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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Hello #promptcombo #poemsabout crews 👋🏼 Hope you are all having a super week. Sorry I've been largely absent this week – I'm deep in my reading period for @thewingedmoon.bsky.social Biophilia now (working also with @noelcowley.bsky.social). Reminder we are open until 2 July ☺️ xx

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Mary Oliver talks about paying attention... Take time to pay some attention to the care she has taken here with line breaks and enjambment...

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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Hullo. My turn to host #PromptCombo for this week’s theme of #pivotpoint Cite both when posting and tag me in too @hool415.bsky.social What date or moment changed everything for you? Will read in batches! All welcome. @dragonslayerma.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @rfsmith.bsky.social

Double-Decker Bus

Sometimes less obvious dates
matter most.

Tuesday, the first week, New Jersey.
I watch
from the hired car
a bunting of hefty Americans leave the bank you were in.
Each hoisting belts as a well-worn reflex,
spot-lit on steps
by the brazen late October sun.

Only then were we properly there.

Or that winter beach,
a time when every photograph counted.
Here you are:
turning away from me,
speaking with the rudely intruding ocean;
a nervous gust caught
gauche
under your long blue coat.

I asked you the following day.

Even the birth
has shrunk as the utmost date,
the love already decided.
It struck on the jolting bus,
after the phone call,
when we knew
for certain.

Upstairs,
front seat,
shaken and lifted
all the way there.

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Honoured to be part of this powerful synergy of global voices, writing on a theme of topical importance. Thank you to EIC Rebecca Rijsdijk at Sunday Mornings at the River for including my poem 'Territorial' 🖤 #poetry #poetrycollection #anthology #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #sociology

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Noel Cowley @noelcowley.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Such a lovely, melancholic, musical poem. #hellointhere

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Noel Cowley @noelcowley.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

"A chorale that stretched out sun-bleached snooker baize in glistening throbs of reptile hide." - @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social #NowThatsWhatICall a poetry reading 👂🏼👇🏽👂🏼

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Noel Cowley @noelcowley.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

A very silly cutting for this week's #promptcombo whose host @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social invites responses to #Limerick and/or #TheBestCake themes.

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Noel Cowley @noelcowley.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

A combo of two themes from host @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for this week's #promptcombo. For one week only the #poetrycommunity may write its cake and read it, too. #letthemreadcake

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Noel Cowley @noelcowley.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Aren't we tempted so often to think of ourselves and each other in terms of "they are this" and "I am that". This delicious poem travels through a St Elmo's fire of mythological allusion in the end to have me reflect on the truth of "this" and "that" not as opposites but as twins born of one womb.

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Noel Cowley @noelcowley.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

"She never cooked, only defrosted". A captivating poem here to grace Harlow's first Open Poetry Competition, and a judges' report whose appreciation of this winning entry enhances my enjoyment of it. #newpoetry #harlowessex

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The Harlow Circle of Poetry @harlowstanza.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

📢 HARLOW!! Next meet up is on the 29th! We're working on our anthology, planning future open mics & trips, sharing submission opportunities and discussing ideas on effective typesetting! #joinus #essexpoetry #harlowcircleofpoetry #writerssupportingwriters #writingdoesnthavetobelonely #freeactivities

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Noel Cowley @noelcowley.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Poetry is going in all kinds of new and exciting directions, don't you think? Take this, by @tomspoems.bsky.social #newpoetry #poemvideo

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Noel Cowley @noelcowley.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Architects may come and architects may go and never change your point of view. Poems, however... #paulsimon #promptcombo

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Thank you to @rfsmith.bsky.social for last week's #PromptCombo. This week's prompt is #Architecture. I want your secret blueprints, your innermost rooms, your loftiest vaults. What structures do you find in nature? Where do your thoughts climb to at night? Poem & tags below ⬇️ Tag me & use #

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Noel Cowley @noelcowley.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

For #promptcombo and @rfsmith.bsky.social's theme of #Attachment, a few lines in which I pretend to be Michelangelo for a moment. #cowabunga

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Noel Cowley @noelcowley.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Not long 'til my copy of what promises to be a stunning first #chapbook by @jitterbugwrites.bsky.social drops through the door. Vic's a class #poet of great depth, warmth, skill and feeling - not to say an excellent #poetry pal besides. Roll on, #Soi-même day! www.salopress.com/store/soi-me...

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Soi-même delves into the ‘mechanics of failure’ inbuilt into every situation where desire ebbs and flows, and as subject and object trade places. It seeks to pose questions without answers, about how ...

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Noel Cowley @noelcowley.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

All kinds of innovative responses to the #promptcombo #favouriteplace theme, from the shade, thru a building, the body, to even a place in time. I've gone mainstream with a geographical one. Thanks to this week's host, @dragonslayerma.bsky.social #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #wordsculptures

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I don't know if you've seen but there's a splendid thread being curated this week by @dragonslayerma.bsky.social as part of the #PromptCombo poetry initiative. The theme is #FavouritePlace & has a attracted a wide range of responses, from numinous locales through to the human body itself as a place.

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Noel Cowley @noelcowley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Today, enjoy for yourself this parabolic poem of resilience (That's how I see it - how will you?).

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Fidel Walsh @dragonslayerma.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

This week #PromptCombo host I've chosen #FavoritePlace . Wordsmiths, take me to that place that calls out your name! Respond ⬇️ Tnx @hool415.bsky.social for last wk @rfsmith.bsky.social @jitterbugwrites.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @helenlaycock.bsky.social @sueimnw.bsky.social

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Noel Cowley @noelcowley.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

A timely piece by Joseph Nutman in this week's @thewingedmoon.bsky.social museletter. It's a most humane reminder of the thin, random, unpredictable divide that splits us into those in darkness on the edge of town and those luckier there-but-for-the-gracers. #newpoetry #literarymagazine

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Greg Herriett @gregherriett.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

@soundloungecio.bsky.social Tomorrow Sutton, South London. Nearly sold out.

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Noel Cowley @noelcowley.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Reality, despair, but crucially the plea that proves the undying power of hope.

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Ronnie Smith @rfsmith.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

So the wind came, its cold Easterly claw, as I knew it would. And the cherry blossom became snow, drifting high on the uncut grass. ©️April 2025

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Dr Carrie Etter @carrieetter.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Watch this space! Our first call for poetry chapbook submissions from UK authors is coming soon!

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Noel Cowley @noelcowley.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A hearty #lifttothesky @brokenspinearts.bsky.social for @carmellapoetry.bsky.social whose poetry so often wrings light and hope from darkness, and who in founding @harlowstanza.bsky.social has given local writers a boost, a community and a silly amount of support besides.

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Carmella de Keyser @carmellapoetry.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Good Morning! 🌞☮️ @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social & #24hourpoetrypeople I love your theme of #thresholds #poemsaboutthresholds #blueskypoetry 💙🖤💙Thresholds can be more beautiful than destinations can't they? I've written a poem for this theme. I hope you enjoy it. Many thanks.🙂

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Noel Cowley @noelcowley.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Shouldn't be much to wish for.

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Noel Cowley @noelcowley.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

For #PromptCombo, whose theme this week is #parallel. I might have written about a Blondie album, but I didn't. #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #wordsculptures

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The Harlow Circle of Poetry @harlowstanza.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

We often swap&share poetry pamphlets between each other, it's a nice way of boosting other poets isn't it?... Here is what we have been into recently! @samszanto.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social anthology @jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social #andreambarushimana #brenbooth-jones #hedgehoganthologies

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Carmella de Keyser @carmellapoetry.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Here is my poem 'DAD'S LONDON DRIVE'🚗which is available at the magnificent DIRIGIBLE BALLOON! 🎈 Please check their website out, it is a unique and free resource full of children's poetry!🎈 @northernjim.bsky.social #kidlit #quirky #kidspoetry #celebratediversity dirigibleballoon.org/poem/Dads-Lond…

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Noel Cowley @noelcowley.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I'll tell you how shit Outlook's filtering system is: I forward an email from me to myself and it lands in Junk. 🤓

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Noel Cowley @noelcowley.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The sun has set on #worldpoetryday where I am, though it is not yet tomorrow. And so, enjoy this for the day that's still in it.

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Noel Cowley @noelcowley.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

"A marbled, molten sunset before dreaming"

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The Harlow Circle of Poetry @harlowstanza.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Happy World Poetry Day 2025! 🌐✨✨✨🌐 Theme-'Poetry as a bridge for peace and inclusion'. Here is a poem by Muriel Rukeyser entitled 'Wherever' taken from her collection 'Breaking Open' 1973. #poemsforpeace #murielrukeyser #harlowcircleofpoetry #poetryasactivism

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Noel Cowley @noelcowley.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The writing in @thewingedmoon.bsky.social's Substack literary and art mag gets just about as close as language can to that elusive communion with "it". The latest offering contains a stunning poem Brandon Shane about falling and faith, set in farmland and forest. open.substack.com/pub/thewinge...

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The Winged Moon Literary Magazine | Jai Michelle Louissen | Substack

literary and art magazine with a love for folklore, mythic and naturopoetical landscapes edited by Jai Michelle Louissen. Click to read The Winged Moon Literary Magazine, a Substack publication with h...

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Jai Michelle Louissen @jaimichellepoet.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

does anyone out there have some tides related writing you might like to submit to this? it can be previously published and you can win a prize! love to hear from you at our email thewingedmoonmagazine@gmail.com

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