Rebekah Teller ππ³οΈβπ
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Midwestern Gen Xer
#poet
http://www.kreativejoose.com
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
4 days ago
#PoemsAbout
#WhatRemains
is live. Post from today through Thursday.
#TakeRisks
#EndOnAnImage
#AvoidClichΓ©
Engageβdonβt ghost. Read 3+, repost, reply.
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
6 days ago
Names, not numbers. Stories, not statements.
#DoveCry
#Slimline
#AntiWarPoetry
#PoetsOfBluesky
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Call for Submissions: Poetry That Crushes Silence and Breaks Systems - The Broken Spine
Submissions Open Throughout May 2026 | Publication Later That Year
https://thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/06/14/call-for-submissions-poetrythatcrushessilenceandbreakssystems/
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
11 days ago
#PoemsAbout
#NamesNotNumbers
is live. Post from today through Thursday.
#TakeRisks
#EndOnAnImage
#AvoidClichΓ©
Engageβdonβt ghost. Read 3+, repost, reply.
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Paul Cannon
11 days ago
For
#PoemsAbout
#NamesNotNumbers
With much thanks to
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
and
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
Context: I grew up in domestic violence. I am horrified that little progress has been made, despite the seminars and glossy reports. One woman murdered every 11 days in Australia.
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Thank you to
@orenaugmountainpub.bsky.social
for publishing my poem "Bleached"
www.orenaugmountainpoetry.net/2026/04/blea...
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Bleached
The Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal showcases the work of a variety of international poetic voices. It is published by Orenaug Mountain Publishing.
https://www.orenaugmountainpoetry.net/2026/04/bleached.html?m=1
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#PoemsAbout
#NamesNotNumbers
starts Friday. Be specific. Detail over distance. Reality over rhetoric.
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How is he still in office?
25 days ago
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Merril D. Smith
25 days ago
Good morning! For
#PoemsAbout
#Signalloss
I woke up with this story in my head this morning. Thank you as always to
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
and
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
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Elizabeth Osmond
about 2 months ago
Easter time seems a happy coincidence to share a preview of the cover of my debut chapbook, Hatching soon with V.Press Poetry which tells the origin story of neonatal care.
#poemsabout
#poetsonbluesky
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
about 2 months ago
#PoemsAbout
#InBloom
is live. Write what opens without apology. What grows because it must. What risks being seen because staying closed would be worse. Some things bloom loudly. Let them. Post from today. Tag
#PoemsAbout
#InBloom
to be read and shared. Use Alt Text. Take care with each other.
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Anna Orridge
about 2 months ago
The fall of the cherry blossoms, I know, is what should trigger my sadness and reflection. But their flawless, burgeoning beauty, sudden as a cascade of laughter in an echoing hall has its own sweet melancholy, I find.
#PoemsAbout
#InBloom
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Beth Ember
about 2 months ago
There's something beautiful about a flower that's taller than you are.
#PoemsAbout
#InBloom
#poetry
#writing
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
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Lin Hart
about 2 months ago
I breathe in lilacs and miss the taste of your skin, memory of you soft and pliable like sin, like your blush rosebud in bloom.
#faesense
#lilacslonging
#inbloom
#poemsabout
#tanka
#tankaboutit
#micropoem
#micropoetry
#poem
#poetry
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Ann Tigone
2 months ago
#consent
#poemsabout
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
While I like my first poem for this prompt, I want to share something a bit more on theme β€οΈ
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ZoΓ« Watson Artist
3 months ago
Hello Blue-sky π Latest painting in watercolour and inks. I love how the sunbeams through stormy weather.
#thephotohour
#art
#artist
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
3 months ago
#LiftToTheSky
Monday is here. Shout out the writers and presses who keep showing up, even when itβs hard.
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Francesca L Rolle
3 months ago
#LiftToTheSky
#PoetryCommunity
#PoetsSupportingPoets
add a skeleton here at some point
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DrNaturegirl
3 months ago
For this weekβs
#LiftToTheSky
A shout out for
@angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social
who has spent many years supporting the
#poetrycommunity
by collating submission calls, as well as offering writers workshops/ editing services. Do support her work if you can. Check her website here
www.thisiswordbox.com
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https://www.thisiswordbox.com
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Carmella de Keyser
3 months ago
I'd like to
#lifttothesky
@mike-everley.bsky.social
for his beautiful poem
#Swallows
.
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
Thank you.
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
3 months ago
No glass ceilings will be shattered here. No doors magically open. One editorβs taste. A bit of money. Built shoulder to shoulder with the community.
#TheBrokenSpineAward
#ByPoetsForPoets
#PoemsAbout
#LiftToTheSky
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Jen Thorne
3 months ago
I love Fridays, or
#PoemsAbout
day as I now call them. Here is my offering, and I look forward to seeing all of yours π
#Spent
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
#poetry
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melisa
3 months ago
#poemsabout
#spent
I'm a day late, I think. Because, well, yesterday I was
#spent
. But here's how it finally seeped out during the late late hours.
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David Birch
3 months ago
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
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Lin Hart
3 months ago
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 π€
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
#poem
#poetry
#poemaday
#skypoem
#skypoetry
#5amwritersclub
#6amwritersclub
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Michelle DiSarno
3 months ago
Before I even open my eyes, the warmth is already dissolving into the sheets, and in the space next to me, she who was just there is gone. The soft hairs on my skin lift and remember. My body shivers. With my hand I hold my other hand.
#poemsabout
#undertheskin
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
3 months ago
Last week stripped us bare. This week:
#UnderTheSkin.
Not what touches you. What stays. Write the wanting that lingers. The look that learns your name. The ache that doesnβt leave when the body does. New theme opens Friday. Donβt post early. Use Alt Text. Tag
#PoemsAbout
to be found.
