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@waterfordrhyme.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 4:04 PM

Every #Wednesday we'll share a #waterford. Respond with your own (4 lines; 8, 4, 4, 8 syllables; ABBA rhyming scheme). These are slices of feel-good art so keep them positive!

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Image of a waterford printed in black on a white brick background.

The Dream by Kathleen Fahey

To reach for your hand in the rain,
step on a bus,
that waits for us,
discover each other again.

This week's waterford is a winner of the 2026 annual waterford competition, as chosen by Molly Twomey. It appears in "Duanaire - collected waterfords", the world's first poetry collection of waterfords which is edited by Kevin MacAlan, and features over 300 poems written by more than 90 poets from all over the globe. Copies of the anthology are available now: waterfordrhyme.com/#buyduanaire

@waterfordrhyme.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 3:55 PM

A lovely #waterford for #FragmentsFriday from @shivpotter.bsky.social - well done Siobhan!

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@annestgwilym.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 3:55 PM

An older poem of mine, from my first book 'Surfacing'. Published by Disability Arts Cymru (DAC) in 2018 in their anthology 'Out of Sight', which was about MH.
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@waterfordrhyme.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 5:47 PM

Loving your work 😍

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@waterfordrhyme.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 5:34 PM

Every #Wednesday we'll share a #waterford. Respond with your own (4 lines; 8, 4, 4, 8 syllables; ABBA rhyming scheme). These are slices of feel-good art so keep them positive!

#waterfordrhyme #poetrysky #poetry #poetrycommunity #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #writingcommunity #spéirghorm #micropoetry

Image of a waterford printed in black on a white brick background.

Springtime in Lagos by Jenny Cox

Violet clouds mist a gentle greet -
honey to musk,
jacarandas
crushed to rot on cobbled streets.

This week's waterford is a winner of the 2026 annual waterford competition, as chosen by Molly Twomey. It appears in "Duanaire - collected waterfords", the world's first poetry collection of waterfords which is edited by Kevin MacAlan, and features over 300 poems written by more than 90 poets from all over the globe. Copies of the anthology are available now: waterfordrhyme.com/#buyduanaire

@mjpj55.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 2:42 PM

an abstract day on
Picasso Bay magma shards
rolling tolling bells

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@alisonmanning.bsky.social Sep 13, 2026, 1:54 PM

Should we all fly St George's flags in support of the RNLI??? Here's a poem I wrote last night.... #RNLI #SupportRNLI #Poetry #PoetsonBluesky

Image of a lifeboat at sea and text of this poem by Alison Manning:

All in this together

Some days I think
this land of hope and glory
is falling apart.
Cracks appear,
as divisions widen,
separated by boundaries,
wedged apart by hatred and flagpoles,
we fall down them,
we are adrift.
We're all at sea;
the depths of intolerance and racism
have become
intolerable.
We are drowning in division.

What we need
are heroic volunteers
willing to drop everything
and come to rescue us,
who are happy to help everyone
uniting us
treating us all the same
wherever we are from
sent to save us all.
As they extend a hand of hope
and pull us safe inside
their lifesaving craft
we discover that
we are all in the same boat
(saved by the very organisation
whose symbol is St George's flag.)

@jnmcmanus.bsky.social Sep 13, 2026, 10:54 AM

A SUNDAY HAIKU
俳句サンデー
`Madness`

From shadowed darkness—
haunted unfinished fragments
quiet confessions

— J N M
13 September 2026

Art Credits ™a Mind's Eye
`madness`
Sumi Art
Digitally Enhanced
Year: 2026

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@westwaterfordag.bsky.social Sep 12, 2026, 5:55 PM

Next West Waterford Poets meet: Mon 19 Oct, 7:30pm. Prompt: write a luc bat.

New members - of all abilities - always welcome!

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Event poster for West Waterford Poetry meet-up - third Monday of every month at 7:30pm in Tudor House, St Mary Street, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Ireland.

@fridayam.bsky.social Sep 12, 2026, 2:23 PM

fridayam.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/t... A #revised #poem from the #archive #poetry #poetsonbluesky Do you lose things and spend hours looking for them? his is the #poem for you! :)

@annestgwilym.bsky.social Sep 11, 2026, 4:15 PM

Another delve into some of my older work. This one was a competition winner. The image that inspired it (an emperoro moth) was taken by me.

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Last Night I Became an Emperor Moth

I rode through the liquid night,
as a melon-slice moon crested a bank of cloud.
Part of the hush and curve of the universe;
Pleiades above me a diamond cluster ring.
Clothed in starlight, wings powdered,
furry belly glossy and plump.

Left the moor for a jaunt to the seaside,
over towns with flickering lights and strange smells.
Saw the sea corrugated by waves,
tang of salt quickening my senses.
Shimmied and played chase with the ladies,
rested with them on marram grass.

Birdsong ushered in the return of the sun;
drowsy, went home to sleep in the heather.
There to wait for my lover; my musk strong,
it will draw him from miles. He will come,
wings taut with blood. Antennae fresh as ferns.
Owl eyes pulsing with life like coals.

@waterfordrhyme.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 3:25 PM

Every #Wednesday we'll share a #waterford. Respond with your own (4 lines; 8, 4, 4, 8 syllables; ABBA rhyming scheme). These are slices of feel-good art so keep them positive!

#waterfordrhyme #poetrysky #poetry #poetrycommunity #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #writingcommunity #spéirghorm #micropoetry

Image of a waterford printed in black on a white brick background.

This week's waterford is a winner of the 2026 annual waterford competition, as chosen by Molly Twomey. It appears in "Duanaire - collected waterfords", the world's first poetry collection of waterfords which is edited by Kevin MacAlan, and features over 300 poems written by more than 90 poets from all over the globe. Copies of the anthology are available now: waterfordrhyme.com/#buyduanaire

Cycling by David Birkett

So sweet, this slow dissolution
of stress and gall;
the pedals fall
and rise in calm revolution.

@annestgwilym.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 12:28 PM

An older poem of mine from my first book Surfacing, published by Lapwing Publications. First published in The Dawntreader. Just looking at how my poetry has changed over the years.

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