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Dawn McLachlan
@deemclachlan.bsky.social
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Poet and author for hire or loan. Won some prizes. Account is stuff from a small town in NE Scotland.
Hoping to kickstart #HaikuAltText & #PoemAltText
See #FridayPoem
She/Her

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Dawn McLachlan @deemclachlan.bsky.social · 5d
Time for another #FridayPoem. Still struggling with the #poemsabout prompt this week so instead here’s the fresh start of a snowy day in a #haikuset
#haiku #poetry #poems #poets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #alttext #HaikuAltText #PoemAltText
Whiteout a haiku set by Dawn Mclachlan In the silent night Snow came down like memories and cleansed the landscape Smoothed to sugar-white Harshness sweetened to the eye Winter confection From the far forest Rooks rise in conversation Punctuating sky Now the dead trees In the disguise of winter Cannot be discerned In the pink of dawn An unexplored day stretches As if newly born
deemclachlan.bsky.social
The hour turned quick from day to eve
On frosted snow beneath my feet
Shadows chased across the walls
In fleeting patterns darkness falls
Long the reach of trees now bare
I walked on knowing you’re still there

#huntlycastle #buster #inremembrance #winterpoems
The sun sets in winter yellow behind the ruined walls of Huntly Castle in Aberdeenshire. The foreground is brushed with snow and the bare winter trees are silhouetted against the distant hills. The castle cat died suddenly last week and I miss him. I feed the biscuits in my pocket to the crows and together we think about him.
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
A starter pack of #Poets seeking a publisher for their collections. @bethbpoet.bsky.social @pdevonald.bsky.social @benedictan.bsky.social @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social and many more. Please follow and repost if you can #poetsonbluesky #poetrycommunity
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
Final thread of all my starter packs for the year by way of thank you to all the people who have helped and supported me this year. First: Great Writers in Search of an Agent starter pack. @shinewoman.bsky.social @clareobrien.bsky.social @tooriekep.bsky.social & many more. Please follow & repost
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
I’m always so chuffed to be on a good list. I’m honoured to be in such great company on this one. Lots of amazing poets to follow and fill your feeds with beautiful and powerful poems.
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk
Hello #promptcombo crew Thanks Paul @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for this week’s #onrooftops theme. I’m just about to go out, but thought I’d post my wee offering first. Photo by me, Jerusalem rooftops looking towards the Dome of the Rock.

#poetry #poem
A poem by Debbie Ross entitled, Domes Stars and Steeples text as follows From up here the churches, mosques and synagogues glint in sunlight, perfectly co-existing. Rooftop views can be deceptive. On the ground invisible barriers fracture communities. Nationalism, religion and fear keep people apart. Down in the narrow tangle of alleys and streets we found communities that mixed. A glimmer of hope in a desert of grief. A view across mostly flat rooftops - with TV aerials and shade shelters - towards the Dome of the Rock
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
This is an easy one for me, because I’m also in it.
(Long story)
Movie poster from the film Confessions of a Pop Performer.
November 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
Husband’s version…
November 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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thebrokenspine.co.uk
Last week was fire. This week? Ashes. #PoemsAbout #NoFuture starts Friday. Write ruin, hopelessness, rage. The end of days or just Tuesday. Don’t post early—fade into the feed. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text. Sign up for Saturday prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
A burning treeline glows against a pitch-black night sky, flames and smoke rising in the background. Leafless trees stand silhouetted in front of the blaze. Top left: The Broken Spine logo. Top right: "@thebrokenspine.co.uk". Bottom right text: "Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #NOFUTURE".
November 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
Ah… t’is the season for nostalgic discussions about how you could possibly run yourself over after eating too many jacket potatoes.
Magical times.

#StayAnotherDay
November 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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strongmisgiving.bsky.social
Have a Poem published in the latest edition of @dustpoetry.bsky.social about microplastics www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/the-mic...
The microplastics in my body unionised by Ross McCleary
The microplastics in my body unionised while I was staring at the ocean;they took matters into their own hands,making pickets in the alcoves ofmy prefrontal cortex, replacingfuzzy void yesterdays with...
www.dustpoetry.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
So beautiful. So powerful.
upfromsumdirt.bsky.social upfromsumdirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 4d
james baldwin
UNTITLED
block print illustration of a pomegranate; red ink on cream paper. Untitled Lord, when you send the rain, think about it please, a little? Do not get carried away by the sound of falling water, the marvelous light on the falling water. I am beneath that water. It falls with great force and the light Blinds me to the light.
November 22, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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goodlawproject.org
Quite why Maya Forstater thinks her views are more important than the sizeable majority who voted to keep the ponds trans inclusive, as they always have been. But she does. She and her gazillionaire backers have a hearing in the High Court next month - and we're fighting back. goodlaw.social/vs0d
We’re standing with trans people against hate at Hampstead women’s pond | Good Law Project
It’s almost crunch time for a legal challenge from an anti-trans pressure group which could see trans people banned from Hampstead women’s pond. We’re not backing down.
goodlaw.social
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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anntigone.bsky.social
My heart in #retrograde
looking back
with #gratitude

those dumb kids,
so #emotional,
so full of #wonderment
at one another

we didn't heed
the #shadow growing
that would
#demolished us,
even when
what we were
was so #unfinished

I still ache
to remember
that beautiful ruin

#RetroArtPrompt
7 in 1
November 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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anntigone.bsky.social
She bends, never breaks
Stronger than a willow branch
Always snapping back.

