@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
#TopTweetTuesday
Yesterday's offering on the prompt. TY, as always @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social & all of the wonderful participating writers. #prophecy #myth

Reposting because I didn't have time to post here.I also changed the font to white, original was in Blue.

#prophecy on #TopTweetTuesday, here’s my poem

Thank you to
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
for hosting.

Transit Gods Repeatedly Persephone swipes back in – Pergusa-black palms, pip-full, blue-tile salt crusted, oozing blood orange nectar. Occasionally Hermes wrestles the Lisboan night bus through sodium corridors, knotted ouroboros motherskin scorched by mothlight. Then Terminus: boulder-shouldered at Airbnb edge, eye to the sky, scrolls cloud and Jupiter. Boundary is the god. The god is the griefing.

Thank you once again to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for the #TopTweetTuesday prompts and curation. 🙏

Cassandra's Curséd Ketchup Her last vermillion knell: a beast unleashed to spread the muses' lover's curse, reversed. Glutinous shoves of electrons piped into hermetic abacists: nectar of stirred agents that divine us from ritual zeros and ones. They tempt, rage, pray at the beckon of a tap. Click-clacked incantations augur shade in lightless night. We lap the stains of make-believe, concoct with relish our canned pantheon. Avenged at last? Let slip what will be the final drop.

Are poets allowed to have so much fun on a #TopTweetTuesday?

Thank you @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for staging the playground.

Did you know that AI is Apollo's fault?

*Note: "Ketchup effect": when little happens for a long time, then way too much very fast.

For the theme #prophecy on #TopTweetTuesday, here’s my poem ‘Burning Sage’.

I seem to be on a roll with witchy/wise woman poems at the moment!

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Thank you to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for hosting.

#poetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #skypoets #poetsofbluesky #witch

A one off #TopTweetTuesday where we will also run this on Bluesky.

Next week’s prompts:

- prophecy, collision of present day and myth, ritual, the future, the city.

Up to 120 words.

Imagistic, metaphorical, free verse. Inventive, quirky.

Bold title, your name italicised. No A.I.

Morning! For #topTweetTuesday, my poem Elliptical. I stayed within the bounds (I think). I even made up a new word: frogwinged 😉Thank you all for your consideration & generosity. Have a great day. Special thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social & @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

Thank you, #TopTweetTuesday, for inspiring me to write just now. #poem #poetry

@blackboughpoems #toptweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith

Thanks for hosting @PaulWritesPoems

Here's my submission - not sure I'll have time to do a video - as I'm on the move but I'll try.

A new pome "Homecoming" posted over on X/Twitter for #TopTweetTuesday. There's a video of me reading it (along with my cat Shelley in the background) over there if you can stand my Brummie drawl

A brilliantly sizzling #TedHughes tribute poem by fellow host of #TopTweetTuesday, @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

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I have the pleasure this morning of being joint host of #TopTweetTuesday over on X alongside @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
Poets are invited to write on #SylviaPlath or #TedHughes.

This is my poem.
#poetry #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets #skypoets #poetrychallenge #poetrycommunity

Exposed Exhausted I stumble up the steep hill of you. Sense disappears in your gust. My words smashed against your craggs. I cradle the warm eggs of my words you snatch and crack open till my insides tumble unborn deadyolks colour the purple heather of your tongue that fills my mouth so my words cannot be heard, inert. I can't breathe. Your body is an oven whose mouth swallows my whole self. I inhale your gas. Fumble for meaning in the lost map of us.

For #promptcombo #Rupture @victoriaspires.bsky.social also #TopTweetTuesday #SylviaPlath @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

For our #SylviaPlath and #TedHughes week on #TopTweetTuesday on Twitter, ‘Dream of Two Poets’.

‘She advances to him as one who could devour the fire and light of the room’

Big up to joint host @helenlaycock.bsky.social

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

How do you write poetry that's homage without drifting into imitation?

Daddyless Morning tries to capture Plath's poetic spirit while exploring absence & the quiet ache of a father gone. Hope I hit the brief.

#toptweettuesday

Mr Larkin’s Ghost… Will seek the closing, curling walls of bare let rooms and all other cheaply-rented lives, worn faces propped against parks puffing-out despair, silently; revisit their cold as coffin table-tops, not surprisingly: single-chaired; compose the score for behind closed doors, where the deafening conversational hum is provided by duplicitous electric-fires and misery’s always Sunday-dull, unshared evensong. The world reflected in fishbowl-glasses, grave-dust sticking like wet sugar; he’s still wandering: a caustic balm chronicling any place needed between high heaven and Hull.

Hullo. Just put this up on the other place for #TopTweetTuesday and the week’s theme of an 80 word homage to a famous poet. #poetry #larkin

#roots #TopTweetTuesday. #poetry

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

Our themes for next week on #TopTweetTuesday on Twitter are

~ Justice, karma, retribution~

Looking for poems with a social conscience. 100 words maximum and let the imagery do the work. Show rather than tell.

Here's (19)84 words on the theme of fascism, dictatorship, authoritarianism, thought police, state control for @TopTweetTuesday. Thanks as always go to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity #TopTweetTuesday

‘the image of the cheeto king rises’ 🇺🇸

On the themes of fascism, authoritarianism and dictatorship, a poem for the weekly event that is #TopTweetTuesday on Twitter

Thanks to all readers and contributors. 🙏

‘The hounds in that house, stirred in the kish of the tremor’

Before the monster Grendel attacked the great hall.

For #TopTweetTuesday and our theme - tales for children 👹

#norse #beowulf #myth

Flames

#DailyPrompt #TopTweetTuesday
Once Smoldering Hope reignites
Ready to set the world ablaze
Mizanudin unsplash.com
#renewal

This week on #TopTweetTuesday our host @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social asked us to post our best three TopTweetTuesday poems from 2025 in three separate photos. Here are 3 of mine.

Happy holidays ~ a wonderful new year to fellow wordsmiths.

#poetry #writing #poetic #blueskypoetry #storiesandstanxa

#TopTweetTuesday
This week our host @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social has us
write a fresh, imagistic poem in 60 words about a festive event using
- a lesser known colour shade
- 2 words that are hardly used, including an archaic word
- an extravagant simile
- a wacky / unexpected metaphor
#blueskypoetry

Artwork and winter landscape poem written for #toptweettuesday this week #poetry #winterpoetry #illustration

Sunset reflecting on a snowy landscape

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#TopTweetTuesday
The landscape is softened, blanketed by powder. Outside my breath condenses, like I'm a dragon releasing smoke. One of the indicators of how low the temperature has gotten. Yet I can't seem to move myself inside.

Sharing my bird poem for #TopTweetTuesday
where our host @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social has us write bird poem on with 70 words

Also, inspired by
#vss365 #aphotic
‘strepitous crump’ #firewords280
‘the circle traced ends’ #FoxProse

Against the snow-sky
a constellation of crows
no more than black blips.

#micropoetry #poetry #haiku #toptweettuesday

A #TopTweetTuesday #birds #poetry challenge offering