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#PoemsAbout #Haunted is live.

Raise the dead. Resurrect the past. Or write about something much worse: the thing that never left.

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October 30, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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#PoemsAbout #Hollow is live.

Find the empty space and make it speak.

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October 23, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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#PoemsAbout #Possessed is live.

Lose control.

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October 16, 2026 at 6:00 AM
teaintheweeds.bsky.social
How much of what we suspect is the truth? And who is innocent?

#PoemsAbout #Bites #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché #Poetry #DarkPoetry #NarrativePoetry #Amilie
Amilie The reeds are nestling into the wind, and the autumn season twitches. The trout are whispering in my ear— “I don't care. I don't care. I don't care.” There's a line and bobber pulled from the water. Hush. Hush— the bass murmur to soothe. The girls at school candied their comments. I choked on what their sweetness disguised. Their amusements were carnival games. Sinking beneath them— an offering to savor. They will find you. They will find you. They will find you. My principal drew me into his lingering embrace. His gaze summoning others. Search closer— You'll find me in the filth around you. What has the muck preserved? Clasped tight. Clasped tighter. Ensnared. And the preacher held my hand. His big fingers rested over mine. He'll let go. He'll let go. He'll let go. I counted the spaces between his private lectures. Call my father. Call my father. Breathe on— Please, God—oh Lord, save my soul. My mother was impatient. I wandered out of sight. Come home. Come home. Come home. She called me back—the night laughed. Step by step. Stone by stone. All alone. And in the dim light of the glade— she begged, she moaned. I took a path in a princess dress, where the rushes ached for water. The sedges tangled around my ankles, and bubbles slipped between agonizing gasps. No one there. No one there. No one there. A tackle box sat beside the bank. Please find me. Please find me. Please find me. Not a sigh. Not a break. Not a howl. Only the fish playing games in my mouth. The reeds are nestling back into the ivy. Spring—the season, now slowly vanishing. And the tadpoles grow legs and turn into toads. But here I am. Here I am. Here I am. The trout—they whisper, “I'll see you next autumn.” No one's coming. No one's coming. No one's coming. The wake—it washes the tears from my hair. Sparkling gown—torn to pieces beneath heaven. Wait for me, pray for me, sunk somewhere along the bottom. I'm still here. I'm still here. I'm still here. —LaShelle—
October 11, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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#PoemsAbout #Bites is live.

Bare your teeth.

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October 9, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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#PoemsAbout #Rot is live.

Let something stink.

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October 2, 2026 at 6:00 AM
gwill2k.bsky.social
I find a letter written,
not yet torn and bitten;
I see her eyes beaming,
her words weren't alone;
beckoned by the core…
I find myself heading home,
death is what?

#PoemsAbout #DeadLetters
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I find a letter written not yet torn and bitten I see her eyes beaming her words weren't alone beckoned by the core I find myself heading home death is what? illustration & poem by g from a teenage notebook
September 26, 2026 at 3:26 AM
thebrokenspine.co.uk
#PoemsAbout #DeadLetters is live.

Address it. Stamp it. Confess something. Then decide whether it deserves to arrive.

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September 25, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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#PoemsAbout #Strays is live.

Get lost. Go feral. Refuse to come when called.

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September 18, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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#PoemsAbout #FaultLines is live.

Find the fracture. Put your finger in it.

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September 11, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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#PoemsAbout #SheddingSkins is live.

Skin. Names. Roles. Histories. Old selves left snagged on something sharp.

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September 4, 2026 at 6:00 AM
thebrokenspine.co.uk
#PoemsAbout #EndOfSummer 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 28, 2026 at 7:00 AM
thebrokenspine.co.uk
#PoemsAbout #DeepCuts is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, queer voices, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.
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August 21, 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
thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
For #poemsabout #transitions. Have a great day @alanparry83.bsky.social #EndOnAnImage #Authentic #TakeRisks
My Chaste Eye Call me Worm Eye; Paschal Eye, Lenten eye, Crow eye, Crust eye, Sugar eye, Sap eye. All these names I am, full in a daylight sky. Make my wishes come true, bless this soft small garden in moonlight. I prepare the earth for your planting. Prepare yourself for change. Call me Gust Eye and Plough Eye. It's so worth seeing my Sap Eye bleed and worms rise range over warm soil, after snow melt and ice crust refrozen glints before it too, melts. Turn plough, bring up riches, bury weeds, You must, prepare my ground for my eye to relearn new beginnings, my Chaste soil sight dug fresh, this eye returned from hard dark starts to stretch.
June 20, 2025 at 6:52 AM
thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
For #PoemsAbout #NeverForget — @alanparry83.bsky.social.
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When She flags down the bus of forgiveness, steps on and pays the price to go the distance, and sits down next to trepidation who smells like a street full of crocodiles and iguana skins, while she sees grief and sadness holding placards on street corners advertising communication at no cost for a limited time. This is her stop where she gets off and finds herself in the recrimination market, where temporary stalls of remembrance shout discounted sweet deals with hidden sour spices. She decides not to buy as her aim is off centre and orders a meal of fear and anger cold when it arrives she complains to the wrong people who feed her to the animals.
May 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM
thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
For @brokenspinearts.bsky.social #PoemsAbout #Stardust @alanparry83.bsky.social.
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Dustpan Carbon found in our DNA oxygen breath, iron blood Elements heavier than iron travel through your body travelled through many supernovas Elemental words heavier than iron travel through your supernova body. The bigger the star faster they burn. Words burn fast, seeded words heavier, magnesium words, carbon words out of our DNA. Dustpan tongue brushes oxygen words, iron words.
May 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
Hi Alan here's my contribution to #PoemsAbout #ShiftingSkies.
#StayOnTheme #BeBold #ConcreteOverAbstract #DitchTheCliche #EmotionNotMelodrama #CultivatedNotOverwrought #EndOnAnImage
These Cirrus words alter in gusts of light. Breath from unknown, alien ways of inhale and exhale enrich the air and blood of the sky's page. Invasion refreshes shape of sight, of clarity, struggles with stubborn purity and permanence. Cumulonimbus rains through light empties to blankness that is not blankness
March 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
thebrokenspine.co.uk
#PoemsAbout #ThriftStore 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 7, 2026 at 7:00 AM
thebrokenspine.co.uk
#PoemsAbout #LastTrain 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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July 31, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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#PoemsAbout #BadHabits 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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July 24, 2026 at 7:00 AM
thebrokenspine.co.uk
#PoemsAbout #ExitWounds is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.
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July 17, 2026 at 6:00 AM
thebrokenspine.co.uk
#PoemsAbout #PowerCut is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.
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July 10, 2026 at 7:00 AM
thebrokenspine.co.uk
#PoemsAbout #CheapMotels 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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July 3, 2026 at 7:00 AM
thebrokenspine.co.uk
#PoemsAbout #TheLook is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, queer voices, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.
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June 26, 2026 at 8:00 AM