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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hi all #FragmentsFriday poets. Hi & SPECIAL THANKS 🙏 to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. Today's #micropoem is from Paris. Apollo & his muses, upset, Tour Montparnasse's rooftop viewing-point, shut for renovations. THANKS for sharing your #Poetry, & #PoetryCommunity🙏💚

A photo - a morning skyline of Paris, with the Eiffel Tower on the left, and Tour Montparnasse on the right.

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · 02/10/2026

Throughout October, @markantonyowen.com will be assisted and supported by @victoriaspires.bsky.social as they pick their favourite 'after' and #ekphrastic poems from those sent in. Don't miss your chance to appear in @afterpoetry.co.uk in 2027. Polish that poem and go to afterpoetry.com/submit.

Promotional poster for the open submissions window for online poetry journal After...

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'Hear the snow/ hatch in the hollow clouds' 👏💚 ... I've an obvious soft-spot for: Samhain 💚 Whisht 💚 Cailleach 💚

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hi all #FragmentsFriday poets. Hi & SPECIAL THANKS 🙏 to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. Here's my WINTER #micropoem: This M0rning's M0mentary G1itch In The Matrix ... the stark arrival of an alpine winter. THANKS for sharing your #Poetry, & #PoetryCommunity🙏💚

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A beautiful scene, beautifully painted, Ella 💚👏

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Julian, I've said it before (on X), and I'll say it again (on BlueSky) ... great visual & audio observations, ... observations on steroids 👏💚

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hi all #FragmentsFriday poets. Hi & SPECIAL THANKS 🙏 to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. Happy to share my #micropoem: An Autumnal Blessing THANKS for sharing your #Poetry, & #PoetryCommunity🙏💚

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

wonderfully fresh imagery, Ella 💚🙏 Thanks, always nice to learn a new word, 'dehiscence'🙏 ... and BRAVO for the new word, 'clayclot' 😍🤩

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

😂 ...Sorry, maybe I should have put a 'Gross Warning' 😁

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hi all #FragmentsFriday poets. Hi & SPECIAL THANKS 🙏 to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. Happy to share my #micropoem: A 6 Year Old's First Encounter With AI 1.0 JM Medeiros's 'Fragment' last week awoke a memory 🙏 THANKS for sharing your #Poetry, & #PoetryCommunity🙏💚

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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

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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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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

👏💚x4️⃣5️⃣- just finished listening to all 15 poets' 3 poems - what treats, what trips - difficult to slip back into a regular Wednesday evening. THANKS & congratulations to all the poets 👏💚 A MASSIVE THANKS to @iamb.uk's @markantonyowen.com for your time, effort, & dedication to poetry👏💚 you spoil us!

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hi all #FragmentsFriday poets. Hi & SPECIAL THANKS 🙏 to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. Happy to share my 17-word #micropoem: Joy-Riding Shadows THANKS for sharing your #Poetry, & #PoetryCommunity🙏💚

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hi all #FragmentsFriday poets. Hi & SPECIAL THANKS 🙏 to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. Happy to share my 14-word #micropoem: Old Grey Is The New Gold THANKS for sharing your #Poetry, & #PoetryCommunity🙏💚

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hi all #FragmentsFriday poets. Hi & SPECIAL THANKS 🙏 to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. Happy to share my #micropoem: Summer's Seduction THANKS for sharing your #Poetry, & #PoetryCommunity🙏💚

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

You were there, in that place, among the shadows, on Wednesday evening! 'syzygy' is the alignment of three or more celestial bodies, such as the Sun, Earth, & Moon. 'She' is the Moon, cutting-in on the Earth & Sun's Tango.

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Hi all #FragmentsFriday poets. Hi & SPECIAL THANKS 🙏 to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. Happy to share my #micropoem: She Casually Cuts-In On Our Tango THANKS for sharing your #Poetry, & #PoetryCommunity🙏💚

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Channel Press @channelpress.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Our first call for submissions as Channel Press is live 🩷 Biophilia: Love Poems for the Living World will be made up of poetry celebrating human beings' innate tendency to affiliate with other forms of life. Send us poems for the places and creatures you love most. channelpress.ie/submissions/

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

THANKS, Julian 🙏💚 ... inspired by my wife and I making cherry jam 🍒 ... we're both complicite and guilty as charged, your Honour 😁 ... a few pots AND a micro-poem - not a bad haul! THANKS again 🙏💚

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A stark & poignant micro, Ella 👏💚

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

... cherry-stained teeth 😁 THANKS 🙏💚

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Hi all #FragmentsFriday poets. Hi & SPECIAL THANKS 🙏 to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. Happy to share my #micropoem: Accomplished Accomplices THANKS for sharing your #Poetry, & #PoetryCommunity🙏💚

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Take good care of yourself, Paul. I hope you feel better soon 🤞💚

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

THANKS, @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social at @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 🙏💚 for your dedicated support to poets & poetry platforms 👏💪💚🙏 ... likewise, THANKS to all fellow-participating poets in our #PoetryCommunity for sharing poems, & support 👏💪💚🙏

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

'wisdom' indeed 👏💚 Nice write, good micro, Ella 👏💚

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Hi all #FragmentsFriday poets. Hi & SPECIAL THANKS 🙏 to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. Happy to share my #micropoem, Nonchalance (the nonchalance of a French-alpine sunset & moonrise) THANKS for sharing your #Poetry, & #PoetryCommunity🙏💚

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

* Please share * 📣 LAUNCH DAY of ‘Edges of Our Days’ by Welsh-Cornish #poet Polly Oliver. @pollyoliverwales.bsky.social 🌊 ⛰️ 🔥 ☀️ ❄️ 🖊️ 💫 💎 👇 👇 👇 www.blackboughpoetry.com/polly-oliver... #poetry #Gower

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Hi all #FragmentsFriday poets. Hi & SPECIAL THANKS 🙏 to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. Happy to share my 'Solstice' #micropoem, Celestial Drafts THANKS for sharing your #Poetry, & #PoetryCommunity🙏💚

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Surely, Mark, this should be for 'Monotonous Mondays' rather than for 'Fabulous #FragmentsFriday' 😀 I guess that feeling can creep-up anytime, anyday of the week.

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

👏💚 great images, with depth ... great title ... all in all, for me, 'a worldie' poem, which gets better every time I read it 💚👏

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

LOVE this poem Ryan 👏💚 ... best footie poem (I've read) ... has the current FIFA World Cup inspired this one, or is it a golden oldie?

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Hi Damien, I hope & trust you'll appreciate a change of focus & pace ... enjoy! EMBRACE! 'Stay bloody poetic!' À la prochaine!

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

'Simmer Dim' 💚💚 pure poetry 💚💚 my new favourite vernacular expression 💚💚 THANKS, DrNaturegirl for sharing.

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Hi all #FragmentsFriday poets. Hi & SPECIAL THANKS 🙏 to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. Happy to share my #micropoem, Time Untangles THANKS for sharing your #Poetry, & #PoetryCommunity🙏💚

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Hi 👋 all #FragmentsFriday poets. Hi 👋 & SPECIAL THANKS 🙏 to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. Happy to share my #micropoem, Cultivation's Off-Cuts (on cultivating personal growth, moving-on from the past) THANKS for sharing your #Poetry, & #PoetryCommunity🙏💚

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Joint second on #fragmentsfriday - Fijian Cassidy 🥈 #poem

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Only seeing this pleasant surprise now, I was off-grid in the mountains today. THANKS🙏 💚 to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social & @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social & to all the #FragmentsFriday poets for sharing your poetry 🙏💚 THANKS my 'Poetry Pals', & Congratulations to all my 'Podium Pals' 👏👏👏👏

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Hi all #FragmentsFriday poets. Hi & THANKS to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social & @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. My #micropoem 'Pentecostal Pout' is what I see in her lips (see close-up photo), you may have to squint-blur your vision, & stretch your imagination to see it. Pentecost is Sunday, May 24th.

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Hi Sarah, love the playful 'sound' of the final line ... we really hear the tiny, fragile heartbeart 💚👏 ... well, that's how I interpret it 🤔

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Hi 👋 all #FragmentsFriday poets. Hi 👋 & SPECIAL THANKS 🙏 to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. Happy to share my #micropoem, 'A Donkey-Dungscape' THANKS for sharing your micro-poems, & community 🙏💚 #Poetry #PoetryCommunity

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Hi 👋 all #FragmentsFriday poets. Hi 👋 & SPECIAL THANKS 🙏 to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. Happy to share my #micropoem, 'Nature Morte' THANKS for sharing your micro-poems, & community 🙏💚 #Poetry #PoetryCommunity

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Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Sorry, it's way too early to be posting about Christmas 2026🎄❄️ ... however, I'm honoured to have a poem accepted for the blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Christmas-Winter Anthology 2026. More info to follow. THANKS to EIC 🙏💚 @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social & Guest Editor 🙏💚 @paulwritespoems.bsky.social

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Black Bough Poetry (@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social)

Welsh poetry press based in Swansea with a focus on imagist poetry. Edited by Matthew M C Smith

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