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Carolyn Thomas

@carolynthomas.bsky.social

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Welsh poet and writer in exile on Tyneside. Poems in Anthropocene, Dreich, The Ekphrastic Review, Impossible Archetype, These Pages Sing and elsewhere including Broken Spine’s Coffeehouse podcast. Stories in Gwasg Honno anthologies

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Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 12h

Huge thanks for your kindness 💙 Yeah, running behind thanks to curmudgeonly technology 🙄 However, just got set up with a new laptop so fingers crossed! 😊 The gangsta tyrant thinks it’s a new bed 😹

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Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 2d

Checking it out 😊

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Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 2d

But you must take the credit for translating so beautifully 😊

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Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 2d

Pleasure, Paul. It brought a huge grin to my face 😊

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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 3d

🙏 to @hool415.bsky.social as #PromptCombo #visitor host

#adaptation / #photography: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025/2007

#poem #RussianPoetry #Symbolism #spooktober #Death #PoetryInTranslation #PereLachaise #Shroud

©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2007

Highly contrasted black-and-white image of sculpted marble on a tomb at Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

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Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 2d

One word - stunning! Love it 💙

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 3d

Morning @hool415.bsky.social Ju. Here's my first response to your marvellous #promptcombo #visitor. It's from my ImpSpired collection "As Folktaleteller." Have a great week:

A Lincoln Imp

Tell you why I'm motionless here, grinning
down at you. Satan let us out to play.
Mate and I sat on a church spire twisting
it. Chesterfield never had better days.

Next we blew through that door. Tripped up Bishop.
So serious. In the Angel Choir broke
chairs and tables till angel out a hymn book
told us to stop, so I lobbed stones at bloke

while mate scarpers to Grimsby, where angel
catches him, smacks his arse, turns him to stone
as he did to me. At least mate can waggle
his smacked arse at visitors I'm alone.

Need a bit of fun in this God given
place packed full of all praying and hymning.

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Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 2d

Really love this, Paul 😁 Impish fun!

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Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 2d

Loved it, Sue 😊

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Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 2d

🤣🤣🤣 don’t we all? 😉

Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 2d

My pleasure, David 😊

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Sue Ibrahim @sueimnw.bsky.social · 2d

For #PromptCombo #Visitor with most-nominated-ever host @hool415.bsky.social a poem I don't think I've posted before (Ju will know), which only got its temporary title this morning, and is, for me, remarkably long. Will catch up with others later.

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Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 2d

Glorious, Sue! Gentle humour beautifully conjured. Love the warmth in this piece 💙

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David Birch @davidbirch.bsky.social · 2d

Many thanks @hool415.bsky.social for a great #PromptCombo #Visitor. Here's a something from a few years back about visiting my Mum in her final weeks

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Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 2d

Heartbreakingly tender, David. A really beautiful poem

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 2d

The first book I wrote from my father' notes etc. He weren't half lovely. He worked with Ian Fleming, met Noel Coward Karen Blixen among others and took tea with the man who led those who killed Rasputin

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Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 2d

My goodness! You have some real material there, Bernard! What a source for writing - fantastic 😊

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Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 2d

An absolute pleasure and very much deserved 😊

Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 3d

My #LifttotheSky today goes to the lovely Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social , a fine poet and generous supporter of #poetrycommunity #BlueskyPoers #PoetsSupportPoets
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk

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Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 3d

You’re very welcome, Peter 😊

Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 3d

😊

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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 5d

Small boy urinates
in a city-centre bowl —
police do nothing.

#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #senryu #poemsabout #mannequin
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk

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Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 3d

Perfect capture 😊 Love the headline style - splendidly witty 😁

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Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 3d

You’re very welcome 😊

Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you, Sue 💙 It’s hard to imagine what it must have been like for him. He hated working undergrad and went on the railways as soon as he was old enough but I think he was proud he was able to contribute

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