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Issue Eleven is out for your weekend reading!

New poem published in the wonderful @acropolisjournal.bsky.social Issue 11. Spiritual and creative strands interwoven. Do check out the issue - it's brimming with poetic depth.

Issue Eleven of @acropolisjournal.bsky.social is now live and wow, some absolutely gorgeous words inside. Do go check it out!

‘Dark Matter’ @acropolisjournal.bsky.social Issue Eleven acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou... EIC @louisemather.bsky.social 🖤

Please check out my poem, One in Ten, in @acropolisjournal.bsky.social, and also give the whole issue some love! #PoetsOfBluesky

Thank you so very much @acropolisjournal.bsky.social for publishing three of my poems xxxx

Delighted to be included in the new issue of @acropolisjournal.bsky.social

Excited to get a poem in the latest Acropolis Journal!

Honoured to be included in this issue 🙏😊

PUBLICATION KLAXON 111!1!111

"One universal law that cinema could never defy on film: a dusty, strained-lit foyer burns clearer than a screen as radiant as a whale’s heart." THE DEVOTEE BY SARAH LEE ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 @saraheldot.bsky.social   acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

PHOTOGRAPHY: VEILED WOMAN BY VINCENZO COHEN ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

"A thousand times I leaped from that mountain whose crags I knew before I touched them— as if I’d climbed them all my life." EBB BY SARASWATI NAGPAL ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social   acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

ARTWORK: THE JOY OF MUSIC BY CAROLINE MCPHERSON ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

"The sun opalescent, struggling to rise like a deer". ANHEDONIA BY PATRICK WRIGHT ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 @arainbowpoet.bsky.social   acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

PHOTOGRAPHY: THE SKULL BY ALI KHAN ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

"a whale washed ashore where were you when the stone fell?" LAMENTATIONS BY JANE AYRES ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

PHOTOGRAPHY: ABBEY BY LESLEY CURWEN ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 @elcurwen.bsky.social   acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

1. well-defined ethics 2. the optimistic      belief 3. a piece of flaking concrete 4. a slab         of rare roast beef OBJECTS BY S. REESON ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 @internetofwords.com   acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

"drought is the thirst of these flowers   but rain is somewhere on the balcony of clouds, hoarding generosity to avoid waste". POETRY SEQUENCE: HOW THE SOUL WALKS INTO EMPTINESS BY TUKUR RIDWAN ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

PHOTOGRAPHY: A QUIET BEND BY JACELYN ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

"I'm sorry I made you retrace so many steps just to unsplit us from that pole, just to keep the invisible thread between us stretched but unbroken." CAT'S CRADLE BY JAMIE MANIAS ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

VISUAL POEM: MEANING IS A RITE BY LASZLO ARANYI ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

"ambition is a joke painted over mildew /         the drip already halfway to the dirt / you think ascent matters–it doesn’t /      a rung is a rung is a rung / wood splintered,               metal rusted /" ON REACHING NOWHERE BY SUMAYYA ARSHED acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

PHOTOGRAPHY: WELCOME BY CARSTON ANDERSON ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

"A wire’s barb to your eye. A thorny shadow portrait." THIRTEEN THINGS A BLACKBIRD SAYS TO US BY J. MARK COONEY ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

PHOTOGRAPHY: LAUNCH BY CARSTON ANDERSON ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

"he took the train before he was noticed as missing, his face pressed against the glass of the window. staring out over empty fields and into lonely houses." HOW TO VANISH BY SIMON ALDERWICK ISSUE 11 @simonalderwick.bsky.social   acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

PHOTOGRAPHY: FOG CANNON BY LESLEY CURWEN ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 @elcurwen.bsky.social   acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

"on desert farmland, an empty nest, the tree make-believe, the falling egg". MOST OF THE UNIVERSE IS DARKNESS BY JUDE MARR ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 @judemarr.bsky.social   acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

PHOTOGRAPHY: SUNSET OVER THE FORTRESS BY VINCENZO COHEN ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

MAPPA POETICA "The sonnet I wrote about birds is where I found my pain                           fourteen lines of latitude travelling all the way back". THREE POEMS BY JANE BURN ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 @janeburn.bsky.social   acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

HE IS BORN "this was the year I decided calendars were the by-product of hell". THREE POEMS BY JANE BURN ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 @janeburn.bsky.social   acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

J35 "How does a lullaby sound when it falls from the tongue of a whale?" THREE POEMS BY JANE BURN ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 @janeburn.bsky.social   acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

ARTWORK: HARBOUR BY CAROLINE MCPHERSON ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

"Formlines in dustdrifts project out past the overcross and birchsmoke ash.  I can chart out my own draft bylaws, signals, maps and flow." POLIPORTHES UNLOCKED BY CHRIS YURKOSKI ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 @ccyurkoski.bsky.social   acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

PHOTOGRAPHY: ILLUMINATIONS BY LESLEY CURWEN ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 @elcurwen.bsky.social   acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

"midnight moon gone           even that witness shut down now: shouting alone            all one hundred of me". I AM NOISE BY ANGELA ARNOLD ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 @angelaarnold777.bsky.social   acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

VISUAL POEM: SODDOM & GOMORRAH BY LASZLO ARANYI ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

"without spilling wonder. as the first day of the new year breaks over my head, I improvise my regrets".   BREAKAGE BY SAMBHU RAMACHANDRAN ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

PHOTOGRAPHY: THE MOLT BY ALI KHAN ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

"The period you awaited, wanted even, has become a strange visitor that has no itinerary. It arrives more angrily and sporadically, an intruder who breaks windows and screams." ONE IN TEN BY NIKKI DUDLEY ISSUE 11 @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social   acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

ARTWORK: THE WOODS BECKON BY MERLIN FLOWER ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 @merlinflower.bsky.social   acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

"thaw with snowflakes like a lump of mist". UNTITLED BY YUU IKEDA ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

ARTWORK: ONCE UPON A POND BY KJ HANNAH GREENBERG ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

"An elegy starts with lament, of course, then moves to praise for the idealized dead before the poet closes with solace and consolation." NOT AN ELEGY FOR WILL BY ROBERT MINER ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

PHOTOGRAPHY: ROCK'S OUTLINE BY VINCENZO COHEN ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11   acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

"In this chapel of dearth I am brought to my knees, her eyes gilt in the light of the sun she leaves and is gone, and I am here, still here in the blossom-glister." DARK MATTER BY PAUL ATTEN ASH ISSUE 11 @northseanavigator.bsky.social   acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

PHOTOGRAPHY SERIES: STONE ANGELS BY RACHEL CARNEY ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 @createdtoread.bsky.social   acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...