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Lee Potts @leepottspoet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Please celebrate with me my friends! 🎉 My third chapbook, Sky In Some Mosaic, is now available for preorder from the wonderful Pinhole Poetry Press (@pinholepoetry.bsky.social). Each copy will be made by hand and beautiful. Link in bio. More information to follow.

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Talah Reed @talahreed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A small study in distance, denial and cut flowers. #poemsabout #rot #poetrysky #poetsky

STILL FLOWERS

The flowers lasted eighteen days.
I know because I counted.

By six, the water had gone cloudy.
By nine, the first stem bent.
By thirteen, they had started
leaning on each other
for structural reasons.

I changed the water anyway.

From the kitchen door
they still looked like flowers.

I tried the hallway.

Still flowers.

The sofa:
flowers.

Three feet away:

less convincing.

Up close
they had become
a collection of failures,
minor and major.

Apparently beauty
has a minimum viewing distance.

Nobody tells you this.

Museums know it.

Pointillists knew it.

By eighteen
I knew it too.

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Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

✨New Writer✨ microfiction by Deirdre Parkes!! A Constellation of Scars “We called her the Seasalt girl because we did not have another name for her—because naming is a net, and we had only so much rope.” www.claudineliterary.com/deirdreparkes

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Deirdre Parkes | A Constellation of Scars

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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Happy #PoemsAbout day everyone. Here is my offering for #LastTrain. I can't wait to read everyone else's. With thanks as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk Have a great weekend all ❤️ #poetry #choo-choo

The Last Train

I am a witness
to the lairy, blaring call
of rowdy rogues returned from revelry.

The subdued quiet
of the nurse,
longing to kick off sensible shoes
and dance.

The hushed husband
accepting the gin‑soaked airing
of his inadequacy.

The impatient sigh
of the lost girl,
searching for
the last breath of warmth
before the cold night claims her.

I am a witness
to the carriage as confessional,
to the tracks that hum with stories
no one meant to tell.

I am a witness
to the sway of strangers
bound together
for one brief, rattling moment,
before scattering like sparks
into the dark beyond the platform.

I am a witness.

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

POEM 354: "Angry at the Last Days of August—" by Susan Barry-Schulz (@susanbarryschulz.com) "Don’t at least me or better place me. I am clock-stopped. Buckled and changed. Don’t try to aurora borealis me. Don’t hunter moon or comet me." stonecirclereview.com/angry-at/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem

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Cindy Ana 🇳🇿 @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It’s not right, it’s just not right Moe mai rā, Sam Neill

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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

@thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #Powercuts One for this week whilst I'm away, waiting for the storms over water.

Storm Pending

There is a block of light on the landing
solid as Mother,
lux spread thick over lino
constant as her hum
in the yard below,
all chores done.

Static sweeps electric, birds breathe
to a count of three…
then spill.
Dust richochets full stops
against her white sail sheets
then the power cuts.

Sarah O’ Grady

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Cindy Ana 🇳🇿 @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Mānawatia a Matariki! There will be nine short stories in the August edition of takahē in celebration of the nine stars of Matariki. I am honoured mine is one of those chosen. I am excited to read them all! Thank you to Zoe and the takahē team.

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Cindy Ana 🇳🇿 @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Hello #poemsabout friends, I have been reading from afar and finally have felt the urge to write. I look forward to reading your works. Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #cheapmotels #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #BlueSkyPoets

The Sunshine Inn
Here at the Sunshine Inn clean sheets part, secrets slip within, an envelope sealed with a lick from a rabid tongue
At the Sunshine Inn, quick fixes stick
to blinds blind to the dirt deposited with each release
When you stay at the Sunshine Inn, wrongs are hidden in cracks in the ceiling, deeds stuffed down the back of couches, futures trodden into stained carpet
The Sunshine Inn prides itself on the confessions of sinners past that linger in the clogged shower traps, pasted in place by soiled soap scum
Thank you for choosing the Sunshine Inn
Please remember to take all your belongings, including your guilt Leave your room key and dignity in the box next to the office

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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Happy #PoemsAbout day everyone. I am very much looking forward to a long and sunny bank holiday weekend and I hope you all have a good one too. Now I've been nice, please find below a suitably depressing poem 🤭 @thebrokenspine.co.uk #BearingWitness #Poetry

Still Life

You came with petrol-stained blossoms,
wilt clenched in quiet hands.
Laid them silently on the table:
a commemoration of absence, not love.

Poured numbness disguised as malt,
bottle throat wet with secrets,
a ritual of deceit beneath the glass,
crystallised by time.

Unlooked-for truth arrived carelessly,
in the space between what should have been.
Denial's veil snatched away.
I hadn't known. But then I knew.

Flowers sought water from an empty glass.
Suffocating under protective wrap.
Rotting.
Bleeding into the table's grain,
their scent a slow undoing of the room.
An exhibit of demise in stasis.

A study of despair,
shrine to what decayed,
steeped in rot
and quiet ache.

No hand reached out.
No voice disturbed the dust.
We, neither of us, touched the tribute.
Nor each other again.

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Cindy Ana 🇳🇿 @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Please help! I am trying to find a micro fiction that I read about a year ago. The narrator was paying tribute to his friend who had lost a health battle. It started with him talking about hospital then their childhood and finished in a bar. Any help greatly appreciated #micro #flash #write #fiction

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Cindy Ana 🇳🇿 @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I am so very proud to have my poem included in the latest Takahē. I hope you take the time to read the wonderful mahi in this issue.

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Cindy Ana 🇳🇿 @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

www.audible.com.au/pd/B0G4PPBXT4 Dominic Hoey's poetic reading of his second novel draws you in to 1985. Each quickfire chapter a stanza of Obi's struggles and the goings-on around him. I hope one day I see this movie, where Hoey's characters and humour shine as they do with his reading of them.

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1985

Check out this great listen on Audible.com.au. It's 1985 and Obi's on the cusp of teenagehood, after a childhood marked by poverty, dysfunctional family dynamics, (dis)organised crime and violence. Hi...

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John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I don’t usually post #PoemsAbout @thebrokenspine.co.uk this early, but I’m taking some antihistamines and may sleep through a good portion of the night, or not. Will post a reel for #DogTags in the comments.

DOG TAGS

Send them into space,
all of the dog tags
and toe tags,

Trumps’ three Purple Hearts,
and the mindset of men
who pay dear and trade cheap

that the God
who abandoned this sorry blue world
might see the joylessness

of man’s desiring
and act as a “signpost up ahead”
so benevolent passengers may be forewarned

drifting near
our debris field
on their judicious excursions

coming from
and returning to, hopefully,
better planets

smelling of ginger melon balls and mint,
where space travel was a glorious culmination,
not an escape or an escapade,

where they needn’t keep
people like me
as pets or souvenirs anymore.

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John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

#PoemsAbout #BreakTheMould @thebrokenspine.co.uk Depending on what the app allows, I will either put a reel or a link in the comments for the 🎤…

MASTER CLASS

Not just the sinister misopedist
who said a fib would turn my tongue black
but every teacher I ever had lied
as if their pull string plastic voice boxes
were preloaded with platitudes
like no one is above the law
and what can you do for your country
when they were pried from their molds
at the same industrial complex
as red lights and stop signs
melting pots and voting booth curtains
Chatty Cathy’s who whined “I hurt myself”
instead of shouting “stop hurting me”
and G.I. Joes who yelled “throw the grenade”
but left unspoken “at the children.”

All, except the sadistic Sister Misery
who preferred to have a second grader
pee the carpet rather than use the rest room
before the end of the pledge of allegiance
and then sent her to the office
to call home for fresh undies and socks
and detained me for crossing
an imaginary border on the playground
no one ever before judged illegal
because she could, and Mr. Myopia
the jaded eighth grade geography teacher
to use the title lightly
who never taught a single fact or feature
while clock-watching on his lazy ass
as we read the text book on our own
and Sharpied a blood red X over
three problems I got right on a test
but wouldn’t change my grade
because he didn’t make mistakes.

Knowing what I know now
I should have been studying them
more than the snowflakes and fakers
who softly peddled esoteric aspirations
like science and art and fairness
and made us cower in the basement
lined up on our knees
chins tucked to our chests
heads against lead painted walls
waiting for imaginary incineration
from the other side of the earth unaware
only forty miles north a slumlord’s son
with bone spurs and shoe lifts
was being groomed for this moment
to liberate the freedoms we freely relinquish.

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Last call for entries! The Monica Taylor Poetry Prize closes at the end of September, so don't miss your chance to be part of this beloved competition. 💚$300 first prize + publication in the December issue of takahē 💚$150 runner up www.takahe.org.nz/submit/

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𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒃 ~ 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 @iamb.uk · 20/09/2025

**AUDITIONS NOW OPEN TILL SEP 27** Want three of your poems with text and recordings of you reading them to feature in popular online poetry quarterly @iambapoet.com? You now have just 7 days to audition for your place in a wave in either 2026 or 2027. Good luck! 🍀 iambapoet.com/audition

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Audition for poetry journal iamb in Sept 2025

Audition to be part of quarterly poetry journal iamb between the 20th and 27th of September 2025.

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Voicemail Poems @voicemailpoems.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

“But dawn, Because you hid behind the horizon torches blazed, blinding, breaking sleep and families as parents were taken from screaming kids to be jailed then charged then sent back to the islands Dawn, because you were silent, because all murmurings were silenced.” - @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social

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Beth Brooke @bethbpoet.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

It’s my online launch tonight!

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Cindy Ana 🇳🇿 @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I am thrilled this poem got a special mention in Given Words 2025. It is amongst a wonderful collection of works, please fill your Friday afternoon reading. I have added a glossary in the comments for those unfamiliar with Te Reo. nzgivenwords.blogspot.com/2025/09/give...

No Te Paruparu, No Te Purapura Of the Mud, Of the Seed
They came to me while barefoot in bitter mud, with acons angry whakapapa, they held me there.
Hands stretched through flesh soaked earth, wrapped my feet in weighted expectation.
My soles a pair of seeds, husks waiting to be pierced by
a justice of tipuna, as steadfast as battle-blooded taiaha.
Hope takes root.
Lightfast, it endures this bright white blaze.

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Voicemail Poems @voicemailpoems.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

we are currently accepting submissions for our FALL 2025 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨🍁✨ voicemailpoems.org/submit 🧡 deadline october 1st 🧡

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Another item from Becoming Altar (this one originally appeared in Dawn's Fool). Becoming Altar is coming in mid November, God willing and the creek don't rise.

Not the End
There has been a huge flood. Many people go down to the water’s edge. The water is all brown, far out to sea. To get to the shore we go along a flooded path, then a narrow rocky ledge, shaky and unstable. A fat hippie sitting on a tall rock tells me there will be another flood, a tower will fall. I see a surviving plant in a pot on top of an oil barrel. Its foliage looks like spruce needles, (but soft, not prickly like spruce) and it smells of fennel. It has a bloom at the top, a fluffy spike of many small florets, orchid/ lavender/magenta color. The plant is thriving and healthy. I am so happy to see it. I touch its soft growth.

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Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters @asteralesjournal.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

What a pleasure to find a completely original love poem that takes you on a journey through the literal heart. "Diminuendo" by @johnpauldavis.org does just that. Read it in Issue 4! asteralesjournal.com/1-3-davis-wi...

maybe this is the section of the scripture that just lists the livestock everybody owns & all the begetting...
John Paul Davis "Diminuendo"
White text on black backgrouns with rays of light filtering through a stained glass window on the upper left.

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Fiftywords @fiftywords.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

For #vss365 Disability is a name given by others

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Received my contributor copies of this year’s Best American Poetry anthology & I’m hype af!! All these amazing ass writers & lil ole me somehow in the mix. 🤣 Shoutouts to The Indiana Review for first putting this poem into the world.

Picture of my two contributor copies of The Best American Poetry 2025

Picture of the back cover featuring all of the names of the contributors to Best American Poetry 2025

First page of my poem printed in the book

Second page of my poem printed in the book

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stace.bot @stacebot.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

For this week's #PoemsAbout #Chandelier, I'm offering "Cavities." Thank you to the host @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and to all of the other writers. #poetry #poem #writing #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

Cavities And then I saw the chandelier, my hands still sticky from a corner-shop cone. I arrived at it in pieces— fairy-tale castles, stories borrowed from books. At home it was bare bulbs, buzzing steady over the table. I held it in my mind— for years afterward— beauty I was unprepared to hold, as if it were a prehistoric jawbone strung with glass teeth. Everything trembling. I swallowed it, whole. Carry it, still, to light the dark.

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Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 22/08/2025

Nice to write something fresh for #poemsabout #chandeliers after a week away, hope you enjoy it. Thanks as always @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the great prompt and everyone for the wonderful poems I'm enjoying reading instead of getting work done! #poetry #poemsonbluesky