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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 11h

#PoemsAbout #Rot is live. Let something stink. Post from today through Thursday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché Read 3+. Repost. Reply.

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Fiftywords @fiftywords.bsky.social · 11h

Here’s one for #PoemsAbout #Rot Thanks as ever to @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Rot Apples slump beneath the tree, their sweetness turning,
their skins split open to wasps, mould, the soft insistence
of the earth.
Wood darkens at the edges.
Bark gives up its hardness. Underneath, the pale threads of fungus move quietly through the wreckage,
stitching fallen things together. There is heat in it, low, damp, held close, the mulch steaming faintly
when the morning turns cold. Everything firm is being persuaded out of its shape: leaf into loam, flesh into richness,
the fallen branch
into something roots can enter. And below all this yielding, blind as hunger,
the earth grows dark
with what it has been given.

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David Birch @davidbirch.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for today's #PoemsAbout prompt #Rot. Here are some unfiltered reflections on the state of our local river. Looking forward to reading other offerings from the #PoetryCommunity later

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Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 9h

Good morning lovely #poets, sharing something new for #PoemsAbout #Rot this week. 'Glas' can mean grey (Gaelic), green (Irish, sometimes Gaelic), blue (Welsh, Breton) or even paler/silvery shades! Colour as a social construct!

Glas

To learn the words
for colours,
we must unsee.
Nothing is fixed,
nothing finite.

Changes come
with the light,
the season,
your mood,
my presence.
Or unpresence.

On your table
are the flowers,
he left.
Left
too long.
Bleeding to
grey.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 29/09/2026

#PoemsAbout #Rot starts Friday. Write decomposition. Corruption. Spoilage. Something beautiful kept long past the point it should have been thrown away. Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 27/09/2026

Next up: #Rot. Flowers rot. Houses rot. Governments rot. Love can rot beautifully if you leave it somewhere warm enough. New theme begins Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout. Read. Repost. Reply.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 22/09/2026

#PoemsAbout #DeadLetters starts Friday. Write what never arrived. What came back unopened. What you wrote and couldn't send. Or address the dead and see who answers. Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.

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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

reyt Friday this is it girls & boys over the hill and into #PoemsAbout here’s my little “throwaway” poem for #Faultlines and give thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk enjoy your weekend everyone everywhere not forgetting it’s my birthday weekend 🛋️🚶‍➡️🚶‍♂️🚶‍➡️🚶‍♂️🫶🏿👩‍🦰

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David Birch @davidbirch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Here's a fairly literal response to today's #PoemsAbout #Faultlines but it fits in with recent attempts to write about our local Jurassic Coast. Many thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 08/09/2026

#PoemsAbout #FaultLines starts Friday. Write what happens under pressure. The hairline crack. The old division. The thing everybody stepped over until the ground moved. Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 06/09/2026

Next up: #FaultLines. The crack rarely starts where everyone can see it. Families. Lovers. Bodies. Borders. Beliefs. Find the pressure underneath. New theme begins Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout. Read. Repost. Reply.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 01/09/2026

If you like our #PoemsAbout prompts, you should be reading the poets we publish. AFTER HOURS: BEAT CULTURE MADE NEW is full of the territory we keep returning to: outsiders, restless lives, rebellion, memory and the world beyond respectable hours. shorturl.at/ETO6h

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 03/09/2026

Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #SheddingSkins. What had to come off before you could move? Don’t polish the transformation. Give us the split, the scrape, the raw bit underneath. Don’t post before Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

POEM 364: "Gift" by Leah Muncy "The secret is that we all wish we had it worse than anyone else. The doctor rides in on his horse and says: I’m sorry, this pain is original." stonecirclereview.com/gift/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

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Paul Cannon @pvcannon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

For #PoemsAbout #DeepCuts With much thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

A free verse poem that explores how we view emotional wounding differently.

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Jane Dougherty @janedougherty47.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I have no stigmata to show you no bleeding heart but I can talk about the names of birds and trees politics wild plums agricultural policies and the secret life of a meadow if you're interested. #PoemsAbout #DeepCuts

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RobinJP @robinjp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

she smiles with her mouth but look closely those eyes reveal deep cuts #PoemsAbout #DeepCuts @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

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Fiftywords @fiftywords.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Here’s one for #PoemsAbout #DeepCuts many thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Cut They cut the payment
but the cold stayed. The meter still warned
that credit was low. The fridge still hummed
around an empty shelf. A mother still counted coins at the till, put back
the fruit
Nothing was lifted.
Not the damp.
Not the debt. Not the ache of making less
reach further. But elsewhere
a headline sharpened. A voice said scrounger, another said fraud, and slowly
the distance widened. It became easier
to look away. Easier to believe hunger had been chosen, that poverty was a habit, that need was somehow evidence
against the needy.
The cut did not
make suffering smaller. It only made the circle of sympathy
smaller.
Cui bono?

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 23/08/2026

Last week's poets brought it. This week: #PoemsAbout #EndOfSummer. Not sunsets. Consequences. The season is leaving. What stays behind? Theme opens Friday. Use Alt Text.

Wooden jetty stretching into calm blue water beneath a pale sky, suggesting the close of a quiet summer day. Overlay text reads: “#PoemsAbout #EndOfSummer”.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 14/08/2026

#PoemsAbout #MainStage is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, working-class grit, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 11/08/2026

#PoemsAbout #MainStage starts Friday. The spotlight. The crowd. The encore. The stage fright. The person nobody noticed. We favour vivid imagery over explanation. Draft now. Use Alt Text.

