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Dreading SlamDreading@mastodonapp.uk
2025-05-03

Dreading #Slam, #OpenMic Poetry Competition returns to the Rising Sun Arts Centre (RG1 2ST) at 7:30PM (Doors 7:15) on Sunday May the 4th
#Free entry to Watch or read.
Dreading Slam is a friendly, open mic #poetry competition
The winner gets the opportunity to compete in the Grand Slam in January 2026
Join the audience or take part an evening of live poetry entertainment.

In addition the chance to read the works of any poet (max 3 mins) outside competition

There is also a lively quick fire round of short poems this is up to 5 lines long, won by the loudest cheer May theme is Days
If you wish to take part in the Poetry Slam, please bring 3 poems of your own work.
hosted by The Legend that is Richard Stephenson.

#PoetryMastodon #RdgUK #Berkshire

Void of Tranquillity 🔞void@voidkvlt.eu
2025-04-17
Ronak | ‘In Search of Starlight’ out now đŸ’«ronak@donphan.social
2023-12-29

I HAVE NEWS! đŸ„ł

The Winter 2023 issue of The LLP Magazine is now out! Features two poems written by yours truly, entitled 'Eight Hearts, Down a Path
' and 'The Illusion of Virtue'.

Fans of Sherlock (BBC) will love this issue! It celebrates the life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. An illustration of Benedict Cumberbatch's incarnation of Holmes adorns the cover.

Grab your copy here: learningliteraturewithpurba.co

Kindle link: amazon.in/dp/B0CQXM16PC

Fun fact! I got my inspiration for 'Eight Hearts, Down a Path
' from a certain RPG video game by Square Enix. Not hard to guess which one, right? 😉

Tags: #Poem #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetryMastodon #Poet #Writer #Literature #OctopathTraveler #SquareEnix #VideoGames #BBCSherlock #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes

Cavarcavar@zirk.us
2023-08-30

As new associate editor of Frontier Poetry, I have the pleasure of writing their exceptional poetry column every month! My first one just came out; in it, I look at poems featuring #disability , #pluralsystem , #reproductivejustice and more. Check it out below.

frontierpoetry.com/2023/08/29/

@litodons @writing @poets #litodon #poetrymastodon #writingcommuinty #disabilitycommunity @disability

FRONTIER POETRY EXCEPTIONAL POETRY FROM AROUND THE WEB: AUGUST 2023 BY [SARAH] CAVAR AUGUST 29, 2023 Hello, everyone! I'm Cavar, Frontier's new associate editor. I'm excited to be taking over Frontier's Exceptional Poetry column, and can't wait to share some of my favorite poem-finds with you. For the last few years, I've published a Substack with brief personal updates as well as a lengthy list of media recommendations, but haven't until now had the opportunity to delve into individual pieces, and what they mean to me.
Daniel Shersingherpigironpoet@kolektiva.social
2023-07-24

A short poem on unrequited feelings.

#poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #poetrymastodon #poetrykolektiva #love #lovepoems

You hold a place like the weight of water before the clouds get heavy. Like the moment before the flood breaks the levy. Before the ocean gets deep beyond comprehension. The overflow's surface tension. The motion of it makes me ill. But I'd still wait, sit here till I get caught up in you but clear to blue to green, all your waters are still. The rain will never come. The cup will never spill.
Pete Greenpetenothing
2023-04-14

First sighting of my book in the wild. @blackwells in Oxford, apparently.


@saltpublishing

My book The Meanwhile Sites on a shelf with a ton of other poetry books
Pete Greenpetenothing
2023-03-02

It's World Book Day please buy my book

saltpublishing.com/products/th

@saltpublishing

Me holding my book
succinctly salientacererak@writing.exchange
2023-02-18

again, again the pattern repeats.

like little flowering daisy's
down a desolate forgotten street.

again the world requests another
show to show each other

once again the world renews
the actors set to take the stage

year in and year out

while everyone is acting
the world delights about

#poem #poetry #PoetryMastodon

succinctly salientacererak@writing.exchange
2023-02-16

weather chills inky clouds swirl
icy snowflakes gale
flicker in the soupy night
mist and fog, shimmery miasma

#poem #poetry #PoetryMastodon

Satchsatch@todon.eu
2023-01-31

Found this in the library today @bookstodon #PoetryMastodon #poetry #australia 'created communities are a way to design our futures.'

