Matthew M C Smith
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
Poet. Writer. Reviewer. Swansea.
'How different it would be
if they were
Instagrammable,
non-Muslim,
milky-white
babies,
yummy mummies'
precious cargo'
Foodbanks, Gaza, hopelessness, racism & unconscious bias.
#poetry #writingcommunity #poetic #writing #Gaza #Foodbanks
if they were
Instagrammable,
non-Muslim,
milky-white
babies,
yummy mummies'
precious cargo'
Foodbanks, Gaza, hopelessness, racism & unconscious bias.
#poetry #writingcommunity #poetic #writing #Gaza #Foodbanks
November 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
'How different it would be
if they were
Instagrammable,
non-Muslim,
milky-white
babies,
yummy mummies'
precious cargo'
Foodbanks, Gaza, hopelessness, racism & unconscious bias.
#poetry #writingcommunity #poetic #writing #Gaza #Foodbanks
if they were
Instagrammable,
non-Muslim,
milky-white
babies,
yummy mummies'
precious cargo'
Foodbanks, Gaza, hopelessness, racism & unconscious bias.
#poetry #writingcommunity #poetic #writing #Gaza #Foodbanks
A new poem - about the almost-invisble male volunteer at the charity shop.
‘The Retired Volunteer Has Nothing to Give’.
‘The Retired Volunteer Has Nothing to Give’.
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 AM
A new poem - about the almost-invisble male volunteer at the charity shop.
‘The Retired Volunteer Has Nothing to Give’.
‘The Retired Volunteer Has Nothing to Give’.
November 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The latest bumper edition of @eatthestorms.com edited by Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com and @rhonagreene.bsky.social
Stunning publication!
Stunning publication!
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 AM
The latest bumper edition of @eatthestorms.com edited by Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com and @rhonagreene.bsky.social
Stunning publication!
Stunning publication!
November 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
November 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
At a foodbank near you. 😢
The quiet anarchy of the volunteer who cannot be in the photo with the MP.
#poetry #foodbank #poverty #CeasefireNOW #welfarerights #politics #GazaCeasefire @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @plaidcymru.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @socialistworker.bsky.social
The quiet anarchy of the volunteer who cannot be in the photo with the MP.
#poetry #foodbank #poverty #CeasefireNOW #welfarerights #politics #GazaCeasefire @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @plaidcymru.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @socialistworker.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
At a foodbank near you. 😢
The quiet anarchy of the volunteer who cannot be in the photo with the MP.
#poetry #foodbank #poverty #CeasefireNOW #welfarerights #politics #GazaCeasefire @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @plaidcymru.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @socialistworker.bsky.social
The quiet anarchy of the volunteer who cannot be in the photo with the MP.
#poetry #foodbank #poverty #CeasefireNOW #welfarerights #politics #GazaCeasefire @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @plaidcymru.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @socialistworker.bsky.social
Opportunity for those who like to make up caricatures of different types of poets (doing impressions). Fictional types of course, not based on anyone particular. Apply within.
November 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Opportunity for those who like to make up caricatures of different types of poets (doing impressions). Fictional types of course, not based on anyone particular. Apply within.
Host today of the #Halloween micropoem contest - 14 words maximum!
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social 🧛
Keep them coming until midnight, your timezone. Love you all ♥️ 🕸️
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social 🧛
Keep them coming until midnight, your timezone. Love you all ♥️ 🕸️
October 31, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Host today of the #Halloween micropoem contest - 14 words maximum!
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social 🧛
Keep them coming until midnight, your timezone. Love you all ♥️ 🕸️
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social 🧛
Keep them coming until midnight, your timezone. Love you all ♥️ 🕸️
For our special TopTweetTuesday on Twitter on the subject of #Halloween a pumpkin 🎃 poem for you
#poetry #writingcommunity #micropoem #poem
#poetry #writingcommunity #micropoem #poem
October 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
For our special TopTweetTuesday on Twitter on the subject of #Halloween a pumpkin 🎃 poem for you
#poetry #writingcommunity #micropoem #poem
#poetry #writingcommunity #micropoem #poem
October 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
‘The steel of evening
spirited back into its case’
Night, Jack the Ripper, the paranormal.
🩸 🧳
For our chilling Halloween TopTweetTuesday on Twitter a new #poem
#JacktheRipper #halloween #poetry
spirited back into its case’
Night, Jack the Ripper, the paranormal.
🩸 🧳
For our chilling Halloween TopTweetTuesday on Twitter a new #poem
#JacktheRipper #halloween #poetry
October 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM
‘The steel of evening
spirited back into its case’
Night, Jack the Ripper, the paranormal.
🩸 🧳
For our chilling Halloween TopTweetTuesday on Twitter a new #poem
#JacktheRipper #halloween #poetry
spirited back into its case’
Night, Jack the Ripper, the paranormal.
🩸 🧳
For our chilling Halloween TopTweetTuesday on Twitter a new #poem
#JacktheRipper #halloween #poetry
A poem on Sunday - ‘Call this an Ending’
#poetry #writing #poet #poetic #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky
#poetry #writing #poet #poetic #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky
October 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
A poem on Sunday - ‘Call this an Ending’
#poetry #writing #poet #poetic #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky
#poetry #writing #poet #poetic #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky
When you edited a book and enjoy it even more - months later. ❤️🔥
@louloumach.bsky.social book ‘I Am Not Light’ is so dark and intense. Hits you, wave after wave.
tinyurl.com/2xzyc5hy
@louloumach.bsky.social book ‘I Am Not Light’ is so dark and intense. Hits you, wave after wave.
tinyurl.com/2xzyc5hy
October 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
When you edited a book and enjoy it even more - months later. ❤️🔥
@louloumach.bsky.social book ‘I Am Not Light’ is so dark and intense. Hits you, wave after wave.
tinyurl.com/2xzyc5hy
@louloumach.bsky.social book ‘I Am Not Light’ is so dark and intense. Hits you, wave after wave.
tinyurl.com/2xzyc5hy
Autumn sunset -
a feather touch
along the jawline.
#micropoem
#shortpoem
#poem
#poetry
#poetsofbluesky
a feather touch
along the jawline.
#micropoem
#shortpoem
#poem
#poetry
#poetsofbluesky
October 10, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Autumn sunset -
a feather touch
along the jawline.
#micropoem
#shortpoem
#poem
#poetry
#poetsofbluesky
a feather touch
along the jawline.
#micropoem
#shortpoem
#poem
#poetry
#poetsofbluesky
New poem 💀
Avoid the abstract they said.
Avoid abstract nouns. Ground your poetry in the ordinary, the everyday, they said.
To hell with such banal limitations.
TopTweetTuesday ‘mystical’
prompt, hosted by @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social on Twitter
#poetry #poetrylovers✒️ #poetrycommunity
Avoid the abstract they said.
Avoid abstract nouns. Ground your poetry in the ordinary, the everyday, they said.
To hell with such banal limitations.
TopTweetTuesday ‘mystical’
prompt, hosted by @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social on Twitter
#poetry #poetrylovers✒️ #poetrycommunity
October 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
New poem 💀
Avoid the abstract they said.
Avoid abstract nouns. Ground your poetry in the ordinary, the everyday, they said.
To hell with such banal limitations.
TopTweetTuesday ‘mystical’
prompt, hosted by @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social on Twitter
#poetry #poetrylovers✒️ #poetrycommunity
Avoid the abstract they said.
Avoid abstract nouns. Ground your poetry in the ordinary, the everyday, they said.
To hell with such banal limitations.
TopTweetTuesday ‘mystical’
prompt, hosted by @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social on Twitter
#poetry #poetrylovers✒️ #poetrycommunity
For #nationalpoetryday ‘Autumn Uprising’ - on the subject of #play - this year’s theme, published in @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 🐻 🧍♀️ 🐝 🤠 🍂
Christmas-Winter 4
#toystory #wreckitralph #wreckitralph2 #writing #childhood #autumn
Christmas-Winter 4
#toystory #wreckitralph #wreckitralph2 #writing #childhood #autumn
October 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
For #nationalpoetryday ‘Autumn Uprising’ - on the subject of #play - this year’s theme, published in @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 🐻 🧍♀️ 🐝 🤠 🍂
Christmas-Winter 4
#toystory #wreckitralph #wreckitralph2 #writing #childhood #autumn
Christmas-Winter 4
#toystory #wreckitralph #wreckitralph2 #writing #childhood #autumn
For #nationalpoetryday and the theme ‘play’ this nonet #poem - nine lines in descending syllabic order - also posted for Twitter’s TopTweetTuesday #poetry #writing #writingcommunity
September 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
For #nationalpoetryday and the theme ‘play’ this nonet #poem - nine lines in descending syllabic order - also posted for Twitter’s TopTweetTuesday #poetry #writing #writingcommunity
September 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Where’ve you been all my poetic life #GeoffreyHill ~ final poetry boss man!
#poetry #writing #writingcommunity
#poetry #writing #writingcommunity
September 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Where’ve you been all my poetic life #GeoffreyHill ~ final poetry boss man!
#poetry #writing #writingcommunity
#poetry #writing #writingcommunity
Nowadays the much-needed decompressing lunchbreak is a rarefied experience. Costa coffee and Seamus Heaney.
#poetry #writing #books #writinginspiration
#poetry #writing #books #writinginspiration
September 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Nowadays the much-needed decompressing lunchbreak is a rarefied experience. Costa coffee and Seamus Heaney.
#poetry #writing #books #writinginspiration
#poetry #writing #books #writinginspiration
An invertebrate #poem for our writing challenge today on
TopTweetTuesday on Twitter hosted by Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social 🌊 ⭐️
Thank you to all of our contributors 🙏
TopTweetTuesday on Twitter hosted by Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social 🌊 ⭐️
Thank you to all of our contributors 🙏
September 16, 2025 at 6:16 AM
An invertebrate #poem for our writing challenge today on
TopTweetTuesday on Twitter hosted by Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social 🌊 ⭐️
Thank you to all of our contributors 🙏
TopTweetTuesday on Twitter hosted by Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social 🌊 ⭐️
Thank you to all of our contributors 🙏
🔥CONGRATULATIONS 🔥
@saraswatinagpal.bsky.social on the launch of her poetry collection 'Drench Me in Silver', available now on Amazon and at your door in days!
Available at: shorturl.at/82QxI
#poetry #writing #poet #poetic #Indianpoetry
@saraswatinagpal.bsky.social on the launch of her poetry collection 'Drench Me in Silver', available now on Amazon and at your door in days!
Available at: shorturl.at/82QxI
#poetry #writing #poet #poetic #Indianpoetry
September 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
🔥CONGRATULATIONS 🔥
@saraswatinagpal.bsky.social on the launch of her poetry collection 'Drench Me in Silver', available now on Amazon and at your door in days!
Available at: shorturl.at/82QxI
#poetry #writing #poet #poetic #Indianpoetry
@saraswatinagpal.bsky.social on the launch of her poetry collection 'Drench Me in Silver', available now on Amazon and at your door in days!
Available at: shorturl.at/82QxI
#poetry #writing #poet #poetic #Indianpoetry