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Roger Hare

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Poetry scribbler, cricket lover, art appreciator living in the Midlands. (Contact via open posting, not via chat, thanks 😊)

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Marjorie Lotfi @marjorielotfi.bsky.social · 20h

Wednesday mornings, 30-40 writers gather online (cameras off, cameras on, always with coffee) for Marjorie’s Table. We look briefly at craft then write - poetry or prose or essay or memoir - to 3 prompts. Join us for £8 per month via Marjorie’s Table on Substack: substack.com/@marjorielot...

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Facilitator of Marjorie's Table Weekly Workshops, Writer (Forward Prize Best First Collection 2024, PBS Special Commendation - The Wrong Person to Ask, Bloodaxe Books), Mentoring & Retreats Galloway H...

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Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations Paul - brilliant! 💥🥂

Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant idea for a poem.... and brilliantly done! ❤️👏👏👏

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Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social · 1d

You capture such a great atmosphere in this James - a heady mix of confusion and calm........ I did look it up: extraordinary - you evoke the strangeness superbly 👏👏

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Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much Sue - your reading is v much appreciated 🙏🤗

Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for your kind reading Julian - chuffed you enjoyed the 'ghosts haunting' 🤗🤗 Thanks again 🙏

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Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much Jude 👍

Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social · 1d

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Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social · 1d

Hi to all at #promptcombo 👋. Here's my bash at this week's prompt, #visitor from @hool415.bsky.social

To get me there you'll have to lay-on
decent enticement. Something large
and round turning in the sky,

an amusement that sings, dings,
rings, plays a tune. A bagatelle that
accelerates ball bearings beyond

the speed of light to nestle in nests
of numbered pins. How about
a bowling alley, complete with

flashing scoreboard? somewhere I
can hurl a coconut? teacups made
for other than sipping, snd straw

on the floor yo keep feet off muddied
grass, to soak up children's tears?
A quieter area, perhaps, where we

could linger, all the ghosts haunting
someone else's train. At the end
I need to walk home with a soft toy

and a sugar rush. To get me to be
anything other than visitor will take
more, so much more, than this.

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Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social · 2d

't will be a good 'un !! 👇

Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Happening this Friday!! 🚨

Let me know if you want the zoom link. You're not going to want to miss these incredible readers ❤️

Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social · 2d

A great lineup ✨️✨️ many congratulations to all 🎊🎉

Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social · 3d

Beautifully done. That picture of the nurse's role 👌👌👏👏

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Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social · 3d

🤗👏👏👏🎉🎊💐

Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social · 4d

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Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social · 4d

Really enjoying the Karen Solie at the moment - wonderful writing ❤️

Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social · 5d

A brilliant found-poem 😊👏👏👏👏

Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social · 6d

That phrase '... hollow steps' - 💎👏👏

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Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social · 6d

Love that ending - great statement 👏👏👏

Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social · 6d

... mute accomplice.... Pow! 👏👏👏

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Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social · 6d

Love that finale - ouch! 👏👏👏

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Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social · 7d

Can think of no more appropriate a way of saying #HappyNationalPoetryDay to all poet'ers than by reposting this beauty..........

Paul McGrane @paulmcgrane.bsky.social · 7d

You ask for a poem
I offer you a blade of grass

The late, great Brian Patten wishes you #HappyNationalPoetryDay

Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social · 7d

Superb!

Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social · 7d

Keep going back to this Suzanna - such a wonderful ending 👏👏👏

Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social · 8d

Brilliant!!!

Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social · 8d

Latest collection from a super poet! 🤗

Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social · 10d

GIVEAWAY ALERT! 💛

Circulaire is a month old today and to celebrate I'm giving away two FREE copies! ☕️

Please like, share, and drop a comment below if you want to be entered into the draw - which will happen on Thursday, National Poetry Day! ✨

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