Unexpected literary pilgrimage this week to the childhood home of one of my favourite poets, Alun Lewis, who died in WWII. I wrote about Lewis in my PhD.
Poignant and inspiring.
@serenbooks.bsky.social
It’s 2289 AD and my descendant Augustus M C Smith is an astronaut-poet & a much improved version of ancestor Matt! ✨
I hope you enjoy his ‘Log entry’ for #TopTweetTuesday on Twitter - our challenge - really unfamiliar, super inventive cosmic poems. No cliches, no common words.
#poetry
EE Cummings poem in full: XII my love is building a building around you,a frail slippery house,a strong fragile house (beginning at the singular beginning of your smile)a skilful uncouth prison,a precise clumsy prison(building thatandthis into Thus, Around the reckless magic of your mouth my love is building a magic,a discrete tower of magic and(as i guess) when Farmer Death(whom fairies hate)shall crumble the mouth-flower fleet He'll not my tower, laborious, casual where the surrounded smile hangs breathless
(building thatandthis into Thus,
Around the reckless magic of your mouth)
my love is building a magic,a discrete tower of magic
E. E. Cummings
New poem for #smallpoemsunday - thanks to @tomsnarsky.bsky.social who has a book forthcoming with
@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
#poetry #poet #mountains
This early version of ‘Strange Days’ by #TheDoors is a banger. Morrison’s voice without the vocal distortion.
Very pleasing. Yes 🤩 🔥 🔥 🔥
open.spotify.com/track/0AXsLg...
Early childhood memory of a persistent nightmare and jumping into my parents’ bed.
For #promptcombo & @rfsmith.bsky.social - thank you
#poem #poetry #nightmare #nightterror
For #fragmentsfriday a #poem #poetry #micropoem #tennis 🎾 ☀️ 🌧️ 🥶 #weather #pensioners
Make sure you prepare a new micropoem for #fragmentsfriday this week. Tag in Black Bough!
~ ‘tis tizzy aftereve ~
✨ let me take you on a suburban dog walk at night. ☄️
For #TopTweetTuesday on Twitter
#poetry #poet #cosmos #starry
🔥Cover reveal for ‘Shored Fragments: Poems in Response to T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland’ co-edited by Kitty Donnelly & @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
Delighted to be part of this new collection of poems inspired by Eliot's iconic 'The Wasteland' — coming soon from @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 🔥
I hope so. Thank you
Such a relief to see this emerging.
#eliot #tseliot #thewasteland #modernism #wasteland #poetry
Thanks, that’s very kind and I hope your own creativity is an emotional channel for you too Scott
Woke up from a terrible grief-nightmare about my father.
#grief #father #poet #poem
For #smallpoemsunday organised by @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
THANKS to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for this pleasant surprise 🙏💚 ... & a MASSIVE THANKS for your continued dedication to hosting, motivating and encouraging an online community of poets @ #FragmentsFriday
#TopTweetTuesday
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
Sincere THANKS 🙏💚
An honourable mention this week on #fragmentsfriday for @helenlaycock.bsky.social
who was the judge’s fourth favourite poem. 🥂
Thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social ‘s older sister Emma for choosing this week 🙏
In 3rd place 🥉 on #fragmentsfriday
‘Posturing’ by Fin Cassidy - his first time on the podium 🔥
Those yoga pylons! Congratulations Fin!
#poetry #writing
In 1ST place 🥇 on #fragmentsfriday 🏆
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‘A second dispossession’ 😢
Gary Legg from the East Midlands.
#poetry #writing
Thank you so much, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social! I’m genuinely surprised and really honoured. This means a lot❤️
Oh dear!
Delicate, tender, the reassurance of touch
Masterly
Love the first half particularly
Change and transformation
Biblical, strange, enigmatic
A stark reminder
Busting the limits of poetic vocabulary
Sibilance and yoga poses
Strange and startling
Apt metaphor