This week's #poemsabout #mouths just wasn't working, I almost gave it a swerve - until this popped into my head yesterday! Kōtare (Māori) is a watchtower around a pā (fort) but, more commonly, a kingfisher! Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk & @alanparrywriter.co.uk #poems #poetry

#PoemsAbout #Mouths is live. Write the heat. What’s tasted. What’s 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.

...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

The silence is coming, maybe sooner than we think. #PoemsAbout #Mouths @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #BlueskyPoetry #PoetryCommunity #Poetry

I'm not at home today so will read later this evening. This poem/sonnet is inspired by 'Pasiphaë' 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

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)

Afternoon Friday here’s my little throwaway’ 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 🛋️🦉

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. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout to be found.

Here’s a response to this week's call for #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils from brokenspinearts.bsky.social Thanks for hosting to and to EIC alanparrywriter.co.uk

#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.

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 one’s built with spit. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #PoetsOfBluesky #WednesdayWIPs #Poetry #SubmissionWindow

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

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.

The silence after the JE files isn’t accidental. 
It was the tell. Here’s what that silence explains.

Sound up! 🔊 Must-watch video! 👇🏽 “They are not confused They are not ignorant They chose this. And history will remember who cheered While children paid the price.” Thank you, Sarah. 🙌🏽 #EpsteinAndTrump

#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.

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 💜

For #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk for #vss365: #thrum #soothe @blsamaddar.bsky.social & for #inkmine : #affirmation Thanks for reading! 🙏🙏 #Oulens #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poetry

#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.

Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils. Not secrecy — care. Don’t post before Friday. That shadow? That covering? That’s intention. Tag it. Use Alt Text.

“.. This list should give pause to anyone — no matter his or her political beliefs — who cares about the rule of law,” Judge Schiltz added. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

Gavin Newsom Is 💯% Correct.....

Is the government ever going to release the name of the masked agent who killed Alex Pretti or are we going to continue to have a federal secret police in this country?

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Bondi’s letter represents a major assault on Minnesota’s sovereignty, demanding that it forfeit its ability to make and enforce its own laws and maintain its voter rolls without oversight from the executive branch, which does not have authority over elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"Please get the truth out about our son." Right now, Alex Pretti's parents have no way to hold the thugs who killed him accountable. That's why we have to do more than stop funding DHS and ICE—we need to abolish qualified immunity and secure justice for these families.

Here's a new #poem I wrote today... www.kreativejoose.com/2026/01/the-...

Every Democratic Senator must vote NO on DHS/ICE funding. Continuing to fund this agency that is terrorizing and murdering our people makes you complicit. They EXECUTED Alex Pretti. Every Senator must draw a line in the stand here.

Minneapolitans are gathering on every block tonight at 7pm to hold a vigil for someone killed by our own government, for doing nothing but helping someone up off the ground. What would you say if you saw this in other country? What would you expect to happen to those responsible and accountable?

Epstein's victims have spent years fighting for justice. Pam Bondi is blocking that justice by refusing to release the 99% of Epstein files remaining. Congress MUST hold her in contempt. Justice 4 survivors. Consequences for perpetrators & enablers. LFG‼️

"look to the helpers" THEY'RE MURDERING THE HELPERS

#PoemsAbout #FalseCrowns is live. Write into illusion. Unquestioned power. Respect without reckoning. What we’re taught to bow to. Post from today. Tag #PoemsAbout #FalseCrowns to be read and shared. Use Alt Text. Take care with each other.

Stop cutting our healthcare in order to fund the growing lawlessness of ICE! #JusticeforReneeNicoleGood action.momsrising.org/sign/not-cru...

Leak the unredacted Epstein Files. If it means the destruction of nations’ leadership and companies, they don’t deserve to exist if they abused children. Enough.

While we’re at it, let’s abolish Kristi Noem too!

We cannot normalize this federal occupation of Minneapolis. It is not normal to watch people abducted in front of our eyes—dragged from car windows, pulled from their homes, and children left without parents. This is not about immigration. It’s about unchecked cruelty.

school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history

Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."

Thou shalt not threaten Greenland and crash the economy just to protect billionaire pedophiles.

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

Quite the statement from the Prime Minister of Poland

This is not a rational person. And this is deeply disturbing coming from an American President. NATO is not our enemy—they are unequivocally our closest friends and allies. At this point, how can you not call into question the mental fitness of this President?

My response to the claims in Senator Cruz’s recent letter:

I am not exaggerating when I say ICE functions as a terrorist organization in the Twin Cities. The goal seems to be to harass and frighten people (the ones who are lucky enough to not be abducted, at least) and it's deeply unsettling when you learn they're in your neighborhood.

no greenlander ever called me a libtard

A reminder how ICE treats priests.

Remember when all is said and done this shit all happened while protecting a criminal

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.

Two people you should never trust; A religious leader who tells you how to vote, and a polition who tells you how to pray.