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Mel@RuftyRoo
Oct 22
Last week I used fragments of a #poem I was working on for #FragmentsFriday .
The full poem is on my blog if you want to know how it turned out!
Thanks to all who keep inspiring & encouraging me & my #poetry

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Mel@RuftyRoo
Nov 8
With thanks to @TomSnarsky for another poetic opportunity 🙏....
For #smallpoemsunday something I wrote whilst watching the Remembrance Sunday commemorations at the Cenotaph this morning...
#poetrycommunity #poetry #writingcommunity #poem

Cenotaph
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Mel@RuftyRoo
Nov 7
Tim Minchin - Not Perfect ❤️

"This is my body.....
And the weirdest thing about it is
I spend so much time hating it
But it never says a bad thing about me.."

The inspiration for my #fragmentsfriday
#poem
I can't recommend Tim's work highly enough...
youtu.be/dg3PberzvXo?is…
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Mel@RuftyRoo
Nov 7
Perspective.
#poetrycommunity #poetry #poem #poet
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Mel@RuftyRoo
Nov 6
Eek, Friday is getting away from me!
I've finally had time to sit down and engage my brain - insofar as that's possible at the moment 🤪
Thanks, of course, to @MatthewMCSmith @blackboughpoems for providing the challenge of #fragmentsfriday 🙏
This week, an apology to my body..
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Mel@RuftyRoo
Nov 6
"Body hammocked
In angel-flight"
Oh yessss! 🦉🦉
Beautifully vivid picture painted of #owls by the wonderful Helen Laycock for #fragmentsfriday #poetry
Helen Laycock, Writer ✍@helen_laycock
Nov 6
I recently received from @poetrycandle the lovely pamphlet 'Ten Poems about Owls', and it was the image on the front cover which inspired my piece for this week's #fragmentsfriday. 🦉

Thanks again to @MatthewMCSmith for hosting!

#owls #poetry #poetrycommunity #micropoetry
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Mel@RuftyRoo
Nov 3
Don't mess with this "tiny rebel"...
All power to Helen Laycock - this piece is epic 💜
#TopTweetTuesday #poetry #poetrycommunity
Helen Laycock, Writer ✍@helen_laycock
Nov 3
Small people can rebel against injustice. There have been many times when I have confronted those whose actions are questionable, however physically imposing they might be...
That's what my @TopTweetTuesday poem's about.
Thanks, as always, @MatthewMCSmith for hosting.
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Mel@RuftyRoo
Nov 2
Hard-hitting & oh, just so SO relevant for these times. Well done, Andy! Great job 👌 #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
Andy Perrin@aperrincycling
Nov 2
I’m so thrilled to have this piece be among the winners of the Button Poetry Fall 2026 Short Form Contest. A huge thank you to the folks at @buttonpoetry !
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Mel@RuftyRoo
Nov 1
I think this is a pretty well known #poem by Philip Larkin. You can love your parents dearly (I do ❤️) but still this piece resonates.
(sorry about the dodgy picture-taking skills!)
#smallpoemsunday
@TomSnarsky
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Mel@RuftyRoo
Nov 1
With thanks to @TomSnarsky for #smallpoemsunday .....I hope this semi-small(ish) poem is acceptable(ish).
I also hope I've not managed to reduce it in size so much as to make it unreadable!
My computing skills = 0! 😂
#poetry #WritingCommmunity #PoetryCommunity #poems
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Mel@RuftyRoo
Nov 1
Replying to @RuftyRoo
This is actually the full version of last week's piece for #SmallPoemSunday - I just hadn't figured out how to downsize it enough to fit it into a screenshot! 😂 Apologies @TomSnarsky I just really wanted to share it! (I'm new and somewhat over-eager to all this!)
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Mel@RuftyRoo
Oct 31
Now I'm just being silly...#Caturday #poem
"And streeeeeeetch -
Two, three
Left leg lift -
Two, three
And hold -
Two, three
Point those toes!
Two, three
And relax"
(To me
That means
Collapse -
Lamely! 😹)
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Mel@RuftyRoo
Oct 31
For #Caturday : Tigger demonstrates how it *should* be done - hope you're taking notes, Mum & Dad! 😂😂
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Mel@RuftyRoo
Oct 31
Thanks to @forexkeylevels for sharing this. If you watch one thing today, make it *this* ⬇️ It's brave, it's raw, it's just epic.
#poetrycommunity #poetry #WritingCommunity
The Exiled Writer@forexkeylevels
Oct 31
This poem made me cry. Preach young warrior. #poetry You are THE POET.
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Mel@RuftyRoo
Oct 31
This #Halloween the real demons and dangers are very much here in the real world - beautifully illustrated by this sobering #poem by @hool415
Those marbles are ready to drop.
#writingcommunity #poetry #war
Julian Cason@hool415
Oct 31
Hullo #poetry #war
Looking Up, Remaining Down A recent clear evening, under so many vapour trails, they looked like scattered Ker-Plunk cocktail sticks, twilight heating them a just-spent sparkler hue; the pregnant jeopardy of the Great Game, well beyond its full term and over-needing deafening, global cries. Now hold 8 spare tins of beans, a few assorted bottled waters as government-approved, makeshift umbrellas, for when this finely balanced mess as it probably will, all comes crashing down. Participating players, right across the board, will be zero to very much older. Julian Cason
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Mel@RuftyRoo
Oct 30
This is another "oof" one from @hool415 . My heart strings are well & truly tugged ❤️. Gorgeous..
Julian Cason@hool415
Oct 29
Hullo #poetry #whimsy #wasps #death
Coloured Tears Yesterday, against soft rain, perhaps the year’s final wasp, hiding amongst the flock of drops alone, in the middle of our sheer window pane; went out with a dab of jam as a sticky blood transfusion: a single strawberry suddenly found growing upon this northern-facing Eiger. Returning, she was gone, the tiny crimson ambulance too, just a thumbnail’s worth of translucent smear, remaining; flying off, she might have thought: I have tasted the coming sweetness of my season’s grave. Julian Cason
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Mel@RuftyRoo
Oct 30
Ultra-crazy week 🤪but I've managed to cobble a wee #poem together for the Fabulous #fragmentsfriday !
Thanks to @blackboughpoems and the very very special guest judge @hool415 🙏
Have a Horroriffically Wicked #Halloween, all! 👻
#poetrycommunity #poetry

#Nightmare...
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Mel@RuftyRoo
Oct 30
Replying to @RuftyRoo
Eek, forgot to thank @MatthewMCSmith !! Thanks Matt! 🙏
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Mel@RuftyRoo
Oct 23
I think I'm in love with this little "leaf in the arms of glee"! ❤️ #fragmentsfriday #poetry
jide badmus@bardmus
Oct 23
For my #fragmentsfriday this week, after a long absence, I'm sharing a work in progress, "Reading Mary Oliver Like Scripture".

Hope @helen_laycock likes it.
Hello @MatthewMCSmith @blackboughpoems
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Mel@RuftyRoo
Oct 23
Who knew a #poem could give you a sugar rush?... Simply gorgeous, Andy ❤️ #fragmentsfriday #poetry
Andy Perrin@aperrincycling
Oct 23
Another fragment of autumn for this week’s #fragmentsfriday.

Thanks to @MatthewMCSmith and @blackboughpoems and this week’s special guest host, @helen_laycock !

Have a great day everyone!
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Mel@RuftyRoo
Oct 23
Hi Folks 😊
And all of a sudden it's #fragmentsfriday again!
With thanks to @MatthewMCSmith and our very special guest judge @helen_laycock !!

"More in Common"..

Sinews stretched;
Plucked
Sucked
Vulture-picked
Carcass
Unfussy -
"Them" or "Us"
Just tastes like
Chicken
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