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Today’s #FridayPoem
The Wrong Side of History
#poemsabout #ceasefire
Words ©️Dawn McLachlan
All images ©️Jeff Pitcher - used with kind permission @pitcherpost.bsky.social
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August 15, 2025 at 6:49 AM
rafiamahli.com
Here goes @brokenspinearts.bsky.social
#BetweenTheSheets #FridayPoem
February 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
thispeterlomas.bsky.social
Haiku.

I said I'm not hurt
at the time. To tell the truth,
I told you a lie

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October 31, 2025 at 10:06 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
A #fridaypoem for @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poemsabout #poetryprompt #deadletters

#sorrynotsorry
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Dead Letters By Dawn Mclachlan You said you said sorry but that’s not what I heard from words that struggled for air and writhed in the death of Meaning Words distorted in the telling as Reason chased its tail You said you said sorry but that’s not what I heard because I was watching high cirrus clouds smudge the perfect blue with icy veils and as sure as night follows I knew the rain would come
September 25, 2026 at 1:03 PM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
#FridayPoem

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Not Today by Dawn McLachlan One day I will not reach out for you on the stair greet creaks of the door One day I will not lay my hand where once you slept wait for velvet tread one day…
July 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM
dreambeastpoems.bsky.social
Happy #Friday my Bluesky beauties. ❤️ Enjoy your weekend.

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August 21, 2026 at 2:59 PM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
A #fridaypoem for #fragmentsfriday from @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

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Cautionary Tales By Dawn Mclachlan I walked on broken glass And hot coals Because the eggshells I'd already traversed Weren't enough for you
June 5, 2026 at 7:21 AM
neilcamp.bsky.social
Friday Poem

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July 17, 2026 at 3:37 PM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
A #Fridaypoem for the @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poemsabout prompt #blood
Thank you #poetrycommunity as always.
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Harm by Dawn Mclachlan I didn’t recognise these wounds their depth deep their cause subtle But years later tattooist ink replacing the lace of silvered lines I remembered ruby jewels worn in secret and thought of you
October 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
shewithcapitalv.bsky.social
Last one for now ... 😁

Age Verified now
With unverified age brain
That's us, total catch!

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July 25, 2025 at 5:40 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
A #FridayPoem for #poemsabout prompt - #WaxTears

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Wax Tears by Dawn McLachlan The hill that you chose Frosted and bitter as contempt Do you like the view? Come, take steeper paths We’ll climb the highest mountains Into such bright air
July 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
thispeterlomas.bsky.social
Haiku.

Not to be needy -
ever the hard won lesson
hurts in its learning

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October 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
Friday Poem

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Swift by Dawn McLachlan Tumbling through clouds you come Half-forgotten Joy-bringer Fetching sunshine on your wings Punctuating the sky Bracketing the summer Cloud-cutter Air-dancer Screaming in the twilight blue In the elation of greeting As you return home Caught in the moment I breathe your name
June 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
A #fridaypoem for the #poemsabout prompt #money
Thanks as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for hosting

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Secrets By Dawn Mclachlan After you'd gone Every drawer coughed up Dust wrapped Web draped The whispers of solitary walks Scribbled notes from tiny pencils Creosote scented jumpers From crackled afternoons At the shed radio Newspapers under the cushions Scored with lines and numbers Each bundle of pound notes Each yellowed betting slip Another secret
December 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
Time for another #FridayPoem
For #poemsabout #candlelight a spell, a charm, an incantation. Use it to ward off your Dark.

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Incantation By Dawn McLachlan Light the candle Shield the flame Push the Dark away again Long the shadows by the door Cold the step upon the floor Feel the way the night now lingers Frost that stretches icy fingers Soon the Winter will return Close the lesson to be learned Light the candle Shield the flame Push the Dark away again
September 12, 2025 at 7:42 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
A #FridayPoem for #poemsabout #falsecrowns

Thanks as always to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk for curation, amplification, and support for the #poetrycommunity

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Happy Ever After By Dawn Mclachlan Once I was a jewel Polished and treasured Beyond all measure Held to light Aloft and bright In ivory towers Pedestalled Until the cracks of the fall Stitched in red like spelling mistakes Dust gathering turning Purple to yellow Unseen and unheard But in the memory of time Insistence weeps Once I was a jewel
January 23, 2026 at 9:03 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
A wee beastie #haibun for this #fridaypoem for the #poetryprompt - #strays
Hosted by @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk with #poemsabout every week

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Stray By Dawn Mclachlan I read once that shrews don't really understand that we exist. In their minds we are as vast and unknowable as mountains, as silent and slow moving as trees. Their hearts beat 1000 times a minute and to them we are glacial in our pace. Imagine living in a world where it's possible to stray wild beyond the comprehension of man. We once placed our tent Across the tracks of a shrew And still he ran through
September 18, 2026 at 8:32 AM
serenbooks.bsky.social
This week’s #FridayPoem is ‘Birch’ by Hilary Llewellyn-Williams from her sequence ‘The Tree Calendar’ republished in ‘The Little Hours: New and Selected Poems’ www.serenbooks.com/2025/01/frid...
Photo of bare trunks of silver birch standing in the snow.
January 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
thispeterlomas.bsky.social
Haiku.

Lost love remembered
as embracing emotions
once yours and once mine

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October 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk
Hello #BlueskyPoetry community @alanparrywriter.co.uk at @thebrokenspine.co.uk for today’s #PoemsAbout #BreakTheMould I offer ‘Rebels’ nothing deep here, but may resonate with someone.

Jobs to do but will catch up with the other offerings later. Thanks everyone.

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A poem by Debbie Ross for #PoemsAbout #BreakingTheMould by @brokenspinearts Text as follows Rebels We were bad at sport my sister and I. She liked boys I liked books, both anti-meat from early on. From early on he tried to shape us into the boys he never had, but we were always rebel girls. Left home young, in rage. Cutting the ties, breaking the mould.
October 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
thispeterlomas.bsky.social
My still fast fiend.

Final verse of longer poem about last walks with Sam the
black Labrador.

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October 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
thispeterlomas.bsky.social
Haiku.

Let me woo you slow
let me write you poetry
aw heck, just let me

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October 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
Time for another #fridaypoem and a #poemsabout #blackveils

Thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk for inspiration and curation.

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Eggshells “Don’t speak of it Ever You’ll only upset people” People Person In this way I limped into the future With my mouth shut Every step fearfully placed On the egg’s shell And the cracked glass Of an imagined upset And the possibility of blame Finally finding a home Until the tumble And the avalanche And the roaring wind When the filthy veil ripped away Forever The blame remains homeless But these eggshells won’t carry Witches anymore
January 30, 2026 at 11:45 AM
overlandjournal.bsky.social
“… We knew they could / only be betrayed by their own.”

Our latest #fridaypoem is JUDAS GOATS by Caitlin Maling
Judas goats - Overland literary journal
Because goats can climb / and cave, clamber to find cover / in the bushes of what they can’t eat / which isn’t much.
overland.org.au
May 22, 2026 at 2:30 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
Another #FridayPoem and another #haikuset

Sometimes the only option is to write #poemsabout and the only solution is #riot or choose to lie among the ashes.

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Witch Hunt by Dawn Mclachlan We watched eyes of hate And heard the rumours flowing And could have stopped them We saw gathered sticks Heard whispers of dreadful plans And should have stopped them Emboldened by lies They built their dreadful pyre We wished we'd stopped them We heard fire crack As the fanned flames scorched us all Praying it would stop At the bitter end We will lie in the ashes That consumed us all
August 29, 2025 at 8:03 AM