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John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 3h

That is so good on the page and the 🎤, Paul!!!

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 3h

That’s a pleasing way to put it

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 3h

You’re welcome Paul. Plangent in the sense that isn’t loud or showily sonorous but is of an equal if not greater resonance in its quiet precision, melancholy in the best sense

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 4h

Agreed Lawrence. As ever an understated plangency to Paul’s reading

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Lawrence Moore @lawrencemoore.bsky.social · 4h

I like your delivery style here Paul. It's not rushed and yet it retains a pleasing tempo.

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 10h

Following the success of my FREE two hour introductory session on Workplace poetry from Ebenezer Elliott to Matthew Rice that included creative writing prompts I'researching Women's workplace poetry for a two hour evening session at R2W Mexborough.

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Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hi @emteepoetry.bsky.social There are times when I'm gardening, I'm scolded by song- thrushes from nearby tall trees. I wrote this in my notebook in late spring #promptcombo #winged

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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 15h

thanks Paul, I'm in that in between state of excitement and cakking myself

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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 16h

Congratulations, its a great poem 👏

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Fleur Du Pseudonym @fleurdu.bsky.social · 16h

Congrats, excellent write, the always, of the disasters at Christmas, really stuck a chord 🙏

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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 17h

#AcrosticOctober running my first Pudsey poetry workshop today. So your prompt word #POEM

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 18h

Congratulations Paul

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 18h

Doubly chuffed to have my poem and audio featured on Open Arts Forum Front Page: openartsforum.com/low-kick/

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Paul Brookes | Low Kick

Poetry by Paul Brookes

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Excellent as always Paul 🌟. Your shared work here is always inspiring as to what poetry can do 👏👏👏

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Fewer posts for the next couple of days because I’m out and about. You know the routine: if you see me shambling through your town, slap me on the back and tell me I don’t look too bad for my age.

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Work Stroll: A blue chest of draws at attention with its chest out to draw attention. Cemetery Oak trees await impact of sticks to dislodge their conker cases. Squirrels pounce gingerly as if the ground of graves too hot for their feet.

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For @emteepoetry.bsky.social Emily and her marvellous #primptcombo #Winged a sonnet from my forthcoming collection "Miner Wattas":

Southern Iron Blue (a rare mayfly found in Cawthorne Dike)

this flat hardness, far from death and plunder.
I came from the flow Under into flow
Above.
I scraped hardnesses for food in the Under.
In the Above I have no mouth. Enough!

Avoiding massive mouths I rise in light.
I find my wings. My feet taste surfaces.
I clasp her from below. Both of us in flight.
She drops to the Under, then releases

our bairns, exhausted, collapses, flow takes her.
I starve to death, so how am I speaking now?
I am one of many voices of the river,
preserved. I do not know the why or how.

Know me in the riffles whose water changes
ever different ripples and exchanges.

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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is one of my favourites ☺️

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Jane Doe @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#lifttothesky my longtime friend @daveashleypoet.bsky.social. If you haven’t met Dave, shame on you! No but really, he’s a funny guy who’s ridiculously talented. Always supportive and looking for new ideas, he’s just great and he comes with a penguin.

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Paul Cannon @pvcannon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So welcome Paul ❤️

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Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Love it!

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Absolutely love this Paul, so many great phrases (leaf fret a particular high point among many choices) and a very piquant poem overall 🌟

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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A sonic and visual delight, Paul! 🙏🌠👏

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hi @emteepoetry.bsky.social Emily. Here's my first in response to your excellent #promptcombo #Winged. Its from my collection "Hedgerow of Voices."Arrival of Redwings heralds autumn:

Redwing

You may not see me again in this place,
noshing on this bright juiciness that glints
a starlike pattern to our hungry pace
amongst this manmade feast's blazing red hints

added crunch in my beak of skitterers
below in harsh gust, pelting fall of wet
and snow. Alive to slightest twitch feather
of shadow or tick of twig or leaf fret.

When your warm arrives we flit fast up North
to have our bairns, teach them to fly, how we read the patterns in the blue and bright forth
of flashes in the dark Overness. We

may bring them to your wild patterns, of blue
and specks in the black Overness, to you.

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

All are welcome to contribute. Please use hashtag #PromptCombo #Winged and tag @emteepoetry.bsky.social Emily bsky.app/profile/emte...

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thanks to Ronnie for last week's fantastic prompt! This week tag me @emteepoetry.bsky.social #PromptCombo #Winged Winged or Wingèd? Birds, bugs, planes etc, or dragons/ wingèd cryptids? Icarus? Or winged, as in wounded? Just a few of the possibilities. Looking forward to reading your work!

Micropoem about an airplane in concrete form

Photo of a black and white pigeon, with a black mark on its head like a small hat.

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Paul Cannon @pvcannon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I really love this Paul, and nice twist at the end.

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Looking forward to teaching a FREE two hour introductory session on workplace poetry tomorrow. Beginning with our own Ebenezer Elliott, the Corn Law Rhymer and ending with Matthew Rices recent "Plastic."

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Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In this poem, Taliesin is a prince consumed by depression and grief. The italicised lines are from the medieval text ‘The Book of Taliesin’. Thanks to talented #poet and guest editor @carolynthomas.bsky.social for publishing with the Candyman’s Trumpet. #Welshpoetry #poetry #mabinogion

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Rachel Darker @racheldarker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I dedicate this to anyone facing difficult times today and wish everyone small wins or the honour of staying present with love and compassion throughout. May the protection and courage of a thousand seagulls carry you all forwards like feathers on a wing 🕊️ ✌️ ✨ #ECK #photography #hope #sunsets

A seagulls feather is planted in the sand, a conduit from the sky to earth, representing the journey of all that in between.

The sun blazes behind the tip of the feather, illuminating its delicate form. Pieces of stranded seaweed scattered and a medium sized rock sits to the left of the feather on sand that glows golden in the setting sun.

The waves and shoreline run along the centre of the image below a golden and blue sky peppered with puffy clouds and lines of cirrus cloud.

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Barnsley Museums @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What better way to celebrate #NationalPoetryDay than with a poem about our mysterious Veiled Lady. Thanks to @kbrookes42.bsky.social for this poem about his favourite piece of art on display at The Cooper Gallery

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thank you to @janecornwell.bsky.social , outstanding artworker and publisher for this account of her work on my "Hedgerow of Voices" as part of her celebration of "wonder" for National Poetry Day:

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Jane's Studio @janes-studio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is National Poetry Day, I love this year's theme! To celebrate, I am going to share some poetry collections I've enjoyed working on. First up, Hedgerow of Voices by @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social DM Paul for a signed copy, or £5.99: amzn.eu/d/06M3wEuF #NationalPoetryDay #poetrycommunity

Paul's cover is a watercolour painting which features some of the 'voices' in his collection, including the gap in the hedge, the hare, a map showing the river Dove, and the North Star. I loved working on it.

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helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also I note these are almost all by white women. If you have any recommendations of more diverse magical historical fantasies for children, with a big helping of folklore & gothic vibes, please let me know. #ukkidlit #kidlituk #middlegrade

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Paul Cannon @pvcannon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most welcome Paul ❤️

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 30/09/2026

#OtD 30 Sep 1953 British communist boxer, Len Johnson, went for a drink at the Old Abbey Taphouse in Manchester, but was refused service because he was Black. Soon after, 200 people picketed the pub until the landlord agreed to stop discriminating. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1112...