The first #PoetryTheme prompt is #AMPHIBIAN
Nature's amphibians move across habitats. Metaphorical ones might shift in class or identity
Take your time. Post a poem by the end of 30 September. Tag @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Use #PoetryTheme & #AMPHIBIAN hashtags & please say if you want DM comment
Nature's amphibians move across habitats. Metaphorical ones might shift in class or identity
Take your time. Post a poem by the end of 30 September. Tag @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Use #PoetryTheme & #AMPHIBIAN hashtags & please say if you want DM comment
September 2, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The first #PoetryTheme prompt is #AMPHIBIAN
Nature's amphibians move across habitats. Metaphorical ones might shift in class or identity
Take your time. Post a poem by the end of 30 September. Tag @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Use #PoetryTheme & #AMPHIBIAN hashtags & please say if you want DM comment
Nature's amphibians move across habitats. Metaphorical ones might shift in class or identity
Take your time. Post a poem by the end of 30 September. Tag @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Use #PoetryTheme & #AMPHIBIAN hashtags & please say if you want DM comment
For this first #PoetryTheme initiated by @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social,
here's my #AMPHIBIAN poem. 🐸
#poetry #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity
here's my #AMPHIBIAN poem. 🐸
#poetry #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity
September 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
For this first #PoetryTheme initiated by @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social,
here's my #AMPHIBIAN poem. 🐸
#poetry #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity
here's my #AMPHIBIAN poem. 🐸
#poetry #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity
This is my #AMPHIBIAN #PoetryTheme poem for
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
Thanks Paul for the nudge to get head-scratching!
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
Thanks Paul for the nudge to get head-scratching!
September 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This is my #AMPHIBIAN #PoetryTheme poem for
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
Thanks Paul for the nudge to get head-scratching!
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
Thanks Paul for the nudge to get head-scratching!
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social An entry for your #AMPHIBIAN #PoetryTheme, which might just be a little stretch of the theme too far? 🙃
September 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social An entry for your #AMPHIBIAN #PoetryTheme, which might just be a little stretch of the theme too far? 🙃
A starter pack of people associated with the #PoetryTheme prompt including @palimpsest22.bsky.social @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @francesca-laura.bsky.social & many more. Please follow & repost #starterpack #poetsonbluesky #poetrycommunity
April 29, 2026 at 10:40 AM
A starter pack of people associated with the #PoetryTheme prompt including @palimpsest22.bsky.social @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @francesca-laura.bsky.social & many more. Please follow & repost #starterpack #poetsonbluesky #poetrycommunity
A #LiftToTheSky today for @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social and his new poetry prompt #PoetryTheme with its first prompt of #Amphibian 🐸 looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!
The first #PoetryTheme prompt is #AMPHIBIAN
Nature's amphibians move across habitats. Metaphorical ones might shift in class or identity
Take your time. Post a poem by the end of 30 September. Tag @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Use #PoetryTheme & #AMPHIBIAN hashtags & please say if you want DM comment
Nature's amphibians move across habitats. Metaphorical ones might shift in class or identity
Take your time. Post a poem by the end of 30 September. Tag @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Use #PoetryTheme & #AMPHIBIAN hashtags & please say if you want DM comment
September 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
A #LiftToTheSky today for @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social and his new poetry prompt #PoetryTheme with its first prompt of #Amphibian 🐸 looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!
Festive best wishes to all my friends on here, to all those who have been kind & supportive this year, to members of the #poetrycommunity, the #promptcombo & #poemsabout writers I have met, & to those who have participated in my own #poetrytheme prompt. Have a peaceful season & great 2026🙏🙏🕊️🎄
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December 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Festive best wishes to all my friends on here, to all those who have been kind & supportive this year, to members of the #poetrycommunity, the #promptcombo & #poemsabout writers I have met, & to those who have participated in my own #poetrytheme prompt. Have a peaceful season & great 2026🙏🙏🕊️🎄
Small Magics
I once found a small black-spotted red salamander, at home in all the worlds, earth, water and air, myth and fire.
in deep forest shade
one thread of bright life
hides under a stone
#haibun #haiku
thepaulconnolly.bsky.social #PoetryTheme & #AMPHIBIAN
I once found a small black-spotted red salamander, at home in all the worlds, earth, water and air, myth and fire.
