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@wordwitchlife.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 9:46 PM

A bit #sick and fighting #fatigue so take a look at the poem I wrote earlier this week. Enjoy!

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@rock-rex.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 6:40 PM

"Imperfect".

Latest in a sequence "To Be Continued"; each starts with the last line of another poet's poem. (Very much a first draft.)

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(first line from John Curry's “Small Seconds” in "Odd" 1:3)

the small seconds dropped into place
snug in the spaces left for them

it’s in the calm before the storm
that damage strikes
and like the tingle in a tongue before a sneeze
the world fizzed
each separated interval of time
a little bomb
exploding

recognition
of the fear to come
days weeks months
or even decades later

@poetkatiratejeda.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 6:10 PM

Dualities, nuances, I am…

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@lagahoo.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 10:25 AM

This lust emerges
From unplumbed depths, a siren
Offering moist fruit

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@lagahoo.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 10:24 AM

Under lunar lights
Sweet sirens serenade, I
Longingly listened

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@poetkatiratejeda.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 1:35 AM

We resist…

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@lagahoo.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 9:57 PM

Exorcise the sin
Spirits clouded my mind with
Lies from Jenever

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@lagahoo.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 9:57 PM

And so we roosted
Upon the sin we maintain
But I fear it’ll hatch

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@rock-rex.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 7:21 PM

"Ornamental Birds".

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wind through hollow bones
and melody is flung into a deep-blue
cloudless sky
sweet feathered quavers
flutter-tongued
the mordant trills drop
slowly floating
on the thickening air

*

the sun is interrupted
by a ragged wing
casting a chill shadow
as it slides and turns
spiralling down as the air cools
shrilling cries like barbs in the eardrum
seeking murder
somewhere in the West

*

white-vaned death
a tacit spectre in the haunted skies
glimpsed at their end
by shaken victims
Tyto non angeli sed alba
as the new moon glistens
on rime-limed twigs

@poetkatiratejeda.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 7:17 PM

Community…

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@rock-rex.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 8:01 AM

"Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)".

From "Last Words", a sequence of poems each starting with the last words (sometimes apocryphal) of a well-known person.

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Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)

It has all been most interesting
(if not always pleasant)
but this body
that has served me well
from Nottingham
to the Ottomans
has turned on me at last
or rather
on itself
and there is nothing
that inoculates us
against death

@wordwitchlife.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 7:38 AM

Here's the #poem I put up Tuesday. Enjoy!

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@rock-rex.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 8:35 PM

"Three Comparisons in Search of a Subject".

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i.

like a dry river waiting for Winter
when down from the hills
– fast-flowing, foaming –
flash flooding scours
the cluttered channel:
fallen branches, wind-blown paper,
and leaf litter.

ii.

like a shadow that’s been stolen
yearning for the sun
for anchorage
and for a third dimension
waking up bereft
“whose am I?”

iii.

like a comic anecdote
tried out for the first time
on a roomful of depressives
struggling to find a rhythm
pierce the fog
cause one mouth to twitch
one eye to widen
in surprised amusement

@poetkatiratejeda.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 7:24 PM

Chin up, we’re brave, we’re determined, we want justice, we can do this…

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@wordwitchlife.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 5:55 PM

I wrote a #new #poem late last night.

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@waterfordrhyme.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 5:06 PM

Every #Wednesday we'll share a #waterford. Respond with your own (4 lines; 8, 4, 4, 8 syllables; ABBA rhyming scheme). These are slices of feel-good art so keep them positive!

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Image of a waterford printed in black on a white brick background.

Dé hAoine by Mary Gillen

Ticking hands on the office clock.
The sun shining,
sweet birds flying -
an bhfuil cead agam dul amach?

This week's waterford is a winner of the 2026 annual waterford competition, as chosen by Molly Twomey. It appears in "Duanaire - collected waterfords", the world's first poetry collection of waterfords which is edited by Kevin MacAlan, and features over 300 poems written by more than 90 poets from all over the globe. Copies of the anthology are available now: waterfordrhyme.com/#buyduanaire

@lagahoo.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 10:50 AM

Decay walked across
The islands, a macabre
Deadly pilgrimage

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@lagahoo.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 10:49 AM

We can never be,
Like islands set apart by
A vindictive sea

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@rock-rex.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 7:31 PM

"Chosen".

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faces lined beyond their years
the couple sat
and wept
in silence
scattered all about them
drying limbs
upon the dusty ground
charred, hacked, or broken
lay their life the lives of
countless generations
on this ancient land
gnarled uprooted
never more to fruit

although she knew the answer
asking only as a more articulated
cry of pain
she cried
Why us?

@poetkatiratejeda.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 5:45 PM

Celebrate and honor your inner child 🫶🏼☺️✨

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