For #PoemsAbout #Mannequin here is ‘Disjointed’ Big shout to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for creating this space to share with a vast array of prompts. Will catch up later…

Very powerful, Emily. Sharp and biting and memorable.

#PoemsAbout #Mannequin I put the wrong prompt on here 🙄

I've missed a couple of recent prompts as I've been away. Here's a relatively quick write based on a real artifact that I've seen scare the living daylights out of numerous people. For @alanparrywriter.co.uk and #PromptCombo #mannequin

Thanks so much to @carolynthomas.bsky.social for giving my reprinted poem, which in one sense is very typical of my writing, a big boost, and thanks to @dreich.bsky.social The Candyman's Trumpet for giving it another outing! #Blueskypoets #poetrycommunity

#PromptCombo #Characters with thanks to Ronnie @rfsmith.bsky.social Vignettes of four villagers baitthelines.blogspot.com/search?q=Vil...

Sorry / not sorry for this sentimental poem, first published in The Milk House in June 2024, now sadly behind a paywall. For @rfsmith.bsky.social for #PromptCombo #Chatacters

@rfsmith.bsky.social #promptcombo #characters Thank you for this lovely prompt. This is one of an occasional series of poems (revised; first posted for #PoemsAbout), touching on legends of figure of Diogenes - a character for our times... South London is also a character in my writing, I think...😊🙏

Once again thank you to the fabulous Victoria Spires for last week’s #PromptCombo . This week it’s #Characters and I provide an example. With love to everyone. @dragonslayerma.bsky.social @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social @hool415.bsky.social @paulbrookes.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social

For #PromptCombo #Ancestry ✨ for @victoriaspires.bsky.social

"I leave no DNA relay baton" - that line really stilled me for a moment, Emily ❤️ Thank you for sharing such a moving and well-crafted piece. Looking back, looking forward, trying to anchor yourselves within these tangled lines ...

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A late attempt for #promptcombo #ancestry for @victoriaspires.bsky.social Irish genealogical records are very good for 1840 to 1921 and, for Northern Ireland anyway, a bit of a challenge otherwise.

Oooh couldn't resist joining in @victoriaspires.bsky.social! Here's a #promptcombo #ancestry offering from my first collection...

Thank you to @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for hosting last week! This week's #promptcombo is #ancestry. This piece was published in Freeverse Revolution Issue XII & is something of a letter to my younger self. Also doubling up as a fairly seamless segue from #history 😁 Tag me/use # to join in

Thank you for showing up Friday—your words hold weight. This week’s theme: #PoemsAbout #NeverAgain Memory as protest. Poetry as a promise. Post this Friday. Tag your work + tag us: @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social Read. Repost. Reply. Prompts: shorturl.at/oEXAM

#poetrycommunity #poetsofbluesky #promptcombo Save the date for something special happening on Zoom, Friday 10th October. Line-up to be announced shortly & Zoom details from me 🩷

"Some will last longer than the soggy strands of reconfigured ganglia" - for me, the poem's stunning pivot point, fashioning the notion of transience into shifting, sloughing flesh. 🏆😁💫

Travelling far from home and supposedly digitally detoxing. I scribbled these lines yesterday for @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social #PromptCombo #history I've read a couple of poems here, hoping to read and comment on a few more if I can

Thanks Paul @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for this week's #promptcombo #history. This one's a bit cheeky, in a sympathetic sort of way.

Taking a wee break so just here to give a plug for theweesparrowpoetrypress.com Ekphrastic Challenge, artwork shown here (by the superb Tony Black), submissions open 16 Sep to 5 Oct, all details on the website. #poetry #poems #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #ekphrasis

Hi Fidel, @dragonslayerma.bsky.social here's my second for your brilliant #promptcombo #Clocksticking. Its from my collection, "Othernesses":

@dragonslayerma.bsky.social #clocksticking #promptscombo #poem #FreeVerse

I took an introductory haiku workshop with my pals at Wee Sparrow Poetry Press yesterday, so here's an attempt for @dragonslayerma.bsky.social #PromptCombo #clocksticking just before the bell rain on the full schoolyard impatient to go 🌧️🌧️🌧️

Fidel's your host for #PromptCombo this week. #ClocksTicking for you to get involved (although you have all week ☺️)

Here's another #PoemsAbout #Facades, this time using @alanparrywriter.co.uk prompt 7 The Luxury of Not Caring. It's based on a recent news item

#haiku / #senryu for #PoemsAbout #Facades .Was difficult to decide my fav version So not selecting… just putting up a few (will love to know your pick🙏😊) for #PoemsAbout #Facades @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

#PoemsAbout #Facades @thebrokenspine.co.uk

A very experimental one from me, not my usual at all. Ekphrastic too (Dali image is from Wikipedia) Any thoughts welcome on this strange piece For #PoemsAbout #Facades @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

@hool415.bsky.social Squeaking in ahead of your end of Friday curfew for a second bash at this week's #winged #promptcombo. This is QL fresh off the press this morning.

Hi Ju, @hool415.bsky.social and your wondrous #promptcombo #winged. Here's one of my Bat sonnets from my collection, Othernesses:

Inflicting another one for #promptcombo #winged for @hool415.bsky.social An old piece, I'm hesitant to call it a poem, maybe descriptive prose with line breaks 😉 since I wrote it we've also had two acrobatic trainer planes and an autogyro, as well as many repeats of the mentioned aircraft 🛩️

“while magpies' rattle-stutter calls echoed and I'd count out the old rhyme for luck” Love this! Rattle-stutter. Thats them

My kind of #promptcombo, Ju! Here's my #winged contribution.

Hullo I’m hosting this week. Tag me @hool415.bsky.social and #promptcombo #winged (anything goes: angels, planes, birds etc!) Challenge closes early this week on Friday afternoon. Enjoy! @rfsmith.bsky.social @dragonslayerma.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social

A very quick musing I'm hesitant to share having read some cracking poems for #PromptCombo #Winged for @hool415.bsky.social However, it's quite typical of my style and I have dozens of bird poems that are a variation on this theme. I might share something different later this week 🐦‍⬛

'Distant Pigeon' was shortlisted for the Charles Causley Prize and later published in Stand Magazine. I'm sharing it here as a response to @hool415.bsky.social's excellent #promptcombo theme #winged #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #poetry #poem #booksky

As you may know I have been into birds since 12 or 13, so sitting to write for #PromptCombo #Winged this one popped out and surprised me… about my first visit to the Louvre (towards the end of my Egyptology phase).Enjoy. And hi to @hool415.bsky.social :-)

This was my alternative #PoemsAbout #Riots many thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

For #PoemsAbout #Riots I’m thinking of the so called Arab Spring which began in 2010 and seemed so hopeful. Many people in Arab nations are still looking for justice and self-determination. Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk for this opportunity to share #poetry on this theme. A draft while Mum sleeps!

Here's my attempt for #PoemsAbout #Riots for @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk The Golden Shovel uses a quoted line as the line ends. The two closing stanzas use the quoted lines at the start and end too. Just playing with form 🙂

Hi Ronnie, @rfsmith.bsky.social. Here's my second for your cracking #promptcombo #banality:

Hello #PromptCombo and this week's host Ronnie @rfsmith.bsky.social. It's a Monday kind of #Banality here...

My take on the topic this week, I'm sure a lot of my writing could easily sit under this label 🙂 For @rfsmith.bsky.social #PromptCombo #Banality #poetrycommunity

With thanks to the wonderful Victoria Spires for last week’s hosting, this week’s #PromptCombo theme is #Banality . I’m looking forward… @dragonslayerma.bsky.social , @victoriaspires.bsky.social , @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social , @hool415.bsky.social

Prompt for Friday 29th!

An unexpected, enlightening and very enjoyable take on #PoemsAbout #chandeliers by @lozzawriting.bsky.social

Good afternoon @victoriaspires.bsky.social and the #PromptCombo crew. Thanks for this week’s #woods prompt. My ranty offering may not be on your radar, and isn’t very poetic, but it’s what emerged so I’m sharing it anyway. Thanks for hosting.