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victoriaspires.bsky.social
@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for this week's #PromptCombo #TakingItUpstairs – from my @salopress.bsky.social book.

Haussmann was the chap who pretty much razed Paris in the 1800s under Napoleon, replacing the medieval street layout with vast boulevards and vistas.
January 16, 2026 at 9:31 AM
daveashleypoet.bsky.social
#emoetry #violated #freeverse #poem #promptcombo #takingitupstairs
January 16, 2026 at 8:15 AM
fhpowellwriter.bsky.social
#promptcombo #TakingItUpstairs
@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 7:31 AM
daveashleypoet.bsky.social
#cassiopeian #awe #promptcombo #takingitupstairs #triolet #poem #TEA
January 15, 2026 at 5:14 PM
wordingway.bsky.social
#promptcombo #TakingItUpstairs
@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
#vss365
∴ taking it up-stairs bounding on counting-game treads risers of choosings ripple beneath feet hands trail, skimbrushing the bifurcating bannister up there they say come-see not see-what toys, paint-chipped unnestled from the manyfold ways scatter’d outside lines of each other’s apprenticed discoveries older than slumbertime, younger than sense and we go, it and shoes in hands mis-counting balusters how many upsee daisies till curiosity decoheres the child-inside branches into plural keepings the adult remembers playtime-chalk-marks scrawled rite-truthings 'cross next-story floorboards up, up forget which way is higher reach set it down fingers find brass-patina twist / pry / yield the hinge-time opens dust-motes in slant light ride in on a wooden horse, one wheel missing the smell of cedar and forgetting this house of selves, ours breathing beyond & beside ∴
January 15, 2026 at 2:00 PM
fhpowellwriter.bsky.social
#promptcombo #TakingItUpstairs
@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 7:21 AM
hool415.bsky.social
Hullo Paul @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social and to #promptcombo
#takingitupstairs

Do you need trigger warnings for the mildly depressing, though I hope it’s still mainly just a little whimsical.
Upstairs I am approaching that tight corner of being old: no one sees early the exact bumpy nature of this land, I guess any breathless pulls of you up the stairs will end, instead be replaced with a more prosaic, stripped back plain out of breath… (unless a Stannah stair lift can power up and allow the energy it will save to still sometimes kiss?) That strange intermediate time coming before one us is perhaps confined to an over-heated room with a single downstairs bed.
January 14, 2026 at 3:19 PM
daveashleypoet.bsky.social
#promptcombo #TakingItUpStairs #madrigal #poem

@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

you know when you write a poem and think this might not be right.. not right at all but still post it
January 14, 2026 at 2:41 PM
daveashleypoet.bsky.social
#wildwalkprompt #fluff #vssdaily #goggle #promptcombo #TakingItUpStairs #madrigal #poem #birding

@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 10:04 AM
rburrows.bsky.social
Morning @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social and #PromptCombo friends. Hope you don’t mind me posting a children’s poem for #TakingItUpstairs. Currently in The Dirigible Balloon - a brilliant free poetry bank for children. #poetry #NationalYearofReading2026 dirigibleballoon.org/poem/Goodnig...
January 14, 2026 at 7:50 AM
fhpowellwriter.bsky.social
#promptcombo #TakingItUpstairs
@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 7:41 AM
daveashleypoet.bsky.social
#Acetic #again #llama #promptcombo #TakingItUpStairs #wildwalkprompt #pennedreveries #vssfantasy #madrigal #poem
@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 11:47 AM
sueimnw.bsky.social
For #PromptCombo #TakingItUpstairs with the incredibly imaginative @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social - this prompt has really thrown me, but...
January 13, 2026 at 11:12 AM
jenthorne.bsky.social
I am loving everyone's take on the #promptcombo #TakingItUpstairs from
@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

Here is my offering.

*posted with the caveat that this was inspired by a tv show, and bears no resemblance to anyone I may know, alive or dead.
The Clothes on the Stairs It’s not that I can’t take them myself. It’s that you walked past them ten times or more and didn’t even notice. You didn’t see the work waiting to be done. Just like you don’t see the work already done. The pile on the stairs is not lazy. It is not work left undone. It is work that has been. Clothes that have been gathered washed dried ironed folded. Is it too much to ask for someone else to notice, to lend a hand, to start the cycle again? To take the damn clothes upstairs.
January 13, 2026 at 9:20 AM
fhpowellwriter.bsky.social
#promptcombo #TakingItUpStairs

@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 6:33 AM
cieloceano.bsky.social
Dear @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social ,
For #promptcombo , #TakingItUpStairs

Picture: New Mexico, 16 July 1945 (AI interpretation).
January 12, 2026 at 9:52 PM
janpsolivagant.bsky.social
🙏 @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social host of #promptcombo #TakingItUpstairs

#voice #poetryreading #newpoem:
©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025

#poetrycommunity #nature #trees #pines #conifers #fakirs #Symbolism #mountains #cliffs
January 12, 2026 at 11:51 AM
victoriaspires.bsky.social
@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social 's your host this week for the very intriguing #PromptCombo prompt #TakingItUpStairs 👀

Better get thinking about this one! All welcome to contribute, as ever.
thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 11d
Thank you Fidel for last weeks stunning stint. The #promptcombo for this week is #TakingItUpStairs
All can contribute. Please use the above hashtags and tag me @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
Convenience puts pots and glasses on the top shelf so he has to stretch to reach them. They wobble precariously. Buys the heaviest vacuum cleaner so his arms ache when he lugs it upstairs. It has the shortest lead, or the battery is flat. He packs as many delicate ornaments as he can on the smooth surfaces so he has to remove them when he polishes. His shower curtain is held in place By half full shower gel containers that fall off as he moves to get clean. Water splatters everywhere as he balances the bottles on the side to hold down the wafting curtain.
January 12, 2026 at 11:01 AM
internetofwords.com
I see we have arrived at the start of another week so today’s warm-up is now becoming a habit. For today’s #PromptCombo #TakingItUpstairs presented by @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social we continue to attempt to stick it to Those Men. You know the ones…
Taking it Upstairs by S. Reeson how much is it costing to do nothing at this point in time how effort is wasted online complaining failing to offer real solutions looking to the men upstairs assuming someone else will do the legwork when they’re done caring is a waste of their resources you have a chance to fix this one step at a time one cancellation make them hurt take the cash away your power has always been to stop downing tools and challenging behaviour is a secret weapon make them reconsider harm is not acceptable as payment make punishment their naughty step
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 AM
janpsolivagant.bsky.social
🙏 @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social host of #promptcombo #TakingItUpstairs

#newpoem / #photography:
©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025/2024

#poetrycommunity #nature #trees #pines #conifers #fakirs #Symbolism #BlueSkyMonday #mountains #cliffs
Fakir Conifers Skull-grimace Escarpment - Taciturn outcrop of Tellurian Fastness. Wind-wheeze Ricochet through Extinct Frieze and Palisade. Fitful Quiver at Riddled Existence - Demure Shirk-shade of Penumbra - Runted Scotch Pines poach a Sheer-faced cliff; Whisper-wax amid Solar gleams; Stiffen-thicken under Lacklustre Lunar glows. Plateaued oaths Forsworn to Crest an apical Encroachment, Their Roots Doggedly fret the Tempered breast of Inanimate rock that Lends them Pitiful suck. With Sky-fixed Needle-parch, Dew-mist-fed Scotch pines - Stunted fakirs - Wax their Way towards Raptor-cleft Heavens. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 Inspired by Чахлые сосны (“Stunted Pines”, 1895), Konstantin Balmont (1867-1942), Russian Symbolist ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2024 Image of sandstone cliff face near Blankenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Water wheels dominate the scene with pines/conifers & deciduous trees scaling & topping the rocks.
January 12, 2026 at 9:35 AM
andywilliamson.com
A bit of a change from my usual for this week's #promptcombo #TakingItUpStairs, but it felt timely. Thanks to Ben Okri and George Orwell for the ideas and, of course, Paul @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for the great prompt! #poems #poetry #PoetsAreDangerous
Poets are dangerous dangerous when they tell the truth dangerous when they tell us lies we shoot the poets to keep you safe do not believe what your eyes can see what your ears tell you is not true we alone make the truth take it upstairs if you want the real answer there is no place for those who question we started with the poets soon we will come for you
January 12, 2026 at 9:21 AM
dragonslayerma.bsky.social
#PromptCombo host is the fabulous Paul with his #TakingItUpStairs theme.

Use the hastags & tag him @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social to get involved.

This is a mighty good prompt, Paul ♥️ have a great week.
thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 11d
Thank you Fidel for last weeks stunning stint. The #promptcombo for this week is #TakingItUpStairs
All can contribute. Please use the above hashtags and tag me @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
Convenience puts pots and glasses on the top shelf so he has to stretch to reach them. They wobble precariously. Buys the heaviest vacuum cleaner so his arms ache when he lugs it upstairs. It has the shortest lead, or the battery is flat. He packs as many delicate ornaments as he can on the smooth surfaces so he has to remove them when he polishes. His shower curtain is held in place By half full shower gel containers that fall off as he moves to get clean. Water splatters everywhere as he balances the bottles on the side to hold down the wafting curtain.
January 12, 2026 at 8:48 AM
fhpowellwriter.bsky.social
#promptcombo #TakingItUpStairs

@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 8:33 AM
thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
Thank you Fidel for last weeks stunning stint. The #promptcombo for this week is #TakingItUpStairs
All can contribute. Please use the above hashtags and tag me @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
Convenience puts pots and glasses on the top shelf so he has to stretch to reach them. They wobble precariously. Buys the heaviest vacuum cleaner so his arms ache when he lugs it upstairs. It has the shortest lead, or the battery is flat. He packs as many delicate ornaments as he can on the smooth surfaces so he has to remove them when he polishes. His shower curtain is held in place By half full shower gel containers that fall off as he moves to get clean. Water splatters everywhere as he balances the bottles on the side to hold down the wafting curtain.
January 12, 2026 at 7:35 AM