Ronnie Smith
@rfsmith.bsky.social
Scottish living in France. Poet, lover of art and nature. Retired from the world of smash and grab.
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I hope everyone at #PromptCombo had a fabulous Christmas day with all the people closest to you. Thank you, all of you, for being part of our important, creative community and let’s look forward to flooding this sometimes dubious medium with light throughout 2026. ❤️
December 26, 2025 at 7:10 AM
I hope everyone at #PromptCombo had a fabulous Christmas day with all the people closest to you. Thank you, all of you, for being part of our important, creative community and let’s look forward to flooding this sometimes dubious medium with light throughout 2026. ❤️
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Festive best wishes to all my friends on here, to all those who have been kind & supportive this year, to members of the #poetrycommunity, the #promptcombo & #poemsabout writers I have met, & to those who have participated in my own #poetrytheme prompt. Have a peaceful season & great 2026🙏🙏🕊️🎄
Videte miraculum
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December 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Festive best wishes to all my friends on here, to all those who have been kind & supportive this year, to members of the #poetrycommunity, the #promptcombo & #poemsabout writers I have met, & to those who have participated in my own #poetrytheme prompt. Have a peaceful season & great 2026🙏🙏🕊️🎄
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The only Christmas song I can not only tolerate but that also gets me going like nothing else. 🎶💖✨️
Merry Christmas to all of you with a particular shoutout to the #poemsabout and #promptcombo folks for providing such a creative and uplifting space here. 🎄☃️🎁
#music #Christmas #gratitude
Merry Christmas to all of you with a particular shoutout to the #poemsabout and #promptcombo folks for providing such a creative and uplifting space here. 🎄☃️🎁
#music #Christmas #gratitude
Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You (Official Video)
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December 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The only Christmas song I can not only tolerate but that also gets me going like nothing else. 🎶💖✨️
Merry Christmas to all of you with a particular shoutout to the #poemsabout and #promptcombo folks for providing such a creative and uplifting space here. 🎄☃️🎁
#music #Christmas #gratitude
Merry Christmas to all of you with a particular shoutout to the #poemsabout and #promptcombo folks for providing such a creative and uplifting space here. 🎄☃️🎁
#music #Christmas #gratitude
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Best wishes to all here on #promptcombo #poemsabout
And all other great poet/poems arenas on #bluesky. Thanks for all your support and encouragement to me too and our support of others!👍 Have a banging break whatever you get up to! 😀🎄⛄️🎁👏
And all other great poet/poems arenas on #bluesky. Thanks for all your support and encouragement to me too and our support of others!👍 Have a banging break whatever you get up to! 😀🎄⛄️🎁👏
December 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Best wishes to all here on #promptcombo #poemsabout
And all other great poet/poems arenas on #bluesky. Thanks for all your support and encouragement to me too and our support of others!👍 Have a banging break whatever you get up to! 😀🎄⛄️🎁👏
And all other great poet/poems arenas on #bluesky. Thanks for all your support and encouragement to me too and our support of others!👍 Have a banging break whatever you get up to! 😀🎄⛄️🎁👏
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Holding the book that has your piece inside is a truly lovely feeling; got my copy a few days back. Thnx to @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk for making this possible. Also heartfelt thanks to all the support from #poemsabout community. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 🥳 🎉🎻 #keepwriting
December 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Holding the book that has your piece inside is a truly lovely feeling; got my copy a few days back. Thnx to @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk for making this possible. Also heartfelt thanks to all the support from #poemsabout community. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 🥳 🎉🎻 #keepwriting
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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
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
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Recording of my #poemsabout from last Friday, theme was #money. If someone could tell me why #alt-text won't work in video even if I add it, that would be greatly appreciated.
#spokenword #poetry #poetrycommunity
#spokenword #poetry #poetrycommunity
Added a voice recording. I'm still recovering from some sort of cold or maybe it's dust allergy. So apologies if I'm sounding nasal at times. #poemsabout #poetry #poetrycommunity #spokenword
December 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Recording of my #poemsabout from last Friday, theme was #money. If someone could tell me why #alt-text won't work in video even if I add it, that would be greatly appreciated.
#spokenword #poetry #poetrycommunity
#spokenword #poetry #poetrycommunity
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Yes, we all look for the light of the world to come, revisit, rejuvenate. 🕯️It has been a good year with #PoemsAbout and #PromptCombo. I have enough to put together a pamphlet or even a collection.
December 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Yes, we all look for the light of the world to come, revisit, rejuvenate. 🕯️It has been a good year with #PoemsAbout and #PromptCombo. I have enough to put together a pamphlet or even a collection.
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I've had an incredible #poetry journey in 2025, inconceivable just a year ago, & thanks in large part to the support & encourage of the #poetrycommunity, #PromptCombo & #PoemsAbout. 🙏🙏😊🌠
#newpoem to welcome back the #light for 2026. #SeasonsGreetings everyone!
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#newpoem to welcome back the #light for 2026. #SeasonsGreetings everyone!
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December 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I've had an incredible #poetry journey in 2025, inconceivable just a year ago, & thanks in large part to the support & encourage of the #poetrycommunity, #PromptCombo & #PoemsAbout. 🙏🙏😊🌠
#newpoem to welcome back the #light for 2026. #SeasonsGreetings everyone!
bsky.app/profile/janp...
#newpoem to welcome back the #light for 2026. #SeasonsGreetings everyone!
bsky.app/profile/janp...
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Just to say thank you to all those who have supported my words, through #promptcombo and #poemsabout and elsewhere, and for all the wonderful words you've shared too.
December 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Just to say thank you to all those who have supported my words, through #promptcombo and #poemsabout and elsewhere, and for all the wonderful words you've shared too.
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BLACK BOUGH UPDATE 2025
CHRISTMAS / NEW YEAR 2025/26
www.blackboughpoetry.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Hullo @rfsmith.bsky.social @dragonslayerma.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social All welcome, tag me @hool415.bsky.social and use as well #promptcombo #dilemmas/decisions **TILL 5pm FRIDAY!!**
(NB The four-legged one is doing ok currently with some
new meds…)🤞
(NB The four-legged one is doing ok currently with some
new meds…)🤞
December 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Hullo @rfsmith.bsky.social @dragonslayerma.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social All welcome, tag me @hool415.bsky.social and use as well #promptcombo #dilemmas/decisions **TILL 5pm FRIDAY!!**
(NB The four-legged one is doing ok currently with some
new meds…)🤞
(NB The four-legged one is doing ok currently with some
new meds…)🤞
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December 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Hello @rfsmith.bsky.social and #PromptCombo folk. Here is a piece that features the Sophie Scholl/White Rose #memorial - and new motherhood. There’s a reading on The Starbeck Orion if you fancy listening. 😊 Thanks Ronnie - happy Saturday! #poetry
December 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Hello @rfsmith.bsky.social and #PromptCombo folk. Here is a piece that features the Sophie Scholl/White Rose #memorial - and new motherhood. There’s a reading on The Starbeck Orion if you fancy listening. 😊 Thanks Ronnie - happy Saturday! #poetry
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Thanks @rfsmith.bsky.social and #PromptCombo crew.
My late contribution for this week’s theme #memorial is a monument, a pyre rejecting the trappings of old age.
My late contribution for this week’s theme #memorial is a monument, a pyre rejecting the trappings of old age.
December 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Thanks @rfsmith.bsky.social and #PromptCombo crew.
My late contribution for this week’s theme #memorial is a monument, a pyre rejecting the trappings of old age.
My late contribution for this week’s theme #memorial is a monument, a pyre rejecting the trappings of old age.
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Posting another for @rfsmith.bsky.social and #PromptCombo #Memorial
@jenthorne.bsky.social brilliant Pipe poem reminded me I'd written this almost a year ago, there's something about New Year that revives old memories.
@jenthorne.bsky.social brilliant Pipe poem reminded me I'd written this almost a year ago, there's something about New Year that revives old memories.
December 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Posting another for @rfsmith.bsky.social and #PromptCombo #Memorial
@jenthorne.bsky.social brilliant Pipe poem reminded me I'd written this almost a year ago, there's something about New Year that revives old memories.
@jenthorne.bsky.social brilliant Pipe poem reminded me I'd written this almost a year ago, there's something about New Year that revives old memories.
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Hi @rfsmith.bsky.social Ronnie, my fourth response to your smart #promptcombo #Memorial is from my 2017 collection "A World Where', turning ideas upside down:
December 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Hi @rfsmith.bsky.social Ronnie, my fourth response to your smart #promptcombo #Memorial is from my 2017 collection "A World Where', turning ideas upside down:
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Really grateful to the Irish Centre for Poetry Studies, who've shared this poem today on their FB page...
This is a poem of loss, taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023)...
December 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Really grateful to the Irish Centre for Poetry Studies, who've shared this poem today on their FB page...
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I managed a quick #fridaypoem for this week's #poemsabout #youshouldnthave prompt between meetings! Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk for yet another challenging prompt!
#poetrycommunity #poems #poets #christmas #poetsofbluesky
#poetrycommunity #poems #poets #christmas #poetsofbluesky
December 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I managed a quick #fridaypoem for this week's #poemsabout #youshouldnthave prompt between meetings! Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk for yet another challenging prompt!
#poetrycommunity #poems #poets #christmas #poetsofbluesky
#poetrycommunity #poems #poets #christmas #poetsofbluesky
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December 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social #PromptCombo. Hi Dave, I don’t think I’ve ever seen alliteration used to such devastation effect as here and I think it is both fabulous and apt. I can only think of obituaries where the subjects are declared to have been perfect in life, contrary to memory.
December 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social #PromptCombo. Hi Dave, I don’t think I’ve ever seen alliteration used to such devastation effect as here and I think it is both fabulous and apt. I can only think of obituaries where the subjects are declared to have been perfect in life, contrary to memory.
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Hi @rfsmith.bsky.social and the #PromptCombo crew thought I’d have a bash at a #poem for this week’s theme #memorial.
The Polish war monument in Invergordon, where many troops were stationed during WWII, has the following inscription:
za
wasza
wolność
i
naszą
For your and our freedom
The Polish war monument in Invergordon, where many troops were stationed during WWII, has the following inscription:
za
wasza
wolność
i
naszą
For your and our freedom
December 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Hi @rfsmith.bsky.social and the #PromptCombo crew thought I’d have a bash at a #poem for this week’s theme #memorial.
The Polish war monument in Invergordon, where many troops were stationed during WWII, has the following inscription:
za
wasza
wolność
i
naszą
For your and our freedom
The Polish war monument in Invergordon, where many troops were stationed during WWII, has the following inscription:
za
wasza
wolność
i
naszą
For your and our freedom