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Paul Brookes

@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

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Shop asst. Poet and interviewer. Work broadcast on BBC Radio Three, The Verb. Edits The Wombwell Rainbow. #PromoteIndieLit Recent work: "The Dude Work,' Sherwood Handcrafted Press, 2024. Forthcoming: "The Drey Skin", "In Your Mouth"

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 23h

Hi @dragonslayerma.bsky.socia Fidel and your glorious #promptcombo #SimplePleasures. My second is from my collection "Othernesses":

Therapy

Listen, soft crash of my waves alter your brain patterns, feel my sand exfoliate, your skin as my unevenness makes floor walk harder, works your calves and thighs. A state

of meditation lulls, slows your heart beat, deepens your breath. My blue sky and sun shoot up your bodies feel good drugs, my heat and negative ions ensure reboot.

I massage the vagus nerve in your neck, enough for all this to happen. Watch fish in rockpools provide aquariums check your stress, rejuvenate a hug and kiss.

I'm health resort, recommunion, refresher, renewer, good reunion.

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you, Paul.

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 8h

Excellent to use the impress and consoling feel of sand, the pleasures of rock pools and beaches as an extended metaphor for emotional consolation and symbiosis Paul 👏👏👏

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 10h

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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 13h

You're welcome!🙂

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 13h

That's a bonus. Thank you, Gary.

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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 14h

Nearly fell asleep reading this , in a good way as it really relaxed me Paul!👌🙏

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 18h

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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 18h

Welcome!

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 18h

Wow! Thank you, Jan.

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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 18h

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 21h

Nature's massage.

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Fidel Walsh @dragonslayerma.bsky.social · 21h

Totally agree, even in winter!

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 21h

Thank you, Fidel. Seaside is a great place to go barefoot on sand.

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Fidel Walsh @dragonslayerma.bsky.social · 21h

Oh, my, Paul. I closed my eyes, I felt every piece of that massage! Wow, thank you. I feel renewed now with these vital #SimplePleasures . Excellent write & #PromptCombo thanks you❤️
As I think will everyone who reads it.

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 21h

Thank you, Dave.

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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 21h

that's a cracking sonnet Paul. I love the changes of tempo in it, and just the imagery ... I mean from tea (I am now thirsty) to ornaments (I still want a cuppa)

Bloody nice writing

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 23h

happy day of official recognition, little guy...

THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN'S WIFE • poems • upfromsumdirt

available from @kentuckypress.bsky.social - or (hopefully) everywhere books are sold.

photo of blue hardback book with orangish, goldish illustrations of a mermaid with a leopard on the front. the book sits on a desk with an assortment of stuff on it, lime an orange notebook, a blue sharpie, and a bottle of black.

photo was taken at about 3am. why isnt the poster asleep?!?

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 23h

Hi @dragonslayerma.bsky.socia Fidel and your glorious #promptcombo #SimplePleasures. My second is from my collection "Othernesses":

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 1d

The Red Poppy
Louise Glück (in memoriam)

Did you
permit yourselves
to open once, who would never
open again? Because in truth
I am speaking now
the way you do. I speak
because I am shattered

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 2d

That night when Toad went to bed he thought the biggest thoughts that he could think.

Toad thought about giant sunflowers. He thought about tall oak trees. He thought about high mountains covered with snow.

A glimpse into Toad's mind as he sleeps. He dreams of mountains, giant trees, and sunflowers.

From "The Hat"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 1d

Totally agree.

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Fidel Walsh @dragonslayerma.bsky.social · 1d

It's a lovely thing to sit over a cuppa & have the chats.

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Paul.

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

A paean to tea. ☕️ 👏👏👏

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Emily. The ivory tusks of the elephants my dad brought back for his mam and dad were an introduction to the British Empire for me as a sixties child.