How does @jenwithwords.bsky.social do it? She keeps creating the most poignant, yet beautiful, #poetryvidoes I've ever seen. Here's her latest. I'm think ing about hosting a #JennyWongPoetryVideoNight. Who's in? #PoetsOfBlueSky #FilmmakersOfBlueSky youtu.be/scAoxNryyVA?...

One of my #murals #Stunday #BlueSkyArtists #MyBackyard #MyPhoto 38inx26inh

Last night was extraordinary! Women of all persuasions shared #art & #poetry that made this #NOTJUSTPRETTY zoom a moment in time to remember. 🔥🔥🔥 bsky.app/profile/kare...

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

Still unsure if I'll (@alanparrywriter.co.uk) will make this. It's going to be a magnificent celebration of women! Amazing that @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social has done this under The Broken Spine’s banner. So proud of everybody and thankful. #NotJustPretty

I'll be one of the readers tonight. Come check us out!

Tonight! Our #NotJustPretty zoom happens 5pm pst/8pm est. See/hear women poets & artists who creatively break through stereotypes. Still room for listeners. DM for link. @thebrokenspine.co.uk series. #WomenSupportWomen #WomenSpeakUp #WomenSpeakOut #CanYouHearUs #Poetry #Art

It’s after midnight so here’s my piece for #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors ‘Saturday Exile c.2002’ Another excellent prompt. @thebrokenspine.co.uk Looking forward to reading and replying on Friday and over the weekend

I'm never sure whether I find @thebrokenspine.co.uk prompts traumatic or cathartic! Either way, here is my contribution this week (get a cuppa - it's long!) #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors #poetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets

#PoemsAbout #LockedDoors @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk [thanks for the timely 'prompt'] behind me now the exit door & years of contesting a lived experience disabling my clean bill of health no going back. caution going forwards

#PoemsAbout #LockedDoors @thebrokenspine.co.uk 🙏 to @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social & best wishes to @alanparrywriter.co.uk #poetry / #photography: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025/2024 #Symbolism #ZinaidaGippius #monochrome #ImageAndVerse #DepthPsychology #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity

For this week's #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors with thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and all those participating. Not what I thought I'd write...

This week’s prompt wants your ghosts, your don’t ask me about thats, your barricaded memories. Post from today through Thursday. Tag it. Use Alt Text. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché Read 3. Repost. Reply. Don’t be a ghost. Sign up: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

#PoemsAbout #LockedDoors @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will put a reel in the comments, or I won’t.

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

Welcome one and all for this week's @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the #PoemsAbout theme of #LockedDoors, and why they might be locked, what lies behind them. Until Alan returns please keep the sharing and feedback alive. It took a long time to build #PoemsAbout to the community it is today. 🎯

Here’s one for #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Big thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors A Bad Night The now-ghoul glint of lost eyes summons up Blind janus In the odd motel Of my head shade slaver, Unresting fatal spring, A choke of snowdrops Under a winding sheet of winter.

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

When I saw the theme for this week I thought all my poems are about locked doors! The #poemsabout #lockeddoors gives me the perfect opportunity to reshare my poem "Host", which was published by @viridinelit.bsky.social in its summer issue on Identity @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Something very rough and ready for #poemsabout #lockeddoors, definitely a work in progress! Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk / @thebrokenspine.co.uk and everyone who keeps this wonderful thing going!

Hello #poetrycommunity @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk This is my slim offering for todays #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors thanks as always to reader and sharers I’ll be popping in and out as time allows. Looking forward to your contributions. #poetry #poems

#poemsabout #lockeddoors I seem to write a lot about teachers... ahh well.

A #FridayPoem for the #poemsabout prompt of #lockeddoors This time a #villanelle I really enjoy working in this form. @thebrokenspine.co.uk Hope you like it. #poetry #poetsofbluesky #PoemAltText #AltText #poems

We had our own language of words, looks, touch— telepathic mind stuff, we read each other like custom made books... #LockedDoors #PoemsAbout @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

You want to know me? A key woven from starlight, Is what you'll need. For @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors #Haiku #Poetry #Senryu

Time wandered on as if we were not there Behind the door, waiting for the buzzer The mechanism which would unlock, let us free Yet, time continued, digital figures danced Second by second, minutes dragged. Nothing changed at all. #poetrycommunity @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors

Slipping a piece in late in the day for the #PoemsAbout prompt #LockedDoors (after a day being poorly), will return tomorrow to read the others. Thanks as every week to @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk 💜🙏

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

Locked doors are for dignity, not deceit. A proper household keeps its mysteries folded, like linen too fine for daily use. #LockedDoors #PoemsAbout #poem #poetry #prose #verse #poetsofbluesky #writing #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#PoemsAbout #LockedDoors @thebrokenspine.co.uk

My #PoemsAbout for the prompt #LockedDoors Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk It's a counterpoint to my children's poem Outside In, which ends: "But where else can we all explore A world with countless open doors?" dirigibleballoon.org/poem/Outside... @northernjim.bsky.social

morning Friday here’s my little “throwaway” poem for #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors and thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry #poems #BlueSkyPoets everyone everywhere enjoy your weekend and thank you for reading

A better draft! #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors write.as/robgalpin/he...

Felt like I was writing against the prompt here - an unusually (?) chirpy one from me! #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors - thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoetryCommunity #Poem #Poetry

A poem about raw grief and trauma, even if they're not mine. #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors for @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

What's up my fellow poets! Are we looking behind #LockedDoors! #PoemsAbout @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social Have a most lovely day! #KeepWriting!

For this weeks #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors with @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk I wanted to focua on the locks themselves. The complex mechanisms and feats of engineering that are taken for granted.

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!

Many thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for yet another thought-provoking #PoemsAbout prompt #LockedDoors. Here's my response and I look forward to catching up with others later #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

trapped trapped myself in this life room, the door is locked, if I had the key I’d still be be here; Nothing happens here no yelling, berating, controlling, possessing, gaslightiing- pretending I’m not monitored in his fishbowl; locked in “love” #poemsabout #poetry @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Quotidian Locked doors behind, daily routines mask resistance. Shopping bags carry contraband. Work schedules hidden meeting times. Revolution lives in life's ordinary moments. Cease those days by the balls. #LockedDoors #PoemsAbout @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #prose #poetry #art

For this week's #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors, I'm thinking about trying to open and failing. Thank you to the host @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk and to all of the other writers. #poetry #poem #writing #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

My contribution to this week's #poemsabout prompt #lockeddoors is very short and probably should come with a trigger warning for suicide. With thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk. Am not tagging anyone else due to subject matter

#PoemsAbout #LockedDoors Sorry, this is very much an off-the-cuff fragment. I made up a little micro-story here last night, and thought I'd turn it into a poem for fun, since the theme matches. Just trying to work out if it's worth continuing as a WIP, either in prose or verse.

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

An old poem of mine that I can't exactly say where it came from and I'm still not sure what it means for me. It was inspired by "The Room" by Kevin Hart, the Anglo-Australian poet-theologian, not the US comedian. For #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

#PoemsAbout #LockedDoors #BlueskyPoets

For #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors ✨ for @thebrokenspine.co.uk & @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Another evocative prompt! Thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk for #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors