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Enjoyed this prompt! If you’ve never been to Lud’s Church in the Peak District I highly recommend TopTweetTuesday Regine Ebner

Hello TopTweetTuesday and wonderhost Regine Ebner - here's the opening poem from my current collection 'These are her thoughts as she falls' on today's theme about spirit of place. Have a great day, all!

Sarah Raybould Paul Brookes Regine Ebner TopTweetTuesday Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu Wonderful, Sarah - that image of the red kite - ‘leans on the arm of the wind’ - so beautiful, so dangerous - leads us down to the sanctuary of ‘heather’s un-kingly mantle’ where ‘lizard and pipit seek refuge’.

Paul Brookes TopTweetTuesday Regine Ebner Matthew M C Smith Glorious Paul. I guess this was inspired by am old newspaper article or yellowed photograph when a biplane came to town? It’s perfectly dizzying and a whirr of images. Love what you did to the canal!

Carolyn Thomas Peter Devonald Paul Brookes Thank you 😊

Phillipa Trelford Paul Brookes Regine Ebner TopTweetTuesday Beautiful, Phillipa. You conjure the ‘quietude of guardians’ with such delicacy from ‘the/ chill sleep of dormant orchids’ to the lyrebird and the eloquent image of the ‘wonga wonga vine’ that ‘encircles trees with story’. A real sense of a magic place

Carolyn Thomas Paul Brookes Regine Ebner TopTweetTuesday Thanks for your kind comments Carolyn.

Paul Brookes TopTweetTuesday Regine Ebner Matthew M C Smith Wow! This is amazing - the energy of detail is breathtaking - ‘barges of tears in a whoop of dust’, ‘steam puffed passage of tracked travel smoke clouds spiral’, ‘catherine wheel pit gear heaves/tin bath…’ascends like me’. A disappeared world but joyous

Paul Brookes TopTweetTuesday Regine Ebner Matthew M C Smith Nice! 👌

Donna Faulkner Peter Devonald Paul Brookes You’re very welcome

Phillipa Trelford Paul Brookes Regine Ebner TopTweetTuesday My pleasure - I loved it

Paul Brookes TopTweetTuesday Regine Ebner Matthew M C Smith The delight is palpable 😊 I loved the way you conjured the landscape - so much there we no longer see but all caught up in a whirlwind of sheer joy

Paul Brookes TopTweetTuesday Regine Ebner Matthew M C Smith The ‘flap of possered and wringed shirts/on pegged lines across pigeoned yards’ gives such a vivid glimpse at life in ‘tiny Wombwell’. Yet there is underlying sadness, conveyed so clearly in ‘Canal of my wrinkles carry barges/of tears’.

For this week's TopTweetTuesday on the 'spirit of place' I am sharing the title poem of my 'The Stone Men of Newcastle' sequence. Slightly over the word limit but hoping sheer Geordie power will excuse me! Regine Ebner Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu Matthew M C Smith fragmentedvoices.com/2022/03/09/the…

Paul Brookes TopTweetTuesday Regine Ebner Matthew M C Smith Love the speed and movement conveyed in this poem, Paul. It takes you along with it.

Paul Brookes My pleasure, Paul. ❤️

Paul Brookes TopTweetTuesday Regine Ebner Matthew M C Smith Your poem took me back with the ‘steam puffed passage of tracked travel smoke clouds’, Paul. I recently cheered when I heard one toot and watched it puffing along the North Norfolk coast. I also remember ‘pegged lines across pigeoned yards’.

Paul Brookes TopTweetTuesday Regine Ebner Matthew M C Smith You're most welcome, Paul.

Paul Brookes TopTweetTuesday Regine Ebner Matthew M C Smith 😊

Paul Brookes TopTweetTuesday Matthew M C Smith Whoosh! I’m up there with you, Paul, loving those cigarette chimneys (!!), and the shirts hanging to dry. I love the urban excitement of this, the vivid pictures of life. So beautifully phrased.