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swiftplotter.bsky.social
Ems
@swiftplotter.bsky.social
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Mum, head of comms/content, digi-geek, gardener and swift watcher. Finding solace and wisdom in poetry and nature. Says “content” and “pillars of democracy” a lot. Lucky to love what I do 💚
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The track is much harder to discern on street view but it’s there on the parallel Church Side too.
February 11, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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Poem OTD: Warsan Shire’s ‘What They Did Yesterday Afternoon’. So long as I live, these words and the image will stay with me:

later that night
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?

it answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere.
https://verse.net/poem/what-they-did-yesterday-afternoon-6524900794187889060
February 1, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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Today’s WisLit from my bookshelf:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘The Cry of the Children’. Browning exposed the cruelty of child labour and the suffering and poverty of the 19th century, questioning the narrative of Britain’s greatness.

Full poem: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43725/...
A beautiful, colourful hand-painted book cover of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry. The initial B is set in a square edged with gold paint and is reminiscent of Medieval heraldry. The letters R, O, W, N, I, N, G are positioning vertically next to the B in a frame. Decorative flower and abstract shapes in a range of bright colours adorn the cover. Much of the paint has worn away, showing its age. The title page of the book reads A Selection from The Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Copyright edition. With the portrait of the author. Leipzeig. Bernhard Tauchnitz 1872. A pencil portrait of Elizabeth Barrett Browning The first verses of the poem The Cry of the Children: Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years ? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, — And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows ; The young birds are chirping in the nest ; The young fawns are playing with the shadows ; The young flowers are blowing toward the west— But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly ! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free. Do you question the young children in the sorrow, Why their tears are falling so ? The old man may weep for his to-morrow Which is lost in Long Ago —
January 31, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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My vibe - The Gardener’s Resistance 🍁💚🌳
Man in combat dress on an icy street activates can of pepper spray towards second man dressed in civilian clothes. The man uses a leaf blower to direct the spray back, engulfing the face and body of the user. Leaf blower man is unaffected by the pepper spray.
January 24, 2026 at 9:31 AM
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Gift from my eldest son: the framed dust jacket of The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism & Capitalism. One for the wall in the plotting shed 💚 Curious to know why it’s marked ‘Anonymous’, King & McGaw / @britishlibrary.bsky.social? Author: George Bernard Shaw / Artist: Eric Kennington
A reprint of a book dusk jacket in a gold frame. The words on the cover are arranged along the outside edges and read The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism. In the middle is an illustration of a woman leaning onto an abstract shape. Other abstract shapes suggest she’s outdoors. The illustrative style is early to mid-century modern. The artist is sculptor and official war artist Eric Kennington (1888-1960).
January 10, 2026 at 12:21 PM