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Merril D. Smith
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Poet, Historian, Lover of river walks and the sea. Cat Lady. Poetry Collection: River Ghosts (Nightingale & Sparrow Press) New Poetry Collection: Held Inside the Folds of Time (Jane's Studio Press).
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Good morning! A poem for #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors. This is a revision of an old poem. Thank you, as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for these weekly prompts!
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Last year’s Christmas - Winter anthology featuring Matthew Hollis, a dazzling array of poetic talent, and artwork by Emma Bissonnet.

❄️ 🧊 🐻‍❄️ 🌟 🌊

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November 24, 2025 at 4:07 AM
It's Monday, and I'm musing! This is my weekly post of #Poetry, #Photos, and commentary about the past week.

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On the Mountaintop, Sliding Towards Dawn
Monday Morning Musings: On the Mountaintop, Sliding toward Dawn Heroes appear in every generationordinary people with stinky feet,and morning mouth, imperfect beingswho smoke, drink, are unfaithful…
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November 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Roberta Writes - Reblog: “The Soldier and the Radium Girl Part 1: The Bloom of Youth, Chapter 1: Enlist in haste, repent at leisure (cont. 6)” by Roberta Eaton Cheadle roberta-writes.com/2025/11/23/r...
Roberta Writes – Reblog: “The Soldier and the Radium Girl Part 1: The Bloom of Youth, Chapter 1: Enlist in haste, repent at leisure (cont. 6)” by Roberta Eaton Cheadle
Jake Tanner 25 September 1917 The previous day, Jake’s platoon had boarded a train heading for an unknown US port. The first men of his battalion to be leaving for “somewhere over there.” Many were…
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November 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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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
November 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Two things I learned
growing up next to
a military base
friends can come
from anywhere and
#dogtags are all
the same color

#PoemsAbout
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November 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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This week's #PoemsAbout #DogTags got me thinking about what should the world know about you in an emergency?

Thank you to the host
@alanparrywriter.co.uk and
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
and to all of the other writers.

#poetry #poem #writing #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Poetry - art - creativity - creative process & inspiration... I loved this post by Resa McConaghy @resalis.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Not able to find your fellow poets' posts? Here is one way to set up tabs to follow favourite hashtags and poetry communities:

1/ swipe right until you have the 'Following' tab on the left at the top.
November 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Tickets are now live 🫣
Back for Session 2 in January.

Who’s in?

Tickets 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-book-b...
November 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Where do we get our inspiration? This beautiful post of #art by @resalis.bsky.social inspired by my new #poetry collection, Held Inside the Folds of Time. Thank you so much, Resa!
@janecornwell.bsky.social

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Held Inside the Folds of Time
by: Merril D. Smith This book of poetry is luscious, rich with words and resplendent with photographs. It inspired me to draw. Sister Songs This was the first poem that I remembered when I fin…
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November 22, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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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
November 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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For this week's #PoemsAbout #DogTags with thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and everyone involved.
November 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Good morning #BlueskyPoetry pals @thebrokenspine.co.uk & @alanparrywriter.co.uk facilitating today’s #PoemsAbout #DogTags this fag packet offering is for a friend’s husband, Dave who was killed in Afghanistan in 2012. He was military police not army but she wears his ID.Dogtag jewellery is a thing.
November 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM