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Rebekah 💙🏳️‍🌈 @rteller.bsky.social · 6h

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McSherry66 @sherrymc1966.bsky.social · 6h

My feels!

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Rebekah 💙🏳️‍🌈 @rteller.bsky.social · 8h

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ginny1956.bsky.social @ginny1956.bsky.social · 10h

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Rebekah 💙🏳️‍🌈 @rteller.bsky.social · 1d

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Alan Parry He/Him @alanparrywriter.co.uk · 1d

‘the endless fray of being me’ — that closing line is so strong. You capture loneliness without ornament, a plea stitched to survival.
#KeepWriting #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe

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Rebekah 💙🏳️‍🌈 @rteller.bsky.social · 1d

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Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social · 1d

The sorrow in this is so tangible. And your formatting allows me to feel it deeply. Thanks for sharing 🙏 #poemsabout #imperfectme
@alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

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Rebekah 💙🏳️‍🌈 @rteller.bsky.social · 1d

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Melissa M Poulton (she/they) @melissampoulton.bsky.social · 1d

I love this. Thank you for sharing it with the world 💜

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Rough Diamond Poetry @rough-diamond1.bsky.social · 1d

And...OPEN for our newest print anthology "Poems for Protest" 💎💎

roughdiamondpoetry.com/submissions/

Submissions

We are open for submissions for Poems for Protest and The Rough Diamond Poetry Prize We are open for poetry submissions for our next poetry anthology “Poems for Protest” Send us 1-5 poe…

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Merril D. Smith @merrildsmith.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning! I wasn't going to do this prompt for #PoemsAbout #imperfectMe but started writing it yesterday @paulwritespoems.bsky.social writing group. It's still rough. Thanks as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Poem:

Still Standing

The scar on my right breast
a faint tracing,
the charcoal under the artist’s paint,

tattooed dots,
ellipsis signaling the story continues—

always a before
and an after--

so far, always an after--

the sagging of flesh, the greying of hair,
points for endurance, if not for style,

as vain as anyone, I suppose,
but embracing the imperfect,
me.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Sending billions to Argentina while laying off Americans at home.

Letting Qatar build a base on US soil coz they bribed Trump with a plane and are investing billions in his personal business ventures.

Doesn’t seem like “America First”, does it?

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Rebekah 💙🏳️‍🌈 @rteller.bsky.social · 1d

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stace.bot @stacebot.bsky.social · 1d

The rhyme scheme with the dark/serious content is really great!

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Rebekah 💙🏳️‍🌈 @rteller.bsky.social · 1d

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Tracie Renee (she/her) @tracierenee.bsky.social · 1d

"the endless fray of being me" perfectly sums up this theme. 💙

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Rebekah 💙🏳️‍🌈 @rteller.bsky.social · 1d

Here's my offering for #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Twelve

Sometimes I feel
I don't belong
And being here
Just feels so wrong.
From deep inside
A quiet moan.
And all I want
Is to go home.

I get nervous.
I don't know why,
And all I seem
to do is cry.
It's dark and wet
And hard and old.
And all I do
Is what I'm told.

The world is there.
It's big and bright.
But all I see
Is empty night.
Nightmares and fear
And evil queens
Are all I have
In place of dreams.

But someday soon,
I don't know when,
This misery
Will find an end.
Can someone please
Help me relieve
The endless fray
Of being me?

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Dawn McLachlan @deemclachlan.bsky.social · 2d

Time for another #poemsabout day and the theme this week is #ImperfectMe
Thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk as always and everyone sharing and supporting #poets
#poetrycommunity #poemalttext #poetry #poems

Wear the Gloves by Dawn McLachlan

In those muddled days after When all was opened doors
And emptied drawers
I remember them
Butter-soft and finest leather
Stitching like the whisper of the needle
Wrapped still in silvered tissue
Faded tags of festive gifting
Unworn
Saved for a "best" too late to know So if you think me too showy
With misplaced colours and gaudy cloth
Fine jewellery worn for no good reason
It is because I have learned to Wear the damn gloves

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 2d

I am delighted that my #poem Resurrection is published today in @eunoiareview.bsky.social

Just in time for @hool415.bsky.social’s #PromptCombo theme #Visitor & @thebrokenspine.co.uk & @alanparrywriter.co.uk’s #PoemsAbout theme #imperfectme

(Recording in thread)

#poetsonbluesky #poetrycommunity

Eunoia Review @eunoiareview.bsky.social · 2d

Resurrection

A ladybird glistens on a tuft tiny tomato in the dew spat out M&M drop of blood. Buried, he always returns. Unseen hands knead her daily. She licks rustiness, a trickle at the corner of her mouth. Her eye compresses. He calls her name. The voice stumbles her in breath clenched. She…

Resurrection

A ladybird glistens on a tuft tiny tomato in the dew spat out M&M drop of blood. Buried, he always returns. Unseen hands knead her daily. She licks rustiness, a trickle at the corner of her mouth. Her eye compresses. He calls her name. The voice stumbles her in breath clenched. She wonders what bands will swaddle the rebirths down,

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Rebekah 💙🏳️‍🌈 @rteller.bsky.social · 2d

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Alan Parry He/Him @alanparrywriter.co.uk · 2d

‘Stand here with a sign that says / Please do not touch’ The helplessness is stirring beneath every line. Fierce, unflinching writing. #KeepWriting #PoemsAbout #Mannequin

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Rebekah 💙🏳️‍🌈 @rteller.bsky.social · 5d

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Debra Nordyke @dnwritespoetry.bsky.social · 5d

Powerful truth! Well done!

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Beth Bonness @bethbonness.com · 13d

Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out Melanie Green’s A Long, Wide Stretch of Calm

At the Edge of a Lake
“At the shore / of silence— / what becomes / and unbecomes”

The Luster of Silence
“in afternoon’s / echo of lights.”

#poetey

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