🏆This year’s worthy winner of the Golden Cleric Award…

Some years ago I began a process of writing children’s stories. I then set some of these to verse. Having just finished transferring another story to verse, I look forward to posting it soon. Set in our beautiful Mournes, it tells a story of magic, music and mystery ❤️ This is the Beginning. Enjoy!

Is there anything more satisfying than shining your shoes of a Sunday night? I’ll wait…

Five years later and I return to this subject of dementia. Much like the repeated conversations that happen in a short space of time. Every moment precious, though painful. Still, it demands dignity. #HiyaSon #dementia #poetry #poet

Why do children starve in a world of plenty? Plenty Denied is a poem I have written reflecting on the inhumanity and depravity of famine, war, and the systems that let suffering persist — from Gaza to Ireland and beyond. 📖👇 #PoetryWithPurpose #PlentyDenied #JusticeForAll #Gaza #CeasefireNow

🌳An ode to those who offer wisdom, shelter, and nourishment. I’ve sat at the foot of many teachers, and remain ever grateful for the #MotherTree #poetry #forest #nature #tree #irish #writing

Trump and Vance are bullies. We all know that because of their own insecurities, bullies try to isolate, alienate and make the other person feel powerless and alone. Our greatest tool against bullies is our ability to stand together. That’s our #ClarionCall #poetry #irishpoetry #kindness

I haven’t written in a while. I haven’t been able to not curse, or just make sense of the utter enveloping madness, which is breaking my heart a bit. Tonight I took a step, to dissent. This is how #ItBegins #poetry #KindnessIsPower #nonviolence

Keen to build up a community of fellow readers and writers here as the new year begins! So please, if you know any send em this way for a follow and follow back! #writers #readers #writing #poetry #follow

First new verse of 2025! This is the #GoldenThread. It’s about the ties that bind, the opportunity of encounter and of course, a little bit of Wonder. Thanks for reading, and those who share! #poetry #wonder #writers

God rest his gracious and gentle soul. May he now enter his heavenly reward. Rest in peace President Carter ❤️

Back to a #SonnetSunday, with a brand new verse. This is the #InexhaustibleWell . Something we can access at any time, for the good of others and ourselves. A well of deep empathy and compassion 🕊️ @helenorahillytv.bsky.social @joannesansome.bsky.social @gymforthesoul.bsky.social

Looking forward to developing more of this in the new year. For now, this (slightly longer than usual) is the #Nonviolent, and is simply the lens through which I view the world, or that which inspires me!🕊️ #kindness #compassion #heart #inspire #poetry

As Advent begins it is a time for preparation. It is a time for Hope. This is the #ProphetsHope 💜 #advent #hope #poetry

Just the cutest decoration. Hard to get a good Santa these days 😅

If you get a chance, catch Alan Bennett’s #TalkingHeads on BBC iPlayer, not least the exquisite Patricia Routledge in A Woman of No Importance. They’re just bloody brilliant. Perfect symbiosis of writing and performance.

Got this sudden yearning for fancy chocolate ice cream for some reason

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The sheer genius of @stephenfry.bsky.social in his Gossiping Heads is always worth a rewatch and chuckle! Spot on! youtu.be/SNzUmSnh6I8?...

A Monday night spent reading up on St Hildegard von Bingen’s (exceptional woman) remedies and healing plants…while eating mince pies. #ThisIstheLife

Beloved to me tonight “I can’t believe the Eras tour is nearly over.” Me (after a few glasses of delicious red) “About time too!” …….. “Are you feeling brave?” 🙈🙈

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For the new BlueSkiers, I love to scribble. It’s nothing special. But it’s all mine 😊 This one is a fairly basic and constant value of mine: #BeKind #writers #poetry #MidnightPoems

@joannesansome.bsky.social great to have the rays of positivity here! Long may it continue!!

Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done, apart from what you do now. 1. Kids party clown 🤡 2. Full time dishwasher 🫧 3. Retreat leader 🙏 4. Amusement Arcade staffer 🎟️

Where to begin? With simple love. A new sonnet titled #InsideOut. Enjoy ❤️ #writer #writing #poem #poetry #newday