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@coledone.comOct 6, 2026, 1:59 AM

Wrong Way
My Days Are Numbered (9/?)

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#nyc #newyork #subway #poetry #poems #poetsofbsky #lifttothesky #writingcommunity

Slipped through a buzzing door and dared to think I was slick to save three bucks in this place where it costs money to breathe. Extra hour on the train, swear the sign said Uptown, but now I am in Brooklyn and my phone is dying. Extra hour to get back, assuming I can read. But across the water spans the Manhattan Bridge and I get to go across twice, seeing the blinking of the lives of a million people who each pray to take their trips the right way.
@mwplovesmusic.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 3:15 PM

#lifttothesky my longtime friend @daveashleypoet.bsky.social. If you haven’t met Dave, shame on you! No but really, he’s a funny guy who’s ridiculously talented. Always supportive and looking for new ideas, he’s just great and he comes with a penguin.

@thebrokenspine.co.ukOct 5, 2026, 5:00 AM

#LiftToTheSky Monday asks for generosity, not perfection.

A black-and-white photograph of seabirds flying above a calm sea. Gentle waves roll toward the shore beneath a pale sky. In the centre of the image, handwritten-style text reads “#LIFTTOTHESKY,” with “@thebrokenspine.co.uk” beneath it. The Broken Spine fountain pen logo appears in the top right corner.
@coledone.comOct 3, 2026, 3:29 PM

All Seven
My Days Are Numbered (8/?)

Poem also in alt text.

#poetry #writingcommunity #lifttothesky #cornell

To listen in silence, refuse to hear how your mother screamed your sister wailed. These are the ears of we men gathered here. To watch passive, hollow hands groping your grandmother and the you within her. These are the eyes of we men gathered here. To smell nothing, of the bubbling fizz inducing bile and fatigue inside a woman you call friend. We are the men gathered here, controlling the kindling and fire since we all slept in wet caves.
@coledone.comOct 2, 2026, 3:53 PM

This is a view of the bottom.
My Days Are Numbered (7/?)

Poem and photo (also in alt text)

#poetry #nyc #lifttothesky #writingcommunity #subway

This is a view of the bottom. Somewhere beneath, places the stains and trash wind up. Liquid of unknown provenance makes unholy pools on speckled mass. This is a view of the bottom. Where the eyes naturally fall when a man speaks gibberish maybe fifty miles a minutes only feet away and you don’t know if you hate him or fear him but everybody claims to know him in the after, yet… This is a view of the bottom. And even if we don’t admit it, it’s an intimately familiar sight.
@drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.ukSep 28, 2026, 9:52 AM

For Monday’s #LiftToTheSky I’m bringing you @throwawayreg.bsky.social Notes from Various Sofas from my sofa to yours. A stalwart of #PoemsAbout this new release from @sixtyoddpress.bsky.social gives you irreverent, humorous, short verse to make you smile. Pies, pints, sex and settees in abundance.

A photo of a book cover Notes from various settees roger waldron. A graphic of a blue background with a yellow settee and 3 framed prints of 3 more settees in purple green and orange. A small round wooden table at the right end of the settee with the hand and arm of a departing person with grey trousers, brown socks and a blue sleeve. White skirting either side of the sofa and standard lamp with yellow shade far right.
@thebrokenspine.co.ukSep 28, 2026, 6:00 AM

For #LiftToTheSky, name someone who makes this space better.

A black-and-white photograph of seabirds flying above a calm sea. Gentle waves roll toward the shore beneath a pale sky. In the centre of the image, handwritten-style text reads “#LIFTTOTHESKY,” with “@thebrokenspine.co.uk” beneath it. The Broken Spine fountain pen logo appears in the top right corner.
@drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.ukSep 21, 2026, 9:24 AM

@bethbpoet.bsky.social for today’s #LiftToTheSky Her chapbook A Long Way Down explores her memories and emotions in relation to her Dad and his army service. You can contact her direct to buy it. Check out her other pamphlets and her substack too bethbrooke.substack.com
A skilled & sensitive poet

@thebrokenspine.co.ukSep 21, 2026, 6:00 AM

It’s #LiftToTheSky. Lift the people doing the work you believe in.

A black-and-white photograph of seabirds flying above a calm sea. Gentle waves roll toward the shore beneath a pale sky. In the centre of the image, handwritten-style text reads “#LIFTTOTHESKY,” with “@thebrokenspine.co.uk” beneath it. The Broken Spine fountain pen logo appears in the top right corner.
@coledone.comSep 18, 2026, 7:35 PM

Squaresville (5/?)

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#poetry #nyc #lifttothesky #writingcommunity #aithoughts #architecture

Monuments keep getting higher and their edges get sharper. The intricacy of the ornate, the artistry of audacity, replaced by hard corners. A data point flows in endless waves of information swelling along my shore lines to be found and lines to be drawn, always with the toughest of edges.
@coledone.comSep 15, 2026, 5:35 PM

Stair Poem (After A.A. Milne)

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(4/?)

#poetry #poetsofbluesky #architecture #nycpoetry #poem #nyc #lifttothesky #writingcommunity

After A.A. Milne— A lifetime can be whiled away at the bottom of the staircase, gazing up at how many flights rest unbidden and waiting. A lifetime can be whiled away at the top of the staircase, ogling back at what’s climbed, longing need for those passed. But a lifetime can be found only somewhere on a middle stair— when your legs are heaviest and your eyes are locked on nothing but the next step that must be taken.
@coledone.comSep 14, 2026, 7:26 PM

I am the old and I am the new

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(3/?)

#poetry #poetsofbluesky #architecture #nycpoetry #poem #nyc #lifttothesky #writingcommunity

I am the old and I am the new. Where brick-bone and glass-pop. Where sewer arteries move train cars and millions of cells powerhouse through. I am an art deco street light with Bluetooth compatibility, lamp-shading your selfie any every hue you want tonight.
@fleurdu.bsky.socialSep 14, 2026, 12:54 PM

#lifttothesky gratitude to #poetsofdoom for their service to the poetry community
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social
@jenthorne.bsky.social
@sonnetsmith.bsky.social
@phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social

@thebrokenspine.co.ukSep 14, 2026, 6:00 AM

#LiftToTheSky Monday:
Community isn’t abstract. It’s built post by post.

A black-and-white photograph of seabirds flying above a calm sea. Gentle waves roll toward the shore beneath a pale sky. In the centre of the image, handwritten-style text reads “#LIFTTOTHESKY,” with “@thebrokenspine.co.uk” beneath it. The Broken Spine fountain pen logo appears in the top right corner.
@coledone.comSep 10, 2026, 5:28 PM

The neighbor has grown two pines

Photo and poem (also in alt text).

#poetry #poem #nyc #nycpoetry #harlem #urbanexploration #lifttothesky #poets #writers

The neighbor has grown two pines. Or, perhaps those who lived there once when the rent wasn’t for masqueraders playing pretend in million dollar homes, planted these conifers with black hands. Tended to them until the city said taxes had gone so high that they were pushed a street over, another, one more… all the way to another island, separated by a river’s rushing from the roots they had put to earth uptown where the Columbia undergrads sip twelve dollar beer and dream of one day owning anything.
@coledone.comSep 9, 2026, 4:46 PM

Unknown miles below,
another town bisected
by one state highway
and many numbered
splinters.

Engine trails fade in daylight
and stars disappear from night.
A child looks up at the blink,
says “Someday” with promise.
Assuredly.

(1/?)

#poetry #poem #lifttothesky #writer #travelpoem #flight #nyc

@acjuniper.bsky.socialSep 7, 2026, 1:32 PM

#MenOnMonday #LiftToTheSky

I just came across this initiative and in a time of rising toxic masculinity, am so glad to see good men being celebrated. A few for today.

@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@bundtkake.bsky.social
@arliden.bsky.social
@sonnetsmith.bsky.social
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social

@thebrokenspine.co.ukSep 7, 2026, 6:00 AM

Today is about shared attention. That’s #LiftToTheSky.

A black-and-white photograph of seabirds flying above a calm sea. Gentle waves roll toward the shore beneath a pale sky. In the centre of the image, handwritten-style text reads “#LIFTTOTHESKY,” with “@thebrokenspine.co.uk” beneath it. The Broken Spine fountain pen logo appears in the top right corner.