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Rachel

@pure_writing

Absurdist, writer, explorer, escape artist based in Italy. Copywriter, writer of poetry & prose, writerly banter.

Joined August 2020
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For @TopTweetTuesday and @MatthewMCSmith this is a poem on the subject of the moon, but not our moon. I shall call it.. I have all the moons #poetrycommunity
Poem They’re all just buttons on the muckle coat I take off at the end of the day, when the radiator finally kicks in. I could sit here counting them like a hip high child with his dad’s loose change, but I can’t take my eyes off the River Tweed as it step-leaps up my road, drawn onwards by the pull of my tide. I’m inundated by bodies of water. Daniel Duggan

ALT Poem They’re all just buttons on the muckle coat I take off at the end of the day, when the radiator finally kicks in. I could sit here counting them like a hip high child with his dad’s loose change, but I can’t take my eyes off the River Tweed as it step-leaps up my road, drawn onwards by the pull of my tide. I’m inundated by bodies of water. Daniel Duggan

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No content warnings this time , just a little poem about a moon for @TopTweetTuesday - thanks to @MatthewMCSmith for the challenge and opportunity to share.🌒 #poetry #poetrycommunity #imagistic
Image from Paul Short (@PaulWritesPoems)
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For this week's @TopTweetTuesday, challenge a poem about other moons in the solar system. And a reminder to look to the skies after sunset this evening. You may see the rare alignment of 7 planets.
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Next week’s challenge. Write a moon poem without using the word ‘moon’ or ‘lunar’. Make it new and really focus on an alternate take. Preferably write a poem about other moons in the Solar system other than our own. Imagistic, metaphorical & 90 words max. No tired descriptions.
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💎OUR LATEST SILVER BRANCH FEATURE 💎 From Cardiff, Wales. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @PushcartPrize-nominated poet Julian Cason @hool415 with a chapbook-sized feature of power-poems. Superb work by an emerging creative force!. Read and share please! Thank you 🙏 blackboughpoetry.com/februar… #poetry
Image from Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu (@blackboughpoems)
Image from Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu (@blackboughpoems)
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Make sure you read this seriously powerful poet from Cardiff. We have so much talent in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Julian Cason @hool415 is one of them
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💎OUR LATEST SILVER BRANCH FEATURE 💎 From Cardiff, Wales. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @PushcartPrize-nominated poet Julian Cason @hool415 with a chapbook-sized feature of power-poems. Superb work by an emerging creative force!. Read and share please! Thank you 🙏 blackboughpoetry.com/februar… #poetry
Image from Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu (@blackboughpoems)
Image from Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu (@blackboughpoems)
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Caught in the cold rain An #onslaught of tears hidden Lost forever more #haiku #vss365
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My offering for @TopTweetTuesday and esteemed host @aperrincycling. My Gran used to say, 'hope springs up at the spout of a teapot.' I've never put my finger on exactly what she meant. But it made this Spring/not Spring poem pop into my head. @MatthewMCSmith
Image from Laura Cooney *Motherbunnet* On Sale (@lozzawriting)
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#vss365 Bow and arrow – relinquished. Cupid’s quiver – lost. Love #disarmed. Psyche sparks a flame. At what cost?
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Want to get your writing year organised? We can help you focus on a 12 month plan to improve as a poet and get your work out there, developing your profile in the process. Sunday Feb 16th. Led by @MatthewMCSmith Book now! eventbrite.co.uk/e/crafting-…
Image from Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu (@blackboughpoems)
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You say rain is grey See all the bright #umbrellas A sea of colour #haiku #vss365
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in sonder democracy sets her roots in greed all things die #vss365 #sonder
Image from Andy Perrin (@aperrincycling)
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If it is a girl we will name her Rocket she said To be with child do it on a boat promised her mother and that is what they did the moon was big and the sea was full of chat like an oak with the acorn like a page of vowels that is how they built their Rocket baby■ #VSS365
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feathers stroked to a wet ink gloss, the raven on her shoulder drinking the scent of roses blended with ambergris and midnight violets from the shallow scrapes of her #collar-bone, questions and thunderstorms in the limitless black of her eyes #vss365
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the streets are full of passing strangers women dressed better than me men w/ blank faces , a few of them smile at me some are missing their teeth, some are missing their minds I wonder if even as a child they begged for numbness the day unfolds into a rising #sonder #vss365
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Midnight melancholy i wish i was floating inside a dream instead i find myself haloed in smoke, cigarettes bouncing between teeth & sad bloodshot eyes staring down into whiskey as if the abyss was at the bottom I am swallowed up by #sonder it speaks to my wounds #vss365
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Another piece using monorhyme and here's my offering for the theme of #sonder – a word meaning a realisation that other people also leave vivid and complex lives. Big thanks go to outgoing #vss365 host, Rachel @pure_writingfor all her great work.
Image from Phil Hyde (@gphydeauthor)
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#vss365 It's midnight; in a state of #sonder we exchange life stories. By 4 am, our souls too, leave us, shake hands mid-air & enter each others' bodies. At dawn, when we wake up, we go about living a different life. It would be ten years before we meet here, and do this again.
Image from Arvind Iyer (@ArvindIyer15)
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People say they feel #sonder and I do not doubt it. They just often pass through the feeling, but a writer wishes to be able to get rid of it, even for a while. Why, one might ask, and the answer is we do not feel only other people but universes of imaginary ones. #vss365
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