Andy Williamson

Indeed - nice to see your poem in there too!

Thank you! That's very kind!

Aw, thanks Jen, that's far too kind ☺️

Really loved your poem, Jen!

Congratulations @paulwritespoems.bsky.social on this fantastic anthology - some really wonderful poets in here! Delighted and humbled to have a couple of my own included!

Thanks, Rachel, that’s pretty much my original idea, I cut the poem back so good it still comes through for you!

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 🙏