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Midwestern Gen Xer scouting for hope
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johnchmura.bsky.social
I love the tension and the challenge. I may never look at zucchini the same way again. The prude in me hopes that table had a pretty long tablecloth! Great poem!
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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stacebot.bsky.social
I love the way the tension builds here -- the little hesitations, the apologies, the eyebrow lift. Such great pacing.
November 15, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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rayhourigan.bsky.social
Desire's inferno,
Glowing warmth of love, the fire
Lives inside us all.
#PoemsAbout #Desire #haiku #poem #writing #writingcommunity
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@thebrokenspine.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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inperfectwander.bsky.social
#poemsabout #desire @brokenspinejournal.bsky.social @alanparrywriter.co.uk

#poetry #poem #blueskypoets #amwriting
I bend reality towards that which I desire–that gravity– Consider: my hand seeking your skin, our protons charging the air, bodies buzzing in the ripple and sway of space. Here on this endless plane, we pulse infinitely through the void: dazzling quanta of energy ever leaping to connect.
November 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
rteller.bsky.social
For #PoemsAbout #Desire, here's one of mine that was published recently in Locust Shells Journal locustshellsjournal.com/volume-2-iss...

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that tension between the zucchini Change my mind about the sordid way he smiled at me and brushed his shoe against mine I apologize my foot was in his way again then again so I lift an eyebrow as the server arrives with a plate of appetizers and I’m granted another smile temptation tension I slip my foot out of its shoe desperate daring slide it between his knees into his lap he caresses the ankle my Achilles heel and finds out he loves zucchini
November 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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thebrokenspine.co.uk
#PoemsAbout #Desire is live. Post from today through Thursday. Tag your post. Use Alt Text. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché. Engage—don’t ghost. Read 3+, repost, reply. Sign up for prompt packs: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
A halved papaya lies open on a dark, wet surface. Its glistening red interior, filled with pomegranate seeds and dripping juice, carries a sensual, sexually suggestive tone. Scattered berries surround it. The Broken Spine logo, shaped like a black fountain pen nib, appears top left. "@thebrokenspine.co.uk" is written top right in white. At the bottom right, bold white text reads: "Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #DESIRE".
November 14, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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rotherwrites.bsky.social
Hello everyone for this week's @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout.

Two Remembrance ceremonies and a Remembrance Day poetry group have knocked the harshness out of me. #Desire has taken me back to writing the intangible.

We're on autopilot; keep posting, liking, commenting and reposting. 🔥
Persuasion It’s more a conviction, season’s feather-finger touch, than jolt, a subtle landslide shift, say coastal shingle drift, seeing from other placed eyes a distinct attention shift, a hint, a shoulder touch, word or inflection, that stirs and latches into movement, as of a lock or escapement, releasing energy in a click or glide, a move you recognise only later, the movement having already taken you, your pulse much more animated more definite in hue and feel. Call it desire; I call it persuasion. © Glenn Barker November 2025
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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davidbirch.bsky.social
A quick #haiku in response to today's #PoemsAbout response #Desire from @thebrokenspine.co.uk. Very best wishes to @alanparrywriter.co.uk. Looking forward to reading and responding to other responses #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets
November 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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metaphorqu.bsky.social
#PoemsAbout #Desire @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Deep in the bone

there is a lust

for

Silence

Do not disturb me

with your

Noise; your

Words.
thebrokenspine.co.uk The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 3d
#PoemsAbout #Desire is live. Post from today through Thursday. Tag your post. Use Alt Text. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché. Engage—don’t ghost. Read 3+, repost, reply. Sign up for prompt packs: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
A halved papaya lies open on a dark, wet surface. Its glistening red interior, filled with pomegranate seeds and dripping juice, carries a sensual, sexually suggestive tone. Scattered berries surround it. The Broken Spine logo, shaped like a black fountain pen nib, appears top left. "@thebrokenspine.co.uk" is written top right in white. At the bottom right, bold white text reads: "Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #DESIRE".
November 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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emteepoetry.bsky.social
I can honestly say this is the only poem I've written of this nature, not quite sure what I was on at the time. It was early in the Covid pandemic, if that had a bearing?

Back to read more posts later.

For #PoemsAbout #Desire
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
#poetry
#poetsonBlueSky
November 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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For #PoemsAbout #Desire
with thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

This Moment
A poem about desire
November 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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thebrokenspine.co.uk
#PoemsAbout #Desire starts Friday. Write toward the want. The mouth, the mirror, the hunger that hums. Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag your post. Use Alt Text. Sign up for prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
A halved papaya lies open on a dark, wet surface. Its glistening red interior, filled with pomegranate seeds and dripping juice, carries a sensual, sexually suggestive tone. Scattered berries surround it. The Broken Spine logo, shaped like a black fountain pen nib, appears top left. "@thebrokenspine.co.uk" is written top right in white. At the bottom right, bold white text reads: "Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #DESIRE".
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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yeehawpoems.bsky.social
Happy Monday! I would like to #lifttothesky @gabriellev.art for her incredible kindness, intentions which transcend across her words and art, and the way she uplifts other poets in her collections.
November 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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mwplovesmusic.bsky.social
I #lifttothesky @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social
for her tireless efforts and support of our FAFO community and just for being an excellent poet and human.
November 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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poetry-with-hart.bsky.social
My #lifttothesky this week is @thescribblings.com. He is a font of information for everything #prompt related. Makes a lot of our online lives in the #poetrycommunity so much easier with his compilations. All the thanks and best wishes to him🤗

#writingcommunity #writing #poetry #writers #skypoets
November 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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mother-poet.bsky.social
My #LiftToTheSky this Monday goes out to @saintghost.bsky.social - I love your poetry!!! ✨️ 🕯 🖤 💖
a girl in a white dress with fairy wings is standing in the sunlight
ALT: a girl in a white dress with fairy wings is standing in the sunlight
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November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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cdotjuniper.bsky.social
I would like to #LiftToTheSky @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social, because through her:
• expressive poetry,
• evocative emoetry prompts,
• continual community encouragement,
she generously shares her vibrancy.

So I would like to lift her to the sky.

But that’s hard to do for someone who is already there.
November 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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philippabowe.bsky.social
A day late for #LiftToTheSky - it goes to these amazing poems by Ramsey Tawfick, enaged and engaging and simply beautiful (the interview with him is also worth reading). 💫✨💜
@thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

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Poetry of Ramsey Tawfick — ONLY POEMS
New poems from Ramsey Tawfick
www.onlypoems.net
November 4, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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philippabowe.bsky.social
Today's #LiftToTheSky goes to @victoriamelekian.bsky.social, as modest as she is talented. Her reading of some of the tender, beautiful poems from her book The Accidental Courage of Our Lives is hugely enjoyable. 💫
@thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

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Sheila-Na-Gig Editions Presents Poet Victoria Melekian, October 2025
YouTube video by Sheila-Na-Gig Presents
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November 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk
For today’s #LiftToTheSky I’d like to boost @rotherwrites.bsky.social a northern poet who writes with originality, truth and verve. You can find his work here and in various anthologies as well as a showcase here feversofthemind.com/2023/08/15/a...

A great supporter of the #poetrycommunity too.
A Poetry Showcase from Glenn Barker
Bio: Glenn, started writing during pandemic silence and confinement. He is drawn to the edges of what we see: the impressions that lie just beyond perception; and also the dynamics of the human psy…
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November 10, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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poetry-with-hart.bsky.social
Good morning, my #lifttothesky this week is @dnwritespoetry.bsky.social. She is a wonderful part of the #poemsabout community, gives fantastic feedback to everyone every week, and is a brilliant poet to boot. All the warmest of hugs 🤗

#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poets #writers #skypoet
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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johnadlam.bsky.social
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Today I #LiftToTheSky The Book of Bogs, edited by Anna Chilvers and @clareshawpoet.bsky.social - which I am proud to have helped crowdfund. It's gorgeous & important in equal measure - deep layers of poetry and prose to warm our winters 🙏❤️
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The Book of Bogs
This new anthology from over forty writers, including Robert Macfarlane, Amy Liptrot, Alys Fowler and Patti Smith explores peatlands and bogs, and argues for their importance.
www.littletoller.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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thebrokenspine.co.uk
"Only lost souls that slipped through from the dry land above us."
For the readers drawn to darker waters—this one’s still waiting.
@martinkennedyyates.bsky.social #ThisWilderness
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Book cover of This Wilderness & Other Concerns by Martin Kennedy Yates, published by The Broken Spine. The cover artwork depicts an urban canal or waterway running between old brick and industrial buildings, with graffiti on one wall and a dark, moody atmosphere. A quote from writer and poet Jonathan Davidson reads: “These poems are a pleasure both to encounter and to read.”
November 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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karenpgonzalez.bsky.social
One of my #murals #Stunday #BlueSkyArtists #MyBackyard #MyPhoto 38inx26inh
November 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM