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Neologism Poetry Journal @neologismpoetry.bsky.social · 17h

This issue is loosely themed around survival, forgiveness, and reflection.

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Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Koi originally published in Scud scudlit.blogspot.com/2026/06/two-... #poetry

Koi

When I heard the ornamental gardens
had been flooded by the river,
I thought of cherry blossom spinning
on the churning surface
and maples knocked from their pots.

Then I remembered the koi
in the deep ponds
and how they would have surged forward,
flashes of orange and white
in the water pouring into town.

As I waded through to reach my flat,
everything in the muddy water
became a koi – a plastic bag
caught on a branch, inflating, deflating,
a traffic cone, a fluorescent jacket.

When I climbed onto the town hall steps,
the water calmed and the koi
were all around, their whites and oranges
turning on the surface, reflected
in the windows of the flooded shops.

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Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

apple tree under a streetlight #photography

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Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Starlings originally published on The Rialto website www.therialto.co.uk/pages/2014/0... #poetry

Starlings

At first the forest filled us with fear –
long rows of pine trees, lifeless
but as the years passed we chopped
and sawed them into cottages
and burned the offcuts to keep us
warm through dripping winters.

Strawberries and raspberries leapt up
in the clearings, made our summers
almost easy. The kids showed no interest
in the place we’d left so on the tenth
year we trekked for two days back to
the overgrown high street. What struck

us most were the birds. Goldfinches swirled
up clouds of thistle fluff and in the birch trees
hundreds of starlings repeated the beeps
of unlocking cars, the Nokia ringtone, sirens
and an ice cream van’s endless repetition
of The Teddy Bears’ Picnic.

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I was delighted to receive my copy of the Artemesia Arts competition anthology and to have had two poems shortlisted this year, alongside @ella-b-winters.bsky.social , @poetbex.bsky.social and others ☺️ Here's one if the two, In the Hide

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 04/09/2026

Seven scythes leaned at the wall. Beard upon golden beard The last barley load Swayed through the yard… —George Mackay Brown, “Taxman” Published in CARVE THE RUNES (Polygon, 2021) #poem #poetry birlinn.co.uk/product/carv...

Taxman
by George Mackay Brown

Seven scythes leaned at the wall.
Beard upon golden beard
The last barley load
Swayed through the yard.
The girls uncorked the ale.
Fiddle and feet moved together.
Then between stubble and heather
A horseman rode.

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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - Birders by Becki Hawkes

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Eleanor Carpenter @eleanorcarpenter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It is the start of the school year here in England, with all the emotions that brings for both kids and parents, and I thought I would re-post my poem “Separation” which appeared in the lovely Thimble Literary Magazine @thimblelitmag.bsky.social

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Eleanor Carpenter @eleanorcarpenter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Absolutely thrilled to have a poem in this wonderful new issue of The Alchemy Spoon.

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Poems on the Underground @poemsonthetube.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Poem of the Week: Midsummer, Tobago by Derek Walcott poemsontheunderground.org/midsummer-to...

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Midsummer, Tobago

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International Yeats Society @intyeatssociety.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"The Unappeasable Host," written by W.B. Yeats in 1896 and later appearing in the collection "The Wind Among the Reeds." Support the International Yeats Society by becoming a member today! internationalyeatssociety.org/members/

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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - Pretend by Alex Josephy

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Eleanor Carpenter @eleanorcarpenter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Congrats to the winners! Their waterfords are lovely.

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Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Jennings. Here she is on summer and angst, from The Animals' Arrival (1969). #poetry

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Eleanor Carpenter @eleanorcarpenter.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Very pleased to see my poem “People ask me why I am terrified of mice” on the Dark Poets Club website following an honourable mention in their “dark humour, bitter irony” challenge. www.darkpoets.club/poetry

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WRITTEN POETRY | Dark Poets Club

Dark Poets Club is a featuring poetry collective for established and emerging writers to submit and get their work featured. Focusses on raw and emotional poets and poetry with an aim to raising menta...

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Eleanor Carpenter @eleanorcarpenter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Excited to see my poem “The swifts” in the lovely new issue of “Right Hand Pointing”! Check the issue out here: www.issues.righthandpointing.net/164 Thank you @ambidextrouslit.bsky.social

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Right Hand Pointing #164 Summer 2026

Short poetry and short fiction since 2004.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 11/07/2026

I stand neither in the wilderness nor fairyland but in the fold of a green hill the tilt from one parish into another… —Kathleen Jamie, “The Wishing Tree” SELECTED POEMS (Picador, 2018) #BookWormSat #poem #poetry www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...

The Wishing Tree
by Kathleen Jamie

I stand neither in the wilderness
nor fairyland

but in the fold
of a green hill

the tilt from one parish
into another.

To look at me
through a smirr of rain

is to taste the iron
in your own blood

because I hoard
the common currency

of longing: each wish
each secret assignation.

My limbs lift, scabbed
with greenish coins

I draw into my slow wood
fleur-de-lys, the enthroned Brittania.

Behind me, the land
reaches towards the Atlantic.

And though I’m poisoned
choking on the small change

of human hope,
daily beaten into me

look: I am still alive –
in fact, in bud.

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Eleanor Carpenter @eleanorcarpenter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Very pleased to be longlisted in this year’s waterford competition! Thank you @waterfordrhyme.bsky.social

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Eleanor Carpenter @eleanorcarpenter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Delighted to have this poem in the beautiful Thimble Literary Magazine - www.thimblelitmag.com

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Eleanor Carpenter @eleanorcarpenter.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Thanks very much @lyradora.bsky.social for including my poem ‘Objectification’ in this summer solstice edition of Eternal Haunted Summer. Delighted to have it included alongside such great work.

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Eleanor Carpenter @eleanorcarpenter.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Very happy to get an honourable mention in the Dark Poets Club “Dark Humour, Bitter Irony” mini-challenge! www.darkpoets.club/dhbi-results

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Eleanor Carpenter @eleanorcarpenter.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Belated thanks to @neologismpoetry.bsky.social for publishing my poem “Transfiguration” in issue #106 alongside some great poets. Issue #107 is out now too.

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