Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The documents seem to be sparse On smartass instead of smartarse The yanks’ clever donkey To me seems quite wonky Which might be reflective of class. 010
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026An excellent exile exhaled On learning he’d not be impaled After rocking the boat He had crossed the moat (Where less good exile had failed) #sillyRhymes #amWriting #myOtherWritingIsGood 010
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If you liked my #nudist please vote for me here! #amWriting #sillyRhymes #amBeingRead #spillwords spillwords.com/vote/spillwords.comVote for Author/Publication of the Month at Spillwords.comSpillwords.com Voting Page, where Spillwords Press Members can submit their vote for Author of the Month and Publication of the Month. 111
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Very impressed by (and appreciative of) agents who provide semi-personalised form rejections that are in some way useful to the recipient rather than the blank form rejections that merely confirm the existence of someone at the other end. #amQuerying 021
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I'd used #queryTracker all wrong It knew more than I knew all along I'd ignored the reports For similar sorts But now I have queried a throng #amWriting #amQuerying #sillyRhymes 030
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026To infinitives split where no infinitives have been splitten before. #boldlyGoing #amWriting 030
Reposted by Gaius CoffeySPILLWORDS.COM @spillwordspress.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The Next Nudest Nudist written by: Gaius Coffey The next nudest nudist could not condone why the nudest one’s nudism outranked his own. The next nudest nudist’s unblemished skin was natural, organic, and wholesome within where the #WritingCommunity #Poetry #Fiction #Literature #Spillwordsspillwords.comThe Next Nudest Nudist 032
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026So here it is, it’s here at last! Read my rhyme and have a blast! #sillyRhymes #amWriting #amBeingRead #nudism #spillwords spillwords.com/the-next-nud...spillwords.comThe Next Nudest Nudist, a poem by Gaius Coffey at Spillwords.comSpillwords.com presents: The Next Nudest Nudist, a poem by Gaius Coffey, a keen reader and keen writer, with eclectic tastes in both. 031
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Parataxic writing meant clauses, fragments: independent. Where hypotaxic joined them better and placed ideas smoothly together. Readers caring? Notice much? Fast and clear? Double Dutch? Do they seek out a longer sentence, to soothe the tongue without pretence? #amWriting #wordOfTheDay #sillyRhymes 010
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026After reading the 26th page of a writing forum discussion on genre / literary writing (in which nobody is using even similar definitions) I start to feel less bad about my own ignorance – clearly I am not alone. #amWriting 110
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 30/08/2026A cantankerous kitty named Kat Caught a crotchety crippled old bat A litter of birds An assortment of words And a small hamster wearing a hat 100
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Their tag is messy and attrocial So my rhyme will make you pout But on @spillwordspress.bsky.social My poem's coming out I haven't got the date yet I haven't got the link But my poem's fun and frolics Will make your heart not sink. #amWriting #amBeingRead #sillyRhymes 130
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026When four instead of five iambs I wrote, Iambic bot could find nothing of note. 010
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Are you left cold by dino erotica? Do your tastes lead somewhere exotic-er? Does accent diminution, And strict elocution, Seem, to you, more erotic-er? 000
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The quiddity of liquid is liquidity, yet the quiddity of rock is not so rockety. Though the quiddity of peace is peaceability, for a seat it is both comfort and stability. #amWriting #amDistracted #wordOfTheDay 010
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Though acid is found in the gut And can also clean drains, it is not So good on faces And sensitive places: Read a text book, learn what is what. #sillyRhymes #lifeAdvice #amWriting #sorta 010
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 12/08/2026With posts and with followers equal Neither number could count as a peak, well... I've now posted more Than the number before In this utterly meaningless sequel #obsessiveBehaviour #sillyRhymes #amWriting #sorta 010
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026With thick tache over his bouche He advised us to all scaramouche We did the fandango (Mine more like a tango) The evening went with a whoosh. #sillyRhymes #amWriting #sorta #bohemian 020
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Another #openMic session tomorrow where I think I’ll read The Stone of Destiny. Good when I #amPerforming to improve the times I #amWriting and remind me why I #amQuerying so I #amUpbeat even if I #amOverusingHashtags 030
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Ceci n'est pas une derivative post sur bluesky. 000
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I entered a terrible funk When a reader called my work junk I swore off all writing Instead I went smiting Dismembering foes chunk by chunk #amWriting #amSmiting #sillyRhymes 030
Reposted by Gaius CoffeyEmma Darwin @emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026So the Director of Brand and Content at Bauer Media has emailed regular writers to say that in future the stories in Take-a-Break’s Fiction Feast will be written by AI, the author being given as “The Fiction Team”; 51214
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I do not understand why writers comment on QueryTracker.net to note their submission rather than use QueryTracker's tracking feature to do the same thing more effectively, usefully, searchably and informatively. There, I've said it. #amQuerying #amBemused 010
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 03/07/2026You mustn’t preclude my prelude Foreshadowing imps in the nude Please don’t preempt My dwarves quite unkempt I shall not be censored you prude #sillyRhymes 000
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 01/07/2026The benefit of reading to a terrestrial #writingGroup is often not the things they say about the work you read, but the discussion that ensues afterwards. I'd been a little stuck, and am now unstuck so #amWriting and life is good. 020
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026A dullard, a fool and a dolt Wound up the wrong side of a bolt They didn’t stay quiet They started a riot Three dorbellists; open revolt #amWriting #sorta #sillyRhymes #limericks 110
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Looking forward to an #openMic session tonight. I love it when I #amWriting But also love it when I have an audience! 110
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Another contribution to the world’s silliness from yours truly. Enjoy! #amWriting #sillyRhymes #epic #destiny spillwords.com/the-stone-of...spillwords.comThe Stone of Destiny, a poem by Gaius Coffey at Spillwords.comSpillwords.com presents: The Stone of Destiny, a poem by Gaius Coffey, a keen reader and keen writer, with eclectic tastes in both. 220
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Sibilant sayings soft soothingly sway So some silly sausage should saunter away Slipping eloquent words In sialoquent blurs Sussurant whispers are covered in spray #amWriting #sillyRhymes #vocabDay 010
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Happy to know I've a rhyme coming out Though I'm not saying now what the rhyme is about You'll just have to wait till I find out the date Your fun, though delayed, will not be too late. I hope people find that my rhyme's to their taste But I did enjoy writing, so it won't be a waste. #amWriting 120
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 27/05/2026I can really taste the garlic from the meal I ate last night, It must be on the chopping board; it makes my cheese not right. I really liked the garlic when I chewed a roasted clove, But I prefer my garlic when the garlic does not rove. #amWriting #notWritingWhatIShouldBe #sillyRhymes #garlic 000
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 21/05/2026The wannabe who'd be an is Was caught in a terrible tiz The silence outside Was a slight to his pride And he couldn't break into the biz #amWriting #amQuerying #amWritingSillyRhymes #sillyRhymes 020
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Another day, another silence. No response to queries sent. I can glean nothing from the void And pointless is the time I spent Tweaking to unspoken wishes. Is this what Schrödinger might have meant? #amQuerying #amWriting #frustrated #aLittleBored 120
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I'm so frustrated by this spot, A recalcitrant and ugly dot. I wish in vain to make it go, Instead it spreads and seems to grow. 000
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Having killed off a good guy (it was unexpected) The remaining survivors are not as selected It seems he was holding my story flow back And I did kill him gently, no sickening thwack #amWriting #noSeriously #sillyRhymes 000
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Looking forward to a new beta-read, novel swap with other good writers. The last one was both informative and fun. #amWriting 020
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Huge woolly mammoths had heft, Just through treading left many bereft, Kept warm so fully, By their thick coat so woolly, It's a wonder there aren't any left. #amWriting #notWhatIShouldBeWriting 010
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 17/04/2026A poet in love with an orange, Was frustrated to find only sporange, That poetical crime, An inappropriate rhyme, His language it seemed needed more range. 000
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Through pointless rhyme I find my mojo within this superficial dojo. #amwriting #limberingUp #myOtherWritingIsGood 000
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Today's brief snippet of vacuous poesie Comes on the back of a writer hellbent On tweaking a deftly wrought story (not cosy) Yanking it after the story was sent. 000
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 14/04/2026When finally my head gets down to business, When arranging words stops causing dizziness, I need to swap some misplaced chapters, Delete a scene, erase the raptors. After cutting out so much, Burning the unused raptor hutch, I see act two come into focus, With style and substance, not hocus-pocus. 000
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Far too bland to have wise words, my pen (though mighty) is for the birds. My prose, though sharp, is in it sheath and hidden depth lies not beneath. It's noted most for vacuosity and not intriguing curiosity. 000
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 02/04/2026A really quite clever young zebra Excelled in maths and algebra Not so good with sound His speech oft would wound The sensitive ears of young Deborah 011
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 27/03/2026I have both ends with final scene, and now must write bits in between. #amWriting 010
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Not gonna lie, quite pleased with the reception for this: spillwords.com/mary-had-a-s... #sillypoems #amwritingspillwords.comMary Had a Stalker, a poem by Gaius Coffey at Spillwords.comSpillwords.com presents: Mary Had a Stalker, a poem by Gaius Coffey, a keen reader and keen writer, with eclectic tastes in both. 110
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Drifting once more from the limelight, a brief flood of upvotes, then gone… 000
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 19/03/2026This is very silly, but it’s _my_ very silly… spillwords.com/mary-had-a-s... #amWriting #havingFunspillwords.comMary Had a Stalker, a poem by Gaius Coffey at Spillwords.comSpillwords.com presents: Mary Had a Stalker, a poem by Gaius Coffey, a keen reader and keen writer, with eclectic tastes in both. 010
Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social · 18/03/2026So today I entered Bridport, I found it kinda fun, Synopsising all my words, To make a squashy bun. I didn't really make a cake, That's just poetic licence... Proving I'm no fake, you know, To give, with words, the essence. #amWriting #bridport #bridportprize 011