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David Brickey Bloomer

@davidbrickey.bsky.social
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Humanitarian professional, photographer, writer & tragic optimist

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David Brickey Bloomer @davidbrickey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Honored to have my poem "Too Much Light" in the Humans of the World Blog this month: www.howblog.org/post/too-muc...
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Too Much Light - David Bloomer
I.There are people who enter our liveslike half-broken lanterns—light carried in shoeboxes,filled with waxy stamps,dust of roads no map remembers.II.Earl—your name a syllable of soil,yet you carried i...
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David Brickey Bloomer @davidbrickey.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Five years ago this month, the Taliban retook Kabul. I spent that day checking in on colleagues, tracking who was safe and who wasn't. This poem isn't about that day itself but what has settled in since davidbrickeybloomer.substack.com/p/the-unhapp...
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The Unhappy Anniversary
Mothers hid their faces in their hands & daughters began to slowly weep. Too many memories of past restrictions, & from within the finger-pointing: It is the women who brought us down, said the man wi...
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David Brickey Bloomer @davidbrickey.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The Editor's Red Pencil #poetry #photography davidbrickeybloomer.substack.com/p/the-editor...
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David Brickey Bloomer @davidbrickey.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Mud: A Rohingya tale davidbrickeybloomer.substack.com/p/mud?r=6pw2...
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David Brickey Bloomer @davidbrickey.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The Hawker Bar monthlypoet.com/poem/1785660... #poetry #mo
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Monthly Poet — Free Global 16-Line Poetry Challenge
Write a 16-line poem each month using four required words — it’s free. Join thousands of writers and non-writers in a creative global challenge. Submit, read, vote — and be part of something inspiring...
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David Brickey Bloomer @davidbrickey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Happy to share that my poem "Meet Me in the Dead Letter Office" has been published on Exist Otherwise this month @existotherwise.bsky.social #existotherwise You can read it here: existotherwise.com/meet-me-in-t... and the entire issue: existotherwise.com/tag/issue-19/
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issue 19 - Exist Otherwise
"Tendency to push everything to the absolute, and thus: to the absurd." —Claude Cahun
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David Brickey Bloomer @davidbrickey.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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David Brickey Bloomer @davidbrickey.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
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inspirations
father and father's friend
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David Brickey Bloomer @davidbrickey.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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Poems for the Unchosen Season
four movements of loss, rupture and return
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David Brickey Bloomer @davidbrickey.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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Poems for the Unchosen Season
four movements of loss, rupture and return
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David Brickey Bloomer @davidbrickey.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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up from the ashes (who says climate change doesn't exist?)
the drowned alphabet of tomorrow
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David Brickey Bloomer @davidbrickey.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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the carcass
what is it we are all dragging behind us?
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David Brickey Bloomer @davidbrickey.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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The UN is our best defence against a third world war. As Trump wields the axe, who will fight to save it? | Simon Tisdall
If the US cuts off the cash it will have world-changing effects, but it’s not the only country falling short in its obligations
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David Brickey Bloomer @davidbrickey.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Sharp; perhaps overly harsh, but humaintarianism does need more than just a reset. A rethink is needed open.substack.com/pub/radicalb...
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Genocidal Inhumanitarianism
Lets stop playing games with the word “human.” By Bhakti Shringarpure.
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David Brickey Bloomer @davidbrickey.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Good news for democratic socialist uplift! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Zohran Mamdani declares historic victory in New York City mayoral primary after Cuomo concedes
‘Tonight is his night,’ says ex-governor as progressive state representative tells supporters ‘we made history’
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David Brickey Bloomer @davidbrickey.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Do not be lulled into complacency www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘This is a fight for life’: climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and using wealth as a shield
Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve Guenther
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David Brickey Bloomer @davidbrickey.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
here is what I want to say www.davidbrickeybloomer.com/blog/https/wwwdavidbrickeybloomercom/blog-page-url/2019/8/31/new-post-title-1
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here is what I want to say (a poem on the launch of the UN Children and Armed Conflict Report) — everyday (b)looms
here is what i want to say here is what i want to say: little bones do not make good barricades— yet every year (we tally) children: blown apart & stitched into war like threadless but...
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David Brickey Bloomer @davidbrickey.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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‘We are at a point of no return’: Grave violations against children surge for third year
Last year, 41,370 grave violations against children were documented and verified by the United Nations, according to the Secretary-General's annual report on children in armed conflict, released on Th...
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David Brickey Bloomer @davidbrickey.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Aid groups are erasing climate change from their websites: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/04... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social) shame on you Mercy Corps! Do Portlanders know?
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Aid groups are erasing climate change from their websites
Climate change is a main reason why humanitarian needs are soaring. Some humanitarian groups are afraid to say the words.
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David Brickey Bloomer @davidbrickey.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Bellies in the archives #iambellers Dave Eggers’ The Parade is quite relevant right now. Rushdie, always.
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David Brickey Bloomer @davidbrickey.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Dems need new leadership. Give Bernie a go. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US Senate passes Republican funding bill to dismay of House Democrats
Bill to avert shutdown passes 54-46 but furious progressives accuse yes-vote senators of acquiescing to Trump
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David Brickey Bloomer @davidbrickey.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
As the humanitarian world ponders the fallout from the cessation of aid from the U.S., take a moment to read this: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik
There is no way to rationalise the horrors inflicted on Gaza’s innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fully, says columnist Nesrine Malik
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