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Bernard Pearson

@bernp.bsky.social

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Poet, novelist, Reviewer, published in over one hundred and fifty journals magazines, including Wild Court, The York Literary Review, Aesthetica Magazine . Husband, father, hankering after peace in a protected planet www.abookatberntime.uk

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 20m

This is such strong redolent immersive work John thank you for sharing

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 24m

clever, funny, touching, humane thank you for sharing Carolyn

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 36m

His slogan being Norway or My Way

Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 38m

Phew !!!! many congratulation for all that Marina Corina Macado has achieved in the name of peace and in receiving The Nobel Prize

Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 1h

fab wet arsed against.... so brilliantly observed and immersive work thanks for sharing

Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 1h

once more huge thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for hosting #PoemsAbout #imperfectme. Here's a bit of frippery from me

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 17h

no way norway my my how how he'll stamp his feet

Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 18h

So honoured to have my work included

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 18h

After Lunch with Dodie and Standish

I was eighteen
Or whereabouts dressed
In a Charmless suit
In a garden both of
Gethsamene and Eden
I was given from
the illustrator’s hand
an everlasting cigar,
she had no use for
I smoked it, until I was forty five.

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 23h

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 1d

Just remember what the score is, Captain Von Schitzenpants. You ARE the weakest link, Apprentice. Goodbye.

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 1d

Regrets

To be sure
Take the mirror to my lips,
(Your lips)
For you see I never said
'I love you enough', that
was my crime

Hold my hand,take my pulse,
my heart will start again.
For I shall surely live
If only for a moment
To say this to you
one more time.

© Bernard Pearson

Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 1d

Feeling Left out

Now that I am old and past it
Our cat get more mail than me,
Letters from the vet
that remind ‘Dear Tiggles,’
Of the life cycle of a Flea.

© Bernard Pearson

Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 2d

' thoughts still snagged in the day's static...' LOVE IT !

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 2d

His eyes betray him haunted by vaulted ambition which he feels has been thwarted at every I once went to Chipping Camden and failed to see anything but a rich white face

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lisettebrodey @lisettebrodey.bsky.social · 2d

‘Stay true to yourself – and fly closer to the sun’: what I’ve learned from 50 years of rejection 🚫📝

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‘Stay true to yourself – and fly closer to the sun’: what I’ve learned from 50 years of rejection

As a writer, I have been rejected thousands of times, and it initially led to shock, denial and anger. Then I accepted it. Here’s what you can gain from doing so too

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting if very, very, scary hypothesis

Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 2d

knock knock
Who's there?
Ice
Ice who?
'Ice seem to have lost all sense of common decency

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 2d

Poor old Mark Carney, having to sit through that load of baloney. He looked about as comfortable as the man who comes home where his wife gets him to take tea with her new best friend she met shopping in the mall. His mistress is as surprised to see him as he her.

Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 2d

Retail therapy for me equates to needing it after going to the shops however one place I d like is the Oxfam book shop in Shrewsbury Here's todays book booty

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 2d

Heseltine at the Tory conf:

"Fascists of the 30s are back... Trump's language coincides with words here... The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem. We must make clear we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Farage... We don't need Trump's mouthpiece anywhere near No. 10.”

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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Lynn Miclea @lynnmiclea.bsky.social · 2d

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 2d

From my selected poems 'In Free Fall' published by www.leafbyleafpress.com