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Matt Guntrip
@matt-guntrip-music.bsky.social
Mammal
Biped
Guitarist
Songwriter
New Music Generator Award Nominee 2025, 2024, 2023, 2021
Sometimes write things

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Hi Victoria,

I’ve not been doing any poetry, been reflecting on the art-form, personal experience & what can lie behind the beauty on the page…so it was nice to see this intriguing prompt & have a go.
December 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Time…
November 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Thank you Eve
The rehearsal was good at least and the band really did well learning new material for them, including a nice new song due out 19 November, ‘Alors’. They really made it beautiful..
October 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This won’t go far but~

If you’re anxious abt #poetry submissions here’s a relevant but hard read

1) do your research on who you’re submitting to
2) prizes or an excessive publication list does not make a decent human being

Talking xenophobic #narcissist here. Personal experience
#writingcommunity
October 22, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Eleven years and three quarters of an hour late two sons and a granddaughter said goodbye to the other half of Capt. JJ Guntrip’s ashes.

My daughter was dancing & auditioning in Europe during the funeral. We thought dad would want her to keep dancing. An honest mistake, so this day was cathartic.
October 22, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I need to let go but under the weight of imaginary clamour; here’s a poem for Tuesday from a no-books no best-of-anything, not spiritual poet, (least I don’t excoriate writers privately or control behaviour).

A pointless ripple lost in the best of net show for the day. Voila
#poem #poetrycommunity
October 21, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Sorry, I meant #smallpoemsunday

I can’t read the iphone screen in poor light..
October 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Today will be full on.
Fittingly, if time allows, moments on a last album track, Daji. A friend told me the story of Daji, a Chinese fox-legend who tempted and destroyed an Emperor.

Even lowly fools can fall lower…

Anyway; here’s ombre for #smallpoemsundqy
October 19, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Apropos 0 requests a poem 4 Tuesday; making sense of a narcissist policing 4 yrs of posts on X; I gave up. My weakness; but should’ve walked away each time her spleen vented at creative sisters. Psychopathic? Turned out 1/2 the time erotic poetry collaborations were underway with her ice muse
#poem
October 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
For #smallpoemsunday a reflection and experimentation..

Après..
October 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I’ve lost my faith in poetry, a personal experience, yet when I saw this brilliant prompt #imperfectme from @thebrokenspine.co.uk & host @alanparrywriter.co.uk it triggered something; so here’s a contribution. It opened it door & could start an avalanche; tread softly..

Je vous remercie
#poemsabout
October 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
It was difficult, checks empty in-tray, but after such overwhelming persuasion, I succumbed & submit another poem for Tuesday, to absolutely no one.

Destination..

#poetry #tuesday #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poem #narcissist
October 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Post gig pit stop…
#polesdenlacey
Beautiful breeze and light
Ladybird haven today
October 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A #poem for #smallpoemsunday after all the Saturday highs have dissipated..😬

Save me..
October 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A #poem for Sunday. Stuck in a hotel with Plath thinking.
Taking a knife to the knots of narrative; you to the art form itself is truth...but at least you won’t read it.

Esher

#poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writingcommunity #narcissist
October 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
For #nationalpoetryday some poems deleted when I left X thanks to that salute & a writer, almost as toxic.

Here by zero demand 🙄
#poetrycommunity #poetry
October 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Thanks Ju !
I have managed to herd just one cat to tonight’s rehearsal for Saturday’s gig 🤪

I will see if I can record his keyboard playing for a final single; about time I had my brother on a track..
September 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
A poem for the indifference of Tuesday..’Back up’

#poem #poetry #Tuesday #poetrycommunity #writing #writingcommunity #narcissist
September 30, 2025 at 8:25 AM
For #smallpoemsunday I hope this late contribution is ok - “Hem”.

Two photos for context..

Hem

Old friends
Indignities of time
skirted over
with other preoccupations
These days, the hem-line
below the knee..

Matt Guntrip
September 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
For #poemsabout #neveragain a late contribution, a bit personal and a little off the theme but maybe it’s that “taking a knife to the knots of narrative” (Jenny Xie I think).
Will try to catch up here soon.
September 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
A #poem for this Tuesday, because not everyone is who they seem..

#writingcommunity
#poetry
September 23, 2025 at 5:50 AM
For #smallpoemsunday I had a shorter poem, but plumped for this confusing one, linking probability, the science of heat, and an inevitable ending…
September 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Thank you Evie !!
September 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Un écho à propos de rien, pour le Mardi

🙄

#poesie
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
September 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
For #smallpoemsunday my mum’s piano arrived at my daughter’s place where I’m staying. Though willing neither of her sons can look after it..
September 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM