Image of a waterford printed in black on a white brick background. The Marriage Of Strongbow And Aoife by Hilary Healy The harp in Tara, once so sweet, lay broken, dumb, yet bards have come, new music stalks old city streets. [Note: this is an ekphrastic waterford about the Daniel Maclise painting. Daniel Maclise (1806-1870), The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife, c.1854. National Gallery of Ireland]

Every #Wednesday we'll share a #waterford. Respond with your own (4 lines; 8, 4, 4, 8 syllables; ABBA rhyming scheme). These are slices of feel-good art so keep them positive!

#waterfordrhyme #poetrysky #poetry #irishhaiku #poetrycommunity #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #writingcommunity #spéirghorm

Cover of Hatchery A poetry pamphlet about neonatal care

Easter time seems a happy coincidence to share a preview of the cover of my debut chapbook, Hatching soon with V.Press
Poetry which tells the origin story of neonatal care.
#poemsabout
#poetsonbluesky
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I was there, and I heard @kevinmacalan.bsky.social referred to as “mister waterford”, as in @waterfordrhyme.bsky.social, on more than one occasion!
#misterwaterford #waterfordrhyme #waterford #irishhaiku #PoetryCommunity #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #writingcommunity #booksky #poetrysky#SpéirGhorm

Dear Friends,

AN ANNOUNCEMENT:

My first poetry collection will be published in the Spring of 2027 by Broken Sleep Books.

I am simply delighted - and immensely grateful to @godzillakent.bsky.social and everyone at @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

#poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #poetryislife

Image of a waterford printed in black on a white brick background. Batik Terap by Nurzusilawati Binti Nadzri After the war, wax resist came a vibrant dye new motifs fly batik's charm spread with glowing flame.

Every #Wednesday we'll share a #waterford. Respond with your own (4 lines; 8, 4, 4, 8 syllables; ABBA rhyming scheme). These are slices of feel-good art so keep them positive!

#waterfordrhyme #poetrysky #poetry #irishhaiku #poetrycommunity #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #writingcommunity #spéirghorm

Tomorrow! 25/3, 6-7.30pm Sheffield Central Library: Poetry Magazine Open Mic - bring a poem you’ve had in a mag OR someone else’s poem in a mag that you’d like to get into. Catch-up & news time. Inclusive, free, just turn up. #poetry #submissions #openmic #poetrysheffield #poetsonbluesky #sheffield

Some quite big chunks of #Nothing @janpsolivagant.bsky.social for your #promptcombo theme in my poem in the Manchester Review, The Conservation of Energy, recorded in the thread below, which also includes the original @manchesterreview.bsky.social post of the text #poetsonbluesky #poetrycommunity

Like so many of Shakespeare’s sonnets, number 65 is part of a rich and dynamic tradition linking him, via Sidney and Wyatt, to Petrarch, and from the great Italian back to Ovid.

Here’s my recording of the poem👇

#poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #shakespeare #shakespearesunday #ovid

Event poster for West Waterford Poetry meet-up - third Monday of every month at 7:30pm in Tudor House, St Mary Street, Dungarvan.

Next West Waterford Poets meet: Mon 20 Apr, 7:30pm. Prompt: "chaff".

New members - of all abilities - always welcome!

#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #skypoets #writingcommunity #booksky #poetrysky #waterford #westwaterfordpoet #SpéirGhorm

Image of a waterford printed in black on a white brick background. Waterford by Paul Bullman A haven from the windswept sea. A Viking art. A Deise heart. Waterford, always home to me. [Note: this is a geographic waterford about County Waterford, Ireland]

Every #Wednesday we'll share a #waterford. Respond with your own (4 lines; 8, 4, 4, 8 syllables; ABBA rhyming scheme). These are slices of feel-good art so keep them positive!

#waterfordrhyme #poetrysky #poetry #irishhaiku #poetrycommunity #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #writingcommunity #spéirghorm

Daughters of Fire- celebrating women's voices jn poetry and prose. A list of readers at the event: Rosie Jackson, Rachael Clyne, Mari Ellis Dunning Kymm Coveney, Jenny Robb, Charlene V. Smith, Vic Pickup, Gill Connors, Faye Marshall, Saraswati Nagpal, Sue Butler and Lucy Heuschen. Audience tickets via email to DaughtersPoetry@hotmail.com

The line up once more 🔥 #PoetryEvents #PoetsOnBluesky

'maybe for some jerky'

new poem: "what drives me" — passing towns on a Flixbus, a woman who escaped a life, a young man at a Circle K, and the fear underneath ambition.

Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/jasoneco...
#poem #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #writingcommunity #poetscorner #writersky

River Clown / Energy Fields Sun 15th Mar 2026, 6:30pm – 8:30pm GMT (UTC +00:00)

Ok folks, this is very much now happening on Sunday night. Free to view online (including immersive exhibition and audio description) and at Site Gallery, Sheffield: #poetsonbluesky #poetry #clown #rivers dandelion.events/e/riverclown...

Recalling 'Duck and Cover (1951)' and MADness. Light up my nightmares only please.

Welcome to #FragmentsFriday 🔥

@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

#PoetsOnBluesky

oh alright, bluesky can have this one #poetry #poems #writing #mywriting #poetsonbluesky

Appreciate each glimpse of spring -
to curse the days
of splash and sprays
is only self-devouring.

@waterfordrhyme
#waterfordrhyme #poetrysky #poetry #irishhaiku #poetrycommunity #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #writingcommunity

Image of a waterford printed in black on a white brick background. School Morning, Karachi by Fizzi Abbas Blue vans hum down the sleepy street, books in a row, dreams start to grow in tiny hearts that skip each beat.

Every #Wednesday we'll share a #waterford. Respond with your own (4 lines; 8, 4, 4, 8 syllables; ABBA rhyming scheme). These are slices of feel-good art so keep them positive!

#waterfordrhyme #poetrysky #poetry #irishhaiku #poetrycommunity #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #writingcommunity #spéirghorm

River Clown / Energy Fields Sun 15th Mar 2026, 6:30pm – 8:30pm GMT (UTC +00:00)

Anyone want to come explore, draw, sing & maybe dance with us at this #DYCP poetry scratch share next Sun? From a year writing with the Don & Spey rivers. Part show, part critique, part party! Online & Sheffield. Audio description & disabled access. #PoetsOnBlueSky dandelion.events/e/riverclown...

To celebrate its nomination for the Forward Prize, here’s a new recording of Late Summer Walk #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky @paulwritespoems.bsky.social @forwardprizes.bsky.social

Image of a waterford printed in black on a white brick background. New Arrival by Caoimhe Cooke Velvet skin and a baby grow chunky, toasty quiet mostly a smile as soft as a rainbow.

Every #Wednesday we'll share a #waterford. Respond with your own (4 lines; 8, 4, 4, 8 syllables; ABBA rhyming scheme). These are slices of feel-good art so keep them positive!

#waterfordrhyme #poetrysky #poetry #irishhaiku #poetrycommunity #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #writingcommunity #spéirghorm

war again poisons
perverts darks the mind the heart
the souls of nations

#haiku #haukidaily #poetry #poetrcommunity #poetsandwriters #substackpoet #nowarwithiran #haikuartist #haikuprompt #Poetry #poetryofbluesky #haikuart #micropoetry #poetsonbluesky

Here is 'Bearded' from last poetry book The Burning Circus. I'll be recording the audiobook version of this soon.
#poetry #poets #poetsonbluesky #beardedlady #bearded

Everybody scream. Every body rage. Blood on the stage. How can I leave you when you’re screaming my name.
They’re screaming our names. They’ll scream our names, twisted and tangled, into our deaths, way past our fame.

#PoliticalPoetry #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #PoetsOnBluesky #GoVote #GoScream

Litany for the Land America, Sweet America

I rewrote a political poem as a Dionysian sparagmos call-and-response litany (Cantor / Assembly).

It ended with: “Go vote, America.”

#Poetry #PoliticalPoetry #Litany #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #BlueskyWriters #PoetsOnBluesky #GoVote

Please read my book October Perpetua: a.co/d/07EEzMzu

This web you weave is vast and intricate.

I find myself in awe,

joyfully tangled within its clutches.

#mystic #Poetry #mediumwriters #sufi #philosophy #buddhism #spirituality #metaphysical #love #lovereligion #personalgrowth #rumi #meditation #innerpeace #poetsonbluesky

In this tiny space,
The gap between thoughts,
Two strings are slowly pulled.
The universe opens its robe.
Unveils the mystery.

#mystic #Poetry #mediumwriters #sufi #philosophy #buddhism #spirituality #metaphysical #love #lovereligion #personalgrowth #rumi #meditation #innerpeace #poetsonbluesky

Here’s a thread of some of my threads on poetry… #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky

Image of a waterford printed in black on a white brick background. Fifty-nine Years On by Kathleen Fahey She sat in her usual seat, looked quite askance when asked to dance. Years later, they’re still on their feet.

Every #Wednesday we'll share a #waterford. Respond with your own (4 lines; 8, 4, 4, 8 syllables; ABBA rhyming scheme). These are slices of feel-good art so keep them positive!

#waterfordrhyme #poetrysky #poetry #irishhaiku #poetrycommunity #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #writingcommunity #spéirghorm

Five Poems by Paul Connolly Lothlorien Poetry Journal Edited by Strider Marcus Jones Poet - Publishes poetry and fiction online and in print periodically. https://lothlorienp

I tried to capture my love for #Brahms in my poem Brahms Variations published in @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social (👇) I was indifferent to him in adolescence. Now what the late Edward Said called ‘the music of the music of Brahms’ is an essential part of my life #poetrycommunity #music #poetsonbluesky

@victoriaspires.bsky.social’s excellent #promptcombo theme is #rupture Of my poems in @paulwritespoems.bsky.social’s wonderful feature in The Book Bag (in the thread below 👇) Graduation probably most closely chimes with this subject #poetsonbluesky #poetrycommunity