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Poet, author, artist, baker, photographer. Keen gardner & veg grower, advocate for nature and the underdog. All year open water swimmer, thalassophile, indie book publisher. Social & environmental justice now! Not a naturist! https://linktr.ee/Debhandmade

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 2d

Catch this week’s post. A topic which touches a nerve. Available SOON here:

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#value #respect #essential #retail #blog #article

Shop Boy

Thanks for reading All Kinds of Everything!

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 15h

I didn’t publish new work this week - I’ve not had time to edit & have been working on other stuff, but if you’d like a #poem or #short story for some Sunday reading, I’ve a selection of both here.

#Poetry:

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#Fiction:

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Poeting | All Kinds of Everything | DRNaturegirl | Substack

Sharing a selection of poetry. Click to read All Kinds of Everything, by DRNaturegirl, a Substack publication.

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 15h

👍🏻🙂

DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 15h

Thanks! Kind.

DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 15h

👍🏻🙂

DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 15h

Most welcome, Sue.

DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 15h

Aye. It is pretty peaceful. Glad you got to visit us.

DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 15h

Thank you, David.

DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 15h

Thanks, Paul.

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 15h

Sending love x

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 15h

Thank you, Alan. Appreciate you taking time to read and respond. We are all becoming more us, aren’t we? 🙂👍🏻

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 2d

Catch this week’s post. A topic which touches a nerve. Available SOON here:

open.substack.com/pub/drnature...

#value #respect #essential #retail #blog #article

Shop Boy

Thanks for reading All Kinds of Everything!

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sheilaeh.bsky.social @sheilaeh.bsky.social · 2d

#PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe

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Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · 2d

#PoemsAbout #imperfectMe
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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 1d

Ha! Like it, Sue

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Sue Ibrahim @sueimnw.bsky.social · 2d

For this week's #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe with thanks as ever to our host @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and to everyone.

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Dawn McLachlan @deemclachlan.bsky.social · 2d

Time for another #poemsabout day and the theme this week is #ImperfectMe
Thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk as always and everyone sharing and supporting #poets
#poetrycommunity #poemalttext #poetry #poems

Wear the Gloves by Dawn McLachlan

In those muddled days after When all was opened doors
And emptied drawers
I remember them
Butter-soft and finest leather
Stitching like the whisper of the needle
Wrapped still in silvered tissue
Faded tags of festive gifting
Unworn
Saved for a "best" too late to know So if you think me too showy
With misplaced colours and gaudy cloth
Fine jewellery worn for no good reason
It is because I have learned to Wear the damn gloves

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Dave Kurley @badvibrations62.bsky.social · 2d

I've opted for brevity for this week's #PoemsAbout prompt, #ImperfectMe - thanks, as ever, to @alanparrywriter.co.uk for hosting! @thebrokenspine.co.uk

I'll be reading/reposting/replying later

#poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetsofbluesky

Screenshot of this week's poem - a haiku/senryū addressing this week's prompt - the desktop background (but you can't really tell) is a low-orbit satellite picture of a cloudy Earth.

Imperfect Me

In the mirror, look
Decisions, most of them bad
Reflect back at me

© Dave Kurley 2025

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 1d

Indeed!

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Tom Shires @tshirt4844.bsky.social · 2d

#poemsabout #imperfectme

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The storylines on my face and hands, the quirks of my nature. Listen with your eyes to a tale of a slow and glorious imperfection.

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 2d

I am delighted that my #poem Resurrection is published today in @eunoiareview.bsky.social

Just in time for @hool415.bsky.social’s #PromptCombo theme #Visitor & @thebrokenspine.co.uk & @alanparrywriter.co.uk’s #PoemsAbout theme #imperfectme

(Recording in thread)

#poetsonbluesky #poetrycommunity

Eunoia Review @eunoiareview.bsky.social · 2d

Resurrection

A ladybird glistens on a tuft tiny tomato in the dew spat out M&M drop of blood. Buried, he always returns. Unseen hands knead her daily. She licks rustiness, a trickle at the corner of her mouth. Her eye compresses. He calls her name. The voice stumbles her in breath clenched. She…

Resurrection

A ladybird glistens on a tuft tiny tomato in the dew spat out M&M drop of blood. Buried, he always returns. Unseen hands knead her daily. She licks rustiness, a trickle at the corner of her mouth. Her eye compresses. He calls her name. The voice stumbles her in breath clenched. She wonders what bands will swaddle the rebirths down,

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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 2d

This is my contribution to this weeks #poemsabout #imperfectme - a bit of silliness really but ai enjoyed writing it.

With thanks as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt.

Friendship

Buy it
You deserve it
It's just your colour
It's only money don't worry about it

Skip work
Let's go outside
And dance in the sunshine
Raise our faces to the sky

Eat the cake
Have another
Cake is good for the soul
Calories don't count when your standing up

Let's go out tonight
Have a drink
Have another
Go on how often do you get to let your hair down

My best friends
You imperfect me
Don't ever stop

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Dawn McLachlan @deemclachlan.bsky.social · 2d

Time for another #FridayPoem

#poetrycommunity #poemsabout #poetlife #poetsofbluesky #PoemAltText #poemsaboutlife

Pareidolia
By Dawn McLachlan

We threw our wishes into holes in the ground
And fast flowing rivers
Coins dropped into wet darkness
Warmed by fervent hope
And tumbled over faces in the stones
In clouds we saw the lost
The longed for
And angelic outreach
In the sacred spaces
Candles lit with prayers
And blown out with fingers crossed
Sticky with sugar wrapped sentiment
And rules to tell no one
We wrote our lists to things of myth
For a different time
A different place
Where wishes were horses
And distant planets stared back at us
Our desire to see Jesus in the toast
When all we had was burnt bread

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Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social · 2d

From 2011, sharing for #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe. Always enlightening to read old poems and see how you've changed or not... Thanks as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for hosting 🖤

A poem titled 'Stand Down' by Francesca L Rolle:
Never darker than the night,
Never brighter than the day,
Just a dim bulb in a sea of flowers,
Swamped with the past,
Too shallow for change,
And not ready,
Too afraid, to step up to the game.

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 1d

Profound and true.

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Jane Dougherty @janedougherty47.bsky.social · 2d

I wasn't going to do this #PoemsAbout until ten minutes ago. #imperfectme seems so self-evident. So that's what I said.
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