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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright

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Mervyn Seivwright writes to balance social consciousness & #poetry craft for humane growth. 2021/2023 Pushcart Nom with #poems in 80 Journals in 13 countries & a new collection, Stick, Hook, & a Pile of Yarn. www.clippings.me/users/mervynseivwr…

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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Sharing poetry. #poetonbluesky #poetrycommunity #poetry #amwriting #poetlife #blueskypoet
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I thank the editors of The Rome Review for publishing my two poems, "Can You Celebrate With Me" and "I Wandered a Cobblestone Path." #theRomeReview #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #StickHookandaPileofYarn theromereview.com/two-poems-or...
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Blessings, my community. Thanks to the editors of River’s Edge Literary Magazine, I have a new poem published, “Scheveningen's October Waves.” Go to Full Screen, & pages 60-61. #riversedgelitmag #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #StickHookandaPileofYarn riversedgelitmag.com/issues/2
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Blessed Weekend All. I have a new prose poem published, “When the Veil is Open.” Thanks to the editors of The Headlight Review. #TheHeadlightReview #brokensleepbooks #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #poet #StickHookandaPileofYarn www.theheadlightreview.com/pieces/volum...
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When the Veil is Open — The Headlight Review
You can’t find morels without your father’s eye trawling the deadwood and bramble for you. Thrashers thrash in the canopy, busking their duplicitous song while chipmunk and squirrel weasel through fol...
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I am thankful to the editors of Loud Coffee Press for publishing this poem, “If We Remember.” Link: (Page 8) www.loudcoffeepress.com/lcp-issue-20 #loudcoffeepress #brokensleepbooks #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #poet #StickHookandaPileofYarn
If We Remember

In a South London elderly home, the residents had finished their midday
meal, now marionettes with strings unstressed, sunken into each puffed 

red lazy chair around the room. Our uncle was wide-eyed, shifting 
in his ninety-seventh loop around the sun. His now and memories 

are dancing, fleeting memories selfish for attention in his mind. 
Then, I shifted time selfishly, the marionettes latched me to a summer 

between college years, working with my mum, watching her 
with seasoned residents, a lead bee swiftly hopping within a hive, 

bringing care, communicating, coaxing, carrying those with frail tree 
branches, frames waving in the wind. The sound of the domino box 

ting on the table, jolted me back with our uncle, his eyes shining as I 
swirled the domino cards, as we Jamaicans called them. Touching 

the dominoes, uncle was tethered to this instant, seventies Abba songs
filling the room from the television blending with domino card clacks, 

the staccato coughs and moans from those in their time-locked slumber 
around us, great-uncle, niece, great-nephew gathered around a serving table, 

being present, taking videos to slow down the string of time racing 
through fingers, holding on to the moment he said domino.
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Grand Rising and Blessings. I am behind on posting poems published. I have 3 to share: 2 Poems “Do Not Yield,” “If Crickets Could Talk,” in Mouthful of Salt, Granules. mouthfulofsalt.wordpress.com/granules/#jp... Thank you for Supporting
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Granules
Before the full pour of our first issue, these were the first drops that cut through. What began as a preview of Mouthful of Salt and as a way to offer a glimpse of the voices and vision behind our…
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Blessings! I want to give thanks to the editors of Neologism Poetry Journal, Issue #102, for publishing my poem “Our Eclipse of Sunset.” #NeologismPoetry #brokensleepbooks #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #poet #StickHookandaPileofYarn @highlight www.neologismpoetry.com/November-202...
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November 2025
Issue #102 Royal Rhodes WINTER It lasts at least nine months in some places, even locations without glaciers or mountain valleys packed with the heavy weight of snow. In these low hills and smooth …
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Hallo! Giving thanks to the editors of Frazzled Lit, out of Ireland, for publishing my pantoum poem, “My Mind Channels,” in Issue 4 of their journal. #frazzledlit #brokensleepbooks #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #poet #StickHookandaPileofYarn www.frazzledlit.com/p/my-mind-ch...
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My Mind Channels
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Blessings Fam! Thank you, editors of Midway Journal, for publishing my poem, “A Completed Work.” I hope this brings reflection. #MiDWaYjournal #brokensleepbooks #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #poet #StickHookandaPileofYarn midwayjournal.com/a-completed-...
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A Completed Work
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Thank you to the editors of Up the Stairs Quarterly, publishing my poem, “An Echoing Deduction,” in Issue 73 of their journal. #upthestaircasequarterly #brokensleepbooks #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #poet #StickHookandaPileofYarn www.upthestaircase.org/mervyn-seivw...
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Mervyn Seivwright
How many of us suffer in the suffering around us?   I am not broken, a fireplace blistering romp around   sulfur hell pathways cooled by a river’s forced breeze,   bubbling. I seek dust of a...
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Blessings All! Sharing my new poem, published, “Lush Life,” thanks to the editors of January House Literary Journal. #JanuaryHouseLit #brokensleepbooks #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #poet #StickHookandaPileofYarn januaryhouselit.com/2026/05/25/l...
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Lush Life
by Mervyn Seivwright Sometimes I need a sad song Coltrane serenading the parts of me whored out as each of us have Layers loosened enough in clothes to cut skin from an Uptown Chicago wind whipping…
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Thanks to the editors of The Bokeh Review. My published poem is a duplex form developed by Jericho Brown, mine titled, “If the poems I wrote surface.” #BokewReview #brokensleepbooks #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #poet #StickHookandaPileofYarn www.thebokehreview.org/mervyn-seivw...
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Mervyn Seivwright — The Bokeh Review
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Today, I am celebrating having had 147 poems selected by 100 different literary journals and anthologies after an almost 8-year journey starting in Oct 2018 with 1596 rejections along the path. Real goals take commitment. This is my portfolio of publications. www.clippings.me/users/mervyn...
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Mervyn R. Seivwright, Poet
Mervyn R. Seivwright writes to balance social consciousness & poetry craft for humane growth. He is from a Jamaican family and was born in Dulwich, a so...
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Today, I am celebrating having had 147 poems selected by 100 different literary journals and anthologies after an almost 8-year journey starting in Oct 2018 with 1596 rejections along the path. Real goals take commitment. This is my portfolio of publications. www.clippings.me/users/mervyn...
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Mervyn R. Seivwright, Poet
Mervyn R. Seivwright writes to balance social consciousness & poetry craft for humane growth. He is from a Jamaican family and was born in Dulwich, a so...
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Thanks to the editors of The Bokeh Review. My published poem is a duplex form developed by Jericho Brown, mine titled, “If the poems I wrote surface.” #BokewReview #brokensleepbooks #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #poet #StickHookandaPileofYarn www.thebokehreview.org/mervyn-seivw...
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Mervyn Seivwright — The Bokeh Review
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Blessings All! Sharing my new poem, published, “Lush Life,” thanks to the editors of January House Literary Journal. #JanuaryHouseLit #brokensleepbooks #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #poet #StickHookandaPileofYarn januaryhouselit.com/2026/05/25/l...
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Lush Life
by Mervyn Seivwright Sometimes I need a sad song Coltrane serenading the parts of me whored out as each of us have Layers loosened enough in clothes to cut skin from an Uptown Chicago wind whipping…
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Thank you January House Lit in sharing my work. #poem #poetry #amwriting
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januaryhouselit.bsky.social @januaryhouselit.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Lush Life by Mervyn Seivwright Sometimes I need a sad song Coltrane serenading the parts of me whored out as each of us have Layers loosened enough in clothes to cut skin from an Uptown Chicago wind whipping corners I hear a hiss my breath these days withers Golden hour morning on Dutch coast…
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Lush Life
by Mervyn Seivwright Sometimes I need a sad song Coltrane serenading the parts of me whored out as each of us have Layers loosened enough in clothes to cut skin from an Uptown Chicago wind whipping corners I hear a hiss my breath these days withers Golden hour morning on Dutch coast coasting waves whistling breeze a gliding seagull sun teasing beyond…
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Thank you to the editors of Up the Stairs Quarterly, publishing my poem, “An Echoing Deduction,” in Issue 73 of their journal. #upthestaircasequarterly #brokensleepbooks #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #poet #StickHookandaPileofYarn www.upthestaircase.org/mervyn-seivw...
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Mervyn Seivwright
How many of us suffer in the suffering around us?   I am not broken, a fireplace blistering romp around   sulfur hell pathways cooled by a river’s forced breeze,   bubbling. I seek dust of a...
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Blessings Fam! Thank you, editors of Midway Journal, for publishing my poem, “A Completed Work.” I hope this brings reflection. #MiDWaYjournal #brokensleepbooks #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #poet #StickHookandaPileofYarn midwayjournal.com/a-completed-...
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A Completed Work
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
@bsky.app Blessings Fam! Thank you, editors of Midway Journal, for publishing my poem, “A Completed Work.” I hope this brings reflection #MiDWaYjournal #brokensleepbooks #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #poet #StickHookandaPileofYarn midwayjournal.com/a-completed-...
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A Completed Work
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Hallo! Giving thanks to the editors of Frazzled Lit, out of Ireland, for publishing my pantoum poem, “My Mind Channels,” in Issue 4 of their journal. #frazzledlit #brokensleepbooks #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #poet #StickHookandaPileofYarn www.frazzledlit.com/p/my-mind-ch...
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My Mind Channels
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Frazzled Lit *Closed for Submissions* @frazzledlit.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
And just like that, issue 4 is live! We are indebted to all our contributors, our readers, and audience. Thanks to the amazing @jmcm.bsky.social for putting together another terrific and most gorgeous issue. www.frazzledlit.com/p/issue-4-ha...
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Blessings! I want to give thanks to the editors of Neologism Poetry Journal, Issue #102, for publishing my poem “Our Eclipse of Sunset.” #NeologismPoetry #brokensleepbooks #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #poet #StickHookandaPileofYarn @highlight www.neologismpoetry.com/November-202...
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November 2025
Issue #102 Royal Rhodes WINTER It lasts at least nine months in some places, even locations without glaciers or mountain valleys packed with the heavy weight of snow. In these low hills and smooth …
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Neologism Poetry Journal @neologismpoetry.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Issue #102 out now! Featured Poet Royal Rhodes; supported by Cailín Frankland, Kathleen Serocki, William Ross, @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social , @mervynspoet.bsky.social, Aranka Somogyi (translated by Ágnes Megyeri), @maudiemichelle.com, & @adenthomas.bsky.social www.neologismpoetry.com/November-2025/
screenshot excerpt of featured poem for Issue #102, readable at linked page
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Grand Rising and Blessings. I am behind on posting poems published. : 1 Poem “Sunrising From the Mind 12,” in Indelible Literary and Arts Journal, “Awakening,” Issue 9, London Arts-Based Research Centre. clippingsme-assets-1.s3.amazonaws.com/cuttingpdfs/...? Thank you for supporting
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Grand Rising and Blessings. 2 Poems “Softening the Noise,” “I am from me,” in Mindful Poetry Moments 2025 Anthology www.thewell.world/support-us/s... #mindfulpoetrymoments #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #poem #poet #amwriting #poetrycommunity Thank you for supporting
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Mindful Poetry Moments 6th Edition (2025) | The Well
PREORDER ONLY During National Poetry Month 2025, poetry enthusiasts from around the world celebrated with Mindful Poetry Moments, now in its sixth year. Throughout April, we hosted four Virtual Gather...
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Grand Rising and Blessings. I am behind on posting poems published. I have 3 to share: 2 Poems “Do Not Yield,” “If Crickets Could Talk,” in Mouthful of Salt, Granules. mouthfulofsalt.wordpress.com/granules/#jp... Thank you for Supporting
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Granules
Before the full pour of our first issue, these were the first drops that cut through. What began as a preview of Mouthful of Salt and as a way to offer a glimpse of the voices and vision behind our…
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I am thankful to the editors of Loud Coffee Press for publishing this poem, “If We Remember.” Link: (Page 8) www.loudcoffeepress.com/lcp-issue-20 #loudcoffeepress #brokensleepbooks #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #poet #StickHookandaPileofYarn
If We Remember

In a South London elderly home, the residents had finished their midday
meal, now marionettes with strings unstressed, sunken into each puffed 

red lazy chair around the room. Our uncle was wide-eyed, shifting 
in his ninety-seventh loop around the sun. His now and memories 

are dancing, fleeting memories selfish for attention in his mind. 
Then, I shifted time selfishly, the marionettes latched me to a summer 

between college years, working with my mum, watching her 
with seasoned residents, a lead bee swiftly hopping within a hive, 

bringing care, communicating, coaxing, carrying those with frail tree 
branches, frames waving in the wind. The sound of the domino box 

ting on the table, jolted me back with our uncle, his eyes shining as I 
swirled the domino cards, as we Jamaicans called them. Touching 

the dominoes, uncle was tethered to this instant, seventies Abba songs
filling the room from the television blending with domino card clacks, 

the staccato coughs and moans from those in their time-locked slumber 
around us, great-uncle, niece, great-nephew gathered around a serving table, 

being present, taking videos to slow down the string of time racing 
through fingers, holding on to the moment he said domino.
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Thanks to the Editors, I cannot wait to see my words represented in The Hong Kong Review. #poem #poetry #writerslife #poetlife
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Hi #BlueSky! Sharing a #poem just #published about my way to move forward in this social #climate. “In the kaleidoscope of autumn leaves.” thebrokenspine.co.uk/product/sele... #thebrokenspine #brokensleepbooks #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #poet #StickHookandaPileofYarn
In the kaleidoscope of autumn leaves

Mervyn Seivwright

I look for light, the harmonizing glow,
the fiery feeling, yet the leaves flash
to brittle browning more hastily

this year. I wish to greet each set of eyes
locked with my energy this day, the gift

of breath seems an embrace enough
with icons falling as age-old oak trees
once on fertile, now gritty frail ground.

I need to be the lighthouse, the fog thicker,
the rocks sharper, the sea, an unrestricted

unrest. I seek to be a space, listening,
tender bliss enough for that moment,
cheerfulness harvests a smile in return

and even when it’s too cold to snow
joyful tears can still warm cheeks to chin.

If I could crack the egg layers of anxiety
we hyper sow from the ones and zeroes

slinging our eyes across screen projecting
successive voices in an alley cat yard
peeling skin from each end of the compass,

I could be the sun, a torch for the heart
of shared accepted teddy bear hugs, forest

green moss breathing life in lungs, be the instant
when hope encompasses us. I would know

when the shadows compress with darkening
cracks, a pinhole of acute light would find a way.
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Hi #BlueSky! Sharing a #poem just #published about my way to move forward in this social #climate. “In the kaleidoscope of autumn leaves.” thebrokenspine.co.uk/product/sele... #thebrokenspine #brokensleepbooks #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #poet #StickHookandaPileofYarn
In the kaleidoscope of autumn leaves

Mervyn Seivwright

I look for light, the harmonizing glow,
the fiery feeling, yet the leaves flash
to brittle browning more hastily

this year. I wish to greet each set of eyes
locked with my energy this day, the gift

of breath seems an embrace enough
with icons falling as age-old oak trees
once on fertile, now gritty frail ground.

I need to be the lighthouse, the fog thicker,
the rocks sharper, the sea, an unrestricted

unrest. I seek to be a space, listening,
tender bliss enough for that moment,
cheerfulness harvests a smile in return

and even when it’s too cold to snow
joyful tears can still warm cheeks to chin.

If I could crack the egg layers of anxiety
we hyper sow from the ones and zeroes

slinging our eyes across screen projecting
successive voices in an alley cat yard
peeling skin from each end of the compass,

I could be the sun, a torch for the heart
of shared accepted teddy bear hugs, forest

green moss breathing life in lungs, be the instant
when hope encompasses us. I would know

when the shadows compress with darkening
cracks, a pinhole of acute light would find a way.
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NEMO @nemoetry.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
here's hoping #poem #poetry #imissfallallothertimesofyear
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Blessings #Blueesky! Today, I share my first publication of the year from the editors of The Basilisk Tree, my poem, “My Echoed Instants. #Basilisktree #brokensleepbooks #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #poet #StickHookandaPileofYarn #poetrylife basilisktree.com/-v3i1-mervyn...
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Hello #Bluesky! I can finally share my poem, “Presently Me,” which was one of two finalists for the 2023 C.P. Cavafy Poetry Prize. #poetryinternationalonline #poetryintl #brokensleepbooks #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #poet @followers poetryinternationalonline.com/presently-me/
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Presently Me - POETRY INTERNATIONAL
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Hello #Bluesky! I can finally share my poem, “Presently Me,” which was one of two finalists for the 2023 C.P. Cavafy Poetry Prize. #poetryinternationalonline #poetryintl #brokensleepbooks #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #poet @followers poetryinternationalonline.com/presently-me/
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Presently Me - POETRY INTERNATIONAL
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Blessings #Blueesky! Today, I share my first publication of the year from the editors of The Basilisk Tree, my poem, “My Echoed Instants. #Basilisktree #brokensleepbooks #spaldingmfa #amwriting #poetrylife #poetry #poet #StickHookandaPileofYarn #poetrylife basilisktree.com/-v3i1-mervyn...
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Grand Rising #bluesky This is a #poem #published from a future collection to share. #poet #poetry #poetsofbluesky #blacksky #BlueskyPoets #poetrycommunity #SpaldingMFA #amwriting #Skypoets #poetlife
Sunrising From the Mind - XVII

I bring the shadows to the river, wider 

from spring showers, carving the banks deeper. 
The moss has painted itself here. The path 

of the valley, thinner to tread while my shadow plays 
bounce and blend in breaks betwixt broken trunks, 
stone stairs, tall sliding stones. My thoughts vanish, 

feeling the river’s trickle and white bubble-womps. 

My skin is sensitive to the air with quilted comfort. 

Each thrush and blackbird are tweaking solos. 
It is here I ground my feet in the soaked soil and fuse.
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Aubri Kaufman @aubrirose.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
idk who needs to hear this but you’re a writer. even if you’re not writing right now. your identity is not dependent on your production.
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Hello #bluesky Sharing a new #poem previously published by Poetry.Onl in 2022. #poet #poetry #poetsofbluesky #blacksky #BlueskyPoets #poetrycommunity #SpaldingMFA #amwriting #Skypoets #poetlife
Manifest Predestinate Man

Society inculcates us to chase 
our goals     never surrender 
mining through mountains

what makes a man
a shepherd      the long
warmth of arms—embracing

what makes a man
a shepherd     the long 
crooked stick—swinging

an acorn crushed 
in a man’s hands 
will breed no generations

acreages of land 
claimed when it is tilled 
by one man’s order

possessing a populace
grains of DNA
in a rat’s jolting-labyrinth

disloyal blood grated 
irrigating the grime
is a required tribute

infinite seeds slip 
through fingers 
of small town folks 

adolescent breathless bones
the mortar of tenement tower 
rubble     a restraining cage of souls

human festering fertilization
stench does not stain
clinical high-rise-arched palaces 

if vocal cords can be severed
unable to vibrate    erupt
trade winds will sputter     voices hiss
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Holly Jahangiri @jahangiri.us · 30/01/2025
Good morning! Here's a #poem for today. First time writing a #contrapuntal poem. Neither as hard (nor quite as easy) as it looked. Thanks for introducing me to the form, @mervynspoet.bsky.social #Blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #formalverse #thestaffordchallenge
A poem:

Progress, They Call It (a Contrapuntal Poem - every other line comprises a standalone poem, then the two are woven together)

progress, they call it: slashing, burning, progress—
can’t stop the forward motion of a nation!
encroaching, elbowing, uprooting the living
who would want to thwart the people’s will, or kill the
canopy of verdant sunlit trees that once breathed 
sweet aroma of crisply minted bills enrobed in leather with
our exhalations. we breathed theirs until they gasped
the faintest whiff of manliness, invoking will, 
their last, until they fell to saw and ax, bulldozed  
determination. ancestors’ words forgotten as new money’s
burned to make a way for strip malls and 
wealth, unfettered by past sense, decorum, grows,
power lines—such progress don’t go well with pines—
it goes to feed the engines of industry that only thrive
incinerating cedar selves in swirling smoke 
coal-fired on the backs of miners, steelworkers, “little people”—
their ashes drifting heavenwards and carried
those dispensable, extra mouths to feed until
on the santa ana winds to add a colored layer
the robots shove them off a cliff
to the cliffs of palo duro choking out the summer sun.
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Hello #bluesky Sharing a new #poem previously published by Poetry.Onl in 2022. #poet #poetry #poetsofbluesky #blacksky #BlueskyPoets #poetrycommunity #SpaldingMFA #amwriting #Skypoets #poetlife
Manifest Predestinate Man

Society inculcates us to chase 
our goals     never surrender 
mining through mountains

what makes a man
a shepherd      the long
warmth of arms—embracing

what makes a man
a shepherd     the long 
crooked stick—swinging

an acorn crushed 
in a man’s hands 
will breed no generations

acreages of land 
claimed when it is tilled 
by one man’s order

possessing a populace
grains of DNA
in a rat’s jolting-labyrinth

disloyal blood grated 
irrigating the grime
is a required tribute

infinite seeds slip 
through fingers 
of small town folks 

adolescent breathless bones
the mortar of tenement tower 
rubble     a restraining cage of souls

human festering fertilization
stench does not stain
clinical high-rise-arched palaces 

if vocal cords can be severed
unable to vibrate    erupt
trade winds will sputter     voices hiss
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Rob Miles @robmilespoetry.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Emerging from the obligatory seasonal head cold right in the gap before work of course, I see the news and would quite like a rewind button. I can confirm, however, that this @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social volume is really very good - and healing. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
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Nikki Dudley @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
My pamphlet, Erode with Me, came out with Broken Sleep Books, one year ago! Happy book birthday to me 🥳 If you want to check it out, it's available on their site! #PoetsOfBluesky #PoetryCommunity #PoetryBooks @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
Orange book cover with red swirls on it. The title is Erode with Me by Nikki Dudley
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Mervyn "Deep Cobra" Seivwright @mervynspoet.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
‪Hello #bluesky It has been a while. #Life is about shifts. I am sharing a #poem about #memories. #poet #poetry #poetsofbluesky #blacksky #BlueskyPoets #poetrycommunity #SpaldingMFA #amwriting #Skypoets #poetlife
Duality in Mountain Memory
 
When my Granddad passed
I found out we were mountain people
in Jamaica, my mum scaled trees 
on dirt paths, no safe road cliff barriers
except for the flowers, colors of warning
connecting to this German village I have found.
 
When my Granddad passed, 
I remember the dominoes clanging
on tables in a village, a decade past
kerosene lights in the present,
where chickens freely roam
unaware of hot water, and their last cluck.
 
I found out we were mountain people
as the one I live on, both 
share a fusion of forest flayed
between fields of tall grass,
walking miles winding trails for water
in and out of the trees.
 
My mum scaling trees
reaping sweet starfruits, mangoes, 
plum, papaya as a spider,
then called Tomboy,
she had fierce courage, 
hearkening the stories 
she told me, endeavors
gapped amid store market strolls.
 
On dirt paths, I wondered
of my mum in the fields, working
before school days, dancing
in puddled potholes, shifting
for honking horns of cars 
around corners. I wander 
the cobblestones, considering 
the history in my village, 
far across the Atlantic Sea.
 
The daffodils, tulips, buttercups
brightly lead me into a forest shaken, 
stirred by nature’s twisting force
pulling strings of harmony, 
snow, wind, thunder, and
lightning’s chaos in our eyes, 
until nature’s painting has dried.
 
Connection finds me
coupled with my mum’s youth,
the hills I am scaling, lost
in Hansel and Gretel hinterland
country, syncopated scents
of fruits and flowers, hidden
with green moss fluorescent on the rockface,
a chorus of finches claim mornings,
a thread stringing this homeland in me.
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