Hello to awesome host Carol Sheppard and all poet friends participating today in TTT👋🏾☺️ On the theme of betrayal, here I go revisiting some bygone stuff (59 words) 😄 Have a brilliant day of poetry, Carol. Thank you for reading TopTweetTuesday 💫

Grateful to Mani Rao Mani Rao for being the first to review Drench Me in Silver; for encouragement, her nudges towards better craft, her quiet friendship. Mani’s latest collection with Harper Collins is out now. #DrenchMeinSilver Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu

“Drench Me in Silver” by Saraswati Nagpal from Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu carries hauntingly beautiful poems that desire to be read, with testimonials from both editors of The Hooghly Review (and recommends you read it!) 🌕 Intezaar because I've been waiting. ✨

‘a last minute call to the sun’ ☀️ from ‘Mountains that See in the Dark’ by Regine Ebner available with Black Bough. Get your holiday reading! 🏖️ blackboughpoetry.com/regine-ebner-s… #poetry #books #poet #poetcommunity

‘Did I tell you I have a runaway train in my chest’ 🚂 Thank you to this week’s host, the Forest of Dean poet, Carol Sheppard Carol Sheppard We eagerly await your book at the end of 2025! 📖 starting

Our TopTweetTuesday host next week 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 Ruby Mohan has been published in literary journals like the CRIT journal(USA), Disturb The Universe Magazine(USA) and From One Line(UK). Most recently her haikus were published in Tranquility Haikus (LR Publishers)

Our host Ruby Mohan’s poetry challenge for next week. ‘Nature and You’ Imagistic, metaphorical, inventive poem. 80 words max! The impact of nature on you should be personal, striking, heartfelt, chaotic, humorous, weird, whatever expression you choose.

A bit of joy! The great unboxing by Saraswati Nagpal of ‘Drench Me in Silver’ out soon with Black Bough. 🤩 💫 🔥 🔥 🔥

Massive thank you to everyone who entered our first poetry competition. We are now closed for entries, and Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad will soon be reading your work!

We are pleased to announce the submission call for our inaugural Poetry Special, guest-edited by Sanjeev Sethi (Sanjeev Sethi). Guidelines are in the attached poster and on our website. thehooghlyreview.com/call-for-submi… We look forward to your best poems. 📖 #WritingCommunity #poetry

ICYMI: My poem 'Temple of Hephaestus' was published last month by the super Psaltery & Lyre ❤️‍🔥 🏛️

As I turn 50 today I thought I might post a poem that I wrote yesterday, back when I was in my 40s. Getting old is weird. Thanks for reading. :)

Delighted to be featured here Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu. Do have a look… 🥳✍️🎈🎉

Got Briony Collins debut novel in the post today. Can't wait to get stuck in.

Hi, Ruby Mohan 😊 Hope you have an enjoyable day. Great prompt and there’s so much I could have done - the rivers and mountains of Wales are my blood and bones but I’ve resurrected an old one because I’ve always seen things in the clouds #Nature TopTweetTuesday Matthew M C Smith

Hello to awesome host Ruby Mohan . For today’s “Nature and you” theme, here is my attempt at an imagistic ghazal (70 words) in its traditional form 😇 Have a wonderful day of poetry, Ruby, and thank you for reading 🧡(Art by me 🎨🖌️) TopTweetTuesday

Welcome To The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Of Artwork And Poetry Issue Eleven Day Thirteen featuring the poetry of Helen Laycock, Writer ✍ Helen Laycock open.substack.com/pub/the880/p/w…

Next week, we’re heading for the mountains as our next host is Sarah Raybould Sarah Raybould a fairly recent addition to TopTweetTuesday in 2025 with oodles of poetic talent and generosity to other writers demonstrated each week. Challenge coming up! 🖊️ 💎

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Thank you editors at 3Elements Review for publishing my artwork, “Hypnotic Feelers”, in the current issue! My mixed-media piece is an exploration of memories retrieved during a hypnotherapy session, and is a companion to my poem, “Regression trance” from my new manuscript.