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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 16h

“What kind of world / would let loose / a low orange moon”

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 17h

Sending love x

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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 1d

and I feel fine

jamma10.bsky.social @jamma10.bsky.social · 2d

Toilet, Bristol UK circa 2015

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The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 1d

Thanks for tearing it up on last week’s #PoemsAbout. This Friday we shift: #BreakTheMould. Think refusal, escape, iconoclast energy. Start posting Friday—early drops get buried. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout to be seen. Sign up for deeper prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

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Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social · 3d

Morning all, I'm going to be looking through posts later today for #poemsabout & #imperfectme

This has taken me back to an old project, 'Flora Speaks' where I created the character Flora to say things I struggle to. Basically she is badass!

Thank you 🙏
@alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

ink blot

they tried to dip me in ink, press me on paper,
just like a specimen collected for show.

his Red Hot Poker was the last thing
they expected to find, between white sheets
of tree pulp, sweat, and the salt stain of tears.

a life size ink blot for fools, who would
try to understand the unknowable.

Rare Book Division, The New York Public Library. "Quanta neruorum tabula. [Human ervous system]" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1545. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-f38e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 3d

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

IMPERFECT ME

On days my son was measured
in length rather than height
I held him shirtless in one arm
while I lathered my face to shave.
Leaned on my chest, warm,
he plunged an explorer’s hands, decisive,
into my foamy cheeks, gaining agency,
the intimation of form, and play
affirmed in his corporeal birthright.

And me, significant, generative,
like the god of the psalmist,
I could do no wrong.

Whiskey it wasn’t that imperfected me
in his eyes. I may never know
which particular betrayal
inspired that loss of grace.
But it did boost his swagger to say
for the first time fuck you, Dad,
and I absorbed the preordained assertion,
concussive, cracked like a plastic bucket
abandoned on the back porch
when water expands into ice.

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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 3d

We will be opening a tiny but welcoming submissions window on Monday 13th October, just for a week. Full details of how to send will appear on the website on the day.

We're already excited!

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Claire Walker @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social · 3d

A little heads-up that the Atrium inbox will be open for a short but sweet submissions window, beginning 13th October. If you have poems looking for a home, @hollyannepoet.bsky.social and I would be very pleased to consider your work!

Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 3d

We will be opening a tiny but welcoming submissions window on Monday 13th October, just for a week. Full details of how to send will appear on the website on the day.

We're already excited!

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 3d

Thankyou for sharing!

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Clare Shaw @clareshawpoet.bsky.social · 6d

My latest Substack: moors, bogs, and 19 writers in a storm!

kimmoore30.substack.com/p/even-the-s...

Even the storm could not stop us!

News from Saturday's stormy multi-author launch - plus a free invite to our paid subscriber reading this Thursday 8th Oct

kimmoore30.substack.com

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Mslexia @mslexia.bsky.social · 18d

Our 2025 Poetry Competition is ✨ OPEN FOR ENTRIES ✨

Prizes: 1st: £2,000; 2nd: £500; 3rd: £250; Unpublished Poet Prize: £250
Judge: Liz Berry
Entry Fee: £10
Closes: 8 December 2025

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Poetry #PoetryCommunity

Women's Poetry Competition 2025 - Poetry (Single Poem) - Competitions : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.

mslexia.co.uk

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 8d

I know what you mean - but it does make me worried as a creative that perhaps our best work is always behind us…. Hopefully not!!!

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks Alan!

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 9d

Such kind and thoughtful feedback John -
Much appreciated!

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 9d

Thankyou so much Rachel !

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 9d

So kind thanks- I’m glad you enjoyed it

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 9d

Thankyou so much Paul! Your Lovely comments always make my day

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Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social · 10d

And who dresses you? #Mannequin is another wonderful #PoemsAbout prompt @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #StayCreative #PoetsSupportPoets #PoetsOfBlueSky

On Display

Dress me to kill.

Cocktail party perfect breasts
and hips tautly wrapped

trendy plunged neckline
slutty edged hem

penciled face
you aren’t afraid of.

Snared by
fishnet stockings

I cannot move
my plastic body -

a target
of the hunt in your dreams.

Dress me to kill.

Karen Pierce Gonzalez

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 9d

An older poem from 2022 for #poemsabout manikins from the excellent Public Sector Poetry Journal- which I believe is having a resurrection soon after a hiatus
Thanks for the prompt @alanparrywriter.co.uk

My office
Poem from public sector poetry journal

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Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 11d

Some lovely news! ❤️❤️❤️

The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 11d

Delighted that the work we've been publishing in our micro-journal, Carmen et Error, is getting the recognition it deserves! @corinnaboard.bsky.social's brilliant poem 'A dunnock's prayer' was highly commended in this year's Forward Prizes!

Forward Prize 2026 Highly Commended Congratulations to Corinna Board!
For
‘A dunnock’s prayer’, published in Issue 9.0 Carmen et Error

A dunnock’s prayer
by Corinna Board

O wingless wun,
god o’ smæl bridds,
spære my nest,
my fīf blue eggs.
Bright sky-keeper,
bringer o’ frost,
maker o’ hip an haw,
can ye hear my
tseep tseep tseep
in the hecg?
I sing for ye
in the blackthorn
an the dogrose,
in the hazel
an the rowan.
I, this tyne spearwa
so smæl in yur hand.

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 9d

Very well deserved! Congratulations! 🥳

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Paul @paulwritespoems.bsky.social · 10d

Absolutely delighted and honoured to be nominated for Best Of The Net for Laundry Day. Congratulations to my fellow nominees 🙏

Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 12d

Delighted✨ to announce✨ Dust’s ✨Best of the Net✨ nominations:

Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico

Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 10d

Fantastic to see @eleanorholmes.bsky.social ‘s poem being used as a poetry society resource ! #poemsabout #poetsonbluesky

Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social · 10d

Well this is a lovely surprise for @poetrydayuk.bsky.social having my poem 'The Crab Man' 🦀 from 2014 NPC used for close reading / writing prompts on the theme of #play for NPD by @shotscarecrow.bsky.social - this is the right Jon Stone?
Hello, and thank you 🙏
poetrysociety.org.uk/wp-content/u...

The Crab Man

by Eliot North

Turn left, close the gate
Enter Mariner’s Lane.

The road to the shore
Is all salt and tar.

Go right down to
Correction House Bank.

Smell the fish guts,
Feel it pull you.

Push Gossip’s voice
Far from your mind.

Ignore the shudder
Of trains, overhead.

Down Tanner’s Bank
Pick your way.

Head held high,
Nose to the wind,

Past empty warehouses.
Go to The Crab Man.

Block out the warning
Tone of her voice.

See him in his red robes,
Inside the chainmail door.

Feel the cleaver’s rhythm
Smashed over and over.

Watch how he stills,
Cocks an ear to the sound.

The swish of metal skirts
Closing behind you.

Filmpoem of The Crab Man by Eliot North (Eleanor Holmes) on The Poetry Society website:https://poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poets/eliot-north/

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Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social · 11d

Really excited that @inksweatandtears.co.uk are publishing my poem 'Longing for green' on @poetrydayuk.bsky.social on the theme of #PLAY, with such great poetic company, exploring all the multifaceted ways in which we as humans love to play.

Happy National Poetry Day!!! 💜💚🧡💛

Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 11d

Welcome to National Poetry Day!

Today we have four poets - Elena Brake, Eleanor Holmes, John Mole, Karen Downs-Barton - with different takes on this year's theme: Play.

inksweatandtears.co.uk/play-for-nat...

#InkSweatandTears #NationaPoetryDay

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