#vss365 The S of the Snarl The nightrain hammers apples back into metal. The moon stitches its white undoing through puddles, each reflection misbut toning the sky. A fox crossed first. A scent, then the sprint of everything that feels the snarl. #sprint #poetrycommunity

#vss365 Dawnered Night fruitens on telephone wires. Blackbirds arrive carrying beakfuls of elsewhere. Trees begin leafing small green rumours, roots unbutton stone. momentum breaks cover. The wind looks surprised to find it's already inside branches. Morning comes wearing its inside out. #momentum

#vss365 Headwind The flag looked magnificent. Every photograph agreed. Only the trees kept leaning the other way. They knew which direction the country was travelling. #headwind #poetrycommunity #writerscommunity

#vss365 Colourcull Buttercups smell yellow depart one petal at a time Goldfinches drop small absences It shows no shape, only places where saffron, amber, sulphur have been Sunflowers subtract from yoked earth, until even noon looks underfed Lemons learn the discipline of green #depart

#vss365 Green-eyed The ivy never hurries. Brick    by       brick           by             brick it translates red wall into green memory until the house  is glaucous, purblind            conquered. #conquer #poetrycommunity #writerscommunity #poetry #poem

Ironically today's #toptweettuesday poem Skindecision took me a while to perfect I hope it fills the brief thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social & @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for the inspiration. Happy reading everyone.

#vss365 Original Sin The apple didn't hesitate. It left the branch with such unabashed confidence that gravity looked like an accomplice. The tree kept its balance. The sky its distance. Only the earth flinched, caught opening its mouth before anyone called it hunger. #unabashed

#vss365 Small Arrivals Every morning the tram arrives 3 minutes late. The café puts 2 chairs under the same table. Rain chooses 1 familiar pavement crack. By afternoon the city has rehearsed a thousand small arrivals. Magnetism? Tomorrow two strangers will mistake it for chance. #magnetism

#vss365 Orogeny Zone Two plates shifted closer together.   They embraced too hard. Mountains are what happens when a kiss forgets to stop. #embrace #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #poetry #poem

Here's a longer than usual poem, Marie Celeste Morning, for today's #vss365 prompt #rose i couldn't trim it down to fit Bluesky character limits hopefully I'll be forgiven this once 🙏. #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #poetry #poem

#vss365 Recall Notice URGENT all frolic manufactured after 10am, 14th April with batch-code n0-fun may contain unapproved delight and should be returned before it spreads. #frolic #poetrycommunity #writerscommunity #writingcommunity #poem

#vss365 Rounding Error A tree grew inside a decimal. Harvest occurred whenever maths hesitated. Defiance was the fruit refusing the pull of their arithmetic In the decimal dust, a single drupe refuses rounding. #defiance #poetrycommunity #writerscommunity #writingcommunity #poem

#vss365 Clickthink Ctrl-altar deplete, growing clickthin on melted buffer pollen. Tenderly he drags every gif into stillmotion until the folder sprouts stumps. Playback forgets whose future it once swallowed. #tenderly #poetrycommunity #writerscommunity #poem #poetry

#vss365 Gravel Lax the surface swoons gives up its bones a milk-heat spill sighing under tyres. The path-gravel melts wrong, misbehaving, losing discipline, until all is tar. #swoon #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #poem #poetry

#vss365 Stone-Cold The waves keep stunning stones until they forget they were once mountain. #stunning #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #writerscommunity

#vss365 Skin & Bones The butcher’s knife never seeks appraisal. It knows from the pull of skin, the tendon’s catch, the pause,  the way bone hesitates. #appraisal #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #poem #poetry

#vss365 Re-cognition I recognised the danger only after apprehension brushed my cheek, intimate, as if remembering  how cold it once felt. By then my name already fitted its mouth. #apprehension #poetrycommunity #writerscommunity #writingcommunity #poem

@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social I've spent a few days immersing myself in Tennyson, a poet I'd not read in depth before. So here's my (longer than usual so long I couldn't get it in one image!) effort Eating Lotos With Alfred. #tennyson #poetrycommunity #toptweettuesday

#vss365 Keep Calm & ... History hangs bright bunting over cracked foundations. Foxes negotiate with the dark. A roadkill sermon preached without words. Keep calm. The #Carrion has already signed its untidy autograph across the afternoon, a reminder that every anthem learns the taste of earth.

#vss365 Flea Market The flea deals in borrowed blood. One bite and your laughter fits my mouth. You crush it. Too late. We've both been marked down. #flea #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #poetry #poem

#vss365 T(rusted) The rusted axe stood in the corner for forty years. Rumour made it the villain that once split bone. Then one winter the fireplace ran out of wood. #villain #poetrycommunity #writerscommunity #writingcommunity #poetry

For today's #Fragmentsfriday & the incredibly supportive @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social & @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social I've written He Woke Up influenced by one of my favourite short stories #poetrycommunity #writerscommunity #writingcommunity #micropoem #poetry

#vss365 Meltline The air stiffened. Birdsong travelled slowly. At noon the road began to pull itself toward the horizon. White lines thinned. Distance          stretched. The heat pooled in hollows, a wavering lens, folding the village sideways. #pull #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

A poem for another hot day in the UK, stay cool, stay safe, stay hydrated. #hotweather #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #writerscommunity

#vss365 No Defense it defenestrates the morning, hitting the greystone courtyard with a sound like forethought, the kind that dents, the kind the neighbours photograph before they call. #defenestrate #poetrycommunity #writerscommunity #writingcommunity #poetry #poem

#vss365 The Choke The ball stopped one lip-width short. Now the putter lies, consigned, alone in the dewlight to regret its choices. #putter #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #poetry

#vss365 Erosion The sea keeps returning to the same cliff as though trying to undo itself. Wave after wave after wav after wa after w after - until the rock forgets it's stone. #undo #poetry #writerscommunity #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity

#vss365 The Clench A clenched fist is merely an opinion held longer than is politely acceptable. #clench #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #shortpoem

#vss365 The Repressed Anger Museum Welcome. Please keep your voice low. Sudden honesty can damage the exhibits. This glass case contains a clench from 1998, preserved exactly as discovered inside an argument. Notice the tension between thumb and what was never said. #clench #writingcommunity