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Fiftywords
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Thinks too much and tries to make sense of the world’s chaos, beauty, and commas; mostly through poetry.
Here’s one for today’s #vss365
November 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
What does it mean to hold onto your name when the world and your mind starts to forget it?This #PoemsAbout #Dogtags looks at memory, identity, and the quiet defiance of holding on. @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 6:39 AM
The phrase “a schmozzle in the parallelogram” was immortalised by the legendary Gaelic games commentator Michael O’Hehir. It describes the chaotic, harmless scuffle that sometimes erupts during games. #vss365 #Speirgorm
November 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Here’s today’s #vss365
November 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
In a damaged world, truth survives only in the fractures. For #vss365
November 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
This is for today’s #vss365 and anyone who experienced the exhilaration of Troy Parrott’s goal for Ireland yesterday #Speirgorm
November 17, 2025 at 10:39 AM
A poem for #vss365 about yet another housing plan in Ireland, all the broken ones before it, and the new voice in the Áras. #speirgorm
November 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
As my beloved Constantinople is often called the city of the worlds desire, here’s another for #PoemsAbout #Desire @thebrokenspine.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
This Steve Reich inspired poem fits today’s #vss365
November 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Knowest thou not, O Fairies' lord!
How much by us contemn'd, abhorr'd,
Whatever hides the female form
That cannot bear the mortal storm?

William Blake, The Rossetti Manuscript
#BookWormSat
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Roman Emperor Hadrian loved a young man named Antinous. History turned their passion into rumour #PoemsAbout #Desire @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Here’s today’s #vss365
November 9, 2025 at 9:05 AM
A different sort of war for #BookWormSat “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.“ The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels)
November 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Here’s on older one for today’s #vss365
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I posted this earlier in the week but it works for one for the #LockedDoors of knowledge that some of us experience #Poems About @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The agency of women is often seen as a fatal flaw in history and myth #vss365
November 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
My memory of education for this #vss365
November 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The story of D.J. Carey (one of the greatest hurlers of all time) is one of brilliance and downfall, a modern tragedy of fame, trust, and hubris. #Speirgorm
November 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Here’s one for #vss365
November 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Here’s a creature for today’s #vss365
November 2, 2025 at 9:12 AM
This one also seems appropriate for today’s #vss365
November 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Here’s one for today’s #vss365
November 1, 2025 at 9:11 AM
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. ” Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost #BookWormSat
November 1, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Do we know the true cost of our phones #PoemsAbout #Blood @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 AM