#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 🛋️🦉

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

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.....