Such an inspiring collection for a long weekend Ms.A. Welcome back from your break. I hope your absence from 🦋produced moments of Lived Poetry.
Live your poetry
Rhyme moments, spin webs of thought!
Connect soulfully
Please repost!
Starting this year, our plan @HaikuCrush is to take profits from all Best #Haiku #book sales at TinyURL.com/TheBestHaiku to increase honorariums awarded by the judges. Your purchase helps. Thank you!
#haikusaturday #poetry #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #haikufeels #writingcommunity
The word IMAGINATION is spelled out in metre-high letters, each letter decorated by children at a different local primary school in Swadlincote as part of the Swadlincote Festival of Words.
Yesterday was #WorldPoetryDay. If any of you lovely humans feel like supporting a worthy, wordy cause, Swadlincote Festival of Words is a community festival close to my heart. We're a tiny team of volunteers & every little really does help. Thank you 🙏🏻 bit.ly/SFOW26-Donate
Latest edition of Little Thoughts Press is now available. Delighted to be featured alongside some stellar children's poets.
Thank you to everyone who sent poems for our spring flight. The window has now closed. A lot arrived yesterday, so the next few days will be spent reading and replying to emails.
#PoetryForChildren #DirigibleBalloon 🎈
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#kidlit #HaikuSaturday #quietposters
A little nonsense on the DBs latest flight , together with a swag of fine poems.
dirigibleballoon.org/poem/The-Lio...
#Haiku is alive!
#Childhood... Of course, we've been there. It's the experiences, unique or universal. This, pictured in words by Mark Bird, relates. Mark is our #HaikuCrush today!
#haikusunday #poetry #micropoetry #poetrycommunity ##cartwheel #haikusaturday #haikufeels #writingcommunity #senryu
Thanks to those people who bought sets of my remaindered book ‘The Budgie Likes to Boogie’. I still have copies available for ridiculous prices, 30 books for £20, 15 for 10, inclusive of postage! Incluges 'Walking With My Iguana'.Just want them to have good homes. Reposts appreciated.
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#kidlit #HaikuSaturday #quietposters
It is, was or will be World Umbrella Day
dirigibleballoon.org/poem/The-Umb...
Here are the 7 gorgeous versions of my 2/2/26 #HaikuSaturday #haiku posted so far. I'll post the complete list on Monday so more people can join in if they wish to do so.
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#kidlit #HaikuSaturday #quietposters
Village
Dr Seuss said it all:
‘A person’s a person,
no matter how small’.
Let’s say the same for a village:
It isn’t the size that matters,
but how many hearts
call it home.
australianchildrenspoetry.com.au/2026/02/10/v...
#Haiku is alive!
Not everyone needs a quiet space to #write, but many do. For #poets who do, this #poem by Chopstik strikes a chord. And so, we have a #haikucrush on Chopstik @chopstik.bsky.social today!
#poetry #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #library #haikufeels #writingcommunity #haikusaturday
#Haiku is alive!
FYI, our 2026 plan @HaikuCrush is... Profits from our Best Haiku #anthology sales at TinyURL.com/TheBestHaiku will go to increasing honorariums awarded by the judges. Your purchase helps!
#poetry #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #senryu #haikuchallenge #haikufeels #writingcommunity
Thrilled to appear alongside @stefankarlsson.bsky.social @attielime.bsky.social & Jacqueline on @brianmosespoet.bsky.social blog celebrating reading @nationalliteracytrust #goallin @booktrust.org.uk brian-moses.blogspot.com?m=1
A page from Little Thoughts Press Issue 11: Stirring Words with a sneak peek of the story Perfectly Imperfect by Isabelle Paruzel-Gibson. Accompanying the story is an illustration of a child lying on their stomach painting nature images.
"... if life was always perfect you would never be sad, or angry, and those emotions are very important. They make us human."
So much wisdom to be found in this story from young writer Isabelle Paruzel-Gibson.
"Perfectly Imperfect" in Issue 11: Stirring Words www.littlethoughtspress.com/issues
#Haiku is alive!
#Romance... we think this poem is so apropos on Bluesky. We picture blue eyes and sky. Today, we have a #HaikuCrush on Robert @robertthe.bsky.social!
#haikusunday #poetry #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #summersky #utopia #sunny #haikuchallenge #writingcommunity #summer #eyes #poem
Hope you're enjoying our #PaperBoundMag #SneakPeeks. More coming soon.
In the meantime, here's the beautiful cover again - illustrated by the talented @stephaniebuosi.com 🧡💚
Follow the link in our bio to download your free copy.
#KidLit #WritingTips #WritingMagazine
Here's another #SneakPeek inside the latest issue. This #Teaser from Graham Cawser's Vlad the Bad is also a little sneaky look inside his latest poetry collection Wizards, Witches & Magical Glitches.
Read more at paperboundmag.com 📚🖤
#KidLit #Poetry #PaperBoundMag
A poem about reading poetry slowly, like a sloth or tortoise. But not too slowly, or you’ll fall asleeee zzzz
Ode to Reading Poems Sloooowlly 🐌. Published by the fantastic The School Magazine with incredible illustration by Gabriel Evans.
First post on here for a long time.
#ukkidlit #poetry #kidlit #poems #yearofreading #illustratedpoetry
Today's PaperBound #Teaser comes from this issue's winning submission - Masquerade by @gaynorandrews.bsky.social 🖤💛
Read the whole poem and more over at paperboundmag.com
#PaperBoundMag #KidLit #Poetry #SneakPeek
Winning Wars With Peace by Pallavi Jesrani When injustice reigned all across the land, they raised uplifting voices, and took a steadfast stand. One sought independence one strove for civil rights, with strong resolve and passion that scaled the highest heights. They both revered the truth, and each one had a dream. Their stirring words aroused, and thousands joined their team. At no time did they use arms or ammunition. Non-violence was a core value of their missions. They marched away to Dandi. Made their own free salt. Marched off to Montgomery, and led a bus boycott.
A perfect #kidlit poem for MLK Day by @paljes.bsky.social, "Winning Wars With Peace" honors the lives and legacies of both MLK and Gandhi.
Read the full poem in our Better Together issue which celebrates community engagement and collective action.
www.littlethoughtspress.com/issues
A current Amazon offer of Blue Jelly and Strawberries for £7.65 with quotes placed by author Attie Lime, with readers describing it as "joyous" "great fun" "vibrant, bouncing" and "ideal to introduce young readers to the joy of poetry"
If you haven't yet tasted Blue Jelly and Strawberries, it's currently on offer here for fewer £s than a fancy coffee and a cake. I guarantee the poetry joy will last longer than the sugar hit!
*If you have a favourite indie bookshop, please use it - they can order it for you, with a smile 😊🍓
A page from Little Thoughts Press Issue 11: Stirring Words with a sneak peek of the poem The Trouble with See-Saws by Paula Thompson.
"The Trouble with See-Saws" by Paula Thompson is a perfect little package of wordplay.
In Little Thoughts Press Issue 11: Stirring Words, available in print & pdf.
www.littlethoughtspress.com/issues
