Geoffrey Aitken

@pamthepoet.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social @bts-adams.bsky.social @thebrokenspine.co.uk Love the work from supporters - basic, honourable & reliable

Writes what I want to read; reads like what I want to write.

Maybe one ahead of you. My room almost knows me too well these days. Vague or not, that's me. Sadder than an empty Gin bottle. 🫠

@thebrokenspine.co.uk Fabulous effort, Staff and supporters. 💓

underscore_magazine - issue 6 click the cover image for a PDF of issue 6!

@bts-adams.bsky.social @pamthepoet.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social @thebrokenspine.co.uk underscore_Magazine Issue 6 - for today's weather. Crack the whip - this Mag is alive. Loved Sumayya and Zoe especially. The list is 'on the money'. Erica E-i-C 💓 www.underscoremag.com/issues/issue-6

Update. Another attempt sees me cleared to chat using Bluesky. All happy again. 💓

Still??

PS Facebook discontinued my membership for breaching community standards [sent to policy] unexplained, left me to believe AI will terminate itself if it ever finds an emotional self. F/B had access to every post ever made. Suddenly, my account was terminated. Not having a good run. Not funny.

I cannot chat on Bluesky. KWS Australia has declined to verify my age or Bluesky itself, even at age 75 years, and access to all of my posts before it became a Federal Government policy to provide proof of age, the software does not work. Repeat does not work, nor does the fault-finding.

Need a leg up, 'mate'. I contradicted my own service agreement in terms of gratis and unlivability when drunk and under the impression that I was not doing myself a disservice. I asked Kerryn and/or Daniel to defer my feature reward of $50, and wish to rescind my decision. A contact for my plea?

Indeed. This works beautifully. A real treat, morning my time. 🙏

The 'half-life', eh. My daughter is all over this poem. People generally just don't get it. Listening to complaints in a cafe or restaurant says who knows why

Trigger. I know Alan says 'raw,' but there's still a line when age and experience may not quite see the hidden impact of society's needs. I love your take, having spent a couple of decades in classrooms and knowing the demands of outcomes-based education. 🥺😘

Salivating. 😘

#PoemsAboutUndressed @thebrokenspine.co.uk
thanks, Alan Parry, for another op to share. 🙏

says i wasn't expected.

unclothes me
offers me food
refreshment
and a reading

skin-on-skin touches

her perfume remains.
i am naked to the world

she asks i depart.
i have less on my back

Like whoa and whoa again. Effing Jahuzia. 😱🙏

Sure. That'd be nice. Thanks, G

Catch you and Jazz at The Town Hall. 💓

Thursday 12th. Can't do Ellipsis anymore. The kids are doin' okay. I don't wish to douse the fire that keeps warmth inside Arthur's. It's not just Currie Street; Friendly St. is scrapped for a less personal reason. The likelihood of someone dying at the microphone is inconstant. Real-time. Ugly 😱

@underscoremag.bsky.social long been chasing a gig as a contributor. reward shall be mine in March. Team underscore represent what i like in poetry. heads up to Erica Lesley Weidner E-i-C 👀

My thanks to psychiatrist Dr. Joe Dunn, founder of Bipolar Poetry, for posting poetry rarely seen publicly when editors may well feel the heat of the explicit nature of medicated mental health that bears no ill will and seeks only safe spaces to articulate intuitive negative impact forces at play.

About Bipolar Poetry Learn about Bipolar Poetry – a space for people with bipolar disorder to share creative poetry and connect through verse.

Sydney, Australia, is the home of Bipolar Poetry, founded by psychiatrist Dr. Joe Dunn, see here www.bipolarpoetry.com/about/

and my poem [with a look away warning], here www.bipolarpoetry.com/my-psyche-wa...

'Underbelly Press', UK-based, where editor Lucy Huddleston is doing a fantastic job calling for work that rips out the intestines from the soft 'underbelly' of society. Love what she's achieved in just over a year of operation. I commend both to you, @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Jam-packed. The way we are seeing information arrive. Identical. Keep posting. Keep sharing. Keep us in the loop. 💓

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Whoa. Knock my eyes out. 💓

Get it on...

Your posts say differently. Good luck. Persist and push on if you love to create as a writer. 😇

Good luck. It is good to be associated with Alan Parry and the Broken Spine writing community. 🙏

Some sites/blogs manage and announce 'calls' with e-newsletters asking you to find the magazines best suited to your work. Time-consuming, granted. Chill Subs, Authors Publish are free, and then Duotrope [subscription required] is just a few. Happy hunting. Magazines email updates to their calls. 😇😁