@merrildsmith.bsky.socialYou're very welcome, Rachel!
Merril D. Smith
@merrildsmith.bsky.social
Poet, Historian, Lover of river walks and the sea. Cat Lady. Poetry Collection: River Ghosts (Nightingale & Sparrow Press) New Poetry Collection: Held Inside the Folds of Time (Jane's Studio Press).
@merrildsmith.bsky.social@merrildsmith.bsky.socialYes, of course!
@robbiecheadle.bsky.socialReposted by @merrildsmith.bsky.social
@johnchmura.bsky.socialReposted by @merrildsmith.bsky.social#PoemsAbout #Bites @thebrokenspine.co.uk
I will put a reading in the comments. Midnight here in New Jersey. I expect to be out and about during the day, so I may be s little slower playing catchup.
@merrildsmith.bsky.socialYou brought the 🔥 to this one, John! 💪 (Nothing would surprise me any more about this regime.) I especially like the sounds in the cinnabar stained bones lines.
@merrildsmith.bsky.socialYou're welcome!
@rburrows.bsky.socialReposted by @merrildsmith.bsky.socialThis poem is about a brilliant woman and her son. They continue to inspire me. He wasn’t able to remain at his local school which she was devastated about, but described her relief that ‘the walk of shame’ was over. #PoemsAbout #Bites @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry
@merrildsmith.bsky.socialA moving poem, Rachel. I had to look up SEND, but I like the play on words of the title, and I love the line "moth-tuned into echolocation." She sounds like a wonderful mother, that "walk of shame" so difficult for both of them. 💙
@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.socialReposted by @merrildsmith.bsky.socialFrom my out of print collection "Port of Souls"
for #PoemsAbout #Bites and @thebrokenspine.co.uk
@patriciajvs.bsky.socialReposted by @merrildsmith.bsky.socialFriday again so it's thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for another #PoemsAbout #Bites
This one was inspired by my Dad's love of sailing and stories of the coast from Texel up to the Wadden Zee.
@merrildsmith.bsky.socialSo atmospheric! Wonderful imagery. I could feel those biting winds!
@ianbrownlie.bsky.socialReposted by @merrildsmith.bsky.socialDating is never easy. #PoemsAbout #Bites
@merrildsmith.bsky.socialMade me laugh. Maybe there's a vampire dating app? 😂
@merrildsmith.bsky.socialGood morning! My poem for #PoemsAbout #Bites is a revision of a poem I wrote for Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social ekphrastic challenge with art by @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social Thank you as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk I'll be back later!
@merrildsmith.bsky.socialI'm pleased and honored to have #poems in the latest anthology from @chaossectionpoetry.bsky.social . There are so many powerful poems in this volume! Thank you to editors @nickallison80.bsky.social and @mother-poet.bsky.social for including mine.
Onwards!
@chaossectionpoetry.bsky.socialReposted by @merrildsmith.bsky.social
@lizgauffreau.bsky.socialReposted by @merrildsmith.bsky.socialStory Chat Digest: “The Essay” I'm very excited to have a new story featured on Marsha Ingrao's "Story Chat Digest." If you get a chance, I'd love for you to stop by Marsha's place to add to the conversation.
@chaossectionpoetry.bsky.socialReposted by @merrildsmith.bsky.socialDelores Gilmore
Donde esta Eduardo? Yo no se
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"Fear tastes like
Cotton candy strawberries
Rotting in the fields
After the raid
Fear tastes like
Salty tears and
Empty fruit stands
At the farmers market
Donde esta Eduardo?
Yo no se"
@chaossectionpoetry.bsky.socialReposted by @merrildsmith.bsky.socialMichelle DeRose
Morning Ghosts
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"Five-dollar breakfast on a plastic tray.
A dark-eyed family slips
into the booth behind, whispers
in Spanish, mutes even the crinkles
unwrapping their muffins."
@chaossectionpoetry.bsky.socialReposted by @merrildsmith.bsky.socialChad Parenteau
There’s Options
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"All orders are clear and never
wrong. And if any orders
seem to contradict, then do them
in the order heard, give in
to confusion then collapse."
