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Heirlooms

A half‑empty
jewelry box:
inventory of
retired hardware.
A necklace
lies unfastened,
committed
to being
metal.
A ring
retains
the finger’s
span,
a legacy setting
it can’t
reset.
Knuckle‑grief
accrues
around
the vacancy.

#jewelry
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Heirlooms

A half‑empty
jewelry box:
inventory of
retired hardware.
A necklace
lies unfastened,
committed
to being
metal.
A ring
retains
the finger’s
span,
a legacy setting
it can’t
reset.
Knuckle‑grief
accrues
around
the vacancy.

#jewelry
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#writerscommunity

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Loss Adjustment

The storm steals the roof,
three fence posts,
and the old apple tree.

Morning arrives
oblivious,
magnanimous
returning the sky
as if nothing
of value
was taken.

#magnanimous
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Loss Adjustment

The storm steals the roof,
three fence posts,
and the old apple tree.

Morning arrives
oblivious,
magnanimous
returning the sky
as if nothing
of value
was taken.

#magnanimous
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#writerscommunity

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Hymn to the Absent

Nest-bound frenzy,
Magpies gnaw at tethered edges.
My reflection hatches claws,
sharp as smith-forged talons.
I press my ear to the
mud, swollen with unclaimed bones
and taste
forgotten tongues,
bountiful
but
absent.

#bountiful
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Hymn to the Absent

Nest-bound frenzy,
Magpies gnaw at tethered edges.
My reflection hatches claws,
sharp as smith-forged talons.
I press my ear to the
mud, swollen with unclaimed bones
and taste
forgotten tongues,
bountiful
but
absent.

#bountiful
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#writerscommunity

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Lethargonaut

Morning unlids one eye
then shelves it.
I trug from bed to chair,
half‑fermented drone
inside the Department of Lethargy.
My pulse on standby,
spine a soft‑strike ladder.
Even light misclocks,
punches in late.

I adjourn myself
for alertness deficiency.

#lethargy

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Lethargonaut

Morning unlids one eye
then shelves it.
I trug from bed to chair,
half‑fermented drone
inside the Department of Lethargy.
My pulse on standby,
spine a soft‑strike ladder.
Even light misclocks,
punches in late.

I adjourn myself
for alertness deficiency.

#lethargy

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Turbulens

My eye erects scaffolding,
obscuring the light.
Sharp-edges furloughed.

A cataract accrues like policy,
incremental, unsigned.
Distance becomes rumour.

They replace the lens.

Clarity returns procedural,
and the blur,
boxed, labelled,
returned to storage.

#cataract
#poetry

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Turbulens

My eye erects scaffolding,
obscuring the light.
Sharp-edges furloughed.

A cataract accrues like policy,
incremental, unsigned.
Distance becomes rumour.

They replace the lens.

Clarity returns procedural,
and the blur,
boxed, labelled,
returned to storage.

#cataract
#poetry

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Procedure B - Travel(l)ing Heavily

Splendor works without you.
That’s the problem.
A word walks upright,
unaccompanied
until it reaches the border.
I insert the missing u.
A bruise forms
in the alphabet.
Now splendour limps,
dragging its spelling
through tongue and tarmac.

#splendor

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Procedure A - Traveling Light

Splendour, heavy, gym-buffed
works with bulk.
That’s the problem.
I extract the u.
The alphabet bleeds its white space.
Now splendor runs,
slick and gutted,
leaving its outline
on tongue and tarmac.

#splendor
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Hesitatory

timid slowly
verbs itself
lodged in absence
a hinge
trying to act as lock
air editing the lung
meanwhile
minutes rot in their casing
quietly
articulating
collapse.

#timid
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n a town called #Timid, there lived Sid,
Whose shyness was famously hid.
He whispered to trees,
And chatted with bees,
In a world where his courage was bid.

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Here's my second poem celebrating traditions, this one is for St David's Day (Gŵyl Dewi Sant) so Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! to all my Welsh friends.

#stdavidsday
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#poem

01/03 is a day for traditions so I've written two poems celebrating various traditions. Here's the 1st for Баба Марта ден about the Bulgarian tradition of exchanging red & white adornments known as #Martenitsa.

#writerscommunity
#poetrycommunity
#poem
#poetry

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Hesitatory

timid slowly
verbs itself
lodged in absence
a hinge
trying to act as lock
air editing the lung
meanwhile
minutes rot in their casing
quietly
articulating
collapse.

#timid
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#writerscommunity

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Ferality

Tension
leaks
  feral
  as a cornered cockroach
tendrils pulse,
resin-sick,
flicker‑thick.
shell‑pelted floor‑beast keens.
seven ticks,
five fists,
one quest.
dread curls through grain and timber,
quivering with a sap‑time blow.

#quest
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Ferality

Tension
leaks
  feral
  as a cornered cockroach
tendrils pulse,
resin-sick,
flicker‑thick.
shell‑pelted floor‑beast keens.
seven ticks,
five fists,
one quest.
dread curls through grain and timber,
quivering with a sap‑time blow.

#quest
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Aucword

o‑b‑s‑e‑s‑s‑e‑d,
see how each letter
trembles
hoarding itself,
scuffing the margins,
sucking up the line's breath
not for value,
but the thrill
      of occupying 
                white space
        until
the dictionary 
finally catches 
the auctioneer's 
roving eye.

#obsessed

Article - Nuffield Politics Research Centre

@martamiori.bsky.social and I have been writing, since 2024, about why Labour's 'Reform' challenge and emphasis was based on a misunderstanding of Labour's vote. Here for anyone interested: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Over the past eighteen months, the political science consensus on the nature of Labour's vote has been absolutely correct - and yet also completely ignored by pundits and strategists who continue to get it wrong.

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Full Stop

I’m done with punctuation
you can get 
your be-toggled coat
scuff your 
proper 
sensible shoes
and slam 
the door 
with 
maximum 
velocity
on the way out

take 
this sentence 
with you

#velocity
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a cartoon girl is saying thank you to someone ALT: a cartoon girl is saying thank you to someone

Thank you 😊

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Full Stop

I’m done with punctuation
you can get 
your be-toggled coat
scuff your 
proper 
sensible shoes
and slam 
the door 
with 
maximum 
velocity
on the way out

take 
this sentence 
with you

#velocity
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#writerscommunity

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Lunatrick

Mischievous moon
flicks
a slithered grin at Earth.
Tides misplace themselves,
roads fold like marked cards.
A wind, thin as snakeoil,
hisses,
“Guess again.”
And the planet, slow to notice,
finds its weather gone orbital.

#orbital

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Lunatrick

Mischievous moon
flicks
a slithered grin at Earth.
Tides misplace themselves,
roads fold like marked cards.
A wind, thin as snakeoil,
hisses,
“Guess again.”
And the planet, slow to notice,
finds its weather gone orbital.

#orbital