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Emily Tee

@emteepoetry.bsky.social

Poet, writer, editor/judge with The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press. Lives in the UK. Dabbles in Flash Fiction, speculative genres. Writing a novel. Mini poetry pamphlet due late 2026. One of the hosts of PromptCombo

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Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · 1h ago

@emteepoetry.bsky.social #PromptCombo #Winged on Wednesday

Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · 10h ago

Hi @emteepoetry.bsky.social There are times when I'm gardening, I'm scolded by song- thrushes from nearby tall trees. I wrote this in my notebook in late spring #promptcombo #winged

Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 12h ago

@emteepoetry.bsky.social here is my second contribution for your #Winged #PromptCombo call-out #Poetry

$Bat Among the Lights Once, weathered barns leaned with beams whispering to the wind. Fields were midnight seas, and trees stretched their arms to cradle the night. Now the earth is parcelled with concrete, hedgerows clipped into obedience. The dark fractured by streetlights, blooming too bright. The bat drifts through this geometry of glass and brick, its wings brushing halos, its hunger met by moths circling the false moons. It's plentifully fed, yet carries in its bones the taste of muted evenings, the weight of stars unchallenged, the vastness of the black before it was tamed. Its flight is a lament, an elegy for what is gone, a winged shadow threading progress, thriving, yet haunted, by simpler days. Dreaming of a world it cannot return to, even as it flourishes in the light we have made.$

Suzy Dobie @suzydobie.bsky.social · 15h ago

Hi, @emteepoetry.bsky.social Here's another offering for #PromptCombo #Winged, a favorite of mine written in celebration of "October's bright blue weather," which in these parts brings the raptors out on show. Thanks again for the prompt! #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writercommunity #prompt

Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · yesterday

#promptcombo #wings #poem #humour

Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · yesterday

For @emteepoetry.bsky.social Emily and her marvellous #primptcombo #Winged a sonnet from my forthcoming collection "Miner Wattas":

Southern Iron Blue (a rare mayfly found in Cawthorne Dike)

this flat hardness, far from death and plunder.
I came from the flow Under into flow
Above.
I scraped hardnesses for food in the Under.
In the Above I have no mouth. Enough!

Avoiding massive mouths I rise in light.
I find my wings. My feet taste surfaces.
I clasp her from below. Both of us in flight.
She drops to the Under, then releases

our bairns, exhausted, collapses, flow takes her.
I starve to death, so how am I speaking now?
I am one of many voices of the river,
preserved. I do not know the why or how.

Know me in the riffles whose water changes
ever different ripples and exchanges.

EchoGnomics @echognomics.bsky.social · yesterday

Squirting a plot with thirteen feet of garden hose, Quickly I saw it scamper by Uninvited; a black walnut bootlegger Investigating a likely soft spot in my soil, Resolving to plant the garden-killer Right in my best crops. Evil little rodent, go plant elsewhere, Lest I summon winged death upon you.

Dean Norton @zentinl.bsky.social · yesterday

Thank you @emteepoetry.bsky.social for this week's #PromptCombo #Winged. I've been pulled away for some weeks but delighted to be back reading. #poetrycommunity #poetry #poem #poems #skypoets #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetsofbluesky #skypoet #writingcommunity

Suzy Dobie @suzydobie.bsky.social · yesterday

Hi, @emteepoetry.bsky.social Here is an offering for #PromptCombo #Winged The piece was originally written for a prompt by @malformed-poetry.bsky.social , but I am quite fond of it, and I hope it fits the bill. Thanks for the prompt! #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writercommunity #prompt

Emily Tee@emteepoetry.bsky.social · 2d ago

Thanks to Ronnie for last week's fantastic prompt! This week tag me @emteepoetry.bsky.social #PromptCombo #Winged Winged or Wingèd? Birds, bugs, planes etc, or dragons/ wingèd cryptids? Icarus? Or winged, as in wounded? Just a few of the possibilities. Looking forward to reading your work!

Micropoem about an airplane in concrete form

Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · yesterday

@emteepoetry.bsky.social here is my offering for #Winged. This is an old one, but I love this #PromptCombo, so there may well be more to come. #Poetry

Ghost in Feathers

The barn walls drink the last of the light.
Shadows bloom like bruises across the beams.
The swallows sleep in cloistered hush;
the oxblood tractor ticks,
a cooling beast slain at sunset.

Moths rise, dust-winged,
erratically searching
for the memory of light.
Spiders unfurl their wire legs,
threading tremors through webs.
Bats spill from broken gables,
their flight a soft percussion
through the dark.

The barn's hushed breath is silenced.
But the night's chorus is not complete.
One nocturnal spectre lingers.
Watching.
Seeing all.

Talons unfurl, rusted hooks sear
through feathers pale as bone.
She ends her vigil with a haunted cry,
and the scuttling things below
wonder if they are the who she calls for.

There is no fanfare, only death on wing.
Silent, surgical, inevitable.
Rending flesh, she claims her prize,
then slips between the rafters,
folding into their oaken skin.

Though night wanes, she remains:
perched, unmoving, unblinking.
Waiting.
A ghost in feathers.

Emily Tee@emteepoetry.bsky.social · 2d ago

La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 2d ago

@emteepoetry.bsky.social #PromptCombo #Winged I miss the Swifts now it's October The Jays on the swoop for Acorns Almost make up for it And if the Owls leave me another feather I'll accept that Birdkind is on my side.

Emily Tee@emteepoetry.bsky.social · 2d ago

Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 2d ago

Thank you for your inspired #PromptCombo #Winged Have a great week @emteepoetry.bsky.social #poem: ©Jan Peters 2026 #poetry #poetrycommunity #BlueksyPoetry #Birdsky #Puffin #Seabirds #Mandala #transience #eternity

Pelagic Mandala Birds

Beyond-offing
Bounty without source,
We swirl and eddy before you as the
World’s hidden orbit -
Coating drear crag and salt crust in
Fecund demand and fornication.

Wintering in grey silence,
We listless-pick at plankton and
Shoal-speck like mendicant friars.

Then
Deep-brain, pineal-eye
Skull-blister cracks open
Light into song-centre and florid
Hormonal wardrobe -

Plumping shrunken selves into
Buxom summer vigour;
Steeping leg and beak in
Mandala saffron of
Life-death turning.

We are the Great Wheel:
Thousandfold ember-flow,
Counterflow -
Whirl upon whirl,
Whirl within whirl -
Eight-figured eternity
Held momentarily as it
Melts into air.

©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026

Fleur Du Pseudonym @fleurdu.bsky.social · 2d ago

TW:may contain uncomfortable content @emteepoetry.bsky.social #PromptCombo #Winged

Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · 2d ago

Thankyou @emteepoetry.bsky.social for this week's #promptcombo #winged #poetry I'll try to focus later in the week but in the meantime an old one from me.

David Middleham @dmiddleham.bsky.social · 2d ago

#PromptCombo #Winged @emteepoetry.bsky.social

winged
as a dream should be

subtle changes
in hue

as gravity
imbues the veil

you
became necessity
as i
became the sky

i exhale
your name

falling
like flying

you are summoned
to reverie
again

Ronnie Smith @rfsmith.bsky.social · 2d ago

@emteepoetry.bsky.social #PromptCombo Hi Em. Thanks for this great prompt #Winged and here is my contribution. Best wishes and love to all.

David Birch @davidbirch.bsky.social · 2d ago

Many thanks @emteepoetry.bsky.social for today's #PromptCombo #Winged. I'm pressed for time this week so I thought I'd let this old one fly again. Will catch up with other offerings from the #PoetryCommunity later.

Jane Doe @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ode to You What if we escaped on this winged dream, awoke in a clear blue life, danced the days on end, basked on endless beaches, listened to magical melodies- that would be beautiful my love, wouldn’t it? #promptcombo #poetry @emteepoetry.bsky.social

Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Pterodactyl". #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #concretepoetry #concretepoem #promptcombo #winged @emteepoetry.bsky.social

The words "winged poetry" arranged in the form of a flying creature.

Matthias (watering thoughts) 🦄🧚‍♂️🐉@ignorantfairy.bsky.social · 2d ago

For #promptcombo #winged some avian #poetry Thanks to @emteepoetry.bsky.social for hosting

winged wonder

black feathers
circling down
gliding on
warm gusts
lost from
glossy plumage

magpie warbling
as even the night
grows wings
doubts wane
like the moon

in her shadow
lunar birds
hiding
in plain sight
cinereous wings
soundlessly unfurl

Ultán of Ulcer @mulvennyprospectus.bsky.social · 2d ago

@emteepoetry.bsky.social #PromptCombo #Prompt #Winged

Winged Him

The shot, a crack, opened another
in the darting figure above,
"only winged him" groused the gunman,
reloading for a second attempt,
his beaked nose wrinkling in reproach,
"I'll get the next one, I feel it in my bones,"
he continued, his booming voice hollow
to my ears, an ancient raptorial cruelty
evinced across a face that although now chubbed
with age and the rich eating that comes with standing
was still fierce of bred hawkish aspect.
I thought of the bloated Henry,
bound to earth by ulcered leg,
and his sugar parties
where the nobles ate sculptures of confected swan,
arranged for tasteful delectation in cygnet rings
and their teeth slowly rotted.
As my acquaintance blasted the skies once more,
I watched silently as the bird righted itself and soared.

Jen Thorne@jenthorne.bsky.social · 2d ago

@emteepoetry.bsky.social is your . #PromptCombo host this week and the #Prompt is #Winged so let your imagination fly free!! Everyone is welcome to join in. I can't wait to see what you come up with ♥️♥️♥️

Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · 2d ago

@emteepoetry.bsky.social #PromptCombo #Winged for Monday

Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 2d ago

Hi @emteepoetry.bsky.social Emily. Here's my first in response to your excellent #promptcombo #Winged. Its from my collection "Hedgerow of Voices."Arrival of Redwings heralds autumn:

Redwing

You may not see me again in this place,
noshing on this bright juiciness that glints
a starlike pattern to our hungry pace
amongst this manmade feast's blazing red hints

added crunch in my beak of skitterers
below in harsh gust, pelting fall of wet
and snow. Alive to slightest twitch feather
of shadow or tick of twig or leaf fret.

When your warm arrives we flit fast up North
to have our bairns, teach them to fly, how we read the patterns in the blue and bright forth
of flashes in the dark Overness. We

may bring them to your wild patterns, of blue
and specks in the black Overness, to you.

Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 2d ago

Photo of a black and white pigeon, with a black mark on its head like a small hat.

Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social · 6d ago

If we have two more end of the world level fears in our lifetimes do we get the next one free, perhaps a cup of coffee? #promptcombo #apocalypse #poetry #tanka #poem #micropoem #micropoetry

Ronnie Smith@rfsmith.bsky.social · last wk.

#PromptCombo Thank you to Paul Brookes for last weeks excellent prompt. This week the theme is #Apocalyse and I present a cheery wee piece about the weather. Love to all. @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @janpsolivagant.bsky.social @jenthorne.bsky.social

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 5d ago

Not quite sure what the rules are here, hope I’m not gatecrashing. Apocalypse you say? Thanks to @rfsmith.bsky.social #PromptCombo #apocalypse

Matthias (watering thoughts) 🦄🧚‍♂️🐉@ignorantfairy.bsky.social · last wk.

Thank you for hosting #promptcombo @rfsmith.bsky.social My take on this week's #Apocalypse #poetry

depraved new world

forsaken riverbeds
skeletal salmon slowly
crumbling to nothing

deserts that used to be
meadows — relentless
sandstorms plaguing
few remaining cities

electricity — a fairytale
remembered under
flickering torchlight

screens that have grown
quiet for decades now
compassion had been
unlearned, traded for
something shallow

tribal cultures rule
cruelty became
the new norm
depraved new world

Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · last wk.

Here's a wee dystopian beastie mostly on topic for Ronnie @rfsmith.bsky.social and #PromptCombo #Apocalypse It's a long one, across three vignettes. Thanks for sticking with it if you get to the end!

Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · last wk.

Thank you to @apricotpress.bsky.social for publishing two poems by me today (28th September). There's a reading of them by me as well as the poems on their website! #BlueSkyPoetry #poetrycommunity

Apricot Press@apricotpress.bsky.social · last wk.

‘We walk and walk…Suddenly there among the trees are two ponies.’ Emily Tee’s (@emteepoetry.bsky.social) beautiful poems, ‘On Encountering Wild Ponies on Exmoor’ and ‘Fear of Flying’, consider the hope found in the natural world, and in taking a leap of faith. apricotpress.co.uk/2026/09/28/o...

Ronnie Smith @rfsmith.bsky.social · last wk.