#FebTides
Feb. 13

Feelings sinuate
along hushed tides,
curling and swaying
in subtle swells,
tracing hidden channels
beneath frost-muted days,
as the heart bends, drifts,
and flows with the current,
and the inner voice
follows each gentle
ebb of emotion.

#BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP50 #prompt #sinuate #FebTides
February 13, 2026 at 6:16 AM
"Tides of February"

Follow my 28-day verse series at this link (bsky.app/hashtag/FebTides).

Select LATEST, then scroll to the end to read in order, from February 1–28.

Each day reveals a fragment of February’s quiet turning tides.

#FebTides
February 11, 2026 at 5:35 AM
Feb. 1
An aperture unfurls
within the heart,
where silence endured
in patient vigil;
a tentative gleam
traverses hidden corridors,
prompting thought to
yield and expand,
and so February’s
subtle flux commences,
imperceptible, yet resonant
in every stillened moment.
#prompt Aperture #BSPP50 #FebTides
February 1, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Feb. 16

Uncertainty moves like
a receding tide,
drawing intention from
the shore of decision;
undertow threads doubt
through the chest,
currents shifting
beneath quiet reflection,
while inward waters
gather, pausing—
suspended before
their return.

#BSPP50 #prompt #uncertainty #FebTides
"Ocean Waves” ~ Stained Glass Art
February 16, 2026 at 7:14 AM
Feb. 20

Nervous excitement fibrillates,
tiny tremors ripple
beneath the skin,
heartbeats stutter,
trembling with coiled tension,
currents spiral in
playful, anxious arcs,
while the inner voice
catches sparks of
restless anticipation.

#BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP50 #prompt #fibrillate #FebTides
February 20, 2026 at 7:22 AM
Feb. 7

The pulse accelerates imperceptibly,
anticipation’s filaments entwining stillness,
the heart’s latent signal
quivering with subtle insistence,
as the month’s attenuated currents shudder,
and consciousness discerns
awakening beneath frost-subjugated days.

#BSPP50 #prompt pulse #FebTides
February 7, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Feb. 5

Nostalgia ascends
with quiet grace,
memories pressing
like smoldering embers,
stirring recesses of the
heart long unvisited,
while subtle currents
weave through reflection,
a tide of bygone warmth
converging with
present consciousness.

#BlueSkyPoetry #prompt nostalgia #BSPP50 #FebTides
February 5, 2026 at 7:14 AM
Feb. 11

Melancholy drifts
like waning mist,
settling upon memory’s
quiet surfaces,
tracing the hollow contours
of absent warmth,
while the month’s currents
glide in hushed cadence,
and the inner voice murmurs
with lingering sorrow.

#BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP50 #prompt #melancholy #FebTides
Wrap yourself in the mist. Look at the moon, nobody else, only the moon.

- Hans Christian Andersen
February 11, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Feb. 22

Surges overflow,
emotions transcend
their quiet thresholds,
tides of feeling
dismantle fragile dams,
monthly currents
radiate warmth outward,
and the inner voice
surrenders to
unrestrained delight.

#BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP50 #prompt #overflow #FebTides
“I am installed in a fairylike place.”
― Claude Monet
Painting by Claude Monet, Meadow with Poplars (1875)
February 22, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Feb. 6

Murmurations sweep across the inner skies,
flocks of transient thought and feeling
tracing uncharted patterns,
as subtle undercurrents of the month stir unseen,
and consciousness drifts along hidden currents,
mapping each delicate, quivering arc.

#BlueSkyPoetry murmuration #BSPP50 #FebTides
Evening Sky.
David Alderslade
February 6, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Feb. 9

Faltering steps trace fragile courses,
heartbeats drift mid-thought,
eddies graze unseen edges,
latent currents ripple beneath,
sensation quivers, suspended between
breath and yearning yet to come.

#BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP50 #prompt #falter #FebTides
February 9, 2026 at 6:53 AM
Feb. 4

Ambivalence entwines
where desire and
restraint converge,
tugging delicately
in opposing currents.
February’s flux
bends and spirals,
poising warmth
against doubt,
while sensation hovers,
suspended between
movement and stillness.

#BlueSkyPoetry #prompt ambivalence #BSPP50 #FebTides
February 4, 2026 at 7:17 AM
Feb. 2

Undercurrent flows beneath poised serenity,
a shadowed pulse compelling motion,
unobserved; susurrations
traverse concealed chambers,
heralding the subtle sway that stirs below—
perceptible where hesitation yields
to the earliest stirrings of resolve.

#prompt Undercurrent #BSPP50 #FebTides
February 2, 2026 at 7:23 AM
Feb. 28

Affinity settles
like dawn across frost.
Light unfurls slowly,
softening winter’s contours.
February exhales
its pale warmth.
Thoughts repose
in shared glow,
quietly reconciled
with the month’s passage,
each glimmer etching
a gentle closure.

#BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP50 #affinity #FebTides
February 28, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Feb. 21

The heart throbs deep,
coursing hidden veins.
Emotions swell, recede,
like blood in rhythm.
The month’s currents
rise and fall,
while the inner voice
beats in sync with the
profound cadence of feeling.

#BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP50 #prompt #throb #FebTides
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”

- Johann Goethe

(art: Kaoru Yamada)
February 21, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Feb. 12

Resonance endures
in hollow chambers,
laughter and sighs
etched into memory,
undercurrents folding
upon themselves,
while the inner voice
discerns the hum of the past.

#BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP50 #prompt #resonance #FebTides
February 12, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Feb. 15

Emotions transmute like
tides reshaping unseen shores,
an incoming current
carving hidden channels;
each heartbeat stirs
the concealed streams,
while the month’s undercurrents
swell and bend,
and the inner voice discerns
the subtle metamorphoses of the soul.

#BSPP50 #transmute #FebTides
Incoming Tide.
William H. Hays.
Colur linocut
February 15, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Feb. 14

Yearning unfolds its breath within the breast,
A tender pulse that seeks the outward air;
Soft threads of longing graze on hands unseen,
Whilst February’s tides enclose the heart,
An inward voice awakes to gentle flame.

#BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP50 #prompt #yearn #FebTides
February 14, 2026 at 5:44 AM
Feb. 25

Tenderness drifts
through misted morning,
care gathers
in quiet hollows,
the month exhales
its fogged rhythms,
and the inner voice
inhales the vapor-thin hush.

#BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP50 #prompt #tenderness #FebTides
February 25, 2026 at 6:22 AM
Feb. 3

Trepidation lingers
at thought’s edge;
fragile as frost,
each heartbeat
questions its course.
The month’s currents stir,
unseen and hushed,
and the inner voice
trembles beneath resonance.

#BlueSkyPoetry #prompt Trepidation #BSPP50 #FebTides
February 3, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Feb. 8

A quaver threads the chest,
fragile as hoarfrosted breath;
each sigh trembles
through quiescence,
while subtle stirrings
quietly awaken,
and the inner voice
perceives wavering hopes,
penumbrae shifting,
poised between
shadow and light.

#BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP50 #prompt #quaver #FebTides
"It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it."
- John Burroughs
Paul Evans, British
ink and watercolor
February 8, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Feb. 24

Cadence threads
through thought,
an unseen pulse
guiding inner eddies,
each gesture of feeling
inscribes deliberate motifs,
as moments entwine
with poised synchrony,
and the inner voice
traces the measured procession
of mind and heart.

#BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP50 #prompt #cadence #FebTides
February 24, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Feb. 17

Emotions linger in quiet,
hovering in equilibrium,
moments delicately straddling
past and future,
stirrings gather
in quiet restraint,
the inner voice trembles,
serene and expectant.

#BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP50 #prompt #hover #FebTides
February 17, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Feb. 27

Thoughts wander,
feelings veer through
narrow heart corridors;
shadows twist where
certainty once stood.
Each pulse startles
in new direction,
while the inner voice
grasps sparks
of unforeseen change.

#BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP50 #prompt #veer #FebTides
February 27, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Feb. 19

Flux shifts within,
emotions undulate subtly,
folding, curving, bending,
February’s currents move,
hidden, restless, unchecked,
while the inner mind
maps every swell,
sensing tides ascend,
endless, ceaseless, in motion.

#BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP50 #prompt #flux #FebTides
February 19, 2026 at 7:17 AM