#ThursdayPegs

Bettie Page was born on April 22, 1923 #botd

Are we watching the collapse of society on our phones or are our phones watching us, the collapse of society.

“Bitch, please”

For a two-word phrase, this really covers the entire rude-to-polite spectrum.

I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes and designs is how the world works. The world isn't logical, it's a song.

-- David Byrne

Goodnight from Mabel Creed, immersing her grandmother’s rings in the River Darrow to wash clean of curse. Goodnight from Arthur Lamb, crunching the gears on his battered Hillman Husky as he tries to speed through the bit of Northmoor so troubled by UFOs. Goodnight from Hookland.

#AdoorableThursday Stapleford

The Houses of Carshalton with The Joy of Street Furniture

The Daily Rothno is a pavement in Carshalton with dead blossom blown against a wall

The Joy of Street Furniture with #ThursdayBins, Carshalton

I put the fun in defunct

I didn’t forget, I remembered at the wrong time.

Another recycle for #vss365 #wolf
and gladly so, as I admit to being very fond of this one

Recycling for #vss365 #wolf

line art of an angry mermaid witch siren looking over her shoulder with long wet hair hanging down her back. she has a pale blue tale with glowing yellow and pale pink splotches behind her. dark green seaweed swirls in a pale green background.

i decided it’s mermay now ✨🌿

I wish I had the confidence of the 5-year-old who just walked up to me in a hospital hallway and said, “Bad news mister, my mother is lost.”

#vss365 #writing

“There’s escaping from the #wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves . . . Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.”

– Margaret Atwood

A black and white drawing of a man with his face set into his chest. A bird's head and neck extends from where his head should be. He also has lil' wings like a wee Cupid-fella.

Plate from Giovanni Battista de' Cavalieri, '𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘭 𝘢 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘭𝘵𝘪 𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪 𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘭𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪 𝘥𝘦𝘭 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘪 𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘪' (Monsters from all parts of the ancient and modern world, circa 1585).

#WyrdWednesday

Most of the time the antidote is to simply stop taking the poison

Bicycles chained next to a small ramp sloping downwards near a river in a city. The red-ringed warning sign at the top of the ramp shows a cyclist whose bike is hitting a surprised man wearing a top hat and brandishing an umbrella. The man has lost control of his dog's leash and the dog also looks alarmed

This sign looks like it was created in response to a very specific incident

A pigeon in mid-air after leaving a metal railing another pigeon is sitting on. Its wings are still tucked on its back (Pic: Abian Sacks)

"The wings, George. Deploy the wings."

"This is not my first rodeo," I proclaim confidently, not realising I've signed up for the circus.

A white square, mainly taken up by a black and white image of a section of film reel. In the middle of the reel is text which reads “Think about a film you watched recently. Select a scene or an image from the film and immerse yourself in it as if it is your own experience. How will you utilise the image? Where will you end up? Treat it like a traditional piece of ekphrastic writing and see if you can apply your own life to the image. Try to find the humanity in the imagined. Consider which form would best represent it on the page.” Beneath the text is the name Matthew Rice. In the top left hand corner is an image of a gold ticket reads Prompt 22. Along the top of the image is the title NaPoWriMo 2026.

Matthew Rice shared prompt 22 for #NaPoWriMo. How have your poems been developing this month? A reminder that submissions are always open for The Poetry Review, and we'd love to hear from you. If you want more from Matthew, you can read his work in the 2024 Spring Issue, available from our website.

Painted study of red peonies on white background.

Peonies, study, Martin Schongauer, 1472.

If we're not out here every day trying to salvage the looks on our faces when we first found each other then what are we even imagining where our relationships would go wrong in real life for

Faded 1870 illustration of a recommended "colour box" for watercolor nature sketching.

Colors:

Gamboge
Van Dyke Brown
Naples Yellow
Indigo
Crimson Lake
Burnt Sienna
Light Red
Cobalt Blue
Yellow Ochre
Vermillion
Indian Yellow
Sepia
Brown Madder

To-do lists. You're not on them.

🖼️ An elf’s ride through space on horseback. Down-adown-derry, Walter de La Mare, illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop, 1922.

Goodnight.
‘Hark! is that a horn I hear,
In cloudland winding sweet
And bell-like clash of bridle-rein,
And silver-shod light feet?
Is it the elfin laughter
Of fairies riding faint and high,
Beneath the branches of the moon,
Straying through the starry sky?’ ~ Walter de La Mare~ see alt text.

wind plays catch
through the broken mill
where ghosts hide

#DailyHaikuPrompt (windmill)