For #PoemsAbout #WrongBody
With much thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk
I Had A Dream – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
Photo: mars.nasa.gov one of many shots of the mars surface. I Had A DreamI no longer take ice with my moscow muleit was getting hard to swallow,I don’t like your orange christ I’d sure nail him tomorrow,I despise your sex-slave filesas gospels go this…
I Remember – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
Photo: Great Central Road 2017, on our way to Uluru for the second time. I Remember I like the red dust most of allbut I know the white, greybrown and black toofrom coast to interior,what really matters mostis the dust that sticks with meand memories my…
Will I Ever Know – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
Photo: found at bornrealist.com Will I Ever Know?Bleached weatherboardsburnt chimneyscold welcomes on thisbone frosted morning,twenty years may neverfind acceptancein this placewhere rules existbut are never spoken,the first question clever enough…
For #TankaThursday
tanka weekly #poetry challenge June 11, 2026
this week’s prompt: crow
write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry
With much thanks to @evecastle.bsky.social
Pumped – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Melissa is hosting Poetics with an invitation to write a poem without any punctuation, for more detail and resource follow the link below: dVerse Poets - Poetics - Unpunctuated Photo: found at en.michelin.co.th Pumpedyou knowyou do knowof course you…
A Tanka by Paul Vincent Cannon
For Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge No. 68, It's Vacation Time! Yvette has invited us to create a syllabic poem about vacation, using a kigo word with regard to the north south seasonal divide. Photo: taken at Two People's Bay near Albany 2023. Form: Tanka (5-7-5-7-7)…
David Hockney RIP - a true great has left us
a murder gathers
slick, iridescent plumage
black branches crowded
wind carries intense cawing
wishing I'd understood them
#TankaThursday crow #poetry #tanka
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Here is a gift link to Simon Schama's appreciation of David Hockney's life and art which we ran last year. It's an amazing piece and contains, as you might imagine, some spectacular pictures including an absolute corker of Hackney with Lucian Freud as.ft.com/r/f1473f70-0...
JUNE #BlueSkyPoetry Prompts
June arrives in fragments.
Step into colliding word pairs and write what they open under pressure.
Theme: Visible Strain
Slogan: June holds meaning under visible strain.
Use #BSPP54 to share work from any day in June.
#BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP54 #June #poetry
At dVerse Melissa is hosting Poetics with an invitation to write a poem without any punctuation, for more detail and resource follow the link below: dVerse Poets - Poetics - Unpunctuated Photo: found at en.michelin.co.th Pumpedyou knowyou do knowof course you doit is like a bicycle tyreif punctuatedit will be airless down to the hard…
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Photo: found at bornrealist.com Will I Ever Know?Bleached weatherboardsburnt chimneyscold welcomes on thisbone frosted morning,twenty years may neverfind acceptancein this placewhere rules existbut are never spoken,the first question clever enough waswhose permission did I need to be myself here,the second question came from the trenchesof my learning,
