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#LiftToTheSky 🫂

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November 2, 2026 at 11:24 AM
thebrokenspine.co.uk
#LiftToTheSky Monday:
Say thank you by lifting the work.
A black-and-white photograph of seabirds flying above a calm sea. Gentle waves roll toward the shore beneath a pale sky. In the centre of the image, handwritten-style text reads “#LIFTTOTHESKY,” with “@thebrokenspine.co.uk” beneath it. The Broken Spine fountain pen logo appears in the top right corner.
November 2, 2026 at 7:00 AM
fleurdu.bsky.social
#Lifttothesky
Jen Thorne and Eric Montgomery
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@jenthorne.bsky.social
For their contribution to poetry/ writing with #ampersandafterdark & #ampersandsyndicate #Ismelltoast #anthology
and thank you for your encouragement 🤩
October 30, 2026 at 12:06 PM
thebrokenspine.co.uk
Today we practice attention as care.
It’s #LiftToTheSky.
A black-and-white photograph of seabirds flying above a calm sea. Gentle waves roll toward the shore beneath a pale sky. In the centre of the image, handwritten-style text reads “#LIFTTOTHESKY,” with “@thebrokenspine.co.uk” beneath it. The Broken Spine fountain pen logo appears in the top right corner.
October 26, 2026 at 7:00 AM
drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk
For today’s #LiftToTheSky Help Broken Sleep Books Publish New Poetry in 2027 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-broke...

Support this indie press and their degentrification of poetry!
Help Broken Sleep Books Publish New Poetry in 2027
Help Broken Sleep Books, an award-winning, working-class run, independent poetry press, publish its 2027 list of new books.
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October 26, 2026 at 7:06 AM
drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk
#LiftToTheSky
drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 15d
So many fab poets responding to prompts here, being nominated for BOTN, publishing work, it’s hard to know who to boost that I’ve not flagged before. Check out the #poetry prompts #poemsabout #promptcombo #fragmentsfriday etc. Support the poets you enjoy reading. Buy their books. Re-post their work.
October 19, 2026 at 7:08 AM
thebrokenspine.co.uk
#LiftToTheSky is a reminder that visibility can be shared.
A black-and-white photograph of seabirds flying above a calm sea. Gentle waves roll toward the shore beneath a pale sky. In the centre of the image, handwritten-style text reads “#LIFTTOTHESKY,” with “@thebrokenspine.co.uk” beneath it. The Broken Spine fountain pen logo appears in the top right corner.
October 19, 2026 at 6:00 AM
aideenastern.bsky.social
Good morning the world!

#Poetry #Autorenleben #AuthorLife #Inspiration #Autumn26 #Happyness #lifttothesky #Poesie
October 14, 2026 at 9:48 AM
suefinch.bsky.social
Happy Monday and a #LiftToTheSky for @jenthorne.bsky.social because I have thoroughly enjoyed the range of poems posted here. ✍️❤️🎉
October 12, 2026 at 7:33 AM
thebrokenspine.co.uk
It’s Monday.
Who are you reading, supporting, or learning from?
Lift them. #LiftToTheSky
A black-and-white photograph of seabirds flying above a calm sea. Gentle waves roll toward the shore beneath a pale sky. In the centre of the image, handwritten-style text reads “#LIFTTOTHESKY,” with “@thebrokenspine.co.uk” beneath it. The Broken Spine fountain pen logo appears in the top right corner.
October 12, 2026 at 6:00 AM
coledone.com
Yesterday’s fears reinvent themselves
My Days Are Numbered (10/?)

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#poetry #writingcommunity #fallout #nuclear #lifttothesky #poets
Yesterday’s fears reinvent themselves while their solutions stack up like blocks, Lincoln Logs under America crisscrossed as bone work and wire vein and concrete poured into holes forcefully dug out. Rattle to the grave and canned goods all between and pyramid built-to-last, every pit a mausoleum to kings despite the sarcophagus being full of the sludge of normal people left to melt down there.
October 10, 2026 at 8:29 PM
mwplovesmusic.bsky.social
#lifttothesky my longtime friend @daveashleypoet.bsky.social. If you haven’t met Dave, shame on you! No but really, he’s a funny guy who’s ridiculously talented. Always supportive and looking for new ideas, he’s just great and he comes with a penguin.
October 5, 2026 at 3:16 PM
thebrokenspine.co.uk
#LiftToTheSky Monday asks for generosity, not perfection.
A black-and-white photograph of seabirds flying above a calm sea. Gentle waves roll toward the shore beneath a pale sky. In the centre of the image, handwritten-style text reads “#LIFTTOTHESKY,” with “@thebrokenspine.co.uk” beneath it. The Broken Spine fountain pen logo appears in the top right corner.
October 5, 2026 at 5:00 AM
coledone.com
Wrong Way
My Days Are Numbered (9/?)

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#nyc #newyork #subway #poetry #poems #poetsofbsky #lifttothesky #writingcommunity
Slipped through a buzzing door and dared to think I was slick to save three bucks in this place where it costs money to breathe. Extra hour on the train, swear the sign said Uptown, but now I am in Brooklyn and my phone is dying. Extra hour to get back, assuming I can read. But across the water spans the Manhattan Bridge and I get to go across twice, seeing the blinking of the lives of a million people who each pray to take their trips the right way.
October 6, 2026 at 1:59 AM
coledone.com
All Seven
My Days Are Numbered (8/?)

