Pick up the nearest book, turn to p. 42, and post the second sentence:

No sentences on page 42 of Roger Deakins’s Reflections. Here’s the second image.

Red purple underside of copper beech tree leaves and blue sky above.

Under a copper beech today.

Go for it! best of luck Beth x

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Poets get ready... Poetry Submissions are reopening on Friday 1 May. Keep an eye on our submissions page for details.

Poets get ready... our next submission window for full poetry collections will be reopening on Friday 1 May for 2 weeks! We’ll share more details of exactly what we’re looking for on our submissions page when the window opens so keep an eye out here www.serenbooks.com/submissions/

Crystal Palace tv and radio transmitter seen from Oxleas Meadow.

I’ve been doing a lot of walking but Paris is just over the hill now thank god.

“Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.” - Thomas Paine

It's 10 years today since Prince died.
So a reminder of this, that happened on the other place, because sometimes sadness can still bring laughter.

Grey moth with wavy lined pattern, resting on green gate post. He got Sam Eagle eyes.

Gently pursued this beautiful moth around a gate post. A species of geometric moth, my app says Seraphim, and that he has “a penchant for discretion”. His eyes remind me of Sam Eagle.

learning that Peter Capaldi and Lewis Capaldi are cousins: delight and surprise
finding out they are second cousins: the dark confusion descends

All of these #poetry prompts have been outstanding. Keeping them in my #writing pocket for when I have more time and headspace for them, b/c right now I am not in that place. Thank you @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social 🙏

And, this one is at the top of my list, oh my God, 10/10, no notes 🕯️🕯️

money not morey 🙃

Graffiti on a bench in town: “use morey for cures not chaos”.

Some wise graffiti on a bench in town. Though I did first read it as “use money for cakes not chaos” which I found equally wise tbh
“use morey for cures
not chaos”

Many thanks to the editors of Poetry Scotland for including my poem in issue 111.

This one is part of a sequence I'm working on retelling a particular 1970s country song's narrative - I'm not saying which for now - from the pov of the narrator's girlfriend, who I always felt never got her say.

Ikr!

Painting of cuckoo flowers.

Cuckoo Flower, Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Petition for this to happen to me🐦‍🔥🪄

lol

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Poetry, poetry, poetry - please send it my way. I'd love to fill a spot in a June issue of the Morning Star with some original words that say something about the world we're creating. 🌿

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Dear stars
Dear cardboard stars
When lies start howling in the skies
How does one seek haven in the verses
Of perjured prophets?

--Forough Farrokhzad

Cuckoo Flower with its top butterfly partner, a female Orange Tip, eggs laid here ... #WildflowerHour #CabbageFamily

Whole new experience for me!

Any English bluebell experts out there? #WildflowerID #WildflowerHour #pink!

Small sky blue forget me nots

Forget me nots of the smaller variety. #WildflowerHour

Common carder bee on English bluebells.

Common carder bee visiting bluebells. Not to spoil the beauty of this but I saw this bee do a bee wee. #WildflowerHour

Pale droopy and some petals gone, cuckoo flowers by a river, long grass.

Cuckoo flowers by the river, a bit past their best but the #CabbageFamily had not disowned them. #WildflowerHour

Pink English bluebells or possibly hybrid.

Today I spotted these pink bluebells amongst their blue friends. They are definitely not Spanish bluebells. Leaves seemed narrow but think pollen possibly yellow rather than white. Hybrid or rarity?! #WildflowerHour

Pink common vetch wildflower against wire diamond trellis fence. Fields beyond.

I saw my first common vetch of the year in flower, standing very tall against this fence.#WildflowerHour

Pink tufts of lesser knapweed thistles on an uncut central reservation in town.

Lesser knapweed brightens up an uncut central reservation in town.#WildflowerHour

Red clover on uncut grass of central reservation with passing traffic and traffic light on green.

Red clover growing on an uncut central reservation in town. Yes drivers do look at me a bit funny. #WildflowerHour