Hi @dragonslayerma.bsky.social Fidel. Hope you have a great week. Challenged myself to write a sonnet a day for your marvellous #promptcombo #NorthStar.

@dragonslayerma.bsky.social for this week's #promptcombo #northstar, I present you with a (slightly cheating) beau présent poem about Kochab, one of the two 'guardians of the pole' that were once believed to be the true north star. It's also the second brightest star in Ursa Minor ✴️

Season, just about holding sway

@dragonslayerma.bsky.social‬ #PromptCombo #NorthStar #sonnet #toxic

Here's something for #PromptCombo . #NorthStar really inspired me and I wrote this super quick (although the ideas/connections have been waiting around for a long time). Thanks @dragonslayerma.bsky.social #poem #Gateshead #Newcastle #Tyneside write.as/robgalpin/no...

Lovely prompt Fidel 🌠💫 @dragonslayerma.bsky.social Here's my #PromptCombo for #NorthStar Another idea is brewing.

I’m delighted to have six #poems featured on the brilliant @zoomburst.substack.com’s Sixty Odd Poets site. And I’m deeply flattered by his wonderful line drawing. The link to the feature is in the post below👇(Do check out the other poets in Mike’s excellent series) #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky

Many thanks @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for this week's #PromptCombo #NorthStar. Here's a quick #Haiku in response but I may think longer and harder... #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

Thanks to @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for the wonderful #promptcombo #northstar. I've taken this to where stars are less certain: Matariki (Pleiades) rise in Aotearoa's mid-winter marking the New Year. Stars in the southern skies aren't fixed like in the north. Think decolonisation of knowledge!

I love all the different cultures around Pleiades. Your poem is excellent in how it describes the southern & northern hemispheres. #NorthStar & I are very happy with your beautiful piece, It reminds me of a poem I wrote. ⬇️ It is a real pleasure reading you m'dear for #PromptCombo 🌠❤️

Today is the anniversary of my dear friend Peter’s death. He was our son Peter’s godfather. I wrote this poem on his two year anniversary.

words blossoming constellations within endless feed guiding my words providing comfort through lyrical lines no need for stargazing brightly crafted stanzas became my beacons #PromptCombo #Northstar #poetry #poetrycommunity @dragonslayerma.bsky.social

‪@dragonslayerma.bsky.social‬ #PromptCombo #NorthStar

#LiftToTheSky @thebrokenspine.co.uk Today it must be @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social who lately joined the illustrious ranks of @zoomburst.substack.com 's 'Sixty Odd Poets (and counting!)' substack.com/home/post/p-... and blew us all away at the @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social open mic on Wednesday...👏

Morning Fidel @dragonslayerma.bsky.social and the crew thanks for this week’s delightful #PromptCombo #NorthStar. I’ve dashed off something quick and ill-considered but will have another bash if I have time later in the week. Enjoy all the #poetry 😘

🙏 @dragonslayerma.bsky.social as #PromptCombo host #Ychromosome #Aaron as #NorthStar #newpoem / #photography: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 #poetry #CassElliot #Kleos #Nostos #BorisPasternak #Spock #StarTrek #Shekhinah #LeonardCohen

It’s #worldprematurityday today so I’m sharing my poem from @hogriverpress.bsky.social #poemsabout #poetsonbluesky

The lovely @dragonslayerma.bsky.social is your #PromptCombo host this week. You have until Friday to share something on the theme of #NorthStar ✴️

Many asylum seekers will have left behind their homes and fled with the only easily portable properties they have. This is simply horrifying

Morning Fidel @dragonslayerma.bsky.social Love the #promptcombo #NorthStar I have a scribbled note that I'll share but I'll try to give the prompt more thought. Have a good week. 🙂

Many asylum seekers will have left behind their homes and fled with the only easily portable properties they have. This is simply horrifying

A first draft

How lovely to see, Paul! Many congratulations, and how fabulous getting a portrait into the bargain 😀 As previously mentioned, I think I know even more than Sixty Odd Poets 🤣

Enormously pleased to host #PromptCombo this week. Theme is #NorthStar Here's my poem 'Navigating a Wilderness' to kick us off. Tag me & use the hastags to get involved, open till Friday! @victoriaspires.bsky.social @hool415.bsky.social @rfsmith.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

I am delighted that my #poem Devon Gothic is longlisted for the @walklistencreate.org WRITE ABOUT WALKING IN THE DARK competition. My huge thanks go to WLC & competition judges @marcellenewbold.bsky.social & Damaris West. You can read the poem in the link below 👇 #poetsonbluesky #poetrycommunity

This morning #SixtyOdd Poets is proud to present a selection of the #poetry of Paul Connolly. Pour yourself a brew and take some time to read, mark and inwardly digest these six fine poems.

@hool415.bsky.social #promptcombo #workinglove.

Hi @hool415.bsky.social and your wonderful #promptcombo #Lovingwork: Again from my collection "Please Take Change " a short trio of poems about a valued customer:

Hi @hool415.bsky.social Ju, here's my fourth response to your marvellous #promptcombo #workinglove. Another from my collection "Please Take Change":

#PromptCombo #Workinglove @hool415.bsky.social #love

Thanks @hool415.bsky.social for this weeks #promptcombo #workinglove This is about the overworking that occurs both in writing and in this case baking. My emotions, the frustration sometimes spills over into my creative efforts. I need to learn when to pause.

Hi @hool415.bsky.social Ju, my third response to your excellent #promptcombo #workinglove is another from my collection "Please Take Change", again talking of the tools of the trade:

This is my poem... NOT WORKING LOVE #promptcombo #workinglove

I Hope all #promptcombo folk will forgive one of my very occasional forays among your number 🙏..... just couldn't resist the current #workinglove prompt from @hool415.bsky.social !!!

#PromptCombo #Workinglove #measure #vss365 @hool415.bsky.social #magrigal #love

Many thanks @hool415.bsky.social for this week's #PromptCombo #WorkingLove. Hope this one fits, albeit obliquely! Looking forward to catching up with others later today.

Hi @hool415.bsky.social Ju, here is my second response to your inviting #promptcombo #workinglove. It is from my collection "Please Take Change":

Here is another offering a rather sober look at love #promptcombo #workinglove

Does this work! A WIP experiment- possibly prose poem? Not sure? @hool415.bsky.social #promptcombo #workinglove

Thank you Julian @hool415.bsky.social for this week's #promptcombo prompt #Workinglove. Sharing one from 2014.

Hi @hool415.bsky.social - here's my response to #PromptCombo #WorkingLove #poem #poetry

Hello everyone, slow of the blocks this week, so I've decided to share a wee poem I wrote a long time ago for #promptcombo and @hool415.bsky.social's prompt of #workinglove. Thanks Ju for hosting and everyone else for being so inspiring! #poems #poetry

I’m delighted to have six #poems featured on the brilliant @zoomburst.substack.com’s Sixty Odd Poets site. And I’m deeply flattered by his wonderful line drawing. The link to the feature is in the post below👇(Do check out the other poets in Mike’s excellent series) #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky

New poem - ‘Trip Partners’ #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #newpoem #writingcommunity

This evening!!!!! Join us online where we discuss writing goals and how to achieve them with our own plans!!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crafting-y...

My granddad was a miner in the General Strike. He voted Labour his whole life. I joined the Party as a working-class kid at 16. I held office as a Labour councillor. But I haven’t been a member for years. And this policy makes me ashamed that I was ever associated with the party. Iniquitous. Stupid

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My granddad was a miner in the General Strike. He voted Labour his whole life. I joined the Party as a working-class kid at 16. I held office as a Labour councillor. But I haven’t been a member for years. And this policy makes me ashamed that I was ever associated with the party. Iniquitous. Stupid

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Ok… here’s another one… it pulsed a while in my subconscious now ripples in yours so I cannot find the other two 😅🙏🙏 #poemsabout #desire #oulens