Merry Christmas Everyone! So excited to have my first ever solo Filmpoem published by @inksweatandtears.co.uk today for their 12 Days of Christmas #poetrycommunity #filmpoem it’s been such a brilliant year publishing under my real name, exploring new creative paths & relationships! Hap🎉🍈 🌒🐸🙏

A #LifttotheSky and festive greetings to all my friends in tha amazingly brilliant and supportive #poetrycommunity #BlueSkypoets #PoetsSupportPoets who come together in #PoemsAbout #promptscombo. Have a fine time and may ‘26 be kind to us all @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Morning #poemsabout crew! Here’s a poem about an unexpected gift which was not unwelcome to a poet and neonatologist 😊. Published this year by the wonderful @atriumpoetry.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/05/27/m... #youshouldnthave @alanparrywriter.co.uk @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social

Morning Poets! Bit busy with end of term - so putting out one from my children’s archive! Happy Friday! #PoemsAbout #YouShouldntHave @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #poetry

We made final decisions on our Summer 2025 #Competition & notified all entrants today. In 2026, we'll publish work by @ronanmurphymusic.com @lozzakidwriting.bsky.social @belrimmer.bsky.social The standard was phenomenal across the board, but these three truly stood out. Congratulations to all!

#PoemsAbout #Imps @alanparrywriter.co.uk #music #poetry When I saw this week's subject I thought of this poem by Leigh Hunt (something of the Zelig/Forrest Gump of the English Romantic movement). I wrote music for the poem & recorded a performance of it here: frankhudson.org/2025/10/26/r...

I enjoyed this prompt so much that I ended up doing two poems. This one definitely embraces the whimsy! @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #Imps #poetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets

Morning! I’m not sure what flu-fuelled babble I’m offering here - I hope it makes sense. My #PoemsAbout #Imps is about a child who used to apparently bring me up in hives. Sorry it’s nothing more cerebral! Best wishes @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry Happy Friday!

I haven't slept well in weeks so the #Imps must be running wild in my head. Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the latest #PoemsAbout prompt! #Insomnia #Exhaustion

For #PoemsAbout #Imps here’s my quick take on the prompt. I wanted something fun for the festive season. This is Elf & Safety @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Good morning #BlueskyPoetry @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk and #PoemsAbout peeps. Today is an off the cuff maybe even off subject offering for #imps At least it’s short! Look forward to reading the other #poems through the day. Thanks for the platform. #poems #poetry

Well, I really struggled with this weeks #poemsabout prompt, #imps. Nice one @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for that, really had me working hard. Well done everyone who managed something, I think I might have gone a bit off piste, as it were 😂 #poems #poetry

Tomorrow, another round of poetry community hugs; likes, comments, quotes and reposts. For this week's #PoemsAbout it's #Imps. Take it how you may, but go easy on the self-reflection. Theres a lot of hurt in the world; lighten it if you wish. No, please do lighten it up.

Had to reshare this for @victoriaspires.bsky.social #PromptCombo because #ThisPoem very much came out in poetic frustration at writer's block for a previous #PoemsAbout 😅

Congratulations to our #SilverBranch series @pushcartprize.bsky.social nominees this year @jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social 🪷 @rotherwrites.bsky.social 🐦‍⬛ @suefinch.bsky.social 🪆 @helenlaycock.bsky.social ✒️ @vikkicwrites.bsky.social 💎 @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social 💫 #poetry #writingcommunity #poet

#PoemsAbout #Imps starts Friday. Write the saboteurs, the whisperers, the sharp-toothed elves in your psyche. Krampus doesn’t come for the good ones. Draft now. Post Friday. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout. Prompts here: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

Any #PoemsAbout poets looking to submit any finished pieces? You can submit to the Unwhispered Legacy Anthology. Details here: shorturl.at/L8qD3

Congratulations 🥳 to very deserving winners for @walklistencreate.org ‘Writing In The Dark’ competition @penny-walker-sd.bsky.social and @elizafevwrites.bsky.social - such a wonderful evening of prose & poetry this evening and fab awareness raising of the work Walk | Write | Create do 🎉

You gave us heat last week—now let’s cause some chaos. This Friday begins: #PoemsAbout #Imps. Mischief with teeth. Lies wrapped in ribbon. It’s Krampus season—write the troublemakers. Post from Friday. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout. Prompts here: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

Paul Short's 'Midnight Swingball' captures the vertigo and shape of the restless unease before sleep arrives. @paulwritespoems.bsky.social Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/paul-short/ #Insomnia #InkSweatandTears #Poetry

Good morning #BlueskyPoetry Community on this Friday’s #PoemsAbout #NoFuture @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social I wrote this about Mum’s Dementia. A #WIP still. Look forward to reading the other takes on the theme. #poetry #poems

Hullo #poemsabout #nofuture Thoughts too for the not forgotten @alanparrywriter.co.uk @brokenspinejournal.bsky.social

Here's my second poem written for #poemsabout #nofuture, thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt, a bit of a tricky one for me! #poems #poetry

So a short poem today for #poemsabout #nofuture A meditation on the climate emergency Thank you as always for the prompt @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Here is my poem "Ocean" from The Amphibian Literary & Art Journal. ❤️ #PoemsAbout #BlueSkyPoets

#PoemsAbout #NoFuture hits Friday. Write climate collapse, political burnout, joy lost in the algorithm. The ground beneath us is cracking. Draft now. Post Friday. Use Alt Text. Tag it or be lost. Sign up for more prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

Thank you so much @dustpoetry.bsky.social for publishing my poem My Daughter is a Gannet. It is part of a trilogy of birds - and just for family harmony … my other two fledglings are beautiful too! 😂 #poetry #blueskypoets www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/my-daug...

