Andy Williamson

It's such an evocative smell! We still have wild garlic pesto in the freezer from last year - great with pasta!

Thank you! I'm so pleased you enjoyed it 🙏

Huge thanks for prompt Julian @hool415.bsky.social l #promptcombo #free40
Dee Side

In the café with torn lino
and the toffee crackled windows
in the seaside town
Where the tide went out
In nineteen sixty two.
A man in a pork pie hat
Stirs his tea with a fork

© Bernard Pearson

Fantastic, Bernard, you’ve painted such a rich picture in so few words 👏👏

Thanks Rusty!

Interesting... I wrote in reverse (and way too long) and then flipped it!

Thank you, David 🙏

Thanks, Evie, and what's lovely is it's coming true 😆

Thanks, Ju, trying to shine a little spring warmth into another bad news day!

Hooked It’s sky-fishing really, a kite: the bait, turning something so insubstantial above into attachable weight. The purity of this tussle over nothing: always a strung-out stalemate.

Hullo @janpsolivagant.bsky.social @rfsmith.bsky.social @dragonslayerma.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social
Tag me @hool415.bsky.social #promptcombo #free40 Post anything but 40 WORDS MAX! It’s micro-write week!Everyone is doing it these days! (Till 4pm Friday)

Soon there will be lambs signs of spring light chasing calves chasing each other even the fallen trees bring new life soon there will be lambs wild garlic transforms the woods nettles regrow the world beyond desolate cold

Ju's #promptcombo #free40 this morning was tricky! I had a go at something seasonal, trying to remember that the real world rests and restores regardless of human ignorance and stupidity. Thanks @hool415.bsky.social for the prompt I'll try to read others later! #poems #poetry #writingcommunity

Thank you, Merril 🙏

Thanks, Debbie 🙏

Thank you, Rachel, very kind!

It really works, there are no words wasted!

Just about recovered, thanks, hope you’re over it soon too!

Thanks, Rachel, I like the poem had that effect 🙏

Thanks, Ju!

Thanks, John. I think 'enervation' well describes the writer this week... off for a cup of tea and a biscuit 😀

pagan words from beyond the whisky still emerging from heather and from peat flooding amber light

Something quick, pared back and freshly baked for #fragmentsfriday @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
#poems #poetry

Straight to it and powerful in so few words, nice work Emily!

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Thank, Jan... I was really going for minimalist with this one, so glad you liked it! 🙏

Thanks, Jen 🙏

Thank you, David 🙏

Vigil I sit watching you are calm hearing ice-laden rain lashing a world beyond I don’t dare move even breathing feels brave don’t dare believe you are here

It's still early and so many excellent poems for #PoemsAbout #BeingWatched already! Here's a contribution from me; for a lover, a child, a parent? Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt! #poems #poetry #writingcommunity

Thanks, Ju. The last line's not quite feeling right but it will do!

Thanks, David, I thought yours was great!

Power cut we sit in darkness outside the storm breaks the bough reach for the matches

A slightly literal haiku for #PromptCombo #Powerless on this gloomy wet Monday. Thanks for the excellent prompt, @rfsmith.bsky.social #poems #poetry #writingcommunity

Thanks, Paul. The 'sigh', I think, just captures it 🙏