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samanthaterrell.bsky.social @samanthaterrell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Friends, have you heard? 'Survival Instincts' is now available worldwide (with thanks to The Poetry Lighthouse): www.thepoetrylighthouse.com/books-tpl-1/.... Hope you'll give it a read! #poetry #poetrylovers #booklovers #booklaunch #poetrycommunity #internationalcommunity

'Survival Instincts' cover art (green and orange sunset)

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 18/09/2026

The bell that tolls my syllables can tell An underwater tale, clang how there fell Suddenly out of a surface shouting world Into dumb calm doomed children… —George Sutherland Fraser (1915–1980), “S.S. City of Benares (Drowned refugee children, 1940)” #poem #poetry #WarPoetry #WW2

George Sutherland Fraser
S.S. City of Benares
(Drowned refugee children, 1940)

The bell that tolls my syllables can tell
An underwater tale, clang how there fell
Suddenly out of a surface shouting world
Into dumb calm doomed children, and there curled
(Currents’ sick fingers whispering at their hair)
Round them a coiling clutch, was our despair.
Sea’s soft sad pressure, like the sprawl of love,
Darkly spreadeagled, so they could not move,
The wide wet mouth was heavy, they would choke,
Till in that cold confusion pity spoke:
“This is a nightmare and one is asleep.
This is a dream, my brave one, do not weep,
Often may drown in dreams and not be dead:
Such weight is mother leaning on your bed.”

But having thought of this to cheat my pain,
That woe and wonder harrows me again,
Fat clouds seem bulked like whales, while through the green
Grave tons of twilight, in a submarine
Solidity of air like sea I move,
Pressure of horror how our hate hurts love.
Deeper than grief can plummet, mercy lies,
But not so deep as trust in children’s eyes,
Justice is high in heaven, but more high
Blood of the innocent shall smear the sky—
Or think that red the flame of seraph wings,
See stained-glass heaven, where each darling sings
In God’s dark luminous world of green and gold
As lovely as death’s waters, but less cold:
Think what you will, but like the crisping leaf
In whipped October, crack your thoughts to grief.
In the drenched valley, whimpering and cold,
The small ghosts flicker, whisper, unconsoled.

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beckjoneshere.bsky.social @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens XXII, from Spring and All, by poet and physician William Carlos Williams, #botd in 1883. #booksky #writers #poetry

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churchstreetimages.com @churchstreetimages.com · 14/09/2026

Join the #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday September 19, 2026 The theme is #Golden This week all that glitters is indeed gold! Use both tags to be included in the feed. Multiple entries welcome. #art #artists #photography #drawing #painting #sketching #writing #poetry

Photo of a yellow flower with text reading:
Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday September 19, 2026
The theme is #Golden
Any Art. Any interpretation.
Use both tags to be
included in our feed.
Multiple entries welcome.

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l3ibra.blacksky.app @l3ibra.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

#poetryfridays.

a beautiful, slightly blurred photo of rows of bare boat masts (?), a few light poles, and the faint outline of a bridge all illuminated by a deep orange sunset. the sun itself is visible in the middle of the photo, but it is behind all of these shadowy objects i’ve mentioned. this is a gorgeous photo by my sister Kendra.

my poem. it reads:

the striking pain of cessation-
sitting in the want while in possession of the desire
corners of the frame seizing
wretched without poison
but with it, i wane.
the betrayal of body begging for burden
currents sliding behind the eyes
legs deficient
vain.
satisfied by passing hands
ragged nails
lifting my skin
stealing chemicals from my sleep
with sweetness parting my teeth

c.l.

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beckjoneshere.bsky.social @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The final novel by novelist/poet/short story writer D. H. Lawrence, #botd 1885, Lady Chatterley's Lover was privately printed in 1928, but it was another 30 years + the efforts of the intrepid Grove Press before America allowed its publication. Lawrence died at 45 from TB. #booksky #writers #poetry

Sepia print of a young woman in vintage 20s style underwear slung across a chair with a book in her hand; she is seemingly engrossed in reading it. Adjacent text is "I can't put down this wonderfully smutty book about a Britist lady who falls in love with her gamekeeper.'

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mamahannatu.bsky.social @mamahannatu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

basking in sunbeams this glorious morning a blue warbler pausing for breath then flying away #TankaThursday breath #Haikufeels beam #dailyhaikuprompt morning warbler #tanka #kyoka #3lines #Haikufeels #haikuchallenge #poem #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #senryu #5lines #TankaPoem

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mamahannatu.bsky.social @mamahannatu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

starry night black steaming in a cup a breath of poetry #TankaThursday breath #vss365 #tanka #kyoka #Haikufeels #haikuchallenge #poem #poetry #poet #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #senryu #5lines #dailyhaikuprompt #TankaPoem

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beckjoneshere.bsky.social @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Below, a photo of Molly Malone Cook, photographer, trailblazer and life long love of Mary Oliver. Their life together is explored in the documentary Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World that PBS has been airing this month. Well worth a watch. #booksky #writers #poetry #photography

Black and white candid shot of Molly Malone Cook, later in life. She's sitting on a step outdoors smiling at something just off camera. She's wearing a white blouse open at the neck, slacks and a bracelet. Her white hair is cut short.

Beck Jones@beckjoneshere.bsky.social

Winner of the Pulitzer and the National Book Awards and at one point the best selling poet in America, Mary Oliver BOTD in 1935. Nature and the wild were her themes and inspiration. She was a devotee of Edna St. Vincent Millay & helped collect her papers. Oliver died at 83 #booksky #writers #poetry

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 09/09/2026

The deid-hole’s a sma-boukit place for you. You need tae be blawn aboot the cosmos so’s your live matter mells wi the spaces and you become the stour starns are made o… —Alastair Mackie: In Memoriam Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978) Christopher Murray Grieve – Hugh MacDiarmid – died #OTD, 9 Sept #poem

In Memoriam Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)
Alastair mackie

The deid-hole’s a sma-boukit place for you.
You need tae be blawn aboot the cosmos
so’s your live matter mells wi the spaces
and you become the stour starns are made o.

Sma spirit, ye couped yoursel oot like an ocean
and on it ye sailed tae your odyssey.
Your poems set their bows for the infinite.
It was a sma bit coble made o Scots.

Ahent the muckle brae-face o your brou
barmed the thochts. They were like boolders,
ram-stam, ramgunshoch, aften wilyart. Polyphemus
hurlin craigs at the galleys’ hotterin starns.

And aye the sky-line cockit its fore-finger.
For fifty years laneliness was your crony.
Your spaces were polar anes, the cauld burn
o your mind the aixle-tree that iled your world.

I think o Pascal’s infinite spaces
and Scotland a wee dot in the abyss.
You gied it a starn; the muckle hole skinkles
yet in the licht. Sic matter never dees.

The terror that I feel is for the muckle howe-hole
your last sleep leaves ahent. As if a mountain
that held up the lyft had sunk intae the mools
and suddenly the sky-line’s unfrienly.

And oor steps styter and Scotland’s again
‘the bonny broukit bairn’. Lie back in your kist
licht bearer. And may the giant back-birn
ye cairriet lie lichtly in the earth’s happin.

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fuzzweed.co.uk @fuzzweed.co.uk · 09/09/2026

*add your own punctuation, I'm on a strict limit #poem

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bearysweet.bsky.social @bearysweet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Helena Bonham Carter reading Rumi's poem "The Guest House," at Belcombe Court, England. This is part of a project for Allie Esiri's poetry book, 'A Poem for Every Autumn Day.' The poem compares human life to a guest house, encouraging people to accept emotions and thoughts as visitors. #poetry

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Did you know: Donald Hall's final poem was about Scott Brown? (I am not joking.) Here in its entirety: Get out of town, You featherheaded carpetbagging Wall St. clown, Scott Brown! #poetry #NHSen #NHpolitics

Dean Barker@deanbarker.bsky.social

Today's the day we finally learn if Scott Brown knows where Sullivan County is. #iykyk #NHsen #NHpolitics

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OldeHippi🦋 @oldehippi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We pass in the parking lot, he rattles about a package that's been in the hallway for days. The air is like cool glass and sunlight adorns everything. #micropoetry #poetry #words #KLGG

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mamahannatu.bsky.social @mamahannatu.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

endless beach walks countryside roadtrips crazy art museums finding me in all of these places #TankaThursday #vss365 #tanka #kyoka #Haikufeels #haikuchallenge #poem #poetry #poet #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #senryu #5lines #dailyhaikuprompt #TankaPoem

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beckjoneshere.bsky.social @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Karen Hesse, #botd, writes award-winning historical fiction for children. Out of the Dust, a novel in verse, tells the story of the Oklahoma Dust Bowl during the Depression; it won the Newbery Medal and the Scott O'Dell Award. Another novel, Witness, tells about the KKK. #booksky #writers #poetry

Image of front cover of Out of the Dust, which features a photo of a young girl wearing a white shirt and a broad-brimmed hat. The photo was first published in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The adjacent text is a quote from the book: "The way I see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. Hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up."

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mamahannatu.bsky.social @mamahannatu.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

dreary sky I imagine the moon in crimson red #dailyhaikuprompt full moon grove #vss365 #haikufeels #senryusunday #haikuchallenge #writing #poem #poetry #poet #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #senryu #3lines #verse #wss366

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mamahannatu.bsky.social @mamahannatu.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

full moon all the fun I could ever have #dailyhaikuprompt full moon grove #vss365 #haikufeels #senryusunday #haikuchallenge #writing #poem #poetry #poet #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #senryu #3lines #verse #wss366

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Laura DeHart Young, Author 💙🌈 @lauradehartyoung.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Tools built a fence to keep the memories in. Macramelit.com — poetry, fiction, and microfiction. And tools. 🔨 #poetrycommunity #poetry #poetrylovers #writers #poets 🌈📚

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How about a #poem? This one originally appeared in @strangehorizons.bsky.social , and it's in my poetry collection Offerings for Ordinary Gods out now whenever books are sold from @clashbooks.bsky.social If you have snagged a copy yet, maybe this will entice you.

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Enigmatic Scribe @enigmaticscribe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In a forgotten rural town, as the day powers down, folks ready for the night, at the end of the line. #poem #poetry 📸: mine

The sun sets in a fiery orange glow above a country road flanked on both sides by power and tele-communication lines stretching toward the horizon.

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Laura DeHart Young, Author 💙🌈 @lauradehartyoung.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

In the summer issue of Macrame Literary Magazine: Cracked Tools, Crooked Fence, a poem by Laura DeHart Young MacrameLit.com #poetry #poetrylovers #litmags #authors #readingcommunity 🌈📚

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Enigmatic Scribe @enigmaticscribe.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I admire the courtesy of the Storm, announcing its late night arrival, with a growling rumble of thunder. #poetry #poem

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Here’s a SECOND poetry reading from Offerings for Ordinary Gods (originally appeared in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social & was edited by the incredible @omgjulia.bsky.social). My collection is available worldwide! If you loved it, review it! #PoetsOfInstagram #Poetry #SFF #AliTrotta #WritersOfInstagram

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Laura DeHart Young, Author 💙🌈 @lauradehartyoung.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Sounds like a plan. 🌅☕📚 As the days transition, so does the work. lauradehartyoung.com #books #poetry #authors #transformation #newbeginnings

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Enigmatic Scribe @enigmaticscribe.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Our fervent first kiss, from so long ago, still fondly remembered, by a jovial Moon. #poetry #poem 📸: mine

The Moon seen in the late evening sky seemingly surrounded by white and charcoal colored clouds.

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beckjoneshere.bsky.social @beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Winner of the Pulitzer and the National Book Awards and at one point the best selling poet in America, Mary Oliver BOTD in 1935. Nature and the wild were her themes and inspiration. She was a devotee of Edna St. Vincent Millay & helped collect her papers. Oliver died at 83 #booksky #writers #poetry

Color photo of Mary Oliver in her later years. She is wearing a black turtleneck sweater and holding a sea shell. Adjacent text is a quote. "Tell, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" Mary Oliver.

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