#PoemsAbout #Desire starts Friday. Write toward the want. The mouth, the mirror, the hunger that hums. Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag your post. Use Alt Text. Sign up for prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A#PoemsAbout

Happy Monday! I would like to #lifttothesky @gabriellev.art for her incredible kindness, intentions which transcend across her words and art, and the way she uplifts other poets in her collections.

I #lifttothesky @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social for her tireless efforts and support of our FAFO community and just for being an excellent poet and human.

My #lifttothesky this week is @thescribblings.com. He is a font of information for everything #prompt related. Makes a lot of our online lives in the #poetrycommunity so much easier with his compilations. All the thanks and best wishes to him🤗 #writingcommunity #writing #poetry #writers #skypoets

My #LiftToTheSky this Monday goes out to @saintghost.bsky.social - I love your poetry!!! ✨️ 🕯 🖤 💖

I would like to #LiftToTheSky @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social, because through her: • expressive poetry, • evocative emoetry prompts, • continual community encouragement, she generously shares her vibrancy. So I would like to lift her to the sky. But that’s hard to do for someone who is already there.

A day late for #LiftToTheSky - it goes to these amazing poems by Ramsey Tawfick, enaged and engaging and simply beautiful (the interview with him is also worth reading). 💫✨💜 @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk www.onlypoems.net/poets/ramsey...

Today's #LiftToTheSky goes to @victoriamelekian.bsky.social, as modest as she is talented. Her reading of some of the tender, beautiful poems from her book The Accidental Courage of Our Lives is hugely enjoyable. 💫 @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlck...

For today’s #LiftToTheSky I’d like to boost @rotherwrites.bsky.social a northern poet who writes with originality, truth and verve. You can find his work here and in various anthologies as well as a showcase here feversofthemind.com/2023/08/15/a... A great supporter of the #poetrycommunity too.

Good morning, my #lifttothesky this week is @dnwritespoetry.bsky.social. She is a wonderful part of the #poemsabout community, gives fantastic feedback to everyone every week, and is a brilliant poet to boot. All the warmest of hugs 🤗 #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poets #writers #skypoet

@thebrokenspine.co.uk Today I #LiftToTheSky The Book of Bogs, edited by Anna Chilvers and @clareshawpoet.bsky.social - which I am proud to have helped crowdfund. It's gorgeous & important in equal measure - deep layers of poetry and prose to warm our winters 🙏❤️ www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

"Only lost souls that slipped through from the dry land above us." For the readers drawn to darker waters—this one’s still waiting. @martinkennedyyates.bsky.social #ThisWilderness www.amazon.co.uk/Wil...

One of my #murals #Stunday #BlueSkyArtists #MyBackyard #MyPhoto 38inx26inh

Why are ICE agents being paid during the shutdown, but not air traffic controllers? 🤨

Good morning! A poem for #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors. This is a revision of an old poem. Thank you, as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for these weekly prompts!

For this week's #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors, I'm thinking about trying to open and failing. Thank you to the host @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk and to all of the other writers. #poetry #poem #writing #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

#PoemsAbout #LockedDoors Sorry, this is very much an off-the-cuff fragment. I made up a little micro-story here last night, and thought I'd turn it into a poem for fun, since the theme matches. Just trying to work out if it's worth continuing as a WIP, either in prose or verse.

Locked doors are for dignity, not deceit. A proper household keeps its mysteries folded, like linen too fine for daily use. #LockedDoors #PoemsAbout #poem #poetry #prose #verse #poetsofbluesky #writing #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

In the echos Of a violent aftermath In a wreckage Of doors forced open Lies a man Who still doesn't know Where he belongs. Nor how much to give. Doors beyond doors hide floors beyond floors How many keys Must I make? #poemsabout #lockeddoors #poetry

Thanks @catbloke.bsky.social for giving my work a home. This would have done for the #poemsabout prompt for #manequin a few weeks back:

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world: 'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..." chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...

#PoemsAbout #Blood With thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

For this week's #PoemsAbout #Blood, I'm thinking about the blood list. Thank you to the host @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk and to all of the other writers. #poetry #poem #writing #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

You know the door. It doesn’t creak—it clenches. It holds what shouldn’t be let out. Or in. This week: write the barricades. The silences. The don’t-go-there moments. Prompt opens Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors. Use Alt Text. Inbox prompts? Sign up: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

I love sciency (aka reality) based imegery but here you have forged an extended metaphor that fits fits with the world and been true to the interior story. That’s hard to achieve. Well done.

Powerful stuff.

I must be a black hole ... genius line. Absolutely hits so hard! Lovely piece. Well done!

“I must be a black hole the way light keeps / coming toward me like it can’t bear to stay away” 🤯🤯🤯 Absolutely stunning!

My 16-year-old is in a band called Last Name Basis and they dropped their debut album today! 🎵🎸🎃 lastnamebasis.bandcamp.com/album/the-sp...

Great work Rebekah thanks for sharing

Oh man.

This is so agonistic. The narrator seems so much want to expand but internal forces keep binding them tighter.

Crikey Rebekah, this feels intense, close and personal, written from the heart, not someone at a distance. Truly debasing and devastating. 💚

The explosion of a human nebula. Excellently sustained image

Awww...Rebekah this is a beauty! So many fabulous graphic images to soak in and absorb! Loving the lines, "I must be a black hole" and "stardust floating helplessly through space!" And to end the poem with a rhetorical question, very effective!

Excellent imagery. Scary capture of feelings I thought were my own. And maybe being/becoming a black hole isn’t so bad?

I wrote this a few months ago for a different prompt, but I also like it for this week's #PoemsAbout #Blood @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Tomorrow opens the wound: #PoemsAbout #Blood. From pulse to politics, spill it raw. Share from Friday onwards. Use Alt Text. Tag your post. Prompts hit inboxes Saturdays: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

If you have had a tough time lately, this timeline cleanse will help! Timeline cleanse: Healing and Inspiration edition

Thanks to everyone who showed up last week. This Friday we bleed: #PoemsAbout #Blood. Lineage. Damage. Survival. Start posting from Friday. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout to be seen. Want sharper prompts? Sign up here: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

Out now: Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025 — edited by @vespertine4.bsky.social & @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social. Free to download from The Broken Spine website. thebrokenspine.co.uk/product/sele...

Some are mad because people are on SNAP and not working. I’m mad because people are on SNAP even though they are working.

Good morning. It's been 34 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

So good Rebekah! Last line is as they say👌

Taking videos Of the apocalypse as Lenses lick the flames. #PoemsAbout #BurnForTheCamera #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Publishing credit for this piece goes to @rfpress.bsky.social #PoemsAbout #BurnForTheCamera @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #StayCreative #PoetsSupportPoets

Hello @thebrokenspine.co.uk and another Friday of #PoemsAbout. And hello @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social. This week I #BurnForTheCamera with a slightly different format; the emdash found me.