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Penny Sharman

@blossoms21.bsky.social

I’m a poet and photographer inspired by landscapes, shortlisted for Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the year 2023 winner of The Charles Causley International Poetry Prize 2025, shortlisted for The Wigtown Poetry Competition 2025 pennysharman.co.uk

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Wow! an acceptance from Aftershock for issue three
Thank you Max Wallis

27.02.2026 04:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Penny Sharman (@dreamawhile) Just realised it’s almost a year since my last post so here’s a few shots from February a small child hooking the moon and pulling down moonlight for the Earth photos of sunlight through an evergr...

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21.02.2026 06:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And of course I’m so sorry for your loss x

13.02.2026 05:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lovely poem Dan x
I lost my brother 5 years ago tis a great loss💖💖💖

12.02.2026 19:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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07.02.2026 04:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Creative writing website for authors and readers. 75 words, changing daily. Submit your paragraph today. A flash fiction website for writers and readers. One 75 word tale published daily. Plus author interviews and writing group map

“1966” by Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social is today’s 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet paragraphplanet.com #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amwriting

06.02.2026 13:32 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Creative writing website for authors and readers. 75 words, changing daily. Submit your paragraph today. A flash fiction website for writers and readers. One 75 word tale published daily. Plus author interviews and writing group map

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My poem up today

06.02.2026 04:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Golly Gee what was I thinking!! How amazing you recall our meeting I too remember your amazing verve x

03.02.2026 06:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Are you coming to Manchester Dan? I remember meeting you years ago in Aldeburgh

02.02.2026 19:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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My publisher has let me down🥲🥲🥲🥲 pretty devastated

21.01.2026 04:24 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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My publisher has let me down🥲🥲🥲🥲 pretty devastated

21.01.2026 04:24 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Yep x

21.01.2026 04:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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@seansterva2.bsky.social

20.01.2026 20:28 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Happy 92nd Birthday, Tom Baker!
You're 'my Doctor' always.
#TomBaker

20.01.2026 20:08 — 👍 41    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 1
Southword Editor’s Poetry Award Result – Munster Literature Centre

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Lucky to make the commended list

13.01.2026 19:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A Girl Raking - 1881
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Mist over hills before snowfall

09.01.2026 05:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

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Solstice Babe!

21.12.2025 06:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The running of the deer

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Penny Sharman (@dreamawhile) Things I have filched When I was young it was snow, before it melts, before a carrot became a nose, before the coal gave sight to the snowman. Before the melt and slush was left on the garden path. ...

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Is it a number, is it a chocolate, no it's a poem!!! the advent of Advent

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01.12.2025 14:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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LAUNCH DAY: “Poems for TAYLOR SWIFT & Other Unicorns” – Various Artists I am so verily chuffed to say Happy Book Birth Day to all of the fine poets who have their work featured in our tales of teenage obsession, Poems for TAYLOR SWIFT & Other Unicorns ... which hits the shelves and doormats this very day. Click Here to find out more

LAUNCH DAY: “Poems for TAYLOR SWIFT & Other Unicorns” – Various Artists

I am so verily chuffed to say Happy Book Birth Day to all of the fine poets who have their work featured in our tales of teenage obsession, Poems for TAYLOR SWIFT & Other Unicorns ... which hits the shelves and doormats this…

01.12.2025 05:18 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0