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@robinince.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 12:42 PM

Is love as strong as death? #poetrychallenge @jillhturner.bsky.social

Brigite
Flat line - unplugged-Silence
Tears suspended for a second
Momentarily
we all stop breathing too
Then
With our eventual inhalation
With Sadness’s Sigh
It is confimed
She no longer disturbs the air
the tatt into the chat
As we Still must
The her-ness of her
No longer lies there
We take the responsibilily
of carrying the continuity
Of those impressions
The body is left
But the shape of her remains
In how we travel

How we reach out
What we take in
Like the energy in the universe
The object may be destroyed
But the love deployed in its living
Still Moves
Always Remains

@robinince.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 12:23 PM

Kangaroos #poetrychallenge @nikic.bsky.social #kangaroos

Kangaroos
In the evolutionary journey
We observe increasing intricacy
(Though do not contuse that for
superiority)
organelle - Single Cell
Amoeba - Algae - Alligator
Fungal, Lichen, Sponge and Fern
With each line and turn
A possible innovation
among the failed Mutations
For the marsupial and Monotreme
A pouch for foetal Jelly bean
So the Joey's OUT
but also IN
Protected within a mothers Pocket
A living leaping Mammalian
locket

@robinince.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 8:37 AM

Off to Edinburgh - in between reading, I will write some #poetry, what would you like a poem about ? #poetrychallenge

@robinince.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 3:52 PM

The bench #poetrychallenge @acabricky.bsky.social

The Bench
Too yourg for bars
Too poor for pints
Old enough to need escape
a space
uninterrogated by
parental senses
That place
Is where the bench is
Where emancipatory hormones can let us indulge in seeing a future
That the gatekeepers
Wish to dismiss
And you'll get stoned and pissed
Think polo mints will create a cloak of in visibility
around your Inebration

It will be place to sit
and say
We’ll find a way to navigate
be bold
To hold the heaviness of a
broken heart
and the lightness of a kiss

@robinince.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 3:35 PM

#poetrychallenge tin pan alley @holten.mustangbooks.com

Tin Pan Alley
At the 12 Bar Club
a tricky choice
Do you want to see
The Singers lower body
or go upstairs and see their face
In the bar all Men look like
Roger Daltrey (give or take)
Some Women
Janis Joplin
their dreams leak
Carry into the street
Apparitions of that publishing deal
Remain perpetual
Some offer anarchy as their alibi
"Anything contractual is just shackles Fromm
THE MAN! "
Whistling down Tin Pan alley

They can hear a window open
"Hey you, young fella
Let me tell ya
That tune
That Song
That ditty
It'll win an Ivor Novello
and the wind Spills a bin and carries
Clefs, crotchets and Quavers ever higher into the sky

@robinince.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 3:14 PM

#poetrychallenge the loss of that summer feeling @ockenden.com

With climate change
The temperature clings to July readings
As october rolls.
Into the indecency of Christmas lunch publicity

and Halloween trickery
But the shadows accept no restrictions as they stretch
The darkness Says
Not long now until you move the clock
and find in elongated night
A necessary sadness
That arrives without the light

@robinince.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 2:36 PM

On my way from Levenshulme to Rickmansworth library #poetrychallenge what would you like me to write a #poem about this afternoon ?

@robinince.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 8:25 PM

#poetrychallenge

@robinince.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 6:44 PM

On the train home from Newcastle - thank you to the lovely audience - now , what would you like me to write a #poem about ? #poetrychallenge

@robinince.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 12:10 PM

Slate roof #poetrychallenge

Slate
From the quarry
a Memento Mori
Of geology
brought here on a lorry
counted out by the curate
Along the battens from the bottom up
On the other side
No Michelangelos
but no more soggy semons it rains or snows

@robinince.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 11:42 AM

Time #poetrychallenge

There has been no time
without time
What there was before
Still baffles us
The equations on the black board Illustrate sometting too arcane for my limitations
But for now,
another word nonsensical if nothing ticks, We are immersed in it Exhausted
and elated
Depending on where it takes us
Our bodies mark the moment
when we fell
The minute when we cut ourselves
The slowing of tHe reparation
of our cells

We watch it as we
Move
From verse to chorus to middle eight
Middle eight
Wondering when the needle Slides beyond the outro
Listen carefully
be attentive to your time
Do not just lose it
Play with it and in it
Leave a scar upon the
clocks
Be the one who they
say
"And when he died,uncannily, my watch stopped

@robinince.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 11:20 AM

Moomins on a mission #poetrychallenge

tove, did you know
Your Moomıns Missıon
Would be unending
While other books
Slide inte the shadows
As what was "contemporary"
(Thankfully)
Becames archaic
The Kindness of your curiosity
The width of your acceptance
The brightness of your
Imagination
Not afraid to question the
winter dark
Leaves your creatvity inked
on Limbs
knitwear , lapel pins
his is not "Just" for children
I Trust those Still besotted
by a Moomin

@robinince.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 10:44 AM

I am on the train to Newcastle for my gig at The Stand at 4pm

www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...

Any requests for what you’d like me to write poetry about on my journey #poetrychallenge

@robinince.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 10:25 AM

#poetrychallenge is coming to Kings Heath today between 2 and 4 at Heath Bookshop - pop in and request a #poem - after I’ve written it I will record and subtitle it to make sure it is properly accessible

www.theheathbookshop.co.uk #creativity #birmingham

@robinince.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 2:46 PM

One rainy day in Morecambe and already my head is full of cold and stupid , but that’s no reason not to battle out some poems between Taunton and Reading - what would you like? #poetrychallenge

@robinince.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 8:09 AM

Off to Tavistock - what would you like me to write about on the way #poetrychallenge

@robinince.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 2:33 PM

The next #poetrychallenge was drag

@robinince.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 12:51 PM

Now from Crewe to Morecambe - what would you like me to write about on the way there ? #poetrychallenge

@robinince.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 11:34 AM

I’m on train from London Bridge to St Leonard’s - anything you’d like me to write a poem about ? #poetrychallenge

@dreadingslam.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 10:39 PM

results of August’s #Caption Competition
Congratulations go to Pam Ski for her winning couplet
“Get off your high horse and join our bandwagon,
Going A to B by inflatable dragon.”

#poetrychallenge

Watch the Dreading #poetry slam #fb groups for next months contest