Hi @jenthorne.bsky.social Jen, here's my first contribution to your excellent #promptcombo #Monument:

For today’s #PromptCombo #monument I offer ‘the mannie’ reviled Duke of Sutherland monument which I can actually see from my back garden. There was talk of taking it down at one point, but it stands tall with graffiti and hate. Thanks @jenthorne.bsky.social enjoy your hosting week. #blueskypoetry

A small offering and a chance to try a new form, for this week's #PromptCombo #monument for @jenthorne.bsky.social

Welcome to @jenthorne.bsky.social as a new #PromptCombo Host. Today’s response to #Monument is a bit didactic, and largely influenced by my time in a park yesterday, but it does the job :D

New week, new #PromptCombo so please welcome @jenthorne.bsky.social and #monument

@emteepoetry.bsky.social #PromptCombo A #Beach #poem for Friday A rather dark ending to the end of the week, in which the heat has been oppressive. I was reminded of this film.

New spoken word #poem: "Empty Shorelines" #PromptCombo #beach #poetry #PoemsAloud #spokenword @emteepoetry.bsky.social Audio reading + full text: madp03t.org/emptyshoreli...

@emteepoetry.bsky.social #PromptCombo A #Beach #poem for Thursday

When they say I look like I'm a bit out to sea, what they mean is... #promptcombo #beach #6amwritersclub #poetry

@emteepoetry.bsky.social #PromptCombo A #Beach #poem for Wednesday

Another for #PromptCombo #Beach with gratitude to @emteepoetry.bsky.social for hosting and posting! #poetrycommunity #poetry #poem #poems #skypoets #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetsofbluesky #skypoet #writingcommunity

Bit of hometown glory... Story poem about our local ferryboat. People who live around here will recognize it. I told our host this week I'd try to write "a very small poem" and "not an epic." I think I landed somewhere in between? ⚓ 🏴‍☠️ #PromptCombo #Beaches @emteepoetry.bsky.social

#promptcombo #beach #poetry @emteepoetry.bsky.social Taken from a longer poem.

Hello @emteepoetry.bsky.social for #promptcombo #beach here’s a poem about a fossil, it’s from a great anthology to raise money for Give Peat a Chance www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe...

Raw air is a whip of salt and dust water has claimed the unruly sand no foothold to descend to, made reckless from a native trust Only the body is allowed to teach skin prickling with electric sting yet crumbles slowly, nibbled by the wave as holed walls that unlearn the beach #PromptCombo #Beach

@emteepoetry.bsky.social #PromptCombo A #Beach #poem for Tuesday

washed ashore massive body humpback whale crushed under its own weight black sand glistened as if the beach itself was mourning the tragedy gawkers flocked behind sunshades and umbrellas empathy was lost between the waves @emteepoetry.bsky.social #promptcombo beach #poetry #poetrycommunity

Thank you so much @emteepoetry.bsky.social for your excellent #PromptCombo #Beach. For one who lives close to the #EastDevon coast this is a regular occurrence. Looking forward to reading other offerings from the #PoetryCommunity

@emteepoetry.bsky.social #PromptCombo #Beach Here is one first published in similar form in Dreich Zoo Collection.

Another poem from my JC Studio Press collection "Othernesses": for @emteepoetry.bsky.social Emily and her excellent #PromptCombo #Beach

Welcoming @emteepoetry.bsky.social as a first-time host of #promptcombo with this little beach vignette from Release Three of @subruria.com. Also tagging in @coastalpoet.bsky.social, as this one also works for #poemsaloud.

Mortified to have called you husband, that I once thought you contained an ounce of gentleness, that I once looked upon you with love the beach has become cloudy but your truth is the clearest here- an empty shell #emoetry #retroartprompt #vssmagic #poetry #dontfuckwithapoet

@emteepoetry.bsky.social You have made me hanker after a seaside holiday now! Here is my offering for your #PromptCombo inaugural outing ❤️ #Beach #Poetry

#promptcombo With thanks to @emteepoetry.bsky.social This is not a new one but ends in a #beach #poetry

Thank you @emteepoetry.bsky.social & enjoy hosting your 1st #PromptCombo #Beach 😊 #poetry / #photography: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025/2021 #Norfolk #Doggerland #Coast #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #Hunstanton #Chalk #Apocalypse

