This week’s #fragmentsfriday is inspired by Sonic Youth and the cathartic power of music. Thank you @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social.

Strangely, don’t have much to say for #PoemsAbout #Spent @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk …but just enough for #fragmentsfriday #micropoem @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #Oulens #BlueskyPoetry #micropoetry #poetrycommunity

Hullo @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for super #fragmentsfriday #poetry

Our third #fragmentsfriday tomorrow and who will take the crown following @helenlaycock.bsky.social @hool415.bsky.social and @jidebadmus.bsky.social 👑 One of those #poets again or a newbie? #poetry #writing

New #poem ‘Life as a shuttling bubble-dome’ #poetry #life #breath #breathing

Our third event coming this Friday on Bluesky, Twitter and Insta - #fragmentsfriday Make it startling, inventive, impactful. 18 words max! No AI #poems - your own work.

Tremendous week on TTT inspired by the writing of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Next week, post a video of you reading a new poem of yours, 60 words max and include a text version. No text version without the video clip. Imagistic, metaphorical, no AI. No tedious intros!

For #promptcombo and theme #rupture a car tyre blown. Thank you @victoriaspires.bsky.social

I do poetic impressions and here, for your delectation, is my evocation of the great British poet, #TedHughes 🦊 ❄️ On the eve of our Ted and #SylviaPlath themed TopTweetTuesday on Twitter ‘The Thought-Fox’. Give it a share, if you will. #poetry #spokenword

Our joint winners after much deliberation of this week’s #fragmentsfriday following @helenlaycock.bsky.social last week 🔥 Jide Badmus @jidebadmus.bsky.social 🇳🇬 Julian Cason @hool415.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #poetry #writingcommunity #poet #writing #poetic #writingprompt

Hosting the #TedHughes inspired poems on TopTweetTuesday on Twitter nxt week is @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social ‘I’m not looking for cribbed, derivate poems of Hughes. I am looking for gritty, tactile, sensory poems focused on spirit of place and the minutiae of flora and fauna. Above all, intensity!’

Hosting the #SylviaPlath inspired poems on next week’s TopTweetTuesday on Twitter is meteoric talent @helenlaycock.bsky.social ‘Rather than word-swap with Plath’s imagery, get to the heart of emotion/mood which drives your piece and trust your unique voice and language.’ 👆 👆 👆

Very few bland micros today on #fragmentsfriday Most poems startling and loaded! Impressive work - well done for not exceeding 18 words.

one of the hardest things about being a poet is knowing when something--an image, a phrase, etc.--is good, but it still hasn't earned its spot in a poem

@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social #FragmentsFriday

Thank you so much for this Black Bough 'Silver Branch' honour @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social. From a standing start in early 2021, I feel comfortable at last in being called a poet. You can also read my 'Glamour' Pushcart Prize nomination here. I must be doing something good. 🔥😍💥 #PoetsOnBluesky

A new #MicroPoem for #FragmentsFriday! Thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social with @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Have a great Friday everyone!

#fragmentsfriday @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social My shadow learned to bite before I did. It still growls when the light gets close.

#FridayFragments @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Exploitation Has a colour and sometimes not. Whoever does it does it because they know they can.

For #fragmentsfriday and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social:

Simple Addition Eighteen words Sixteen now Slipping away We decay To love Be loved Nothing more Sixteen words Eighteen now K.D (2026)

My contribution to #fragmentsfriday for @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #haiku #senryu #poetry #micropoetry guy who found my phone called mom, dad’s old numbers rank strangers, everyone

It's not the poems, it's the other goings-on. #fragmentsfriday @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

Aerial Steel heron perching on pantiles in suburban squalls oscillates, fishing signals, dips towards Emley Moor Mast. @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #FragmentFriday Bit of a local one.

For #fragmentsfriday my micro poem. Thank you @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social. 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐝 Folding into⁣ where sinew⁣ holds ache.⁣ ⁣ Like paper,⁣ I’m fated⁣ to remember⁣ every fold.⁣ ⁣ Every fold⁣ doubles weight.

For #fragmentsfriday and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social my lunch break poem #poetry

Hello @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social Here’s one for #fragmentsfriday

Hullo @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for the epic #fragmentsfriday #poetry

Flies hovering a pig on a spit summer heat on edge distant music echoing strangeness gathering nightfall @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social #fragmentsfriday #poetry

Hmm...#FragmentsFriday...18 words, sometimes as difficult to craft as those longer poems. Imagist too, that's the @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social USP. I have an earworm still echoing from last Sunday, a Latin anthem that hasn't quite faded, hence the title @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

Another Friday, another tiny poem. #FragmentsFriday @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

With thanks and enormous gratitude to my Welsh hosts @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for the opportunity of a wee wind up in advance of tomorrow's rugby in #fragmentfriday.

For #fragmentsfriday a #micropoem @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #Oulens #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity

For #fragmentsfriday a #micropoem about lack. #poetry #desire #touch

Tomorrow! #fragmentsfriday on Insta, Bluesky and Twitter. Share your one poem on all three platforms if you like. #poetry #writing #writingprompts #poetrycommunity

‘We are in the Presence of Great Evil’ Content warning - genocide, organ harvesting, collective trauma 🩸 #promptcombo #AChangeofUse @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social #Gaza #ceasefire #peace

Right, as you know, I’m obsessed with the #poet RS Thomas. For this week’s theme on TopTweetTuesday on Twitter ‘Great poets’, here’s ‘I had a Vision of R.S. Thomas’. ‘Bastard rain!’ Indeed. 🌧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Let’s get this week going. #RSThomas #Welshpoetry #writing #God #seascape

Coffee with pot pourri.

Published by @thesepagessing.bsky.social ‘A Canvas of Dimming Light’ based on #KyffinWilliams ‘Shepherd and Sheepdogs’ The shepherd is not happy with the artist! #Wales #poetry #art

This Friday, the multi-platform event #fragmentsfriday - post your own #micropoem of 18 words or less. No AI. Just your own genius. Fridays only. #poetry #poetic

‘After the ice age, after the fire’ IanRichardson from ‘Deep Time 1’ our first poetic anthology inspired by Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Underland’. @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/deep-time-pr... #poetry #anthropocene #deeptime

‘Listen to a sough of wind a caress of dark imaginings’ Dai Fry from ‘Under Photon Crowns’, our first author chapbook. ❤️‍🔥 www.blackboughpoetry.com/under-photon...

Next week on TopTweetTuesday on Twitter, we invite one poem per poet inspired by the work of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Make it your own angle in your own poetic voice. No AI. Imagistic, metaphorical work. 100 words max. Make it your own. Avoid derivateness. #TedHughes #SylviaPlath

'They invite me to rook and rail with them' 🐦‍⬛ Our #SilverBranch series feature for February 2026 - is Northern writer Glenn Barker @rotherwrites.bsky.social A pleasure to platform this wordsmith with his often intense, gothic work. Check out the poems! www.blackboughpoetry.com/glenn-barker...

New poem alert 🚨 Some fresh plastic and its sensory hit as winter changes to spring. #spring #winter #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #books

This Friday, post a poem of 18 words or less, tagging in #fragmentsfriday #poem #writingprompt #writers #poet

Our poem of last week on new #poetry platform #fragmentsfriday 🥂 ‘gazing across tidal ghostlace’ @helenlaycock.bsky.social #moon #tide #love

'this is poetry as bright and fleeting as embers. And like embers, it flares with beauty and warning' Victoria Spires reviews Louise Longson's 'The How in the World' - Hedgehog Poetry'. @victoriaspires.bsky.social @louisepoetical.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/book-reviews... #poetry

‘Sunday A.M’ and staring at the relentless rain. 🌧️ For #smallpoemsunday, and host @tomsnarsky.bsky.social who has a new book out this year. #sunday #sundaymorning #dogs #rain #poem #poetry #sundaymorning #poetry #poet #poetic #writing #writingcommunity