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Dave Hemming
@davehemming.bsky.social
I write words. I usually cross them out later. Poet and seahorse whisperer, haiku. Songwriter with @thenightherons.bsky.social
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me

Train Dreams: achingly sad yet beautiful tale of woodsman haunted by guilt and loss

#movies
January 2, 2026 at 9:01 AM
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me

Anora: Brilliantly realised characters as Anora’s marriage to a Russian oligarch is challenged by his family - hilarious and moving.

#movies #2025
January 2, 2026 at 8:56 AM
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me

Death Of England: Delroy: Part of the revival of the National Theatre trilogy with Paapa Essiedu - stunning writing and live performance.
December 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me.

A real pain: Jesse Eisenberg’s movie, with him and Kieran Cullkin as David and Benji, awkward cousins visiting a concentration camp in Poland is understated, funny, moving and subtle about family relationships.

#movies #2025
December 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me

For A grim country-tinged story of a lottery winner turned motel-living alcoholic but brought to vivid life by Andrea Risborough’s stellar performance as Leslie and Marc Maron’s humanity against his better judgement as Sweeney.

#movies #2025
December 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me:

The Hand Of God: coming of age in Naples in the era of Maradona with an eccentric family - very funny and at times tragic.

#movies #2025
December 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me

Better Man: the life story of Robbie Williams portrayed as a chimp doesn’t sound a promising prospect, but it really works in this tale of the troubled star.

#movies #2025
December 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me:

Will & Harper: a road trip that explores friendship and the challenges of transition with gentle humour.

#movies #2025
December 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A Twixtmas Carol

#twixtmas #poem #carol
December 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me

The Extraordinary Miss Flower: is an extraordinary biographical epistolary musical project - and lucky enough to see Emiliana Torrini singing some of the letters from the film at Green Man festival

#movies #2025
December 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me

Good One: Sam goes hiking with her dad and friend - a kind of coming of age movie in which the flaws of the men are revealed, with subtlety and humour
December 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Ahh, Boxing Day is the best, with all the leftover Lego and Labubu sandwiches
#boxingday
December 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I’ve decided to award myself the Subbuteo World Peace Prize.
December 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Some sharks have to keep on moving;
can’t relax, just keep improving,
hitting targets, multitasking:
surely there’s a time for basking?

#blueskypoetry #poem #shark #purpose #basking
October 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This poem is about my daughter as a little baby #nationalpoetryday #baby #play #poem #blueskypoetry
October 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This is a song about my lovely mum, who died four years ago.
on.soundcloud.com/BbAVIBt11ixi...
Venus
A song about Dave’s mum, who loved looking at Venus.
soundcloud.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:57 AM
September 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
1. Get a lucrative publishing deal
2. Sell film rights
3. Lawyer up
July 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Man going to St Ives “did not meet
polygamist with 343 cats and 2401 kittens”, according to latest “Salt Path” exposé.
July 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
July 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
i will eschew the stop
its harsh finality
leave no drooping
ellipsis and not
question nor exclaim
and doff my caps
suspend my breath
so you can infer
just as you wish

#poem #stops #blueskypoetry
June 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Meditation

hear her voice soft as a bell
ringing out each syllable
telling me we can be well
know that this is possible
and a peace that can be known
kindness that is comforting
knowing we are not alone
and that that is everything

#meditation #poem #blueskypoetry
June 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
June 5, 2025 at 6:34 AM
In school they always used
an overhead projector.
We were small and unaware:
everything went over our heads.

#poem #blueskypoetry #ohp
June 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Food, wine, clothes, treasure,
eternal life: a pharaoh’s
Maslow pyramid

#haiku #poem #pyramids #blueskypoetry
May 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM