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@deemclachlan.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 8:27 AM

Time for another #fridaypoem and this time it’s a #poemsabout #possessed
Thank you @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the #poetryprompt

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Possession
By Dawn Mclachlan

I saw in the distance an exalted castle where sadness had lost value and in the polished melancholy outpouring algorithms picked the bones of emotion 
like crows feasting on their kin.
All possession lost
in the cold creep of a eulogy prompted 
untouched by human heart and beyond the reach of flesh
lying in the dusty boxes of their lives 
the things they once yearned for the things they once worked for once held dear
in the ceremonies of life 
and death
there was only code to hold that moment still 
because they no longer lurched along the brittle road learning from 
the curves 
the climbs 
the falls 
the rocks
and the once broken hearts
there, only the machines write love songs
@deemclachlan.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 1:03 PM

A #fridaypoem for @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poemsabout #poetryprompt #deadletters

#sorrynotsorry
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Dead Letters
By Dawn Mclachlan 

You said you said sorry
but that’s not what I heard
from words that struggled for air
and writhed in the death of Meaning
Words distorted in the telling 
as Reason chased its tail

You said you said sorry
but that’s not what I heard
because I was watching high cirrus clouds
smudge the perfect blue with icy veils
and as sure as night follows
I knew the rain would come
@deemclachlan.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 8:32 AM

A wee beastie #haibun for this #fridaypoem for the #poetryprompt - #strays
Hosted by @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk with #poemsabout every week

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Stray
By Dawn Mclachlan

I read once that shrews don't really understand that we exist. In their minds we are as vast and unknowable as mountains, as silent and slow moving as trees. Their hearts beat 1000 times a minute and to them we are glacial in our pace.
Imagine living in a world where it's possible to stray wild beyond the comprehension of man.

We once placed our tent
Across the tracks of a shrew 
And still he ran through
@deemclachlan.bsky.socialSep 12, 2026, 10:37 AM

A #poemsabout for @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk prompt #FaultLines

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Fault Lines
By Dawn Mclachlan

In silvered tracks on papery skin the past walked 
carrying all that went before defining 
describing
the way the world worked 
back then
before time began 
before the Flight 
But decades later 
in startled moments
the vertigo of Fault Lines 
still cracked like ice
"Look what you made me do"