A poem prepared for @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @helenlaycock.bsky.social to consider elsewhere. Enjoyed the challenge of writing it.
24.02.2026 11:19 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Puff!! Powdered powerless. Beggar's bowl blindly proffered, head bridged backwards. Dreams doused, hwyl hobbled, scarred scarlet by embarassment.
With thanks and enormous gratitude to my Welsh hosts @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for the opportunity of a wee wind up in advance of tomorrow's rugby in #fragmentfriday.
19.02.2026 23:56 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Such a wonderful sense of time and place in so few words.
13.02.2026 21:03 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Really well done and thoroughly deserved. Look forward to a whole new series
11.02.2026 11:58 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Why not come along, meet some old friends, make some new ones, be entertained and made to think.
08.02.2026 22:10 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
โI want their fierce hope to shake the worldโ ๐
A tribute page to our friend, poet Sarah Connor @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social ๐
A personal perspective on Sarah and her poems with related links.
www.blackboughpoetry.com/sarah-connor...
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Hi.
Not on here very often yet!
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Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
(he/him) Belfast/Coleraine poet. Black Eyed Peace, is available as free eBook from Wordpress, inc. the Pushcart nominated Hunting for the Aurora. MA student at MMU - davidatkinsonpoet.wordpress.com
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Poet. Writer. Reviewer. Swansea.
Poet, novelist, Reviewer, published in over one hundred and fifty journals magazines, including Wild Court, The York Literary Review, Aesthetica Magazine . Husband, father, hankering after peace in a protected planet www.abookatberntime.uk
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Author ๐บ Poet. English teacher โฅ๏ธ Writing for pleasure. Folklore of Sweden ๐ธ๐ช and Wales. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Host of โFirst Draftโ at Bro Radio ๐ป Co-founder of These3Streams arts festival โ๏ธ MA in creative writing from Swansea. www.sarahpersson.com