Clare Bonetree

@blooyonder

poet; trees, radical hope, fairness, equality, Herefordshire, arthritis mental health, disability, anarchism. Join a union!

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Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· 24d

I've never done this before, but the OP has turned off replies & quote shares, & I have thought about this A LOT. I think that it's fine to point out that AT is wearing feminine clothing because it undermines everything he says himself about gender, & points out that he is full of sh*t. HTH 😊

Can we please stop doing the thing of comparing Andrew Tate to a woman? It manages to be a combination of homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic all in one.

The guy is an alleged rapist, abuser, and human trafficker. Saying "he looks/dresses like a woman" is not a good response.

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· Jun 19

I spend so much of my life at Crewe Station I'm starting to appreciate its finer aspects (sorry about alt text am at last on a train home drinking wine and listening to Beethoven and starting to dissolve into ether...)

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· Jun 19

I think the Sea Cadets of Whitehaven are saying #Pride, Message Received and Understood

Pride flag and red & white striped naval flag hanging next to each other in a boat's rigging

Sea Cadets boat in the harbour at Whitehaven

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· Jun 17

My poem in the latest issue of Lighthouse, which is both suitable, and not suitable for work !

Poem by Clare Bonetree
Dear _
I apologise for arriving late to work today but
the sun was shining as my alarm sang me awake and
as it stopped the birds started up their second song
embroidering the morning with their delight
a countermelody to my meditation and when I rose
the day opened itself to me the long-awaited
softness on the air the budding burgeoning green
the yearning to bring life forth again beckoned me outside
in my pyjamas pulled me out of morning hesitations
called on me to roll up my sleeves
dropped me to my sleep-stiff knees
and bade me plunge my hands into the earth.

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· Jun 16

Th joy of working from home

Inside view of a window with green plants filling it, with big pink geranium flowers

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· Jun 15

Bones in my path this evening. What does this mean?

Bones of a small creature on a tarmac path surrounded by dried blossom

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· Jun 15

This #RefugeeWeek i'm reading about how to defeat the far right #HopeNotHate

Book cover with black text on white background How To Defeat The Far Right, and a yellow circle with black text: Lessons from HOPE not hate, by Nick Lowles yellow text on black

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· Jun 12

It's very nearly Ledbury Poetry Festival! On 29th June I'll be one of the contemporary poets reading a new poem at this Dymock Poets event. Only £10, what a bargain! #poetry #poems #LedburyPoetryFestival #poemsky Thank you to @artscouncilengland.bsky.social for supporting us

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· Jun 9

The new axis of evil

The lower half of a man's face, he is turning his head to look behind him, and seems to be grimacing. Underneath the photo is a newspaper headline that says:
Tommy Robinson meets Elon Musk’s father in Moscow

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· Jun 2

Even my little hosta-in-a-pot in my little back garden

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· May 18

Hello Kitty wearing a keffiyeh and waving a Palestinian flag

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· May 10

Yellow archangel on our woodland walk this afternoon in Shropshire #wildflowerhour

Yellow archangel in a lush green woodland

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· May 10

Treasure! Orchid in a woodland in the Welsh Borders #wildfowerhour

Tiny purple orchid in of a lush green woodland

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· May 6

I feel a sort of old school, analogostalgic relief when the algorithms send me inappropriate ads (in this case for a cruise missiles manufacturer, on linked in)

advertisement for a cruise missile maker

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· May 6

Magic, it's an old Leominster Morris tradition, they dance for themselves and the sun, we onlookers were witnesses more than audience (Sorry No alt txt, am on bumpy train)

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· May 3

Monday 29/6 at Ledbury Poetry Festival I'll be one of the contemporary poets responding to one of the Dymock Poets - tickets on general sale from 8/5. ledburypoetry.org.uk/home/whats-on/

A black square with the words Ledbury Poetry, and underneath the information: Read and Respond The Dymock Poets, Monday 29 Jun 2026 7.30pm-10pm, Burgage Hall, Herefordshire

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· May 3

Free #poetry! Doing a clear out before moving, would rather these go to people who want them, than to a charity shop that might pulp them... if you live in the UK email me at uninvisible71 at gmail dot com and I'll post you the ones you want 🌼

Poetry pamphlets: Foyles Young Poets of the Year 2022 & 2023, Lisa Fanned, Ulrike Almut-Sandig, National Poetry Competition winners 2025

Pile of poetry by: Shirley May, Eleanor Brown, Ulrike Almut-Sandig, D/deaf & Disabled Poets Write Back (anthology), Sarah Assange, Mary Hampden-Jackson, Kate Northop, Stuart Watson, Poetry Review vol 113.1 .3 & .4, Poetry Wales Spring 2023 vol 58.3

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· May 1

My Welsh friends will like these. Look out for them around W Wales

Posters laid out on a wooden surface, showing a graphic of a red hammer smashing the word REFORM and underneath the words STOPIWCH REFORM

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· May 1

So now I get up early on May morning with my local morris side

Men with flowery hats and jackets dancing with sticks on a hilltop at dawn.

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· Apr 30

Happy Walpurgisnacht, and check out this fabulous ludo set, a #Walpurgisnacht gift from her old friend to my mother-not-in-law

A witchy ludo board, with little witches

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· Apr 27

🤞🌸 sending you a wood-ful of senseless beauty from Aconbury, Herefordshire

a wood of skeleton trees, with a mist of green and blue (bluebells) at their feet, on the left a path through the woods, on the right a hazel butts into the frame, the scene is drenched with bright, dappled spring sunshine

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· Apr 23

This

Film poster for 10 Things I Hate About You texturing a group of good looking young people posing together, including Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· Apr 23

And also raise a toast to the real St George

Picture of George Michael wearing rimless tinted glasses & a stylish black jacket and shirt, holding a microphone - he's probably singing into it

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· Apr 22

Ever since a formative experience on honeymoon in Macau (31 years ago) I've believed that the nicest vinho verde comes in blue bottles. This week's bottle of wine has confirmed that view

A blue glass wine bottle with half of the blue and white label visible

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· Apr 22

Fanfare for the Common Man is the perfect start to a working day, has filled me with purpose and confidence (no mean feat!) Might have to make it part of my daily morning ritual. Would it be blasphemous / cheesy / downright naff to make it my alarm ringtone?

screenshot of BBC Sounds online radioplayer - a black rectangle showing the information for the Essential Classics show, which is a red circle with a picture of Georgia Mann a woman with a blue top and long brown hair, and underneath information text that says "Essential Classics, The best classical morning music, Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music. Now Playing Aaron Copland Fanfare for the Common Man"

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· Apr 13

Saw my first cuckoo spit of the year today at the tiniest, loveliest nature reserve in Church Stretton #Shropshire #wildflowers #Spring

a close-up of a few slender stems of pale lilac-petalled cuckoo spit, also known as Lady's Mantle, growing among tall dark green grass

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· Apr 9

My views exactly. Last night of the holidays dinner in #Antwerp. Last leg of the annual Herefordshire-eastern Germany-Herefordshire roadtrip tomorrow. #MakeKimchiNotWar

A man seen from the back wearing a black t-shirt and jeans. The t-shirt says Make Kimchi Not War

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· Apr 9

This year on our annual Eastern Germany roadtrip to see family we stopped on the way from Berlin to Jena at #Wittenburg to see the church where Luther posted his theses, kicking off the #Reformation #Adoorable #Thursday

A dark green metal double door inscribed with writing, set into a pale stone church wall, with a gilt and coloured painting above showing two people kneeling on either side of Christmas on the cross

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· Apr 3

And here's a magnificent example of these beautiful living fossils seen in #Berlin today!

Tall white-petalled magnolia tree against a blue sky with white fluffy clouds, and a beige wall

Clare Bonetree@blooyonder· Apr 2

Does anyone know anything about this unusual and brilliant set of clocks in the Humboldt Forum, which show 'real' time?