in deep forest shade
one thread of bright life
hides under a stone
#haibun #haiku
thepaulconnolly.bsky.social #PoetryTheme & #AMPHIBIAN
September 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Small Magics
I once found a small black-spotted red salamander, at home in all the worlds, earth, water and air, myth and fire.
in deep forest shade
one thread of bright life
hides under a stone
#haibun #haiku
thepaulconnolly.bsky.social #PoetryTheme & #AMPHIBIAN
I once found a small black-spotted red salamander, at home in all the worlds, earth, water and air, myth and fire.
in deep forest shade
one thread of bright life
hides under a stone
#haibun #haiku
thepaulconnolly.bsky.social #PoetryTheme & #AMPHIBIAN
A small boon for those who have contributed to the #PoetryTheme prompt is that they can now be found in this new starter pack. Please follow, share, repost
#poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #poetry #prompts #booksky #writingcommunity
#poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #poetry #prompts #booksky #writingcommunity
September 30, 2025 at 8:51 AM
A small boon for those who have contributed to the #PoetryTheme prompt is that they can now be found in this new starter pack. Please follow, share, repost
#poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #poetry #prompts #booksky #writingcommunity
#poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #poetry #prompts #booksky #writingcommunity
This post alone from the brilliant @francesca-laura.bsky.social makes the #PoetryTheme #AMPHIBIAN prompt worthwhile...
And although not poetry I thought I'd share my grumpy toad print to celebrate the first #PoetryTheme day hosted by the fabulous @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social (my actual poetry contribution above) #Amphibian
September 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
This post alone from the brilliant @francesca-laura.bsky.social makes the #PoetryTheme #AMPHIBIAN prompt worthwhile...
My starter pack of people associated with the #PoetryTheme #Prompt Includes @janpsolivagant.bsky.social @uhume.bsky.social @francesca-laura.bsky.social and many more. Please follow and repost if you can #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #writingcommunity
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
My starter pack of people associated with the #PoetryTheme #Prompt Includes @janpsolivagant.bsky.social @uhume.bsky.social @francesca-laura.bsky.social and many more. Please follow and repost if you can #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #writingcommunity
I dream of cold,
slimy #amphibian
skin
that can exist freely
In water or on land;
I dream of tadpoles,
swimming freely,
no boundaries,
criticisms
guiding their youth;
in a frog-life
my spirit would
be content,
croaking,
swimming,
chilling on lily
pads
#poetrytheme @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
slimy #amphibian
skin
that can exist freely
In water or on land;
I dream of tadpoles,
swimming freely,
no boundaries,
criticisms
guiding their youth;
in a frog-life
my spirit would
be content,
croaking,
swimming,
chilling on lily
pads
#poetrytheme @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I dream of cold,
slimy #amphibian
skin
that can exist freely
In water or on land;
I dream of tadpoles,
swimming freely,
no boundaries,
criticisms
guiding their youth;
in a frog-life
my spirit would
be content,
croaking,
swimming,
chilling on lily
pads
#poetrytheme @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
slimy #amphibian
skin
that can exist freely
In water or on land;
I dream of tadpoles,
swimming freely,
no boundaries,
criticisms
guiding their youth;
in a frog-life
my spirit would
be content,
croaking,
swimming,
chilling on lily
pads
#poetrytheme @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
Slinky and elongated as a water snake, @artbyseranya.bsky.social's #PoetryTheme #AMPHIBIAN offering is a cascade of motion and abstraction descanting on water and climate then concluding with that most amphibious concept: compromise 👏👏👏
Water gives us all life
~ Amphibian ~
Recoiling
Senseless
Fears
Less
Is more
Drop
By Drip
Drip
Drop
Renders
A pond
Afire
Squishing
This vast
Cold
Ocean
Unfeeling
Yet easily
Upset
By the
Dimmest
Wind
Unprovoked
By melting
Fire
Rendering
Lava
Moot
Earth
Itself
Beyond
My waves
Splashing
Crashing
1/
~ Amphibian ~
Recoiling
Senseless
Fears
Less
Is more
Drop
By Drip
Drip
Drop
Renders
A pond
Afire
Squishing
This vast
Cold
Ocean
Unfeeling
Yet easily
Upset
By the
Dimmest
Wind
Unprovoked
By melting
Fire
Rendering
Lava
Moot
Earth
Itself
Beyond
My waves
Splashing
Crashing
1/
The first #PoetryTheme prompt is #AMPHIBIAN
Nature's amphibians move across habitats. Metaphorical ones might shift in class or identity
Take your time. Post a poem by the end of 30 September. Tag @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Use #PoetryTheme & #AMPHIBIAN hashtags & please say if you want DM comment
