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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 · 23h

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 · 23h

What are you unsure about, Glenn. It’s clever and compact and, well, revealing. I love the italicised phrases which make their own poem. Great job 👏🏻 and

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Glenn Barker @rotherwrites.bsky.social · 23h

Hello @thebrokenspine.co.uk and host @alanparrywriter.co.uk for #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe.
This week I am personifying the inanimate. I'm not sure about it...

Revelation

Tidal rock
Kicked and scraped
Shoal swimmer
Ocean colour catcher
Beach candy

Hard as nails

Wet clay
Dull-witted grains
Studio tabula rasa
Creator seeded
Shop window dressed

Forever fragile

Carrara marble
Hammer and chisel
Removing nothing
Revealing everything
Brittle hardness

Don’t touch me

© Glenn Barker October 2025

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 23h

Love it! Great subject.

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Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social · 23h

#PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe

I explore with different line breaks here.

The muse doesn’t distort, like I do,
in the quick of a still of her on a YouTube screen.
Her smile isn’t subtle, unlike mine;
it holds our attention, always seen,
even in conversation or her concentration on subject.
The muse impresses, unlike me.
She doesn’t have days where her ideas stall
or delay in their delivery.

The muse is generous,
well-read in everything: in pamphlet and zine.
The muse is original in her approach.
Nothing else you’ll find on the same subject as hers
will be exactly identical,
though what she offers is universal, relevant,
applicable to my little world.

The muse buzzes
with the currents and circuits of her inner workings of ideas.
The muse manages smiles, enthusiastic,
and hurries on a Sunday.
The muse must have a lot to juggle and do,
like me too.

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 23h

Good morning, Bluesky.I’ve not drawn the curtains yet, so no idea what the weather is doing. Anyway, it’s Friday and my #photooftheday is sunflowers with a view (Portmahomack 2022)

Wishing you a good day.

#scotland
#sunflowers

Sunflowers in a field margin. A field of golden stubble with the sea on the horizon, blue sky overhead. Rows of sunflowers as far as the eyes can see front and right. A car rear visible on the road which borders the field. Tree copses dotted about randomly

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John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 23h

#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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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 23h

Wow. So much there, John and a perfect rendering of today’s theme. Final image is spot on. 👏🏻

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 23h

Good morning #BlueskyPoetry Community. A grand start for #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe today. @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk here’s my experimental draft. Weird form for the 1st but the rhyme is intentional. 2nd’s a Haiku as it seemed appropriate. Will catch up on the rest later. Thanks.

A poem by Debbie Ross

Super Model
I used to be bothered about my hips, my tits, my lips - all the bits that didn't conform to some societal norm of what a girl should be
it was my Dad who shaped me - never good enough at what was important to him.
Now
I embrace the 'flaws':
the love of books and poetry,
the lines of learning, this errant body -
imperfect, perfect ME.

A photo of a grey bowl with the text of a poem by Debbie Ross overlaid as follows

Kintsukuroi 金繕
We are travellers filling our imperfections with thin lines of gold

A definition of kintsukuroi underneath

kintsukuroi
(n.) (v. phr.) "to repair with gold"; the Japanese art of repairing pottery with gold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken.

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 1d

The mirror me
is shattered glass,
a self in splinters.

Each jagged shard
spreading my flaws
across tiny multitudes.
They dance and mock
in unison

#ImperfectMe #poemsabout
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk

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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 1d

#ImperfectMe #poemsabout #poem #madrigal
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 23h

Perfectly done, Erich.

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poetryforce.bsky.social @poetryforce.bsky.social · 1d

Hello to @brokenspinejournal.bsky.social and our host Alan @alanparry.bsky.social with our theme #PoemsAbout #Imperfectme. Many thanks for getting us to dig deep this week 🪏🪏🪏

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Cumbria Wildlife Trust @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social · 1d

Relax and take a sunny stroll through the tranquillity of Staveley Woodlands – ✨Reserve of the Month✨

Why not head there this weekend and chill in one of the rarest habitats in the world? 😍

Visiting info ⬇️
www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/nature-reserves/staveley-woodlands

#WorldMentalHealthDay

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Dean Norton @zentinl.bsky.social · 1d

Hello @hool415.bsky.social, I am a bit late dropping in on #promptcombo for #Visitor. What a great prompt. Just a little dashed-off piece for fun. #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry

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

Too kind, Dave. I doubt I’ll find them easy at all!

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

New theme lands tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe. Don’t post early—Friday to Thursday only. Give the mess its moment. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout to be seen. Get sharp prompts sent direct: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

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Liz Hedgecock @lizhedgecock.bsky.social · 1d

REFRESHMENTS and also book talk! For free!
Stockton Heath Library, Warrington, Sat 18 Oct, 2-4.30pm. Come and say hi!

Liz Hedgecock @lizhedgecock.bsky.social · 3d

***Library event coming soon!***
If you’re anywhere near Warrington, I’m talking about cowriting as part of an event at Stockton Heath Library on Saturday 18 Oct, 2-4.30pm, Writing in Practice. Free, and refreshments provided.
Hope to see you there!

Event poster - here's the text:
Writing in Practice
Saturday 18th October, 2-4.30pm, Stockton Heath Library
Join local authors for talks on:
- How I kill people (on paper)
- Historical fiction - finding inspiration
- Words with friends: cowriting novels
Plus meet the authors and Q&A
Free event, booking preferred, refreshments provided
Please email lespin1@livewirewarrington.org to book

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 1d

"The eyes of future generations are on [us], silently urging us to act bravely and quickly [...] to save them from a collapsed biosphere.

Will we rise to the moment and earn the right to be regarded as 'good ancestors'?"

Crucial question, crucial book.

*Read it.*

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

Some fab lines here, Ann. Feel raw and is more powerful as a result perhaps.

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

This work well, Dave. Thanks for sharing something so personal. I’ve tried a Sestina but not madrigal. Must have a go!

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

Big thanks to everyone who shared a WIP yesterday.

First lines. Draft doubts. Wild sparks. We saw it all.

#WednesdayWIPs is back next week. Same time. Same tag.

Keep writing. Keep showing up.

#PoemsAbout #PoetsOfBluesky #BlueskyWriters #AmWriting

A halftone stylised hand holding a pen on a dark background. Text might read “Thanks for sharing your WIP – See you next Wednesday.”

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

Most welcome, Carolyn.

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

Thanks for telling me. I was beginning to take it personally! 😂

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

Brilliant, Carolyn. I missed it the other day. Hits home.

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