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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦 @taryntime.bsky.social · Sep 21

One thing about having severe epilepsy, you will never live alone. You are safest with people around, so accept community with open arms.

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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦 @taryntime.bsky.social · Sep 11

#vss365 Sept 10 bearable #disability #spooniepoetry #painpoetry #chronichealth #pain #tanka #skypoetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity

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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦 @taryntime.bsky.social · Sep 9

#vss365 wrapping #horrorpoetry #darkpoetry #deathpoems

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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦 @taryntime.bsky.social · Sep 9

September, back to #vss365 #power #skypoets #queerpoets #disabledpoet #chronichealthpoetry #tanka #poetrycommunity

Black text on gradient blue-grey background reads: “Ocean View by Taryn Smith
Temperamental wind
Powerful but changeable
Open emotion
Reminiscent of my own
Pain washing in with the tides”

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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦 @taryntime.bsky.social · Jun 15

🤪😁😂💕Hilarious but also eww what an image hahahah! Hope this one didn’t come from personal experience lol 😆

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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦 @taryntime.bsky.social · Jun 15

The Un-Masquerade
By Taryn Smith

Unpack all the masks
Today our true spirits dance
Together freely
Erasing expectations
Ourselves new and green again

#vss365 #self #mentalhealth #tanka #dailyhaikuprompt #green #writingcommunity #queerpoet

A blue-purple camas flower with a green centre is open against a background of vibrant green leaves and grass and some light brown dirt. Some closed buds surround the opened flower.

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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦 @taryntime.bsky.social · Jun 15

#vss365 #slash TW: #selfharm *Please reach out for help if you or someone you know is at risk of harm. In 🇨🇦 this is a solid list of helplines: findahelpline.com/countries/ca 💕 #mentalhealth #poetry #writingcommunity #queerpoet

Black text on light grey background reads “Dark Thoughts

By Taryn Smith

Uncomfortably numb
She sat alone in her room
Safe from the screaming
Terrified of her thoughts
She tried drowning them out
Momentarily distracted
She was in a nightclub dancing
Til’ the screams were directed at her:
“Turn that racket down”
Rocking herself in silence
Hoping for tears that never came
She saw the razor in her bathroom..
Just then a text from Sam:
“Miss you, wanna FaceTime?”
“Sam, I almost slashed my leg again!”
“Bestie! Your parents?”
“Dunno..I just wanted to feel something”

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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦 @taryntime.bsky.social · Jun 14

Solid idea, I will look into it, thank you😊

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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦 @taryntime.bsky.social · Jun 14

Aggravating! This happens to me frequently, as my disabilities are hidden until they’re not. I’m getting better at telling people when I’m crashing, but it can be uncomfortable when I don’t know the people very well. Here for you if you need someone to talk about it. Hard to find people who get it

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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦 @taryntime.bsky.social · Jun 13

Thank you for the stimulating prompts and your own writing; I have been feeling very inspired and excited to write lately. It’s been great to have an islander as the host.

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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦 @taryntime.bsky.social · Jun 13

#vss365 shed #queerpoetry #writingcommunity #somaticpoetry #skypoets #poetry

Black text on a white background reads: “The Shift by Taryn Smith.
The tingling sensation
Crept across my surface
Like tiny pin-pricks
Deeper
Into my heaving body
Under the pain
I found excitement
A deep desire for change
Layer by layer
I shed my old skin
To embrace me”

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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦 @taryntime.bsky.social · Jun 13

Oops! This was meant for the business page. Leaving it because it’s June and why not jazz up the poetry page with a pride post! ☺️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦 @taryntime.bsky.social · Jun 13

Happy Pride Month everyone! #loveislove #transrightsarehumanrights🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

AllThingsLGBT @allthingslgbt.com · Jun 9

Pride Month 💪 #pride #pridemonth 🏳‍🌈

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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦 @taryntime.bsky.social · Jun 12

#vss365 shape #queerpoet #westcoastpoetry #queerlove Thank you to @loopypeanut.bsky.social for the photo. #littlequalicumfalls

Poem in black text on white background reads: “Water Spirits by Taryn Smith.
Falling in love
Like slow streams
With their own ecosystems
Thriving
There was beauty
In our waters connecting
And fear of losing old shapes
Of water
Beloved babbling brooks
Special fishing spots
To something unknown and great
Together we explore and create
New shapes
Hidden hot springs
Unexplored shores
Falling in love with all of our shapes

Two roaring streams connect over wet green mossy rocks. Evergreen trees stand tall on the far right side of the water.

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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦 @taryntime.bsky.social · Jun 12

Beautifully put! I would love to see more of all of this too!

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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦 @taryntime.bsky.social · Jun 11

#LGBTQWriteAThon June 11:
I’d love to see more asexual rep!

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · Jun 11

#LGBTQWriteAThon June 11:

I'm always eager for more non-binary rep!

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · Jun 11

#LGBTQWriteAThon June 11: Share some rep you'd like more of in books!

#QueerWriters #pride #writesky #writingcommunity

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AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · Jun 11

#LGBTQWriteAThon June 11:

I'm always eager for more non-binary rep!

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · Jun 11

#LGBTQWriteAThon June 11: Share some rep you'd like more of in books!

#QueerWriters #pride #writesky #writingcommunity

#LGBTQWriteAThon
June 1-30
Hosts:
BlueSky: @amaralynn @rebeccafrostwrites
Instagram: @LGBTQWriteAThon @amarajlynn @krakengoddess

June 11: Rep you'd like more of

Use the tag and follow the feed on BlueSky!
Tag @LGBTQWriteAThon in photos on Instagram!

Background image: a painted progress pride flag

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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦 @taryntime.bsky.social · Jun 11

Question for my fellow poets who write on iPhones: I see a lot of poets uploading poems with a simple plain background. It looks nice and you can get more words in then you can on Bluesky. I come from Android world, so I’m wondering how best to do this on my iPhone. Any thoughts appreciated! ☺️

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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦 @taryntime.bsky.social · Jun 11

Dedicated to everyone having complicated feelings around Father’s Day. ❤️‍🩹

🚨This is my 1st time using a third party app to share poetry, so if you can’t see the whole thing, after clicking, please let me know!
vss365 scrape #queerpoetry #familytrauma #rawpoetry #queerpoet #poetry #writingcommunity

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Share your original poetry, discover new poems daily, and make meaningful connections with a global community of poets and poetry enthusiasts. Join today!

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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦 @taryntime.bsky.social · Jun 10

@loopypeanut.bsky.social

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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦 @taryntime.bsky.social · Jun 10

“They Thought We Were Lesbians”
The vulnerability of skin
Of going deeper than that
To discuss attraction
And gender
In a parade
Or a festival
At the risk of backlash
From both inside
And outside the community
When I flash my Pansexual bracelet
Holding the hand
Of my Asexual love

#vss365 #pride

A light skin hand wearing a pink, yellow and blue beaded bracelet, with the letters “PAN” for Pansexual on three of the beads is holding hands with a darker skinned hand. The darker skinned hand has a black ring with red on the inside of the ring, worn on the middle finger. Black rings worn on the middle finger of the right hand as pictured, are a symbol of asexuality.

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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦 @taryntime.bsky.social · Jun 4

Cool mist o’er the strait
Chilled to the bones we sail through
Ocean orbiting
Tickled by salty sea spray
Eyes set on the horizon
#verseve #poetrychallenge #temperature #vss365 strait #dailyhaikuchallenge spray #tanka #poetrysky #westcoastpoetry

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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦 @taryntime.bsky.social · Jun 2

Floating amongst stars
Curious of earthlings
The splinters of ourselves
That we toss, leave uncared for
When they don’t fit with our world

#vss365 splinter #tanka #micropoetry #blueskypoetry #writingcommunity #SkyPoets #queerpoet #aliens

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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦 @taryntime.bsky.social · May 28

It’s dark here
Take my hand
You won’t get lost
Tell me about this place
That keeps pulling you back
Sleepless nights
Fear lives here
Hiding around corners

BRAIN GLITCH
Blinding pain
I help you out of the dark place quickly
Running to fight my pain

#vss365 #poetrysky #chronichealth #mentalhealth

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Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦 @taryntime.bsky.social · May 15

From my 3am battle royale with a migraine this morning:

Passing through my brain
Like stabbing knives and ice picks
Overwhelming pain
Building my immunity
With mindfulness strategies

#dailyhaikuprompt passing
#vss365 immunity
#tanka
#tankathursday
#micropoetry
#blueskypoetry
#chronichealth

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