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

For today's #PoemsAbout #Powercut, here's a poem I've shared before as a response to a #PromptCombo but, since it's called Powercut, here it is again... Many thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk I'll have a good read of others later....

#PoemsAbout #CheapMotels starts Friday. Cigarette burns. Ice machines. Checkout times. Lovers passing through. We favour vivid imagery over explanation. Draft now. Use Alt Text.

look of jade piercing bone, holding me captive, prisoner to glances sparingly given; loneliness dished out desire, uncertainty pulling apart seams, undone frustration, lips unkissed, air tickling temptations- this is unbearable #poemsabout @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry

Last week's poets brought it. This week: #PoemsAbout #CheapMotels. Temporary rooms. Permanent mistakes. Thin walls. Flickering signs. Theme opens Friday. Use Alt Text.

#PoemsAbout #TheLook is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, queer voices, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.

For this week's #PoemsAbout theme #OutAfterMidnight from @thebrokenspine.co.uk More Keats than clubbing...

Morning @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk Thanks for the #PoemsAbout prompt #OutAfterMidnight Happy Friday! #poetry #doomsdayclock @thebulletin.org

Pride month continues. This week: #PoemsAbout #WrongBody. Write the disconnect. The body inherited, desired, rejected, escaped. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, and work that avoids cliché. Theme opens Friday. Use Alt Text.

#LiftToTheSky Monday is active now. Scroll less. Recommend more.

Not every story is yours. #PoemsAbout #EarnTheRight — write only what you can stand behind.

#PoemsAbout #BearingWitness is live. Post from today through Thursday. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché Engage—don’t ghost. Read 3+, repost, reply.

bearing witness is survival #PoemsAbout #BearingWitness @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry #poem #writing #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

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

#PoemsAbout #BearingWitness starts Friday. Stay close to it. No distance. No softening.

#PoemsAbout #WhatRemains is live. Post from today through Thursday. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché Engage—don’t ghost. Read 3+, repost, reply.

Names, not numbers. Stories, not statements. #DoveCry #Slimline #AntiWarPoetry #PoetsOfBluesky

#PoemsAbout #NamesNotNumbers is live. Post from today through Thursday. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché Engage—don’t ghost. Read 3+, repost, reply.

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.

Thank you to @orenaugmountainpub.bsky.social for publishing my poem "Bleached" www.orenaugmountainpoetry.net/2026/04/blea...

#PoemsAbout #NamesNotNumbers starts Friday. Be specific. Detail over distance. Reality over rhetoric.

How is he still in office?

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

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 🪺

#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.

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

There's something beautiful about a flower that's taller than you are. #PoemsAbout #InBloom #poetry #writing @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

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

#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 ❤️

Hello Blue-sky 👋 Latest painting in watercolour and inks. I love how the sunbeams through stormy weather. #thephotohour #art #artist

#LiftToTheSky Monday is here. Shout out the writers and presses who keep showing up, even when it’s hard.

#LiftToTheSky #PoetryCommunity #PoetsSupportingPoets

For this week’s #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

I'd like to #lifttothesky @mike-everley.bsky.social for his beautiful poem #Swallows . @thebrokenspine.co.uk Thank you.

No glass ceilings will be shattered here. No doors magically open. One editor’s taste. A bit of money. Built shoulder to shoulder with the community. #TheBrokenSpineAward #ByPoetsForPoets #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky

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

#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.

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

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

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

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 doesn’t leave when the body does. New theme opens Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout to be found.

Page 15 of the GOP’s Save America Act wld force all 50 states to submit their voter rolls to the DHS’s centralized voter purge program (called “SAVE”), which they know has had error rates as high as 14% & links to an SSA database that they know was compromised by DOGE. #NoOnSave 1/

Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #Undressed. Not exposure for spectacle. Not vulnerability as performance. Don’t post before Friday. That stillness? That holding back? That’s the poem. Tag it. Use Alt Text.

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 🛋️🦉