As it’s Armistice Day, I wanted to share an image of one of the most astonishing things I’ve ever seen in an archive: This is the pen which ended the First World War. It was used by British Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss to sign the Armistice on the 11th November 1918 in the Forest of Compiègne.

A flowered fan should be dark So should a goose A partridge A cock #Literature

Above the water view of a marine iguana swimming by when we were snorkeling in Galapagos. 🦎

🙏 to @hool415.bsky.social #PromptCombo #DeepTime take on #workinglove #newpoem / #photography: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025/2022-24 #poetry #JohnCage #MechtildOfMagdeburg #AsSlowAsPossible #orgelprojekt #MysticMonday #thework

Atlas des champignons comestibles et vénéneux Paris, P. Klincksieck, 1891. (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/22673) #nature #illustration #art

Hullo. This put up on the shady side for a TopTweetTuesday #winter #poetry challenge.

Here’s my #Tuesday #Senryu #Poetry #Humor #Satire #BlueSkyPoet #Vss365 #eggs #Haikusmash #Dinosaurs #SillySenryu #BlueSkyPoets Tyrannosaurus eggs for breakfast, be aware - Momma’s coming fast!

I’ve long ago felt that right-wing culture opinion is basically “fuck you mom I won’t do what you tell me” and nothing more

Del Bigtree and and the MAHA Institute embrace being proudly antivax. I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.

A strange experience yesterday. Afternoon collapsed on itself, not with a star’s power, exploded radiance falling back in concentrated immensity, but a drear apotheosis, a hum just above silent amid soiled white light. It was emptiness, not meditative or inviting action but a special kind of nothing

Violent Kitten #connected #haiku I leap down, prey still Not aware of my presence It dies, red on green I roar to ward off Trespassers in my domain Go after my grub I drag it back safe To my special hiding spot And lick my paws clean I hold my soft tail In my maw to remind me I am still a cub

Re-upping this: www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-t...

"What do I want from COP30? I want leaders who will look their children in the eye and say: We chose courage. We stopped subsidising destruction. We stood with the global majority who did not cause this crisis," writes @zackpolanski.bsky.social. Read here: https://bit.ly/47ATlWg

"Brexit has reduced GDP by 6% to 8%" So actually worse than 'project fear'. Great job everyone. cc @mrjamesob.bsky.social

No, but I’ve been to Windsor Castle in Scotland

The results of the Brilliant poetry competition for sciencey poems are out —see the winners and read the short listed poems here Congratulations every one! And thanks for organising @samillingworth.com https://www.thebrilliantpoetry.com/2025

I'm in a new stage of my career* as a poet: -What even is a poem. -I don't have time for this. -I don't even like this. -Actually, I may not be smart enough to write a poem. *morning before coffee

The two party system is incompatible with democracy. We must change our electoral system to restore democracy.

Fog at the creek again today. Making fall look extra good 🌿

Good morning! A poem for #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors. This is a revision of an old poem. Thank you, as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for these weekly prompts!

The #birdoftheday theme is Standing On Things so here you go #birds

geese on migration flirting in the slipstream of generations #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

Will be BBC Director General for food

Posting snails now #becurious

I posted this earlier in the week but it works for one for the #LockedDoors of knowledge that some of us experience #Poems About @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

at the fringe of night the sound of a closing door creaking on its failing hinges & of crickets going quiet & of some bro- ken breaths & lost s.l.nt counts from one to ten to to naught #PoemsAbout #lockeddoors #Oulens @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social

Anyway, sod the frothings of a wiff waff wally. If you're nearby, come to the last day of Poetry in Aldeburgh. Loads on, it'd be lovely to see you. And the sun is shining on the sea! www.poetryinaldeburgh.org/programme-2025

Responding to the #vss365 prompt ‘law’, here’s an old one of mine – it’s a palindrome-by-word i.e. the poem reverses the words from the midpoint of line 6. Thanks go to Liz @young_liz our #vss365 host. #vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity #palindrome

Awesome Christmas gift klaxon!🚨🎅 Proud to announce that Trowbridge Stanza's poetry anthology 'Looking Up - Poems of Hope and Humanity', is available to pre-order. All proceeds to our local hospice Dorothy House. For blurb, sample poems, and how to order: trowbridgestanza.substack.com/p/anthology-...

I'm at 5 right now after a year of 1 and 3.

There was a lot more to AA Milne than Pooh bear.

We've got a full house of women raring to go!!! Plus a supportive audience. Couldn't ask for anything better. Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk & beloved colleague @alanparrywriter.co.uk for holding the match that lit this fire. #NotJustPretty #WomenSpeakUp #WomenSpeakOut

Just an absolute banger of an animal family

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#TimeBinding #SharedFacts

#poetry in the Park returns to tutus Eethiopian Table in Paler Parkl #ReadingUK #Berkshire Sat 15th at 11:00 Real #poets real #poetrylovers, real tea and coffee and above all real #community Which of these pictures is real and which AI? #RdgUK #poetrysocial

Okay, a weird thing happened. I will try to talk about it without naming names. I submitted a two-book review to a magazine I respect. The authors of both books have been published in the magazine in the past. The magazine has recently had a change of editor. Within days of the submission I got ...

Ukraine destroyed an S-400 launcher and ammunition depot of Russia's 18th Army in occupied Crimea on 6 Oct. The strike destroyed Russia's air defense umbrella protecting the peninsula euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/08/u...

Is anyone from USA using bluesky ? 🇺🇸

I get high from this. At dawn, clouds lift off the evergreens like breath from the forest. Mist drifts upward, turning trees into chimneys of fog as the world wakes in silence. #landscapes

The #ClimateEmergency and #NatureCrisis are intimately interlinked #COP30 phys.org/news/2025-11...

Fountain Pen Day Ink breathes— a slow exhale of thought spilled onto waiting paper. Each line a tether between heart and hand, past and now, maker and muse. Today we honor the quiet turn of a cap, the whisper of nib on page— and the joy of words that flow, not type. #Poetry #FountainPenDay2025

replies Sunday, I am tied up tomorrow, so in time here is my poem about #ClosedDoors for #PoemsAbout #Poetry #MyEx

My #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors was a bit of a hurried affair - which is ironic considering the subject matter! And yes I know she’s a hermaphrodite -maybe that’s my picturebook-writing coming through or maybe it’s significant - you decide! 😊Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk 🥰 @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry

On 7 November 1969: the New Statesman is published announcing the #Tolkien Society. Founded by Vera Chapman, known as Belladonna Took, the Society started with this advert. The Society quickly grew to 60 people but now has 4,000+ members! You can join at tolkiensociety.org/join #BookSky

For #poemsabout #LockedDoors @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Fountain Pen Day is today. This is a more complete list of links to store sales & events than what's on the official FPD page. www.reddit.com/r/fountainpe...

It’s National Fountain Pen Day! Check out this beautiful green example from 1915, courtesy of the Sarah Plants collection.

#LockedDoors drops tomorrow. This isn’t metaphor. This is muscle memory. Write what you couldn’t say at the time. Tag it. Use Alt Text. No early posts. Inbox prompts (for masochists and truth-tellers): shorturl.at/0Xm7A