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Jenny Cohn
3 months ago
Page 15 of the GOPβs Save America Act wld force all 50 states to submit their voter rolls to the DHSβs centralized voter purge program (called βSAVEβ), which they know has had error rates as high as 14% & links to an SSA database that they know was compromised by DOGE.
#NoOnSave
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
3 months ago
Tomorrow:
#PoemsAbout
#Undressed.
Not exposure for spectacle. Not vulnerability as performance. Donβt post before Friday. That stillness? That holding back? Thatβs the poem. Tag it. Use Alt Text.
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Andy Williamson
3 months ago
This week's
#poemsabout
#mouths
just wasn't working, I almost gave it a swerve - until this popped into my head yesterday! KΕtare (MΔori) is a watchtower around a pΔ (fort) but, more commonly, a kingfisher! Thanks
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
&
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
#poems
#poetry
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
3 months ago
#PoemsAbout
#Mouths
is live. Write the heat. Whatβs tasted. Whatβs withheld. What stays on the lips after. Post from today. Tag
#PoemsAbout
#Mouths
to be read and shared. Use Alt Text. Take care with each other.
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Rother Writes
3 months ago
...and I thought this prompt was beyond me. A late clarity of mind saved the morning for
#PoemsAbout
#Mouths
. I'll get back to you later today...
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
#PoetsOnBluesky
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Ian Brownlie
3 months ago
The silence is coming, maybe sooner than we think.
#PoemsAbout
#Mouths
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
#BlueskyPoetry
#PoetryCommunity
#Poetry
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Jane Dougherty
3 months ago
I'm not at home today so will read later this evening. This poem/sonnet is inspired by 'PasiphaΓ«' my novel that will be published February 12th. I can't think about anything else at the moment For
#PoemsAbout
#Mouths
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
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Mike OβBrien
3 months ago
Sorry to jump on the
#poemsabout
hashtag, but I am thinking of putting out a selection of poems on the theme of heresy on the
#SixtyOdd
#Poets
page on Sunday Feb 15th to commemorate Galileo's 462nd Birthday. Anyone want to send me anything? (email in alt text)
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roger waldron
3 months ago
Afternoon Friday hereβs my little throwawayβ poem for
#PoemsAbout
#mouths
And thank you to
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
#poems
#poetry
hope everyone everywhere has a lovely weekend and stays dry from a very wet Sheffield ποΈπ¦
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
4 months ago
This week:
#Mouths.
Hunger. Confession. The place where wanting first shows itself. Write the almost-touch. The thing said too close. The heat before contact. New theme opens Friday. Donβt post early. Use Alt Text. Tag
#PoemsAbout
to be found.
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Phil Hyde
4 months ago
Hereβs a response to this week's call for
#PoemsAbout
#BlackVeils
from
brokenspinearts.bsky.social
Thanks for hosting to and to EIC
alanparrywriter.co.uk
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
4 months ago
#PoemsAbout
#Mouths
starts Friday. Write the wanting before touch. Breath shared. Words swallowed instead of spoken. Teeth. Tongue. Silence that leans in. Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag your post. Use Alt Text.
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
3 months ago
Tired of journals that ask for poems about your garden and then ghost you? This one wants the bin, the syringe, the protest chant. This oneβs built with spit.
#PoemsAbout
#LiftToTheSky
#PoetsOfBluesky
#WednesdayWIPs
#Poetry
#SubmissionWindow
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Submissions Open Throughout February 2026 | Publication Later That Year
https://thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/06/14/call-for-submissions-poetry-with-spit-spine-and-something-to-say/
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Jenny Hamilton
4 months ago
apropos of nothing in particular,
@lilashapiro.bsky.social
gave us a tremendous piece of journalism last year, and it's always a great time to revisit it and thank her for the work she did in bringing these stories to light.
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There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
https://www.vulture.com/article/neil-gaiman-allegations-controversy-amanda-palmer-sandman-madoc.html
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Sarah Wood
4 months ago
The silence after the JE files isnβt accidental. β¨It was the tell. Hereβs what that silence explains.
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Lisa Reyna Loe
4 months ago
Sound up! π Must-watch video! ππ½ βThey are not confused They are not ignorant They chose this. And history will remember who cheered While children paid the price.β Thank you, Sarah. ππ½
#EpsteinAndTrump
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Anna Orridge
4 months ago
#BlackVeils
#PoemsAbout
#tanka
Your apologies, simply black veils to cover a void of concern. Know I see through the dark gauze as I would the mists of dusk.
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Philippa Bowe
4 months ago
This week's
#PoemsAbout
prompt,
#BlackVeils
, took me to a waterfall, just had to follow. Thanks for the ongoing inspiration to
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
and
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
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C. Oulens
4 months ago
For
#PoemsAbout
#BlackVeils
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
for
#vss365
:
#thrum
#soothe
@blsamaddar.bsky.social
& for
#inkmine
:
#affirmation
Thanks for reading! ππ
#Oulens
#blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity
#poetry
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
4 months ago
#PoemsAbout
#BlackVeils
starts Friday. Write into what you donβt show. Boundaries. Silence. Chosen obscurity. The dignity of not being legible. Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag your post. Use Alt Text.
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
4 months ago
Tomorrow:
#PoemsAbout
#BlackVeils.
Not secrecy β care. Donβt post before Friday. That shadow? That covering? Thatβs intention. Tag it. Use Alt Text.
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Carl Quintanilla
4 months ago
β.. This list should give pause to anyone β no matter his or her political beliefs β who cares about the rule of law,β Judge Schiltz added.
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
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M Meerkat
4 months ago
Gavin Newsom Is π―% Correct.....
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