#PennedReveries #Stronger
#haiku #senryu
November 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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tessmachling.bsky.social
7th October 2025
289 Detected Iron Age coins.

"as the years move on, I feel it is time to pass on part of this collection to fellow enthusiasts, collectors & historians."

AKA flogging them to highest bidder to do what they want with...

#Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting

www.noonans.co.uk/archive/spec...
www.noonans.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
This poem is so beautiful. I absolutely love short form poetry. It’s incredibly difficult to pack a punch in less space and this poem is soaringly gorgeous.
@rburrows.bsky.social - love your work!
November 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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rburrows.bsky.social
I read a poem at The Book Bag Open Mic @paulwritespoems.bsky.social called My Owl Child. @helenlaycock.bsky.social This is another one of the trilogy! You said you’d like to read it - I thought I’d wait til it looked like this! 😂 @dustpoetry.bsky.social www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/my-daug...
My Daughter is a Gannet by Rachel Burrows
My Daughter is a Gannet With blue sea-eyes meticulously lined, and fixed on the horizon,she soars above us.The sun crowns herflawless feathers -a golden bequeathment.Streamlined and focussed, she swoo...
www.dustpoetry.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
Remember when you were small and all books were this exciting? Lovely.
scalzi.com John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 4d
A dog ran into the yard! Charlie and the dog played and ran around for a while! The dog ran away! It started to rain! Charlie and I went inside! A busy day! Naps for everyone!
Charlie and the guest dog, circling each other in the yard before the mutual butt sniffing.
November 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
Time for another #FridayPoem. Still struggling with the #poemsabout prompt this week so instead here’s the fresh start of a snowy day in a #haikuset
#haiku #poetry #poems #poets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #alttext #HaikuAltText #PoemAltText
Whiteout a haiku set by Dawn Mclachlan In the silent night Snow came down like memories and cleansed the landscape Smoothed to sugar-white Harshness sweetened to the eye Winter confection From the far forest Rooks rise in conversation Punctuating sky Now the dead trees In the disguise of winter Cannot be discerned In the pink of dawn An unexplored day stretches As if newly born
November 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Reposted by Dawn McLachlan
anntigone.bsky.social
We four, trauma-bonded
children of war,
trapped between
two superpowers—
Him and Her...

#DogTags #PoemsAbout
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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bernp.bsky.social
Huge thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for hosting #PoemsAbout #Dogtags
Facade Now in the years That fall like pine straw, my wife Counts the tags on my eyelids. Tiny barnacles of skin Collect around tear ducts Like teenagers at a slow party. I have always had outliers, But in the bell of age They are more prevalent. It may be true that some Newborn babies look Like wizened old men, However, it is not their own faces, They regard as hysterical © Bernard Pearson
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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bundtkake.bsky.social
#poemsabout #dogtags #poetry

@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk

F LAT tin Talisman
Flat tin An inch and a half of slightly Off center Stampedletters HILTXXXXXD N. H. A POS & Numbers X4X -XX-XXXX Identity on a bubblegum machine chain USMC M ROMAN CATHOLIC The smallest Cheapest Record Of Is Or Was Priceless Trauma Stored on flat tin Off center stampedletters and numbers Edges encased in black rubber To silence the noise Loss. Honor. Pride Yellowed tape on a St Christopher medal On the s ame 25 cent chai n As quiet as they can possibly be For how much they say
November 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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dnwritespoetry.bsky.social
Happy Friday #BlueSkyPoets! #PoemsAbout #DogTags
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@karenpgonzalez.bsky.social
Have a glorious day and weekend! Excited as always to read the amazing artistic work presented here!
November 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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merrildsmith.bsky.social
Good morning! For #PoemsAbout #DogTags Another tough one! Thank you to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk #Poetry
Poem: Weighted Silence The air is heavy with silence, the quiet is a roar of denial– there is no war, no marching bands no cheering crowds no reports of fallen soldiers, (tagged and tattooed in advance) no one cries, no one is seen crying, all support, we’re in full support, this operation’s to protect and save— do not say otherwise, wiser to say nothing at all. The air is heavy with silence. That silence is heavy with fear.
November 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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thebrokenspine.co.uk
#PoemsAbout #DogTags drops Friday. Write into memory, sacrifice, names etched or erased. Tags on a chain, weight on a neck. Post from Friday. Use Alt Text. Always tag it right. Prompts hit inboxes Saturdays: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
Same image of rows of military dog tags hanging down in a cluster. Some catch the light, others sink into shadow. Branding remains top left (The Broken Spine logo), top right (website), and bottom right text reads: "Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #DOGTAGS".
November 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM