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Rachel Burrows
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Pushcart Prize Nominated. Cheshire Novel Prize SL‘25, Guppy Open Submission LL’25
Write Mentor Picturebook SL’23/LL’24
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Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social · Nov 14
More snails I’m afraid! #PoemsAbout #Desire @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk Happy Friday!
#parasite #poetry
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jenthorne.bsky.social
So exciting! My winning poem (and a bio and a big picture of my very worried-looking face) is now available. Please give it a read 🥹

www.new2thescene.co.uk/blog/bad-hab...
Bad Habits - Poetry Competition winner 2025
Jenni Thorne. New2theScene poetry winner 2025. Poem, winning entry, Bad habits. Read poem for free.
www.new2thescene.co.uk
December 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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dustpoetry.bsky.social
Today’s poem is Flowers by Joshua Seigal ✨🪻
December 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Today’s poem: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/wing-th...
December 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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pdevonald.bsky.social
So delighted to have eight poems in the wonderful #ifmas - available now @dreich.bsky.social and there is a fantastic paperback edition

Huge thanks to Jack - subscribe free email jackcaradoctct@gmail.com and write subscribe please.

Merry Christmas/ ifmas to each and every one of you! xxx
December 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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The perfect book for Christmas Eve 🎁

Download and read A Welly Full of Christmas by @attielime today 👉 amzn.to/48mbwxJ
Welly Full of Christmas on an ereader against a background of red christmas sketches.
December 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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carolynthomas.bsky.social
Huge thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social Thrilled and honoured to have work in the beautiful Winter/Christmas anthology from @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 4d
Carolyn Thomas takes us back to childhood in Neath in the Christmas-winter anthology. @carolynthomas.bsky.social

🎅 ❄️ 🐴 ❄️ 💝 ❄️

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December 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Merry Christmas to one and all - And thanks for the pomes Jack Caradoc @dreich.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
rburrows.bsky.social
Found this from a while ago -
seems like a good time to post! 😂
My New Year’s Resolution is to take part in the wonderful @studioteabreak.bsky.social #portraitchallenge again every week!
Here’s ‘Hanging Up His Hat’ inspired by ‘The Reader’ by Ferdinand Hodler 1885
Happy Christmas Eve!
Cartoon bearded man looking at Situations Vacant column in newspaper- Santa hat hung up behind.
December 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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⭐IF POMES FOR IF-MAS⭐
Curated by Jack Caradoc.
I wonder if this is the most unique Christmas anthology out in the world right now?
Thanks to @dreich.bsky.social for my copy🙏🏻
Proud to have two 'ifs' within about #FrankZappa & #GeorgiaOKeefe
#Christmasanthologies
#collaborations
#Christmaspoetry
If pomes for If-mas anthology curated by Jack Caradoc If Frank Zappa were Christmas by Carmella de Keyser. If Georgia O'Keefe were Christmas by Carmella de Keyser.
December 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
rburrows.bsky.social
A poem from the Winter Edition of @dreich.bsky.social about a very different Christmas - from my younger, fieldwork days 🦟
Merry Christmas poetry friends - wherever you are and however you spend it! Thanks Jack for your support this year!
#poetry #Christmas #writing
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December 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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The poetry of Sue Ibrahim
sueimnw.bsky.social Sue Ibrahim @sueimnw.bsky.social · 13d
For this week's #promptcombo #dilemmas/decisions with wonderful host @hool415.bsky.social a small part of a longer work from a while back. Very busy week but will try to think of something new later and respond to others too.
December 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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The poetry of Rachel Burrows
December 23, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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New day, new poetry window to open on the #PoetryByHeart advent calendar! Today's poem is the gentle 'Snowflake Song' by James Carter, which sees a snowflake tumble in 'downward spirals' as night falls ❄️

Head to our website to explore the poem ❤️

poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/snowfl...
December 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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For the #PoetryByHeart Festive Showcase today, enjoy a special recitation of 'Father Christmas sent me to the Moon' by @domconlon.bsky.social, and see what twist you can put on the poem by speaking it! 🌙 ❄️ Dom also offers tips for writing your own poem 🖋️

poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/father...
December 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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#TheStarbeckOrion Contributions closed for the final issue of 2025. The next anthology will be the Summer Feast 2026 that begins on June 25th and lasts 50 days. Contributions in by 7th June. Thank you to all you amazing writers and artworkers that have contributed so much creativity this year.
December 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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I’m always a day late on Bluesky!! For the winter solstice, my Mari Lwyd panels- Through nature to eternity and The Heaven’s embroidered cloths.
December 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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carolynthomas.bsky.social
A #LifttotheSky and festive greetings to all my friends in tha amazingly brilliant and supportive #poetrycommunity #BlueSkypoets #PoetsSupportPoets who come together in #PoemsAbout #promptscombo. Have a fine time and may ‘26 be kind to us all
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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YT's Poem of the Week: 'Last Christmas Cracker' by Steven Matthews
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Poem Of The Week: <i>Last Christmas Cracker</i> By Steven Matthews
Last Christmas Cracker From the last Christmas cracker I pulled ever with dad, it seemed there flew not just the golf-tees I will never use, but my yellow kite the line broke from, and the wind waft...
yorkshiretimes.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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2025 began with a piece in @paragraphplanet Poetry lows/highs this year but yay the highs won! Anthologies, publs, poetry trails incl: @TheDirigible @TheToyPress, LTP, Surrey Poet Laureate @Painshill, The Poetry Express - and to all my super poetry pals Happy Christmas! 🎄🎄
December 22, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Child pointing out Walliams book, adult steers them towards Dog Man.
Small victories.
December 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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I’m really excited to have my first ever graphic novel out in February. If you’ve got a 7-11 year old who likes a laugh, I reckon they’ll enjoy it. You can preorder a copy now and it’ll be like a christmas present for me and your child - sort of.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/463333...
December 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Hooray! @littlethoughtspress.com just launched Issue 12: Better Together (www.littlethoughtspress.com). Be sure to check out pages 40-42, on which you will find poems by two of my critique partners: @pjpurtee.bsky.social and @davidmcmullin.bsky.social. (My poem is on page 33!)
Little Thoughts Press | A children's literary magazine
Little Thoughts Press is a children's literary magazine designed for a youth audience ages ten and under. Founded in 2021 by editor in chief, Claire Taylor.
www.littlethoughtspress.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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#PoemsAbout #Money
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
I will put a reading in the comments.
MATTRESS MONEY He lost her soon as she found the mattress money. It was nothing he did ‘cause he never did nothing, nothing but moonshine. Life in them days was harder than week old biscuits at the Mount Holly Jail. He was a scab and she was the gnawed fingernail picking at it. They was vinegar and oil and funky dregs like cheap Italian dressing. He was a shortleaf pine, and she was a swamp azalea. She left on the solstice but frankly it did not feel shorter or longer than their other crappy days.
December 19, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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#PoemsAbout #Money
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
The weather and pollution’s got to me… so will probably read others’ works over the weekend.
Thank you for reading! 🙏🙏
#Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #poetry
The following poem on white background and black fonts: *Tinkling Bells* By C. Oulens The little urchin was beaming He could buy an ice-cream cone today The economy was down and finding love was even more down It meant more coins in the wishing well And he hadn’t ever gone to school to fear the polluted hell he was diving in
December 19, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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rock-rex.bsky.social
"Dreams from my Spam Folder".

#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poemsabout #money
December 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM