Surviving the summer with poets @shawnalemay.bsky.social @jannoble.bsky.social @samrasnake.bsky.social @sallythomasnc.bsky.social @adamcairnspoet.bsky.social @coastalpoet.bsky.social @mariapopova.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social @ren-powell.bsky.social 2/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/07/poet...

The poem has stopped showing and started naming @adamcairnspoet.bsky.social @susanrich-poet18.bsky.social @zoomburst.substack.com @robinhoughton.bsky.social @aempoet.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social 3/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/06/poet...

What a lovely thing @davebonta.bsky.social does. Thanks to him for sharing my piece in this week’s roundup

I remember Bobby Tambling and in fact I've got a Panini sticker of him. One of the great pleasures of moving was finally getting every old book out of the attic and onto a shelf. Personal archaeology. #BobbyTambling #PaniniStickers #FootballHistory #PersonalArchaeology #FootballLegends #MemoryLane

chimes there’s nowhere wind chimes more urgently than my heart stopped by wind in leaf #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #haikufeels #dailyhaikuprompt

Bit of Rothko in the sky tonight

grove into plain blue air the green leaf opens a wing shadow of old trees #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #haikufeels #dailyhaikuprompt

The core diagnosis No 4 is up. I wrote an elegy for an extinct human species — then caught the poem consoling me before the loss had landed. The comfort arrived before the grief did. www.thecuttingroom.press/p/flores-une...

'… at the time of working on this, Frida knew that her worsening health likely meant that she did not have much longer left to live. A beautiful way to bring down the curtain. https://arteveryday.substack.com/p/the-last-works-of-frida-and-diego #FridaKahlo #ArtWithMeaning #LongLiveLife

“There are no richer parterres to my eyes than … these tender places on the earth’s surface,” Thoreau in his final essay. I love bogs, their squelch and ooze remind me that nothing is ever fully lost. https://chasingnature.substack.com/p/a-flower-reminds-me-where-i-belong #Thoreau #Bogs #Wetlands

The Sistine Chapel is wonderful, but poor Perugino. The panels he painted were obliterated by Michaelangelo only a few years after he completed them. Taste moved fast even in Renaissance Italy. #SistineChapel #Perugino #Michelangelo

aroma late sunlit garden honeysuckle and jasmine summer aroma #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #haikufeels #dailyhaikuprompt

Thank you for sharing this. Butterworth is new to me (in music and war, not in syrup). Three things this week: - The joy and ease a simple just-right basket brings to a routine. - The delight in being helpful when it felt...over. - And now, images of England, The Banks of Green Willow.

Have you heard of Butterworth? (not the syrup) His story and music are new to me. I am stirred in the soul's depths.

Very happy to see a poem published today by the wonderful Honest Ulsterman. I’m so grateful to the team there for choosing my poem - particularly as I’ve not been sending work out until very recently. Happy day here. #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity www.humag.co/poetry/i-ask...

I sometimes hear curlews calling in the autumn on the Newport Levels. I'm sad they are fading from our lives. Is there anything more beautiful than a bleak grey day by the shore and a curlew calling? #Curlew #NewportLevels #SoundOfNature #BleakBeauty

What made your week worth living? #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #haikufeels #dailyhaikuprompt open.substack.com/pub/poetrywo...

There's a brook below the seep with a name on the map. I put the name in the poem, and it did nothing but take up a line looking like detail. Over-naming is the commonest padding I find on the slab — the particular that adds weight, not the one that adds work. #PoetryCommunity #WritingLife

cool in a slow river the heron catches silver cool skin and sharp fin #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #haikufeels #dailyhaikuprompt

Ecological recovery and personal recovery, unlikely parallels maybe, but you do what you can. #EcologicalRecovery #HealingJourney #NatureRestoration

Today - summer among the oxeye daisy and the vetch #summer #wildflowers #clouds

spray against the grey cliff a two thousand mile ocean thunders into spray #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #haikufeels #dailyhaikuprompt

In Jonathan Haidt's the Happiness Hypothesis, he reminds us that kindness is not only free, good for those we bestow it upon - it also makes us happy. That's the kind of superpower we need more of.   #kindness #superpower #JonathanHaidt

Water finds the fractures. It doesn't make them — it goes where the hill is already broken and runs there. The poem that lands does the same: it finds the split the reader already carries and runs into it. Forced meaning runs off the surface. Found meaning goes down. #Poetry

night arches its long bow the town the hills the valley sent into darkness #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #haikufeels #dailyhaikuprompt

'A Palm Warbler will always fly toward an uncertain fate, which is true for all of us.' It occurred to me, what would Edward Thomas (who knew these woods) make of the diminished birdsong we hear today? #Birdwatching #WoodsWalk #EdmundThomas #Birdsong #ConnectWithNature

Thank you, Adam. Means a lot.

This is going to be a great night! Free tickets available from @poetrysociety.org.uk for the launch of @fiddes.bsky.social 's new collection Hotel Petroleum. 2nd July at the Poetry Cafe, London. With me & @betarish.bsky.social supporting. Get in quick!

Here are radiant drifts of what @gloswildlife.bsky.social calls 'Britain's rarest buttercup'!The Badgeworth buttercup, in Glos' 1st nature reserve,put on a fine show for its open day! Its tiny enclosure is almost Britain's smallest trust reserve. Norfolk has 1 thorn bush! Do you have a local rarity?

grass field sway of long grass shadows over a green sea long light flowing through #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #haikufeels #dailyhaikuprompt

'He wanted to walk in Monet’s footsteps. To see what he saw. To breathe the same fragrant air.' Louis Ritman, someone I hadn't heard of before, a fan of Monet. I might not have heard of him, but I get wanting to walk in his hero's footsteps. #Monet #LouisRitman #Giverny #Heroes

I remember Bobby Tambling and I've got a Panini sticker of him. One of the great pleasures of moving was finally getting every old book out of the attic and onto a shelf. Personal archaeology. #BobbyTambling #MemoryLane https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jun/05/bobby-tambling-obituary

A seep on the side of a hill. I went back to it for years before I understood I wasn't checking the water. A draft's the same. 14 lines of geology but not what the man standing there wants. Describe the ground that well and you can bury the whole reason for being on it. #NaturePoetry

In what ways does a forest move? In Cáit O’Neill McCullagh's poem 'And when you step into the clearing', the forest becomes the stage and the performance. @kittyjomac.bsky.social Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/cait-oneill-... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #Forest #Dance

Luke Moran's 'Twitch' explores a moment of sudden change in a landscape. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/luke-moran/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions

iris silver water slows a river bank a willow purple flag iris #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #haikufeels #dailyhaikuprompt

I sometimes hear curlews calling in the autumn on the Newport Levels. I'm sad they are fading from our lives. Is there anything more beautiful than a bleak grey day by the shore and a curlew calling? #Curlew #NewportLevels #SoundOfNature #BleakBeauty

For a time Gwen John more or less stopped being a painter and became a supplicant. She waited in her room for Rodin. The man was a hole she kept trying to fill. The room was a place she could finally make something in. #GwenJohn #Painter #CreativeProcess

mountain blue against the grey a green tree line of Scot’s pine mountain and eagle #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #haikufeels #dailyhaikuprompt

'Benjamin Netanyahu has normalised a cruel, callous and paranoid political culture within an administration that needs far-right elements to stay in power.' I think I might try and find this. Not sure about my local cinema though lol #Cinema #Documentary #FilmDiscussion

Tomorrow’s Wild Writing session will be on the Art of Survival, from bushcraft and treehouses to creative writing. Day tickets available, as well as week tickets for 7 brilliant generative writing workshops. Click the link to book. I’m excited for this one. thewritingschool.co.uk/writing-

I have learned, slowly and not always gracefully, to carry solitude through a life rather than withdraw into it. A practice, not a destination. You lower the bucket in the morning. You walk away from the well in the afternoon. #Poetry #Solitude #ArtOfQuiet

Glyn says: 'So poems don’t start like life, don’t end like death, don’t have friends like life, aren’t shaped like life, and weren’t often made by people you can talk to any more.' The poem is a curious thing isn't it? #poetry #inspiration #GlynMaxwell

weasel streak of tawny brown jagged-tooth and pin-prick eye weasel and rabbit #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #haikufeels

'Again' by @adamcairnspoet.bsky.social beautifully and intimately traces the landscape looking for signs. In this poem everything in the countryside seems to take on qualities of the spring that the speaker is trying to find. inksweatandtears.co.uk/adam-cairns/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Landscape

Thanks to Helen and the team for this lovely post and for publishing my poem

Maureen Duffy Obituary 'As Duffy herself recalled, in a 1980 address to the Gay Humanist Group (now LGBT+ Humanists), visibility as a gay woman was the personal made political.' The personal mode made political - a manifesto for life I think. #MaureenDuffy #LGBTQHistory #VisibilityMatters

The swifts are here! - Three things I found, learned or enjoyed this week #WeeklyFinds #SwiftSeason #DiscoverMore #EnjoyTheMoment

I love walking at night - I know this is male privilege. A few years ago I realised our eyes need 20 minutes to to see in the dark. This ability switches off if you see a bright light - works in your peripheral vision. Looking at the night slant?  #NightWalks #Darkness #ExploreTheDark #NightLife

Being alone is not the same as being lonely. Loneliness is solitude with the wanting still in it — the room with someone's absence in it, rather than the room with the work in it. #Loneliness #BeingAlone #Solitude https://www.beyondsolitude.com/p/the-room-she-painted-her-way-back