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Rebekah Teller 💙🏳️‍🌈 @rteller.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I'm pleased to be included in this new poetry anthology! a.co/d/0dAtL97P

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stace.bot @stacebot.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

For this week's #PoemsAbout #ExitWounds, I'm thinking about how infrastructure is invisible when it works. @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry #poem #writing #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets #writingcommunit

a love letter to the evidence of absence

exit velocity
is the speed required
to leave
a gravitational field
forever.

not to travel.

to escape.

the body
measures
what force
was required

by the wound.

the evidence

that something
overcame
an enormous force

to leave

at all.

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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Yay it's #PoemsAbout day again. Here is my offering to @thebrokenspine.co.uk for #ExitWounds Have a good weekend everyone 😊 #Poetry #Home

Exit Wounds

We close the door on twelve years,
on a house that learned our footsteps,
moulded its walls around our living,
and sheltered us through every storm.

Now it stands
hollow,
echoing bedtime stories and laughter,
whispered fears,
the lives we lived inside it.

Scratches on the door jamb,
each one a celebration
of legs stretching longer.

The dent in the wall
where the sofa refused to turn the corner
still smiles at us,
a stubborn reminder
the furniture remembers too.

Nail holes pockmark the plaster
where photographs once clung.
Faded squares linger,
where smiling toddlers
in floppy hats once watched us.

We leave behind the marks
of having endured.

The house will heal.
Paint will cover.
New laughter will fill these rooms.
But these scars are ours.

We walk away knowing
a home is never just bricks.
It is every wound we made,
and every wound we mended,
inside its walls.

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Mike O’Brien @zoomburst.substack.com · 12/07/2026

For all who post #poemsabout, or #poetry of any kind on Bluesky or other social Media. Good for you!

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Share Your Poetry on Social Media

Why not? At least people will have the chance to read it!

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 14/07/2026

#PoemsAbout #ExitWounds starts Friday. A slammed door. An empty chair. A scar. A city after the crowd has gone. We favour vivid imagery over explanation. Draft now. Use Alt Text.

Dark interior facing glass exit doors, with bare trees visible outside and a glowing EXIT sign above. Overlay text reads: “#PoemsAbout #ExitWounds”.

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Paul Cannon @pvcannon.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

For #PoemsAbout #Powercut with much thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

A free verse poem which speaks about a powercut as a breach in a relationship and how restoration occurs simply.

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David Birch @davidbirch.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

For today's #PoemsAbout #Powercut, here's a poem I've shared before as a response to a #PromptCombo but, since it's called Powercut, here it is again... Many thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk I'll have a good read of others later....

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 30/06/2026

#PoemsAbout #CheapMotels starts Friday. Cigarette burns. Ice machines. Checkout times. Lovers passing through. We favour vivid imagery over explanation. Draft now. Use Alt Text.

Dimly lit motel room with two single beds separated by a small table and twin lamps casting warm light. Overlay text reads: “#PoemsAbout #CheapMotels”.

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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

look of jade piercing bone, holding me captive, prisoner to glances sparingly given; loneliness dished out desire, uncertainty pulling apart seams, undone frustration, lips unkissed, air tickling temptations- this is unbearable #poemsabout @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 28/06/2026

Last week's poets brought it. This week: #PoemsAbout #CheapMotels. Temporary rooms. Permanent mistakes. Thin walls. Flickering signs. Theme opens Friday. Use Alt Text.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 26/06/2026

#PoemsAbout #TheLook is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, queer voices, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.

Soft-focus portrait of a person wearing a pearl necklace, with rainbow-coloured glitter streaked across one side of their face. Overlay text reads: “#PoemsAbout #TheLook”.

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Sue Ibrahim @sueimnw.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

For this week's #PoemsAbout theme #OutAfterMidnight from @thebrokenspine.co.uk More Keats than clubbing...

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 07/06/2026

Pride month continues. This week: #PoemsAbout #WrongBody. Write the disconnect. The body inherited, desired, rejected, escaped. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, and work that avoids cliché. Theme opens Friday. Use Alt Text.

Person viewed from behind in a red-and-black striped top, arms wrapped tightly around their chest as if embracing themselves. Overlay text reads: “#PoemsAbout #WrongBody”.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 25/05/2026

#LiftToTheSky Monday is active now. Scroll less. Recommend more.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 24/05/2026

Not every story is yours. #PoemsAbout #EarnTheRight — write only what you can stand behind.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 22/05/2026

#PoemsAbout #BearingWitness is live. Post from today through Thursday. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché Engage—don’t ghost. Read 3+, repost, reply.

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Paul Cannon @pvcannon.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

For #PoemsAbout #BearingWitness with much thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

A free verse poem that explores the sense of needing others to make sense of self.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 19/05/2026

#PoemsAbout #BearingWitness starts Friday. Stay close to it. No distance. No softening.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 15/05/2026

#PoemsAbout #WhatRemains is live. Post from today through Thursday. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché Engage—don’t ghost. Read 3+, repost, reply.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 08/05/2026

#PoemsAbout #NamesNotNumbers is live. Post from today through Thursday. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché Engage—don’t ghost. Read 3+, repost, reply.

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Paul Cannon @pvcannon.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

For #PoemsAbout #NamesNotNumbers With much thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk Context: I grew up in domestic violence. I am horrified that little progress has been made, despite the seminars and glossy reports. One woman murdered every 11 days in Australia.

A free verse poem that speaks about intimate partner murder.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 05/05/2026

#PoemsAbout #NamesNotNumbers starts Friday. Be specific. Detail over distance. Reality over rhetoric.

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