Andy Williamson

Thank you, that's very kind 🙏

Thank you 🙏

Fantastic! Congratulations, Rachel!

Absolutely! None of us living here have consented to over-tourism, but we certainly have to pay for the damage it causes!

This feels spot-on, Clare, and so clever of you to share it for this prompt!

Thanks! That's really kind of you to say so 🙏

Thanks, John, appreciate that!

Thanks, John. Took me a couple of iterations to have the nerve to leave “stop” sitting there on its own line!

Crikey, Francesca, I’m so glad you think so… didn’t feel that way writing it!

Thanks Jenni 🙏

Thank you 🙏

Thanks, Gary! Really delighted it has that effect!

Thanks, Merril! I like the idea of the final stanza on its own... might explore that!

I briefly toyed with idea of a lawyer popping up with a contract at the worst possible moment. Thankfully I gave up on that! Yours works though, made me smile!

Thanks, David, glad it worked for you, I found the prompt challenging

Thank you 🙏

It was the perfect length - and you'd have been hard pushed to make it any shorter!

Good morning #PoemsAbout! #Consent was a hard prompt to get my head around, so hope you like it! Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk!

#poem #poems #poetry #writingcommunity #blueskyepoets

That's so brilliant, Francesca! What a great take on the prompt!

Indeed - nice to see your poem in there too!

Thank you! That's very kind!

Aw, thanks Jen, that's far too kind ☺️

Really loved your poem, Jen!

Congratulations @paulwritespoems.bsky.social on this fantastic anthology - some really wonderful poets in here! Delighted and humbled to have a couple of my own included!

Thanks, Rachel, that’s pretty much my original idea, I cut the poem back so good it still comes through for you!

It's such an evocative smell! We still have wild garlic pesto in the freezer from last year - great with pasta!

Thank you! I'm so pleased you enjoyed it 🙏

Huge thanks for prompt Julian @hool415.bsky.social l #promptcombo #free40
Dee Side

In the café with torn lino
and the toffee crackled windows
in the seaside town
Where the tide went out
In nineteen sixty two.
A man in a pork pie hat
Stirs his tea with a fork

© Bernard Pearson

Fantastic, Bernard, you’ve painted such a rich picture in so few words 👏👏

Thanks Rusty!