Dean Rowlands

Happy Easter #fragmentsfriday @blackboughpoems

@MatthewMCSmith @blackboughpoems Thanks Matt.

@costan07 @blackboughpoems Cosmic disasters metamorphosise into human terror. The world ravaged by genocidal superpowers.

Happy Easter #fragmentsfriday @blackboughpoems

@hool415 @blackboughpoems Thanks Ju. Hope you are good.

@costan07 @blackboughpoems That’s really rather good Dean! Brilliant spin on contemporary events with perfect imagery! I (obviously 😉) speak for the entire poetic community when I say we’ve missed you and your words fella! 🏆

My mother was brought up in a #coalmining community near Big Pit, Blaenavon, where her father worked all his life. The miners’ skin was black & many had respiratory problems. This is the subject of my #fragmentsfriday poem with thanks to @MatthewMCSmith @blackboughpoems #poetry

Walk the walk!

@BrianDurand56 The boss with the boss

@costan07 Had a kick around with Fabio, Ragnar and Gregory Vignall

The big man back in town

TFI Friday in 1999 features The New Radicals as they perform “You Get What You Give”, released on Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too in 1998. One of the defining pop hits of the era, it captured their brief but impactful rise.

The Wire ended 18 yrs ago today. It’s been taught in Ivy League schools, law schools & film schools. David Simon was interviewed by a sitting president about its lasting impact. Cited in a State Supreme Court ruling. Often hailed by critics as the best ever. Never won an Emmy.

On February 24, 1989, FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper arrived at the wonderful town of TWIN PEAKS to investigate the murder of Laura Palmer. The events that he would live there from that moment would mark the course of his life forever. #TwinPeaksDay

Self-care tip: listen to Catherine O’Hara saying the word “baby” on Schitt’s Creek.

Thanks so much Sarah. They are on the ball those welshmen.

Afternoon all. The world is in a terrible place right now and at a real crossroads. We have a regime in power in the US who think it’s child’s play and it’s sickening to watch even being so far away. Thanks to @TopTweetTuesday for providing the weekly platform.

@ITattum @TopTweetTuesday Wow Ian. I really like this from how you set the scene in the first stanza and how it develops like a film short. Interesting use of Cotton Mather.

Good morning. My poem for @TopTweetTuesday took a strange twist. Great but very challenging prompt.

@justrandomwords @TopTweetTuesday A different approach Roger and one that gets you thinking long after reading thanks to the brilliant last line.

A short poem for @TopTweetTuesday and #HolocaustMemorialDay/ #HolocaustRemembranceDay..

@IanRich10562022 @TopTweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith A powerful poem Ian, painting a truthful picture of this little men. I especially think that opening is apt and the closing line haunts.

For @MatthewMCSmith theme of authoritarianism on this weeks @TopTweetTuesday

@SteveBirtsequel @TopTweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith Like this a lot Steve, clever and different.

For a storm-battered @TopTweetTuesday and @MatthewMCSmith and all you poets, keep yourselves safe out there. Something a bit different.

@CarolynTho14847 @TopTweetTuesday Thank you 🙏🏼

@costan07 @TopTweetTuesday Yes! Terrific, Dean

@PaulWritesPoems @TopTweetTuesday Thanks Paul. Tried to go with the contrast. Also those Welsh wizards hit the nail on the head in 1998.

@costan07 @TopTweetTuesday This is filled with pop culture references and real menace. 🙌👏👏👏

@MatthewMCSmith @TopTweetTuesday This king is royal rumble power, grappling with glinting veneers,” this reminds me of an arctic monkeys lyric 😂👏🏼

‘the image of the cheeto king rises’ 🇺🇸 On the themes of fascism, authoritarianism and dictatorship, a poem for the weekly event that is @TopTweetTuesday. Thanks to all readers and contributors. 🙏