Loss of signal "Love your neighbour as yourself" the astronaut told the Earth as his vehicle slid behind the Moon and communications were interrupted. "A whole civilisation will die tonight" his president said, back on Earth, apparently unconcerned with scripture.

Decided to bring my #poetry collection "Moonsong" temporarily out of retirement for Artemis II www.lulu.com/shop/peter-c...

"The song of Judas" A #poetry collection I published on Good Friday www.lulu.com/shop/peter-c...

It's the Eternal Symposium, from Plato's Athens to Epstein's island, a movable feast at which Eros is praised and love is declared between powerful men while women and children are used as toys and broken upon a whim to demonstrate the impunity of the rich.

Was the penguin trafficked? How else would it be on Greenland?

What if Trump is not an aberration, not an anomaly, but the perfect expression of the dysfunction and malignancy that was always there, always guiding outcomes in an air-brushed history, inherent in the rotten soul of a country built on genocide and slavery to be a grotesque inequality engine?

Maybe Trump is Denmark's cunning plan to ensure failure to qualify for the World Cup is irrelevant because no-one's going anyway.

That poor penguin.

I just thought everyone should see this

Terrific syllabus language about the dangers of Generative AI

Nostalgia A #poem moflomojo.blogspot.com/2026/01/nost... #poetry

Juggernaut A #poem moflomojo.blogspot.com/2026/01/jugg... #poetry

Every time I come back to Bluesky I last about five minutes before I find the smug sanctimonious self-congratulation utterly insufferable. See you all again in three months.

The recording of the IASSL webinar 'Finlay J Macdonald at 100 | Fionnlagh Iain MacDhòmhnaill aig 100', with talks by Mhairi Brennan (Aston University), Rob Dunbar (University of Edinburgh), and Petra Johana Poncarová (Charles University, Prague), is now available on YouTube.

The end of the world moflomojo.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-... #poem #poetry

I wrote this outside a church. moflomojo.blogspot.com/2025/12/conf... #poetry #poem #poet

Chrysalid #poem #poetry

A "letter to a young activist" from 2019 moflomojo.blogspot.com/2019/01/lett...

"The admiral" - a #poem moflomojo.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-... #poetry #poems #poet

Sparrows

"The cure" - a #poem moflomojo.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-... #poetry

"Anthropomorphic" - a #poem moflomojo.blogspot.com/2025/09/anth... #poetry

If Reform win the UK election in 2029, and move to abolish or significantly neuter Holyrood, where will Labour in Scotland stand? Will they help to defend Holyrood or will they capitulate to Reform in the name of their precious Union?

"The benefactors" - a #poem moflomojo.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-... #poetry

#poem #poetry

"The dead" - a #poem moflomojo.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-... #poetry

The Clisham seen from Lewis / Lewis seen from The Clisham

Here are some natural and man-made stone formations on the Isle of Lewis: part of Callanish II with Callanish I in the background; Callanish III; and the Mangersta sea stacks

Has BlueSky become just another echo chamber where people congratulate each other on having the correct opinions?

"A Song of Crotal and White" Tonight, 8pm GMT, BBC Alba www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Thought for the day

"Disposing of the bodies" - a #poem moflomojo.blogspot.com/2025/07/disp... #poetry #GazaGenocide

"Perihelion" - a #poem moflomojo.blogspot.com/2022/10/peri... #poetry

Dear America friends, this is what Scotland did when our equivalent to ICE tried to take away our friends and neighbours We freed them and then ran the uniformed goon squad out of town Do not back down. You’ll win if you stand firm Some reading if it’s required en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenmure...

"The crossing" - a #poem moflomojo.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-... #poetry #poet #poems

"Selkie" - a #poem moflomojo.blogspot.com/2025/06/selk... #poetry #poet #poems

You got until the 1st June to enter the St Teneu Poetry Competition, which is part of the Glasgow 850 anniversary celebrations. St Teneu was the mother of St Mungo, co-patron saint of Glasgow. This interview between Sam Tongue and Peter Clive explains everything! soundcloud.com/scottishpoet...

I'm delighted to be a featured artist at the Versaye #poetry night tonight in Bossa on the southside of Glasgow. Swing by and pick up a copy of my limited edition collection "this immolated earth" exclusive to Versaye :-)

Delighted to be reading as one of the featured poets at Versaye tomorrow night. It's a great event, with brilliant writers signed up already, and a warm welcome for everyone who attends.

"Orison" - a #poem moflomojo.blogspot.com/2025/05/oris... #poetry #poet #poems

Two weeks to go before the closing date, so don't hang about, get your entries to the St Teneu Poetry Competition submitted! Check website for details: glasgow850.com/teneupoetry #Glasgow #poetry #competition #Glasgow850 #poems #poem #poet #poetrycommunity #poetrychallenge

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