Bluesky · Hashtag

#defeat

49
posts · 30d
18
users
2
posts / day
2.7
posts / user
+ 33% vs last week

#defeat is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 18 people shared 49 posts with it — around 2 a day. Activity is up 33% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 9 with 20 posts.

#defeat posts per day (last 30 days)

Posts with #defeat

Jenevieve Carlyn
@coastalpoet.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
Because I'm always in one contemplative mood or another. Shared this a year ago for a friend on a rough day. Meant to be read aloud, I’ve since read it at open mics (story in comments🍴). Inspired by Riz Ahmed's stellar narration of Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. #PoemsAbout #Defeat #PromptCombo #Bliss
Because We Are Always Caught In or Between Storms 


Speak to me of life. Start with despair, yes,
but then show me the rising; begin with the ache,
now let go of that binding. Give me an endless,
impossible, starry sky; tell me of the first promise

anyone made around a fire: that if I help carry yours,
you’ll help carry mine. Show me what hope looks like
held fast, yet free — show me your horse about to leap,
strong as a trestle bridge over the ravine.

Let it go on like this for some time,
the moment not yet ripe, the dream still on the vine,
and when the night falls thick as a carving knife, 
remind me of that shining moment when lightning struck,

the sky cracked open — everything came alive.


Jenevieve Carlyn
A painting titled, 'Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast' (1870), by Albert Bierstadt. Storm clouds gather over a river gorge, with a tree growing precariously from a boulder on the left, and sunlight breaking through the cloud cover above.
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