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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 12h

In Pratibha Castle's poem, 'Conscience', the speaker meditates on the nature of conscience, but also the natural world itself.
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Image: silhouette of wolf howling in front of a full moon.

Text:

Conscience

Conscience
as taught her by the nuns was a bridle
on a young girl's tongue

Pratibha Castle copyright

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 1d

Shannon Clinton-Copeland/@XBagginses's review of @LewisBuxton93's 'Mate Arias' is a genuine & thorough look at a collection of poems that explores something that seems often forgotten in poetry. Friendship. Just 'being mates'.

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Title: In Praise of Mate Arias by Lewis Buxton

Author: Shannon Clinton-Copeland

Excerpt: Every poem in Mate Arias is a supporting column in the architecture of a tenderly rendered pantheon to friendship and the myriad forms of platonic love, particularly between men. The pamphlet is made up of twenty-three sonnets, each
a vignette of affection, contemplation and memory.

Description: Two friends exchange dap in passing.

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 1d

Shannon Clinton-Copeland's review of Lewis Buxton's "In Praise of 'Mate Arias'" is a genuine and thorough look at a collection of poems that explores something that seems often forgotten in poetry. Friendship. Just 'being mates'.

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 1d

K.S. Moore's poem, 'A Memory Moves Me On (Teenage Years)' reflects on the younger years of a speaker who, despite not being young anymore, realises that things are always beginning.

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Title: A Memory Moves Me On (Teenage Years)

Author: K.S. Moore

Excerpt: Teenage years/everything begins/
it never ends

Description: A fully stoked fruit stall displaying a range of fresh fruits and produce.

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 2d

In Jim Murdoch's, 'Minder', The poem's speaker contemplates what to do with all the love they've been given and when to make it happen. By turns warm and humorous, 'Minder' is a beautiful meditation on relationships, and more.

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Title: Minder

Author: Jim Murdoch

Excerpt: I didn't know what to do with all my dad's love/so, I minded it for him fully intending to give it back one day.

Description: A group of boxes sits in a room with a couch and a throw rug. The room is natural lit by a window behind the couch.

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 3d

In 'Testing the Mettle', Finola Scott, examines the significance that objects can hold and how at times they can transcend their surface use and connotations. Filled with imagery and allusion.

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Title: Testing the Mettle

Author: Finola Scott

Excerpt: Such a knife, a real Et Tu Brute number. Bone/ handled, incisive. Decades of marriage/had whetted the blade to feather lean./Anniversaries marked in metal.

Description: A knife on top of a stone cutting board next to a range of fresh vegetables.

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 3d

Welcome to pre-season!

October is a special month as it not only - sadly - marks Elontra Hall / @cloudscholar.bsky.social 's last month with IS&T but also the start of basketball season and we are looking for poems, etc, on this beautiful game!

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Title: Passing the Torch

Author: Elontra Hall

Excerpt: At one time or other, I have studied: Shaq's jump-hook, Iverson's crossover,
Garnett's snarl, Kobe's pull-up & footwork.

Description: A basketball hovers just above the mouth of a basketball rim in a crowded arena.

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Sarah James/Leavesley @sarahleavesley.bsky.social · 4d

Big thanks to @inksweatandtears.co.uk for publishing this and for pairing it here with this stunning image!

Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 4d

Today, @sarahleavesley.bsky.social explores the violence perpetuated on women by society, sometimes done in the name of protection. Moving and brutal, the poem highlights how thin the line between thought and reality.

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Title: The art of cutting and stitching

Author: Sarah James/Leavesley

Excerpt: My mother's knife made the first cuts -/she removed my fertile light bullbs,/ then stuffed my womb with shredded tissues.

Description: A striped tropical fish swims with fins extended, in blue water against a speckled background.

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 4d

Today, @sarahleavesley.bsky.social explores the violence perpetuated on women by society, sometimes done in the name of protection. Moving and brutal, the poem highlights how thin the line between thought and reality.

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 5d

In today's poem, 'Serenity Prayer', @maxwallis.bsky.social's speaker uses a familiar form to find solace and seek guidance in navigating through the minutiae of the everyday and discovering the truths that can be found in them.
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Image of supermarket shelves

Text

Serenity Prayer

god grant us the serenity / to accept the things we cannot change / the courage to change the / things we can / and the wisdom to know el differencio /

Max Wallis copyright

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 6d

On the last day of Ink Sweat & Tears' celebration of National Poetry Day, things slow down. Today's poets - Heather Hughes, Laura Webb, Jude Brigley - all look at nature and its influence on how we might like to play.

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 7d

Day seven of our celebration of National Poetry Day and its theme of Play, and the focus shifts again.

Lee Fraser, Charlotte Dormandy and Suzanna Fitzpatrick look to children and their awe, wonder and imagination.

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 8d

Day six of Ink Sweat & Tears' celebration of National Poetry Day: Play!

Today's poets - Rachel Burns, Catherine Sweeney, MD Bier - all take a look at childhood and play through a nostalgic lens.

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 9d

Welcome to day five of National Poetry Day at Ink Sweat & Tears!

We hope that you enjoy today’s poets - Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana, Ruth Aylett, Brian Comber - and their examination of imaginary/creative Play:

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Robin Houghton @robinhoughton.bsky.social · 9d

Grand to see a pome from The Mayday Diaries on @inksweatandtears.co.uk for its National Poetry Day series this year inksweatandtears.co.uk/play-for-nat...

Play, for National Poetry Day: Jennifer A. McGowan, Judith Shaw, Robin Houghton, Wendy Klein | Ink Sweat and Tears

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 10d

Day four of our National Poetry Day celebration!

Again, today's poets - Wendy Klein, Robin Houghton, Judith Shaw, Jennifer A McGowan - all have wonderful takes on the theme of Play.

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 11d

Day three of our National Poetry Day celebration has arrived, and with it three new poets - David A. Lee, Seán Street, Oenone Thomas - with great poems!

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 12d

Welcome to day two of our celebration of National Poetry Day! @poetrydayuk.bsky.social

Today, we have three new poets - Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, Paul Stephenson, Jem Henderson - all exploring: Play.

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 13d

Welcome to National Poetry Day!

Today we have four poets - Elena Brake, Eleanor Holmes, John Mole, Karen Downs-Barton - with different takes on this year's theme: Play.

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 14d

In 'Glimmers', Jade Wright's speaker tracks moments of beauty and reconsiders the way that they measure what makes life worth living.

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 15d

In Ruth Lexton's 'Watching January 2021', the speaker ponders the moon in all of its power and beauty and the impact that it has on all of us. By the end though, our familiar satellite finds itself in a very novel situation.
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Image of a full moon over urban rooftops

Text

Watching, January 2021

The new year slouches forward, unlovable,
barely acknowledged but for tired, gritty eyes
and a muffled scream into the kitchen towel.

Ruth Lexton copyright

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Claire Booker @clairebooker.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you Elontra Hall and Ink, Sweat & Tears for publishing my praise poem to a hospital consultant today. Read 'Dehydrated' here at inksweatandtears.co.uk/claire-booker/

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 16d

In 'Dehydration', Claire Booker's speaker wonders at the efficiency and efficacy of the medical practitioner assisting them. @clairebooker.bsky.social

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Title: Dehydration

Author: Caire Booker

Excerpt: Never has there been so much interest/ in the humble tongue. It peek-a-boos from my/mouth like the little man in a weather clock.

Description: A doctor or nurse tends to a patient who is lying on a bed.

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 17d

In his prose poem, 'My Mother's Hands', David Waters explores a plethora of themes through the speaker's relationship with their mother.

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 18d

Fran Hawthorne's 'Gold Medal is everything but predictable. Exploring themes of relationships, recognition and visibility, you'll never see the end coming. @hawthornewriter.bsky.social

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Title: Gold Medal

Author: Fran Hawthorne

Excerpt: It was only my second speech and debate tournament in high school, and I was coming home with a gold medal in Dramatic Interpretation and a silver in Extemp.

Description: A small cloud of multi-coloured confetti hangs in the air.

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