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Watching a spider carefully spinning its web in the most inconvenient place possible in my garden.

Most of the time, her o’s were o’s, but on days when the wind came up hard, she couldn’t help slipping into her mother’s voice. "It’s getting #stormy outside", she'd say with the "a" where the "o" ought to be. She’d catch herself, feel that old flicker of embarrassment, and then miss her. #vss365

The water was very still today.

Something I just found in my notes... Unfurling, hastened, By thick eyes, Scratching beneath the surface, Of skin slick with salt, Sweat and tears mingling, To form a crust, That cracks at the slightest touch, Revealing raw, red emotion, A warning flag, A sentinel of fear #Poetry #WIP

Love is a well worn word. How readily it rolls off the tongue. So easy to forget it's not just a feeling— it's a value, an action, a way of living. It's what the world is missing. #mpprompt

Malachy Moran@malformed-poetry.bsky.social · 5d ago

Today’s #poetryprompt: Well used words #MPPrompt I repost replies Follow for daily prompts

A weed is just a wildflower in the wrong place, So they say, I find myself collecting things, Sayings, empty snail shells, other people's anxieties, Everything has it's place, Except for those stray nipple hairs, They, can go elsewhere. #PoemsAbout #Strays

Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #Strays. Who gets taken home? Who gets left outside? Who learnt they were better off there? Don’t post before Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.

A tiny shrub growing out of a crack in the wall. #NaturalBonsai #Bonsai

Delighted you can read/listen to three of my poems: Problem Blood, Amphora, and Feel Real, in Wave 27 of @iamb.uk with thanks to @markantonyowen.com for curating the collection, including outstanding poets such as @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social and @johnadlam.bsky.social

𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒃 ~ 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅@iamb.uk · last wk.

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That time of year again. You close the curtains earlier each evening. You want something warm, nourishing. Wave twenty-seven of @iamb.uk has got you. Make a nest on the sofa, pull the blankets around you, and settle down with 45 poems read by their authors. iamb.uk/index/wave/27

wave twenty-seven | autumn 2026 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard

Hear the poets of wave 27 of literary poetry journal iamb read their poems for autumn 2026 .

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Anxiety, shallow breaths, lumpy catches in the throat, at the solar plexus, unmoored weightlessness of lung & head, the body paradoxically rooted, yet unable to find repose, mind flitting across preoccupations, not knowing where to focus yet focused on itself, preying on itself, is our condition now

Today about 100 people took part in a mass trespass in the Prime Minister’s constituency. There’s a right to roam over just 1% of Makerfield, & today the landowner proved our point for us: putting up fencing & calling the police. @andyburnham.bsky.social - please open the door to the countryside!

Rain caressing leaves, Autumn berries ripening, Blackbird song beckons. #Haiku #Poetry

I very much enjoyed 'The Death of Robin Hood'. A little slow paced for some perhaps, particularly as a contrast to the grizzly start, but I appreciated the complex story of human nature it was telling. The soundtrack by Jim Ghedi was sublime. tidal.com/album/529869...

Jim Ghedi - The Death of Robin Hood (Original Soundtrack)

Listen to The Death of Robin Hood (Original Soundtrack) on TIDAL

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The wind just undid all the buttons up the front of my skirt. Don't worry though, it was only in central Bristol so I only flashed 30 people or so...

Gently starting the day #ListeningNow tidal.com/track/347971...

Fabiano Do Nascimento & Matthewdavid - Ohayou

Listen to Ohayou on TIDAL

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How I support myself as a writer is by not supporting myself as a writer and having an entirely different job and pretending this is a fun adventure I get to go on to make friends

Thank you to @markantonyowen.com for choosing to include me alongside wonderful poets for the latest @iamb.uk wave of #poetry. I very much look forward to reading everyone's contributions. #PoetryCommunity

𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒃 ~ 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅@iamb.uk · 3w ago

Meet the poets of wave twenty-seven: Anna Shelton, Benedicta Norell, Chloe Victoria Gorman, Elizabeth Cook, Em Gray, Francesca L Rolle, John Adlam, McLord Selasi Azelekor, Nathaniel Calhoun, Niamh Hollis-Locke, Paul Connolly, Rachel Hosein Nisbet, Rosie Barrett, Simon Maddrell and Tracie Renee.

Delighted & grateful to @markantonyowen.com to be in this @iamb.uk wave with dear friends @benedictan.bsky.social @francesca-laura.bsky.social @johnadlam.bsky.social @simonmaddrell.bsky.social @em-words.bsky.social @niamhvh-l.bsky.social @tracierenee.bsky.social & other fine poets #poetrycommunity

𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒃 ~ 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅@iamb.uk · 3w ago

Meet the poets of wave twenty-seven: Anna Shelton, Benedicta Norell, Chloe Victoria Gorman, Elizabeth Cook, Em Gray, Francesca L Rolle, John Adlam, McLord Selasi Azelekor, Nathaniel Calhoun, Niamh Hollis-Locke, Paul Connolly, Rachel Hosein Nisbet, Rosie Barrett, Simon Maddrell and Tracie Renee.

Today. Tomorrow. Monday. Then we close. Get those subs in!

Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now!@epistemiclit.bsky.social · 4w ago

ONE WEEK until submissions close! Art CNF Fiction - flash and micro Poetry AGENCY VS DETERMINISM epistemiclit.com/submissions/

Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk for #PoemsAbout #EndofSummer prompt. Here is Walking with Hogweed and her Black Dog. This one can be seen and heard here! @iamb.uk share.google/QcthDB8SyblT... Happy Friday everyone! #poetry

Resharing this one for #PoemsAbout #EndOfSummer

Francesca L Rolle@francesca-laura.bsky.social · last yr.

Sharing an oldie (2015) that was actually originally written as a song in commemoration of a friend who died too young. Hopefully it works okay as a poem for #PromptCombo on the theme of #Summer. With thanks to @victoriaspires.bsky.social for hosting this week 🖤 #PoetrySky #Poetry

My local, The Fallen Tree Micropub, has won the CAMRA best pub of the year South West. A proud moment for beer drinkers. But the best part is they've rewarded us all with free snacks.

The ocean floor provided the pillow for his final resting place. The seaweed wrapping his body in a royal green shroud, fit for the forgotten prince he had become. #VSS365 #Pillow

Absolutely. Well, maybe my fantasy has always been more inclined towards a bookstore/library bar with an aloof, beautiful feline found roaming the tables and bookshelves, but basically, the exact same, yes.

The Whimsical Muse@whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 4w ago

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to open up an independent bookstore on a cobblestone street in Edinburgh that doubles as a café and triples as a pet rescue?

#PoemsAbout #EndOfSummer starts Friday. Empty beaches. Cooling nights. Sun-bleached memories. The last swim. The first goodbye. We favour vivid imagery over explanation. Draft now. Use Alt Text.

I recently realised that one of my favourite tropes is "self-entitled people get their comeuppance". In fiction and non-fiction. In films and series. In life. Actually, in everything.

There has been a lot of confusion recently around trans employees’ rights at work. Here’s what you need to know! transactual.org.uk/law/workplac...