This really is a psychic mosaic!

corrected version of today's delirium

Shared earlier today by @jolloyds.bsky.social Splendid

Cartoonist: Adam Zyglis

Beyond thrilled to share my poem ‘Epilogue’, shortlisted by Victoria Kennefick in @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social’s Poet of the Festival competition ❤️

A poem from my JC Studio Press collection "Othernesses": for @emteepoetry.bsky.social Emily and her excellent #PromptCombo #Beach

Another poem from my JC Studio Press collection "Othernesses": for @emteepoetry.bsky.social Emily and her excellent #PromptCombo #Beach

#promptcombo #beach #poetry @emteepoetry.bsky.social Taken from a longer poem.

First chapbook blog post ☘️ "What follows isn’t a cultural, political, or economic history, but a reflection on the emotional impact of these forces on an earlier generation of my family. I also wonder, because the world has changed so much, does anyone live fully anymore?"

Such a talent ... #MustRead #Tigers #TheAftershockReview

For #vss365 The Nika (victory) riots begin in Constantinople, as rival factions in the Hippodrome turn their anger towards the Emperor

There must be a word for the experience over the past several weeks where every time I go to edit/write that I somehow poison or destroy the work. A kind of Queen Midas in reverse.

Congrats to the 15 poets of wave twenty-six: Alex Smith, Anna Maughan, Caroline Stancer, Clare Best, Deborah Gaudin, Elizabeth Osmond, Frances Klein, Francesca Leader, Jonathon Medeiros, Kate Vanhinsbergh, Lauren Parker, Rachel Burrows, Robin Ince, Victoria Moul and Zain Rishi.

For #PoemsAbout #WhatRemains. This is a revision of a poem I wrote for this year's NaPoWriMo. Thank you as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Here is a poem. ‘The Lanes’.

Existential Poetry Society? 🪐 I was half-serious in mentioning this recently, but one poet jumped in right away. Thanks @johnchmura.bsky.social! Here's my poem on the theme of #Existence. I'm furthering the convo, but it's addressed outwardly to all. A mythopoetic response. #PoemsAloud Join us ✨

spring walk~ i can’t keep up with the green #haiku

The kowhai is humming calling the colour of bees

**** Publication day! **** Huge thanks to @paulwritespoems.bsky.social for compiling this awesome anthology including @francesca-laura.bsky.social @moleculesunlimited.bsky.social @lenaozge.bsky.social @carmellapoetry.bsky.social @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social paulwritespoems.com/unwhispered-...

Couldn't have put it better myself. (From the March yesterday)

#fragmentsfriday (poem yet unwritten) Keep out of my dreams you wouldn't like it there

Lovely to see @janpsolivagant.bsky.social hosting this week's #PromptCombo. #Nothing is the challenge so here's something from a while ago, about the stuggle to write when nothing comes to mind. Looking forward to reading other offerings from the #poetrycommunity

Ummed and erred about sharing this poem for @dragonslayerma.bsky.social's #promptcombo this week. Does it meet the brief?

Wilde’s Tomb -Michael Gessner In the garden of Père Lachaise, city of the dead, we passed angels covering their faces in shame, & nineteenth-century trees, with tops bowed as if their only purpose was to grieve, & crossed the Transversales to Wilde’s [...] www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/141805...

Oh, to be tiny And fit in a bell Dreaming Lilly things #photography #poetry #peace #hope #beauty #eastcoastkin #nature #bloomscrolling #colors #white #green #imagination Photo credit: Nikola Tomašić

Do we think this *whisper this* ..might have been about the oil all along?

“You being / inside / means / you’re already hurt.” — Isabelle Correa . . . This poem appeared in Good Girl and Other Yearnings by Isabelle Correa, published by Write Bloody Publishing, 2025. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Brilliant!!!

@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social #fragmentsfriday 18 words (basically my usual opening line), so the challenge continues. Inadvertent rhyme at the end 😯

Tweaking this WIP ‘heroic’ crown of sonnets to make it more unsettling.

the Orwellian ‘Board of Peace’ has launched its first war

#PoemsAbout #Spent @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will put a reading in the comments…

Tory leaflet bloke telling me he had nothing to do with the Conservative Party just now (!)

Followed by:

History repeats itself over and over. Spotted at the British Museum Hawai'i exhibition yesterday.

I love Bill’s poems.

Check out these bears. www.badlilies.uk/jonathan-edw...

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He like curling - who knew?

@thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #PoemsAbout #Undressed A bit oblique on the prompt, but it's what came out!

I'm sorry if you were offended' is not an apology. Quite the opposite. Not the choice of words that are the problem, but the brain that thinks it

For #promptcombo, #ecstasy interpreted differently.

#WednesdayWIPs#poemsAbout#LiftToTheSky@BrokenSpine A (very much) WIP extract provisionally entitled 'Adam's Boner' about creation myths and religion. Trying to get the tone right! The serpent with the apple fist and Pandora, the terrorist, raises the lid, reveals her ever-open wound:

so there's an old-boy network. Who knew?

‘As autumn furled the summer’s blistered sails, fine glass of holy gold, the bottled song of nightingales.’ James McConachie, from ‘Consolamentum’. @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu...

You have a window installed in your chest so I can see what you mean. Peeping between ribs like blinds at your fist of a heart, pale- knuckled pounding. Wants to be free, you say. But my guess is, your heart is knocking for better luck than me. #vss365 (pale) #ThingsToWriteAbout (window)

What will we do with the loneliness of the mythical? - Eavan Boland, “Eurydice Speaks”