THANKS to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for this pleasant surprise 🙏💚 ... & a MASSIVE THANKS for your continued dedication to hosting, motivating and encouraging an online community of poets @ #FragmentsFriday
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Sincere THANKS 🙏💚

An honourable mention this week on #fragmentsfriday for @helenlaycock.bsky.social
who was the judge’s fourth favourite poem. 🥂

Thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social ‘s older sister Emma for choosing this week 🙏

In 1ST place 🥇 on #fragmentsfriday 🏆

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‘A second dispossession’ 😢

Gary Legg from the East Midlands.

#poetry #writing

In 🥈 2nd place on #fragmentsfriday @vespertine4.bsky.social with ‘Gravity Between Us’.

‘Unhatching in your carob eyes’

In 3rd place 🥉 on #fragmentsfriday
‘Posturing’ by Fin Cassidy - his first time on the podium 🔥

Those yoga pylons! Congratulations Fin!

#poetry #writing

two baked potatoes are sitting on a wooden cutting board with the word hash on it ALT: two baked potatoes are sitting on a wooden cutting board with the word hash on it

Today’s #poems on #fragmentsfriday are loaded!

@blackboughpoems

@MatthewMCSmith
#fragmentsfriday

A moment of calm in a challenging week. Gratitude for a different life; profound sadness that this is not the case for everyone.

Thanks for holding space through #FragmentsFriday, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

Pink box with a yellow outline of a flower and inside it the words of a micropoem: the botanist anchored by a thousand Latin names – terrified of forgetfulness cutting loose as an astronaut in blackest space

Time for a little #fragmentsFriday fun!
Thanks for the inspiration @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 🙏

My effort for #FragmentsFriday An Unimpressionist Paints Goodnight, an extract from a longer series of Unimpressionist poems I've been working on that considers who the opposite of an impressionist painter might be.
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#poetrycommunity

Hi all #FragmentsFriday poets,
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social,
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social.

I'm happy to share my #micropoem, 'Posturing'.

Thanks 🙏💚 for the poetry plateform/community.

#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity

My micropoem for #fragmentsfriday Thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for the prompt.
#micropoetry #micropoem #micropoems

Morning musings for Fragments Friday...
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@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

#fragmentsfriday #poetryfragment #micropoem #morningmusings

Gratitude to@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #fragmentsfriday

After the sand storm
At the wake of Christ,
Their altered tongues
Were rough as those of cats

Stepping stones I put you on a shelf with the other saints ready to forget your transgressions all the shadows the silence your stories your lies tomorrow we will cross the river on stepping stones made of broken promises

Turns out the #FragmentsFriday I posted last week was the perfect opening to this week's #PoemsAbout #EdgeOfKnowing! So now I do know where that was going! Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk / @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt! #poems #poetry #blueskypoetry

Clinamen Emissary of flux, surrogate of impermanence – the sole constant, an Aeolian choice: be gale or be blown – scattered.

Today’s #fragmentsfriday micropoem 🌬️

Thank you very much to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for hosting 🙏

Hello @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social Here's my #micropoem for #fragmentsfriday

Your Grave Is Warmed By Odd Summer Flowers A parade of jerry-rigged suns, underneath, roots happily knead, strands of monotonous-ants: rosary beads, quietly working through hands. Julian Cason

Hullo @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for the glorious 18 word challenge that is #fragmentsfriday #poetry

For #fragmentsfriday a #poem.

Precipices:

1. That lives exist separate from you.
2. That love is heartache-fragile.
3. That your time will be unknown to you.

Matthew M. C. Smith, 2026.

Warm hands
Papery skin
Tidy nails
Hold my face
Firmly but gently
Lifting me out of my fug

@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #fragmentsFriday
#WritingCommunity #Poetry #vss365 #blueskypoetry #skypoet #writing

Make an impression. Dazzle with your startling #micropoem on #fragmentsfriday

18 words or less. ☝️ ⚡️

#fragmentsfriday #poetry

#fragmentsfriday is this Friday, once again on Twitter, Insta and Bluesky!

Up to 18 words, startling, impactful #poetry

Of course YOUR own work. No AI. ☝️

Feaster Sunday a poem for #eastersunday it's the full poem from which my #fragmentsfriday poem was taken.

Happy Easter

Don't have nightmares do sleep well 🤣🤣.

#Easter
#Easterpoem
#poetrycommunity
#writerscommunity

Check me out - made it onto the illustrious #FragmentsFriday podium, and in such fine company, too!

Thanks, @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

1st place on #fragmentsfriday Ryan Hooper’s ‘What slips’ 🥇 🏆

‘the wintered marble rolls away from arthritic fire’ ❄️ 🔥

Wow!

2nd place on #fragmentsfriday Dorian Nightingale 🥈

Who also happens to the author of our book of the month! #poetry #writing

3rd place on #fragmentsfriday this week 🥉 Ella Winters’s ‘Cuckmere Haven’

The crumbling chalk of a hand!

@ella-b-winters.bsky.social

Pale yellow box with black shading and the words of a poem: White scatter It’s confetti – hear the bells – it’s plum blossom, wind-wrenched – no, it’s the crushed hopes of the tearful cuckoo

It's #fragmentsFriday, hooray! Observing the path on a walk through the woods yesterday gave me this. 💜
Thanks to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

Here's a wee offering for #FragmentsFriday @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

Once again based on a literal event. The fox was fine and managed to cross a busy A road safely.