PoetryinTranslpoetryintransl@zirk.us
2023-01-19

Play poker with the devil! Presenting Dante's epic Divine Comedy via the medium of playing cards. Each card face presents a Gustave Doré illustration, whilst the reverse features a QR code linking to A. S. Kline's #OpenAccess translation:
poetryintranslation.com/Admin/

#Dante #Poetry #PoetryMastodon

A split card deck positioned on top of a black, drawstring felt card bag. An face-up card shows the ace of spades, illustrated by Gustave Doré's illustration of Lucifer. The adjacent card reverse features a QR code linking to the work online.A selection of playing cards showing Gustave Doré's illustrations from Dante's Divine Comedy.A selection of playing cards, fanned in a hand, showing Gustave Doré's illustrations from Dante's Divine Comedy.
Nona Rosenona80_swanette@mastodon.au
2023-01-16

Another #EkphrasticPoetry entry I whipped up this afternoon

Prompt: Sally Mann “Black Eye”
(USA) photographic negative 1991, printed 1992
Gelatin silver print

Note: trigger warning for ideas surrounding childhood trauma and death (poem in following toot under content warning.

All feedback welcome. If you have any images you’d like me to write a poem for, let me know.

#PoetryIsArt #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetryByNona #PoetryMastodon #poet #PoetsOfMastodon #poem #PoemsofMastodon #PoemsByNona #writing #WritingIsArt #WritingCommunity #writer #WritersOfMastodon #childhood #ChildhoodTrauma #child #death #ekphastic #image #SallyMann #photography

Young girl in a large armchair wearing an old fashioned dress, eyes closed, one eye has a bruise under it, hence the title.
Nona Rosenona80_swanette@mastodon.au
2023-01-14

This is my first poem for 2023. If you have any feedback (good or bad) I’d love to hear it.

Prompt: Christopher Burket “Forest Light, Colorado”
(USA) 2006

Ye, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death 

No.
Stop.
There is no valley here,
Nor shadow,
Nor death
That holds a light to that which I see before me –
Tall trees;
Golden light;
Cool, aching breeze against my cheek
That reminds me
Of all the promises
Dropped like leaves
From broken branches
Onto the decaying souls
Of yesterday’s summer
While fresh life springs forth,
Against odds
And autumn’s steady march
Into that cold winter gloom,
High above the world –
Verdant and new
Atop the slender legs of arboreal giants
Who wait for no man
Nor beast,
Nor dark deity painted white,
As they reach
To worship a sun
That regards theirs existence
As the elephant regards the ant.

#WritingIsArt #writing #WritingCommunity #writer #WritersOfMastodon #PoetryIsArt #poetry #PoetryMastodon #Poems #PoemsOfMastodon #EkphrasticPoetry

Christopher Burket “Forest Light, Colorado” (USA) 2006 - autumnal scene: tall, slender trees with yellow and green leaves backed by yellow light shining through the trunks and branches.
Nona Rosenona80_swanette@mastodon.au
2023-01-14

I’m excited that the #EkphrasticPoetry group I’m in has started up again this week. I’ve been very lazy over the Christmas / New Year period about writing anything new so it’s good to have some external accountability and validation.

Shout out to any #publishers looking for poetry, I have many ready to go for multiple books (both published on my blog and unpublished) so please reach out if you’re interested.

#WritingIsArt #writing #WritingCommunity #writer #WritersOfMastodon #PoetryIsArt #poetry #PoetryMastodon #Poems #PoemsOfMastodon

Nona Rosenona80_swanette@mastodon.au
2023-01-08

Some people love their time in the military, others do not. I’ve known people in both camps. I know people who still serve. This won’t reflect everyone’s perspective, it’s just one perspective.

nonas-poetry-corner.blogspot.c

Let me know what you think, especially if you’re current or former military.

#poem #PoemsByNona #poetry #PoetryByNona #PoemsOfMastodon #PoetryMastodon #PoetryCommunity #writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryIsArt #WritingIsArt #Military

First 3 stanzas of the linked poem.
Nona Rosenona80_swanette@mastodon.au
2023-01-05

I wrote this just as before the summer of 2020/2021 in Australia. The summer before had been horrific and this was for all the firefighters (paid and volunteers) and those who lived through the bushfires defending homes, buildings, livestock and loved ones. This summer has been much milder but the fear of another like 2019/2020 hangs over everyone, especially those who live close to fire prone areas.

If you have a moment, please read the full poem.

nonas-poetry-corner.blogspot.c

#poem #PoemsByNona #PoemsOfMastodon #poetry #PoetryByNona #PoetryMastodon #PoetryCommunity #PoetryForPurpose #PoetryIsArt #writing #WritingCommunity #WritingIsArt #WritersOfMastodon #fires #bushfires #australia #summer #SummerFires #SummerInAustralia

First four stanzas of the poem linked to in the toot.
Nona Rosenona80_swanette@mastodon.au
2023-01-03

Quiet: A Sestina

I didn’t 100% stick to the rules of a sestina but rules are made to be broken 
 if you want to read the full poem, click the link!

nonas-poetry-corner.blogspot.c

Thanks for reading. Let me know what you think.

#poem #PoemsByNona #PoemsOfMastodon #poetry #PoetryByNona #PoetryMastodon #poets #PoetsOfMastodon #PoetryCommunity #sestina #writing #WritingCommunity #writers #WritersOfMastodon #PoetryWriters #PoetryWriting #WritingPoetry #art #MastoArt #WritingIsArt #PoetryIsArt #PoetryIsLife #BreakingTheRules

First stanza of the poem in the link
Cavarcavar@zirk.us
2022-12-25

#bookishadvent day 24, #smallpress edition is Wild Peach by S*an D Henry-Smith, a #hybridgenre poetry text which defamiliarizes the "natural" with generous helpings of love and magic.

goodreads.com/book/show/520116

@bookstodon @litodons #poetrymastodon #poetrycommunity #literarymastodon #literarycommunity #bookrec #bookrecommendation #bookstodon #litodon

Cavarcavar@zirk.us
2022-12-25

#bookishadvent belated day 23, #smallpress edition is [...] by Ava Hoffman –– Hoffman's visually and topically experimental poetry book toys with expectations of legibility levied on trans narratives. This is #transMadness, recoded.

@bookstodon @litodons #poetrymastodon #poetrycommunity #literarymastodon #literarycommunity #bookrec #bookrecommendation #bookstodon #litodon #madodon

goodreads.com/book/show/596830

Nona Rosenona80_swanette@mastodon.au
2022-12-24

Day 24 of #ArtAdventCalendar. It wouldn’t be Australia without a spider reference so, as an averred arachnophobe, this is as close as I’ll get - the empty web!

The poem is “A Letter to Myself” and I hope it resonates with you.
nonas-poetry-corner.blogspot.c

Let me know what you think.

#photo #photography #nature #art #MastoArt #NaturePhotography #SpidersWeb #ArtMatters #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #poetry #PoetryByNona #PoetryCommunity #poem #PoemsByNona #PoetryMastodon #PoemsOfMastodon #writing #WritingCommunity #writer #WritersOfMastodon #letter #LetterToMyself #advice #AdviceForLife #hindsight

A large spiders web with narrow gaps between most of the lines, though some areas have been opened up. The photo is in black and white.

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