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@pvcannon.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 1:25 PM

For #PoemsAbout #Possessed

With much thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

A free verse poem which explores the power of love as possession. The father worries for his daughter, but the boyfriend is the one at risk.
@merrildsmith.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 12:38 PM

Good morning! Happy Friday! I've gone seasonal with this #Haibun folktale #PoemsAbout #Possessed. It's a revised version of one I wrote years ago. I have a second "current events" poem I'll post later. 😉 Thank you as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Haibun: Selkie’s Lament In the everchanging sea I thrive. I remember this. Dawn-fire shoots across the grey northern ocean. When darkness comes, the moon silvers the water, and I watch the blinking stars, wink and drift across the sky. I didn’t know how happy I was then, watching the days flit and flicker. Sleek-bodied, my brothers, sisters, and I surf across waves, laughing and singing our ancient songs. But I glimpsed you from afar, and I was curious. When the summer sun lingered long and languid, I swam to the shallows, then walked ashore, my human form dripping dulse and smelling of brine. Love, I thought, but possession I became. And now— my true skin locked away–I am marooned here, grounded, the sea forsworn forever more. And yet still it calls to me—come! Oh, my brothers and sisters, do you know my sadness? Do you hear my cries? moon-glossed tears merge with lachrymose sea, irretrievable
@brendafromia.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 12:14 PM

#poemsabout #possessed #ItsACult
I tried writing from a MAGA point of view.

Possessed by fear, of those not like me. They look different. They may not even pray. Fear takes hold, won’t go away. Possessed by promises, that will come true. Incomprehensible to libs, that he’ll carry through, because he loves this country, unlike Democratic Blue. Possessed by the need to belong, to a group that is strong. Taunt the weak libs, Demonize LGTBQ, Wield slurs like sharp swords. I agree and belong. Possessed by the need for power. The power of a throng, lead by a man who warns “Don’t fall for fake news”. Tune in to “right” sources. Lib news is all wrong. I’m a card-carrying member, MAGA to the core. I stand by my brand, no need to conceal. Wear my red hat proudly, in Trump I believe. Signed—Every MAGA Sycophant
TThe Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)@thebrokenspine.co.ukOct 11, 2026, 6:00 AM

Next up: #Possessed. By love. By rage. By money. By memory. By the thing in the dark that absolutely promised it wasn't there. New theme begins Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout. Read. Repost. Reply.

A cyan-blue image of a blurred figure reaching one hand towards the camera. The outstretched hand is in sharper focus while the person’s face and body appear distorted by movement behind it. The Broken Spine logo appears at the top left and @thebrokenspine.co.uk at the top right. White text at the bottom reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #POSSESSED”.
@metaphorqu.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 12:10 PM

#PoemsAbout
@thebrokenspine.co.uk

Of late

My soul has been #possessed

By the image of my

Grandmother-as-spy

For whom the truth was

Essentially

Undercover In enemy territory

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TThe Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)@thebrokenspine.co.ukOct 13, 2026, 6:00 AM

#PoemsAbout #Possessed starts Friday. Write obsession. Ownership. Haunting. The thought you can't put down. The person you can't get out. Who possesses whom? Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.

A cyan-blue image of a blurred figure reaching one hand towards the camera. The outstretched hand is in sharper focus while the person’s face and body appear distorted by movement behind it. The Broken Spine logo appears at the top left and @thebrokenspine.co.uk at the top right. White text at the bottom reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #POSSESSED”.
@ctrlaltdltffs.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 11:07 AM

The voices that come from within aren't always ours.

*TW - self-harm, talk of suicide

#PoemsAbout #possessed #poetry #writing #mentalillness
@thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

I heard his voice but not with my ears he told me to do horrible things to myself, to my body cut it, destroy it, kill it he showed up one day uninvited somewhere deep inside my mind and my hands, they did what they were told I have the scars to prove it he told me I'm a mistake, tried to get me to erase myself exacerbated depression forced me to live in darkness with a voice that followed me for years then one day he was gone maybe he found a new victim or I found the right med to kill him every once in a while I think I hear him I chalk it up to a migraine aura (it's for the best) self-destruction isn't always a conscious choice sometimes the voices within command it when you're at your lowest with no one else trying to help you it's difficult not to listen
@spankymcboo.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 10:39 AM

#Posessed @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #poetrycommunity #poetsofbluesky

Posessed I possess him All of my pasts All of my futures Wrapped around him Like barbed wire Drawing rusted blood And still he holds me tightly The metal scars his hands And he weeps for the love of me He possesses me All of my failures All of my hopes My dreams held within him In the clouded void Where they are fed and watered By his hallowed veins Carrying loves blood To my scarred heart He possesses me Fully and completely I am willing and blessed To be absorbed into him Like water to his lips Within him I flourish Like the darkest thorned flower And still he looks on me As a thing of beauty
@ianbrownlie.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 10:09 AM

#PoemsAbout #Possessed

Sonnet 666 That bitter spark, sharp spirits shall possess Drawn in beneath the cusp of cloth on cloth Once there, sequestered, impulses suppress And bring the flame in closer to the moth Mirror mirror, contrary through a fog Of imperfections steadied by cruel hands Secure control dressed up as dialogue When suddenly the crouching spirit stands The host, still present, hushed behind blurred glass Perceives perhaps a tenth of wraith’s intent Quickly now we find all things must pass Relationships (and also bodies) rent Such things are only possible once dark When I’m alive to every bitter spark
@fhpowellwriter.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 10:04 AM

#PoemsAbout
#Posessed
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
and
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
Have a great weekend all you poets
#poetrycommunity

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@osageorange.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 9:19 AM

A piece for #PoemsAbout #Possessed @thebrokenspine.co.uk
#poetry

what came over if not for the iron my marrow-pith my acid wash my stainless steel would tear asunder this animal, still smashes through a snare of its own making
@rayhourigan.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 9:02 AM

#PoemsAbout #possessed #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
An older one for this week..

RRaymh@rayhourigan.bsky.socialApr 8, 2025, 7:29 AM

Possessed.. #poetry #poem #writing #blueskypoetry #skypoets #artistsunite #writingcommunity #mentalhealth

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@drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.ukOct 16, 2026, 8:29 AM

Hi #PoemsAbout peeps @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk Thanks for this week’s #Possessed theme. Not been contributing in this space recently, but the theme turned out this bit of weirdness. Thanks for the platform. Catch up as and when. Always look forward to the contributions.

#poetry

A poem by Debbie Ross in 4 stanzas entitled Own It I’ve sometimes been called self-possessed and maybe I am a bit full of myself. Let down too many times, promises broken. I inhabit myself, haunted by memories, traumas’ scars laid bare. I fill the cavern of my soul with every bright thought, each happy thing the day can bring obsessed with just living.
@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

#poemAltText #UseAltText #PoetryCommunity #poetsofbluesky #poets #poems #poetry

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
@bernp.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 7:53 AM

Huge thanks as always to @thebrokenspine.co.uk for hosting #PoemsAbout #Possessed look forward to reading other poems from my talented poety friends

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@zoomburst.substack.comOct 16, 2026, 6:59 AM

#PoemsAbout #Possessed

So many great pieces already this week, and its not even 8am yet!

A poem on the one word prompt Possession. I fear that this, and all poems from this prompt - possibly all prompted poems from this moment forward will be eclipsed by Sue Ibrahim's "This be Perverse" which I was moved to repost.
@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 6:41 AM

#PoemsAbout i #Possessed A sonnet from my forthcoming collection: But Its Always been Like This
Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk
#poetrycommunity #poetry #poem #poems #skypoets #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetsofbluesky #skypoet #writingcommunity

mixed signal If you guide, protect, lift up they will stay. Zero competition, a total blue ocean to trauma dump in this spring day. The way society produces you. If you do this one thing once a week you will completely change your life. Park your proud scooter on seafront without a seaview landwards. It's not retirement. Shout it loud. If stressed, isolated and broke, console yourself with scrolling you can't afford. Shadow banking repossessed your one sole scooter from the cheap, derelict seaboard. "I need to be authentic." she said "This." Your top moss remover questions catfished.
@blackbijewess.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 6:26 AM

#PoemsAbout
#Possessed

@throwawayreg.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 6:07 AM

morning Friday
here’s my little “throwaway”
poem for #PoemsAbout
#possessed and thank
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
hope everyone everywhere
enjoys their weekend

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@johnchmura.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 6:03 AM

#PoemsAbout #Possessed @thebrokenspine.co.uk
I screwed up the hashtag

JJohn Chmura@johnchmura.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 5:30 AM

#PoemdAbout #Possessed @thebrokenspine.co.uk My wife confirms that this is not autobiographical. I will put a reading in the comments.

COMMAND AND CONTROL if all hypnosis is truly self-hypnosis then why do i crow like a rooster at dawn even when i don’t set an alarm and raise my left leg at every fire hydrant peeing my sweatpants and barking at cats and squirrels ever since that that tricky tray at the elks lodge i try finger snaps and hand claps and even humming ommm with my eyes closed but i can’t shake the impulses so i call the lodge and ask the exalted ruler for the entertainer’s contact info to see if they could break the spell and the guy tells me there was no hypnotist i’m tryna tell my wife about it but she keeps playing with some pendant i don’t remember seeing before and she’s like honey relax trust me he probably just forgot now be a good boy and take out the trash oh and don’t forget to wake me in the morning I have a power breakfast at nine sharp snap
@thebrokenspine.co.ukOct 16, 2026, 6:00 AM

#PoemsAbout #Possessed is live.

Lose control.

Post from today through Thursday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché

Read 3+. Repost. Reply.

A cyan-blue image of a blurred figure reaching one hand towards the camera. The outstretched hand is in sharper focus while the person’s face and body appear distorted by movement behind it. The Broken Spine logo appears at the top left and @thebrokenspine.co.uk at the top right. White text at the bottom reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #POSSESSED”.
@zentinl.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 5:45 AM

#PoemsAbout is exploring #Possessed this week. Perfect for a Friday in October. Can't wait to read all of your work.
Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#poetrycommunity #poetry #poem #poems #skypoets #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetsofbluesky #skypoet #writingcommunity

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