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September 3, 2026 at 2:40 PM
metaphorqu.bsky.social
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Fruit Fool

Take the sharpest knife of
ridicule

Cut the apple through the heart

Preserve one half with honeyed smiles

Soothe the cut with healing herbs

Discard the other.

Purpose served.
zoomburst.substack.com Mike O’Brien @zoomburst.substack.com · Sep 2
#OddChallenge Number 3. Write a poem in the form of a recipe. As ever, I shall be selecting a handful of responses for a future edition of #60OddPoems but I'll only use stuff that has previously been posted on social media. Tag it, bag it, and send it to forensics. #poetry #prompts
The excellent image for this month's challenge comes from Diana who runs a website filled with vintage items and photographs at https://adirondackgirlatheart.com/
September 3, 2026 at 3:42 PM
fleurdu.bsky.social
Inspired prompt, thank you @zoomburst.substack.com
#OddChallenge Number 3 #recipe #60OddPoems #poetry #prompts
Image of a pressed fairy from Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book By Jones and Froud
September 3, 2026 at 10:11 AM
fhpowellwriter.bsky.social
Sauté through a life so pure
Don't dice with death
an invitation to decline
A dash of colour will suit you well
a mist of radiance
sprinkle lightly if you must
Cut through those threads
that hold us down
and make your way
to a golden dawn

#OddChallenge #60OddPoems #poetry #prompts
September 3, 2026 at 9:42 AM
ianbrownlie.bsky.social
I made a bit of a meal of this one @zoomburst.substack.com
#OddChallenge #60OddPoems #poetry #prompts (Only one of these measurements isn't real, by the way.)
My Secret Recipe 7 grams of Keep your nose out 2 teaspoons of Hey, don’t stare 1 cup of Mind your own business Just a pinch of I won’t share 13 quarts of No, not telling 6 pounds of What’s it to you? Half a pint of Get ‘orf my land 12 good pecks of No can do A quarter squench of Stay in your lane 8 firlots of I shan’t say 5 crans of Get lost and stay there 1 handful of Go away!
September 3, 2026 at 9:49 AM
jordanriverwrites.bsky.social
#Poetry #Prompts #OddChallenge #60OddPoems

My entry. A tasty mead base one can build so much more on.
A Classy Session Mead 1/3 _Ingredients_ One pound of honey to the gallon — that is, ten thousand small commutes, ten thousand returns to a house that was never theirs; gold moved up, frame by frame, until it answers to a name that never flew. Water. Rain, or the river, or the pipe the town paid for twice. One packet of the dry and sleeping many. A spoon of something dead to feed the living. A Classy Session Mead _Ingredients_ One pound of honey to the gallon — that is, ten thousand small commutes, ten thousand returns to a house that was never theirs; gold moved up, frame by frame, until it answers to a name that never flew. Water. Rain, or the river, or the pipe the town paid for twice. One packet of the dry and sleeping many. A spoon of something dead to feed the living. A Classy Session Mead 2/3 _Method_ Do not boil. Heat takes the meadow out of it; what you scald you cannot call back. Stir until the thick gives up its seam and the sweet forgets it was a hoard. Pitch the small ones in. They do not ask what it is for. They wake, they find the sugar, they find each other, they begin. Then dark. Then the airlock's patient knock — one soft knock, one, one, one — which is not a clock. A clock counts down. This counts up. A Classy Session Mead 3/3 Nobody works alone in there. Nobody is named in there. The warmth you feel through the glass is only the sum of them. When the knocking stops, rack it off. Look at the floor of the jar. That pale silt is the ones who made it. Every glass you have raised was built on that and poured off of it. Bottle it low. Four percent. _Session:_ strong enough for talking, weak enough for hours. Not the bottle that drops one man in a corner — the jar that keeps a table lit past midnight .
September 3, 2026 at 1:16 PM
zoomburst.substack.com
#OddChallenge Number 3. Write a poem in the form of a recipe. As ever, I shall be selecting a handful of responses for a future edition of #60OddPoems but I'll only use stuff that has previously been posted on social media. Tag it, bag it, and send it to forensics. #poetry #prompts
The excellent image for this month's challenge comes from Diana who runs a website filled with vintage items and photographs at https://adirondackgirlatheart.com/
September 2, 2026 at 7:24 AM
drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk
Hi Mike I love your #OddChallenge I’ve not participated before but wonder if my ‘How to Build an Octopus’ might fit the bill for your #poetry #prompt for #60OddPoems? Sorry it spilled over 2 shots.
A poem by Debbie Ross How to Build An Octopus First 6 stanzas Start with 3 hearts, 5% blood by body weight blue green from hemocyanin. Complement with 9 brains, one in each of 8 arms, plus a central control. Do not add a backbone or bone of any kind, let it ooze itself through tiny spaces. Toxicity is essential a good dose of venom to paralyse prey. Scatter 2000 suckers - receptors for taste and smell. A mélange of chromatic virtuosity adds infinite camouflage. And the ability to recognise you. Final 4 stanzas of a poem how to build and octopus be Debbie Ross More than a soupçon of intelligence creates playful, cunning, task solving intellect. And a self-sacrificing protective Mother’s love for her offspring. You’ve built an alien from another world: behold the marvel that is octopus. Please avoid cooking
September 2, 2026 at 7:08 PM