#PoemsAbout #LockedDoors @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will put a reel in the comments, or I won’t.

at the fringe of night the sound of a closing door creaking on its failing hinges & of crickets going quiet & of some bro- ken breaths & lost s.l.nt counts from one to ten to to naught #PoemsAbout #lockeddoors #Oulens @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social

#LockedDoors #PoemsAbout #poem #RhymeRoyal #MentalHealth @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#PoemsAbout #LockedDoors @thebrokenspine.co.uk Whichever door might have slid Open Then Is now closed. There is no key

Am I up to the challenge??😳 #Poemsabout #lockeddoors @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk Cheers to all. A good day to read!😀👍

Winter closes its Fist, mottled orange carpet Of leaves swept away. #WildWalkPrompt #orange #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @sonnetsmith.bsky.social

#PoemsAbout #LockedDoors @thebrokenspine.co.uk 🙏 to @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social & best wishes to @alanparrywriter.co.uk #poetry / #photography: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025/2024 #Symbolism #ZinaidaGippius #monochrome #ImageAndVerse #DepthPsychology #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity

Hello #poetrycommunity @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk This is my slim offering for todays #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors thanks as always to reader and sharers I’ll be popping in and out as time allows. Looking forward to your contributions. #poetry #poems

#PoemsAbout #LockedDoors Sorry, this is very much an off-the-cuff fragment. I made up a little micro-story here last night, and thought I'd turn it into a poem for fun, since the theme matches. Just trying to work out if it's worth continuing as a WIP, either in prose or verse.

My #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors was a bit of a hurried affair - which is ironic considering the subject matter! And yes I know she’s a hermaphrodite -maybe that’s my picturebook-writing coming through or maybe it’s significant - you decide! 😊Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk 🥰 @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry

We had our own language of words, looks, touch— telepathic mind stuff, we read each other like custom made books... #LockedDoors #PoemsAbout @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Never forgot the Locked doors, barred windows, months in Psychiatric wards. #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

For this week's #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors with thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and all those participating. Not what I thought I'd write...

Many thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for yet another thought-provoking #PoemsAbout prompt #LockedDoors. Here's my response and I look forward to catching up with others later #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

Thank you #LauraGrevel for this revealing review of #BeautifulLittleFools #GreatGatsby#FScottFitzgerald #Decadence #Deceit #Poetry @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoetsOfBlueSky #PoetryCommunity #https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/237581519-beautiful-little-fools

This week isn’t about escape. It’s about what stays shut. Secrets with a latch. Regret with a bolt. Write the room you can’t re-enter. The letter never sent. Tag your post. Use Alt Text. Share from Friday. Sign up: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

I've read some great responses to @rfsmith.bsky.social's brilliant #PromptCombo #Storm. Here's mine: a fragment of memory which might be worth developing a bit more #BlueSkyPoets #PoetryCommunity

Hullo @rfsmith.bsky.social Thanks for an early classic poem for the very seasonal #storm theme for #promptcombo All welcome, just post to the above address with both hashtags. (The rfs one above, not mine!) @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @dragonslayerma.bsky.social ⛈️

Passing over the #PromptCombo baton to @rfsmith.bsky.social who has got in nice and early with the new prompt #Storm. You have until this time next week to join in 🌪️⛈️

🙏 @rfsmith.bsky.social as #PromptCombo #Storm host #newpoem / #photography: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025/2021 #Expressionism #Trakl #feverdream #delirium #darkpoetry #deathpoetry #monochrome #scape

In dreams, I am big, you are small I can manifest a world that I am strong, you are kind, the vision of the man I loved is the person in front of me; In dreams, I am not me, you are not you, so we can’t be we and this can’t be splintered #promptcombo #blueskyrelay @victoriaspires.bsky.social

For this week's #PromptCombo #Storm with @rfsmith.bsky.social - will catch up with others later.

