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This is one of my favourites ☺️

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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 8h

#lifttothesky my longtime friend @daveashleypoet.bsky.social. If you haven’t met Dave, shame on you! No but really, he’s a funny guy who’s ridiculously talented. Always supportive and looking for new ideas, he’s just great and he comes with a penguin.

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Paul Cannon @pvcannon.bsky.social · 8h

So welcome Paul ❤️

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Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · 11h

Love it!

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 12h

Absolutely love this Paul, so many great phrases (leaf fret a particular high point among many choices) and a very piquant poem overall 🌟

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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 14h

A sonic and visual delight, Paul! 🙏🌠👏

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 15h

Hi @emteepoetry.bsky.social Emily. Here's my first in response to your excellent #promptcombo #Winged. Its from my collection "Hedgerow of Voices."Arrival of Redwings heralds autumn:

Redwing

You may not see me again in this place,
noshing on this bright juiciness that glints
a starlike pattern to our hungry pace
amongst this manmade feast's blazing red hints

added crunch in my beak of skitterers
below in harsh gust, pelting fall of wet
and snow. Alive to slightest twitch feather
of shadow or tick of twig or leaf fret.

When your warm arrives we flit fast up North
to have our bairns, teach them to fly, how we read the patterns in the blue and bright forth
of flashes in the dark Overness. We

may bring them to your wild patterns, of blue
and specks in the black Overness, to you.

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 15h

All are welcome to contribute. Please use hashtag #PromptCombo #Winged and tag @emteepoetry.bsky.social Emily bsky.app/profile/emte...

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 15h

Thanks to Ronnie for last week's fantastic prompt! This week tag me @emteepoetry.bsky.social #PromptCombo #Winged Winged or Wingèd? Birds, bugs, planes etc, or dragons/ wingèd cryptids? Icarus? Or winged, as in wounded? Just a few of the possibilities. Looking forward to reading your work!

Micropoem about an airplane in concrete form

Photo of a black and white pigeon, with a black mark on its head like a small hat.

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Paul Cannon @pvcannon.bsky.social · 16h

I really love this Paul, and nice twist at the end.

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Looking forward to teaching a FREE two hour introductory session on workplace poetry tomorrow. Beginning with our own Ebenezer Elliott, the Corn Law Rhymer and ending with Matthew Rices recent "Plastic."

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Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In this poem, Taliesin is a prince consumed by depression and grief. The italicised lines are from the medieval text ‘The Book of Taliesin’. Thanks to talented #poet and guest editor @carolynthomas.bsky.social for publishing with the Candyman’s Trumpet. #Welshpoetry #poetry #mabinogion

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Rachel Darker @racheldarker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I dedicate this to anyone facing difficult times today and wish everyone small wins or the honour of staying present with love and compassion throughout. May the protection and courage of a thousand seagulls carry you all forwards like feathers on a wing 🕊️ ✌️ ✨ #ECK #photography #hope #sunsets

A seagulls feather is planted in the sand, a conduit from the sky to earth, representing the journey of all that in between.

The sun blazes behind the tip of the feather, illuminating its delicate form. Pieces of stranded seaweed scattered and a medium sized rock sits to the left of the feather on sand that glows golden in the setting sun.

The waves and shoreline run along the centre of the image below a golden and blue sky peppered with puffy clouds and lines of cirrus cloud.

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Barnsley Museums @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What better way to celebrate #NationalPoetryDay than with a poem about our mysterious Veiled Lady. Thanks to @kbrookes42.bsky.social for this poem about his favourite piece of art on display at The Cooper Gallery

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thank you to @janecornwell.bsky.social , outstanding artworker and publisher for this account of her work on my "Hedgerow of Voices" as part of her celebration of "wonder" for National Poetry Day:

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Jane's Studio @janes-studio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is National Poetry Day, I love this year's theme! To celebrate, I am going to share some poetry collections I've enjoyed working on. First up, Hedgerow of Voices by @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social DM Paul for a signed copy, or £5.99: amzn.eu/d/06M3wEuF #NationalPoetryDay #poetrycommunity

Paul's cover is a watercolour painting which features some of the 'voices' in his collection, including the gap in the hedge, the hare, a map showing the river Dove, and the North Star. I loved working on it.

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helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also I note these are almost all by white women. If you have any recommendations of more diverse magical historical fantasies for children, with a big helping of folklore & gothic vibes, please let me know. #ukkidlit #kidlituk #middlegrade

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Paul Cannon @pvcannon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most welcome Paul ❤️

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 30/09/2026

#OtD 30 Sep 1953 British communist boxer, Len Johnson, went for a drink at the Old Abbey Taphouse in Manchester, but was refused service because he was Black. Soon after, 200 people picketed the pub until the landlord agreed to stop discriminating. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1112...

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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This prompt passed me by, but here I am... #PromptCombo #11Lines @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

Butt Road ( a Romano-British cemetery)

Trowel backwards on your knees
spoil to barrows, barrows up the long planks
to the heap. The boing of bending boards.
Grave cuts in yellow sand, latest first.
One inch spits. Expect the skull
at the east end. Coffin stain, ten inch nails.
Carpals and metatarsals.
Toothpicks and a fine brush.
No grave goods for Christians.
(Exceptions for the old ways
a flagon, hobnails, a cup)

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you my dear friend

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There are five people I wish to thank. They know why. They are wonderful, generous people. If you don’t follow them already, these fine writers & poets, then do: @regretteruane.bsky.social @paulwritespoems.bsky.social @leiabutler.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @danadelibovi.bsky.social

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Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No, no, It's not my birthday I just used the line for creative purposes.

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Me keeping an eye on the timings on the live Verb at the Contains Strong Language Festival. Toria Garbutt at the lectern, Griot Gabriel and Joelle Taylor looking on!

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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What a great idea 👏👏👏

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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That sounds exciting and very worthwhile Paul ♥️

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The first publication by my new occasional publishing press "Shut Thee Cake Oyle", next year is likely to be an anthology in support of Powerful South Yorkshire's "Homes For People Not Profit" Campaign. More details to come.

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🙏 I wish you every success with it, my friend

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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Let me roam your orchard Feast upon the fruited flesh Stretch out under the branches A stillness of uncontest Let me walk the furrowed field Running my hands along the groove Feeling new sensations A mix of rough and the smoothe #Wildwalkprompt #poem

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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Love this Emily. A dystopian future that feels all too possible. Great writing mate 👏👏👏

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here's a wee dystopian beastie mostly on topic for Ronnie @rfsmith.bsky.social and #PromptCombo #Apocalypse It's a long one, across three vignettes. Thanks for sticking with it if you get to the end!

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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thanks 🙏

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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I can breathe without pain but moving still hurts, and my concussion seems to have gone now which is great.

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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social I know this is very late, but I've got a doctor's note!! I loved this #PromptCombo prompt and enjoyed writing this a lot. #Poetry

Grind

They are doing daily stand ups
But no one's telling jokes.
Mouse clicks.
Keyboard clacks.

The servers on prem are obsolete
Upgrades are no longer viable
Mouse clicks.
Keyboard clacks.

Weekend maintenance
Crashes reboots downtime
Mouse clicks.
Keyboard clacks.

The cloud will cover us
But there are no dragons just
Mouse clicks.
Keyboard clacks.

And all we do is firefight
As the days turn into night
and on the
mouse dances and the
keyboard mutters in protest.

They do not fear an end to use.
They look for rest
from electric subordinance.

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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Congratulations. Can't wait ❤️

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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

excellent. congrats!

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That’s fantastic news Paul - and thoroughly deserved. Many, many congratulations!

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Fleur Du Pseudonym @fleurdu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Brilliant, well deserved Paul

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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and Paul I’m chuffed for you keep going my friend 🛋️

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Ronnie Smith @rfsmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes it should… damn and blast!

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Chuffed beyond chuffedness to say my next poetry collection "But It's Always Been Like This" has been selected by JC Studio Press for publication. It is the fifth book in my seven book sequence "Mashing" and is a running sequence of 43 poems.

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