On December 21, from 2-4 PM EST, I’ll be teaching a 2‑hour generative craft class diving into the underrated, luminous work of poet Laura Gilpin. We will read well beyond “The Two-Headed Calf,” discussing the work of caregiving & poetry, approaching both with deep curiosity & attention to mystery.

This is a truly fabulous way to spend each morning in January/ as many as you can !

So proud to be in the second Aftershock Review, can’t wait to read it all. Thanks so much @maxwallis.bsky.social #poemsabout #poetsonbluesky

Thankyou so much to the wonderful editors @dustpoetry.bsky.social for selecting my poem on antenatal counselling and prematurity for the very moving Dear World Issue www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/the-tin... #poetsonbluesky #poemsabout

Sometimes you write the feeling of a thing rather than the thing itself. If the feeling you have about the thing you're writing lines up with the feeling the thing creates—that's a good thing. #DogTags #PoemsAbout @alanparrywriter.co.uk @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poem

That arrived fast! @dustpoetry.bsky.social Dear World issue out tomorrow, with a little breakfast from me...

More snails I’m afraid! #PoemsAbout #Desire @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk Happy Friday! #parasite #poetry

They folded the flag corner by careful corner honor kept in a triangle box. One dog tag, medals with meaning illegible with distance and time. Mantelpiece memories, all that remains are echoes of the coffin closing. @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poemsabout #dogtags #poem #poetry #4amwritersclub #poemaday

I offer this for #poemsabout #dogtags @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #StayCreative #PoetsSupportPoets

Short this week, and not particularly sweet. #DogTags #PoemsAbout #Haiku @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#Poemsabout #dogtags @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #triolet #chain #tanka #haiku #poem #poetry #writingcommunity

write.walklistencreate.org/wr_writing/t... Here is my flash fiction 'The Knife Sharpener of Alzira', with thanks to the actor Paul Graham who read this for me. I'm always interested in collaborating with other artists so this was an exciting part of the @walklistencreate.org comp

write.walklistencreate.org/wr_writing/h... I was practicing for this audio at the recent @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #openmic #poetry Here is my poem 'Hand to mouth' dedicated to my neighbour Mari, the little old lady over the way, who very sadly died recently. 💔 Thank you @walklistencreate.org

Great to be shortlisted with @erinbondo.com @elizafevwrites.bsky.social @eleanorholmes.bsky.social @sarahleavesley.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social @lauratheis.bsky.social @penny-walker-sd.bsky.social & more. Thanks to @walklistencreate.org & judges @marcellenewbold.bsky.social & Damaris West

Super excited my poem 'Hand to mouth' and story 'The Knife Sharpener of Alzira' have been shortlisted for the 'Walking In The Dark' comp by @walklistencreate.org judged by @marcellenewbold.bsky.social and Damaris West for poetry, @chantallyons.bsky.social and Matthew Beaumont for prose Whoop 🥳

Today's #LiftToTheSky goes out to @happyautist.bsky.social - thank you for sharing your journey with late-diagnosed autism and for supporting awareness and acceptance of our neurotype 🧠 ✨️ #autistic #autism

#PoemsAbout #DogTags drops Friday. Write into memory, sacrifice, names etched or erased. Tags on a chain, weight on a neck. Post from Friday. Use Alt Text. Always tag it right. Prompts hit inboxes Saturdays: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

Morning #promptcombo #poemsabout crews, save the date for another night of quality poetry I'm hosting in Jan. Readers to be revealed soon, but they are all incredible talents who you won't want to miss. Would love to see some of you there ☺️

My personal poetry website has a fresh new look and info about my forthcoming debut collection! Signed copies of Daughter of Fire available here from 13th April! #PoetsOnBluesky #PoetrySky www.lucyheuschen.co.uk

Some good opportunities to share and read poems around hashtags like #promptcombo and #poemsabout and events/readings get flagged up here too. I've found a good breadth of poets & poetry between here & Instagram.

One of the benefits of Bluesky is that it allows you to set up Feeds as tabs. I have one for #PoemsAbout and one for #PromptCombo. It means that you don't have to search, and therefore you don't miss any activity on them. Their history is always there in your feed.

Last week hit hard. This week: #PoemsAbout #DogTags. Name, number, silence, war. Identity reduced to metal and chain. Begins Friday—don’t post early. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text. For detailed prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

Hello #poetrycommunity I have been absent lately, saying yes to too many things, viral illness, work: consistency is something I’m working on! I ❤️ #poemsabout & have this late offering on #desire Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for all you do & the community you created 🙏