For #TankaThursday tanka weekly #poetry challenge February 12, 2026 this week’s prompt: romance write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry With much thanks to @evecastle.bsky.social

This should infuriate everyone. Palantir must be destroyed. boingboing.net/2026/02/10/p...

I caught some of HerZdog’s address in Melbourne and he was inciting the Jewish community to be Zionists! How can this be acceptable in Australia? It was hate speech! He was belittling non Jewish/Zionist Australians for speaking up against Genocide. He should be arrested at the airport + detained /

The Longest Grief – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon At dVerse Melissa is hosting Poetics with an invitation to write about what it it would be like to lose one of the five senses (sight, taste, touch, smell, hearing) for more detail follow the link below: dVerse Poets - Poetics - I'd Rather Go Blind…

A Choka by Paul Vincent Cannon For Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge No. 51, Synonyms Only, Willow has invited us to write a syllabic poem about love and passion without using those words. Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay Form: Choka (no envoy) (5-7-5-7-5-7-7) whenever you leavemy bellows fail and…

Shadow Land – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon At dVerse De is hosting the Quadrille (44 words sans title) with an invitation to write a poem using some form of the word flower. dVerse Poets - Quadrille - Swearing By All Flowers Photo: findagrave.com Shadow LandFuneral flowers everywheredeath on…

Last week lingered at the mouth. This week: #Undressed. Not naked. Stripped of posture. Stripped of certainty. Write the moment before the body is offered. When armour loosens. When nothing is hidden except fear. New theme opens Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout to be found.

A small entry but tis mine own! @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poemsabout #mouths

Here is a poem called "Ermine Moths" from the titular sequence of my new collection "Hedgerow of Voices" JCStudio Press 2026 for #PoemsAbout #Miuths

This #PoemsAbout #Mouths answers Beckett’s Not I by suggesting that while language may never belong to us, the body can still learn a minimal, ethical restraint, silence not as failure or abyss, but as practiced discipline after compulsion. @thebrokenspine.co.uk

I am very pleased to share this review of The Weight of Snow and Regret, my novel based on the closure of the Sheldon Poor Farm in Vermont in 1968.

My offering this week is a long way outside of my angsty little comfort zone, so nobody better get all creepy about this, or I'll be very disappointed in you! @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #mouths #poetry

…and safely back to invertebrates for #PoemsAbout #Mouths 😊 Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt. Happy Friday! #poetry #mayflies #ephemera

This was another difficult challenge from #PoemsAbout #Mouths. Thank you, as always, to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Reimagining a Greek goddess who was considered the personification of persuasion, connected to the art of rethoric and also presented as a companion of Aphrodite Here's my offering for #poemsabout mouths #poetrycommunity Peitho

I'm not at home today so will read later this evening. This poem/sonnet is inspired by 'Pasiphaë' my novel that will be published February 12th. I can't think about anything else at the moment For #PoemsAbout #Mouths @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

As editor + founder, I’m tired of presses cosplaying “community” while using prizes as sales funnels. It’s nefarious, it’s cynical, and everyone knows it. We just don’t say it out loud. #TheBrokenSpineAward #ByPoetsForPoets #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky

I was struggling with the #PoemsAbout prompt #Mouths so I condensed my notes into a couple of #haikus. Thanks for the challenge @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk. I'm looking forward to reading what others in the #poetrycommunity have made of it

This week's #poemsabout #mouths just wasn't working, I almost gave it a swerve - until this popped into my head yesterday! Kōtare (Māori) is a watchtower around a pā (fort) but, more commonly, a kingfisher! Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk & @alanparrywriter.co.uk #poems #poetry

This is what’s dished out when not in the mood…for poetry of course. For #PoemsAbout #Mouths @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk & for #vss365: #wound @nathanbrazil.bsky.social #2WordPrompt : #prepare #thick @jason-h-abbott.bsky.social #Oulens #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poetry

Today, we are sharing a book that clarifies power & inequality. THE UNDOCUMENTED AMERICANS by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio. Not policy in theory, but life inside it. Takeaways: • Systems failing real people. • Issue vs. Human. • Clarity over despair. An essential, grounding read.  #BookSky

The Pariahs We Elect – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon Protesters march across Sydney Harbour Bridge during the Palestine Action Group's March for Humanity to protest against the war in Gaza in Sydney, Sunday, August 3, 2025. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) The Pariahs We ElectThe contempt of our…

That’s Love – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon Photo by Hanna Lazar on Unsplash Form: Crown Cinquain - a sequence of five cinquain stanzas as one poem. (2-4-6-8-2) That's LoveWhat’s lovesomething givenfrom one to anotheror a mutually shared thingfeeling. Do we have that somethingthat feeling of…