Our fabulous host this week for #PromptCombo is Ronnie. With a very apt theme of #Storm. Tag @rfsmith.bsky.social & use the hastags to get involved. Happy hosting & happy writing everyone ♥️✍️

Here's a piece for @rfsmith.bsky.social's #PromptCombo theme #storm Entitled, suitably enough, Storms. First published some years ago in Guttural Magazine. #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #booksky

@rfsmith.bsky.social’s #promptcombo theme #storm reminds me of great literary storms. Lear. Tempest. And my poem touches on one of my favourites. Dickens looked out on the sea at Broadstairs when he wrote chapters 55-56 in David Copperfield. Surging poetry. If you don’t know the novel start it today

#PromptCombo Ronnie @rfsmith.bsky.social , here's one from me for #Storm . Have a fabulous week hosting my friend♥️ 📸Colette Gemmell

Hi @rfsmith.bsky.social and #PromptCombo - here's my offering for #Storm, based on notes made after our summer wind storm #poem #poetry

#PromptCombo #emoetry @rfsmith.bsky.social #Storm #idealistic #fascism #RhymeRoyal #poem #resist #politics let not the Far Right dictate politics throughout the world

Hi @rfsmith.bsky.social Ronnie, here's my second response to your great #promptcombo #Storm:

A Shadorma (3-5-3-3-7-5) for #PoemsAbout #Blood with thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

It's Halloween 1. Ghost Town. The Specials. 2. People are Strange. The Doors. 3. Wuthering Heights. Kate Bush. 4. Don't Fear the Reaper. Blue Oyster Cult. 5. Choreomania. Florence and the Machine.

Nowadays it's common to hear "blood is thicker than water," to mean family should come first, but the original saying "the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb," means quite the opposite. TED Talk over, enjoy the poem! @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #Blood #Poetry

Good morning! Happy Halloween! For #PoemsAbout #Blood This is also for a prompt where the first line comes from a horror movie--this one "The Sixth Sense." We're seeing Macbeth this weekend, so there may be more blood poems! Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

A #Fridaypoem for the @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poemsabout prompt #blood Thank you #poetrycommunity as always. #poems #poetry #PoemAltText #AltText #poemsaboutlife

For #poemsabout #blood @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

For the #PoemsAbout #Blood prompt, here is mine. ‘A Study in Crimson’. Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk for the prompt. Will be catching up after work / over the weekend.

#PoemsAbout #Blood @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #newpoem: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 En route today, so will catch up later. #poetry #ancestry #mines #Pinner #NorthLondon #Chilterns #Ulysses #throwaway #gambling #dreams

"[there is blood on the beach]" #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #PoemsAbout #Blood @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk @charlottecosgrove.bsky.social @rough-diamond1.bsky.social

Hello @thebrokenspine.co.uk for this week's most difficult of prompts for #PoemsAbout. There was only one way I could respond to #Blood given my dread of all this season expects and imposes.

Eyup. Found and fettled this old thing. #PoemsAbout #Blood with thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poets #poetry

Do we know the true cost of our phones #PoemsAbout #Blood @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#PoemsAbout #Blood @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will put a reading in the comments.

Well this wasn’t meant to be topical! 😂 It’s more about my family than theirs! Sorry if it’s a bit Anglocentric. Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the #PoemsAbout prompt #blood. #poetry

Hello there @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and the #poetrycommunity here’s my rough draft drop for #PoemsAbout #Blood A little fem’ rant for you! Will check in throughout the day for all the #poems. Thanks for reading, sharing, supporting. #poetry #poem

Many thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for today's #PoemsAbout prompt #Blood. I look forward to reading everyone's submissions later #BlueSkyPoets #PoetryCommunity

If you earn £1m you take home over a half of it. Having over half a million pounds put in your bank account each year is not a burden. Share out the income more equally, remove the burden of low pay, and you automatically bring more equality to the tax system. Poverty is the real burden, not tax.

Hey #promptcombo crew 👋🏼 Thanks to @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for hosting last week. This week's prompt is #DreamLogic. Tag me & use the #. Replies will be a little sporadic initially, but I know the community will be out in force, supporting each other as ever ☺️

Flutter, Shutter, Click, Snap. And before you know it, you're splayed, wondering if the film is burning, or if you are. #poemsabout #burnforthecamera @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Wow! Do I love Fridays...posting to #PoemsAbout each week! It's truly the highlight! Connecting with so many wonderful poets and reading fabulous work! #BurnForTheCamera @alanparrywriter.co.uk @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Friday! And after the gales of yesterday it is time for #PoemsAbout and @alanparrywriter.co.uk 'n' @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social time for my poem on #BurnForTheCamera, tricky this one, but today I remembered where I was on Wednesday -- at the dermatologist on the Rhine (lovely view from the office).