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Lin Hart

@poetry-with-hart.bsky.social

Poet, wannabe artist, and zinester from WV. Married, mother of two. Definately a cryptid in disguise. Poetry found in Broken Spines, Penstricken, and SixtyOddPoets, among others. Zines in kofi below. Enjoy 🤗 https://ko-fi.com/poetrywithhart

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Andrii Frolov @artandriifrolov.bsky.social · 1h ago

"Evening City" - my oil painting, 9"x12"

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13h ago

Almost every day, someone tells me this is their desert island book or their favourite book of the year or that they're on the their 2nd read of it but there is still a feeling that it is not enough. I feel done with promoting it now but I thought I'd give one more copy away before drawing the line

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13h ago

COMP. If anyone would like a signed book and a lovely hare postcard just repost this & pop a reply below. I'll choose the winner in about 30 minutes. If you'd prefer to purchase & help some niche weird fiction survive, you can get it here with free delivery: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

My latest novel Everything Will Swallow You, now out in paperback. You might like it if you like any of the following:
Knitting. Crocheting. Old records (and other old dusty things). An unexpected queer love story. Folklore. The sea. Walking. A hyper-intelligent semi-aquatic cryptid. Abandoned buildings. Community. Silliness. Crows.

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 12h ago

September via @breakthroughbook.bsky.social (already available for pre-order) www.tom-cox.com/my-next-book...

My Next Book!

I've just finished writing and editing another book. It's a surreal collection of short - sometimes extremely short - stories and I've called it Curious Events Lately Occurring In This Neighbourhood. ...

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Robin@robingissing.bsky.social · 12h ago

Ps. When does your short stories book come out? Very much looking forward to that.

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 14h ago

"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a hugely overrated album! Revolver is loads better!"

Two geese I met with strong musical opinions, who I personally happen to agree with.

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 22h ago

Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social · 12h ago

Another incomplete clipping from one of my current haibun projects. I don't know how much I'm keeping, I just keep imagining this really bad game of skeeball on the boardwalk, and wanting to some how turn it into a metaphor but we'll see how it goes. #wipwednesday #wip #poetry #6amwritersclub

Our romance was a skee ball failure, arcade games by the pier, the almost but not quite grasp of the claw game. Always reaching out, never quite grasping home.

Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social · 12h ago

An incomplete part to my interlinked haibun breakup story. Rewriting it from scratch. This falls towards the end. Still needs more meat and a title, but otherwise enjoy. Best wishes 🤗 #wipwednesday #haibun #promptcombo #poetry #6amwritersclub

Standing in February ocean waters, ankle deep pain till it's numb. The shot of Eureka moment, then the tides take me away piece by piece. I let you in, only to let you go. But where to go from here? You looked back, no sadness nor malice, just as witness to the end of us. I become a pillar of salt, now returning to the sea.

I have become air,
and salt slipping shells of what
we might have been, once.

Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social · 13h ago

Porthos the pothos thanking me for my return to office, new growth. #haikufeels #thanks #poetry #haiku #senryu

Just some words @imnotherenow.bsky.social · yesterday

Ambabheg @ambabheg.bsky.social · 16h ago

365 Challenge No.2 2026 - Publish a photo each day on a weekly topic Week 31 (Weather) - Day 7 - Hockley Viaduct in the fog #fajweeklychallenge2026 #photography #blueskykin #weather more at fotosbyfaj.com

Fog‑shrouded walkway along Hockley Viaduct, flanked by damp brick walls and faint trees fading into mist

Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social · 3d ago

Staycation almost over. I'm glad at alot of it, I love my home again. Gardening for so many days straight was such a joy. I'm sore head to foot, but it was worth it. I am sad I didn't write more than usual. Thought I'd make a go at writing/compiling a first draft of a chapbook. But now I maybe

Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social · 5d ago

I'm not sure what to say here. I think the whole chapbook I'm writing about the seasons I sat beside her are in trying to answer the questions of her unwavering optimism, and the ones posed end of this #poem. Regardless, best wishes all around. 🤗 #promptcombo #perseverance #poetry #skypoem

Each day I watched her wither
smiles still dug deep in her wrinkled face
fear found no purchase with its trowel.

Chemo worked quickly to weed out her hair
sift nails from being ground into fingertips,
yet still her cheeks bloomed a peony pink

when she saw me run up her drive
school bag halfway off my shoulder
mud-happy shoes abandoned on the stoop.

We sat in comfortable silence then,
musing mute over popsicles, frozen moments,
some days, too heavy for speech,

others afternoons we watched Lifetime movies
as predictable as they were comforting
as she related stories about her own life.

Her hat slipped once, veins in bare blanched
earth, I feared where she didn’t seem to,
not yet understanding her optimistic heart.

There would yet come a day when cancer
no longer the disease of her body garden
would be defeated, her faith rewarded,

my visits stopped then. I don’t know why.
Why was I only there for the hard times,
why did I shut her door behind me for good?

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 6d ago

In case anyone else wants to take advantage of this amazing free delivery offer, I've written a little guide to my books - and what you might like to try first if you are new to my work - here: www.tom-cox.com/a-brief-guid...

A Brief Guide To My Books

Villager is where I'd advise you to start if you wanted to read one of my novels. It's also the one people most frequently tell me they reread. It's set on a fictional moor which just happens to be in...

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all this is passing@allthisispassing.bsky.social · 6d ago

I’ve ordered almost your entire collection from Blackwells. Super easy and pretty quick to Northern California. I’m glad I have these on the shelf as an antidote for modern times.

Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social · 5d ago

The only thought that crossed my mind for this week's #poemsabout for #lasttrain was this time I got lost in London as a preteen. Thought it'd be fun to write about, in iambic pentameter blank verse even. Enjoy... I think? 😅 @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #poetry #skypoem #skypoetry

That one time I got lost among many,
that time lost on the London underground
tube doors shutting in my face, my family
unwittingly speeding off without me…
I was maybe thirteen at the time
9/11 memory fresh haunting,
took the next one, knew where we were headed
or I thought I did, this odd faith I had
that I was never really ever lost…
even when the train stopped and they weren't there
even when I realized that the station
was larger than I thought, fear wasn't there….
I went outside for a breath and witnessed
beauty in the form of a six foot tall
woman in black, platform heels, spikes piercing
everything I didn't know could be pierced
and more. Hair mohawked a vibrant purple,
shouting, Du hast mich, at or with her friends…
I was madly in love with her, until
security guards found me gawking there,
took me to some office to wait for dad.
I hope she's well, wherever she may be…

Sue Ibrahim @sueimnw.bsky.social · 6d ago

For this week's #PoemsAbout #LastTrain @thebrokenspine.co.uk - so many possible responses...

Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 6d ago

for #PoemsAbout #LastTrain and immense thank you to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poems #poetry #BlueSkyPoets

on last train

oiled with alcoholic monsters
old miners prop up their subsiding
faces.

Call centre staff hold their heads
in both hands as if their palms
are headsets.

Shop assistants clock the prices
of metal cans out of habit.

Giggling teenagers hold one
another up whilst taking
selfies they'll regret in the morning.

Girls decide they can't walk on one heel
so both shoes slung in the bin.
Stockinged or barefoot they slope home.

Boys piss beside the train shelter
leave their monster cans on a wall
lig on a hedge as if they've found a bed.

Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 6d ago

Happy #PoemsAbout day everyone. Here is my offering for #LastTrain. I can't wait to read everyone else's. With thanks as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk Have a great weekend all ❤️ #poetry #choo-choo

The Last Train

I am a witness
to the lairy, blaring call
of rowdy rogues returned from revelry.

The subdued quiet
of the nurse,
longing to kick off sensible shoes
and dance.

The hushed husband
accepting the gin‑soaked airing
of his inadequacy.

The impatient sigh
of the lost girl,
searching for
the last breath of warmth
before the cold night claims her.

I am a witness
to the carriage as confessional,
to the tracks that hum with stories
no one meant to tell.

I am a witness
to the sway of strangers
bound together
for one brief, rattling moment,
before scattering like sparks
into the dark beyond the platform.

I am a witness.

Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social · 5d ago

I dreamt of the life before, drumbeat wedding fields, our yarrow-crowned love. #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #senryu #poetry #6amwritersclub

Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social · 6d ago

What I planned to do during break: finish "Everything will Swallow You" by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social while also writing at least one 30 page interlinked haibun story. What has actually happened: mulch mulch, mulchy mulch mulch... still early in my staycation though. #writingcommunity #gardening

Mulching, in the USA.
Mulching, almost everyday.
Mulch mulch, mulchy mulch mulch
We're always mulching
We're mulching almost everyday.

Seriously I have barely made a fuckident. Yeah its not "pretty" commercial mulch. But its free, or at most $20 to pay the arborist's delivery for them, with ChipDrop. It reached me in 24grs after putting in the request, and they put it in an even better spot than I told them to. Goes down so easy too.

And they made it black walnut free with my request. I love them. Seriously I'm falling in love with my house again because of them, its bloody fantastic. Just plant me in my garden now with a book to write and I'm fuckiset!

@yvesbroeckx.bsky.social · 7d ago

I B E N E A T H T H E A S H O F S I L E N C E I Some emotions never disappear, they settle beneath the surface, waiting to be seen. This work is a portrait of resilience hidden beneath shadow, where every mark carries the weight of what words cannot. #ContemporaryArt #Monochrome #Art

$Beneath the Ash of Silence explores the fragile boundary between concealment and revelation. Inspired by expressive charcoal, ink splatters, and raw gestural mark-making, the portrait emerges from darkness as though memory itself is taking shape. The young man’s features are both defined and dissolving, suggesting an identity forged through vulnerability rather than certainty. The restrained monochrome palette strips away distraction, allowing texture, shadow, and negative space to speak with quiet intensity. Every drip, scratch, and fractured brushstroke becomes part of an emotional landscape where sorrow, endurance, and hope coexist. Rather than depicting despair, the work reflects the quiet strength required to remain present when parts of ourselves feel lost, revealing that even beneath ash, something essential continues to breathe. Art copyright ©Yves Broeckx This is digitally created art concept and execution by Yves$

Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social · last wk.

How you know a Lin is actually relaxing: TV has a subtitled drama going, likely Turkish? Korean? Anywhere but here? Food happened, likely a rice based, most preferably sushi She's wearing the underdress to a Ren faire costume because damnit, it's breezy light House is organized, her mind is not.

Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social · last wk.

Organized chaos, the lie I tell myself when I don't want to clean. #cassiopean #organize #poetry #senryu #humor

Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social · last wk.

crimson causality sleep, the last soldier standing on dream's precipice #poetry #wildwalkprompt #crimson #haiku #senryu

Quill of Mnemosyne@sonnetsmith.bsky.social · last wk.

Hello Wild Walk #writers Golden orb descends, Bathes the world in crimson light As a parting gift. Your word today is #Crimson Use the image/word to inspire your writing. #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub

Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social · last wk.

depend on me, love the tree said shading me as my trowel dug deep #haikufeels #haiku #senryu #poetry #micropoem

Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social · last wk.

time is smoldering, plasticity of the mind expands in embers #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #senryu #poetry #micropoem

Ernest @fintechernest.bsky.social · last wk.

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The 25 Best Anti-Trump Protest Songs

The best Trump protest songs: Bruce Springsteen, YG, and more

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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · last wk.

The moon tonight 🤩😍

An almost full moon with a bright halo through the trees

Owen Gwynne @owengwynne.bsky.social · last wk.

Took the SeeStar 🔭 out last night to capture the North America Nebula NGC 7000 for about 40 minutes. Stacked in Siril and a Histogram Stretch brought out more detail than I expected to be honest .

NGC 7000 - the nebula is shown as red shading, with a shape a bit like the Gulf of Mexico showing - hence its common name .

Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social · last wk.

First night of staycation, kids out of the house, time to myself, I'll totally write a bunch. May even post a little bit of it, do some gardening... *discovers the works of Mervyne Peake* Well that's a nice three days about to belong to a trilogy wormhole... Okay, I love you all buh bye 🤗

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · last wk.

If you join in with this you support a novel that almost didn’t come out whose author had thousands of pounds of his earnings stolen by his ex-publishers AND an excellent independent bookshop who very kindly supported him through that astonishingly stressful hopefully-never-to-be-repeated situation.

Big Green Books@biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 2w ago

BLUESKY BOOK CLUB FANS! We've chosen the first book that we'll be reading. "Everything Will Swallow You" by the mighty Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social . First meeting at the end of August, so plenty of time to read the book DETAILS HERE. www.biggreenbookshop.com/bluesky-book...

Crim Reaper @crimreaper.bsky.social · last wk.

False Hydra - Eraser of Memories "You forget what you saw. You forget what you lost"

A deformed mass of flesh, with the main body of a seemingly looking human crawling its way towards, with fleshy snake-like abominations sprouting from its back, each one with a skull-like appearance, and tendrils coming out from their mouths. On the front of the body, there's also a gaping maw with fangs and tendrils