Good morning, Poets! This #PoemsAbout #BeingWatched was another difficult challenge for me. Thank you as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Sometimes you're not just being paranoid #BeingWatched @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout

morning Friday I hope I find you well and looking forward to the weekend, here’s my little “throwaway” poem for #PoemsAbout #BeingWatched and thank you to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry #poems have a lovely weekend everyone everywhere 🛋️🛋️🛋️

For #PoemsAbout #BeingWatched with thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#PoemsAbout #BeingWatched @thebrokenspine.co.uk The second photo is not from the day of the kill, but is pasted here for perspective…

In with an early contribution for today’s #PoemsAbout #BeingWatched thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and the #poetrycommunity who support this. May not be quite what you had in mind. I’m busy until 4 today so will catch you all again later. Enjoy. #poetry #poem #WIP

Hullo @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk and to #beingwatched #poemsabout An old piece of whimsy for this week…

Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk for the #PoemsAbout prompt #BeingWatched . As a child I was scared of the dark - even when the lights were on! Look forward to catching up after work later. Happy Friday! 😊 #poetry

#PoemsAbout #BeingWatched Coincidentally, haven’t been able to write for quite a while…but here’s a little piece. Thank you for reading 🙏🙏 For @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #Oulens #BlueskyPoetry #micropoetry #prosepoetry #poetry #poetrycommunity

Happy Friday #PoemsAbout friends. For this week’s #beingwatched I found myself thinking about those empty circles. @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry

Let me paint the sky A #magnanimous blue With words that won’t make you cry For more than a few The heavens may wish to pry But like morning dew They’ll disappear with a content sigh & I’ll continue to paint the night sky #vss365 #poetry

Hope agitates— holding dreams in enticing proximity but often it's a bum steer, that certainty a mirage, never quite so near headlines after all, are born of calamity, not cheer & yet hope holds numbness at bay— dreams for dreaming's sake can wash life's dreariness away. #inkmine

The lines on my brow, deeper now, years etched into skin— telling signs of miles traversed enough to recognise pastures that meander with a rhyme like mine so as I ambled slowly down your path, I saw your tracks matched my own and knew I was home. #sensewrds 193 Drifting Furrowed Fields

Did a story once start at the foot of my bed? A birth? A death? A home on this spot for centuries— god knows the tales within these walls I can't ask & they can't tell but I feel those who've gone before they speak in the creak of a door or a candle's flicker & I get goosebumps down to my bones.

Two hundred thousand, passing in the streets. Faces drift by as tears slip past my cheek. Everyone there, yet no one sees. #poemsabout #beingwatched #prompt #poetry #poetryprompt #writing #writingprompt #skywriters #poet

Like new numbness cards foretold #7syllablesentence

#Magnanimous we are always in dialogue with six year old versions the stern hides the sullen the angry guards the frightened so when people ask why I'm kind I wink and stick out my tongue #vss365

poems etched in wind with the fine tips of willow leaves #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

A door, a handle between me and all my dreams now where's that damned key? #haikufeels #handle #senryu #haiku

I haven't done this for a while, but after hearing the shameful figures about the tsunami of masculism in our enlightened world, I felt moved to say something. #PoemsAbout #BeingWatched @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Good morning and many thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk for your intriguing #PoemsAbout prompt #BeingWatched. This isn't new but I hope it fits the bill. Looking forward to reading everyone else's contributions #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

My last snowstorm, you Blanketed everything, and Then melted away. #BedroomEyesPrompt #LastSnowstorm #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @oldsoulprose.bsky.social @southernjam.bsky.social

Crackling on the Phone line, footsteps following, The eyes you can't see. #PoemsAbout #BeingWatched #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Morning ~ all ~ one from way back ~ Jim @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk and to #beingwatched #poemsabout

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

Had to skip last week due to hosting my dearest sister. Here's my offering to this week's #poemsabout with the theme #BeingWatched #poetry #poetrycommunity Thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Hi @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk For #PoemsAbout #BeingWatched

Happy ##PoemsAbout day. Here is my offering tor #BeingWatched @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #Poetry

For #PoemsAbout #BeingWatched Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#PoemsAbout @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #BeingWatched #newpoem: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026 #Reading 👇👇 #corvid #raven #TheShadow #Depression #Poe #Kafka #poetry

So little time this week, but remembered this very old one which sort of fits the @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout theme #BeingWatched Will try to catch up later.

A shell is a precious thing, a barrier between you & everything the courts ruled against it when I was born so instead, I feel it all— always sore I attempted to grow one but life was magnanimous in my defeat I learned awe instead— as feeling slice I'm now gratified by all they teach. #vss365

Anxious poet's bad dream Of linguistic impotence words just gone, vanished. #weirdmicro #linguisticimpotence #haiku #senryu

Horrors in leather Crocodile boots, chaps, a whip My poor eyes, haunted. #haikuhorrorprompt #leather #haiku #senryu

Winter's last snowstorm, trapped at home, entwined in the bedroom, souls aflame. #bedroomeyes #lastsnowstorm #haiku #senryu @oldsoulprose.bsky.social

Geese leave in a 'V' Salmon disappear upstream The trees wave sadly. #DailyHaikuPrompt #geese #salmon #haiku #senryu

The barren valley's greenflash, as if a god struck a chlorophyll match. #BSPP51 #greenflash (sudden growth) #haiku #senryu

#poemsabout #beingwatched @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

We are all the same thing, after all. #mpprompt #Afterall #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writingcommunity #poetryprompt @malformed-poetry.bsky.social @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

The moon wearing red Vamping up, touch of lip gloss Celestial goth. #haikufeels #gloss #bloodmoon #senryu #haiku

Monitoring clocks For the workday's end tick-tock slow as a watched pot. #2wordprompt #monitor #tick #haiku #senryu

He was the wild rose that infiltrated my spaceship I wanted to float amongst the stars, away from all of it but a vine latched on, a living thing— vital, real transforming the mechanics of my isolation to something organic & I landed again without even noticing— hand in hand with this starman.

Winter, furious— flabbergasted at Spring its budding usurper making bountiful claims to curry favour— its reign takes hold as cold & dark retreat to shadow— chirping birds herald a new king within me the same battle won— a brighter mood takes root as gloom goes to hide in dark corners of my mind.

When the moon is full, or wild seas pound, we feel it deep down— we are beasts after all even if we wear suits & pretend to be more— gods even as if we're not bound to the land that sprouted us & we'll sink with this ship we take for granted ever poking holes in the hull & calling it progress.

Bird's incoherent testimony, hopping mad, cat feigns innocence. #weirdmicro #incoherenttestimony #haiku #senryu

Post-modern blood bath, red splashed tableaux, painter views his massacred art. #haikuhorrorprompt #tableaux #haiku #senryu

Amid petal rain 'neath sweet magnolia trees he kissed me softly. #bedroomeyes #sweetmagnolia #haiku #senryu @oldsoulprose.bsky.social

Soft as a catkin graceful as an orchid, yet fierce as a flytrap. #DailyHaikuPrompt #catkin #orchid #haiku #senryu

You, the morning sun My heart sings a dawn song when your light fills my sky. #BSPP51 #dawnsong #haiku #senryu

If you turn it clockwise my heart will not unlock— its cogs don't spin so cleanly there is a gentle knack, few have ever cracked & I can't offer any advice— only my heart knows how it works but once in a magical blue moon, another heart ticks in rhyme with mine— the lock turns & my heart opens.