The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press has just published their new anthology❣️I am so honored to be a part of this project with my poem “Such Things to Remember” Many thanks go out to Claire Thom and team! #poetry #anthology

There really is nothing scarier than surprise guests!! 😭😭 I can relate to this so much!

I wouldn't mind some of my family--and wine--but this doesn't sound like a crowd I'd want to have suddenly pop in! Watching a horror movie sounds much more relaxing! (I'll be in my pjs. 😉)

Spooky Halloween with #PoemsAbout #Blood @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk

The short sentences and the repetition are so effective here--leading into that last resonating stanza.

This is a great take on the prompt to start off. Lack focus leading to clarity. And the background.

Happy Friday to @thebrokenspine.co.uk, @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social with this week’s theme #PoemsAbout #BurnForTheCamera

Beautiful metaphor for 'crossing the line' in so many different ways! And the voice of the poem is powerful! Well done!

I love the quiet insistence of this--"This is where you-are-not-supposed-to lives" the line stepped over. I keep reading this one over and over.

‘you do not see it. It’s not painted or mapped out’ — that insistence draws the reader in. The unseen border becomes a manifesto for difference. #KeepWriting #PoemsAbout #BreakTheMould

Would love to hear this at an open mic. It wants to be read aloud I think! Beyond this week's prompt its a wonderful dialog about resistance. 👏✨

The fourth stanza!! “where that’s-hard-to-believe is real” Absolutely brilliant! 👏👏

At first it stopped me, but then I really found it effective how you hyphenated the phrases to turn them into nouns.

Great write… that hyphenated stanza in particular, I like it too.

'Hard to be an outcast' what a line. Thank you for sharing such a beautiful line 💜

I like this - Crossing the line - crossing the tracks. There is a lot to think about in there.

Now I want to cross the line too!🙂👍

Very creative use of the image of a line as a mould! #poemsabout #breakingthemould @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #StayCreative #PoetsSupportPoets

Greetings to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and Alan @alanparrywriter.co.uk with the theme #PoemsAbout #BreaktheMould

The way you start this poem with the “That one? / Oh, you noticed.” is genius; it really draws you in and makes you feel more like an active participant in a conversation than a passive reader. I really had the feeling you were telling me a secret. Wonderfully done!

‘the way my speech breaks’ says everything, no need for tears when silence does the bleeding. Love how you fold up the bravado. #KeepWriting #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe

This is bold spadework, indeed. Thank you for a powerful sharing. The final line, so effective. And love the "scares" and "scars" parallel here. 💥

Great setup with the visible scar, really adding a punch with the second half. The background, too, excellent choice!

Perfectly done, Erich.

So cleverly done, and so strong.

This is great, Erich. The movement from the visible to the invisible - seemless and achingly powerful

Hello to @brokenspinejournal.bsky.social and our host Alan @alanparry.bsky.social with our theme #PoemsAbout #Imperfectme. Many thanks for getting us to dig deep this week 🪏🪏🪏

‘like a savage butchery of war, were still strangely perfect’ is chilling. You expose how violence & beauty collide in these fragments. #KeepWriting #PoemsAbout #Mannequin

Oh, I love this poem...it is powerful! The imagery is an explosion in my mind! I love the lines, "savage butchery of war," "strangely perfect, though just pieces!" And the strong turn at the end...so, so, good!

Holy shit these last two lines!!! 🤯 Amazing. Love it 👏

“We make them, these bodies, to look like us, then try to look like them.” 💯 Like how your poem dismantles an image… just like the mannequin’s been dismantled.

I really like the idea expressed at the end, making them look like us and making us want to look like them. It’s an insidious hand at work!

Love the twist at the end. Well observed

That final line is thought-provoking!

Such precise (and disturbing) writing!

Love that finale - ouch! 👏👏👏

That last line is perfect. 👏

Greetings to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @brokenspinejournal.bsky.social keeping us on our toes with the theme of #PoemsAbout #Mannequin. It turned out to be a very thought provoking subject

Can't wait for this terrific anthology curated by the esteemed Charlotte Cosgrove @CharleyAustin89 Many thanks for her unending dedication to the poetry community. I am so pleased to be able to be a part of this project. 🥰🥰🥰

EXCITING NEWS! Our newest print anthology - 100 poems for the 21st Century - will be available from Amazon within the next 72 hours! Thank you so much to our amazing poets who have really brought this book to life😍💎😍

THIS is my secret sauce for survival!

Love a #PoemsAbout success story!

Congrats Erich! Your subjects are tenderly presented. 😑

Today I am featured in @apricotpress.bsky.social With this terrific presentation curated by the exceptional Lizzie Alblas. Many thanks 🙏. #PoemsAbout #Transformation #Grief #Loss

This is what Friday's are like now - @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk you are a poetry fireworks catalyst! 🙏✨

‘the silence of not being’ — pared back, devastating. This turns absence into atmosphere, asking if a single word could shatter the weight of collective quiet. #KeepWriting #PoemsAbout #SilentWorlds

This is great. Such depth 👏👏👏

So powerful, that repetition of 'the silence' creates a rhythm almost of accusation, all the silent bystanders. 💫

Such a poignant observation on our refusal to acknowledge and act, Erich. 🥲

I'd like to think more no's would be the making of us! 🙂🙏