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The October issue of The HyperTexts is out today, with a frightening feast of Halloween poetry; 'Poem in Focus' feat. Robert Mezey; poetry by Janet Kelly, Gail White, Bob Zisk, and me 🕷 🎃👍

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Another great stunt! 😂

Elon Musk is no friend of our United Kingdom. He should be held to account for allowing truly vile and illegal child abuse content on his platform.

Sir Ed Davey brands Elon Musk a criminal and calls for his arrest for 'allowing online harm to children' The world's richest man was accused of inciting violence by several politicians after telling a rally last week, "violence is coming to you".

#libdems #EdDavey
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Love’s Lexis

She told me that being in love
and asking what it means
is like picking up a dictionary
and looking up the word ‘dictionary'.

Just a reminder, today is the last day to submit to NVR's Halloween issue!

Very pleased to have two poems published this week in the latest Lapidus Magazine – Issue Six: From the writing for wellbeing community for the writing for wellbeing community.

Huge thanks to Lapidus International #lapidus

huge thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for hosting #PoemsAbout #SilentPlanets heres my little offering this week look forward as always to all the other work shared

You're very welcome, Bernard ☺️

Perhaps this is it? www.oatleafpoetry.com ☺️
Congratulations, Bernard!

Hello World

I Am (Just a Story Written by Other People) Longlisted in the New Writers Poetry Competition 2025 from 700 entries (25 longlisted)

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Thanks, Peter! Happy days here. This pm, Word-Bird and I shall be writing to one of our favourite penpals 🥰🌞

Thanks, Peter! Better health isn't an option at end stage; it's just a matter of coming to terms and making the most of things ☺️

Hope your week has started well 🙂

The one Downing Street resident you can always count on
(Photo @imageplotter.bsky.social)

Letter from Ed Davey to Keir Starmer condemning Elon Musk for inciting violence and urging unity to defend democracy.

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.

As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

the director’s advice

imagine a moon
that is both
illuminated
then darkened
by dots
lines
shapes
and signs
that appear
as if at random
across its surface

a moon
known
and unknown
in shifting ways

Thanks, Tristan! I'm happy you enjoyed the poem. I like the journal too. Just taking each day as it comes at the moment, making the most of things. It's good to be back here again, and I hope all is well with you 😊

The PM must urgently appoint a new ambassador who will stand up to Trump, not cosy up to him and his cronies.

He also can't keep dodging questions about why Lord Mandelson was appointed in the first place, and the extent of what was already known about his links with Epstein.

Thank you, Jane! I'm glad you enjoyed it 🥰
Setting sail for Dreamland now, as it's just past midnight here. Hope your Thursday has started well 👋😊

YouTube video by Samantha, @honestypoetry SHINE Quarterly, Issue 4 launch -- September 5, 2025

SHINE Quarterly Issue 4 has arrived! If you missed it, you can watch the launch video here: includes a wonderful reading of one of my poems

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the cat sleeping
with his tail
over his eyes

A Canberra bus stop with spring flowers.

A walk home 🧶

Thanks, David! I'm happy you enjoyed it ☺️

With Me – a poem by Felicity Teague With MeApril 1999This isn’t like St. Peter’s Church back homein Winchcombe; I had thought our church quite grand,but here, in the Basilica in Rome,my legs are shaking slightly as I standinside the …

Due to illness I've been submitting less lately, but here's a sonnet in Amethyst Review yesterday 🕊️

Thanks to the editor, Sarah Law, for her customary kindness; and to my dear friend John Isbell for his encouragement and support 🥰

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HAUS-A-REST — Issue 64 - Writers corner Changing Patterns Our latest zine explores the rhythms, shifts, & transformations that shape art & writing. From evolving identities to repeating forms, each piece reflects how patterns emerge, break, & begin again. #C...

The excellent Haus-a-rest is live! Contains new and old poems by me, wonderful writing by fellow Resident Michaela Hall and stunning poets

Do look around the site - art is always off the scale impressive

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#poetrycommunity #poetry #hausarest @hausarest.bsky.social

A landscape photo, with a big white male swan in the centre. His neck is curved, so his orange beak is pointing at the ground. His big brown feet look very sturdy. To the left, the bank curves in towards him and then a little way out again, with the lake visible behind the foliage that takes up most of the top of the photo. Much of this is tall grasses, not too dry, but dwindling. There's also the dark brown trunk of a tree, a few leaves already scattered on the ground beneath it.

Pittville Park's George Swan, around mid-July, when we were between heatwaves here. George is looking thoughtfully at the dry brown bank. The photo was taken by Graham, my older brother 😎👍

Yes, he seems blissfully unaware of the barking! ☺️
Thankfully the weather's quite a lot cooler here now. Mum and I got caught in sudden torrential rain on the way to the doctor last week! She was laughing at me, because I'd come out in my shower shoes (comfy!). The park is getting green again 🥳

And here, we're heading towards autumn, though most of the UK has appeared autumnal for a few weeks due to very dry conditions through the summer this year 🍂
I've had a few struggles with my health over the past months, but I've been able to adjust 🙂. Still able to visit the park now and then! 😍🥰