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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My pleasure, so loved it.

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it’s Friday it’s Crackerjack it’s #PoemsAbout It’s #Bites it’s thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk it’s thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk it’s a song before I go 🎤🥁🪕🪊🎻🎷🎹 “early one morning just as the sun was raisin I saw a fair cake tin in the valley below” 🛋️ enjoy your weekend everyone everywhere 🛋️🫶🏿

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You really nail the feelings around SEND, I worked with high school kids for a time, but faced it as a parent for primary school, no easy road, and I take my hat off to the parents.

Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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This poem is about a brilliant woman and her son. They continue to inspire me. He wasn’t able to remain at his local school which she was devastated about, but described her relief that ‘the walk of shame’ was over. #PoemsAbout #Bites @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry

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Well that took a surprising turn.

Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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Dating is never easy. #PoemsAbout #Bites

dating

me?
i love to fly
take evening strolls
and going for light bites
i have no taste for garlic
or for wild religious rites

oh no, you're another vampire, aren't you?

yes

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You didn't hold back John, this really shouts in the way you build the poem by crescendo, the whole vile mess, and begs the question, are we in fact regressing?

John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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#PoemsAbout #Bites @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will put a reading in the comments. Midnight here in New Jersey. I expect to be out and about during the day, so I may be s little slower playing catchup.

THEM BONES

suggestive of cannibalism
bones have been found in caves
broken and gnawed by our neolithic ancestors

pseudo-christian white nationalist politicians
have been found in congress gnawing bribes
suggestive of economic cannibalism

ted cruz craves a “mexican on monday”
slurping blood from undocumented calvaria
on the tailgate of an unmarked ford explorer

mike johnson who nibbles knuckles
under his desk behind a locked door
claims he “doesn’t know anything about that”

cinnabar stained bones found in certain strata
suggest deliberate caretaking
and ritual ceremony

shitty grifters smeared with trump diaper slime
licking their greedy fingers suggests that
dc is unceremoniously drowning innocents

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Resistance is futile, the insidious nature of the season, but also (as I read it) the insidious power of getting inside someone's mind. Woderful.

Martina Matijević @vientoverde.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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@thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #Bites I tried. As much as a woman with a stomach ache on a Friday afternoon can. I will be reading the rest later.

October Drizzle

I am the line between the pink silkiness of a sparrow's chirp and the cobalt anvil of an owl's hoot. Once a blanket of clouds covers me, I turn into an October drizzle. Then, I seep into the basement of your dreams. Slowly, like drops of navy blue onto the remaining song notes.

Even though you're pulling them shut, the doors swing on the threshold of my low voice and an underground quiet. They're ajar, sliding between uncharted moonlight and your carpeted imprints.

midnight —
settling into the background
of your sleep

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The enjambment in that second-last couplet really surprises/makes it for me, powerful ending.

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From my out of print collection "Port of Souls" for #PoemsAbout #Bites and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Hand Biters

Always snap at the hand that feeds,
cossets, cuddles and hugs,

fists, hits and kicks. Oppose,
depose, make of it yourself.

Pull on the leash, snap the manacle,
challenge this ships captain,

sit on your plastic chair. Tell
your voices you'll decide yourself.

If she does not wake you know your job.
Before she closed her eyes she rehearsed

tasks that you must be complete. How
to empty her home, sell it, pass

your childhood on to others. Be firm
In what must be done. Make yourself.

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I like how this speaks to what is we see/want to see and at what cost, powerful poem Merril.

Merril D. Smith @merrildsmith.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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Good morning! My poem for #PoemsAbout #Bites is a revision of a poem I wrote for Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social ekphrastic challenge with art by @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social Thank you as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk I'll be back later!

Poem:
Choices: Divergence, Convergence

In the woods, you choose a road,
this one, or the other,

perhaps they are the same—or not—

perhaps you meet a snake with jeweled
lapis scales,

perhaps he offers
you this or that,
his tongue flicking words
you catch poison-sweet
on your tongue--

perhaps instead
you see a wave of wildflowers,
nodding their heads,
scenting the path

just before the strike, the bite.

Art work by Karen Pierce Gonzalez, a snake in spring green, aqua, yellow, and orange, studded with round blue jewels or buttons. Black background.

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Very witty Jen - 2b - lol. I love how you take the humble pencil and frame vignettes of life.

Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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Happy #PoemsAbout day people. I hope you all have a good one. Here is a fun one for #Bites #Poetry #Writing

Biter's Block

Wood creaks between my jaws.
Coarse rubber and the tang of metal on my tongue as I sink my teeth
into the pencil.

The prompt is #Bites.

I roll the wet, splintered shaft
along serrated ivory edges
and ponder.

Snake bites?
Flea bites?
Biting an apple?
A crust of jam and bread?
... His shoulder?

I wonder how to convey in lyrical flights
the feelings and notions arising from 'bites'.

But I munch on in vain
at the well chewed observer of an empty page.

2B, or not 2B?

The letters have long since succumbed
to dental destruction.

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stace.bot @stacebot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ah, the mother then comes the deliciously dark bit.

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For this week's #PoemsAbout #Bites I'm thinking about how much we can do with our teeth without ever biting anyone. @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #prompt #poetry #blueskypoetry #writesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poets #creativewriting

the smile problem

my mother always told me
not to show my teeth
in photographs

you see,
a smile and a threat
are simply
the difference between
having teeth and
using them

sometimes
i still catch myself
smiling into the dark
like a feral animal
searching for meat
between the teeth

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Well this sure speaks to my situation directly, powerful.

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The rhyme and beat are certainly musical 😀

Matthias (watering thoughts) 🦄🧚‍♂️🐉 @ignorantfairy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

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A second offering for #poemsabout #bites but also a contribution to #SomethingEveryday Hopefully this qualifies as #musical. #poetry #poetrycommunity

ocean's teeth

beyond the shore line sirens sing
their beauty treacherous and still
a most facetious flimsy thing
quietly cutting at my will

without a doubt I wade inside
resolve dissolves within the brine
towards their eerie smiles I ride
forgetting everything that's mine

sharp teeth unveiled — I am their prey
silky illusions fades to dust
unwillingly their song I trust
never to see the light of day

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Paul Cannon @pvcannon.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you - much appreciated indeed ❤️

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A Tanka by Paul Vincent Cannon Photo: Bramley National Park, 10.9.26 Form: Tanka (5-7-5-7-7) deep forest trail windsents of old and spring saplingsimpressionist feastI take off my shoes and groundencircle a tree and heal Copyright 2026 ©️Paul Vincent CannonAll Rights Reserved ©️ Cross posted for…

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A Tanka by Paul Vincent Cannon

Photo: Bramley National Park, 10.9.26 Form: Tanka (5-7-5-7-7) deep forest trail windsents of old and spring saplingsimpressionist feastI take off my shoes and groundencircle a tree and heal Copyright 2026 ©️Paul Vincent CannonAll Rights Reserved ©️ Cross posted for #TankaThursday - #Heal at @pvcannon.bsky.social

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Paul Cannon @pvcannon.bsky.social · 17h

Madness. It seems that the orange goon has exposed a number of holes iin the constitution that a future govt must plug up. What a mess.