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#poetry #writingcommunity #lifttothesky #cornell
To listen in silence, refuse to hear how your mother screamed your sister wailed. These are the ears of we men gathered here. To watch passive, hollow hands groping your grandmother and the you within her. These are the eyes of we men gathered here. To smell nothing, of the bubbling fizz inducing bile and fatigue inside a woman you call friend. We are the men gathered here, controlling the kindling and fire since we all slept in wet caves.
October 3, 2026 at 3:29 PM
coledone.com
This is a view of the bottom.
My Days Are Numbered (7/?)

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#poetry #nyc #lifttothesky #writingcommunity #subway
This is a view of the bottom. Somewhere beneath, places the stains and trash wind up. Liquid of unknown provenance makes unholy pools on speckled mass. This is a view of the bottom. Where the eyes naturally fall when a man speaks gibberish maybe fifty miles a minutes only feet away and you don’t know if you hate him or fear him but everybody claims to know him in the after, yet… This is a view of the bottom. And even if we don’t admit it, it’s an intimately familiar sight.
October 2, 2026 at 3:53 PM
thebrokenspine.co.uk
For #LiftToTheSky, name someone who makes this space better.
A black-and-white photograph of seabirds flying above a calm sea. Gentle waves roll toward the shore beneath a pale sky. In the centre of the image, handwritten-style text reads “#LIFTTOTHESKY,” with “@thebrokenspine.co.uk” beneath it. The Broken Spine fountain pen logo appears in the top right corner.
September 28, 2026 at 6:00 AM
drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk
For Monday’s #LiftToTheSky I’m bringing you @throwawayreg.bsky.social Notes from Various Sofas from my sofa to yours. A stalwart of #PoemsAbout this new release from @sixtyoddpress.bsky.social gives you irreverent, humorous, short verse to make you smile. Pies, pints, sex and settees in abundance.
A photo of a book cover Notes from various settees roger waldron. A graphic of a blue background with a yellow settee and 3 framed prints of 3 more settees in purple green and orange. A small round wooden table at the right end of the settee with the hand and arm of a departing person with grey trousers, brown socks and a blue sleeve. White skirting either side of the sofa and standard lamp with yellow shade far right.
September 28, 2026 at 9:52 AM
poetry-with-hart.bsky.social
My last #lifttothesky for a bit, before going on hiatus. Today I'm breaking the mildly existent unspoken "rule" to go outside the #poetrycommunity. I recommend @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social. Recently picked up his books, fantastic inspo, and beautifully done. Check em out #writingcommunity and enjoy 🤗
September 21, 2026 at 2:26 PM
thebrokenspine.co.uk
It’s #LiftToTheSky.
Lift the people doing the work you believe in.
A black-and-white photograph of seabirds flying above a calm sea. Gentle waves roll toward the shore beneath a pale sky. In the centre of the image, handwritten-style text reads “#LIFTTOTHESKY,” with “@thebrokenspine.co.uk” beneath it. The Broken Spine fountain pen logo appears in the top right corner.
September 21, 2026 at 6:00 AM
drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk
@bethbpoet.bsky.social for today’s #LiftToTheSky Her chapbook A Long Way Down explores her memories and emotions in relation to her Dad and his army service. You can contact her direct to buy it. Check out her other pamphlets and her substack too bethbrooke.substack.com
A skilled & sensitive poet
Beth’s Substack | Substack
My personal Substack. Click to read Beth’s Substack, by Beth Brooke, a Substack publication. Launched 2 years ago.
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September 21, 2026 at 9:24 AM
coledone.com
Squaresville (5/?)

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#poetry #nyc #lifttothesky #writingcommunity #aithoughts #architecture
Monuments keep getting higher and their edges get sharper. The intricacy of the ornate, the artistry of audacity, replaced by hard corners. A data point flows in endless waves of information swelling along my shore lines to be found and lines to be drawn, always with the toughest of edges.
September 18, 2026 at 7:35 PM
coledone.com
Stair Poem (After A.A. Milne)

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#poetry #poetsofbluesky #architecture #nycpoetry #poem #nyc #lifttothesky #writingcommunity
After A.A. Milne— A lifetime can be whiled away at the bottom of the staircase, gazing up at how many flights rest unbidden and waiting. A lifetime can be whiled away at the top of the staircase, ogling back at what’s climbed, longing need for those passed. But a lifetime can be found only somewhere on a middle stair— when your legs are heaviest and your eyes are locked on nothing but the next step that must be taken.
September 15, 2026 at 5:35 PM
fleurdu.bsky.social
#lifttothesky gratitude to #poetsofdoom for their service to the poetry community
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September 14, 2026 at 12:54 PM
coledone.com
I am the old and I am the new

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(3/?)

#poetry #poetsofbluesky #architecture #nycpoetry #poem #nyc #lifttothesky #writingcommunity
I am the old and I am the new. Where brick-bone and glass-pop. Where sewer arteries move train cars and millions of cells powerhouse through. I am an art deco street light with Bluetooth compatibility, lamp-shading your selfie any every hue you want tonight.
September 14, 2026 at 7:26 PM