Nature's amphibians move across habitats. Metaphorical ones might shift in class or identity
Take your time. Post a poem by the end of 30 September. Tag @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Use #PoetryTheme & #AMPHIBIAN hashtags & please say if you want DM comment
September 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Slinky and elongated as a water snake, @artbyseranya.bsky.social's #PoetryTheme #AMPHIBIAN offering is a cascade of motion and abstraction descanting on water and climate then concluding with that most amphibious concept: compromise 👏👏👏
I woke up
with a start
axiously looked all around
my head was filled
with some unusual sounds
I was no longer human
I was all reptilian
I had shrunk,
clearly diminished
into a small amphibian
locked away
in somebody's terrarium
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
#PoetryTheme #AMPHIBIAN
with a start
axiously looked all around
my head was filled
with some unusual sounds
I was no longer human
I was all reptilian
I had shrunk,
clearly diminished
into a small amphibian
locked away
in somebody's terrarium
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
#PoetryTheme #AMPHIBIAN
September 27, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I woke up
with a start
axiously looked all around
my head was filled
with some unusual sounds
I was no longer human
I was all reptilian
I had shrunk,
clearly diminished
into a small amphibian
locked away
in somebody's terrarium
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
#PoetryTheme #AMPHIBIAN
with a start
axiously looked all around
my head was filled
with some unusual sounds
I was no longer human
I was all reptilian
I had shrunk,
clearly diminished
into a small amphibian
locked away
in somebody's terrarium
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
#PoetryTheme #AMPHIBIAN
A typically virtuoso take, in words and visual effect, on the #PoetryTheme #AMPHIBIAN from @victoriaspires.bsky.social The paradoxical oddity of these glass objects, immensely hard yet fragile, and their amphibian resemblances, are deployed to satiric effect. Brilliantly original approach 👏👏👏
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social An entry for your #AMPHIBIAN #PoetryTheme, which might just be a little stretch of the theme too far? 🙃
September 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
A typically virtuoso take, in words and visual effect, on the #PoetryTheme #AMPHIBIAN from @victoriaspires.bsky.social The paradoxical oddity of these glass objects, immensely hard yet fragile, and their amphibian resemblances, are deployed to satiric effect. Brilliantly original approach 👏👏👏
@krislindbeck.bsky.social’s #PoetryTheme #AMPHIBIAN is of a creature at home in the four ancient elements and thus in myth. From this epic generality, we move to the particularity of shade and the bright excitement of life beneath a stone 👏👏👏
Small Magics
I once found a small black-spotted red salamander, at home in all the worlds, earth, water and air, myth and fire.
in deep forest shade
one thread of bright life
hides under a stone
#haibun #haiku
thepaulconnolly.bsky.social #PoetryTheme & #AMPHIBIAN
I once found a small black-spotted red salamander, at home in all the worlds, earth, water and air, myth and fire.
in deep forest shade
one thread of bright life
hides under a stone
#haibun #haiku
thepaulconnolly.bsky.social #PoetryTheme & #AMPHIBIAN
September 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
@krislindbeck.bsky.social’s #PoetryTheme #AMPHIBIAN is of a creature at home in the four ancient elements and thus in myth. From this epic generality, we move to the particularity of shade and the bright excitement of life beneath a stone 👏👏👏
For the #PoetryTheme #AMPHIBIAN @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social gives us the beginnings of a hugely enjoyable and idiomatic Aesopian tale with huge potential for development 👏👏👏
Hi Paul @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social just a 🚧stanza for #PoetryTheme & #AMPHIBIAN coz I need to give the frog sm time to see where it’s headed to. I’ve a tinglin it’s gonna globe-trottin (pond-hoppin?) n I may follow it to see it doesn’t fall in sm fortuitous/devious well ‘long the way… #Oulens 1/2
September 28, 2025 at 6:33 AM
For the #PoetryTheme #AMPHIBIAN @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social gives us the beginnings of a hugely enjoyable and idiomatic Aesopian tale with huge potential for development 👏👏👏
@francesca-laura.bsky.social takes the #PoetryTheme #AMPHIBIAN as a starting point for a tale of abuse, the scientific vivisecting care of the victim contrasted with the violent butchery of the abuser in a compressed & brilliant fashion recalling Baudelaire 👏👏👏
I wasn't sure at first what to do with the prompt #Amphibian. Thanks to @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social for hosting this new #PoetryTheme for all of us to enjoy. #BlueSkyPoets #PoetryCommunity #Writers
September 28, 2025 at 6:36 AM
@francesca-laura.bsky.social takes the #PoetryTheme #AMPHIBIAN as a starting point for a tale of abuse, the scientific vivisecting care of the victim contrasted with the violent butchery of the abuser in a compressed & brilliant fashion recalling Baudelaire 👏👏👏
September 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social #amphibian #poetrytheme
It’s short - and I know it’s not haiku - but it’s inspired by one! A little croak-out for all the frogs that were used to further the understanding of electricity and batteries! 🐸 #Galvani #galvanoscope
It’s short - and I know it’s not haiku - but it’s inspired by one! A little croak-out for all the frogs that were used to further the understanding of electricity and batteries! 🐸 #Galvani #galvanoscope
September 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social #amphibian #poetrytheme
It’s short - and I know it’s not haiku - but it’s inspired by one! A little croak-out for all the frogs that were used to further the understanding of electricity and batteries! 🐸 #Galvani #galvanoscope
It’s short - and I know it’s not haiku - but it’s inspired by one! A little croak-out for all the frogs that were used to further the understanding of electricity and batteries! 🐸 #Galvani #galvanoscope
Kafkaesque nightmare from @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social for the #PoetryTheme #AMPHIBIAN as an amphibious Gregor Samsa ends up in the terrarium 👏👏👏
I woke up
with a start
axiously looked all around
my head was filled
with some unusual sounds
I was no longer human
I was all reptilian
I had shrunk,
clearly diminished
into a small amphibian
locked away
in somebody's terrarium
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
#PoetryTheme #AMPHIBIAN
with a start
axiously looked all around
my head was filled
with some unusual sounds
I was no longer human
I was all reptilian
I had shrunk,
clearly diminished
into a small amphibian
locked away
in somebody's terrarium
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
#PoetryTheme #AMPHIBIAN
September 28, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Kafkaesque nightmare from @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social for the #PoetryTheme #AMPHIBIAN as an amphibious Gregor Samsa ends up in the terrarium 👏👏👏
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social #AMPHIBIAN #Poetrytheme
Had some fun with this tale. DM welcome as obs still rickety. Thanks for the prompt & event.
Had some fun with this tale. DM welcome as obs still rickety. Thanks for the prompt & event.
September 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social #AMPHIBIAN #Poetrytheme
Had some fun with this tale. DM welcome as obs still rickety. Thanks for the prompt & event.
Had some fun with this tale. DM welcome as obs still rickety. Thanks for the prompt & event.
The 13 posts in my thread☝️(13 despite negative associations is a Fibonacci number) may interest #poetsonbluesky, the #poetrycommunity and perhaps especially those who discussed rhyme with me during the #PoetryTheme prompt. Hope it's helpful to you.
And now there are 14 posts, which makes a sonnet.
And now there are 14 posts, which makes a sonnet.
October 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The 13 posts in my thread☝️(13 despite negative associations is a Fibonacci number) may interest #poetsonbluesky, the #poetrycommunity and perhaps especially those who discussed rhyme with me during the #PoetryTheme prompt. Hope it's helpful to you.
And now there are 14 posts, which makes a sonnet.
And now there are 14 posts, which makes a sonnet.
A starter pack of #poets and other people associated with the #PoetryTheme Please follow them and repost the pack. #poetsonbluesky #poetrycommunity
January 12, 2026 at 9:32 AM
A starter pack of #poets and other people associated with the #PoetryTheme Please follow them and repost the pack. #poetsonbluesky #poetrycommunity
@janedougherty47.bsky.social's #PoetryTheme poem is a wondrous epic description of a Titanic #AMPHIBIAN emergence. Microscopic inert dirty rises like Ezekiel's bones and swirls like galaxies in this mix of classical ideas, scientific motion and creation myth 👏👏👏
This is my #AMPHIBIAN #PoetryTheme poem for
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
Thanks Paul for the nudge to get head-scratching!
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
Thanks Paul for the nudge to get head-scratching!
September 28, 2025 at 7:07 AM
@janedougherty47.bsky.social's #PoetryTheme poem is a wondrous epic description of a Titanic #AMPHIBIAN emergence. Microscopic inert dirty rises like Ezekiel's bones and swirls like galaxies in this mix of classical ideas, scientific motion and creation myth 👏👏👏