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Lawrence Moore
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Lawrence Moore @lawrencemoore.bsky.social · 6h
Here's As Angels Might from my new collection This Joyful Interlude, out 19th November ✨

We're having a zoom launch on Thursday 20th November.

The more, the merrier - do come along and feel free to bring one of your own poems too, if you wish 🙂

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1878254171...

#poems #poetry
As Angels Might Moonstruck, to never recover, no cream, no cure. Festooned in new suit of armour, like days of yore. Rehearsing clandestine assignments, first serenade. Perceiving no binding inflictions, past choices made. Expectant, this heart on arrival, these insides flung. Marooned as I was in cold harbour, I knew you’d come, with your wonders, your traumas, your tears through the dead of night, ascending, transporting, redeeming as angels might. Moonstruck, the world is your oyster; for me, slim hope. Defeated, I feel, on inception, self-conscious, gauche. Reversing in time to a place the sun must have shone, bemoaning, berating, receding, still dreaming on. Nosediving and squinting through oceans of chalk or brine. Envisioning, somehow, warm hand I would hold in mine, mysterious pilgrim, fair puzzle to start anew. Examine dark skies with me, become moonstruck too.
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Welcome To The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Nineteen featuring the poetry of Paul D. Proctor:
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Welcome To The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Nineteen featuring the poetry of Paul D. Proctor
A Feast Of Image And Word
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November 12, 2025 at 7:40 AM
lawrencemoore.bsky.social
Here's a video of As Angels Might from my new collection This Joyful Interlude, out 19th November

We're having a zoom launch on Thursday 20th November

The more, the merrier - do come along and feel free to bring one of your own poems too, if you wish 🙂

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1878254171...

#poems
November 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
lawrencemoore.bsky.social
Here's As Angels Might from my new collection This Joyful Interlude, out 19th November ✨

We're having a zoom launch on Thursday 20th November.

The more, the merrier - do come along and feel free to bring one of your own poems too, if you wish 🙂

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1878254171...

#poems #poetry
As Angels Might Moonstruck, to never recover, no cream, no cure. Festooned in new suit of armour, like days of yore. Rehearsing clandestine assignments, first serenade. Perceiving no binding inflictions, past choices made. Expectant, this heart on arrival, these insides flung. Marooned as I was in cold harbour, I knew you’d come, with your wonders, your traumas, your tears through the dead of night, ascending, transporting, redeeming as angels might. Moonstruck, the world is your oyster; for me, slim hope. Defeated, I feel, on inception, self-conscious, gauche. Reversing in time to a place the sun must have shone, bemoaning, berating, receding, still dreaming on. Nosediving and squinting through oceans of chalk or brine. Envisioning, somehow, warm hand I would hold in mine, mysterious pilgrim, fair puzzle to start anew. Examine dark skies with me, become moonstruck too.
November 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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When you find
you have nowhere to go
may as well
stay where you are
cause you can't really go far
when lacking a proper destination

So take a break from your drift

Drop anchor

#Measure a course straight and true
then go full out for it
only when movement is warranted

#vss365 #poetry #poem
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Currently available for #free
On an Amazon #promotion
Now you literally have nothing to lose.
Go get it and leave a review
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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carmellapoetry.bsky.social
#AutumnReading 🌊🕷️ 🌊
Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social #Othernesses from @janes-studio.bsky.social and Amber Rollinson's #SomewhereLooking from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social .
Two stunningly produced books, containing beautiful poetry.
#poetrycollections
#beautifulpoetry
#mustread
#art
Somewhere Looking and Othernesses Poems by Paul Brookes. Poem by Amber Rollinson.
November 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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We've finished spotlighting the poets in our new issue! Read the whole thing here badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-two
Issue twenty-two — Bad Lilies
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November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
lawrencemoore.bsky.social
Food time approaches.

#cats
Food time approaches fir pussycats
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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I want to walk
with you

and the ghosts
of what

we could
have been
The hatcheted cross section of a winter wood, with two small figures on the crest of a hill.
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Almost 200 Ukrainian cultural figures were killed between 2022-2024 including poets Artem Dovhopolyi, Maksym Kryvtsov and Volodymyr Vakulenko. In our latest magazine issue, @komarnyckyj.bsky.social honours their poetry and legacy:
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October 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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silence is the ink
that stains the stars
the pulse of the night
the breath of the sea
the weight of memory
the shadow of sound
silence is the stone
that marks the void
and when I am silent
time dissolves in spaciousness
an avalanche of bliss
turning stillness
into a whispering roar

#Photograph mine
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Author Showcase - @nonniejules #RRBC #RWISA #Poetry ravewriters.wordpress.com/meet-the-aut...
Author Showcase – @nonniejules #RRBC #RWISA #Poetry
The poem below, “MOTHERLESS DAUGHTER” was written by/for  Maiya, the main character of my novel, “DAYDREAM’S DAUGHTER, NIGHTMARE’S FRIEND.” *** “MOTHERLESS…
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November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Voilà, some morose Friday poetry for you (in picture and ALT-text) and an equally cheerful plant. Hope you'll enjoy.
(As an artist is someone that makes people happy...
...O-t-h-e-r people.)

#artpoetry
#poetryart
#art
#poetry
#etcadnauseam
Some rather ambiguous potted plant, drawn just as cheerful as the poem it's mirroring, which goes like this: And here I stand. Like a plant, Shivering in the cold... Letting my poor stems grow With leaves withering in the darkness And roots shrivelling in a soil without nutrition Waiting for your call. And after hours, days, weeks, you do. At last sun, almost blinding, hot like a sauna! And life to the soil, And rain and rainbows And I bloom! in my happiness to be near you... But I am but a potted plant. I won't grow large, I won't see bees, my time in this Earth is limited. And all too soon you're gone. And here I stand. Like a plant, Shivering in the cold...
November 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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For all lovelies who submitted to issue 4 do not worry, pop-up joy does not impact or delay anything. We contain multitudes. If you haven’t got a response yet you will soon and if you haven’t submitted yet, subs are open until Nov 15.
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Temple in a City
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
templeinacity.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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There is currently a 50% discount on all my #Halloween & #horror short-stories & novellas.🩸📚

Download all 3 stories (& own them forever in 2 digital formats) for less than 5$!💙📚

1️⃣Jump into the Abyss!: bit.ly/4nES2Lq
2️⃣Reprobates: bit.ly/4mUIRVU
3️⃣The Underworld Rhapsody: bit.ly/4pSYJLv

#spooktober🎃
From the bestselling author of the "Vivian Amberville" saga, comes the unnerving horror short-story of a man who gets buried alive over the festering remains of his late wife, Kassandra. During his premature entombment, forty long nails are struck into Chase Chaperone's casket, plunging him deeper into Hell. This grim ritual is a dark operetta written in rhyming prose - an homage to Dante's Inferno - from which naught but the most vile of souls can escape. The man is subsequently set free from the coffin by the grotesque dwarf Eldritch, who in a fit of revenge, climbs onto his back and refuses to climb down. Chase is thus doomed to carry the parasitic dwarf atop his back for the rest of his days, while searching for absolution. This Halloween special explores themes such as "death and decay", "justice" and "morality", in a forlorn world set outside the reach of modern civilisation. Written in the grim and melodious style of Edgar Allan Poe, "Jump into the Abyss!" follows Chase Chaperone's descent into the far-reaching Abyss of his soul in a masterfully-written allegorical tale. Your purchase will grant you access to the ePub and PDF-formats. From the bestselling author of the "Vivian Amberville" saga, comes the surreal novella of a man's journey through Limbo. Freshly arrived at the Totermann Inn, Marc Whitehouse couldn’t have known he was dead. Sir, no sir. Not now that Chantal Dublanc had so mysteriously entered his life; his afterlife. In his quest for the truth behind his early demise, he finds himself on a journey where past memories intermingle with present actions. He is not yet ready to call it a life. 206 heartbeats to peace. The hour is late, but Marc is yet to renounce his hope for salvation... A surreal novella of love, loss and the afterlife, written in the captivating, dreamlike style of André Breton. “Reprobates” is an exquisitely written narrative of Life after Life, centered on Marc’s journey through Limbo. Its style is heavy on allegory, at every step teeming with Underworld intrusions of the sacred into the profane. Your purchase will grant you access to the ePub and PDF-formats. From the bestselling author of the "Vivian Amberville" series, comes the surreal novella that will have you question the very foundation of your reality. Under the influence of the powerful new psychedelic drug “Rhapsody”, Mario Fantoccio discovers the existence of an invisible reality overlaying our own. The rhapsody-altered state of consciousness brings Mario to close encounters with “the Masters of Strings”, a coven of hyperdimensional beings who appear to control the destiny of every human in existence. Desperate to sever the strings tying him to the will of his Masters, Mario overdoses on Rhapsody and escapes into hell, hoping to regain control of his life and free will. Based on a modern interpretation of Jungian psychology, The Underworld Rhapsody is heavily themed on "subjective reality", "altered states of consciousness", and "individuation" as it follows one man's struggle to escape the chaos of his life and regain his free will. Your purchase will grant you access to the ePub and PDF-formats.
October 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Latest review is up on my Substack. Read all about the poetic alchemy practised by @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social ✨
thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 6d
Delighted to receive this review of my poetry collection "Wolf Eye" by @victoriaspires.bsky.social Victoria Spires on Substack. Thank you Victoria:

