Fiftywords

I’ve been a bit quiet on here of late awaiting the publication of this. Poems rooted in Gaelic sport that looks beyond the scoreboard to the deeper meanings carried by the places that form us, the games that gather us, and the quiet inheritance of belonging. #Speirgorm #GAA dermotmurphyauthor.com

Here’s one for #vss365

Here’s one for #PromptCombo #Geopoem thanks for the excellent prompt @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

Dónal Lunny was one of the most influential figures in modern Irish music. A gifted multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer, he helped revolutionise traditional Irish music, bringing new rhythms, sounds and arrangements to a centuries-old tradition while remaining true to its spirit.

Here’s one for #PromptCombo #Doors Thanks for the prompt @jenthorne.bsky.social

Here’s one for #vss365

On 11 May 2011, thousands of Romans reportedly fled the city following rumours of a devastating earthquake, supposedly predicted decades earlier by the Italian seismologist Raffaele Bendandi. The prediction was unfounded, the earthquake never happened, and Rome remained reassuringly unmoved

This #PoemsAbout #Rot is for any football fans disgusted by wha been goin on at the Etihad. Thanks as ever to @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Here’s one for #PoemsAbout #Rot Thanks as ever to @thebrokenspine.co.uk

This #vss365 is inspired by Aristophanes

I wrote this on my travels and it seems to fit #PoemsAbout #Strays

This #PoemsAbout #Strays was inspired by the thoughts of AI developing its own language thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk (still travelling so may not have time to read or comment on others) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Travelling at the moment so a bit quiet on here but here’s a #PoemsAbout from Hong Kong on the #FaultLines of language (I thought my Cantonese wasn’t bad. How wrong I was!) Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Here’s an older one from the perspective of Oscar Wilde’s pen #promptcombo #Personified @emteepoetry.bsky.social

This #vss365 is for an adroit boxer and remarkable athlete #SpeirGorm

Here’s one for #vss365

For #vss365

Renaissance master perfumers like René Bianco crafted "sweet gloves" through a painstaking, multi-step chemical and alchemical process designed to mask the foul, putrid odor of tanned leather. Because 16th-century tanning relied on raw animal fats, feces, and urine. #vss365

Here’s one for #vss365

Here’s one for #PoemsAbout #EndOfSummer and thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk

For today’s #vss365

Here’s my contribution #PromptCombo #Era It’s one of the chance-based cut-up poems made from fragments of my own reading notes over the years @rfsmith.bsky.social

Here’s one for today’s #vss365

For today’s #vss365

Here’s one for #PoemsAbout #DeepCuts many thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

For today’s #vss365

Here’s one for #vss365 #SpeirGorm

Here’s one for #12Lines this weeks #PromptCombo Thanks to @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

Here’s one for today’s #vss365

I’ve gone for XTCs Making Plans for Nigel for obvious reasons #PoetsOfDoom #MisheardLyrics @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social

This #PoemsAbout is about someone who didn’t appear on the #MainStage last night @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Here’s one inspired by the great Kenneth Williams for #PoemsAbout #MainStage and many thanks as ever to @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Here’s an older one for #PoemsAbout #MainStage and many thanks as ever to @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Here’s one for today’s #vss365

For today’s #vss365

Here’s another contribution for #PromptCombo #Maverick thanks to @janpsolivagant.bsky.social

A birthday reflection on words

Here’s one for #vss365

On the occasion of my birthday here’s one for #PromptCombo #Maverick thanks to @janpsolivagant.bsky.social As the great Samuel Beckett said “To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.”

Emperor Julian aka Julian the Apostate (361–363 CE), attempted to revive traditional pagan practices after the increasing dominance of Christianity within the Roman Empire. Raised within a Christian context, he later rejected it, seeking instead to restore older religious forms. #vss365

As it’s #PoemsAbout #thriftstore you can have 2 for 1 this week @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Here’s my poem for #PoemsAbout #thriftstore and many thanks as ever to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Here’s one for today’s #vss365

I wouldn’t normally post things like this but this is a very perceptive, though not uncritical, review of my latest collection

Here’s one for #PromptCombo #Stand @jenthorne.bsky.social

Here’s one for today’s #vss365

"Byddwch lawen, cadwch y ffydd a gwnewch y pethau bychain a welsoch ac a glywsoch gennyf i" (Be joyful, keep the faith, and do the little things that you have heard and seen me do) @bookwormsat.bsky.social

Here’s one for #vss365

Here’s one for #PoemsAbout #LastTrain Many thanks as ever to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk