Debra Nordyke

Quiet beginnings on open roads. Even with the uncertainty of the long journey, choose kindness. 🫶🏻

#HumanityFirst #KindnessMatters

A black-and-white photograph shows a person in close profile, partially obscured by shadow, peering through horizontal window blinds. One hand lifts a slat, allowing light to fall across their eye and face. The Broken Spine fountain pen logo appears in the top left corner. “@thebrokenspine.co.uk” is written in white at the top right. Bold white text in the lower right reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #BEINGWATCHED”.

This week: #BeingWatched.

The look that lingers.
The sense of eyes before proof.
The body adjusting itself without knowing why.

Write the awareness.
The almost-seeing.
The way desire sharpens when it’s observed.

New theme opens Friday.
Don’t post early.
Use Alt Text.
Tag #PoemsAbout to be found.

Thank you Paul! Yes I always am thing myself slowdown when I am reading poetry! Let it absorb! ❤️❤️

Thank you! I appreciate the feedback! So glad you were surprised!

Thank you! ❤️

Not yet! But you will be the first to know!!!🤣🤣🤣

Thank you Ann! Love hearing feedback and perceptions! ❤️

Yeah for you!!! I thought of you the other day, "I am going to write a love poem and post it on BlueSky, see what Dave thinks!" 😄😆 The dark poet writing a love poem...😜

Dave, I shall call you here on #PoemsAbout "the Love Poet!" Another beautiful poem! I love the repetition of those extravagant lines and the musicality of some rhymes! Wonderful!

#spent #poemsabout #rupture #promptcombo #inkmine #dreamy #madrigal #poem #love

David, lovely Haiku about our instincts of extravagance!

Many thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk for today's #PoemsAbout prompt #Spent. Here's a brief off-the-cuff 'tribute' to someone we knew only too well in the UK. Apologies, I was feeling tetchy this morning....

Wow! This is a power hitter of a poem! In my opinion, Pushcart Prize winner! Favorite line (but there are so many I love!) "slashing the hush with a vocal knife!" Fabulous! Brilliant piece of writing!

#PoemsAbout #Spent #poem #writing #writingcommunity
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@alanparrywriter.co.uk

Paul, such truth spoken is so few words...doing what poetry does best! Well done and powerfully true!

Waste He spent his life pleasing others, spent his money pleasing others, in the end, when only the ending mattered, he spent his last day alone.

After a small break, here is my return piece for #PoemsAbout #Spent.

@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@alanparrywriter.co.uk

Will be catching up later/over weekend

Rachel, this is a well written poem using the metaphor of the toothpaste tube...love it! This poem reads as if you are squeezing out the words as you progress to the end! Well done!

To all those who never ever get to start the new toothpaste! 😊 #PoemsAbout #Spent
Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk Happy Friday!

Ann, your poem takes the reader on a journey everyone knows so well or can relate to. It reads like a slow unfurling of understanding and forced acceptance. Well done!

#poemsabout #spent

Banjaxed: a common Irish slang term meaning something is broken, ruined, severely damaged, or beyond repair.

I love how your poem pulls the reader in with that first fabulous line, "attic sketches appear," dripping with mystery and a little macabre vibe. And I love the ending line, "where noted desires played!" I really like poetry that uses only the words necessary, nothing frivolous used. Well done!

attic sketches appear
unclaimed reels linger
as grey tinged captions
claim the passage
confounded and spent
my impulses proceed
through the fire and passion
stoking the burnt offerings
left scratching their way
through the ash and lust
where noted desires played

#PoemsAbout #Spent

I love how the title is not just sitting there like a hat on top of the poem; it is part of the poem! It works quite nicely! ❤️

Can you share your crackers, because I’ve used all my words on this poem And plum’s out of season And it’s loud — keeping mum C. Oulens

Strangely, don’t have much to say for #PoemsAbout #Spent
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk

…but just enough
for #fragmentsfriday #micropoem
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

#Oulens #BlueskyPoetry #micropoetry
#poetrycommunity

Jen, I also love #PoemsAbout day! 😀
I also love how your poem sets on the page, the three metaphors delineated with italics and set apart in a couplet, then expounded upon with a stanza. This would be a lovely poem to be read out loud at an Open Mic! Great use of imagery!

Spent A match burned down to fingers. I have nothing left. So use the blackened stub to write messages on the pavement to be washed away by rain. A purse emptied of cash. The price paid rises each day. The reserve is empty, trading on credit I have no hope of repaying. A body utterly exhausted. Bed offers no respite. Lying there I am spent. Recovery takes longer than I have. One day what wakes will not be me.

I love Fridays, or #PoemsAbout day as I now call them.

Here is my offering, and I look forward to seeing all of yours 😁

#Spent
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@alanparrywriter.co.uk
#poetry

Andy, the repetition of words actually moves the reader along slowly, quietly, like walking down a staircase. And the repetition lends itself to the theme #spent quite effectively! Well done!❤️

After the room is still the air heavy the floor damp with rain now the storm has ebbed away but you you sit with me you you hold my hand saying nothing just here here

Nice to be able to post a quick little poem for #poemsabout #spent after a bit of an enforced absence last week (bad cold). Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk / @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt and to everyone contributing! #poems #poetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #scottishpoetry

Thank you Jan! That means a lot coming from you! You are such a good writer!

Thank you Paul!!!!