Hello #promptcombo #poemsabout crews 👋🏼 Hope you are all having a super week. Sorry I've been largely absent this week – I'm deep in my reading period for @thewingedmoon.bsky.social Biophilia now (working also with @noelcowley.bsky.social). Reminder we are open until 2 July ☺️ xx

Mary Oliver talks about paying attention... Take time to pay some attention to the care she has taken here with line breaks and enjambment...

Hullo. My turn to host #PromptCombo for this week’s theme of #pivotpoint Cite both when posting and tag me in too @hool415.bsky.social What date or moment changed everything for you? Will read in batches! All welcome. @dragonslayerma.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @rfsmith.bsky.social

Honoured to be part of this powerful synergy of global voices, writing on a theme of topical importance. Thank you to EIC Rebecca Rijsdijk at Sunday Mornings at the River for including my poem 'Territorial' 🖤 #poetry #poetrycollection #anthology #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #sociology

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend! 💙 Here is what I am THIRSTY for... #peacefulmind #poemsforequality #hope #dreams youtube.com/shorts/QIbvJ...

Such a lovely, melancholic, musical poem. #hellointhere

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"A chorale that stretched out sun-bleached snooker baize in glistening throbs of reptile hide." - @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social #NowThatsWhatICall a poetry reading 👂🏼👇🏽👂🏼

A very silly cutting for this week's #promptcombo whose host @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social invites responses to #Limerick and/or #TheBestCake themes.

So it begins. The process of sending my #poetry collection out to publishers. If any of the small presses on here want to chat about the collection, are able to give any advice or would otherwise like to get in touch, then do please reach out. Many thanks in advance #poetrycommunity #booksky #poems

A combo of two themes from host @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for this week's #promptcombo. For one week only the #poetrycommunity may write its cake and read it, too. #letthemreadcake

Aren't we tempted so often to think of ourselves and each other in terms of "they are this" and "I am that". This delicious poem travels through a St Elmo's fire of mythological allusion in the end to have me reflect on the truth of "this" and "that" not as opposites but as twins born of one womb.

"She never cooked, only defrosted". A captivating poem here to grace Harlow's first Open Poetry Competition, and a judges' report whose appreciation of this winning entry enhances my enjoyment of it. #newpoetry #harlowessex

📢 HARLOW!! Next meet up is on the 29th! We're working on our anthology, planning future open mics & trips, sharing submission opportunities and discussing ideas on effective typesetting! #joinus #essexpoetry #harlowcircleofpoetry #writerssupportingwriters #writingdoesnthavetobelonely #freeactivities

Poetry is going in all kinds of new and exciting directions, don't you think? Take this, by @tomspoems.bsky.social #newpoetry #poemvideo

Neoter(rif)ic poetry at #promptcombo

Architects may come and architects may go and never change your point of view. Poems, however... #paulsimon #promptcombo

Thank you to @rfsmith.bsky.social for last week's #PromptCombo. This week's prompt is #Architecture. I want your secret blueprints, your innermost rooms, your loftiest vaults. What structures do you find in nature? Where do your thoughts climb to at night? Poem & tags below ⬇️ Tag me & use #

For #promptcombo and @rfsmith.bsky.social's theme of #Attachment, a few lines in which I pretend to be Michelangelo for a moment. #cowabunga

Not long 'til my copy of what promises to be a stunning first #chapbook by @jitterbugwrites.bsky.social drops through the door. Vic's a class #poet of great depth, warmth, skill and feeling - not to say an excellent #poetry pal besides. Roll on, #Soi-même day! www.salopress.com/store/soi-me...

Hullo @rfsmith.bsky.social and helping this week too @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for #attachment #promptcombo

All kinds of innovative responses to the #promptcombo #favouriteplace theme, from the shade, thru a building, the body, to even a place in time. I've gone mainstream with a geographical one. Thanks to this week's host, @dragonslayerma.bsky.social #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #wordsculptures

I don't know if you've seen but there's a splendid thread being curated this week by @dragonslayerma.bsky.social as part of the #PromptCombo poetry initiative. The theme is #FavouritePlace & has a attracted a wide range of responses, from numinous locales through to the human body itself as a place.

Today, enjoy for yourself this parabolic poem of resilience (That's how I see it - how will you?).

What a lovely word is plash.

This week #PromptCombo host I've chosen #FavoritePlace . Wordsmiths, take me to that place that calls out your name! Respond ⬇️ Tnx @hool415.bsky.social for last wk @rfsmith.bsky.social @jitterbugwrites.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @helenlaycock.bsky.social @sueimnw.bsky.social

A timely piece by Joseph Nutman in this week's @thewingedmoon.bsky.social museletter. It's a most humane reminder of the thin, random, unpredictable divide that splits us into those in darkness on the edge of town and those luckier there-but-for-the-gracers. #newpoetry #literarymagazine

@soundloungecio.bsky.social Tomorrow Sutton, South London. Nearly sold out.

Reality, despair, but crucially the plea that proves the undying power of hope.

So the wind came, its cold Easterly claw, as I knew it would. And the cherry blossom became snow, drifting high on the uncut grass. ©️April 2025

Watch this space! Our first call for poetry chapbook submissions from UK authors is coming soon!

A hearty #lifttothesky @brokenspinearts.bsky.social for @carmellapoetry.bsky.social whose poetry so often wrings light and hope from darkness, and who in founding @harlowstanza.bsky.social has given local writers a boost, a community and a silly amount of support besides.

Good Morning! 🌞☮️ @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social & #24hourpoetrypeople I love your theme of #thresholds #poemsaboutthresholds #blueskypoetry 💙🖤💙Thresholds can be more beautiful than destinations can't they? I've written a poem for this theme. I hope you enjoy it. Many thanks.🙂

Shouldn't be much to wish for.

For #PromptCombo, whose theme this week is #parallel. I might have written about a Blondie album, but I didn't. #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #wordsculptures

We often swap&share poetry pamphlets between each other, it's a nice way of boosting other poets isn't it?... Here is what we have been into recently! @samszanto.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social anthology @jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social #andreambarushimana #brenbooth-jones #hedgehoganthologies

Poems that reference the #CavernClub

Tomorrow is (in effect) @harlowstanza.bsky.social's 1st birthday, when Harlow Circle of Poetry will be discussing "ways to end a poem". Which is good, because starting them isn't the problem, right? It's finishing the villains. #poetrycommunity #harlow #harlowessex #essex #harlowcircleofpoetry

Here is my poem 'DAD'S LONDON DRIVE'🚗which is available at the magnificent DIRIGIBLE BALLOON! 🎈 Please check their website out, it is a unique and free resource full of children's poetry!🎈 @northernjim.bsky.social #kidlit #quirky #kidspoetry #celebratediversity dirigibleballoon.org/poem/Dads-Lond…

I'll tell you how shit Outlook's filtering system is: I forward an email from me to myself and it lands in Junk. 🤓

5pm today. #livepoetry

The sun has set on #worldpoetryday where I am, though it is not yet tomorrow. And so, enjoy this for the day that's still in it.

"A marbled, molten sunset before dreaming"

On #WorldPoetryDay, for this week's #PromptCombo - theme: #aura, set by @rfsmith.bsky.social

Happy World Poetry Day 2025! 🌐✨✨✨🌐 Theme-'Poetry as a bridge for peace and inclusion'. Here is a poem by Muriel Rukeyser entitled 'Wherever' taken from her collection 'Breaking Open' 1973. #poemsforpeace #murielrukeyser #harlowcircleofpoetry #poetryasactivism

The writing in @thewingedmoon.bsky.social's Substack literary and art mag gets just about as close as language can to that elusive communion with "it". The latest offering contains a stunning poem Brandon Shane about falling and faith, set in farmland and forest. open.substack.com/pub/thewinge...

does anyone out there have some tides related writing you might like to submit to this? it can be previously published and you can win a prize! love to hear from you at our email [email protected]