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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 21h

@emteepoetry.bsky.social #PromptCombo #Winged I miss the Swifts now it's October The Jays on the swoop for Acorns Almost make up for it And if the Owls leave me another feather I'll accept that Birdkind is on my side.

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Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · 22h

Thankyou @emteepoetry.bsky.social for this week's #promptcombo #winged #poetry I'll try to focus later in the week but in the meantime an old one from me.

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David Birch @davidbirch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Many thanks @emteepoetry.bsky.social for today's #PromptCombo #Winged. I'm pressed for time this week so I thought I'd let this old one fly again. Will catch up with other offerings from the #PoetryCommunity later.

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hi @emteepoetry.bsky.social Emily. Here's my first in response to your excellent #promptcombo #Winged. Its from my collection "Hedgerow of Voices."Arrival of Redwings heralds autumn:

Redwing

You may not see me again in this place,
noshing on this bright juiciness that glints
a starlike pattern to our hungry pace
amongst this manmade feast's blazing red hints

added crunch in my beak of skitterers
below in harsh gust, pelting fall of wet
and snow. Alive to slightest twitch feather
of shadow or tick of twig or leaf fret.

When your warm arrives we flit fast up North
to have our bairns, teach them to fly, how we read the patterns in the blue and bright forth
of flashes in the dark Overness. We

may bring them to your wild patterns, of blue
and specks in the black Overness, to you.

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thanks to Ronnie for last week's fantastic prompt! This week tag me @emteepoetry.bsky.social #PromptCombo #Winged Winged or Wingèd? Birds, bugs, planes etc, or dragons/ wingèd cryptids? Icarus? Or winged, as in wounded? Just a few of the possibilities. Looking forward to reading your work!

Micropoem about an airplane in concrete form

Photo of a black and white pigeon, with a black mark on its head like a small hat.

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Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Spent a lovely afternoon at the #FigTree #WomensAnthology launch yesterday. Some fabulous readings. I recommend the collection images.sumup.com/img_7YRKSY55...

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Although it feels like I am shouting into the void about this sometimes, I want to share some further thoughts on the “Zionism is Racism” motion which the Green Party is due to debate in the next 16 hours. Just to address various points which I think people in general should know. A thread:

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Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the life! Watching #BruceSpringsteen #LiveinPhilly on the tube AT TEATIME! @brucespringsteen.net LoVe it 😍💙🫶🏻👌🏻

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Here’s something I’ve been working on that fits with this week’s #PromptCombo theme from @rfsmith.bsky.social (Now under the right hashtag 🙄) Still a #WIP this is neither subtle or refined, much like me! Thanks for hosting. Have a good week. #poem #poetry #blueskypoetry

A poem by Debbie Ross entitled Apocalypse Now
Stanzas 1 -4
When I was young the fear of mushroom clouds was real
old men pushing buttons ending it all
and then the Sunday School doom merchants fed me Revelations of fire and horsemen the 'earth laid bare'
I thought that wars might end us the human race destroying each other and the earth rubbled with us
And the disaster movie makers had their say with meteors wiping us out
destroying everything

Stanzas 5 and 6 of a poem Apocalypse Now by Debbie Ross

thought we might live to see the sun
grow large
Finally
a red giant desiccating our planet
but now I'm not sure we'll make it that far disaster wears a human face as we melt the Doomsday ice and set the world on fire our blue green gem of a home destroyed by greed.

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here's a wee dystopian beastie mostly on topic for Ronnie @rfsmith.bsky.social and #PromptCombo #Apocalypse It's a long one, across three vignettes. Thanks for sticking with it if you get to the end!

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Ronnie Smith @rfsmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#PromptCombo Thank you to Paul Brookes for last weeks excellent prompt. This week the theme is #Apocalyse and I present a cheery wee piece about the weather. Love to all. @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @janpsolivagant.bsky.social @jenthorne.bsky.social

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High Wolds Poetry Festival @highwoldspoetry.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Awesome! Thank you so much for your light and energy 😃😃

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Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Super day at @highwoldspoetry.bsky.social #poetryfestival today. A beautiful end to the summer and hello to autumn. Great to be among so many local poets responding to local history and the beautiful #yorkshirewolds #eastriding #poetryfestival

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

my thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk for hosting #PoemsAbout #DeadLetters this was written for my fathers great friend lost when H.M.S. was sunk I have the letter

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Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thanks @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for this week's #promptcombo and comments/ likes from you lovely poets.😊

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Mohamad Safa UN The war in Lebanon has reached a point where it can no longer be described as anything other than genocide. Don't be fooled by current leaders statements at the UN General Assembly calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. If they really wanted to end it, they would

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Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Unseasonal ( or normal?) September #solstice day. Delighted to hear returning geese! #Pinkfooted #Humber 😁

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S. Reeson / Experimental Poet @internetofwords.com · 22/09/2026

ONLY EIGHT DAYS LEFT :D #poetry #promptcombo #competition #submission It needs 20 poets to have entered for the cash prize to be awarded. Could you make that happen??? Entries to moveablepress (at) gmail (dot) com <3

A yellow metal watering can on a black background. Superimposed on it is the following:

Ways of Seeing: A Series of Poetic Experiments.

Underneath in friendly letters it states: #1: Yellow Jug

Subs are Open!

A set of Instructions for the challenge:

1. Write a ten line poem.
2. your title must be ‘yellow jug’.
3. a description of a yellow jug must appear, in some form, as part of the poem, but the words ‘yellow’ and ‘Jug’ cannot be repeated.

- No simultaneous submissions

- Max of 3 poems per poet

A reminder this Experiment closes on September 30th and some additional instructions:

- A shortlist of 10 poems will be chosen for an online archive beginning in October 2026

- The poem that, in the opinion of the judge (me) does the best job of fulfilling the brief and simultaneously subverting the concept will be awarded £20 (via Paypal)[*]

Submit your work to
moveablepress[at]gmail.com

with ‘#1: Yellow Jug’
as your title.

Subs close on on September 30th. Start writing now!!!!!

[*] Prize awarded only if at least 20 poets submit their work, and yes, ACTUAL MONEY.

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

7 places left in The Starbeck Orion Workplace Verse Special Edition. Work that is NOT about workplace will be offered a place in the Not Advent edition, posting from 25th December. bsky.app/profile/thew...

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thank you to @janpsolivagant.bsky.social Jan for an excellent week. Tag your contribution #promptcombo #11Lines and me. Write down 8–10 genuine workplace phrases. Add as little of your own language as possible. Add one unexpected image. Add a recurring sound. Add an odd perspective. Use Alt text.

Retails

Wheel in lorried frozen, dry, and chilled.
Empty rattling cages of the tightly wrapped.
Frozen first. Disassemble cardboad boxes.
Put plastic wrapping in plastic bags.

Face up goods on shelves. Labels at front,
not upside down.Folk buy more
when all is regimented. Barcode beeped.
Remember to upsell on the till.

One freezer must be emptied, unplugged, defrosted overnight, icewater vacuumed up.
Potential shoplifters tv and headphone tracked.

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Most U.K.-based poets and publishers have failed to understand how Bluesky works, and have absurdly turned their backs on all the terrific readers here...

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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Moscow mayor says Moscow oil refinery hit in Ukrainian drone attack and claims that, since yesterday, more than 1,600 drones have been "repelled" over Russia; describes the attack as "unprecedented" and an attempt "to disrupt the [parliamentary] election."

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Matt Abbott 🍉 @mattabbottpoet.com · 17/09/2026

My poem 'Lost, Somewhere Between' has been Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes' Best Single Poem - Performed category. I'm absolutely buzzing to have my work recognised by such a prestigious prize. Huge congratulations to everybody else who was Highly Commended!

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Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes for Poetry

Matt Abbott has been Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes for Poetry with his poem 'Lost, Somewhere Between', which features in the Best Single Poem - Performed category.

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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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Merril D. Smith @merrildsmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Good morning! I missed last Friday. I went in a different direction for today's #PoemsAbout #Strays. Thanks as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Night Birds

A stray thought f l u t t e r e d

into my mind

crossing neuron seas
on albatross wings

collecting shiny flotsam
with magpie dedication

gathering others

a murder of crows

a murmuration

filled my dream horizons.

The thought constructed a calamity nest,
in it, laid an anxiety egg

that hatched words like a star
shedding light

silvering the surface,
sinking below.

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patriciajvs.bsky.social @patriciajvs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk - it's Friday again. This feels less like a poem and more like a tiny biography to recognise 30 years of an amazing organisation: Ben's Centre www.benscentre.org #PoemsAbout #Strays

Straying
A wet spring evening, ten years ago or so, With leaves taking a lashing, Boxed saplings twisting
Wind whistling through perimeter walls of late Victorian buildings
Under parasols in Leopold square
He recognised you,
In a corner sitting out the rain, watchful, cold, aware of Every movement from the door Of a forgotten Italian restaurant,
A youthful man with the dog end of a cigarette, Trying to belong, sitting with style,
Belying his worth with a stained shirt and trainers With trenches, where seams should have been.
Sock-less in an unfashionable way.
Divergent paths,
Though you sat together, learned together, Now my boy went to sit with you again, Offering a new cigarette,
Allowing you to stay out of the rain a little longer, Lessening the pressure or distain of the waiting staff.
You told a story of lost work, A family who cared less than they could Of dispute and disharmony,
Three months on the Sheffield streets
Nowhere to go, no one to love,
Medicating numbness and peace of mind, Not dry or clean enough for the Arches, Homeless, down, out and more,
My boy gave you his socks,
A Brave acceptance, despite your circumstances!
Ten pounds in cash, all we had And you left with a thank you, Not wishing to embarrass further, I hope you found Ben's Centre, eventually
A way home.

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Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 18/09/2026

Good morning everyone, still not finding time to write much this week but did manage this draft poem for #poemsabout #strays. Will pop back later to read others! #poetry #poetrycommunity

Education

you showed no interest
or aptitude
for angles, Angles
Saxons or parallels
more the flames
licking the classroom walls
before they expelled you

forty years later
your social media
hate-filled ignorance
smoke screen across the stars
denying our rainbow reality

I imagine
a life spent running
towards where
from what
you neither know
nor care

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Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

*Boastful CLAXTON* Very pleased to have 2 poems in @thefigtree.bsky.social #womenspoetryanthology from #crookedspirepress. Many thanks to @timfellows.bsky.social A splendid little book. Do consider purchasing a copy or two.

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