Mirkka
@mirkkawrites.bsky.social
Poet. Bingewatching something from the nineties.
"Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically."
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"Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically."
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Next Poetry School MA reading is on Weds 26 Nov at The Cheshire Cheese WC2R 3LD - update your calendars & see you there!
#poetry #PoetryReading #events #LondonEvents
#poetry #PoetryReading #events #LondonEvents
November 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Next Poetry School MA reading is on Weds 26 Nov at The Cheshire Cheese WC2R 3LD - update your calendars & see you there!
#poetry #PoetryReading #events #LondonEvents
#poetry #PoetryReading #events #LondonEvents
Hope over big money and small ideas.
November 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Hope over big money and small ideas.
Labour, please, please, please take notes.
November 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Labour, please, please, please take notes.
"too many among us have turned to the right for answers to why they've been left behind"
This is how you bring people together instead of bowing to division.
This is how you bring people together instead of bowing to division.
November 5, 2025 at 7:50 AM
"too many among us have turned to the right for answers to why they've been left behind"
This is how you bring people together instead of bowing to division.
This is how you bring people together instead of bowing to division.
How much cabbage can a single person consume in the two weeks between veggie boxes? First round goes to the veggie box. Feeling confident about this round. I got this.
October 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
How much cabbage can a single person consume in the two weeks between veggie boxes? First round goes to the veggie box. Feeling confident about this round. I got this.
Okay, big day: I've accidentally made my first definite "these will last me for the rest of my life" -purchase. 500 grams of rubber bands. Half a kilo of rubber bands. Rubber bands for life. 🥲
October 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Okay, big day: I've accidentally made my first definite "these will last me for the rest of my life" -purchase. 500 grams of rubber bands. Half a kilo of rubber bands. Rubber bands for life. 🥲
I've got a poem in this beautiful anthology from @rough-diamond1.bsky.social - and I'm particularly pleased it's opposite a poem about Francis Bacon at the Tate. He has disturbed me to write a poem too!
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FT2VN3L...
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FT2VN3L...
October 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I've got a poem in this beautiful anthology from @rough-diamond1.bsky.social - and I'm particularly pleased it's opposite a poem about Francis Bacon at the Tate. He has disturbed me to write a poem too!
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FT2VN3L...
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FT2VN3L...
We go again next Monday!
October 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We go again next Monday!
"see alternatives to how we live now, and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies, to other ways of being. And even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom: poets, visionaries – the realists of a larger reality.” Le Guin
September 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"see alternatives to how we live now, and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies, to other ways of being. And even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom: poets, visionaries – the realists of a larger reality.” Le Guin
Correction, all I want is someone who feels this way about me.
August 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Correction, all I want is someone who feels this way about me.
All I want is a spin-off with these two.
July 31, 2025 at 8:50 PM
All I want is a spin-off with these two.
So this popped up. Took literally only a minute to go through the whole process of some face scan service to confirm I am indeed an old person.
July 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
So this popped up. Took literally only a minute to go through the whole process of some face scan service to confirm I am indeed an old person.
This sign simply explains the position of the UK government, and the current laws of the land.
July 23, 2025 at 7:42 AM
This sign simply explains the position of the UK government, and the current laws of the land.
"And in the room, there is/ a question, alive - would I have risked harm/ to try to protect you [] or would I have stood/ aside, in the ordinary cowardice and self-/ interest of my flesh" from Meeting a Stranger, Sharon Olds
July 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
"And in the room, there is/ a question, alive - would I have risked harm/ to try to protect you [] or would I have stood/ aside, in the ordinary cowardice and self-/ interest of my flesh" from Meeting a Stranger, Sharon Olds
I f ng hate these snooze button articles. YES WE KNOW*! It is one last moment of solace before the day's torment. Give me a better solution or stop stating the bloody obvious.
*how do we know, you ask? Because these same articles have been written since the invention of snooze button.
*how do we know, you ask? Because these same articles have been written since the invention of snooze button.
June 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I f ng hate these snooze button articles. YES WE KNOW*! It is one last moment of solace before the day's torment. Give me a better solution or stop stating the bloody obvious.
*how do we know, you ask? Because these same articles have been written since the invention of snooze button.
*how do we know, you ask? Because these same articles have been written since the invention of snooze button.
@theguardian.com It's no longer "alleged" when the courts have ruled it so. Language matters. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
May 5, 2025 at 7:07 AM
@theguardian.com It's no longer "alleged" when the courts have ruled it so. Language matters. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
This is a real captcha. The correct answer to "similar to a chocolate biscuit and turtle" is cat biscuits. JFC.
April 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This is a real captcha. The correct answer to "similar to a chocolate biscuit and turtle" is cat biscuits. JFC.
I wanted to be a good netizen and went to check. It's a horror show.
March 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I wanted to be a good netizen and went to check. It's a horror show.
"A person can be understood only through the life they choose, the people they choose, the things they do" C Lacey in Biography of X.
March 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"A person can be understood only through the life they choose, the people they choose, the things they do" C Lacey in Biography of X.
I love Anne Carson so much.
February 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I love Anne Carson so much.
"Every hour of TV-viewing after the age of 25 cuts lifespan by about 22 minutes." Considering my bingeing habits, I am dead and have been for some time. (From Cheat Sheets for Life)
February 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
"Every hour of TV-viewing after the age of 25 cuts lifespan by about 22 minutes." Considering my bingeing habits, I am dead and have been for some time. (From Cheat Sheets for Life)
Hmm... this headline needs more detail - could mean absolutely anything.
February 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Hmm... this headline needs more detail - could mean absolutely anything.
