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Síodhna
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#Dublin based #poet #nature lover. Writes on Substack under @theseainme. Here's my about page https://theseainme.substack.com/about
I like to write about the things people don't talk about through the intimacy of #poetry
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rhunedhel.bsky.social
Here's @siodhna.bsky.social's "Iris"
alliteration.net/poetry/iris/ #emoetry #tender #poetry
Iris: A Poem in Alliterative Free Verse by Siodhna McGowan
summer of intricate pattern, / waited patiently— / for the letting alone of things ...
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November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
siodhna.bsky.social
Unbreakable
unbreakable
the undying leaf speaks, full to Moon what say you of this darkened spoon?
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November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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edge
(inspired by the time we're living through)

theseainme.substack.com/p/edge

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edge
look how the trees assemble themselves in theatres of light how murmurations twist and rise— orchestral choral sounds ascend in uncontainable thrust mosaics— from the darkened dust ask us to the wordl...
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August 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
siodhna.bsky.social
theseainme.substack.com/p/no-kings?r...

I might be a bit prone toward abstraction, I really intend for the feeling I feel to run through you too.

Let me know what you think.
no kings
no kings.
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July 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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theseainme.substack.com/p/the-return...

#poetry #BlueSkyPoets
June 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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#poetry #BlueSkyPoets
May 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
siodhna.bsky.social
'in communion'

walking the turns and folds of your beautiful body
my feet trace shapes— earthen and winding
the off-trails of oaken majesty

#poetry #poem #Irishpoetry #BlueSkyPoetry
in communion
(a river runs through it)
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May 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
siodhna.bsky.social
Bealtaine

the universe is exhaling us
from her deep intakes of breath

we find ways back to each other like this
in Maytime Belenos bliss—

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Bealtaine
(an abandoned Haiku)
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May 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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poetryireland.bsky.social
We Carried May by Róisín Leggett Bohan

@leggettbohan.bsky.social is from Cork. She is co-founder of HOWL New Irish Writing. Her work appears in Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, Magma, Aesthetica and The Pomegranate London, among others.

Find #PoetryDayIRL Poems across @irishrail.bsky.social DARTs!
April 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
siodhna.bsky.social
Art is born
to souls seeded with wonder

in words. it sounds. it sings

#PoetryDayIRL #BlueSkyPoetry
#BlueSkyPoets
Art is born
(for Poetry Day Ireland today)
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May 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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rhunedhel.bsky.social
A recent bit of #alliterative #free-verse #poetry by @siodhna.bsky.social:

theseainme.substack.com/p/kintsugi
Kintsugi
let's go back, shall we?
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April 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
siodhna.bsky.social
'Kintsugi'

(for the times we're living through, full poem, tunes and audio read on link)

#poetry #poem #Irishpoetry#BlueSkyPoetry #BlueSkyPoets #BlueSkyPoetry #poetrycommunity
Kintsugi
let's go back, shall we?
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April 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
siodhna.bsky.social
'in this version of myself I'm not living on the outhales of anyone's affection.

I’m walking along a beach of foaming contrails, curving the edge of hypnotic hush.....'

(full piece on Substack link below)

#prosepoetry
#BlueSkyPoets
#poetrycommunity
transience
in this version of myself I'm not living on the outhales of anyone's affection.
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April 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
siodhna.bsky.social
Síolta

(Pronounced 'Sheelta' the Irish word for seeds)

In these noisy times....

'In fire, in wind, it might ignite
We oar the distance between'

Read in full and listen to audio on link below

#poetry #poem #Irishpoetry #BlueSkyPoets
#poetrycommunity
síolta
(Síolta is the Irish word for 'Seeds' pronounced 'Sheelta')
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April 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
siodhna.bsky.social
#Spring #Equinox #poetry #poem #Irishpoetry #BlueSkyPoetry #poetrycommunity #BlueSkyPoets
Spring Equinox
the chevron of birds, like fighter pilots fly this way, but I walk that.
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March 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
siodhna.bsky.social
'On leaving the park'

New poem out! You can read here on Substack.

theseainme.substack.com/p/on-leaving...

#poetry #poem #Irishpoetry #BlueSkyPoetry #poetrycommunity #BlueSkyPoets
March 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
siodhna.bsky.social
'Woman'

a faint, what seems like pink
tinges the edge of a cloud— and then my mind

(read in full on Substack)

#InternationalWomensDay
#IWD
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‘Woman’
(for International Women’s Day)
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March 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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theseainme.substack.com/p/vexations-...

vexations of the spirit

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#poetrylovers #BlueSkyPoets #BlueSkyPoetry

#US #Ukraine #tradewars #Zelensky #Starmer #Macron #Trudeau
March 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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anti-misogyny.bsky.social
"the freedom every woman should get today

made the neanderthal behind me spit fire

I ear to eared— cheered"

In honour of International Woman's Day (this Saturday, 8th March), Woman by @siodhna.bsky.social is new in our gallery:

www.theantimisogynyclub.com/gallery/woman
Woman — THE ANTI-MISOGYNY CLUB
(for International Women’s Day) a faint, what seems like pink— tinges the edge of a cloud, and then my mind moments later, it breaks into something else a spectrum ...
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March 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
siodhna.bsky.social
For #ednaobrien. For #blueroad For you.

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#poetry #poem #Irishpoetry #BlueSkyPoetry #poetrycommunity #BlueSkyPoets
February 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
siodhna.bsky.social
For #love. For #friendship. For you.

#poetry #poem #Irishpoetry #BlueSkyPoetry #poetrycommunity #BlueSkyPoets #poetrylovers #Valentine's
the dreamer from the dream
(fragments of love)
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February 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
siodhna.bsky.social
A first for me. And a surprise when I started to read this poetry collection from Paul Wittenberger. To read my name in the acknowledgements of another poet's collection. Here's to the stepping stones we walk.
February 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
siodhna.bsky.social
Now, I'm higher than anyone here

New poem out today.

theseainme.substack.com/p/now-im-hig...

For #Brigid. For #Imbolc. For you.

#poetry #poem #Irishpoetry #BlueSkyPoetry #poetrycommunity #BlueSkyPoets #poetrylovers
Now, I'm higher than anyone here
the tree sang so sweetly to the risen air, before it fell both the victims and the perpetrators in a storm— are the tall trees.
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February 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
siodhna.bsky.social
Alchemy, voiced

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January 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
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January 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM