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Matthew M C Smith

@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

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Wild eyed Welsh poet. Anti-discrimination, democracy, rights, transcendence.

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@matthewmcsmith.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 2:09 PM

A courteous rejection letter.

#poetry #writing #rejections #amwriting

@matthewmcsmith.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 7:52 AM

#smallpoemsunday

Thanks @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #poetry #writing

@matthewmcsmith.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 8:29 AM

‘Urgent, necessary’ poet faces vs real world

@blackboughpoetry.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 5:37 PMReposted by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

#fragmentsfriday #poetry #poetic

@blackboughpoetry.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:28 AMReposted by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

Joint 🥉 3rd place #fragmentsfriday @poetryman1.bsky.social #poetry

@blackboughpoetry.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:32 AMReposted by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

Joint 🥉 3rd place #fragmentsfriday #poetry Phillipa Trelford

@blackboughpoetry.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:39 AMReposted by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

2nd place 🥈 #fragmentsfriday #poetry @heavycloud.bsky.social Ryan Hooper

@blackboughpoetry.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:45 AMReposted by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

1st place 🥇 #fragmentsfriday #poetry @helenlaycock.bsky.social Helen Laycock 🏆

@finncassidy.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 6:19 AMReposted by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

Hi all #FragmentsFriday poets.

Hi & SPECIAL THANKS 🙏 to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social,
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social.

Today's #micropoem is from Paris.
Apollo & his muses, upset,
Tour Montparnasse's rooftop viewing-point, shut for renovations.

THANKS for sharing your #Poetry,
& #PoetryCommunity🙏💚

A photo - a morning skyline of Paris, with the Eiffel Tower on the left, and Tour Montparnasse on the right.
@owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 6:09 AMReposted by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

For #fragmentsfriday
With thanks to
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

#Oulens
#micropoem #micropoetry #poetry #poetrycommunity
#writingcommunity
#blueskypoetry

The weight of


gossamer&butter
                         prismatic 
                                     flutters
                                                cumulatively,
pinned
‘neath
                                dead velvet moths 
                                       in my throat
                   —

                   on
                 chest.


C. Oulens 
@owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social
@megsdregs.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 2:37 PMReposted by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

I just like to look at all the pretty things. ✨
Thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for the prompt and the space #FragmentsFriday brings.
#Poetry #CanadianPoet #Micro #Market

A poem about things
@doraartist.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 2:21 PMReposted by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

For #fragmentsfriday thanks to
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for this wonderful venue.
Better late than never!
#WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity

@ecamie.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 8:50 AMReposted by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

My tiny bit for #fragmentsfriday | #micropoetry #poem

@hareontherun.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 8:21 AMReposted by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

An offering for #fragmentsfriday organised by the irrepressible @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

A Bird in the Living Room

As Magicians spread
a palm of cards, you
offer wings
to choose the feather 
to reverse the trick
@ella-b-winters.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 7:58 AMReposted by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

Time for another #FragmentsFriday. A little melancholy one on this gloomy autumn day. As always, thanks to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for holding this space.

@heavycloud.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 7:10 AMReposted by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

This week’s #FragmentsFriday: an ars poetica. Thank you to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for hosting 🙏

What a line can do

One line can bloodwake
a bruised spirit –

starve winterdark
with truth-tongued verse;

kindle a dawn
of stanza-born light.
@osageorange.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 7:03 AMReposted by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

For #fragmentsfriday
Many thanks to
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

#micropoetry #poetry

by the funny green hedgeapples

alongside a lone 
bois d’arc 

limestone, 
unmarked 

where she
said 
it would be
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 7:18 PMReposted by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

Heighten the atmosphere of Autumn with Polly Oliver's #poetry collection 'Edges of Our Days'

www.blackboughpoetry.com/polly-oliver-edges-of-our-days

#poetry #writing #welshpoetry #mumbles #gower @pollyoliverwales.bsky.social

@blackboughpoetry.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 7:22 PMReposted by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

Need profound, prophetic, ruminative #poetry?

Look no further than our T.S. Eliot-inspired anthology 'Shored Fragments'.

www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm...

#poetry #modernism #poets #eliot #wasteland

@matthewmcsmith.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 6:48 PM

To celebrate her Nobel Prize, I have whole shelves of post-Classical work for Anne Carson. It’s really quite good, Anne. 😉

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