#thinginitself
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@victoriaspires.bsky.social #PromptCombo
#ThingInItself
#InTheMoment

I'm drinking sweet

Tea

Made from those

Nettles

That just stung

Me.
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@victoriaspires.bsky.social
#PromptCombo This is my #ThingInItself for Monday
Have a great day wherever you are and whatever you are doing.
April 6, 2026 at 7:55 AM
My last #DingAnSich #promptcombo recording is my #poem Between. Again it’s from the excellent @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social (text above 👆). #thinginitself #poemsaloud #poetrycommunity @victoriaspires.bsky.social
April 8, 2026 at 6:58 AM
April 10, 2026 at 8:00 AM
This isn't appearing in the #PromptCombo #ThingInItself thread on my screen, so reposting. One of those days.
Initial response to #PromptCombo @victoriaspires.bsky.social this week was 'What?! And laptop won't load poems. So I've done this - which I wanted to post anyway (photo my own)

The Red Tractor
(after W C Williams)

so much depends
upon

a red trac
tor

grazed by farm
dust

behind the grey
turkey
April 6, 2026 at 2:29 PM
All three of my @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social poems have a certain #DingAnSich dimension. I’ll record them all this week. Here’s the first. Langdale Pikes @victoriaspires.bsky.social #promptcombo #thinginitself #poemsaloud #poetrycommunity
April 6, 2026 at 8:37 AM
From the city that brought you #Bauhaus, @victoriaspires.bsky.social & this week's #PromptCombo #ThingInItself #DingAnSich Tag Victoria & use the hashtags to take part!

#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #bskypoetry
April 6, 2026 at 7:34 AM
#PromptCombo your host is the lovely Vic.

This week's theme is #ThingInItself #DingAnSich

Use the hastags & tag @victoriaspires.bsky.social to get involved.
You have till Wednesday.

Enjoy m'dear❤️
April 6, 2026 at 7:42 AM
Wordsworth. 256 today

So I recorded some Tintern Abbey. Wordsworth didn’t share Coleridge’s fascination with German idealism (or misunderstanding of it; for C’s take on the #DingAnSich #ThingInItself see Biographia Literaria) yet reaches through nature & self for an Essence #Wordsworth #poemsaloud
April 7, 2026 at 10:06 AM
For @victoriaspires.bsky.social and #PromptCombo #ThingInItself

I'm more familiar with physics than philosophy, although my A level were a very long time ago. Aiming for some intentional ambiguity and playful exploration of ideas of spectra and dual nature.
April 6, 2026 at 11:52 AM
@victoriaspires.bsky.social
#promptcombo
#thinginitself

To name is to play—
a thing is in May
a whispering bud.
In April, less so,
yet—should you let go
it stretches the clouds
between silken doubts:
a name for the youth.

#poetry
#poem
April 8, 2026 at 12:53 AM
A small poem on animate nature as #ThingInItself, unfettered by our perceptions and without the schema we later attach to it. Tenderness could exist even without our human conception of it. A child's sense of wonder may come closer to reality.

Thanks to host @victoriaspires.bsky.social
#PromptCombo
April 6, 2026 at 3:46 PM
All are welcome to take part. Please use #Promptcombo #ThingInItself and tag victoriaspires.bsky.social, Vic.
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April 6, 2026 at 7:37 AM
#PromptCombo #ThingInItself @victoriaspires.bsky.social. Intentionally left the cursor in the screenshot. This is another ‘based on the last thing I did before picking up Bluesky’ poems. This time you get to guess what that was. This has been a useful exercise <3
April 6, 2026 at 8:17 AM

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