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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 11h

💛 Hello Yellow. A poem for #HelloYellow and World Mental Health Day. For every child who has days when the yellow disappears for a while and the days when it comes back. #PoemsForKids #WorldMentalHealthDay @youngmindscollab.bsky.social #mentalhealthmatters #ChildrensMentalHealth

Hello Yellow

Hello yellow, where’ve you been

Glad you’re here, now come on in

How I missed you yesterday

How I hoped that you would stay

But red and blue chased you away

Hello yellow, stay a while

Bring your sunshine to my smile

Bring your dandelion dreams

Send your joy down custard streams

Send your hope on solar beams

Thank you yellow, for today

For chasing red and blue away

For keeping mists of grey at bay

For making monsters go astray

For letting happy out to play

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Living your best life isn’t always easy. #vss365 #micropoetry #bestlife #LivingYourBestLife ❤️🥺💪😱😬

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Living your best life isn’t always easy. #vss365 #micropoetry #bestlife #LivingYourBestLife ❤️🥺💪😱😬

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am trying to live my best life with wildly, varying results #vss365 #micropoetry #haiku #senryu

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Essvari @essvari.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#vss365 A #mountain of doubt stands Between You and I Do us a favour rid away your fears Take my hand... Let's live in our bubble of "why-nots"

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's National Poetry Day in the UK tomorrow. The theme is Wonder. Here's my poem Dawdle More : a little reminder to slow down and notice what’s around us. 🐝 🌼 🌎 What small wonders have you spotted today? #wonder #nationalpoetryday #CatchAMoment

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the seconds before we closed the blinds I watched the moon and stars wish me goodnight from the surface of your eyes #micropoetry #vss365 #moon

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the seconds before we closed the blinds I watched the moon and stars wish me goodnight from the surface of your eyes #micropoetry #vss365 #moon

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There’s an egg cup in Mum’s once kitchen older than me that I can’t throw away for still I can see her cutting up soldiers and the golden yolk dripping down its sides #vss365 #micropoetry

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There’s an egg cup in Mum’s once kitchen older than me that I can’t throw away for still I can see her cutting up soldiers and the golden yolk dripping down its sides #vss365 #micropoetry

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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

grief does not purify it leaves the cup the chair the unmade bed exactly where love last touched them #Vss365 #Purify #PoetrySky #Poem #Nature #Photography #ECK #Grief #Poetry my 📷

Pink wildflowers beneath a hazy sun, surrounded by tall grasses and softly blurred vegetation.

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Joe F @joe--f.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The last leaf On a tree of wisdom Midnight gust #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt gust

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ll miss her green leaves waving through the blinds at me her summer shadows #haikuSaturday #Haiku

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ll miss her green leaves waving through the blinds at me her summer shadows #haikuSaturday #Haiku

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Amy Borgman @amyborgman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

wildfire smoke— not even the crow #haiku #haikusaturday

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Beyond the rail tracks A barn owl, hunting; pale smirr Over the dark marsh. #haikuSaturday

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For all those patient alchemist poets out there... she gathers her words of aluminium mercury, lead and tin and steeps them in the philosopher's stone turns them to gold through the alchemy of poetry #poetry #micropoetry #writing #alchemy

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the boy on the fence who has nothing to say will be judged by years not days

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I know the Earth’s not flat but sometimes when my knuckles are white from hanging on and my feet dangle in the dark it feels like that #vss365 #micropoerty #poetry

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I know the Earth’s not flat but sometimes when my knuckles are white from hanging on and my feet dangle in the dark it feels like that #vss365 #micropoerty #poetry

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the boy on the fence who has nothing to say will be judged by years not days

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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.” ~ Langston Hughes #RadioFreeAmerica #politics

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I watch you writing beneath the anglepoise lamp erasing your thoughts #haiku #senryu #vss365 #micropoetry

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Happy #haikusaturday. does summer anger when her leaves turn gold from green and forget she’s been #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #vss365

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Happy #haikusaturday. underestimate all life beneath the soil at your own peril #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #vss365

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Happy #haikusaturday. the tips of your wings tickle the air, only you know the flight, yours to own #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #vss365

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daleneal8.bsky.social @daleneal8.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hello everyone 👋 ... My first post He's always on the A list On everybody's playlist The funky, furry chap who put Hamsta Rap on the map Karaoke Mouse! Available in @thetoypress.bsky.social #UKKidLit #ChildrensPoetry #FunnyPoems @troikabooks.bsky.social #PoetryCommunity #IndiePublishing

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

inside out upside down start to end dark to light scared to brave and back again feet first or head first they'll only ever be one who'll see your dreams begin and sometimes watch them burst who lives, forgives and loves you like your mum #mum #mom

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’ve just retired from #teaching. This is a little piece of advice I would give anyone starting out today. #teachers #inspirational #blueskyteachers 🍎

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's #HaikuSaturday everyone. night haunts me once more through the blinds, a window glows are we both alone? #Haiku #senryu #micropoetry #vss365

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Happy #HaikuSaturday the sycamore leaf waves her ageing ochre hand her fate in the stalk #haiku #NaturePoetry #micropoetry

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

who will write for me when I stop the drink and stub out my last cigarette #vss365 #alcoholism #addiction #writing #poetry

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I have been with the love of my life for 23 years now. I never thought I'd find him. This is for Terry. life works you hard so how lucky I am to come home each day to a man who works me easy #vss365 #micropoetry #life #poetry #blueskypoet

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

How I loved my ’80s patent leather shoes. Dad, trying to sleep after a night shift, was less keen, especially during my brief dream of becoming a tap dancer, when I used the kitchen lino to rehearse my future. Writing prompt: The Sound That Stayed Which sounds stayed with you? #poetry #micropoetry

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I walked by the new high-rise today where the old ice rink once lived I stopped to watch the #silhouettes of the kids we used to be falling onto our backsides spinning and grinning twirling and whirling skating across the marble tiles in the lobby #vss365 #micropoetry #ghosts

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I retired from teaching this year. I was good at it. This would be my advice for new teachers, any teachers: teachers starting out don't hang yourself up at the gate take your whole self in #teaching #teacher #senryu #haiku #micropoetry #vss365

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

One for a new school year. Sometimes when someone is good, we should just tell them so. #positiveeducation #poemsforkids #teachers #backtoschool #teachthemyoung #positivity

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

when we were kids we’d light candles so we could pour liquid wax onto the back of our hands just for the heat and fleeting thrill #wax #childhood #micropoetry #thrill

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

How To Be a Writer: First, obtain a writing-desk carved from a single ironwood tree a pen made from a lyre-bird's feather a ream of hand-made paper, embellished with moonflower petals a special writer's hat. Burn them all to ashes Try to read what's in the smoke Write down what you see in blood Tea.

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I retired from teaching before summer. Tomorrow, everyone goes back and I don't. It feels a bit surreal and then I received a text from a teacher i've worked with from the start ... so I put it in a poem #retirement #teaching #teachers

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Something ever since you said I’d never been nothing I knew you were wrong and right at the same time Mark Bird #Micropoetry #ShortPoem #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Poem #smallpoems

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