Emily Tee

Beautiful!

Poem - Spirit

Good morning all at #PromptCombo It’s my turn and this week’s theme is #Moment , any moment you can think of. See mine below. Love to all.

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Blues is one of the most forgiving genres , though I think being able to follow the tune is a must.

Yes I saw the changed version and the edits improved it, though I thought the original was already good. Tell us / Tellus 👏 though I needed the hint.
It did strike me only some people get obits, others get the barest in memoriam notices. A poem in that thought maybe?

I've not seen the film but enough of its lore has come into popular culture for me to appreciate how well you've satirised it, and made it a commentary on modern life. Very nicely done Jan! 🔥🔥🔥 (The emoji seemed appropriate 😉)

Wicker Man Sequel I: Winter of Discontent, 1973-74 Once the ice cubes are Sucked dry, Our frosted breaths spell D—th: Mouthed but never, ever Sounded. They come in Threes: Tokens hinting at some Calamity afoot. Firstly: Our genial hybrid – part folk horror, part Noir, part musical, part documentary – Mangled into some double-feature, B-movie schlock fest. Secondly: The Burren Head Wicker Man ruin Prefiguring the fate of the Director’s Cut negative, buried under Pylons that prop up the M4. You just don’t do that to a negative! Sergeant Howie would no doubt Liken such an act to desecrating the Host. Thirdly: Prophetic atrocity nested in an Islander’s dream. Christ mocking us with His earthly span: that execrable “Not the Bees!” Hollywood Remake, Thirty-three years hence. Baulking at child sacrifice, We abandon a plot to kidnap the future Leading man, just nine years old in 1973. We get what we want: a Bountiful harvest. But demand for our apples Plummets in the aftermath of the October War. We enlist the W.I.* Expertise of matriarchs from Christian neighbours in the Archipelago, who teach us the Lost alchemical arts of Chutney and bottled preserves. Their dignified, often formidable Bearing stuns us. We start to wonder at Our role as bit-part players in those Tawdry, communal Sex romps splayed nightly before The Green Man - enacted to Delight Our Laird and His Inner Circle, Three Blonde Weird Sisters. Yes, Lord Summerisle – that Hefner-cum-Dracula Cult commandant, with his Walt Whitman snail fetish; His drag-queen shtick Designed to Upstage the May Queen. He languishes Now that the Weird Sisters - The Landlord’s Daughter The Headmistress The Librarian – have Fled the island. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025

With Emotional incontinence Born of intemperance, He weeps at photographs Blazoning his Prize crop; Searches the inscrutable Gaze that rivets him to the Life-size portrait of his Victorian grandsire; Wakes in cold sweats at Nightmares in which his Venerable forebear’s Eye sockets bore into the Back of his head. Elsewhere on the island, with the Three-Day Week in full swing, Televisions and lava lamps expire as Dusk falls. Lindsay Kemp - Alder MacGregor, if you will - Teaches bored kids the art of Shadow-play mime by Guttering candlelight. The Green Man is plagued by the Ghost of Willow MacGregor’s Butt-naked Body double pounding on the Wall adjoining the Guest Room – a scene Played out in Infinite loops. At our wits’ end, We coax a grim-jawed Exorcist out of his Glasgow Presbytery. He grudgingly agrees to Rid us of this Maddening nuisance. All the while, Lord Summerisle - Listless, demoralized, Drunken recluse in his Baronial manor - Slouches towards his Appointment with the Wicker Man. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 *W.I. – Women’s Institute

©Richard Littler/Scarfolk, 2016 Scarfolk spoof of a heritage-site road sign which, in this instance, signals the proximity of the Wicker Man site (just 300 yards away) managed by "The Necromantic Trust."

#PoemsAbout #FalseCrowns 🙏 @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

#newpoem: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025

#WickerMan #Satire #FanFiction #FolkHorror #WeirdSisters #70s #Cults #ProsePoem

#image: ©Richard Littler, 2016

Blues seems the perfect form for this 👏👏👏👏

As a family history researcher, those Obit bare facts can be very handy. However I read any kind of judgement about the person sceptically, as culturally there's a lot of bias to not "speak ill of the dead". I think a living wake is the best idea, a knees up before you go so you get your roses 🌹

Thanks Jen. A terrible context to wish up an innocent artwork!

Thanks Jan. A terrible situation not yet resolved for anyone, I feel we are about to see new twists, and new turns of the screw.

Thank you 🙏

I didn't have space in the caption to express my deep visceral dislike of the horrendous loss of life on both sides. Two terrible wrongs never make a right.
Thanks for the kind words on what I remember being quite an angry emotional poem at the time 🙏

A poem by Debbie Ross entitled Symbols Single stanza text as follows I got a tiara for my 60th birthday, a present from a friend, to remind me of my ascension to wise womanhood, or women of a certain age, who no longer care what others think; who don't take themselves too seriously, but seriously enough to wear a crown and think we own it.

Dear @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and the #poetrycommunity here for #PoemsAbout #FalseCrowns a not very serious attempt, which I’ve not had time to work on. Hope it fits. Thanks to all who read and repost. Will check out the offerings over the weekend. #poems #poetry

So evocative and I knew someone like that, the youngest in his class, always the academic overachiever but it didn't translate into the real world. Some of the most "successful" professionals I worked with worked their way up from the bottom. One literally started as the post room boy at 16.

Wonderful haiku 👏👏👏

A piece I wrote to an Ekphrastic prompt, which The Ekphrastic Review published in their challenge selection. It was written just after the terrorist attack in Israel and when what was obvious even then as a disproportionate response was beginning.

#PoemsAbout #FalseCrown @thebrokenspine.co.uk

a decorative black crown sits on a white pedestal against a minimalist teal background. The Broken Spine logo is in the top left, “@thebrokenspine.co.uk” appears in white at the top right, and the lower right text reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #FALSECROWNS”.

Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #FalseCrowns.
Not royalty — rot.
Don’t post before Friday.
That shine? That reverence? That’s the problem.

Tag it.
Use Alt Text.

Thanks, it's a conundrum isn't it? I often think there's an obvious meaning if not literal and then someone else will give me a whole other interpretation.

Nicely put in such fantastic brevity 🔥

Clever invocation of subtext 👏👏👏

A personal thread about using rhyme in poetry🧵
Despite once being a mainstay of form & despite its persistence in popular song, rhyme has lost favour with many poets. Some eschew it on principle. Others, even those who use it, are nervous of it. To many it seems old-fashioned, trivial, nursery stuff

And wow again! 😄

Big thank you to @afterpoetry.com and @markantonyowen.com again! 🙏🏼

And congratulations to @hareontherun.bsky.social and @philvernon.bsky.social 👏🏼💐

Great writing, the language may be straightforward but you really get the idea across 👏

Thanks Carolyn and thanks for sharing it too 🙏

It worked really well.

I don't often do that much #Subtext so thanks to @victoriaspires.bsky.social for the #PromptCombo incentive. I was also inspired by her Late Poppies poem, so here's one I created in November and have edited a wee bit.

The original prompt was 5 line vignette, a Proper Noun and onomatopoeia.

Morning #PromptCombo crew. It's me hosting this week and the theme is #Subtext. This poem is a #terzarima and very much not in my usual style (written as an exercise with @noelcowley.bsky.social some while ago). You don't have to write one, though (I know how much @hool415.bsky.social hates form) 😁

I'd never have guessed this was an exercise - it's really impressive 👏👏👏

Clever write Jan 👏👏👏

Brilliant poem Vic! 🔥🔥🔥