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roger waldron

@throwawayreg.bsky.social
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a throwaway poet lives in Sheffield has never been a lover of slip-on-shoes writes poetry for people who don’t read poetry his pamphlet “My C&A Years” published by Dreich my best review “My husband loves this but he doesn’t know anything about poetry”

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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 12h
as we kiss goodbye to September and say Howdy (cowboy speak) to each other and October we’re gearing ourselves up for #PoemsAbout tomorrow (Friday) #Rot 🍂🫶🏿🛋️🍁🚮
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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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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.
A dark, close-up photograph of wilted and decaying flowers, their curled brown petals lit by warm orange light against a near-black background. The Broken Spine logo appears at the top left and @thebrokenspine.co.uk at the top right. White text at the bottom reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #ROT”.
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
morning Sunday hope you’re going to behave yourself and think of others #poems #poetry #BlueSkyPoets #sunday have a lovely Sunday everyone everywhere 🛋️
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is bang on stace Love it so clever “I wash the dishes in the dark” Wow 🫶
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Love this wooden crates 👏👍👏👍
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John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is amazing, Roger, the way unfolds and the I and you become secondary to a third party in the narrative. Just so good!!!
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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Morning Bathroom Window
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is bang on from Mike and I didn’t have to wait in a queue to read it 🚶‍➡️
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know I say it every week so here I go again with just a few words WoW 👍👏👍👏👍 love this
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
morning Friday you get more autumnal every time I see you which I don’t mind tbh🍁 here’s my little “throwaway” poem for #PoemsAbout #DeadLetters and thank @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk have a lovely weekend everyone everywhere 🛋️🍁🍂
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
afternoon Thursday a shadow makes his way to #poemsabout #deadletters tomorrow (Friday) he writes as he wishes 🛋️
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s tonight 🛋️
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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.
A dark still-life photograph of old handwritten letters and envelopes layered across a surface, some decorated with postage marks and small pressed-flower designs. The Broken Spine logo appears at the top left and @thebrokenspine.co.uk at the top right. White text at the bottom reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #DEADLETTERS”.
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Absolutely Love this Sue 🫶 Come on everybody you have got to love this 🛋️
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Great 👍 Francesca love that ending 🫶🏿
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Love it Stace 🫶🏿 Great work 👍
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Absolutely love this “and skip down your street” 👏👍👏👍👏
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wow Paul “collar up hat down invisible” 👏👏👏
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Great poem and so Sue 👏🫶🏿
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Great love it 🫶🏿 Dawn 👏
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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 18/09/2026
For #PoemsAbout #strays Incibbled this together yesterday. Needs work, though I like my original idea. Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk as always. Look forward to reading the other #poetry offerings over today and the weekend.
A poem by Debbie Ross entitled
Stray Cat Strut

She slunk out at 14
all teenage angst and Cat Woman anti-hero style.

She got her claws
into all the glitter, all the guys, though she was the one mauled in the process.

On the street, 
drugged, drunk, destroyed
by dreams and demons.

She eyes you warily, 
she can be a pussy cat or a puma -
always independent, restless.
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Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 18/09/2026
Good morning everyone, still not finding time to write much this week but did manage this draft poem for #poemsabout #strays. Will pop back later to read others! #poetry #poetrycommunity
Education

you showed no interest
or aptitude 
for angles, Angles
Saxons or parallels
more the flames
licking the classroom walls
before they expelled you

forty years later
your social media 
hate-filled ignorance 
smoke screen across the stars
denying our rainbow reality

I imagine
a life spent running 
towards where 
from what
you neither know
nor care
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Great piece Jen 👏👏 enjoy the poetry festival
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patriciajvs.bsky.social @patriciajvs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk - it's Friday again. This feels less like a poem and more like a tiny biography to recognise 30 years of an amazing organisation: Ben's Centre www.benscentre.org #PoemsAbout #Strays
Straying
A wet spring evening, ten years ago or so, With leaves taking a lashing, Boxed saplings twisting
Wind whistling through perimeter walls of late Victorian buildings
Under parasols in Leopold square
He recognised you,
In a corner sitting out the rain, watchful, cold, aware of Every movement from the door Of a forgotten Italian restaurant,
A youthful man with the dog end of a cigarette, Trying to belong, sitting with style,
Belying his worth with a stained shirt and trainers With trenches, where seams should have been.
Sock-less in an unfashionable way.
Divergent paths,
Though you sat together, learned together, Now my boy went to sit with you again, Offering a new cigarette,
Allowing you to stay out of the rain a little longer, Lessening the pressure or distain of the waiting staff.
You told a story of lost work, A family who cared less than they could Of dispute and disharmony,
Three months on the Sheffield streets
Nowhere to go, no one to love,
Medicating numbness and peace of mind, Not dry or clean enough for the Arches, Homeless, down, out and more,
My boy gave you his socks,
A Brave acceptance, despite your circumstances!
Ten pounds in cash, all we had And you left with a thank you, Not wishing to embarrass further, I hope you found Ben's Centre, eventually
A way home.
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
morning Friday your friend Thursday brought me to East Yorkshire for a sleepover don’t worry I’m making my way home but in the meantime here’s my “throwaway” poem for #PoemsAbout #Strays Thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk have a great weekend everyone everywhere 🛋️
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
get your delivery of poetry tomorrow (Friday) with #PoemsAbout #Strays just eat the words 🛋️
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 17/09/2026
Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #Strays. Who gets taken home? Who gets left outside? Who learnt they were better off there? Don’t post before Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.
A black stray dog stands in a narrow, cluttered outdoor passage beside a rust-red corrugated metal wall, looking directly towards the camera. The Broken Spine logo appears at the top left and @thebrokenspine.co.uk at the top right. White text at the bottom reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #STRAYS”.
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Morning Thursday Leaving this with you 🛋️
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
😂 live n very interesting 🛋️ thank you Survivors @survivors-poetry.bsky.social
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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 11/09/2026
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know these thugs do not speak for the rest of us. Add your name? 38d.gs/jpcf #petition #RNLI
38d.gs
An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Oops! #BookSky
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Love this Paul love poems about standing n cleaning 👍👏👍👏
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
WoW John Love it and them last lines have got me in bits take care 🛋️
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Once again Sue you do it exactly excellent 🫶🏿
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Loving this piece from Ju and I’m sure you will those first few lines and I’m sat in the car with Julian and his dog in the overspill car park 🫶🏿🛋️🫶🏿
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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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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Afternoon 2 chairs waiting for #PoemsAbout hope to see your poems tomorrow sitting here 🛋️
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Morning Wednesday this looks interesting 🛋️
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Josie and me having five minutes
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Morning Tuesday a cricket ground without cricketers peaceful
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Great Jen love this 🫶🛋️
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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Martin Hayes Festschrift. 25 days Celebrating the poetry of the Workplace. Day Thirteen : Friday Afternoons the880.substack.com/p/martin-hay...
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Martin Hayes Festschrift. 25 days Celebrating the poetry of the Workplace. Day Thirteen : Friday Afternoons
A Feast
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
morning Sunday here’s a little “throwaway”poem for you 🛋️🚶‍➡️ #poetry #poems #BlueSkyPoets #earrings #Tomfoolery
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
every week Sue nails it and this week is no different "the old man no longer cares" 👏👍👏👍🛋️
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Excellent Rachel Love the repeat “We don’t have long” don’t panic it’s fabulous 👍🛋️
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Great piece from Jen It’s about Needle Craft no it’s about having a tattoo Love it 👍👏👍👏
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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
For #PoemsAbout #SheddingSkin. Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk
Peeling

Abscission of Summer peel off 
in clumps on to carpets,
kitchen tiles, piles of skin leaves.

Delamination of long days
into colder days and less light.
Moulting one season into another.

Autumn is a new skin, fresh out
of the chrysalis of burst blossom
of short darkness, life crackles.
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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Martin Hayes Festschrift. 25 days Celebrating the poetry of the Workplace. Day Eleven : How We Make Men the880.substack.com/p/martin-hay...
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Martin Hayes Festschrift. 25 days Celebrating the poetry of the Workplace. Day Eleven : How We Make Men
A Feast
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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
morning Friday there’s an old sayin “rain before 7 over by 11” let’s hope 💧🌧️ fed up of the rain now 🤷‍♂️ so here’s my little “throwaway” poem for #PoemsAbout #sheddingskins and thank @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and again everyone everywhere has a loving weekend 🛋️🚮
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