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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure you already know but there's a term for that - scurryfunging! Like ved the poem 👏

Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 1d

#ekphrastic #poetrycommunity #poetsofbluesky

This is an amazing opportunity to find out more about Ekphrastic poetry from one of the finest Ekphrastic practitioners. And it's free

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 1d

Posting for The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press 🙂

Free online Zoom workshop about ekphrastic poetry with Lorette C. Luzajic of the Ekphrastic Review.
When? Sunday 26th October
Time? 6-8pm CET/ 5-7pm UK time
Sign up? email [email protected] with “Ekphrastic Workshop” in the subject line.

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 1d

Posting for The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press 🙂

Free online Zoom workshop about ekphrastic poetry with Lorette C. Luzajic of the Ekphrastic Review.
When? Sunday 26th October
Time? 6-8pm CET/ 5-7pm UK time
Sign up? email [email protected] with “Ekphrastic Workshop” in the subject line.

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Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 4d

Hullo @rfsmith.bsky.social @dragonslayerma.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social I’m hosting #promptcombo with #visitor All welcome, use the #promptcombo to post and me @hool415.bsky.social (Please note: I’m not around all Tuesday but will catch up the next day!) Ju

Walk

That afternoon
the clouds were sullied
holding their breath of rain,
and the wind
one-handed, shyly
circled the trees again.

It was an hour
when the streets were clear
just an old man, his slowed dog,
and the nearby knock
of a Macmillan Nurse.

It felt like a hole in the day:
where time had fled
and the emptiness left
carried no anticipation.

I thought much of that nurse
and the house overrun
with the dry rot
of cancer,

how perhaps
round a downstairs bed
she helped like a priest,
dissolve the glass,
so the clouds and the wind
could be welcomed.

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Paul @paulwritespoems.bsky.social · 7d

For #PoemsAbout #Mannequin here is ‘Disjointed’

Big shout to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for creating this space to share with a vast array of prompts.

Will catch up later…

Disjointed

Dreamsoft hands
replaced with fury-fists.

Gentle shoulders splinter
in vicetwist—
you carried the weight
of her malignant trivialities
for too long

my efforts to speak up
reduced to failed
staccato stilted silence
by my

planed plastic tongue.

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 5d

That's so powerful!

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 5d

That's an interesting take, it's always fascinating to me what others see in the words. In my mind the dummy is more of a blank canvas, but yes your version could be in there too. Thanks for the great comment 🙏

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks Alan 🙏

Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks Paul 🙏

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 6d

Very powerful, Emily. Sharp and biting and memorable.

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks John, it was a quickish write and because the dummy is a real thing I've encountered a few times I can see it/him sitting there on an actual chair. Always good to get others' views 🙏

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 5d

There's also something about unexpected incongruity, but yes to Uncanny Valley 🙏

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks Paul 🙏

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 5d

An incredible take on the topic 👏

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 6d

#PoemsAbout #Mannequin

I put the wrong prompt on here 🙄

Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 6d

I've missed a couple of recent prompts as I've been away. Here's a relatively quick write based on a real artifact that I've seen scare the living daylights out of numerous people. For @alanparrywriter.co.uk and #PromptCombo #mannequin

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Oops, I'm rusty, #PoemsAbout #Mannequin

Getting my hashtags mixed up!!!!

Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 6d

I should have read the whole post, 😔 be been scouring issue 4 unsuccessfully for your name 🤪. Congratulations and that's something extra to look forward to in issue 7! 🙌

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 6d

I mentioned it to my hubby and he was familiar with the piece and said his version was by the LSO... Further checking reveals Andrew Preview (as I always think of Andre Previn) as the conductor.

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 6d

I've missed a couple of recent prompts as I've been away. Here's a relatively quick write based on a real artifact that I've seen scare the living daylights out of numerous people. For @alanparrywriter.co.uk and #PromptCombo #mannequin

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks for sharing that Paul, my husband listens to a lot of classical music so I'll see if he has this on disc, though Rattle/Berlin Philharmonic would be a hard combo to beat!

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you @carolynthomas.bsky.social 🙏

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks so much to @carolynthomas.bsky.social for giving my reprinted poem, which in one sense is very typical of my writing, a big boost, and thanks to @dreich.bsky.social The Candyman's Trumpet for giving it another outing!

#Blueskypoets #poetrycommunity

Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 8d

Another beauty from this month’s The Candyman’s Trumpet @dreich.bsky.social - this time from the splendid Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social
#poetrycommunity
#Blueskypoets #PoetsSupportPoets

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks for the reposts of my poem 🙏🫶
@janpsolivagant.bsky.social
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
@siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social
@rfsmith.bsky.social
@vignettes.bsky.social

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks so much 🙏

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks for the kind words, I'm saving TCT #4 till Sunday when I'll read it through 🙏

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