For God’s Sake Open Up – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon Image by Jens from Pixabay For God’s Sake Open UpI waled subjunctivessentencing punctuating threatsshrill with demandsto open up, butunlike meunhinged,your stoic stancespeaks well of yourdetermined silentlocked door retreatand calm visage,I…

Needed a bit of poetry time at the end of a crazy week so enjoyed writing to this week's #PoemsAbout prompt #Mouths. Inspired by some fave lyrics, from The Kills' song Baby Says. Happy Friday (night) poets! And thanks as ever to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk 💜🙏

Closer – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon At dVerse Merril is hostingMeeting The Bar with an invitation to revisist the form known as the Cascade. The cascade is not a difficult form to understand. You will use each line from your first stanza in subsequent stanzas. For example, if your first stanza…

For #PoemsAbout #Mouths With much thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

A Tanka by Paul Vincent Cannon Photo: Murchison River, taken in 2023. Form: Tanka (5-7-5-7-7) blue sky is dust motespiled under heavenly rugslazy winged sweepersit’s been a while since we castsome days I see you shining Copyright 2026 ©️Paul Vincent CannonAll Rights Reserved ®️ This appeared first…

For #TankaThursday tanka weekly #poetry challenge February 5, 2026 this week’s prompt: landscape Write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry With much thanks to @evecastle.bsky.social

Regulators called on to make managing climate risk an explicit part of fiduciary duty Economic models used by governments and investors inaccurately represent climate risk - new report by @UniofExeter and think-tank @CarbonBubble www.sustainableviews.com/economic-mod...

The Dunny Rat – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon At dVerse Dora is hosting Poetics with an invitation to write a poem using similies. dVerse Poets - Poetics - The Smile In A Simile I've chosen to use what used to be original Aussie similes. See below for meaning. Photo: found at pestpointers.com The…

Grounding – Haibun for Tank Tuesday Poetry Challenge No. 50 by Paul Vincent Cannon For Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge No. 50, To Cleanse, Yvette has invited us to write a poem about cleansing or, atonement. I chose cleansing. Photo: taken in 2022 in the Wooditjup National Park, the Karri canopy.…

Being Salt – Haibun by Paul Vincent Cannon At dVerse Frank is hosting Haibun with an invitation to allude to Groundhog Day. dVerse Poets - Haibun - Groundhog Day Redux Photo: found on Twitter. ICE on ice, seems to me that both need to go. Being Salt When I was all of five my parents encouraged me…

Good morning! This one was another difficult one from #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils Thank you as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Vibes to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk I did not think I could contrive something for #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils. Also sharing with #promptcombo #moment #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #newpoem

I wrote this one back on the 13th of this month. Think it was originally meant for #poemsabout #timeslips #poetry #prompt. It was that and/or #banterbabes? Then it started borrowing heavily from Hamilton and rapping at the end so I've been fighting with it since. Enjoy 🤗 #poem #protest #resist

A poem from my 2017 collection 'A World Where" for #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils, @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk :

Here's a voice that wants to make a statement. Don't think I've written anything like this before for #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoetsOnBluesky

Had to write a second offering for #poemsabout #backveils #poetry #poetrycommunity On a train right now so replies might be delayed.

Good morning #BlueskyPoetry community @thebrokenspine.co.uk & the inestimable @alanparrywriter.co.uk joining in on today’s #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils with this wee effort Have a workshop first thing, will check back later. Have a great #poetry day. Thanks for the opp as always and to all who join in.

🙏 @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils #newpoem: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026 Will catch up! #Reading 👇👇 #Saturn #Goya #Melancholy #Archetype #DepthPsychology #Alchemy #DarkPoetry #poetrycommunity

I've just read through all the #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils that have gone up so far. I have to say that the quality is stratospheric this week. My breath is taken away. I'd better throw my veil into the ring...

Good morning! One for #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#PoemsAbout #sonnet #poem #BlackVeils

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

#poemsabout #blackveils #poetry @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk Here is a #poem

For this week's #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils, I'm thinking about systems protecting themselves. Error logs, forthcoming. Thank you to the host @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk and to all of the other writers. #poetry #poem #writing #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

For #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk for #vss365: #thrum #soothe @blsamaddar.bsky.social & for #inkmine : #affirmation Thanks for reading! 🙏🙏 #Oulens #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poetry

Good morning everyone, happy to share this draft poem with you for #poemsabout #blackveils. Another tricky prompt from @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk! Look forward to reading others later! #poems #poetry #scottishpoetry #scottishwriting

A Tanka by Paul Vincent Cannon Photo: abcnews.go.com the West Wing Form: Tanka (5-7-5-7-7) pigs in the forestgrubbing decay roots and greensso different tosty pigs domesticated except when the house is white Copyright 2026 ©️Paul Vincent CannonAll Rights Reserved ®️