#poemsabout #namesnotnumbers #endonanimage Thanks for @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt

Names are for the dead, Engraved in stone, while we breathe, Living statistics. #PoemsAbout #NamesNotNumbers #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

I hope everyone is having a good Friday. Can't wait to read all the #PoemsAbout responses today 😊 @thebrokenspine.co.uk Here is my super long take on #NamesNotNumbers #Poetry

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

Thrilled, and slightly shocked, to have been long listed for the Erbacce Prize for Poetry 2026. I just missed last year's submission slot and spent my Christmas holidays getting it ready to go on 1 January. Now to investigate the other poets on the list! www.erbacce-press.co.uk/erbacce-priz...

#PoemsAbout #InBloom starts Friday. Write ripeness. Exposure. The point where restraint becomes pointless. Blooming isn’t gentle. It’s a demand. Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag your post. Use Alt Text.

as a young girl mother prepared me— toss your purse one way and run the other I didn’t know to ask   when to stop running #tanka #TankaPoem #TankaThursday #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

I think our system falsely peddles intelligence as the key to success - it’s definitely overated! 😂Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk 🥰 for the #PoemsAbout #FalseCrowns prompt. Apologies to those who aren’t familiar with our exam system! (GCSEs at 16 - graded 1-9) #poetry

Wolf moon holly sharpened by frost first day back tomorrow #haiku #poems #poetry #haikufeels #dailyhaikuprompt #promptcombo #nightfall

New Year— light stolen green hearted cyclamen creeps #haiku #poems #poetry #haikufeels #dailyhaikuprompt

I’m with him in the supermarket. The amount of times that I have to ring and ask what something on the list is, or ask a fellow shopper. It’s all fenugreek to me. Great poem though.

Morning poets! There is a break in the slimy trail of mollusc poetry to bring you one about fenugreek! 😊 I’ll leave it to you to decide whether it fits the prompt or not! Happy Friday! #PoemsAbout #NoFuture @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry

Good morning #BlueskyPoetry Community on this Friday’s #PoemsAbout #NoFuture @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social I wrote this about Mum’s Dementia. A #WIP still. Look forward to reading the other takes on the theme. #poetry #poems

Late to the #poemsabout #nofuture party (it's been a busy day...) but thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt. A bit of a #wip I started a while ago and haven't shared anywhere since. #poems #poetry

Here's my second poem written for #poemsabout #nofuture, thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt, a bit of a tricky one for me! #poems #poetry

Good morning #poemsabout crew, here’s a poem about someone wanting something for the #desire prompt @alanparrywriter.co.uk

#PoemsAbout #Desire - back after a short break, with a short poem. Thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk at @thebrokenspine.co.uk for this week's prompt. #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity www.davekurley.net

Hello everyone for this week's @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout. Two Remembrance ceremonies and a Remembrance Day poetry group have knocked the harshness out of me. #Desire has taken me back to writing the intangible. We're on autopilot; keep posting, liking, commenting and reposting. 🔥

For #poemsabout #desire this week I am sharing a #senryu. When lust and competition share a bank account.... Thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and all #poets involved:

More snails I’m afraid! #PoemsAbout #Desire @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk Happy Friday! #parasite #poetry

For #PoemsAbout #Desire this is a piece called ‘A Snake Sheds Its Skin In Eden’. Will catch up later with others work. @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

#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

We had our own language of words, looks, touch— telepathic mind stuff, we read each other like custom made books... #LockedDoors #PoemsAbout @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

I'm never sure whether I find @thebrokenspine.co.uk prompts traumatic or cathartic! Either way, here is my contribution this week (get a cuppa - it's long!) #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors #poetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets

Big thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors A Bad Night The now-ghoul glint of lost eyes summons up Blind janus In the odd motel Of my head shade slaver, Unresting fatal spring, A choke of snowdrops Under a winding sheet of winter.

When I saw the theme for this week I thought all my poems are about locked doors! The #poemsabout #lockeddoors gives me the perfect opportunity to reshare my poem "Host", which was published by @viridinelit.bsky.social in its summer issue on Identity @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Honoured to be today's fiftywordstories.com publication, with my prose #poem "Last Supper" Many thanks to the editors for seeing something in this and giving it a home. #poetry #blueskypoets #50wordstories #fiction #prose

This week isn’t about escape. It’s about what stays shut. Secrets with a latch. Regret with a bolt. Write the room you can’t re-enter. The letter never sent. Tag your post. Use Alt Text. Share from Friday. Sign up: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

bramble blood— young gods wrestle through trees, firm trunks rooted #haiku #senryu #poetryfragment #vss365 #wips #poetry #blueskypoets #micropoem

For all the activists mobilising across the US for the #NoKings demonstrations. 🤝🏻Solidarity from the UK. Here's a little something I wrote for the activists putting in the work. Take care of yourselves!

perfection ✨

I do hate the way nobody ever suggests that John Hannah might have 'turned a few people bi' every time this topic comes up: www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

"your inevitable flesh dam-burst / expensive Max Factor overlay / collagen aesthetic facial zing/ teeth straight as xylophone keys." Stretched Out of Shape by @rotherwrites.bsky.social features in the current issue of Six.

Delighted to hear that my poem 'Moeritherium' has received a Best of the Net nomination! Published by the wonderful @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, it was inspired by this model in the Natural History Museum 💙

"Some days I borrow my mother’s body / to see how much she had to love a man / to make a thing like me." It’s a girl by Rowan Tate is featured in the latest issue of Six.

"The doctor is worried. Mm / is the only sound she lets me make / so I mm her at regular intervals / like someone lulling a baby." On Mother’s Day I Listen to My Mother, by Amber Krogel is featured in Six. Liminal poems for the autumn equinox.

I really enjoyed reading through these in my inbox #Poetry

"I offered sorry instead of push. / When she tore him from her womb, / I learnt what it meant to be a woman." Woman in Labour by Chisom Okoronkwo is featured in Six. Liminal poems for the autumn equinox.

"they transform into an origami egret, / battered by the wind, collapsing in the palm / of your hand, its beak gently piercing the broken air." Folded handkerchiefs by Zita Murányi featured in the inaugural issue of Six. Liminal poems for the equinox.

"Purple veins in chicken / thighs that writhe, even when / the flesh is overboiled: / I fling those grisly bastards / back into the broth to give it / the potential of a potion." Things I eat to make me strong: by Laurie Koensgen featured in Six.

It's a rare recognition of the impact of your writing when it features as one of only six. Welcome the first issue of Six, a microjournal for poems on womanhood in all its awkward liminality. Thank you @hannahflynn-poetry.bsky.social for allowing me to reflect on the female experience.

🍂 Our Autumn issue is now LIVE 🍂 The first issue of Six has hit inboxes. You can also read it here: sixpoetryjournal.substack.com/p/six-01autu... Many thanks to our wonderful contributors, Zita Murányi, Laurie Koensgen, Amber Krogel, Chisom Okoronkwo, Rowan Tate and @rotherwrites.bsky.social

The first issue of Six goes out in less than an hour, to coincide with the autumn equinox. Subscribe to get it in your inbox: sixpoetryjournal.substack.com

How lonely must a Silent planet be? Empty Of life, vacuums suck. #PoemsAbout #SilentPlanet #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

This one’s for trans women, queer women, fat women, ageing women, ND women. All of you. #NotJustPretty is YOUR mic. 🗓 Oct 4 | 8pm GMT thebrokenspine.co.uk...#NotJustPretty@karenpgonzalez.bsky.social #PoemsAbout

Matrix comes from the Latin for womb, mother, source. This poem is not about absence, but the silence of listening. Not gone, only unheard. She waits. She pulses. We forgot how to hear her. #PoemsAbout #SilentPlanets @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#Poemsabout #SilentPlanets @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #Prompters #SilentPlanets Drifters We grift like silent planets in our shared bedroom orbiting our space— where touch once lived holiness gravity grows hollow. #poetry #5AMWritersClub #art #tanka #skypoets #arw-raw

✨ The first issue of Six drops on the equinox Mon 22 Sept 2025 7:19 pm It’s full of #poems about womanhood in all its forms. If you want it in your inbox the moment it goes live, subscribe here: sixpoetryjournal.substack.com Come with us from the very start — Six is only just beginning.