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Today’s #FridayPoem
The Wrong Side of History
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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
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There’s a lot to be said for all this rain. My allotment is looking gorgeous.

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Behind the lupins The allotment reaches out In fertile expanse Broad leaf of rhubarb Leans towards the bronze fennel Behind purple chives
June 3, 2026 at 7:33 AM
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February blues
Rejections, no work ahead
But there - a daisy!

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February chills Lay damp across the green moss Where a daisy blooms
February 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
A #fridaypoem for @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poemsabout #poetryprompt #deadletters

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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
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
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
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Rug Rat by Robin Ince

The joy of being in the now 📖

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robinince.bsky.social Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · Oct 19
A poem about when you are small and each moment is everything #poem

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RUG RAT Right NOW The whole world is this rug All of space is here Two plastic cars propelled By my small hands Thoughts end at the tassels of the carpet Later and it's NOW again And only NOW The whole world is the mixing bowl Small strands of candied peel So orangey I taste the sweetened wood of the spoon Cake ooze drips and fingers licked NOW it is only night The world of always black Dark enough for monsters But shooed away by the hedgehogs in my nightlight All that NOW is now a then The rug has gone The oven's cold There's nothing in the mixing bowl The hedgehogs fell The dark is thicker I wonder who I was Before I became 'I am' When I was ever present Not constructed by a past Blurred photo of young md QR codes "I'm safe here behind the sofa..." A collection of instinctual poetry pursuing the psychological essence of personal and societal wellbeing, explored through experiential neurodivergence and humanism. "Choice words chosen wisely. Highly recommended for all humans who retain their humanity." Henry Normal "Robin's poems embody the bravery that comes with vulnerability and a reverence for being here and loving every moment of it." Josie Long "This is poetry to play and replay as each poem's colours change and layers of meaning glow." Dr Kathryn Mannix "Each of these poems is a treat. A brief moment of connection, slipped between the pages of a hectic world." Reece Shearsmith "Bright snapshots of where we are, our nature and humanity, our sensitivities, our rage and our happiness." Salena Godden
October 19, 2025 at 11:35 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
This week’s #poemsabout prompt is #mannequin
Due to illness my poem is short and dark from fever dreams and the news.
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Mannequins By Dawn McLachlan She thinks of them as mannequins Lined up Nameless Cold and still Too many to count Beyond the rope-stitched canvas She can see rows of them With their hideous labels She thinks of them as mannequins Because to say "shroud" Is to drown in grief
October 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
A poem from my book - June Somewhere - for the @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poemsabout prompt #deepcuts

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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
August 21, 2026 at 7:50 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
One for #smallpoemsunday

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Cherry Tree By Dawn McLachlan Branches garnet ringed Engaged to the summer sky Reaching for the sun Here, in the orchard On a blue day smudged with clouds I am become Thief
July 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
A poem for @thebrokenspine.co.uk prompt - #TheLook

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The Look By Dawn Mclachlan I know it now as I knew it then the look that turned pleas into pebbles that gathered on my tongue and in my throat Muted by such cold stones pressed home with the glare of othering my words remained unsaid But here closeted in a space beyond sight they hung like winter coats waiting for the right season concealing the way beyond revealing another world
June 26, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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
For the #poemsabout prompt #static
Thanks as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

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Nocturne 83 By Dawn McLachlan Fast on slick black roads In a night that tasted Like lip gloss and bravery Don't let go Lean into the electric night Heartbeat like the static Of the tuneless radio Sodium light pulse Tearing out sleeping streets Into the endless deep blue Whipping stars in branches Above the hollow ways And the sweet cool wind Like a baptism
January 10, 2026 at 10:47 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
I’m a tour guide at a Scottish castle. You know who really owns the castle?
Buster, that’s who.

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There once was a black and white cat Sleek, glossy and not at all fat He hunted all day Many mice did he slay And the castle was thankful for that Pic shows a beautiful black and white cat who has a fine white moustache. He’s sitting in front of the great tower of the 15th century castle ruins where he lives.
December 12, 2024 at 10:31 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
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
deemclachlan.bsky.social
This week’s #fridaypoem
is about damn time.

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Latitude A haiku set by Dawn McLachlan Once upon a time The whole world seemed chaotic And without a pause We feared the silence Words crammed into each corner Chatter like the birds We minded the gaps As the hours were fleeting Still so much to say Now, joy is in peace The words known but unspoken Drift silent as clouds Whirling time settles As the hourglass slows down To meet our heartbeats
July 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
Time for another #Fridaypoem
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Ghosts by Dawn Mclachlan The dead return on stealthy feet and in the quiet ways Not in the shrieks of myth Or the clanked chains of literature Not in spectral bloodied cloth And creaks of floor They require neither season nor reason Instead they appear in the watch unwound The drawer jammed by a rusted penknife They rise from a homeless key And a half- remembered phone number They tumble from yellowed photo albums slipping from unused tools in spider-webbed racks They linger in restless moments passing through childhood towns They surprise us in the expression of a child Or the saying of a friend They return not in the fearful dread But in the sorrowful silence Or in a distant song that snatches breath And brings an unexpected smile
October 31, 2025 at 10:52 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
A #fridaypoem for @thebrokenspine.co.uk prompt #cheapmotels Thanks to poet and curator
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Postcard By Dawn Mclachlan Beyond the yellowed net and sun-bleached curtains the river of the restless road flowed past a room too hot for sleep and too remote to leave Stranded on this island of fuel and Fate she waited In the drawer beneath torn Gideon verses she found a postcard curled and unsent crisped by age no one had ever wished they were here He said it was a beginning but all she felt was the end
July 3, 2026 at 8:48 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
A #fridaypoem for #poemsabout #outaftermidnight curated by @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Something from my new book.
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Nocturne 83 by Dawn Mclachlan Fast on slick black roads In a night that tasted Like lip gloss and bravery Don't let go Lean into the electric night Heartbeat like the static Of the tuneless radio Sodium light pulse Tearing out sleeping streets Into the endless deep blue Whipping stars in branches Above the hollow ways And the sweet cool wind Like a baptism
June 19, 2026 at 8:57 PM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
From the car

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From the car I see White fields to the gold distance Blurred winter vision
January 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
A #poemsabout for @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk prompt #FaultLines

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Fault Lines By Dawn Mclachlan In silvered tracks on papery skin the past walked carrying all that went before defining describing the way the world worked back then before time began before the Flight But decades later in startled moments the vertigo of Fault Lines still cracked like ice "Look what you made me do"
September 12, 2026 at 10:37 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
Time for another #FridayPoem

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Pareidolia By Dawn McLachlan We threw our wishes into holes in the ground And fast flowing rivers Coins dropped into wet darkness Warmed by fervent hope And tumbled over faces in the stones In clouds we saw the lost The longed for And angelic outreach In the sacred spaces Candles lit with prayers And blown out with fingers crossed Sticky with sugar wrapped sentiment And rules to tell no one We wrote our lists to things of myth For a different time A different place Where wishes were horses And distant planets stared back at us Our desire to see Jesus in the toast When all we had was burnt bread
October 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM