A.C.Juniper
@acjuniper.bsky.social
I'm here as a beginner poet. Also a wife, teen boy-mom, non-practicing physician, rare chronic illness patient, philosophical thinker. ENFJ/INTP Canadian living in Treaty 6 territory and hikes/runs/scrambles the Rocky Mountains in Treaty 7 whenever I can.
Trigger Warning: despair, helplessness, death This poem is really meant for a different target audience, and will be somewhat preaching to the choir. The canary choir, in this case. It is an expression of the human tendency to follow rules but forget why they exist and blame the prophet/victim.
Today is Canadian #Thanksgiving and this year I am focusing on gratitude for #FoundFamily, such as here with #BlueskyPoets #WritingCommunity @a-o-e.bsky.social @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social @arliden.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @jenthorne.bsky.social @daveashleypoet.bsky.social
seat me by comics by pets or plants or peasants save me from a throne merely keep the math distant that it remembers nature 🖖
I have spent 24 hours debating whether to post this or not. @emteepoetry.bsky.social #PromptCombo #winged and you can decide whether this is the right call now.
#AcrosticOctober #Squirrel #SomethingEveryday #Spy Based on a true story. I wish I had a picture, but the operator was too swift!
#MenOnMonday Today I want to celebrate: @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @rock-rex.bsky.social @bundtkake.bsky.social @arliden.bsky.social @oyoguhito.bsky.social @robertemond.bsky.social for their consistent strength of kindness.
🅰️Washington M.A. artist | author | activist 🖇️@arw-raw.bsky.social · last yr.#MenonMonday @sbristow87.bsky.social @delosithism.bsky.social @victorkisob.bsky.social @jyari3000.bsky.social @bigbobby55.bsky.social @nealsellerswrites.bsky.social @rayhourigan.bsky.social @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @jdwritesthefuture.bsky.social @poetkevinpowell.bsky.social @chuckdpe.bsky.social
I couldn't resist this opportunity to present my favourite vampire: Now, if you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.
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Jen Thorne@jenthorne.bsky.social · last wk.If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.
#SomethingEverday #Mead Kvasir did not need to bleed I exhale poetry without any mead
#WildWalkPrompt #beak #humour Here is a slightly updated version of a poem from last February. It is a light, fun ballad written in a poetic form I call the Juniper Loop.
This is for Oct 2 morning. No peeking if you haven't gone to sleep yet on Oct 1! Good morning glacial erratic rock Good morning green-gold larch flock Good morning mountain summit, shy Good morning all in the Bluesky
#SomethingEveryday #Poem One of my favourites, one of my early poems here from a #vss365 prompt. The poem is on the challenges of living with an unpredictable #ChronicIllness and appreciation for #Caregivers
Dunno if this is my favorite, or best (as there is little distance between my best and worst). But it is my Braveheart speech to poets and creators all. ❤️ #SomethingEveryday #NationalPoetryDay #NeverDenyYourGift #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writercommunity #prompt @sonnetsmith.bsky.social
#SomethingEveryday #Thunderbirds Sept 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada to acknowledge cultural genocide of Indigenous Peoples, honour survivors, and work to grow together with mutual respect. This is my offering.
Golden larch forest, alpine meadow: Sacred places where I want to stay. How did I dare enter there, Knowing I must go away?
#SomethingEveryday #HappyGoose The happy goose found her perfect nesting site. The camper top was high, dry and warm in the sun. That she had to defend the spot from attacks with numerous snowballs and a few brooms only confirmed it's desirability. Given all this, she was shocked when every egg 1/2
#SomethingEveryday #Rivers #LateToTheParty Today I feel grief Not even this alpine creek Can stream it away
Quill of Mnemosyne@sonnetsmith.bsky.social · 2w agoToday - 27th September - is World #Rivers Day #Poetry, #Prose, and #Artwork about rivers, #streams or other flowing #waters please!!! #SomethingEveryday #prompt #writingprompt #writesky #blueskypoetry #5amwritersclub #amwriting
#PoetsOfDoom #ArsPoetica #Can'tRememberTheSpelling There once was a girl who liked limericks But hated when people were big dicks So she'd take up a pen Write a verse about them So her laughter could shimmer quick
I'm reposting this poem for #SomethingEveryday #Pirate which apparently also works for #PoetsOfDoom #prompt although I can't remember exactly what form @daveashleypoet.bsky.social specified that I dubbed "Ashlean" 😆 @sonnetsmith.bsky.social I still hope to plunder some prose...
A.C.Juniper@acjuniper.bsky.social · last yr.OK, @daveashleypoet.bsky.social this one's for you! #sonnet #Lentini #Ashlean #combo
#SomethingEveryday #RiceCrispyCakes #fail Early in the pandemic, I bought a “spring edition” of Rice Crispies that featured some green and blue crispies. Since all was snow and mud outdoors, I planned to boost our spirits by making them into cakes, shaped as flowers. I had never made them before.
Cool evenings close warm days the golden hour, hours long early autumn: summer's swan song The floods themselves washed away left the old crusty banks as new riverbed under-quilts the secret swing hangs still, over their musty damp There, join I upside-down rise - soar - crown fall - arc - fly
A.C.Juniper@acjuniper.bsky.social · 3w agoThe evenings are cool now with the long golden hours of summer's swan song that is early autumn The floods that have washed themselves away made crusty old banks bow down into fresh lining for the riverbed still damp beneath the secret swing So, I, too ascend soar crown fall upside down all
The evenings are cool now with the long golden hours of summer's swan song that is early autumn The floods that have washed themselves away made crusty old banks bow down into fresh lining for the riverbed still damp beneath the secret swing So, I, too ascend soar crown fall upside down all
#WildWalkPrompt #orange @sonnetsmith.bsky.social It’s been almost a year, Quill, my friend Orange you happy to see me again?
#vss365 @darkxfer.bsky.social @ourpoetryx.bsky.social @ladydecrescent.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social - I do not know. What do you see in me? What colours are the shades you are looking through? Perhaps the lenses are green. It would explain why you walk over me, all the time,... 1/7
I think @jenthorne.bsky.social is unaware of how truly apt her poem is (again). ❤️ "Everybody that reads [her] finally has to concede... youtube.com/shorts/Dra6B...
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Jen Thorne@jenthorne.bsky.social · 4w agoOkay @sonnetsmith.bsky.social this is my first attempt (but I will try something more substantial soon) Its an #Acrostic #Limerick combo #PoetsOfDoom @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social #Poetry
#SomethingEveryday #cloud Figures in sky’s storyboard for imaginative play Blanket Veil Shroud Screen for sunsets’ magnificent display, Vapour Mist Cloud
#SomethingEverday #care #BskyWriters #WritingCommunity I’m OK, are you OK? Except I want to hang with yous all day So for now, I’ll simply say Wishing you light along your way
This reminded me of these #MisheardLyrics that a couple girlfriends honestly believed as teens. And I'm Too sexy for your party Too sexy for your party No way I'm disco dancing I'm an IGUANA You know what I mean?
Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · last mo.Why fret get in a bother when you can be basking on a stone take in some somelight let time pass you by keep in your own thoughts not let others take control @sonnetsmith.bsky.social #basking #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub
Third response for how we "use" math every day. As my newly 18 year old son says: engineering = applied physics = applied math. Even if you don't remember, it's good to have What bears needed load? Why do bridges last so long? Answer: triangles! 😃
Quill of Mnemosyne@sonnetsmith.bsky.social · last mo.And since #SomethingEveryday today is #numbers I thought I'd share this here #sestina I wrote whilst teaching Maths to secondary school kids... #maths #poetry #poem #amwriting #blueskypoetry
