Feet press against grass, Scent spirals heady whispers, Open heart release. #BSPP51 #Haiku #Softdrift

Nowhere is safe #Clevedon #CreepyDolls

Magnificent Magnolia 🤍 #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Trees #SpringIsComing

Oh no I missed #GardensHour but better late than never 🫠 #BloomScrolling

#LiftToTheSky #PoetryCommunity #PoetsSupportingPoets

Enjoying a brief moment of calm while on Auntie babysitting time before I get called back up for my turn on nappy duty. tidal.com/track/59531/u

We are OPEN again for submissions until 30th April. Please share!

She was obsessed, couldn't pry her eyes away, her hands clawing at the ragged skin peeling off like the old wallpaper she'd watched her mother scrape and scrape and scrape at after her father had left. #VSS365 #Obsessed #WritingCommunity

For all the time I could have spent, I sat and wondered what to spend it on. No more time left, to wonder or to spend. If only I had spent it, instead of wondering what to spend it on. A quick ponderance of a poem for #PoemsAbout #Spent

This was THE best news to wake up to 💚

Israel responsible for two-thirds of record 129 press killings in 2025, says CPJ

Could fidget with the Best of them, no-one twitches Quite like the lonely. #BSPP50 #fidget #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

The orbital socket cracked as Jeremy's face was reconciled with his poor decision-making; he should not have bet he could still win a bare-knuckle boxing match. #VSS365 #Orbital

Lawnmowers. Birdsong snatches. Light, neither cold nor toasted golden. Small assertions of blossom in hedgerow. Bony daffodil stretches, tentatively defying a slaughterous future freeze. Momentary buzzing of bee, wasp or perhaps the very earth. Spring suggests, season of sex & agonies, birth & death

I’m not the only one enjoying the sunshine today. 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

Not sure my favourite part of this bus journey: a) the forehead grease circle on the seat in front of me b) the waft of recycling bin from the woman in front of me c) the crying, shrieking puppy.

Issue 8 THEME: RIGHTEOUS RAGE Open March 1-30 Get ready. Details: epistemiclit.com/submissions/

"The CRoW access maps... show Open Access areas of England shaded in a yellow wash, dribbled over England like small puddles of piss-all." (p.371) - I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to know more about the history of land ownership and how it still affects us today. #BooksIRead

For #poemsabout #undertheskin Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Sharing a little late for #PoemsAbout #UnderTheSkin. Thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk for hosting. #BlueSkyPoets #PoetryCommunity

“But God promised me women would submit to me!” Yeah well Mother Nature promised me she would weed out the men with shitty attributes through natural selection, so none of us are getting what we want today.

Night falls. Bushes ink themselves upon the darkening blue background. Wind and traffic merge and make a sea. Its shimmering flow surges into violent crescendo, held then disintegrating. And as the waves fall, birds descant above them in shards of melody, sudden bursts of ornament, sweet and piteous

Shameful that the EHRC has no written records of any meetings with trans-led organisations over the last five years when trans rights have been under such assault. Human rights apply to everyone and the EHRC should know full well that its job is to stand up for everyone’s rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

Sometimes, it's a valid show of love to leave to evade the gauntlet of despair that precedes the end, cause limited damage to be single, better than to be in the weeds of misery, when hope's foliage blooms soon enough only better to have known way back when, before life forced the lesson.

The mountainous regions were the only ones left where flowers still grew. The annual pilgrimages to collect the blossoms for drying and preserving had begun, and Amaya was keen to join her sisters for the first time. #VSS365 #Mountainous

Cyclamen and snowdrops at Colesbourne Gardens #GardensHour #GardensToVisit #BloomScrolling

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Check out the new monthly highlights page on the website and help us celebrate #BlackHistorymonth and our contributors Dee Allen., Mike Flowers, Jaryd Porter, and The Aprilcentaur. epistemiclit.com/highlights/

Just been absolutely savaged by a fortune cookie.

The statue above the Commercial Rooms on Corn Street is commonly thought to be Neptune or Poseidon but is actually an 1811 female representation of the spirit of Bristol.

3 Weeks To Go…

Colour is starting to emerge in my garden 💚 #GardensHour #BloomScrolling

If your poem doesn’t belong on a billboard but a toilet door in a dive bar, send it. If it sounds better screamed into a mic than whispered at brunch, send it. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #PoetsOfBluesky #WednesdayWIPs #Poetry #SubmissionWindow

His words crept into her like a cancer in the bone. Deep-seated and sucking at the marrow, she would have to learn from the chemo she'd watched her mother struggle through and fight poison with poison to irradiate him from her life. #VSS365 #Bones #WritingCommunity

What's so smart about AI? Turns out - Surprise level: 0 - The 1 Really clever Bit About Gen AI - training 4 context - Was done By Hu Mans But Mostly Wo Mans #StopITOligarchs Dr.Punc. #BlueSkyPoetry @blueskypoetry.bsky.social is.gd/gkAqzS

SHARE AWAY!!! Announcing a new project - a platform each Friday. #FRAGMENTSFRIDAY’ - 18 words or less - a startling, inventive poem. Tag in #fragmentsfriday and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social & share one startling fragment of your own poetry. No A.I. generated poetry!

I tried to give blood yesterday but I failed the initial iron test, and when they wanted to do a further test they couldn't find a vein. They even sent the 'vein whisperer' in, but several nurses later and one said 'some people just aren't cut out for it'. So I'm resharing this for #VSS365 #Blood

Plum blossom starting to bloom today. #Spring is arriving in Central London. #FlowersOnFriday 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

Thought I'd cheat and reshare this one for #PromptCombo #Tracks @hool415.bsky.social 🚂🚞🚅

Apply for our PhD placement scheme to get involved in extraordinary research at the Library. There are eight available placements exploring a variety of themes including war poetry, 21st-century digital tools, illustrated newspapers and decarbonisation. Find out more: link.bl.uk/PhDPlacements

What's one thing you've learned about yourself through writing? We'll be publishing a handful of our favourite comments in Issue 109 of Mslexia! ✍️ #amwriting #writingcommunity

Not for me the softness of the #catkin— I am more akin to #rejected, #inept things like #brambles, #grown thorny though there are flowers, each one bloomed of a #painful bruise but there is still some beauty in that perhaps— to grow hardy instead of not at all. #WildWalkPrompt #Emoetry #vss365

Pain settles deep within and oozes out over time as sweat from the pores, as sighs from the breast, as exhaustion from the soul. Don't sit with it child, let it out, bleed it fast and rough, wail and rage. Don't let it fester. #VSS365 #Pain #WritingCommunity

It would be great to get some more signatures on this #PeatFree petition: actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal... #Gardening #UKGardeners #GardensHour #WildflowerHour

The first of the crocuses in my plant pots are emerging. They look like little tigers. #GardensHour #BloomScrolling

It's here!!! The return of The Book Bag: Poetic Voices series brings us a wonderful poet with an exceptional vigour and gravitas while performing their work. Meet this month's Poetic Voice #poetry #featuredpoet

Gorgeous display of hellebore flowers floating in a trough at Riverside Garden Centre. #BloomScrolling

Winter is coming to an end now the Cornus mas has started to flower #SundayYellow 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

It turns out that aloe vera doesn't soothe all burns. #VSS365 #Soothe

Merdas touch 😅👏