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Fidel Walsh @dragonslayerma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In Bailieborough Courthouse on Saturday evening. At the opening of Jim McPartlin's stunning exhibition, 'Celebrating the Landscape'. I read my poem 'Old Heritage' (written for Heritage Week) on the theme - Heritage at Risk. Thank you to Petra van Zanten for this wonderful video ❤️

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𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒃 ~ 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 @iamb.uk · 15/09/2026

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

iamb.uk

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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Fidel Walsh @dragonslayerma.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#HeritageWeekEvent I'll be reading poems I've written on the theme. With some inspiration from Orlagh Meegan-Gallagher 's gorgeous sketches (little booklet handed out on the day) An afternoon of events highlighting the history & culture of Castle Lake See you at the lake 💚

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Fidel Walsh @dragonslayerma.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Once in every now & then, someone very special comes into our lives to make the world a better place. For me, that's you. So, I'm delighted you like my light. We are blessed 🙏 Big ❤️ Love @shadesofgreen.bsky.social

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Thrilled to bits to be on the Featured Writers page of A Thousand Shades of Green. Many thanks Susan @shadesofgreen.bsky.social What makes it especially great is rubbing shoulders with so many friends from the #poetrycommunity including @paulwritespoems.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social 👇

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Almost new week, new #PromptCombo The very organised @janpsolivagant.bsky.social invites you to join in, details below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Fidel Walsh @dragonslayerma.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Let's show the love to Jen on her first week as our #PromptCombo host! I knew my darling you would start off with a very special #Monument prompt/poem to get everyone thinking! Use the hastags to get involved & tag @jenthorne.bsky.social Big ❤️ Love from my summer gallivanting 🌴🏖🌞

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Fidel Walsh @dragonslayerma.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

WoW, Emily, what an absolutely beautiful write & image. I just knew you would be spectacular as a #PromptCombo host. Have a fabulous week, my darling❤️ Tag @emteepoetry.bsky.social & use the #Beach #PromptCombo to get involved.

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Jenevieve Carlyn @coastalpoet.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Trying to sort out personal history from 20+ years ago, when #NothingMakesSenseNowadays This piece (which is storytelling more than poetry) recalls a 2003 road-trip & the years I spent as a New Englander living in the American South & Midwest. It acknowledges varied... 1/🧵 #PromptCombo #PoemsAloud

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"Peachtree, USA" (Poem)

YouTube video by Jenevieve Carlyn

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Matthias (watering thoughts) 🦄🧚‍♂️🐉 @ignorantfairy.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

#FaeSense is back! Your #prompt until the 12th of July is #TitillatingTexture All kinds of #art are welcome, except AI which is ignored Feel free to tag me so I don't miss your pieces due to occasional bluesky glitches. Looking forward to your contributions! #poetry #writingcommunity

Wild pea blossom

A speech bubble says:

New #FaeSense prompt #TitillatingTexture

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Fidel Walsh @dragonslayerma.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Thank you to all of you beautiful writers for interacting with my #Pray #PromptComb this week. You always amaze, dazzle & soothe this wildly beating heart of mine.🙏❤️ My poem of the week goes to @fiftywords.bsky.social See below. I just adored every bit of it. Thank you so much ♥️

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Ronnie Smith @rfsmith.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Thank you Fidel, for this #PromptCombo , a #Pray challenge for sure but… The town mumbles in its pew far below. Soft vespers pass through the pine copse to my right. I appear solitary, sitting legs stretched, on my summit but there are always two of us. ©️May 2024.

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Fidel Walsh @dragonslayerma.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Wow, Dave. This looks incredible. Thank you for sharing with us all at #PromptCombo. Huge congratulations 🎊

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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

All the tiny creatures Bless my barnacles, pray for my winkles be munificent with my big muscles maybe even orate to my oysters too. Perform a creative poem for my crab Lobster lyricism- the ultimate, even when a prawn performs pirouettes. #wildwalkprompt #barnacle #promptcombo #pray #blankverse

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Matthias (watering thoughts) 🦄🧚‍♂️🐉 @ignorantfairy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

For #PromptCombo #pray here's my contribution, a prayer for a sweltering day Thanks to @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for hosting! #poetry #poetrycommunity

he keeps praying

to the clouds
asking them
for their precious
watery cargo
he keeps praying
to the winds
and their promise
of coolness on
his salty skin
he keeps praying
to the trees
and their shadow
pools
he keeps praying
on this hot day
during tropical
nights — he keeps
praying

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Hi @dragonslayerma.bsky.social Fidel, here is my second response to your #PromptCombo #Pray:

Absence

Plenty of voices in my head
but no one is god.

I pray but no one
makes themself known.

If there is someone
in the absence

it is the absent god.
How can they be absent

when they were never there?
I pray to nothing when grief

hits home. When an ache
for the person I knew persists.

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Beth Ember @ctrlaltdltffs.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

when I was a teen I went to church faithfully I prayed for something my friends all prayed for it too and... nothing so I stopped believing then only went to church to be with my friends and that's that #PromptCombo #Pray #poetry #writing @dragonslayerma.bsky.social

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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I thought I was going to struggle with the #PromptCombo then this popped out. I think part of me will always be in that room. Thank you @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for the cathartic prompt. #Pray #Poetry #Grief

I Was Never Taught To Pray

I grew up believing
in smaller certainties.

May the milkman always be on time,
and the sun be on the garden table
by our lunch,
Dad be home at twenty‑to,
ready for dinner at eight.

That was enough.

I was never taught to pray.

That was enough,
until the vending‑machine walk
past the hospital chapel.
The people inside
clasping faith in their hands.

That was enough,
until your room,
where the silence rang out
louder than the machines,

and the hours
kneeling there

with empty hands.

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Fiftywords @fiftywords.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Thanks to @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for this week's #PromptCombo #Pray Here’s my contribution

The Prayer of Breathing Before words there was this: the first tide entering the body,
the first assent
we never knew we gave. And after words, after all our names have loosened their hold, there will be this again, one breath leaving quietly,
as if returning
what was only ever lent. Between the two we live: coming, going, held for a while in the mercy
of exchange.
Breath asks nothing of us. It keeps faith through sleep, through griet,
through familiar days. It enters without applause, leaves without complaint, comes back as if forgiveness were the body's
oldest habit. And perhaps this
is prayer

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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Amongst crumbling faith I try unrelenting prayer to no avail, to no avail; Underneath lack of remorse I cry out for mercy to no avail, to no avail; Smothered by evil I whisper no more but they prevail, they prevail #weirdmicro #promptcombo #emoetry #poetry @dragonslayerma.bsky.social #survivor

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Dean Norton @zentinl.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Thank you, Fidel for hosting this week's #PromptCombo with #Pray. @dragonslayerma.bsky.social. I'm sneaking one in and will circle back to read tonight. Thank you for reading! #poetrycommunity #poetry #poem #poems #skypoets #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetsofbluesky #skypoet #writingcommunity

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Sharing a poem I see I wrote around the same time as this week's wonderful prompt from @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for #PromptCombo #Prayer I'm more of a praying as doing person, so here's a left field take, a maybe a wee metaphor...

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Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I got a few things out of my system, thanks for the great prompt, have a great week all. @dragonslayerma.bsky.social #PromptCombo #Prayer 🙏

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Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 25/05/2026

Thanks very much @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for this week's #PromptCombo #Pray - it feels like rich earth to be digging! Here's a very quickly written offering! #poetry #poems

Pray

for hope
for redemption
to save
your ravaged soul

your gods
are not mine
your gods
are corrupt

their mortal intermediaries
in it for themselves
lives of luxury
bigotry and control

small people
scared
of who we might
become

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Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Love this week's #prayer #promptcombo. Thanks @dragonslayerma.bsky.social! Here's my contribution.

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Rachel @vignettes.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Thanks @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for this weeks #PromptCombo #prayer written whilst hiking and pausing at a convent.

In the new cities
every prayer arrives
with a stranger’s address.

Some requests are small.
A broken window.
A hungry child.

Others wake to foreign coordinates
and roads crossing mined fields.

At first people prayed less.
Then in the bluest hour before dawn
the compassionate grew luminous
murmuring from one apartment window to the next.

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 25/05/2026

Hi Fidel and the #poetry crew @dragonslayerma.bsky.social thanks for your inspiring #poem and #PromptCombo #pray this week. An off the cuff with my cuppa from me today. Always needs more work! Enjoy your hosting week. I’ll enjoy seeing the results.

A short 3 stanza poem by Debbie Ross entitled Learning to Pray Again

text as follows
I learnt to pray
into the darkness
when I was young,
those Catholic lines
repeated
as protection.
I stopped praying when I lost faith,
answers not forthcoming, silence the reply.
I've learnt to pray into the light now I'm older, faith
in the community of doing.

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Hi @dragonslayerma.bsky.social Fidel. Hope you have a great week. Here iis my response to your great #promptcombo #Pray:

God (s) Prayer(s)

God or the gods,
details are difficult
prays to personkind

that their worship places
will not be destroyed
by wars often pursued
in their name.

that their priests, clergymen,
laity will not be imprisoned
and tortured in the names
of other gods equally praying.

that women and children
will not be refused learning
and getting on in life
by a misinterpretation

of sacred texts. That their
sacred texts will not be burned
as blasphemy and false gods
in the minds of their faithful

who murder others for doing so.
That their prayers will not fall
on deaf ears, or those who
refuse to listen, citing scripture.

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Jenevieve Carlyn @coastalpoet.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

#PoemsAloud A poetry film as prayer & petition for the protection of whales. 🐋 They need speed limits for ships and innovations that already exist (ropeless buoys & fishing gear), but the current administration is backing legislation against them. #PromptCombo #Pray @dragonslayerma.bsky.social

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S. Reeson / Experimental Poet @internetofwords.com · 25/05/2026

@dragonslayerma.bsky.social #PromptCombo #Pray and I now use this feature on a Monday as a barometer of my ability to work for the week :D VERY off-piste response incoming. West Ham United are no longer in the Premier League. This poem is for my mate who still can’t believe it. It wasn’t you.

Back Down by S. Reeson

I know that you will
have tried everything
lucky socks not washing
any drop of repetition
that might help
but in the end
even changing one letter
however hard you pray
sometimes you are not enough
play was where the intervention
was always sorely needed
and it came too late
if you’d have scored like that
straight out of the gate
you’d still be in the game
Instead you’re going down.

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Fidel Walsh @dragonslayerma.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

#PromptCombo this week, it's #Pray - I've begged & made my promises in earnest. What have you done? Be it gratitude, despair, or confession. What gives you strength in those dark hours?🖤 Tag me & use the hastags. You have till Friday lunchtime to get involved.

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Fidel Walsh @dragonslayerma.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

We have the wonderful Ronnie as your host this week #PromptCombo & his theme of #Home. Use the hastags to get involved & tag @rfsmith.bsky.social with your response A beautiful write, darlin. Enjoy the week❤️

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Fidel Walsh @dragonslayerma.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

#PromptCombo #DoCollageandBricolagePoem This week, your host is the fabulous, Paul. Use the hastags & tag @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social to get involved. You have till Friday. Paul, have a great week, darlin❤️

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Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Love this, Fidel. "And I will remember" in the midst of dark days. Brilliant.

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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I love the menace-tinged idylls, and your readings are marvellous!

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