Bernard Pearson

The people of Serbia celebrating the defeat of the dictator who held full authoritarian control of their country for nearly 14 years. This is what democracy looks like.

Woke up to a lovely acceptance of two poems from America 'Twenty Two Twenty Eight' and remuneration involved now all I have to do is remember how to access my PayPal account 😜

This supercut is likely to make Trump VERY upset. The difference between Trump and Obama is on full display, and the contrast is absolutely devastating. Watch until the end...

Obama in Michigan: "After 10 years of chaos and cruelty and corruption and incompetence and tomfoolery and nonsense the likes of which this country has not seen in modern times at least, you get to say enough is enough. We're voting for change right here in Michigan."

I just told my wife I wanted to be a serious writer. She gave a little giggle and said. 'Seriously?'

On a morning walk A Robin stands Like a colour sergeant Major, All frontage, In the dash and dance Of a laurel bush. It outstares me As a child might When refusing to go to bed. © Bernard Pearson

Ex Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ripped apart Margaret Thatcher's privatisation while she was doing it at a Tory Party conference, "Selling off the family silver" she's is just selling off the nations assets because she has run out of money.

A Blasphemy If Trump were Christ The water would be turned to Vinegar The Prodigal son would be deported Loaves and fishes Would turn to ash Lazarus would return Sadly to his tomb And the crucifixion Merely food for crows.

TX, WATCH YOUR VOTING MACHINES WHEN VOTING. Reports coming from many states (red & swing) that voting machines are defaulting to the Republican candidate evn when the Democrat is selected & take several attempts to correct w one, Dolly Parton's sis Stella's defaulting to TN-R Marsha Blackburn 3x.

#tennessee ' #DollyParton’s sister Stella says her #TN_voting_machine changed her vote to the GOP candidate 3x.' 💥 🎥JohnAravosisDC (10/21/26) 🔗 youtube.com/shorts/JOa_e...

Absolutely and forever! 🇺🇦 I stand with President Zelenskyy!!

Mathematician & geodeist Dr. Irene Fischer helped guide NASA to the moon. Joining the US Army Map Service in 1952, she unified centuries of broken data to calculate the Earth’s precise size/shape. Her calculations allowed NASA to safely program Apollo moon landing trajectories. 🧵 #WomenInSTEM

Big shout out to@thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk for hosting #PoemsAbout #Hollow here's mine will enjoy seeing everyone else's take on the prompt

Expectations She thought of her heart as a kind of Advent calendar, Which he could open, day by day. It was at the start of December, that he went on his way. © Bernard Pearson

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Canadian scientists at the University of Waterloo Dr. Brian Ingalls, Dr. Sara Sadr, and Dr. Marc Aucoin have engineered “tumor-eating” bacteria that can invade and consume cancerous tumors from within. A potential breakthrough in cancer treatment research.

Don't waste another obscenity on Trump America, just get out and vote

25-47💙✊🏼⚖️

My heart is lifted when I look to a future when Putin and Trumps name appear only in history books alongside Hitler Stalin, Pol Pot, Ceacescu, Amin in a Chapter on the fall of tyrants

My father John Pearson on the right and on the left his great friend Anthony Pares torpedo officer and lost when HMS Hood was sunk

Here we are at West Felton Craft Fair come and join us!

I just watched this rare breed where Brian Keith appears to be transitioning to werewolf James Stewart looks like he has a wasp up his bum doing the hokey cokey and Maureen O'hara is striding about like Lady Bracknell... the title of the film was never more very apt

Huge thanks as always to @thebrokenspine.co.uk for hosting #PoemsAbout #Possessed look forward to reading other poems from my talented poety friends

"Congratulations to Professor Mariam Jamal-Hanjani on her appointment as Cancer Research UK’s Chief Clinician! 👏🏽🎉 A massive achievement and another reminder of the incredible contributions Muslims make to Britain through science, medicine, research and public service." via Martin Michael

I'm going to post this every day as a reminder.

Most of these available from @leafbyleafpress.bsky.social

Ambition Be love when you Have lost everything, be love in every breath, Be love in every thought, Be love even when It seems That life has come to nought, Be love, be love, be love. © Bernard Pearson

Thought for today, and every day...

doesn't he realize! must say I feel desperately sorry that Trump still thinks he's worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize doesn't he not understand it would be like giving King Herod Childminder of the Year

my fellow leaf by Leaf authors at Get a Word in Edgeways festival in Much Wenlock

my thanks once again t @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk for hosting #PoemsAbout #Bites will enjoy seeing all the other poems

Every Dog has his Day One day the world In one magnificent shake, Will rid itself of every blood sucking flea. Then we will all Once again know, What it feels like, to be free. © Bernard Pearson

Looking forward to being a part of this !

Guys, channel your rage into action, not violence. Do something like, I don't know... VOTE.

Sabbatical Death like Skunk, Hangs in the air when you get old It lingers in your clothes As lovers used to do Cerulean blue Not spoken of in polite society As the world slips away easy, Undressed now only by time. © Bernard Pearson

Really pleased to hear 'Lilting in Mauve' magazine has shortlisted one of my poems for publication in its first issue

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7.28 am I wake to the guilt of unfed cats the sun being up first has slipped quietly Skywards there is neither hub or bub yet, just a matey early morning silence. © Bernard Pearson

Looking forward to being part of the @leafbyleafpress.bsky.social team manning the stall here

🇷🇺An approved Communist Party rally in central Moscow did not go as planned. Protesters chanted “Fair elections,” “We want freedom,” “Freedom for political prisoners” and “Down with the Tsar” — referring to Putin. Police detained around 60 people.