#MapPoem is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 17 people shared 28 posts with it — around 1 a day. The busiest day was Jul 13 with 11 posts.

Posts with #MapPoem

Jen Thorne

@jenthorne.bsky.social

24 days ago

@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social I am really not sure about this one, so be kind. You gave us a devilishly tricky #PromptCombo this week with #MapPoem 😈

Surrender

Waves move through me,
not water, but a shifting geometry of pain.

I take the bitter shapes,
fragments
dissolving
into the body’s quiet machinery.

Relief is a distant horizon,
a thinning of edges,
a soft blur where thought unravels.

Darkness gathers
not as threat,
but as a vast field without centre,
a place where holding on becomes impossible;
unnecessary.

In that formlessness,
I drift into surrender.

11 19 51

Peter J. King

@rock-rex.bsky.social

26 days ago

"The Haunted Islands" & "The Haunted Map" (from "Ghost Webs" [2022, The Calliope Script]) #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #visualpoetry #concretepoem #concretepoetry #ghostwebs #promptcombo #mappoem @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

7 10 39

Stefanie Neumann

@kokopellibfree.bsky.social

25 days ago

#WritingCommunity #vss365 #MapPoem #PromptCombo #poetry #firewords280 #PennedReveries #thingstowriteabout #BSPP55 #WildWalkPrompt #UnchainedSymphonies #OurPoetryX #bionicanadian @darkxfer.bsky.social @ourpoetryx.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social

Road Trip
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n by the golden hour
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a pastell sky i
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of sunlight
above
p a shadow-kissed
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the colours of night l
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A list of vivid memories before we exit into everyday life that, one day, will be no more.
Now, there is not even a "we" to whine over wine. You might have padlocked this threshold.
But I remember.
© Stefanie Neumann - @KokopelliBFree

5 12 31

Matthias (watering thoughts) 🦄🧚‍♂️🐉

@ignorantfairy.bsky.social

26 days ago

For #promptcombo #MapPoem I tried out this form Thanks to @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for hosting #poetry #poetrycommunity

traveling empty roads
neither here nor there

true North became an illusion
crossroads presented the ultimate choice

feet like lead, head stuffed with cotton
a different path emerged at last

while destiny remained unclaimed
I tamed all my wild ideas
and fled into the brightness
of a fresh morning

8 10 31

Paul Brookes

@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

26 days ago

Thank you to @janpsolivagant.bsky.social for last weeks stunning stint. For mine this week please use tags #promptcombo #MapPoem and tag me thewombwellrainbow.bsky.s… @bsky.social. A map poem is using the page as topography. You are making a map of words.

3 10 28

Dean Norton

@zentinl.bsky.social

25 days ago

Thank you @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for hosting this week's #promptcombo with #MapPoem #poetrycommunity #poetry #poem #poems #skypoets #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetsofbluesky #skypoet #writingcommunity

3 7 27

her ghost

@justasilvia2.bsky.social

25 days ago

Learning about map poems through this challenging prompt. This is my take, though I might be a bit... lost. #promptcombo #MapPoem @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

(A Map of my Unorthodox Enterprise)

I. Legend / Scale
Poetry is calculated corporate labor.
The scale is one inch to a thousand malaise.
From this height, the horizon is flat,
unmarred by the friction of breathing.

II. The Epicenter (The Indolent Heart)
The indolent heart remains wired,
fixed at the precise epicenter of charisma,
sizzling from the weight of self-induced burnout.

III. The High Altitudes (Coordinates: North / Penthouse)
The intellect paces the glass penthouse,
preoccupied with a dry gala of redundant surplus,
a few sandwiches short of a picnic,
but the C-suite will cover for me.

IV. The Borderlands (The Floorboards)
Beneath the floorboards, the map changes color.
The mire staff scents the air;
they organically absorb the grueling twilight shift,
churning visceral grime in the dark basement.
Here, the terrain is muddy, unquantified,
a blank space labeled: Here be dragons.

V. Topography of the Yield
Fine sensers meticulously abrade the ancient hunger.
They give systematic form to the sodden scream,
redrawing the boundary lines
to lick the invoice with the bleeding seal of soul

7 7 26

Emily Tee

@emteepoetry.bsky.social

26 days ago

This is a bit literal and was written fairly quickly as a pastiche of several places I've lived in England over the years. For @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social and #PromptCombo #MapPoem I'll try to post another once I've thought a bit more for this amazing prompt.

6 8 26

Francis H Powell writer and poet

@fhpowellwriter.bsky.social

26 days ago

@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social‬ #promptcombo My #MapPoem for Monday

2 5 23

Lin Hart

@poetry-with-hart.bsky.social

24 days ago

The first of the three gift poems. Big shout out to @manyface.bsky.social. I also tried to tie in a few other prompts because I'm at least half mad. Hope you enjoy, and thanks again for the follows. Best wishes 🤗 @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social #promptcombo #mappoem #poetry #inkmine #haikuchain

Too Distant for Dreams

Driftwood balance beams
where the mountains met the sea.
Ruby sun greetings.

Ankle damp salt sprayed,
my cat-like footsteps, thin lines
Gramps, his walking stick.

Never explained where
we headed, the why of it
as plain as smiles

dawn kissed. Tide still out,
at least another hour,
then we arrived.

Pastel rainbows flashed,
shards of moving starlight swarms
diamond-backed and pure.

We emerged from this
once, shores too distant for dreams.
Now standing above

witness to cosmic
order blooming in tide pools,
in sea slugs, and him.

Our silent hike back,
morning too brittle for words,
what would he say now?

Is he walking still
by endless cosmic oceans
peering down at me?

Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

Thank you to @janpsolivagant.bsky.social for last weeks stunning stint. For mine this week please use tags #promptcombo #MapPoem and tag me thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @bsky.social. A map poem is using the page as topography. You are making a map of words.