So honored and excited to be a contributor for Volume 3 of Speak Up Against Stigma. Please link in to hear our readings!

Thrilled to be included in this month's publication in The Candyman's Trumpet! It is filled with amazing poetry! Enjoy! drive.google.com/file/d/1Rbo6...

Thrilled to be included in this fabulous publication! MasticadoresCanada! link.edgepilot.com/s/5469cb54/w...

Quiet beginnings on open roads. Even with the uncertainty of the long journey, choose kindness. 🫶🏻 #HumanityFirst #KindnessMatters

This week: #BeingWatched. The look that lingers. The sense of eyes before proof. The body adjusting itself without knowing why. Write the awareness. The almost-seeing. The way desire sharpens when it’s observed. New theme opens Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout to be found.

#spent #poemsabout #rupture #promptcombo #inkmine #dreamy #madrigal #poem #love

Many thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk for today's #PoemsAbout prompt #Spent. Here's a brief off-the-cuff 'tribute' to someone we knew only too well in the UK. Apologies, I was feeling tetchy this morning....

#PoemsAbout #Spent #poem #writing #writingcommunity @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

After a small break, here is my return piece for #PoemsAbout #Spent. @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk Will be catching up later/over weekend

To all those who never ever get to start the new toothpaste! 😊 #PoemsAbout #Spent Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk Happy Friday!

#poemsabout #spent Banjaxed: a common Irish slang term meaning something is broken, ruined, severely damaged, or beyond repair.

attic sketches appear unclaimed reels linger as grey tinged captions claim the passage confounded and spent my impulses proceed through the fire and passion stoking the burnt offerings left scratching their way through the ash and lust where noted desires played #PoemsAbout #Spent

Strangely, don’t have much to say for #PoemsAbout #Spent @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk …but just enough for #fragmentsfriday #micropoem @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #Oulens #BlueskyPoetry #micropoetry #poetrycommunity

I love Fridays, or #PoemsAbout day as I now call them. Here is my offering, and I look forward to seeing all of yours 😁 #Spent @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #poetry

Nice to be able to post a quick little poem for #poemsabout #spent after a bit of an enforced absence last week (bad cold). Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk / @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt and to everyone contributing! #poems #poetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #scottishpoetry

So excited! My first interview regarding my poetry and three poems included! Flapper Press is an amazing magazine with exceptional writing and art! I am honored beyond words! @fpress.bsky.social www.flapperpress.com/blog/categor...

Good morning #BlueSkyPoets! #PoemsAbout #Spent @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk I took the traditional sonnet and tweaked the form to create a List Sonnet, I hope you enjoy! Excited to read your poetic creations!

#PoemsAbout #Spent is live. Write the after. The bodies that don’t rush apart. The silence that isn’t empty. The care that follows intensity. Post from today. Tag #PoemsAbout #Spent to be read and shared. Use Alt Text. Take care with each other.

One editor will pick the poems they love. That’s it. No career promises. No breakthrough narrative. Just cash and community — raised together. #TheBrokenSpineAward #ByPoetsForPoets #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky

#PoemsAbout #Spent starts Friday. Write exhaustion as intimacy. Sweat drying. Breath slowing. The body no longer performing. What’s left when desire has finished speaking? Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag your post. Use Alt Text.

Most fleas don’t burrow, but sand fleas do. But we all carry a poetic license in our pockets. Scientific accuracy is not as important to us as it should be to RFKJR, which reminds me I have a personal poem from the POV of his brain worm…

Here’s a response to this week's call for #PoemsAbout #UndertheSkin from @thebrokenspine.co.uk k Thanks for hosting @alanparrywriter.co.uk

For #PoemsAbout #UnderTheSkin with much thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#PoemsAbout #UnderTheSkin #poem #writing #writingcommunity @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Hello @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for today’s #PoemsAbout #UnderTheSkin a wee experimental verse that I’m not sure about. A bit literal rather than oblique I’m afraid. Appointments today, but will check back over cuppas when I can Thanks #blueskypoetry pals look forward to reading.

This did start life as a response to #PoemsAbout #UnderTheSkin. Honestly

Afternoon Friday here’s my little “throwaway” poem for #PoemsAbout #UndertheSkin and thank @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk Hope everyone everywhere has a great weekend

@thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #UnderTheSkin #DarkLovePoem #Poetry I've had such a busy week that I'm late posting this late and have hardly read any of the poems this week, but I've got them to look forward to tomorrow. Have a good weekend friends

I tried to get a little away from the film #UnderTheSkin this week for #PoemsAbout this week, as it's one of my all time favourites. Bits of it may have snuck in. Ditto the song Only Skin by Joanna Newsom. @thebrokenspine.co.uk

For this week's #PoemsAbout I attempted something more about the 'wanting that lingers' something softer, more vulnerable; but something else more urgent was #UnderTheSkin. My apologies in that it contains nothing uplifting. I've been snagged by a troubling zeitgeist.

For #poemsabout #undertheskin Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

A phone scribble from the steps of The Uffizi! It’s all that Botticelli that did it. 😊 Thanks for the #PoemsAbout #UnderTheSkin prompt @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk I might not get a chance to read and comment for a while! Happy Friday!

#PoemsAbout #UnderTheSkin @thebrokenspine.co.uk Took a little break from the polemical this week. Will put a reading in the comments.

Repost/fixed a typo. I only have the one offering right now for #poemsabout #prompt #undertheskin. I wanted to do more with it, but the words stayed hidden. Best wishes, enjoy 🤗 @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #poem #poetry #poemaday #skypoem #skypoetry #5amwritersclub #6amwritersclub

For this week's #PoemsAbout #UnderTheSkin @thebrokenspine.co.uk my mind went off in very different directions - didn't know which to go with, so went with both...

Apologies for the late contribution to #PoemsAbout #UnderTheSkin. I went in a different direction than I expected. Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry

I've struggled with this week's #PoemsAbout prompt #UndertheSkin so I've settled on something I posted a few months ago which does fit fairly precisely: I hope it's new to some of the #PoetryCommunity. Many thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk for challenge

A rather quick, personal contribution to #poemsabout Might write something else and gonna read your amazing pieces tomorrow, since I'm a bit preoccupied today. Thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk for the prompt of #UnderTheSkin I went the literal route this time. #poetry

For #PoemsAbout #UndertheSkin @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #vss365 #beastly #fragmentsfriday #micropoem @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #Oulens #micropoetry #blueskypoetry

#poemsabout #undertheskin

@thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #PoemsAbout #UnderTheSkin #Cinquain I wish all of you wonderful poets a fabulous weekend! Can't wait to read your work!

#PoemsAbout #UnderTheSkin is live. Write what embeds. What alters you quietly. What you still feel days later. Not everything leaves a mark you can point to. Post from today. Tag #PoemsAbout #UnderTheSkin to be read and shared. Use Alt Text. Take care with each other.

www.speakupagainststigma.com I am honored to be accepted as a contributor in Volume 3, Speak Up Against Stigma, released this spring. This is an important anthology of artists speaking powerful stories about mental health, touching countless lives, offering validation, understanding, and hope.

My BIG announcement! My book entitled “Ink” has been accepted by a publisher Kelsay Books! I sent my final manuscript in today! Next step working with the cover design artist! Scheduled publication date May of 2026! Cliche but it is a dream come true!

#PoemsAbout #BlackVeils starts Friday. Write into what you don’t show. Boundaries. Silence. Chosen obscurity. The dignity of not being legible. Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag your post. Use Alt Text.

📢 Belated shout out for this week's #PromptCombo host, the delightful @rfsmith.bsky.social who has chosen #Moment as his theme. All welcome to join in, as ever.

With the lyrics of my verses, I want to join your lips, cling to your body and take you to my breasts @cathaguamia.bsky.social @prystauk.bsky.social @kirpalsingh.bsky.social @dnwritespoetry.bsky.social @prystauk.bsky.social @dominicpiper.bsky.social @ryuma21.bsky.social

Back with you again. #Visual #Art @deborahs82.bsky.social @ryuma21.bsky.social @dominicpiper.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @prystauk.bsky.social @dnwritespoetry.bsky.social @kirpalsingh.bsky.social @cathaguamia.bsky.social

It's Friday, it's #PoemsAbout day. Here is my offering for #FalseCrowns. @thebrokenspine.co.uk