Here's my offering for this week's #poemsabout on #gravity. Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk / @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt! Looking forward to reading everyone elses! #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity

Alan Parry is hosting. That alone should tell you something about what this night means. Come through properly. #PoemsAbout #OpenMic #Return

In these parts, there is less distance between this world and others. Many thanks @rfsmith.bsky.social for the excuse to write about it for #PromptCombo #Visions, inspired also by this morning's encounter with one of our resident woodcock! #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #scottishpoetry

A bleak, black-and-white kind of day on Skye, what you can feel from the photos is the wind!

Write the poem that feels too large to hold. Then control it. #Firmament #Slimline #PoemsAbout #PoetsOfBluesky

Turns out the #FragmentsFriday I posted last week was the perfect opening to this week's #PoemsAbout #EdgeOfKnowing! So now I do know where that was going! Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk / @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt! #poems #poetry #blueskypoetry

The point where language gives out. #PoemsAbout #EdgeOfKnowing — write up to the edge of what can be known, then stop. Don’t resolve it. Sit in it. New theme begins Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout to be found.

As we've no #PoemsAbout this week, I'm going to share this little starting piece for @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #fragmentsfriday instead... sprang into my head walking the hound this morning, I wonder where it's going to go... #poems #poetry #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity #wrtingcommunity

Well done, Paul, a huge effort to get this excellent anthology out - and congratulations to all the poets in there, it's a fantastic read raising money for an important cause!

Calling all troubadours! An idea. Post your audio poems. Tag them #PoemsAloud so they're easy to find & share. That's the idea. 🥳 Why? #PoemsAloud syncs perfectly w/ #PoemsAbout or can stand on its own. Some poems live beyond the page. I recorded a bunch & don't know what else to do w/ them 🤷‍♀️

Going minimalist for this week's #promptcombo #allowed, hope you like it! Thanks to @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for another excellent prompt #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Thank you @janpsolivagant.bsky.social Jan for last weeks amazing stint. The #promptcombo for this week is #Allowed All can contribute. Please use the above hashtags and tag me @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

Delighted that @zoomburst.substack.com chose to review my new collection, thanks Mike 🙏

Here's a very rough start to something (maybe) for #fragmentsfriday - describes today's weather up here rather well too! Thanks @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social & @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for hosting! #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity

#PoemsAbout #InBloom is live. Write what opens without apology. What grows because it must. What risks being seen because staying closed would be worse. Some things bloom loudly. Let them. Post from today. Tag #PoemsAbout #InBloom to be read and shared. Use Alt Text. Take care with each other.

A wee poem looking forward to spring for #PoemsAbout #Inbloom this week. Bit of a busy day ahead so will read others when I can later! Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk / @thebrokenspine.co.uk for a fine seasonal prompt :-) #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Just booked a hotel in the centre of Rome for June (work trip)... wow, it's expensive! 🫨

Good morning #poetrycommunity, thanks to @janpsolivagant.bsky.social for this week's #promptcombo theme of #nothing, and apologies for the rather gloomy response! Looking forward to reading what others come up with! #poems #poetry #writingcommunity

Thanks once again @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk for another excellent #PoemsAbout. This week is #Melt... here's a little something I wrote for it! #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity

Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #Melt. Not collapse. Release. Don’t post before Friday. That softening? That loss of resistance? That’s the poem. Tag it. Use Alt Text.

Hello @dragonslayerma.bsky.social, thanks for this week's fabulous #PromptCombo. Here's a very hasty contribution to #InThisDarkHour! #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

For this week's #PoemsAbout, I'm thinking about #consent as risk calculation. Thank you to the host @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk and to all of the other writers. #poetry #poem #writing #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets #writingcommunity

Good morning #PoemsAbout! #Consent was a hard prompt to get my head around, so hope you like it! Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk! #poem #poems #poetry #writingcommunity #blueskyepoets

Congratulations @paulwritespoems.bsky.social on this fantastic anthology - some really wonderful poets in here! Delighted and humbled to have a couple of my own included!

Huge thanks for prompt Julian @hool415.bsky.social l #promptcombo #free40 Dee Side In the café with torn lino and the toffee crackled windows in the seaside town Where the tide went out In nineteen sixty two. A man in a pork pie hat Stirs his tea with a fork © Bernard Pearson

Hullo @janpsolivagant.bsky.social @rfsmith.bsky.social @dragonslayerma.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social Tag me @hool415.bsky.social #promptcombo #free40 Post anything but 40 WORDS MAX! It’s micro-write week!Everyone is doing it these days! (Till 4pm Friday)

Ju's #promptcombo #free40 this morning was tricky! I had a go at something seasonal, trying to remember that the real world rests and restores regardless of human ignorance and stupidity. Thanks @hool415.bsky.social for the prompt I'll try to read others later! #poems #poetry #writingcommunity

Something quick, pared back and freshly baked for #fragmentsfriday @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social #poems #poetry

It's still early and so many excellent poems for #PoemsAbout #BeingWatched already! Here's a contribution from me; for a lover, a child, a parent? Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt! #poems #poetry #writingcommunity

A slightly literal haiku for #PromptCombo #Powerless on this gloomy wet Monday. Thanks for the excellent prompt, @rfsmith.bsky.social #poems #poetry #writingcommunity

Once again I thank the incomparable @victoriaspires.bsky.social for last week’s faultless leadership. This weeks #PromptCombo theme is #Powerless Love to all. @victoriaspires.bsky.social @dragonslayerma.bsky.social @hool415.bsky.social @janpsolivagant.bsky.social Please tag Paul.

When you say "it'll only take 20 minutes to knock up a survey" then realise it needs to be in #Gàidhlig as well as English...

Nice to be able to post a quick little poem for #poemsabout #spent after a bit of an enforced absence last week (bad cold). Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk / @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt and to everyone contributing! #poems #poetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #scottishpoetry

This Friday, the multi-platform event #fragmentsfriday - post your own #micropoem of 18 words or less. No AI. Just your own genius. Fridays only. #poetry #poetic

My latest blog piece, a look at how UK Government energy policy is financially penalising Scottish energy producers and consumers in order to subsidise the south of England, and contaminating Scotland with radioactive waste. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/w...

An cnoc fo chòta sneachda madainn an-diugh... #isleofskye

Well, thanks Paul for a real challenge of a #PromptCombo this week, #AChangeOfUse was definitely outside my poetic comfort zone but always fun to stray! @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity.

Here's a wee poem I wrote last night for the new #fragmentsfriday from @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social - the challenge: one poem 18 words or less! #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity

Here's a poem I wrote for this week's #poemsabout #undressed. Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk & @alanparrywriter.co.uk for the prompt and everyone for already amazing contributions! #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity

Absentee landlord of Scottish island urges community buyout https://www.scotsman.com/news/absentee-landlord-of-scottish-island-urges-community-buyout-5532074 #scothinews

Thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for hosting an excellent #poetry open mic last night - an amazing group of poets sharing some incredible work! A privilege to be part of it!

SHARE AWAY!!! Announcing a new project - a platform each Friday. #FRAGMENTSFRIDAY’ - 18 words or less - a startling, inventive poem. Tag in #fragmentsfriday and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social & share one startling fragment of your own poetry. No A.I. generated poetry!

Did you bookmark this month’s Poetic Voice from The Book Bag? If you did you’ll know a new poem was added today from @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Read the article here: paulwritespoems.com/2026/02/01/t...

A great prompt word @dragonslayerma.bsky.social thank you. #promptcombo #ecstasy #poems #poetry

The work on making National Conversations about digital happen in the May elections is starting to heat up. Working on prelection hustings on Digital Society and the Private Sector and Economy as well as a post-election event on the State and Public Sector nationalconversations.org

I rather enjoyed writing this poem for #promptcombo #ecstasy between re-grouting the shower. Thanks @dragonslayerma.bsky.social, what a great start to the week! #poems #poetry

For #PromptCombo this week, it's #ecstasy. Use the hastags & tag me to get involved. ❤️ This video of me reading my poem "My Man" is from a series of poetry videos Julie & I did during Covid. @victoriaspires.bsky.social @hool415.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @rfsmith.bsky.social

Lovely to wake up to Paul’s review of my new collection! Thanks @paulwritespoems.bsky.social

Sorry to jump on the #poemsabout hashtag, but I am thinking of putting out a selection of poems on the theme of heresy on the #SixtyOdd #Poets page on Sunday Feb 15th to commemorate Galileo's 462nd Birthday. Anyone want to send me anything? (email in alt text)

This week's #poemsabout #mouths just wasn't working, I almost gave it a swerve - until this popped into my head yesterday! Kōtare (Māori) is a watchtower around a pā (fort) but, more commonly, a kingfisher! Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk & @alanparrywriter.co.uk #poems #poetry