Matthew M C Smith
matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
Matthew M C Smith
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
Poet. Writer. Reviewer. Swansea.
A new #poem wot I wrote this morning in celebration of #Autumn for the lovely weekly event that happens to be TopTweetTuesday on Twitter.

‘Another Autumn Poem is Released into the World like a Takeaway Flyer’ 🍂 🌧️
November 11, 2025 at 6:41 AM
The latest bumper edition of @eatthestorms.com edited by Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com and @rhonagreene.bsky.social

Stunning publication!
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 AM
New #poem - ‘Pulses’.

‘the body’s case of organs’

‘one square of angel light’
November 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
#GuyFawkes #Firework night #poem from last year!
November 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
At a foodbank near you. 😢

The quiet anarchy of the volunteer who cannot be in the photo with the MP.

#poetry #foodbank #poverty #CeasefireNOW #welfarerights #politics #GazaCeasefire @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @plaidcymru.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @socialistworker.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Opportunity for those who like to make up caricatures of different types of poets (doing impressions). Fictional types of course, not based on anyone particular. Apply within.
November 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Host today of the #Halloween micropoem contest - 14 words maximum!

@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social 🧛

Keep them coming until midnight, your timezone. Love you all ♥️ 🕸️
October 31, 2025 at 8:35 PM
For our special TopTweetTuesday on Twitter on the subject of #Halloween a pumpkin 🎃 poem for you

#poetry #writingcommunity #micropoem #poem
October 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
A spidery micropoem…

#poetry #spider #halloween #micropoem
October 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
‘The steel of evening
spirited back into its case’

Night, Jack the Ripper, the paranormal.

🩸 🧳

For our chilling Halloween TopTweetTuesday on Twitter a new #poem

#JacktheRipper #halloween #poetry
October 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM
'Imagine meta 1 as cold as an ice pack, like Eliot in a mortuary' 🧊🐱

'like a comedian as funny as celery' 👎

'like Prynne on a piss-take'

My poem about a poem about a poem for this week's #meta TopTweetTuesday

#poetry #poetic #writing #writer
October 21, 2025 at 7:32 AM
A poem on Sunday - ‘Call this an Ending’

#poetry #writing #poet #poetic #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky
October 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
When you edited a book and enjoy it even more - months later. ❤️‍🔥

@louloumach.bsky.social book ‘I Am Not Light’ is so dark and intense. Hits you, wave after wave.

tinyurl.com/2xzyc5hy
October 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Autumn sunset -
a feather touch
along the jawline.

#micropoem
#shortpoem
#poem
#poetry
#poetsofbluesky
October 10, 2025 at 7:19 AM
New poem 💀

Avoid the abstract they said.
Avoid abstract nouns. Ground your poetry in the ordinary, the everyday, they said.

To hell with such banal limitations.

TopTweetTuesday ‘mystical’
prompt, hosted by @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social on Twitter

#poetry #poetrylovers✒️ #poetrycommunity
October 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
For #nationalpoetryday ‘Autumn Uprising’ - on the subject of #play - this year’s theme, published in @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 🐻 🧍‍♀️ 🐝 🤠 🍂
Christmas-Winter 4

#toystory #wreckitralph #wreckitralph2 #writing #childhood #autumn
October 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
For #nationalpoetryday and the theme ‘play’ this nonet #poem - nine lines in descending syllabic order - also posted for Twitter’s TopTweetTuesday #poetry #writing #writingcommunity
September 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
September 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Where’ve you been all my poetic life #GeoffreyHill ~ final poetry boss man!

#poetry #writing #writingcommunity
September 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Nowadays the much-needed decompressing lunchbreak is a rarefied experience. Costa coffee and Seamus Heaney.
#poetry #writing #books #writinginspiration
September 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
An invertebrate #poem for our writing challenge today on
TopTweetTuesday on Twitter hosted by Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social 🌊 ⭐️

Thank you to all of our contributors 🙏
September 16, 2025 at 6:16 AM
🔥CONGRATULATIONS 🔥

@saraswatinagpal.bsky.social on the launch of her poetry collection 'Drench Me in Silver', available now on Amazon and at your door in days!

Available at: shorturl.at/82QxI

#poetry #writing #poet #poetic #Indianpoetry
September 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
For TopTweetTuesday on Twitter and our host Swapna Sanchita - a poem focused on the theme of ‘urban decay’, a 30 word challenge - maybe urban, less decay. Not easy!

#poetry #writing
September 9, 2025 at 5:55 AM
For my daughters, ‘Origin’.

‘A breaking cry cleared your darkness’

❤️‍🔥

#poetry #Dad #poet #writing #writingcommunity #fathers #fatherlove #dads #poet #childbirth
September 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
For TopTweetTuesday on Twitter this week, post an author photo, one of your short imagistic poems (100 words max) and a bio. Get yourself in the shop window! Boost others today.

#writing #poetrycommunity #writers #poet #poetic #poetrylovers #writingcommunity
September 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM