one for sorrow two for joy three for a crow dark decoy on Devil's Night healed, he'll rise avenge her plight love never dies #MovieMay #crow #poetry #writing @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

Bye bye beach and moody moors. @daveashleypoet.bsky.social and I have had a blast on the North East coast. It's a shame it waited until we were going home for the temperature to get into double figures!! #Litfest #Holidays #Filey

Hello Wild Walk #writers Tantalising prongs, Buffet waits on every bloom To tempt passing bee. Your word today is #prong (Already know I'm gonna regret this...) Use the image/word to inspire your writing. #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub

after enough loss even the light changes shape #PoemsAbout #WhatRemains @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry #poem #writing #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

@thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #WhatRemains Published first in Poetry Breakfast.

In the earliest versions of the story, Pandora does not open a box but a storage jar. What leaves the jar is not clearly named. What remains, elpis, is usually translated as hope, though whether it consoles or prolongs suffering is uncertain. #PoemsAbout #WhatRemains @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Hello Friday, again, to everyone 🤓 #PoemsAbout #WhatRemains Thanks, too, to @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk

For #PoemsAbout #WhatRemains @thebrokenspine.co.uk:

@thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #PoemsAbout #WhatRemains the disgust that they discus the details for the exchange of bodies the remains of what remains of a done deal undoing disgust

it can't rain all time summer heatwaves bleed visions plug in fairy lights #MovieMay #crow #haiku #micropoetry @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

Here's my offering for today's #PoemsAbout prompt #WhatRemains, including a pen and ink sketch by my mum of the churchyard where she and my dad lie. Many thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk. Will read and respond to others later

#poemsabout #whatremains #poetry #blueskypoet @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk An odd thing, objects kept as reminders when the person attached to them is gone. How many priceless mementoes of Pop's did I throw out after he passed away? Here is a #poem...

#PoemsAbout #WhatRemains #writing #poetry #blueskypoet @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

For #PoemsAbout #whatremains we consider the unimaginable. @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetrycommunity #poetry #poem #poems #skypoets #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetsofbluesky #skypoet #writingcommunity

A second #PoemsAbout #whatremains if you will indulge me. An experiment in form that needs more work. Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk for teeing this one up. #poetrycommunity #poetry #poem #poems #skypoets #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetsofbluesky #skypoet #writingcommunity

Siding’s been ripped off slat by slat, everything beneath removed piece by piece, all that remains is naked to the eye, all that remains is the hurt and the denial; indignity of our struggle now plain to see, inability to forgive seeped into the walls, and an echo of pain is all that remains

#PoemsAbout #WhatRemains @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#PoemsAbout #WhatRemains @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#Dailyhaikews Today's #PoemsAloud is a ballad about purple cows... And was inspired by milka chocolate shrinkflation, which German courts have said misled consumers and broke competition laws. I wrote it as a song, but wasn't confident enough to you tube acapella #poem youtube.com/shorts/c2zeq...

A bit late, but here's my offering for #PoemsAbout #WhatRemains @thebrokenspine.co.uk #villanelle #poetry

My actual parents

May post the original anti-war poem attempt later, but it felt preachy and this felt real so we're going with this one. Anyway feedback soon, hugs all around. 🤗 @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #poemsabout #whatremains #poetry #poem #6amwritersclub

A posing pouch on the beach Causes heart attacks The old woman can't reach A posing pouch on the beach Filled with socks to beseech Those whose sense of propriety lacks A posing pouch on the beach Causes heart attacks #wildwalkprompt #triolet #poem #pouch #silly

#Dailyhaikews today's headlines 1. Streeting leaves office Starmer’s rivals lining up, Burnham coming back? 2. New from Zuckaberg Incogneto A.I. bot Ask it anything! 3. “Rip off packaging” German courts rule shrinkflation Misleading buyers #news #Haiku youtube.com/shorts/E4iWv...

Mixing reportage, quotes and poetic rendering, an article from The Times by Marc Bennetts; a first-hand account from Druzhkivka, Ukraine for this week's #PoemsAbout. Sharing it here, with his permission, for both #NamesNotNumbers and #WhatRemains. @thebrokenspine.co.uk @poetsonbluesky.bsky.social

For #PoemsAbout #WhatRemains this is Dust.. #poetry #writing #writingcommunity @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

The Starbeck Orion Issue #16 A 25 Day Spring Feast Of Artwork And Poetry Day Twenty-One featuring the work of Mike Everley the880.substack.com/p/the-starbe...

B roads let their tales unfold, mile by mile...

For #poemsabout #WhatRemains I'm offering a tribute to my late maternal grandmother #poetry #grief Thank you for hosting the prompt @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

I like throwing multiple prompt words together to see what I get, like poetry Boggle. #RetroArtPrompt #firewords280 #BraveWrite #oxjDailyWords #oxj #poetry #writing

My Friday delve into bricolage @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social #promptcombo #docollageandbricolagepoem

#PoemsAbout #WhatRemains @thebrokenspine.co.uk OK, let’s get this party started! I’ll put a reading in the comments. #FuckWar #FuckTrump #FuckHegseth #FuckSheep

black rain falling grave dirt bleeding teeth full of glass names remembered knuckles split on bone revenge walking upright blood-soaked feathers fill the sky #moviemay #crow #poetry #poem #poet @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

@phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social #PoemsAbout #NamesNotNumbers STEVE_24 signal received through rainlight through distance through the long breathing of the sea the archive keeps a hand resting briefly against another hand as if hope were something carried carefully while crossing dark water

@zoomburst.substack.com #NamesNotNumbers #PoemsAbout TVC15 a voice arriving through static through distance through the blue glow of another room the archive retrieves someone young listening carefully for proof that being strange did not mean being alone #poetry #poem #writing

Hello Wild Walk #writers Pollen pouch stuffed full Favour passed to every bloom With sweets to offer. Your word today is #pouch Use the image/word to inspire your writing. #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub

15th #MovieMay prompt is #CROW

#DailyHaikews Today's piece seems to have attracted comments from people who seem to think it's a satirical attack on the left.... Psa This is not satire! #EattheRich #poetry #PoemsAloud #EatMorePoetry youtube.com/shorts/sI5pO...

For me, when @annatizard.bsky.social features one of my stories on her #podcast #brainstoryum, I just love hearing her voice bring my words to life. 💜🫠

Soft darkness settles as Long restless loops begin while Exhausted this mind is Even silence keeps talking and Peace drifts just past #wildwalkprompt #sleep #poetry #acrostic #poem #poet

black dogs restless church bells cracking small hands folded priests whispering fast every warning ignored wrong, this child is #moviemay #omen #poetry #poet #poem @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

"Life hacked" #poetsofdoom #poetry #writing #5amwritersclub #6amwritersclub @jenthorne.bsky.social @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social @brianbilston.bsky.social

Damian, comb your hair practice for the polite world hide the omen's grin #MovieMay #omen #haiku #micropoetry @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

ocular migraine makes vision suddenly weird multicolor flashing zigzag lines, top left like a Louis Wain cat while blind spot slowly grows and feels like a screwdriver going through your eye, into your brain, and poking around like mom in your business #horrorprompt #ocular #poetry #writing

Feelings? FFS, forget em. #AmpersandAfterDark #vss365 #grimscribe #fractured #love #poetry #writing @madp03t.bsky.social

the archive retrieves @pvcannon.bsky.social #PoemsAbout #NamesNotNumbers PVC_57 initials stamped into pipework behind the walls water traveling in darkness all night the strange loneliness of carrying life without ever being seen

well, fine (at least in public) we rehearse waking like ritual waiting waving through worry. the world wanting what it can't have we wear wellness like weatherproofing #AmpersandAfterDark @madp03t.bsky.social 'Use a single starting sound throughout your piece' and fine, at least in public

The Starbeck Orion Issue #16 A 25 Day Spring Feast Of Artwork And Poetry Day Twenty featuring the work of @emteepoetry.bsky.social the880.substack.com/p/the-starbe...

Hullo #poetry A random old poem for today…

Hi All, today is my last day as host of #retroartprompt. Today's prompt word is #torrent. A winner for the week will be announced tomorrow! @seranyabeck.bsky.social will take over. Thanks for all your wonderful engagement this week, I've loved reading your work 😊❤️