A Lady Comes to an Inn We first meet any poem as a stranger. And in going through Louis Untermeyer’s Modern American Poetry  for this year’s National Poetry Month series, I often met on its pages poets I knew nothing abo…

#PoemsAloud Here’s my 3rd National Poetry Month musical presentation, this one made from a 1920s poem about 4 strangers who arrive at a rural inn. How strange are they? Are they Roma travelers, or—well you listen to the song or read the poem and decide: frankhudson.org/2026/04/04/a...

Recovery - Microprose

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#PoemsAloud (a 🦋 thing) #SpokenWord #Storytelling #WritingCommunity #poetry

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Wonderful poems, Paul. 👏🏼

I loved your lines in the first one, that we are “never more alive than when we are between.”

Also this passage in the second:

“a practical grace fits you…
And there you are, hunter-gatherer, tracking through the wild.”

Looking forward to hearing each as #PoemsAloud ✨

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Spoken word news report

Today I give youa response to the plane shot down in Iran

#poetry #blueskypoet #poem #spokenword #PoemsAloud
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This a poem I wrote last week. It's called Evasive Rules.

@coastalpoet.bsky.social
#PoemsAloud

Swifts, Swallows Swifts, swallows: ghostly Doubles meeting at Whitsun - Sky god’s full-throated Season echoing the Abyss. Forebear tongues and Sagas revelled in Whirlpools and swallies, Devoured by the sweeping, Churning presences Glimpsed in sky and sea. Swifts, swallows: ghostly doubles, Aerial nomads, Custodians of Ancient songlines etched with a Thumbtack of neurons. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025

#PoemsAloud #animalpoem

#poetry: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025

#Swift #Swallow #ConvergentEvolution #Nature #Songlines #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity

🙏 @coastalpoet.bsky.social #PoemsAloud #animalpoem #PoetryReading

#poetry: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025

Text in the Comments 👇👇

#Swift #Swallow #ConvergentEvolution #Nature #Songlines #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity

Flocculent Wool's nano fibres - Squint and you'll glimpse the dappled Scales of Samurai Koi leaping upstream against Time's current, back to Eden's hatching pool: Grandsire of card and Carp, limpid source of the Uncreated Mind. Tasked with this riddle, Be still! Unbidden, koi will Line up in unschooled Tufts - silent promptings that Clarify the mind's Thought-tormented waters. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 Flocculent: a.) woolly, tufty; b.) possessing a loose, clumping quality

©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2008 Monochrome image of two koi carp lined up in a pond

#PoemsAloud #animalpoem #PoetryReading - in original post ☝️

#poetry / #photography:
©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025/2008

#Zen #Koi #Evolution #Creation #Nature #bskypoetry #monochrome #bw

🙏 @coastalpoet.bsky.social #PoemsAloud #animalpoem

#poetry: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025

Text & Image in the Comments 👇👇

#Zen #Koi #Evolution #Creation #Nature #bskypoetry

To Harvest Memories - Micropoetry

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#PoemsAloud #SpokenWord #Storytelling #WritingCommunity #poetry

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Today's Spoken Word News Report!

Covering the sacking of Simon Dudley.

Even Reform have limits on how much of an unfeeling **** you can be...
In public at least...

#poetry #blueskypoet #PoemsAloud #spokenword #reform
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For #PromptCombo, I've shared this before but not in this format. With thanks to poets whose recent #PoemsAloud reminded me of it. 🐦‍⬛

The process of writing & recording these bittersweet poems has fully #allowed me to look ahead & enjoy writing other things.

(Poem in Autumn Sky Poetry 2020)

First I thought, Good Friday, what’s so good about it without #PoemsAbout? Then I saw a couple of posts and felt better. This is a #PoemsAloud I wrote for Easter last year. If you click on more… in the YouTube description the text is there, as I usually do.

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Lethe Continuing my April National Poetry Month observance with another poem from Louis Untermeyer’s between-world-wars anthology Modern American Poetry.  This one’s from a better-known poet than last ti…

Early 20th c. Modernist poet H.D. wrote poems that were striking then & remain so now. Her images are certain, passionate, evocative—but she leaves space for the reader to supply context.

Continuing my National Poetry Month series, a #PoemsAloud musical performance of her “Lethe:”

A Page Of A Diary - Micropoetry

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#PoemsAloud #Storytelling #SpokenWord #WritingCommunity #poetry

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Would love to hear more animal #PoemsAloud. An unexpected twist in the one below...

#DailyHaikews

Spoken Word News Report on the launch of #Artemis II

#news #poetry #spokenword #PoemsAloud #ArtemisLaunch #moon
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Thanks so much for watching. If you click on #PoemsAloud, you can listen or watch more audio/video poems from other poets too.

Poor men's dogs Poor men’s dogs Acknowledging Lorenz’s King Solomon’s Ring Mussel-shelled, iridescent, your voices electronic on telegraph wires, you’re called ‘vulgaris’ – common. Like your gold-threaded robes w

For no better reason than just having spent five minutes listening to the incredible vocal range of a starling, here's another addition to @coastalpoet.bsky.social's #poemsaloud initiative.

on.soundcloud.com/13XSnxCE6vyDecxLMo

Navigating Blindly - A Microstory

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#PoemsAloud #Storytelling #SpokenWord #WritingCommunity #poetry

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#PoemsAloud 🌿

Still experimenting with this one... here's the latest version. Poem in Amethyst Review, Feb 2021.

#DailyHaikews

Spoken Word News Report
(May be slightly bias)

The "God Squad"
(Regarding the US Endangered Species Committee decision to give Oil drilling a free pass to ignore conservation laws.)

#news #poetry #PoemsAloud #SpokenWord #Blueskypoetry #Poetrysky
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I enjoyed the unexpected reading in here from this month’s poetic voice, accompanied by a harp🪉 #PoemsAloud

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet: Memory of Lake Superior I kick off our annual celebration of U. S. National Poetry Month with the first of a series of poems (some well-known, some, like this one, less-known) found in the 20th century anthology Modern ...

#NPM2026 #PoemsAloud I’m hoping for a busy April National Poetry Month presenting some other poets’ poems combined with a variety of music I record.

This lakeside Spring nature poem by George Dillon is the first in the series: parlando.libsyn.com/memory-of-la...

Today, I Took A Walk - Microprose

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#PoemsAloud #Storytelling #SpokenWord #WritingCommunity #poetry

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For #PoemsAloud, a short film for my poem in the Unwhispered Legacy anthology, published today by
@paulwritespoems.bsky.social 🙏

My poem questions the concept of a 'Fait accompli.' It asks, what if things were different? What if that initial action could be reversed? What if there was another way 💙

Was able to get recording time in my studio space to work on the first of my April National Poetry Month #PoemsAloud pieces, musical performances of poems from a my-parents-generation anthology of Modern American Poetry. There’ll be some well-known and unknown poems sung—and I’ll be sharing them.

Unwhispered Legacy - The Launch Celebrate the launch of Unwhispered Legacy in the comfort of your home and hear some of the exceptional poems read live.

I can’t wait to hear other poets reading their material at the Unwhispered Legacy Zoom launch. If you want to attend that, @paulwritespoems.bsky.social has provided a link www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unwhispere... And do remember to follow Paul and his brilliant poetry blog, The Book Bag #poemsaloud

And there’s a nice dynamic emerging around the anthology’s title Paul, confirming it to be anything but whispered

@coastalpoet.bsky.social one of the anthology’s terrific poets recently created the hashtag #poemsaloud for recordings

@johnchmura.bsky.social has recorded his anthology poem as have I

An unwhispered #PoemsAloud with commentary of my persona poem, The Stone, appearing in #UnwhisperedLegacy released today by @paulwritespoems.bsky.social

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