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pamphlets.bsky.social @pamphlets.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING — Sanders condemns Israeli violence.

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Shrinking Violet He planted a wet kiss, His mouth, on her lips, When all she wanted. Was some gardening tips © Bernard Pearson

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A pensioner in Haywards Heath relieved to hear the end to the triple lock as he can't for the life of him remember where he left the key

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Late Blooming They dated for a couple of weeks, Then weeks turned into years, and when they finally fell in love, They could n't get up the stairs. © Bernard Pearson

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Its not AI that worries me but JZ, what happens then?

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@DemocracyHere @democracyhere.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Halloween cancelled this year as the world is frightening enough as it is

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

First Love Eager in the hand fast, Beneath the ready light And above the regal sea Within the half closed Palm of a sand dune They sat silent Between each kiss, Neither wishing To break the spell. © Bernard Pearson

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ghost town The flesh has been Pared from the ribs Of the old place. All that remains is a stringless harp For the slag wind to whistle through. A community arm wrestled A living here once, before it became misremembered. © Bernard Pearson

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Getting Down in The Morning Alarm bells started To ring in my head So loudly that I decided to go Back to bed ©Bernard Pearson

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

my thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk for hosting #PoemsAbout #DeadLetters this was written for my fathers great friend lost when H.M.S. was sunk I have the letter

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wastrels If peace were gold How they would hurry To gather up every last bar. But it is not precious to them We see how they squander it, And we know who they are. ©Bernard Pearson

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Shouldn't Arnold, Bruce Wayne's valet be referred to as Batman's batman?

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ode to the Last Tobacconist To a Borkum Riff, Under a festering sky, I am drawn in by a whiff As I your shop front dawdle by Tins and packets Flake, Shag and twist When you close Your doors to death, You’ll be sadly missed. © Bernard Pearson

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk for hosting #PoemsAbout #Strays here's one from life in the 1960's look forward to reading others

Sanctuary
My mother’s orange oak table
Stained by the patina of
Tears and furnish polish –
The one that later went for
Prayerful firewood –
Sat heavy on its haunches,
Having legs decorated like stockings
Of an old duchess,
All garlands and balustraded seams.
In earlier times mum’s lame ducks
Would sit around it drinking tea,
Men who had left their minds in Normandy
And young girls with short skirts
And shorter memories
Forgetting that hearts will mend.
I was too young to have regrets
Armoured in childhood as I was. © Bernard Pearson

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ThatKaren @wokekaren.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The power and control Israel has over Palestinian lives and deaths. It's an incredible stance to take. Palestinians need saving from Israel, and nothing else matters in the meantime. They have the right to resist the apartheid and genocide.

A quote from Gabor Mate 'Nobody ever asks how should Palestinians respond to Israel’s daily brutal treatment for 75 years.'

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The BBC has been rebranded as The Piddington Broadcast Company..... its not proportionate reporting

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Any of you nice authors illustrator childrens book people know Jonathan Kebbe nearly fifty years ago we worked in a children's holiday camp I knew him as Jonno we were chums in those days I know he's written a lot for children Noodlehead etc would love to know how is

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Watching Certain Politicians Through the eye, Go through the orb Of the seller Look at those Lost Worlds Where monster’s lurk And other people shrink Observe the fleck of deceit like a sniffer dog A stash. In the hide and seek land Regard The lens that looks away. © BP

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Gone How will he cope? No more of her Hair in the soap, No more “Feet off the settee.” No more hope. © Bernard Pearson

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Drumbeat War is always winter, Nothing grows in it. Blindly it snouts about Under the rock of patriotism. Burdened and encased In its own dung. Believing it is freedom That it wins, when it is merely more bitter a frost, more death. © Bernard Pearson

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SweetWitch2697🔮🎱🪄-MY OPINIONS ARE MY OWN BEASTLY CONCOCTIONS! @sweetwitch2697.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Trump stiffed you on the $2,000 he promised last year, and now he's back demanding you vote Republican before he'll cut you a $5,000 check. Where I come from, that's called paying someone off, & he's doing it out loud, on television. Even Fox News sees it. #CorruptTrumpRegime

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 25-year-old Argentinian biologist Pilar Ferrer has developed an injectable gel that helps repair damaged heart tissue after a heart attack

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

For Oli and his parents The tower that took him, Still falls on you each day. The life he would have led So cruelly blown away. I see your face on screen Mourning the man who has gone And the Oli that might have been. © Bernard Pearson. (My cousin Oliver Bennett who died in 9/11)

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Green eye Wet wipe Dead crocus From a late frost Room with A pyre for a bed. Ribbon corpse Medal wife Art noveau neck Made magic By his mouth, Now dull spelter By his hand and he With the twitter of Iago Still in his ear. © Bernard Pearson

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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Remember this…👇 Now, go VOTE! 😎✨

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Trinity Sunday There is no God When Creation Is devoid of Compassion. There is no Christ Where hatred Is all that is grown There is no Holy Spirit Unless it is sought In the hand of the stranger. © Bernard Pearson

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Cheer Up Life is over In the blink of an eye once that lid closes that’s when you die. So keep your Eyes open Every day and make sure to make time In your life To play. © Bernard Pearson

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Come and see Discover this day like no other As the first-light bloom of an orchid As a day at the races As the blush of cloud across the moon As a diamond all angles and romance Through the eyes of Columbus and Armstrong Then be ready to unfurl tomorrow. © Bernard Pearson

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-Year-Old Mia Heller From Virginia, USA, Invents a Water Filter That Eliminates 96% of Microplastics From Drinking Water

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Merril D. Smith @merrildsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Good morning! Happy Friday! Here's my poem for #PoemsAbout #SheddingSkins. Thank you to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Poem:

Viper

She sloughed her old life like a snakeskin
the day the soldiers came,

each day she dresses herself anew,
school girl, servant, sweetheart—
while they swagger,
ramparts breached
they plant their flags,

never hear her rattle

nor notice how she slithers
through their spilled words,
fangs sheathed,

they disregard her—
seeing only body, not mind.

A shadow-life. Half-life gone.

She hopes one day for a new skin,
not paper-thin, unscaled,
luxurious as silk or velvet,
one she can settle in.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” Matthew 6:5-6

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Huge thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk for hosting #PoemsAbout #SheddingSkins here's my effort look forward to reading other chums poems on the topic

Psoriasis
The parchment
On which a life is writ
Becomes a little less
Readable over time.
There are more crossings
Out the occasional
Archipelago of blue-black ink.

They say the disease I have
Is inherited, but so is life
The affected areas
Are hidden thankfully,
However, they still are sore
Still areas of conflict
Where tears are shed
And death occurs.
Not to be spoken about
In polite society. © Bernard Pearson

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

First published in The Edinburgh Review about 15 Years ago !

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Remembering Sister Rosetta Tharpe, born in 1915 in Cotton Plant, Arkansas. Here she's performing "Didn't It Rain" at a train depot in Manchester, England in 1964. She's often called the "Godmother of Rock & Roll" and influenced future music icons like Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Odyssey When Solomon had Sung his song And the gold melted From Shirley Eaton I found a love To shield me When by this world I felt beaten. © Bernard Pearson

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