Cheers, Jan!

You're very welcome, Andy

Tjanks very much Fidel - much appreciated, and you're very welcome!

Powerful stuff, Paul. Great use of the sonnet form

Warhead Seeds burst from the barrels of flowerheads. There was traffic here once. Listen. Listen. Ghosts. Bustling, raucous silence elbows treads invisible in wounded streets, broken. The seeds strike, make hollows of busy homes. Absences are in full bloom, vibrant glades. Stroll between rainbow-bloomed borders of bones. Inhale aromatic fragrant dead shades. This city a garden of the fresh gone. Snipers make spaces for new shoots to grow. Refugees tell the way it carried on. Their stories keep their children in the know. They rename their city atrocity. Actual help is needed, not pity.

Hi @dragonslayerma.bsky.social Fidel. Have a great week. My response to your timely #PromptCombo #NatureHasWeapons is a sonnet from my forthcoming (May 1st) collection with Culture Matters Press, "In Your Mouth":

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#PromptCombo It's #NatureHasWeapons for Monday
Have a great week everybody.

#PromptCombo
It's #NatureHasWeapons
I want Nature's drama this week, wordsmiths

Tag me & use my hastags. Otherwise, I won't see you!

You have till Friday lunchtime to get involved. 💚🌬

@rfsmith.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @janpsolivagant.bsky.social

Sinister, funny and accomplished all in one, Andy. Bravo!

The dog encounters a hedgehog for the first time it was… the size of a bear a large bear teeth glinting in moonlight spikes… everywhere like knitting needles only longer sharper I saw it off chased it away well I would have if it hadn’t prickled my nose …ouch

Good morning @dragonslayerma.bsky.social, what a great #PromptCombo - #NatureHasWeapons. This true story came to mind so sharing it before diving into meetings. Slightly less serious than my usual poems!

#poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Thank you Fidel @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for your marvellous #PromptCombo #NaturehasWeapons. Here's my battered and bedraggled response. Looking forward to reading and responding to other offerings from the #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

Believe What You Know. I should have known after so many years. To look blind at decades, rewind, reshape, find childhood remainders by stains and tears, lost acres of land, solid woodcrete gapes. I should have known memories lichen-gild. Hedgerows, stickleback-ditch, meadow playground, fertilise car-engine growth, oil new builds. Village becomes town, town sprawls unbound. I know the jaywalk throws down ruderal invitations to grout creases with flyby seeds. Rye smiles by dog-pee corners and all waste-ground overtaken by so-called weeds. I have known with admiration, pioneers. Maginalised in strength, dispersed in hope. JS

Response to the prompt for Fidel
#promptcombo
#NaturehasWeapons
@dragonslayerma.bsky.social

Thankyou. Enjoy the week everyone

Great news, Jan. Will be reading them later!

Big thanks to @zoomburst.substack.com for making this happen! Six #Poems:

Bars in #Bardo
#Brutalist buildings
#Necromancy
#Baudelaire meets #Mabinogi
#EelPieIsland

Shoutout to #poetrycommunity #PromptCombo #PoemsAbout for your support over the past year or so of my #poetry journey!

Tipton season under way after soggy spring 127 run partnership twix John Buckland and Arthur Coles swing match Tipton's way

Our season gets underway with a win against old friends and local rivals, Newton Poppleford pol01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Just signed up. Looking forward to hearing from old and new friends

If poetry’s ever meant anything to you, don’t sit this one out.
Rooms like this don’t build themselves.
#PoemsAbout #OpenMic #Return

Thank you, Philippa: much appreciated!

Thank you so much, Stace - that's very kind

Many thanks, Ronnie, much appreciated

Here's my recording of The Gravity of Midnight.

#poemsaloud #poemsabout
#poetry #spokenword

Or prompts suggesting different forms? Haha, I'm not at all disturbed. Have a good weekend, Sue

Yes, although I've come to like tricky prompts (like this week) because they make me think and stop me being lazy and digging into old poems

Linda Ronstadt does a magnificent version of #4

Thank you, John - as thoughtful a response as ever

Thank you Jane!

Yes it does! Only seen them once at the David Hall in Somerset

Ask me tomorrow and you'll get a different 5. However....
1. Visions of Johanna - Bob Dylan
2. Vincent Black Lightning 1952 - Richard Thompson
3. Call it democracy - Bruce Cockburn
4. The night I heard Caruso Sing - Everything But The Girl
5. Cardiff Bay - Martyn Joseph
#FridayFive

#FridayFive.
Your five favourite songs by your five favourite artists. Don't overthink it.
1. Gimmie Shelter. The Rolling Stones.
2. Come As You Are. Nirvana.
3. Let England Shake. P J Harvey.
4. Under the Pressure. The War on Drugs.
5. Don't Delete the Kisses. Wolf Alice.

No 3 is utterly brilliant!

There was a dead tree, hollowed out in front of a house we used to live in as children, that fulfilled a very similar role