A new pome "Homecoming" posted over on X/Twitter for #TopTweetTuesday. There's a video of me reading it (along with my cat Shelley in the background) over there if you can stand my Brummie drawl
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A brilliantly sizzling #TedHughes tribute poem by fellow host of #TopTweetTuesday, @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
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I have the pleasure this morning of being joint host of #TopTweetTuesday over on X alongside @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
Poets are invited to write on #SylviaPlath or #TedHughes.
This is my poem.
#poetry #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets #skypoets #poetrychallenge #poetrycommunity
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Exposed Exhausted I stumble up the steep hill of you. Sense disappears in your gust. My words smashed against your craggs. I cradle the warm eggs of my words you snatch and crack open till my insides tumble unborn deadyolks colour the purple heather of your tongue that fills my mouth so my words cannot be heard, inert. I can't breathe. Your body is an oven whose mouth swallows my whole self. I inhale your gas. Fumble for meaning in the lost map of us.
For #promptcombo #Rupture @victoriaspires.bsky.social also #TopTweetTuesday #SylviaPlath @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
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For our #SylviaPlath and #TedHughes week on #TopTweetTuesday on Twitter, ‘Dream of Two Poets’.
‘She advances to him as one who could devour the fire and light of the room’
Big up to joint host @helenlaycock.bsky.social
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@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
How do you write poetry that's homage without drifting into imitation?
Daddyless Morning tries to capture Plath's poetic spirit while exploring absence & the quiet ache of a father gone. Hope I hit the brief.
#toptweettuesday
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Mr Larkin’s Ghost… Will seek the closing, curling walls of bare let rooms and all other cheaply-rented lives, worn faces propped against parks puffing-out despair, silently; revisit their cold as coffin table-tops, not surprisingly: single-chaired; compose the score for behind closed doors, where the deafening conversational hum is provided by duplicitous electric-fires and misery’s always Sunday-dull, unshared evensong. The world reflected in fishbowl-glasses, grave-dust sticking like wet sugar; he’s still wandering: a caustic balm chronicling any place needed between high heaven and Hull.
Hullo. Just put this up on the other place for #TopTweetTuesday and the week’s theme of an 80 word homage to a famous poet. #poetry #larkin
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Here's my offering for the theme of #karma @TopTweetTuesday. Thanks to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity #TopTweetTuesday
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Our themes for next week on #TopTweetTuesday on Twitter are
~ Justice, karma, retribution~
Looking for poems with a social conscience. 100 words maximum and let the imagery do the work. Show rather than tell.
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Here's (19)84 words on the theme of fascism, dictatorship, authoritarianism, thought police, state control for @TopTweetTuesday. Thanks as always go to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity #TopTweetTuesday
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‘the image of the cheeto king rises’ 🇺🇸
On the themes of fascism, authoritarianism and dictatorship, a poem for the weekly event that is #TopTweetTuesday on Twitter
Thanks to all readers and contributors. 🙏
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‘The hounds in that house, stirred in the kish of the tremor’
Before the monster Grendel attacked the great hall.
For #TopTweetTuesday and our theme - tales for children 👹
#norse #beowulf #myth
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Flames
#DailyPrompt #TopTweetTuesday
Once Smoldering Hope reignites
Ready to set the world ablaze
Mizanudin unsplash.com
#renewal
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This week on #TopTweetTuesday our host @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social asked us to post our best three TopTweetTuesday poems from 2025 in three separate photos. Here are 3 of mine.
Happy holidays ~ a wonderful new year to fellow wordsmiths.
#poetry #writing #poetic #blueskypoetry #storiesandstanxa
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#TopTweetTuesday
This week our host @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social has us
write a fresh, imagistic poem in 60 words about a festive event using
- a lesser known colour shade
- 2 words that are hardly used, including an archaic word
- an extravagant simile
- a wacky / unexpected metaphor
#blueskypoetry
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Artwork and winter landscape poem written for #toptweettuesday this week #poetry #winterpoetry #illustration
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Sunset reflecting on a snowy landscape
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#TopTweetTuesday
The landscape is softened, blanketed by powder. Outside my breath condenses, like I'm a dragon releasing smoke. One of the indicators of how low the temperature has gotten. Yet I can't seem to move myself inside.
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Sharing my bird poem for #TopTweetTuesday
where our host @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social has us write bird poem on with 70 words
Also, inspired by
#vss365 #aphotic
‘strepitous crump’ #firewords280
‘the circle traced ends’ #FoxProse
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Against the snow-sky
a constellation of crows
no more than black blips.
#micropoetry #poetry #haiku #toptweettuesday
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Our #TopTweetTuesday @PushcartPrize nominations this year!
Congratulations 🍾🥂
Sarah Raybould @sarahraybould.bsky.social 🩰
Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social 🐦⬛
David Hanlon 🏴
Gayle J. Greenlea @gjgreenlea.bsky.social ✒️
Kate Vanhinsbergh 🎁
Paul Short @paulwritespoems.bsky.social 📚
#poetry
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Off to New York 🇺🇸 ✈️
#pushcartprize nominations for @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social , #SilverBranch and #TopTweetTuesday
A phenomenal 18 nominees this year, once again.
Well worth doing for only £8 postage and a lot of reading!
#poetry #writing #poetic #poets #writingcommunity #litmags
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I have just typed up a load of my #TopTweetTuesday poems from my Twitter feed and I have over forty poems almost enough for a collection !
Huge thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and all the Top Tweet poets. #poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
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Winter A lone silver flake of ash flies far in air, from a roofed stall, rectangular, a gather-round fire for toasting marshmallows, roasting chestnuts, mistaken as the first sign of a flake of snow, whether true or stage show, like a conjured prop. And if I said it out loud at the Christmas fayre, what I saw as snow, mistakenly, for a second, they would not think I was playing jokes, nor being silly.
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
Here is a winter poem I wrote, but it wasn’t in time for #TopTweetTuesday due to ill health this week.
#poetry #poem
#TopTweetTuesday
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Let’s just add the hash to #TopTweetTuesday and we can have it here too. I miss it.
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Revisionist Myth After Amen, we swallow the darknesses. Discount goodnights. Go gentle. Smear Mother’s blackberries over our transparent skin, in pretense of death. She ties you up…cuts your hair, wails Cohen. It keeps falling. More blood-wilt before the dream-path. Sunset slurring between her legs. It's relative—power. Major to minor. Like a wrecking-ball. Or one lightfeather on a freshly-tarred freeway —if we succeed. Vikki C.
A new poem 'Revisionist Myth' written for this week's #TopTweetTuesday supernatural theme (60 words max).
Thank you @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for inspiring these esoteric, imagist writes 🖤
#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #imagist #myth #death #esoterica
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How does Top Tweet Tuesday work? Do I just use the hashtag #toptweettuesday when I post the poem? Or do I tag you in it? Or both?
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'STUNNER'
A poem written on the theme of #invertebrates for #toptweettuesday
#poetry #poetsofbluesky #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #jellyfish
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