Here's my offering for @TopTweetTuesday exploring the theme of collision of present day and myth, ritual, the future, the city.

Thanks for hosting to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

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

Here's my offering for @TopTweetTuesday on the theme of ocean, land, air with one new word. Thanks for hosting to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity #imagism #metaphor

Here's a #meltingsnowball in which the bolded words reduce by oneletter per line, my offering for the theme of #waver – thanks to Prof Fox @darkxfer.bsky.social our #vss365 host
Photo by Nathan Waters on Unsplash
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

Here's my offering for the theme of #overcast – thanks to Prof Fox @darkxfer.bsky.social our #vss365 host

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

Sand beyond limits,
husbanded by clouds dappled,
piebald like an old grey mare.

I’m editing a lot these days – here’s an offcut which didn’t make it #fragmentsfriday from @blackboughpoems and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

#Newleaf

The equinox
Signs off
A new year

#haiku #bspp51 #shortpoem #poetry #micropoetry
#blueskypoets
#blueskypoetry
#skypoets
#vsspoem
#freeverse
#freeversepoetry
#freeversepoem
#writesky
#writersofbluesky
#writingprompts
#writingcommunity

The frostline
Has been blurred
Spring has sprung

#frostline
#bspp51 #shortpoem #poetry #micropoetry
#blueskypoets
#blueskypoetry
#skypoets
#vsspoem
#freeverse
#freeversepoetry
#freeversepoem
#writesky
#writersofbluesky
#writingprompts
#writingcommunity

Dawnsong
Smile on my lips
Sleep in my eyes

#dawnsong #haiku #bspp51 #shortpoem #poetry #micropoetry
#blueskypoets
#blueskypoetry
#skypoets
#vsspoem
#freeverse
#freeversepoetry
#freeversepoem
#writesky
#writersofbluesky
#writingprompts
#writingcommunity

The paleglow
Of the morning
Tiptoes softly
Into my room

#paleglow #bspp51 #shortpoem #poetry #micropoetry
#blueskypoets
#blueskypoetry
#skypoets
#vsspoem
#freeverse
#freeversepoetry
#freeversepoem
#writesky
#writersofbluesky
#writingprompts
#writingcommunity

Here's my offering for @TopTweetTuesday and the theme of #legacy. Thanks to Paul @paulwritespoems.bsky.social for hosting and to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity #Scartho #Grimsby

Just a tired, anxious man like the rest of us—yet his gentle face somehow makes being not okay okay.

17 words for #fragmentsfriday with @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

Just a tired, anxious man like the rest of us—yet his gentle face somehow makes being not okay okay ~ cmj

17 words for #fragmentsfriday with @blackboughpoems and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

Here's my offering for the theme of #lighning – thanks to Debbie @cribbowens.bsky.social s our #vss365 host

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity #tanka #tankapoem #fivelines

For #fragmentsfriday from @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

Here's my offering for the theme of #splendor – thanks to Debbie @cribbowens.bsky.social our #vss365 host

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity #splendour

Here's my offering for the theme of #timid – welcome to Debbie @cribbowens.bsky.social our new #vss365 host

The painting ‘Luna’ (1870) is by Edward Burne Jones (1833–1898)

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity #preraphaelite #BurneJones

Here's my offering for the theme of #velocity – thanks to Danielle @daniellestejust.bsky.social our #vss365 host

photograph by Marcus Armani

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

Here’s 18 words for #fragmentsfriday
Thanks as always to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @blackboughpoems
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

Here's my offering for the theme of #mystified – thanks to Danielle @daniellestejust.bsky.social our #vss365 host

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

Here's my offering for the theme of #bouncy – thanks to Danielle @daniellestejust.bsky.social our #vss365 host

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

Here's my offering for the theme of #mountainous – thanks to Danielle @daniellestejust.bsky.social our #vss365 host

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

Here's 66 words for @TopTweetTuesday, a hommage to Mr Larkin, another bespectacled bloke from the Humber. Thanks for hosting to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity #Larkin #PhilipLarkin #toads

Here's my offering for the theme of #enchanted - thanks to Danielle @DanielleSteJust our #vss365 host

The painting is ‘Unconscious Rivals’ 1893 by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912)

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

Here's my offering for the theme of #kiss - thanks to Daniel Cummings the outgoing #vss365 host for all his prompts over the last 14 days.

The photo is ‘Le Baiser de l’Hotêl de Ville’ by Robert Doisneau, Paris 1950

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity #Doisneau

Here's my offering for the theme of #miniscule – thanks and welcome to Danielle @daniellestejust.bsky.social our new #vss365 host

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

Here’s a response to this week's call for #PoemsAbout #Undressed from thebrokenspine.co.uk

Thanks for hosting alanparrywriter.co.uk

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

Here's my offering for the theme of #dark - thanks to Daniel Cummings our #vss365 host
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

Here's my offering for the theme of #touch - thanks to Daniel Cummings our #vss365 host

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

Here's my offering for the theme of #roots @TopTweetTuesday. Thanks for hosting EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity