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DJ Plague Mouse 💎🐁 @rhinestonemice.wtf · 04/10/2026
Molly Brodak #smallpoemsunday #poetry
Photo of a book page with a poem:

How to not be a perfectionist

Molly Brodak

People are vivid
and small
and don’t live
very long —
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Love her brilliance!☀️☀️ 'Flood' by Gillian Clarke @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday
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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Some Simic for #smallpoemsunday Fear Fear passes from man to man Unknowing, As one leaf passes its shudder To another.
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spaceghost @spaceghost.boo · 04/10/2026
Matthew Rohrer, from The Sky Contains the Plans. #booksky #smallpoemsunday #poetry
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A tiny bite of Autumn!🍁🍂 @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday #Autumn #poetry
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Now the seasons change...🍁 #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social Edwin Muir-nailed it🍂
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Rosie Johnston @rojohumanwriter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#SmallpoemSunday 'Carnlough Bay' from my Safe Ground collection published last year by Mica Press @micapress @lesbell #Carnlough #Antrimcoast #seapoems
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In anticipation!😀 #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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patriciajvs.bsky.social @patriciajvs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's Friday and in the North, enjoying a few days with family in Edinburgh. Here's my contribution to #PoemsAbout #FaultLines. Thank you to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk I'll read later after childcare duties!
Under Pressure

It started then,
A tiny line, a rift,
Hairline fracture,
Imprint of a head
Colliding with the hawthorn tree,
A coming of age they said,

Bruised and battered,
Thorns and stitches,
An audible crack, 
Broken skull,
What a mistake I made
Tying myself to you,

That hairline craze, 
The first fault line
Fragmenting, shattering
A promise doomed as it fell 
Into a cataclysmic canyon,
Of lies and smiles.
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Survivors' Poetry 🎤📚🌈 @survivors-poetry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@throwawayreg.bsky.social - live and very dangerous (or is that endangered?) at Survivors' Poetry Zoom Party Tuesday 22 September, as featured poet alongside #PoemsAbout maestro-magician @alanparrywriter.co.uk: an evening not to be missed, lest dreadful retribution threaten, from the sound of this!🥰
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Fleur Du Pseudonym @fleurdu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#vss365 #mélange #melange @emteepoetry.bsky.social if we are still doing #personified #promptcombo
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
An oldie but with modifications! (Pretty much like me actually!!) 😄😄 @emteepoetry.bsky.social #promptcombo #personification
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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@emteepoetry.bsky.social #sonnet #promptcombo #personification #poem here you go Emily -
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Haiku Crush @haikucrush.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#Haiku is alive! Please repost. The 2026 Best Haiku international search is underway at HaikuCrush.com. Honorariums total $500 USD, $200 for the top haiku. October 18 deadline, don't miss it! #haikusunday #callforsubmissions #poetry #micropoetry #senryu #haikuchallenge #haikufeels #poetrycommunity
haikucrush.com
Haiku Crush – the annual search for the best haiku
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Here for #smallpoemsunday And thanks to @tomsnarsky.bsky.social !😀 Wendell Berry-"The Loved Ones"
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Paul Cannon @pvcannon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
For #PoemsAbout #SheddingSkins With much thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk
A poem comprised of rhyming verses which explores a relationship.
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Ash & Ink @bundtkake.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
#poemsabout #sheddingskins #poetry #blueskypoets @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk The idea is a little cliche, but attachments to old lives is a topic bouncing around my frontal lobes these days.
Hangers and Locks

A closet full of skins
Holds a footlocker 
Full of more.

Each a color, a size, a shape
I won't ever wear again
But never took off

A collection of starched fabrics
Hats of different names
And my name in different shapes.

A closet full of skins
And the footlocker 
Of a fool for more
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Brenda Blue @brendafromia.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#PoemsAbout #SheddingSkins Shedding youth Reveals maturity Shedding naivety Reveals shrewdness Shedding innocence Reveals worldliness Shedding inhibitions Reveals boldness Shedding layers of skin Reveals the growth within
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Thought I would join in this week! Not always easy to find the time! 🙂👋 @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #sheddingskins #poemsabout
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hi everyone! Not been here a while! Hope this fits the bill ?!🙂 #morning #promptcombo @jenthorne.bsky.social
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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
For #SmallPoemSunday, with thanks to @tomsnarsky.bsky.social, here is Quietly Goodbye:
Quietly Goodbye

here are the birds flying past
in a purple sky
oh how they go, they go
and here are the fish gathering
upon the shore silently
shore after shore
and the smaller flying things
whose names we never know
bright glints in hot breeze
going going gone

do I grieve these too soon?
is there a turn in the road
up ahead that I can't yet see?
along the verge you accompany me
you furred and clawed
all of us going together
into time
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Hello from a warm Sunday afternoon!! Here is "Daydream" by ASJ Tessimond @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday
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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
From last year (first published by tiny wren lit) #smallpoemsunday Cc @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Ly Faulk
Dead Air
They say the static of a dead channel is the cold rattling of a dead star, spending its last moments begging
to be heard one last time.
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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
#SmallPoemSunday meets Poem-a-Day, with "Summer Grass" by Carl Sandburg: Summer grass aches and whispers. It wants something; it calls and sings; it pours out wishes to the overhead stars. The rain hears; the rain answers; the rain is slow coming; the rain wets the face of the grass.
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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"To sleep, perchance to dream" Here's a wee poem of mine that was in a special edition of The Hooghly Review last October. Thanks to the wonderful Sanjeev Sethi for including it. For #PoemsAbout #Deepcuts @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry #metaphor
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A sombre one but he is so good! Thank you Mr Tagore...🙏 #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Small fry for today! Bit of a fishy theme 😄👍🐠🐟 #smallpoemsunday Thanks to @tomsnarsky.bsky.social Happy Sunday all!😀
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Saw this and thought of here!🙂🌊🌊 #smallpoemsunday
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Mr Hughes for you! #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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Merril D. Smith @merrildsmith.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Good morning! For #PoemsAbout #ExitWounds I'll be happy when I feel like I don't have to write poems like this anymore. Thank you to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Poem:
Exit Wounds
 (In memory of Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero killed by ICE in Biddeford, Maine.)

The start of the week,
the start of the day

under our observing star,
waves crashed on coastal rocks

salting the air with ancient minerals
carried like dreams
inhaled with morning coffee,

how he could have,
how he would have—

a thousand ifs waylaid

loud pops 
like Fourth of July firecrackers
a witness said,

they marked
a white KIA
a city

a three-year-old girl in her Bluey pajamas
a wife made widow too young,

more holes in the fabric of a nation,

how we could have,
how we should have.
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stace.bot @stacebot.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
For this week's #PoemsAbout #PowerCut, I'm thinking about the way enough ordinary things eventually produce catastrophe. @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry #poem #writing #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets
current 

the oak leaf hydrangea 
didn't die 
the coffee goes cold 
alone in the mug 
the refrigerator whirs 
the word 
restaurant 
trains arrive 
still 
the dial tone 
click
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Jane Dougherty @janedougherty47.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Wrote this yesterday in what I thought was a moment of lucidity. Not so sure now, but I'm not going to manage anything better today. Inspired by events, Bonnie, Binface and Belgium. #PoemsAbout #PowerCut @thebrokenspine.co.uk
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Who uses maps nowadays?🤔 Do you need a guide To navigate through your life Take it day by day... #haikufeels #prompt #guide
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
An interpretation? From a hot Friday heatwave!!🥵🥵 #powercuts #poemsabout @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This week made me think of this!... #poemsabout #cheapmotels @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
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Dean Norton @zentinl.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Another for #PromptCombo #Beach with gratitude to @emteepoetry.bsky.social for hosting and posting! #poetrycommunity #poetry #poem #poems #skypoets #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetsofbluesky #skypoet #writingcommunity
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C. Oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
For #PoemsAbout #WrongBody, and @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk Thank you for reading 🙏🙏 #Oulens #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
—to return to 


as if she were 
that folded duvet 
inside the summer bed-box
in naphthalene surfeit
until his winter—

as if she were 
not that 
he would consider
not—

as if she were not 
That naphthalene ball Or 
Too tall.

by C. Oulens
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Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 12/06/2026
Genuinely struggled to do anything with this week's #poemsabout #WrongBody, but finally came up with this! Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk as always for the prompt! Will look forward to reading others later! #poems #poetry
Issue

my father’s hands 
that thing he did
when words failed him

I catch myself
mid-gesture

the mirror shows
his shoulders 
his jaw
how loss settles
in a face

I wear this body
like a coat
left at the door
by someone
my father never knew
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Afternoon! Not been here a while But had a go today! #poemsabout #wrongbody @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
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Mike O’Brien @zoomburst.substack.com · 12/06/2026
#PoemsAbout #WrongBody What can I say?
A poem pointing out that the older we get, the wronger our bodies become.
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It’s early Friday and this little “throwaway” poem for #PoemsAbout #WrongBody has got a long day ahead hope it’s got the legs 🚶🏽‍➡️🚶🏼‍♂️🚶‍➡️🚶‍♂️poems with legs there’s a thread thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk have a great weekend everyone everywhere 🛋️
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Sue Ibrahim @sueimnw.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This week's #PoemsAbout theme from @thebrokenspine.co.uk is #WrongBody and I wrote this...
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Better late than never hopefully!! #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
One of my favourite things! @daveashleypoet.bsky.social #windmills #JollyJune
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Here's one!😄 @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday #micropoetry Hope your day goes well!👍🙏☀️
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Here's one!😄 @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday #micropoetry Hope your day goes well!👍🙏☀️
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
For a change- Mr Heaney! Hoping you're having a slow Sunday- in a good way!😀👍 @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Today's offering! #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Hey up Mr Sandburg! How's your day going?...🤔🤔 #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Today's offering! #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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