Impactful! I really enjoyed this!

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 23 Sentry Crow Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair Tomorrow comes, the mockingbird singsyesterday’s candle, guttered outomens stirred in crows’ whirred wings. Earth and sky, in balance swingbut something w…

My #Poem for Day 23 of #NaPoWriMo is a villanelle.

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That's really interesting! Will make a striking piece.

You are welcome. I like these types of nostalgia driven moments in poems.

This is a great poem!

A CAPITOL IDEA On America’s first Moonless night I stood in the penultimate row of the Capitol Theater awash in blinding spotlight emanating from above the stage, one among thirty-two hundred fawning fans when Roger sang the hypnotized never lie but when Pete said Do Ya? I left my body and looked down at the scene like the ghost of a hit and run victim rising helpless over carnage. I could never spin that song again but if it popped up on the car radio I would probably still air drum the beat or tap it out on the steering wheel.

#NaPoWriMo 23/30
#TheWho #CapitolTheater #Sheep
On September 10-11, 1979, The Who performed their first American concerts without Keith Moon at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey. I was an avid fan but had epiphany during Won’t Get Fooled Again.

A poem from a mother of two in Lebanon #peace

We're still shortlisting the poems (no one has been contacted yet). Looking for artists.
#PoetryForChildren #DirigibleBalloon #AnthologyNumberThree 🎈

Bust of Shakespeare

Harlow Circle of Poetry

HAPPY HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY TO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE! Here is #Sonnet18 & a beautiful bust of Shakespeare by John Michael Rysbrack.
Our next meetings are 30/04/26 for our #conversationclub & 10/05/26 for our #OpenMic #SundaySlowdown .
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#Shakespearesbirthday

Coming to a zoom room near you.

Join me for a celebration of poetry with an incredible lineup of readers…

🎟️Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1985095180...

Most welcome!!!

MASSIVE congratulations to you Rachel! 🎉

Something I’ve been dying to tell you…
Thank you so much @uvcompetition.bsky.social and everyone involved - and congratulations to all the wonderful writers on the longlist and shortlist. @scbwi.bsky.social #kidlit #writingforchildren #writing undiscoveredvoices.com/shortlist

Excerpts from #TheLiminalLightoftheNight & #Chasms from Carmella de Keyser's #chapbooks

Proud of both my little babies, they each represent different milestones in my writing life.

My initial focus was to explore the #liminality in human experience, next, I explored my own #intersections 🖤

@hedgehogpress.co.uk 🤎
@alienbuddhapress.bsky.social 💚

#amwriting
#lovepoetry
#spilledink

Thank you for sharing! @glawrence.bsky.social and @mitchellsquid.bsky.social

Thank you! And you are welcome, you read your work beautifully! 🤍

Haiku by Carmella de Keyser paired with her photo of the bluebells in Chestnut Wood, Essex.

I received some lovely poetry news yesterday & it has made my heart sing. I am walking in Chestnut Wood, Essex feeling thankful.🙏🏼
Wishing good things to all. 🤍
The below haiku was first published in The Lothlorien Poetry Journal.
#haiku
#NewBeginnings
#NewChapter
#Gratitude

The strange day in 1949 Paul Robeson performed for the Midlothian miners "Takes more than guns to kill a man." The post The strange day in 1949 Paul Robeson performed for the Midlothian miners first appeared on Far Out Magazine.

The strange day in 1949 Paul Robeson performed for the Midlothian miners

#NatureHasWeapons 🦠

My pandemic poem for #PromptCombo @dragonslayerma.bsky.social

CW: sentimental, especially w/ the music, but it's a tribute (though I'm told med workers didn't want to be heroes; they were doing a job, an immensely difficult one)

*In Northern New England Review 2020
#PoemsAloud

I’m absolutely delighted to have 3 poems in the latest edition of the excellent Cable Street literary magazine. My thanks to Dana Delibovi & everyone on the team. I’ll post a couple of recordings to the over the next week

#poetrycommunity

@danadelibovi.bsky.social @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social

Honourable mention in Dark Poets Prize IV

Huge thanks to the Dark Poets Club

#darkpoets #darkpoetry #poetrycommunity

Really beautiful!

The Madrid Review LIVE: World Book Day + Sant Jordi Special! · Luma Join The Madrid Review LIVE at the beautiful María Pandora for a very special edition celebrating World Book Day and Sant Jordi! To mark one of the most…

Día del Libro en Madrid 📚 Lecturas en inglés con grandes invitados en un bar en La Latina Buen ambiente y mejores historias.
Invitación: luma.com/pzntuyn5
#Madrid #inglés #lectores #miercoles #leer

Thank you for sharing! @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social and @masatokanasashi.bsky.social

“ignite me, make me fire
blacken the sky with me
I reach for your hand and yours
but you are gone…”

Reposting in case anyone missed this while Bluesky was down. A must-listen #PoemsAloud thread, with the first of three epic poems from @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social 🌔

@lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social 🔥

It's difficult to pick just one poem from Cathy Galvin's beautiful new collection, Ethnology, A Love Song for Connemara, but this one in particular resonated with me. The book really needs to be read as one glorious unified love song. #poetry #CathyGalvin #Ethnology #BloodaxeBooks

Most welcome! You too hope you have a lovely week!

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🤣 😁 and thank you!

Congratulations! Thrilled for you, will read these later!