In second place 🥈 on #fragmentsfriday Julian Cason 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 continuing his run of finalist micros! @hool415.bsky.social

Poem by Helen

In 🥇 1st place on #fragmentsfriday, @helenlaycock.bsky.social back with the crown 👑 with this #micropoem of sharp contrasts, energy and sensuality.

Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew/It’s the same when love comes to an end/or the marriage fails and people say/they knew it was a mistake, that everybody/said it would never work. That she was/old enough to know better. But anything/worth doing is worth doing badly-Jack Gilbert #fragmentsfriday

For #fragmentsfriday
a poem from lakeside in the forest
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
#poetry

#fragmentsfriday
(poem yet unwritten)

Keep out of my dreams
you wouldn't like it there

Something throwaway for #fragmentsfriday ...

A neighbour's washing, all neat
in a row, weaves in and out
like country dancers. Blue tit
perched in the apple blossom –
garden centre ceramic.

Quantum Self I change by noticing, exist by forgetting, when no-one looks, I scatter into the pure possibility of being.

Here’s one for #fragmentsfriday
Thanks to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

Double dipping, for #FragmentsFriday @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and also #PoemsAbout #InBloom @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

A small piece inspired by hearing a quote from a 19th century sex worker on the car radio.

dawn by the shoreline luminescence recedes light rises as the wind shifts and skies darken

Here's a very rough start to something (maybe) for #fragmentsfriday - describes today's weather up here rather well too! Thanks @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social & @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for hosting! #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity

𝐎𝐫𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐮𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐝⁣
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the black dog returns ⁣
with penetrating vision ⁣
everything undone⁣
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hacksaw teeth and ⁣
bitter tongue⁣
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carnivorous dissent⁣
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for #fragmentsFriday, & @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
18 inc title 🥸⁣
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#poem #poetry #cherita

For #fragmentsfriday from @blackboughpoems and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity #haiku

surprise girl disappoints
forever compared
to wished-for firstborn son
the prince who never was

#fragmentsfriday @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social #poetry #writing #micropoetry

A poem of 18 words.

maudlin

night dead slow wind
sighs
of maudlin words rise
an old song of darkness,
its curses,
break at dawn

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#fragmentsfriday

A poem of 18 words.

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#fragmentsfriday

#fragmentsfriday #micropoem ! #poetry #poet #prompts

My contribution to this week's #fragmentsfriday is inspired by the luminous magnolia at night in Oxford last weekend.

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@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

Here’s my micropoem for #fragmentsfriday Thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for the prompt
#micropoem #micropoetry #micropoet

Deep blue box shaded with black, poetry text in white letters: autotomy the forty-fifth shedding of the tail reveals the unforeseen – shimmering bones smoking firepit laughter curling inside

My first dive into #fragmentsfriday!
Big thanks to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social 🙏💜

arthritic hands— warm, animal sweetness salt and pine she hums, joining them lifting the frames

For #fragmentsfriday
Hosted by @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

#micropoem #poetry #poet #prompts

Hazard Pay Black gold burns our throat — sand blinds, sky silences — one bunker swing from game over.

Today’s micropoem for #fragmentsfriday.

Thank you @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social.

Hi @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social👋 Here's my poem for #fragmentsfriday

Self Portrait as Void

my biggest mistake—
believing light needed
a body to cross
until light’s reaching
dazzle
touched me alive
again

Happy #FragmentsFriday to all who celebrate! Something a little Gothic from me today.

Thanks for hosting, as always, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

For #fragmentsfriday ‘I Telescope Back to this Planet’

‘after travelling impossibly far outwards’

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#poetry #writing #poem #micropoem #poetic #writingprompt

Breakup (after Fatemeh Shams) I carry a dead volcano in my pocket solid-shocked broach turn-worn, geology fits in my fist

Happy #fragmentsfriday everyone & @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social & @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

Can't wait to read it all!

Morning all and happy Friday. Here's a reworked fragment from a poem I wrote a few years ago. Looking forward to reading everyone's work @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #fragmentsfriday

Barely Seeing November, Watergate Bay, Cornwall Day has blown its bulb to fully fill with fog; clouds all fallen, helpless, puffing on their backs.

Hullo @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and to glorious #fragmentsfriday

It’s #fragmentsfriday tomorrow.

Post one startling, impactful #micropoem of up to 18 words. Can’t wait!

#poetry #poet #prompts

Thank you for reading & appreciating my #fragmentsfriday poem ✨🤩

This Was my submission for #FragmentsFriday but forgot to post here. I'm doing so now. Have a great Sunday, everyone.

Special thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social & @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social members for their generosity.

#PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity

1st place 🥇 on #fragmentsfriday - Pax Morrigan on Bluesky #poetry #writing #micropoem @paxmor.bsky.social