The sorrow which with people must 'wear' the weight of war on their skin can be so palpable that it hurts others just to see it. How to hold that with reverence requires very few words, doesn't it? #poemsabout #dogtags @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #staycreative

Fingers crossed - not much happening yet but I live (and cough 🤣) in hope! Thanks for your good wishes - really appreciate it

Absolutely and you have the perfect ones, the right ones to capture the anguish, the immediacy while, at the same time, transcending it to convey the timeless waste, the universal tragedy of war. It’s such an affecting piece, Karen, and really important. Huge respect

🤣🤣🤣 you’d never know! 😉

Thank you 💙

It’s a special one - really powerful 😊

My pleasure 😊 thanks - I’m on what are apparently the ‘big guns’ of antibiotics after the first lot didn’t live up to expectations so fingers crossed…😁

Aw, thank you 💙 I’ve written hardly anything for weeks but hoping the big guns fire and that I’ll hit form again soon 😊

At the lovely Book-ish Abergavenny #choosebookshops @honnopress.bsky.social

Always a pleasure 😊

Absolutely brilliant piece, Carmella 👏👏👏

My tardiness is running into weeks but hoping ‘big gun’ antibiotics finally do the trick! Lovely to read your poem 😊 I hope the rain ceases soon - dry here after the snow

Gorgeous!

Great piece, Paul. The stark narrative tone seeths with fury. A brilliant indictment

That final image is so achingly powerful, Ju

Absolute pleasure 😁

Great to see this lovely piece here 👏👏👏

Heartbreakingly powerful, Karen, in evoking the cost of war. I love the way you use the pastoral - initially to conjure innocence but then to emphasise horror and devastation - ‘ploughed under’, ‘watered’, ‘almost grown’, ‘reap what it sows’. Sparse, unsentimental and tender, a brilliant indictment

My pleasure 😊