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#ForestFriday #Nature #Florida

Different from my usual northern woods, a forest hike in Florida two years ago.
A sandy path winds through palmettos and trees with moss hanging from them.
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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#Autumn #Alphabetchallenge #Weekvforvowel #Nature

Today's garden. Yesterday's fog.

Orange leaves of Chinese dogwood and Azalea. And next year's bud on Rhododedron Nova Zembla.
Backlit orange Chinese dogwood leaves, with purple leaves of the same tree in the foreground. Various shades of gold, orange and brick red on a fall azalea. Closeup of leaves, stem, and bud of a rhododendron. A road curves gently away with evergreens on the left, bushes and trees on the right and a hill in the distance. Stretching across a middle distance meadow is a thick bank of fog.
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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To all my Bluesky friends. It's Thanksgiving. I am so thankful for your photographs, your writing, and your crazy cats. I hope you all have a wonderful day, whether it's Thanksgiving where you are or not. I love sharing time with you.
November 27, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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#Rosewednesday #Flowers

Still trying to bloom. Names in alt
Two pink rosebuds from Jertrude Jekyll with spent pieris blooms and roseleaves Two coral colored buds from a Coral Kockout rose. One is opening, one tightly closed. A bud from a Red Knockout rose. The bottom petals have fallen open and a raindrop is at the base of one, like a tiny teardrop.
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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#trilisy #trilisypoetry #poetry

Cold Comfort

Paper bark
Thin blanket
Old birch bones
A leafless birch tree stands to the right of a dark tree, both seen against a distant, fog covefed hill and under a clearing sky.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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#trilisy #trilisypoetry #poetry

The Old Roof

Sloughed slate shard
Now fallen
Duty done
A brick building in some disrepair with a damaged slate roof.
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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#Alphabetchallenge #Weekvforvowels
#Catsofbluesky

The cat is On the bag; the cat is In the bag; the bag is Under the cat; the cat and the bag are One.
A tuxedo tabby cat nestled in a collapsed gym bag.
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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#Alphabetchallenge #Weekvforvowels

Oranges and lemons soaking overnight to become O for Orange Marmalade tomorrow.
Bright orange snipits and pieces that will be boiled down into marmalade after an overnight soak in sugar water.
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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#trilisypoetry #trilisy #poetry

Lacework sky
Dawn branches
Winter tree
A trunk runs diagonally from bottom left to top right. Behind it is a tracery of dark small branches through which a psstel pink and blue early morning sky shows.
November 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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#birds #nature

Sunbird

Paint your pretty lips,
My lovely,
You will never be
With all the paints in all the world
As beautiful as me.
bergamax.bsky.social BERGΛMΛX @bergamax.bsky.social · 5d
Lovely Sunbird (Aethopyga shelleyi) in Puerto Princesa, Philippines

The Lovely sunbird is a bird endemic to the Philippines. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist, lowland forests, and tropical moist montane forests.

Photo by Gid Ferrer [FB]

#birds #nature #wildlife #lovely
November 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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#wildwalkprompt #festive #blueskypoetry

She wears deception
Lipstick leaves dress as flowers
Her too small bloomlets
Yellow insignificance
Our eyes believe pretty lies
Photo of bright red poinsettias. The flowers are the small yellow green globes at the center. The red "flowers" are actually leaves or bracts.
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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#haiku #dailyhaiku
#nature

Bountiful harvest
Stalks of uncut silver corn
Against green black pines
Foreground is tops of silvery, dried, standing corn stalks, unharvested, beyond is a forest of dark green white pine, all under a grey-blue sky
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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#promptcombo #onroofs
#blueskypoetry

Ben Nevis' Reply

Leave your grand and glorious
Your ostentatious world roof,
Trembling and upthrusting.
I am immovable.
I do not quake.
hool415.bsky.social Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 6d
Hullo @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social and to #promptcombo #onroofs
Love the theme, as great as Fidel’s from last week!
Ben Nevis First seen from a petrol forecourt as perching on top the next block’s trading estate: it’s not a good look, this mountain’s all slouch, no poised, sky-scratching nib of summit, but a fist of dull clenched crayons, though I can just pick out its small menagerie of pepper-corn birds. There should be more aloof arrogance here for I stand at the foot of the roof of the land, yet this peak is drawn and redrawn behind net-curtain clouds: an unexpected shyness tentatively peeping back and forth.
November 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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#Magentamonday #Autumn #Alphabetchallenge #WeekVforvowel

Autumnal Azalea leaves in shades of magenta, wine, plum, and purple-black.
Azalea leaves have turned color with the season. They are now magenta, wine, plum and dark purplish black.
November 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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#haiku #dailyhaiku #blueskypoetry

Autumn's bridal veil
A cloud come to the wedding
Fog hides the mountain
Foreground is dried, tan rushes, middle ground is barren dark trees, and behind these the vague outline if a fog shrouded mountain against a grey sky. Haiku to accompany: Autumn's bridal veil A cloud come to the wedding Fog hides the mountain
November 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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#caturday #catsofbluesky #alphabetchallenge #weekuforunloved

"Why will nobody open this for me? Where have all the humans gone? I am abandoned!"
A cat sits in shadow looking up at a door she wants someone to open for her.
November 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Moments like these cleanse the soul.

Six incredibly humbling weeks in the Himalayas. Excited to share what I saw with you! 🏔️ 🌅 ✌🏽

#eastcoastkin #scape #nature #art #sunset #animals #mountains #himalayas #travel #hiking #stormhour #friday #photohour #bluesky #photography #stunday #landscape #nepal
November 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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#Caturday #Catsofbluesky

Nabi here: mom asks why I am in the sink. Because it's nice to curl up in for a bath. Where else am I supposed to wash? But NO WATER, PLEASE.
A tuxedo tabby stands in a white, oval sink surrounded by black granite. In a bright, ochre bathroom.
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Missed #Rockintuesday, but here's an outcrop crowned with bare November trees and green white pine for #Landscape #Nature
Above a jagged, stepped rock outcrop are bare, leafless trees, some fluffy green white pine and a clear blue sky.
November 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM