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Rebekah Teller 💙🏳️‍🌈
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Midwestern Gen Xer #poet

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RABBLE REVIEW is turning 5 and celebrating with its first contest. Open to flash fiction and poetry, winners receive $50 and publication. 500 words max for flash and one poem max for poetry entries. October 16 deadline. $5 fee.

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RABBLE REVIEW Anniversary Flash and Poetry Contest
RABBLE REVIEW is celebrating turning five with an Anniversary Flash and Poetry Contest open now through October 16, 2026.
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September 29, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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If you missed the RABBLE REVIEW No.10 livestream you can rewatch it now on YouTube! Thank you so much to our contributors for their readings. We hope you enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-4B...
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October 5, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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#PoemsAbout #Rot is live.

Let something stink.

Post from today through Thursday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché

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A dark, close-up photograph of wilted and decaying flowers, their curled brown petals lit by warm orange light against a near-black background. The Broken Spine logo appears at the top left and @thebrokenspine.co.uk at the top right. White text at the bottom reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #ROT”.
October 2, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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Here’s one for #PoemsAbout #Rot Thanks as ever to @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Rot Apples slump beneath the tree, their sweetness turning, their skins split open to wasps, mould, the soft insistence of the earth. Wood darkens at the edges. Bark gives up its hardness. Underneath, the pale threads of fungus move quietly through the wreckage, stitching fallen things together. There is heat in it, low, damp, held close, the mulch steaming faintly when the morning turns cold. Everything firm is being persuaded out of its shape: leaf into loam, flesh into richness, the fallen branch into something roots can enter. And below all this yielding, blind as hunger, the earth grows dark with what it has been given.
October 2, 2026 at 6:11 AM
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Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for today's #PoemsAbout prompt #Rot. Here are some unfiltered reflections on the state of our local river. Looking forward to reading other offerings from the #PoetryCommunity later
October 2, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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Good morning lovely #poets, sharing something new for #PoemsAbout #Rot this week. 'Glas' can mean grey (Gaelic), green (Irish, sometimes Gaelic), blue (Welsh, Breton) or even paler/silvery shades! Colour as a social construct!
Glas To learn the words for colours, we must unsee. Nothing is fixed, nothing finite. Changes come with the light, the season, your mood, my presence. Or unpresence. On your table are the flowers, he left. Left too long. Bleeding to grey.
October 2, 2026 at 8:06 AM
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#PoemsAbout #Rot starts Friday.

Write decomposition. Corruption. Spoilage. Something beautiful kept long past the point it should have been thrown away.

Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.
A dark, close-up photograph of wilted and decaying flowers, their curled brown petals lit by warm orange light against a near-black background. The Broken Spine logo appears at the top left and @thebrokenspine.co.uk at the top right. White text at the bottom reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #ROT”.
September 29, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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For this week's #PoemsAbout #DeadLetters I'm thinking about what has to die for a letter to be dead.

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#prompt #poetry #blueskypoetry #writesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poets #creativewriting
dead letter i wash the dishes in the dark because i know where everything is. the tap. the soap. the chipped glass you always said to throw away. remember when you said nothing mattered and i said nothing. it does. the glass slips. i hear it break somewhere in the sink. for a while i leave my hands where they are. the tap keeps running. i am quiet. you are far away. or whatever you are. eventually i put my hand back in the water.
September 26, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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Next up: #Rot.

Flowers rot. Houses rot. Governments rot. Love can rot beautifully if you leave it somewhere warm enough.

New theme begins Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout. Read. Repost. Reply.
A dark, close-up photograph of wilted and decaying flowers, their curled brown petals lit by warm orange light against a near-black background. The Broken Spine logo appears at the top left and @thebrokenspine.co.uk at the top right. White text at the bottom reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #ROT”.
September 27, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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#PoemsAbout #DeadLetters starts Friday.

Write what never arrived. What came back unopened. What you wrote and couldn't send.

Or address the dead and see who answers.

Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.
A dark still-life photograph of old handwritten letters and envelopes layered across a surface, some decorated with postage marks and small pressed-flower designs. The Broken Spine logo appears at the top left and @thebrokenspine.co.uk at the top right. White text at the bottom reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #DEADLETTERS”.
September 22, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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reyt Friday this is it girls & boys
over the hill and into #PoemsAbout
here’s my little “throwaway” poem
for #Faultlines and give thanks to
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
enjoy your weekend everyone everywhere
not forgetting it’s my birthday weekend 🛋️🚶‍➡️🚶‍♂️🚶‍➡️🚶‍♂️🫶🏿👩‍🦰
September 11, 2026 at 5:38 AM
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Here's a fairly literal response to today's #PoemsAbout #Faultlines but it fits in with recent attempts to write about our local Jurassic Coast.
Many thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
September 11, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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#PoemsAbout #FaultLines starts Friday.

Write what happens under pressure. The hairline crack. The old division. The thing everybody stepped over until the ground moved.

Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.
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September 8, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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Next up: #FaultLines.

The crack rarely starts where everyone can see it. Families. Lovers. Bodies. Borders. Beliefs. Find the pressure underneath.

New theme begins Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout. Read. Repost. Reply.
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September 6, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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Many thanks to @rabblereview.bsky.social for including one of my #poems in their new issue: rabblereview.com/rr10
RABBLE REVIEW ISSUE No.10 | RABBLE REVIEW
We are excited to bring you a new issue of RABBLE REVIEW later this summer. Our tenth issue is an exploration of this current moment in time. It will also explore the hunger and yearning that is begin...
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September 7, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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Here's a poem of mine, "Dripping Gown" for #PoemsAbout #SheddingSkins

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Most weekends we went to the Lake To swim, sunbathe, and ride the waves. Grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins, Our relatives came by the dozens. Days at the Lake rely on sun And no one wants to be the one Who gets there when rain’s in the sky. They stay indoors, and they stay dry. But they’re the fools, if you ask me. I’d never even miss a beat. The rain is the best time to play. It washes all the pain away. I turn some music up so loud And dance all night under the clouds. The raindrops sliding down my skin Make me feel alive again. I stomp and splash And spin and scream, Sway back and forth Like it’s a dream. To lose myself In this wet night, Bare feet in puddles, I delight. Pour all this darkness down on me. You’ll never get a frown from me. Just find a silver crown for me And slip this dripping gown off me. ’Cause I’m the queen of what’s insane. I breathe lightning and drink the rain. And no one here knows my real name When every day’s a different game. Turn up the song. Kick up the beat And make some room For happy feet, ’Cause this right here Is where I live. This right here Is what I give. I bring you neverending rain. I bring rhythms that ease your pain. The splashes wash all over you. The verses make you feel brand new. So tell me why they want it dry. I’m telling you, I’d rather die. There’s nothing better than a night Of cold and wet and dark delight
September 4, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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If you like our #PoemsAbout prompts, you should be reading the poets we publish.

AFTER HOURS: BEAT CULTURE MADE NEW is full of the territory we keep returning to: outsiders, restless lives, rebellion, memory and the world beyond respectable hours.

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September 1, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #SheddingSkins.

What had to come off before you could move?

Don’t polish the transformation. Give us the split, the scrape, the raw bit underneath.

Don’t post before Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.
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September 3, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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POEM 364: "Gift" by Leah Muncy

"The secret is that we all wish we had it worse
than anyone else. The doctor rides in on his horse
and says: I’m sorry, this pain is original."

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#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
August 23, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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For #PoemsAbout #DeepCuts

With much thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk
A free verse poem that explores how we view emotional wounding differently.
August 21, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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I have no stigmata
to show you
no bleeding heart
but I can talk about
the names of birds and trees
politics wild plums
agricultural policies
and the secret life of a meadow
if you're interested.

#PoemsAbout
#DeepCuts
August 21, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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she smiles with her mouth
but look closely
those eyes
reveal
deep cuts

#PoemsAbout #DeepCuts

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August 21, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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Here’s one for #PoemsAbout #DeepCuts many thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Cut They cut the payment but the cold stayed. The meter still warned that credit was low. The fridge still hummed around an empty shelf. A mother still counted coins at the till, put back the fruit Nothing was lifted. Not the damp. Not the debt. Not the ache of making less reach further. But elsewhere a headline sharpened. A voice said scrounger, another said fraud, and slowly the distance widened. It became easier to look away. Easier to believe hunger had been chosen, that poverty was a habit, that need was somehow evidence against the needy. The cut did not make suffering smaller. It only made the circle of sympathy smaller. Cui bono?
August 21, 2026 at 6:32 AM
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Last week's poets brought it. This week: #PoemsAbout #EndOfSummer. Not sunsets. Consequences. The season is leaving. What stays behind? Theme opens Friday. Use Alt Text.
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August 23, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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#PoemsAbout #MainStage is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, working-class grit, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.
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August 14, 2026 at 7:00 AM