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Alchemising the mundane
The poetry of Paul Brookes
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November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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#ও☉❢☉✑
#poetry
#writing
#micropoetry
#blueskywriters
#writingcommunity
November 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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charlipoe.bsky.social
grandfather's porch swing
a frozen drip of pine sap
misses him too

#dailyhaikuprompt
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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For those who like my poetry, you can check out my chapbook Brace Yourself here!

www.amazon.com/Brace-Yourse...

It was self published so I appreciate everyone who does take a look :)
Brace Yourself: A Poetry Chapbook
Amazon.com: Brace Yourself: A Poetry Chapbook eBook : St. James, Edward: Kindle Store
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September 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Season of the crocus! Crocus art created by artist Brigid Collins for the cover of my latest poetry collection. My title poem can be read here - www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

#BrigidCollins #art #flowerart #pressedcrocus #crocus #LooktotheCrocus #poetry
March 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Being a poet is the most complete and insane inversion of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Tabby club (Gatsby, Bugsy and Elliot) in the study

#cats #catsofbluesky
Tabby club (Gatsby, Bugsy and Elliot) in the study .
November 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
Collect all seven of my "Blue" series. Ideal Christmas and Birthday presents for those who enjoy poetry, especially sonnets. Some are limited edition that I can sign with an added handwritten poem in the back and post to you.
October 22, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Highly recommend! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #ThisJoyfulInterlude by #LawrenceMoore
#mustread
lawrencemoore.bsky.social Lawrence Moore @lawrencemoore.bsky.social · 7d
Here’s ‘Brave Little Bricks’ from my new poetry collection ‘This Joyful Interlude’, out November 19th

First published by Dreich

Ebook pre-order available via the links below! (or pm me for a print copy)

UK amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FWKQBX77
US amazon.com/dp/B0FWKQBX77
CA amazon.ca/dp/B0FWKQBX77

#poetry
Brave Little Bricks I Some voices in my head, misspending time, announce propensities that are not mine. All sorrows poured may simply trickle through; why hawk despair when dreaming's what I do? II For easy prey our enemies mistook brave little bricks more sturdy than we look. Through catapults, contentions work their charm; still yet, the castle lawn enkindles calm. III I'm tired, but renewed my trouble comes, arrays of trebuchets replaced with guns. By every angle tranquil set upon; from frayed preprogramme, frame continues on. IV 'It's ending now' slow clearing clouds confess, as doubtful as the shapes they coalesce and strange, upon the verge of problems' cease, to finally be conquered by release.
November 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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madp03t.bsky.social
I chose today to write a #monotetra poem, a form that loops back on itself, each stanza folding into its final breath.

It felt right for the #WildWalkPrompt of #Darkness, where even light returns only to vanish again.

#poetry #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #poetrylovers #writingprompt
A monotetra poem written, and Copyright (c), by Eric Montgomery (madp03t.org). All Rights Reserved. I come too soon, the sky still sighs, I creep beneath October’s eyes, I fold the warmth the sun denies, and linger, wise, and linger, wise. I hush the leaves, their whispers thin, I press my breath against your skin, the fire within grows dim again, begin again, begin again. The clocks obey my slow command, I stretch across this waiting land, I hold the quiet in my hand, you understand, you understand.
November 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM