#DoubleDactyl of the Week is a BOGOF with extra Stroganoff…from John Greene and Tom Deveson

#DoubleDactyl of the Week is something of a mystery…

#DoubleDactyl of the week is for those like me who are holding a place until someone better comes along. From Marnanel Thurman, with thanks.

Some people say that the #DoubleDactyl is too short a form to deal with serious issues. Here is Penny Campbell to confound all that with a hexasyllabic tale of burgeoning adolescence, implied sexual violence, female impersonators, identity theft, and dentistry.

higgledy piggledy
wardrobe malfunctional
torn pants no underwear
nude on the street

spied by a cameraman
shooting live interviews:
enthusiastically
filming your feet

#poetry #enf #doubledactyl

#DoubleDactyl of the week is from Alice Meynell, and is a model of diplomacy. Or a reactionary warmonger. You decide.

#DoubleDactyl of the Week is from Robert Lindsay Marcus. Told him once before (and I won’t tell him no more) to get down!

#DoubleDactyl of the week doesn’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Says Terese Coe.

#DoubleDactyl of the Week is a triumph of hexasyllabicitousness from Lawrence Schimel. To incorporate one 6-syllable word into a poem is an achievement - to sustain it over the length of a Double Dactyl poem is miraculous.

And how do I know? Because the Oracle told me!

#DoubleDactyl of the Week is from Sian Lang, and is a matter of national security.

This week’s #DoubleDactyl is from Joe Williams, who offers a more entertaining version of Tudor history than Hilary Mantel ever could.

Double Dactyl of the Week Week #162 Tudortime, rudertime,Catherine of AragonSailed up to England toMarry the king. Went very well untilDismatrimonialHenry ran off with aPretty young thing. (Joe Williams)

My first publication of the year is another appearance in Double Dactyl of the Week, with some help from Catherine of Aragon. doubledactyls.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/d...

#doubledactyl

The first #DoubleDactyl of 2026 is from Matthew Craig-Greene under a suitably Wolfish Moon.

Fancy a Christmas #DoubleDactyl? Here’s a Junior Choice from Penny Campbell, for whom the head of the herd is calling…

#DoubleDactyl of the Week is a Beethoven double-header. Moonlighting on this one is Nicola Billington and some other guy…

#DoubleDactyl of the Week is from Alice Meynell, who may have met her Waterloo. Oh, sorry, wrong General!

#DoubleDactyl of the Week is from Jim Lindop, who can definitelt tell his Arias from his elbow...

#DoubleDactyl of the Week is from
Sharon Larkin, and is mercifully shorter than the novel that inspires it…

#DoubleDactyl of the Week comes once more from the cultured pen of Christopher Reid...

#DoubleDactyl of the Week comes from Matthew Craig-Greene, and was a bit of a b*stard to write, apparently.

Sassily wassily
Jurassic
I break rules deal with it
boom spondee spondee

Attempted fofempted
Ballroom Museum
unstressed double dactyls
internet hides feet

#poetry #DoubleDactyl

#DoubleDactyl of the Week comes from Penny Campbell, and is out of this world…

#DoubleDactyl of the Week is from Alice Meynell and quite rightly has a few things to say about women in the church. On trend - oh yes!

#DoubleDactyl of the Week sees Jim Lindop conducting himself in an appropriate manner…

#DoubleDactyl of the Week is a labour of lust from the steaming pen of the great Tom Deveson

#DoubleDactyl of the Week is BWV1165, an (I Don’t Like Your) Tone Poem for Brass in B Minor, by Nicola Billington.

#DoubleDactyl of the Week is Christopher Reid’s tribute to a neglected poet of the fireside, a decent man fallen into relative obscurity.

A demon reading

Brimstoner, millstoner,
James Dobson Junior
Whipped many millions through
Works that he penned;
Each one repaid by some
Disciplinarian
Demon who sees to his
Ultimate end

#jamesDobson #doubleDactyl

#DoubleDactyl of the Week is old news. Or perhaps, ‘old newsreader’…

#DoubleDactyl of the Week is from Sharon Larkin @sharlark.bsky.social, and it's certainly not stale, mate.