Brutkey

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'Kids in a sweet shop'

#MastoPrompt #Lolly #Poetry #Poems
#Sonnet #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity

A poem in the style of a sonnet, inspired by the mastoprompt word for 13th October 2025 - Lolly. I call this piece 'Kids in a sweet shop' A Treasure of flavours, locked behind glass Sinister smile, from the sugar bourgeois Naive temptation, hands warm up brass Enticing senses, in this sweet boudoir Tangy bright orange that makes the lips smack Chocolate mint circle in green foil wrap Sickly sweet lolly, rainbow powder crack The bell says its mine, so much to unwrap A sea of bright wrappers covers the floor Blow raspberry bubbles, sugar rush grows Telling dirty jokes that end in guffaws Almost at the end of this sweet sickly prose Kids in a sweet shop, moths to a fire Bellies may ache, but peer pressure's desire
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The Treasure

#MastoPrompt #Variable #Poetry #Poems #Sonnet #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity

A poem in the style of a sonnet, that I have called: The Treasure, inspired by the mastoprompt for the 10th October 2025, Variable Aching trees creak together in the wind Festooned between them hang garlands and vines The green hammock bobs slowly like a spring Sleepy hand holds empty bottle of wine The warm air carries sounds off the seashore A percussion gently brushing the stones Variable slaps on water from oars A smiling fisherman rows his way home Dancing sprites leap from the crackling embers Pirouetting up in light from the moon To be here in this moments the treasure We can all have a piece of this fortune Relax and be at peace with the world now Swinging on the wind, I close my eyes - Ciao
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No run today (or yesterday), peeps :)
Ironing out some niggles, mainly joint stiffness & arthritic pain caused by joint loading in this extreme August humidity.

So my circuit training yesterday had a lot of hamstring, hip, knee, ankle mobility & stability work in there and that is the same again for today, along with calisthenics - hopefully I'll be OK for Thursday morning, but we'll see

That's the downside of living in a hot and humid country, as you get older

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uh, that explains why my the arthritis in my knee is having a moan even though I am at my desk, because it is 26c clear sky with 90% humidity!

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Hopefully they'll release companion books for Labour and Reform!
#UKPol

The cover of a lady book with two young children one in a red top and blue trousers and one in a pink top blue bottoms of some description (the edge of the book cuts them off early) set in a yellow background, they are laying down writing the words Liar, Nazi, Crook, Bigot, (what looks to be) Morally Bankrupt and a word ending in the letters NT. The book that is said to cost 2c Is called: Writing to your conservative MP At the bottom of the book cover a mortice lock key with a lady bird in the handle and the book is said to be part of The Ladybird Key Words Reading Scheme
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Meet the five-time beer-mile world champion: β€˜I knew I could chug from a young age’

Why am I not surprised that this fella is Canadian... probably because of a certain person's incredible running in shorts while it's 30Β° below

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/aug/09/corey-bellemore-beer-mile-champion

#running #runnersofmastodon #RunningCommunity #BeerMile

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Sniff
Baking
Cookie smell
Grandma's cooking
Unmistakable -
Rich tantalising scents
Resistance impossible
Heaven - a moment on that tray
Fingers poised, waiting for approval
Once we have seized the day, all that's left - crumbs!

#Cookie #MastoPrompt #Etheree #Poem #Poetry #MicroPoems #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity

Toffee and Chocolate chip cookies cooling on a wire rack
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No rose tinted glasses can ever hide
Humanity's shameful ecocide
Hidden badly behind black lies
Like prayers - recited at night
No god can put this right
Somewhere deep inside
Where our fears hide
The truth is
Buried
Live

#smallpoem #micropoem
#CountDown #InvertedEtheree
#Etheree #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Poets #Environment

Image shows a lightly clouded but blue sky and an ocean blue with the faint misty hills of a faraway land and a snaking trail of plastic and trash floating on the sea that trails off from the foreground to the horizon.
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The last summer blues give way to autumns
Magenta orange hues - leaves and light
Scattered in uniform chaos
Lay in shaded perfection
Watch subtle diffusion
Change your perspective
Warm sunny day
lost to the
Cold of
Night

#smallpoem #micropoem #CountDown #InvertedEtheree #Etheree #mastoprompt #writingCommunity #poetryCommunity #poets #Magenta

A wet tarmac road with a double yellow unbroken line in the middle, and white lines at the edges. The Day is overcast, as the light of day gives way to night. The road is flanked by autumnal trees that are slowly losing their leaves, patterns of green, yellow, orange, magenta, brown cover the ground in haphazard symmetry. Picture photographed by Craig Adderley, is copyright free and can be found on Pexels.com
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Summer storms brings scents of petrichor
Sea salt, sand and coconut oil
Lightning forks cut through deep thoughts
As dark clouds swirl above
Sun light delicate
Unpicks the gloom
Melting my
Sundae
Treat

#poetry #poem #Nonet #micropoetry #PoetryLovers #PoetryCommunity #writingcommunity #writersofMastodon #Poets #999thToot

The image is of Għadira Bay, Mellieha Malta during a late summer morning thunder storm, where a bolt of lightning was photographed as it hit the ground. The image was taken on 13th Sep 2020 by 'Lovin Malta'