Congratulations to the great poets in this issue, notably @moritherapy.bsky.social and #poemsabout regular @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social. My #haiku were not picked but I’ll share them anyway just for fun: out breath chuffing fog after the chase snow field the silent narrative

@poetry-with-hart.bsky.social, are you going to put your haiku back up?

#PoemsAbout #Desire @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will post a reading in the comments.

once there was honor among thieves then there was #Disney

Check out this review and new book by @merrildsmith.bsky.social #poetry #new

#Poetry #Acceptance OMG, I submitted some poetry at around three o’clock yesterday afternoon and got an acceptance email at around six this morning!!! I am so psyched!!! Walking on air today!

#PoemsAbout #LockedDoors @thebrokenspine.co.uk Let’s get some comments going on this exceptional poem by @rock-rex.bsky.social

#PormsAbout #LockedDoors @thebrokenspine.co.uk I’m six or more hours backlogged in the posts, yet must say…I graduated from a major university forty plus years ago, but I find myself studying more poetry and writing a semester’s worth of analysis each Friday with this lovely group of poets.

#PoemsAbout #LockedDoors @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will put a reel in the comments, or I won’t.

#haiku #meteor #ufo meteor flash little deer startles mama chews tasty grass The meteor or ufo is in the upper right corner just before the little one jumps.

This is an awesome interview. It’s a rare talent to be able to write well for both younger and older audiences. I get the idea that a big part of it is treating children with respect.

This is what they mean by performing poetry!!! Look, even if you don’t have the whole nine minutes, at least take a dip into this tour de force.

#PoemsAbout #Blood Laura is not cheating!!!

#PoemsAbout #Blood @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will put a reading in the comments.

Did you see the Trump FAA’s new anti-woke air safety instructions and the guidelines to disable masks for anyone who won’t sign a loyalty pledge?

My guess is they misread Wole as Woke. www.reuters.com/world/us/nig...

Children’s masks then and now…

no antitrust litigation just deer running #haiku #haikusaturday

#PoemsAbout #BurnForTheCamera @thebrokenspine.co.uk Due to the numbet of quotes, I might consider this a found poem. I will put a link to the video/commentary in the comments.

#PoemsAbout #BreakTheMould @thebrokenspine.co.uk After reading Frank’s transcription of his late wife’s poem, you MUST follow the link to the audio. Frank’s music and reading are 💯

#PoemsAbout #BreakTheMould @thebrokenspine.co.uk Depending on what the app allows, I will either put a reel or a link in the comments for the 🎤…

#PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe @thebrokenspine.co.uk Having just encouraged another poet to double dip and being triggered in a good way by a line in another poem, I’d like to double dip with this short piece I wrote in 2021 after seeing a man with a cane walking a dog with three legs.

#PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will put a reel in the comments.

RIP, Sister Jean, 1919-2025…

youtube.com/watch?v=TeLB... Listen once and you’ll hear it in your head all day, which is a win-win!!!

youtube.com/watch?v=KkBs... I have been bingeing Flook for several days straight. My soul feels so much better.

calmatters.org/health/2025/... This county voted for Trump over Harris, 62.5% to 35.4%. Now they are “heartbroken.”

Why do insurance commercials have to be funny when the insurance industry is one of the least funny things in the world?

Reading the #PoemsAbout #Mannequin early this morning I keep hearing in my mind’s ear echos of this Rilke poem as I read our fresh ones. A few years back I did an English translation & musical setting for that poem. The music starts with just drums, then piano & bass. Finally a cello arrives.

#PoemsAbout #Mannequin @thebrokenspine.co.uk #supportlocalbusiness I will put a reel in the comments.

#PoemsAbout #NeverAgain @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will post either a reel or a link in the comments, in which I will say I don’t want to disparage or discount anyone’s service but I don’t like being in a society in which only those who wear uniforms and carry guns can be heroic.

I wrote this poem in 2020, before I had ever heard of Charlie Kirk. #poem #resist #freespeech

be the pine survive this fire

#haiku #haikusaturday winter oak perched on every branch a singing star or winter oak midnight branches filled with starsong

I eight hours backlogged in reading #PoemsAbout #SilentPlanets for @thebrokenspine.co.uk but I am already profoundly struck by how many poets have managed to present absence, silence, and emptiness in ways that make negation palpable. Bravo my friends!!!

#PoemsAbout #SilentPlanets @thebrokenspine.co.uk A Fib for the biggest fibber. I don’t have a video because Fibs aren’t generally about the 🎤.

I finally watched the DEVO documentary on Netflix. For a long time I felt like a skunk for following them as long as I did, but now I actually don’t feel so bad about it.

So psyched to be in Trash Panda, volume 9.

#PoemsAbout #Candlelight @thebrokenspine.co.uk A persona poem. I will post a video in the comments.

Why do I feel that Trump, the Republican Congress, and the Supreme Court hate my country more than the people who did this?

For anyone who’s finding #PoemsAbout hard to handle this week, let me light your candle: youtu.be/6TQIKw19Xjs?...

#PoemsAbout #Facades I was inspired by the excellent blackout poem @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social to share the only blackout poem I have ever written, which abused a rare positive rejection letter to create the facade of the wounded poet.

moon walks across the lake wind goes p—h #haiku #haikusaturday

moon walks across the lake wind goes p—h #haiku #haikusaturday

#PoemsAbout #Facades @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will post a reel in the comments:

Still having trouble with the #PoemsAbout prompt #Facades? Does it help to know that this song is 47 years old? Fuck me!!! youtu.be/ylOCIP54PIQ?...

My wife: Your poems are so morbid. Me: 🤔, I don’t think so. My wife: What’s the last one about? Me: My 💀 friend’s 🪦… 😬 youtu.be/Dn4xdHBXth4?...

@emteepoetry.bsky.social told me earlier this week that she was going to allude to the song for #PoemsAbout, and did she ever. A golden shovel poem is not an easy form and to nail it with this long of a passage is fierce!!! 🥊🥊🥊 🔥🎤👇