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Andy Williamson
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Writer, poet, creative thinker & architect for democracy / Sgrìobhadair, bàrd, neach-smaoineachaidh cruthachail agus ailtire airson deamocrasaidh | Aotearoa & Isle of Skye | urbanbadgercollective.com http://andywilliamson.com
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The BigDog says it feels like a Monday... #podenco #sighthound
A podenco dozing on a cushion
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Deadlines, deadlines... urgh! Not much time this morning but can't resist this little poem (based on last week's snow!) for #promptcombo #OnRoofs! Thanks @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for the lovely prompt!
Snowstorm outside all is white and light and glistening thunder overhead as the snow breaks free taking the gutters with it
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Maybe a bit off-script for #poemsabout #dogtags but it's what emerged - a quick poem on names and seasons of a relationship. Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poems #poetry
Call me by any name spring sunshine graces your smile birds sing in praise of all the saints as we amble through the market holding hands you call me by any name that means love summer heat warms to our conversation young birds fledge, their nests left behind we run for the bus, not fast enough to catch it you call me by names only we can know autumn comes early, rains close around us the birds will leave for warmer lands as smoke from cosy hearths fills the air you call me in a hushed voice winter is hard, a northerly wind brings snow those who are left search for shelter you are wrapped up against the elements you call me to say goodbye
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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How's the weather where you are? Beautiful, crisp and cold. Plenty of snow (photo is the view from my study window taken just now)
Snow on the mountains of Knoydart seem from Sleat, Isle of Skye
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Thanks to @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for the wonderful #promptcombo #northstar. I've taken this to where stars are less certain: Matariki (Pleiades) rise in Aotearoa's mid-winter marking the New Year. Stars in the southern skies aren't fixed like in the north. Think decolonisation of knowledge!
Waiting for Matariki follow your north star to be with me and our lives will change forever but your promises are built on stars I cannot see in southern light here we navigate by clouds and birds alone our skies never static can we learn to wait for Matariki hoping then our planets might align
November 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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An lovely afternoon stroll, still ice on the lochan as the sun goes down #lochandubha #isleofskye
Wintery sunset over the lochan Sunset over the moors Cuillin beyond the moor
November 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Cold and crisp morning, lovely day to be out with BigDog #scotland #isleofskye #podenco
Podenco looking into the distance Sheep field view across the Sound of Sleat
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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This old poem always makes me smile. Any excuse to share it again so here's a second poem for this week's #poemsabout #desire #poetry #poems. Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Washing machine soak and a rinse getting everything ready chemicals surging through corroded pipes relaxing the load relieving the tension faster and faster with power and rhythm sheet pressed against sheet centrifugal force tearing them apart their world shudders draining to a whisper until the door opens cycle over
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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A wee contribution to this week's #poemsabout #desire. Short, simple, an old poem re-written, nice to revisit it. Thanks everyone for the wonderful sharing, particularly thinking of @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
You I ache for you we cannot be together without this ocean in between I desire you the landscape of your body mapping softness to my touch your head resting on my shoulder
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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This week was #RemembranceDay. Today is the anniversary of my Great Uncle's death in the early morning of November 13th on a battlefield on the Somme. He died along with another 240 men of the Shropshire Light Infantry. I wrote this for him so I don't forget #poems #poetry #blueskypoems #ww1
In Bernafay Wood you came unbidden the girl I always loved the one my heart could not set free sunlight through an open window tells us it is time for me to leave not knowing if war will spare me another night of broken sleep death all around I see your face hear your voice you will read my words when the guns fall silent when the guns fall in silence you will know I am gone
November 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Hello everyone, slow of the blocks this week, so I've decided to share a wee poem I wrote a long time ago for #promptcombo and @hool415.bsky.social's prompt of #workinglove. Thanks Ju for hosting and everyone else for being so inspiring! #poems #poetry
First love, lost [your] fear will never be more powerful than [my] love but [my] love will never be enough to save [you]
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Something very rough and ready for #poemsabout #lockeddoors, definitely a work in progress! Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk / @thebrokenspine.co.uk and everyone who keeps this wonderful thing going!
What kind of life why are you so in love with an idealised kind of kind of life it all goes on behind locked doors behind a mask of modestly safe suburban world is that all you aspire to or is it hiding a disappointment we can both see I dare you to dream to dream out loud make the world you really desire with me
November 7, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Found this lurking in the kitchen this morning... an Ender dragon, apparently. Hopefully it's friendly (it did have Shreddies for breakfast)... #halloween #samhain
October 31, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Here's a quick, possibly tenuous poem for #poemsabout #blood this week. Huge appreciation to @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the opportunity and to all the poets for their great posts #poems #poetry
Once winter passes your words are resolute in their anger their exactness drawing blood you carry destruction as an art, a weapon I turn away look beyond frosted windows to wonder at the winter-white and star-spun sky above at the world beyond what it will bring once winter passes
October 31, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Getting my head back into writing after the school holidays, so a quick first draft of a poem for this week's #PromptCombo #DreamLogic. Thanks @victoriaspires.bsky.social for hosting! #poem #poetry
In darkness there is us as I close my eyes to see a future that might have been a house on the shore waves lapping against soft sand warm ocean breath there is life love, laughter children playing around us when my eyes open sand has become walls the horizon a small window in a city I can’t escape where are you now what might have been
October 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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The less inhabited side of Loch Fyne in black and white #scotland
Old wooden pier, Loch Fyne Wooden cabin, Loch Fyne Moody black and white photograph looking across Loch Fyne
October 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Been offline down in Argyle for the last few days…
Wooded valley with steam running through. Cowal, Argyle Looking across to Arran. Cowal, Argyle Dusk at Otter Ferry looking out to Loch Fyne
October 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Turning the imperfection around into an honest reflection of why a relationship failed for #poemsabout #imperfectme. Thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt and glad to be back writing after an enforced break!
What you wanted you wanted someone to save you rescue you from past mistakes someone fearless their perfect life sorted out to sort yours too without you giving any energy or second thought to what kept them awake long into the night if they exist it isn’t me
October 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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For #poemsabout #neveragain this week,I reworked an older, shorter poem I wrote about my Great Uncle, killed on the Somme in 1916. Thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk for a powerful prompt and everyone else sharing amazing work for us to read #poems #poetry
Letter from your commanding officer Autumn’s early light fills the hallway. I open the letter: official letterhead and regulation sympathy. It says that you were brave, that you stayed to fight, that you stood your ground. The letter tells me that you are missed. What good is that to me? Now the future we planned is gone. What use their crocodile tears that hide behind a heavy curtain of formality and protocol? What use are medals and flags when they have stolen my only chance say goodbye.
September 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Here's a fun little poem I just wrote for #PoemsAbout #SilentPlanets. Had fun with this prompt and might post another one later if there's time! Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk! #poems #poetry
Stalking She waits, circling with intent in her eyes. She hopes he won’t notice. He watches. He knows she is there, chooses not to react; keep a cool head. In this game of cat and mouse, she is the cat. And he the mouse who hopes that he will not succumb.
September 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Thanks to @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for today's #promptcombo #history, not had much time so re-worked something old and, I think, rather tenuous! #poetry #poems (apologies for the Antipodean use of 'chips', please read 'crisps' if it offends 😀)
Swimming lessons at the new pool where you took me on winter evenings transforming me into proto-selkie before hot tea and chips from the machine the pool is still there not as pristine the vending machine broken a phone call came to tell me you were gone and I remembered how you encouraged me to become someone I could believe in
September 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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#candlelight is such a great prompt for #poemsabout, loving all the contributions so far and will try and comment when I've time later. In the meantime, here's an fresh offering from me! Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt! #poem #poetry
Drawing in through my window where the day ebbs to dusk a heron rises away to roost this room where I sit slowly floods with the absence of light candle flames begin to flicker through shadows reviving memories of long ago and of what is still to come
September 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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A bit breezy out there today…
A boat ploughs through the waves in the Sound of Sleat
September 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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What a great #promptcombo this week from @dragonslayerma.bsky.social - #clocksticking! Lots of fantastic poems already so going to share something I wrote just now, thanks Fidel for the prompt! #poetry #poems
And yet, almost a wing beat a prayer as you move through shadows I sense your presence and then then silence: you are gone the clock has run down the opportunity missed and I am alone dust motes in sunlight as ephemeral as my hope that one day you might return
September 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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'Reckless' is my current choice (Paul's suggestion, if I remember). Still a work in progress but here's the current version (I've been adding and removing punctuation to see how it feels, currently preferring without!)...
On a faded polaroid in a box at the back of the cupboard the one we pulled out when it was time to move there is you on the night we met launching across the room bottle of wine in hand unsteady on your feet that reckless smile I know so well subject and photographer unaware of what the moment means
September 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM