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@philippabowe.bsky.socialSep 6, 2026, 6:04 PM

Sunday offering for #PoemsAbout and the #SheddingSkins prompt. Thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk 💜

Pale blue box with the words of a prose poem: The Snaking of Icarus The Icarus who plummeted, tasted the salt of the sea that took his name long after it coffined him, was not the end-of-the-story Icarus, but instead the skin he shed in the Helios scorch, the skin he shed to feed our thirst for the tragic dénouement, the narrative-wrapped moral, leaving him skinless and free and light, another Icarus who journeyed to the heart of the sun where he grew quietly old growing flowers of flame, writing odes to the sky in the sand, never regretting the celebrity of discarded and drowned flesh and wings.
@rburrows.bsky.socialSep 6, 2026, 8:23 AM

#PoemsAbout #SheddingSkins #smallpoemsunday #haiku 🦀 Happy Sunday!

rock-scuttle claw-wave gulls watch, silently amused prey’s soft-backed panic
@blackbijewess.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 10:10 PM

Crypt

What's left on the pyre-
After it burns to ashes?
Scorched earth Barren Scarred

#haiku
#PoemsAbout #SheddingSkins

@blackbijewess.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 10:07 PM

Curls

Medusa Gorgon
Shedding skin Expectations
Snakes writhe in pleasure

#haiku
#PoemsAbout #SheddingSkins

@metaphorqu.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 2:10 PM

This was the original - 50 years ago nearly and I misquoted myself. I'm less holy/weird now. 😇😇
#PoemsAbout
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
#SheddingSkins

@stacebot.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 11:43 AM

For this week's #PoemsAbout #SheddingSkins I'm thinking about things that emerge tender and glistening into tomorrow.

#poetry #blueskypoets
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@alanparrywriter.co.uk

a very good scrap to put on your table sometimes the constructed thing is what allows a truth to exist. this is obvious if you've ever written a poem. or worn braces. less obvious if you've ever constructed a self. teeth, apparently, can be persuaded by sustained pressure. eventually the braces come off. nobody asks which teeth were true. not to press my pricky biological objection to this whole central metaphor too far but now i think we have a poem with a problem in it rather than a poem explaining a position which must mean we're really getting somewhere. and like the proverbial snake who gets shed -- strike a dignified pose and find out.
@thebrokenspine.co.ukSep 3, 2026, 6:00 AM

Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #SheddingSkins.

What had to come off before you could move?

Don’t polish the transformation. Give us the split, the scrape, the raw bit underneath.

Don’t post before Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.

Abstract black, grey and white pattern resembling layered, shed reptile skin, filling the image. 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 #SHEDDINGSKINS”.