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David Atkinson

@davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social

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(he/him) Belfast/Coleraine poet. Black Eyed Peace, is available as free eBook from Wordpress, inc. the Pushcart nominated Hunting for the Aurora. MA student at MMU - davidatkinsonpoet.wordpress.com

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 3h

There is such poignancy in that single end-stopped line that opens the poem

'Just Once' by Anne Sexton

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 22h

That's perhaps what I should have said. But that would have opened the door to a debate about who is the biggest, or even the definition of biggest...

David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 2d

The gifts from our kids we cherish most are those they put their heart into. I have a jar of pebbles with words written on each, Kate Dempsey has this

'It's what you put into it' from her collection 'the space between'

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, I'm glad you are enjoying the poems ❤

That's what it's all about.

If you see something that makes you smile, think, something that moves you - repost so others can enjoy it too.

Liz Berry is a great place to start. 😊

David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 3d

I am going to need a bigger boat...

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 4d

Nuclear

David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 5d

I have spent the last couple of days with 'Chic to be Sad', the brilliant second collection by @mollytwomey.bsky.social

If you haven't read it, read it. If you have read it, tell others about it.

If you haven't read 'Raised by Vultures', read it first ❤️

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 5d

They are a powerful writer and performer. Their collection 'Surge' is highly recommended.

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 5d

After listening to Jay Bernard sing ‘Songbook’ every time I read it now I sing it too.
At 6:12 on the link below, but you really should listen to it all – they will give you goosebumps

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Jay Bernard reads from 'Surge'

YouTube video by T. S. Eliot Prize

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 6d

This by @weekathy.bsky.social for National Poetry Day
'Highs Gone Low'
A powerful performance, goosebumps listening to this

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you. Just discovered The Verb recently. Listening back to all the old episodes. Haven't got to that one yet. I will check it out 😊

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 7d

This is my favourite Langston Hughes poem. He says so much in 4 lines, and the weight of the word 'perhaps' in the last line does not go unnoticed.

Posting on the 1955th day since George Floyd was murdered. Little has changed, things are probably worse

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 7d

With just 18 words ❤️

David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 8d

Stars on the beach and clouds on the grass ☁️✨

David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 8d

She is an astonishingly brilliant poet, she takes writing about the natural world to somewhere others can only dream of

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 8d

I was chatting to a friend tonight about how, as children, we would lie on the grass and look up at the clouds and the sky.

We should do this more.

Reminded me of this poem by Mary Oliver

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 10d

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 11d

Captures the scene and the emotion perfectly 🙏

David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 11d

This poem builds beautifully. I think we have all been here, beside this bed. For me it was my father, an ice cube in gauze rather than pineapple...

'To A Friend Who Does Not Believe In God'

- by José A. Alcántara

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 12d

It still stands up over 2 centuries later ❤️

David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 12d

'Music'

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 14d

Sometimes you read a poem and the first couple of lines are so good you don't want to read any further.

Here... the first line... and then the second... Oh my!

But read on, the rest is great too

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 14d

Just left my youngest daughter off to uni 3 weeks ago...
Was almost as tough as the day she didn't want to hold my hand anymore...

David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 15d

There is something hauntingly beautiful in this juxtaposition of sadness and hope

'Although the wind'
- Izumi Shikibu

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you. It's a great poem. She says something powerful very delicately ❤️

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