@daveashleypoet.bsky.social #AugustAnarchy Above the sleepy village, the heavens turmoiled, and in an unlit bonfire a pointing hand formed to warn- Night fell and the Milky Way ran thickly, a cosmic river where new suns surged forth into supernovas. Only he saw that celestial anguish. Only he.

@zoomburst.substack.com #OddChallenge Macaronic poetry challenge: Je l'accepte! (Pardon me, Germanophones, for this indelicate roast of Weltanschauung's ludricrosity as a English loanword; to use it in English implies one's worldview is foreign to your hearers.)

Shifting biographies #MPPrompt After so long in life, with much tedium interrupted by chaos, the last thing I want to write is my biography: On one level, colorless humdrum But dig and dig and dig And it shifts uncomfortably with life's experiences.

Beautiful green bridge over lily pond invites these unable to walk on water, I mean, unlike Monet could, apparently. "Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand... when it is simply necessary to love" Monet misunderstood; Sometimes a bridge is a bridge- And not Freudian (more)

Dave Ashley@daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 4d ago

#AugustAnarchy write any type of poem Your arty prompt

ARCHAEOLOGIST IN 15,000 AD HYPOTHESIZES ON THE MYTHOLOGY THEREIN: When all was moving stone, A mountain-shaped troll Was out for a stroll, Complete with snowcap And a many-clawed rock tiger Made a pounce upon him-- Then the sun came up And froze them for an artist's brush.

Dave Ashley@daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 2d ago

#AugustAnarchy time to write any old stuff Your prompt is

#MPPrompt THE EVOLUTIONARY SKINNY ON YOUR SHUT MOUTH Scaly skin calcium fused with cartilage, migrated inside to make bones, and jawless vertebrates with bony gill arches; then the frontal gill arch moved and evolved into jaw bones and the ability to shut yer trap.

Steve, don't leave! Your top hat we'll grieve Don't leave us, Steve! The icebergs are a-cleave And it's El Nino eve, denying us any heat reprieve. So if you must leave, Steve, Take us; let us the cold achieve, We promise not to aggrieve and just freeze like the naive We are. Don't go, Steve!

Dave Ashley@daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 6d ago

It's the last #JumbledJuly the end of nonsense Your prompt is STEVE

@daveashleypoet.bsky.social #jumbledjuly Life's facepalm and bellyache-- A day full of buttchair, then writing was headdesk Dinner was badfoodstomach It's time to bodyplant with facebed followed by belly, all the way to toesbed.

Magical Life Mojo Earth's still trippin' Givin' folks sad now Happiness bustin' Along the bend Never willing to end @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social

Dave Ashley@daveashleypoet.bsky.social · last wk.

#JumbledJuly tis the last days of nonsense Your prompt

People home? Bacon? BACON! This calls for more than a tail wag; a full out groove, friends; Let's get down human-style, if only in my soul; look in my eyes And see my joy, and dance with me!

Dave Ashley@daveashleypoet.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm back home now!!!! #JumbledJuly . Woooo yeah baby! Nonsense! Your prompt

Captain, we're descending out of control! Applying thrusters, they're failing-- Shields are holding, barely-- It's sky, it's trees, it's a Dairy Queen! No, I can't aim through the drive-through, we're too wide by a factor of five! AAIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Dave Ashley@daveashleypoet.bsky.social · last wk.

#jumbledjuly sorry for the lateness. Lost my phone.... what nonsense! Your prompt

#JumbledJuly Ol' Roger Zelezny (RIP) saw her dentition And commented what lamps her mouth must require; -- all of the mining sort, he hinted: She stove his face in like a door. Recovered, he wrote a classic story mystifying all with its title: "The doors of his face, the lamps of his mouth."

#JumbledJuly Shift your knees while they're hot! Tremble hard, go grotesque Honking's heasy, just be in a taut haze of hip-hop, go pop an Harabesque Do the funky chicken on a desk, In the Hurly-Burly Burlesque!

Sniff, beg, whine: You don't say? It's cookie time! Never mind this tie or collar: I'm fine. You don't say?! Wahoo, cookie time! Hit me with a moon pie, put me on cloud nine! You don't say?! I'll take anything in lime, Just don't be shy, Do it right and divine. You don't say? It's cookie time!

Dave Ashley@daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 2w ago

#JumbledJuly . Captain! I cannae take it!!!! Aaarrggghhh nonsense Scottie! Your prompt

Smuggling grief #MPPrompt #JumbledJuly Tight briefs, a truckload of grief, I sidle, eyeing the guards. Not a thief! Still gotta act carefree, like my joy's chief; They smell futile what/ifs like a dog smells beef. Prance, then, on all fours, up the stairs! No figleaf here: just a leitmotif!

Dave Ashley@daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 2w ago

#JumbledJuly winkydinky doo. Yeah! Erm nonsense Your prompt

#MPprompt: _____ology Whoopeeology: On discovering his corpse, they examined his corpus, Anatomized by bodily function Poetic mastery and orifice, With scoring for erotic skill, detracted by squicky details... From a blurb for @daveashleypoet.bsky.social 's series of risque poetry chapbooks.

@daveashleypoet.bsky.social #JumbledJuly In Nevada there's a Paradise where pairs of doves play dice: Sports' Las Vegas, less bizarre: An ace pigeon-toed chick flaps far there, doctoring athletes on and off ice without risk of tiger slices n scars.

Dave Ashley@daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 2w ago

#JumbledJuly what tye hell is going on!!!! Nonsense!!! Your prompt

Those loosey goosey tourists Flocking to our lakes with receipts to fish, paddle, and basically drown They're migrating through town leftovers dripping across streets Waddling the ice cream shops like jurists Raving over these candy junk flavors Two-Scoops Ed whipped up when he was drunk.

Dave Ashley@daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 2w ago

#JumbledJuly arrrgghhh goose

#PoemsAbout #BadHabits Inconvenient, Ruffling the conventional, horrifying others with one's existence Of dubious value even to oneself some days, completely rubbish capitalism-wise thanks to whatnot physical, mental, metaphysical-- Surviving is a bad habit; one I won't quit until I die.

#GLOW Genre: Rom-Com Locate: Culvert Object: playing card Word: start St. Elmo's Fire crackles over our culvert, And our office's still ablaze. Let's start another round of pipping-good strip poker! You win, I strip, and every card's pip is one kiss-- Aren't you so glad we ditched work for this?

Dave Ashley@daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 3w ago

#JumbledJuly time for silliness and nowt else! Your prompt

"No mailbox patience is like coming home" #mpprompt and yes, bskyprompt. A windowless house it is, barren of love; Awaiting ingress of people's thoughts nowadays bills and ads, not human connection; once Hermes spread love and thoughts daily, And houses were not lonely shells in the day.

Apt reading just now.

Sanya@sanjar.bsky.social · 3w ago

There are days I would choose the blank page Memory, however, gathers #momentum setting the table for the unreturnable with unbearable precision #vss365 #art by Renée

#MMPrompt #JumbledJuly Lullabies for fishies, fillabies for lushies The seafloor's shaking, big waves are rocking, The bass is on full blast, tweeters are flocking, Tide's jumping, ride the slipstream full surge like the Indy 500 scald your scales as bald as a dolphin, Go sleep with the humans--

Dave Ashley@daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 3w ago

#JumbledJuly we need nonsense! And we need it now!!

@daveashleypoet.bsky.social "J'adore, J'adore , prendre un bain prendre un bain avec ma chevre Avec ma chevre, avec ma chevre--" Hey! why are you getting out? Oh, you needed a snack? Go on, don't eat the towel; there's blankets on the bed laid for your repast Where did I halt? Ah. "J'Adore,.."

Dave Ashley@daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 3w ago

#JumbledJuly By Heck! NONSENSE TIME!!! Your prompt

@daveashleypoet.bsky.social #JumbledJuly When bored and lonely for chums- Fuzzle a badger in his furabadger Chuckle a budgerigair under her chinnerigair Tickle a kangaroo's tail-angaroo Toggle a tigger by his toes-geiger Giggle in a Hyena's ear-yanna Then a funny farm's bound to take ya!

#PoetsOfDoom #GLOW #writingprompt Our fond #friendship has sailed aloft; This joint jailbreak we full deserve, The getaway dirgible was a bonus, a balloon built for us bounders-- Now sky-high and free, shyly I suggest maybe we could be more-- Would you frown if I kissed you?

Right, nonsense. Sorry. I got off focus lately. It's the heat.

#JumbledJuly #Mmprompt Another Miner Exploited by the Industry I am but your infrastructure; no longer human, just a machine for moving, a creature of seams and faces, struts, picks, and stripping. For my trim gut and dirty sexiness, I starve myself of sun and fresh air. Meowwww.

Dave Ashley@daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 3w ago

#JumbledJuly sentiment today Is nonsense Your prompt

#JumbledJuly #MMPrompt Grandfather's clay I saw the haunting of it Screams from my banks echoed unfiltered by sandy or chocolate bar spades bringing forth clay slabs holding grandfathers trapped by children summoned back to golem existence

#JumbledJuly I sense a presence- female, coming down. She's a vivid red harness, over blue and coming down from the astral plane now! I sense parachutes. Something white in sunglasses-- a goat co-skydiving with her? She has a message for everyone here: "Head for the hills! BLAAAT! SPLAA-- " {CRACK}

Dave Ashley@daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 3w ago

#JumbledJuly show me your nonsensical side! Your prompt