Thnk you for hosting #PromptCombo this week @emteepoetry.bsky.social. Here is one for #Beach. A bit adjacent, but in the vicinity. #poetrycommunity #poetry #poem #poems #skypoets #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetsofbluesky #skypoet #writingcommunity

A poem from my JC Studio Press collection "Othernesses": for @emteepoetry.bsky.social Emily and her excellent #PromptCombo #Beach

@emteepoetry.bsky.social #PromptCombo #Beach #poem #freeverse #JollyJune #SUN

#PromptCombo #Beach @emteepoetry.bsky.social I feel this warm-up is mostly self-explanatory :D

Many thanks to Ronnie @rfsmith.bsky.social for last week's PromptCombo. This is my first one as host. Tag me, @emteepoetry.bsky.social for #PromptCombo #Beach Mine, below, was published in Dreich Season 8 (2023). The photo is my last beach visit, the Pembrokeshire coast. Reading till Friday

Apparently one of the things I don't know is what Aristotle said (thanks dang old interweb quotation search). Please treat the epigraph attribution with caution, though I stand by its sentiment.

An older poem from my drafts. As I get older I'm acutely aware of how much I don't know. And also how I don't fit the neat pigeonholes society would like to put me in. For @rfsmith.bsky.social and #Defined which is this week's #PromptCombo Ronnie's excellent school poem reminded me of it

Another great poem by @jenthorne.bsky.social for this week's #PromptCombo, run by @rfsmith.bsky.social

I love this new #PromptCombo of #Defined set by this week's host @rfsmith.bsky.social Looking forward to reading!

I never did find my old poem but here's one that was on the Poems About prompt almost a year ago, and just appeared in "These Poems Kill Fascists" from A Blot From The Blue / curated by Fin Hall. Even more relevant now 💔 For @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social #PromptCombo #NothingMakesSenseNowadays

I know I have an older poem in drafts on this topic, but while I try to find it I stumbled on this one, so I'm sharing it for @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social #PromptCombo #NothingMakesSenseNowadays If I find the other one I'll add it too.

New prompt has arrived from Paul, @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social Another cracking week of #PromptCombo coming up!

For this fallow #PoemsAbout week, I have accepted the challenge from @stacebot.bsky.social to write on #BadErections because I misread bad directions on her #EarnTheRight poem last week.

It's an #OddFriday with no #PoemsAbout so @zoomburst.substack.com has created #PoemsOn #OpportunityKnocks so we can still have some Friday fun. Thanks Mike ☺️ I am combining mine with #AmpersandAfterDark by @madp03t.bsky.social too as I only had time to write one poem! Have a great weekend all ❤️

#promptcombo #maidenvoyage #poetry With thanks to @janpsolivagant.bsky.social This is from a novel I’m writing now #thedesertandthewhitecloud

✨ Your wonderful host line-up going forward is @rfsmith.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @janpsolivagant.bsky.social @jenthorne.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social ✨

Here's a new poem from me. I've drafted it a couple of times and it is what it is, and still not very poetic. For @janpsolivagant.bsky.social and his #PromptCombo #MaidenVoyage

Hi folks! This week's #PromptCombo is #MaidenVoyage Formative travel experiences - those that left an indelible mark, transformed your understanding of the world etc. Hashtags👆& tag @janpsolivagant.bsky.social to take part Ends Thursday noon! #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #PoetsOfBluesky

Part reflective poem/part rage-rant, published in this anthology from Like a blot from the blue. Honoured to have words alongside @paulwritespoems.bsky.social @pdevonald.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @rburrows.bsky.social @johnchmura.bsky.social @carolynthomas.bsky.social, and many others.

Sharing a poem I see I wrote around the same time as this week's wonderful prompt from @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for #PromptCombo #Prayer I'm more of a praying as doing person, so here's a left field take, a maybe a wee metaphor...

Here's @dragonslayerma.bsky.social #PromptCombo for this week 👀👀👀

I'm gunna be shameless for a second and post a page from my first zine in my kofi that fits this prompt too perfectly. (I promise the next one will be a new one though) Best wishes 🤗 @rfsmith.bsky.social #promptcombo #home #poetry #love #poem

Emily you know that lane went on and on around the hill and beyond the woods well I was walking that lane and now at last we meet see how many blackberries I have look at how the tears wash the stains away with the world let’s go back there now bets I laugh loudest Jim