Ms Barney Harper

Queer poet & essayist. She/her. Published @DearDamsels @tokenmagazine @ekphrasticrev @wildwomenpress @huffpostuk @TheMightySite etc. I tweet a tiny poem daily.

[Ms Barney Harper @MsBarneyHarper]

Glass saplings emerge
forming a fractal forest.
The sun is the axe. #dailymicropoem

[Ms Barney Harper @MsBarneyHarper]

@ellora_sutton @NortheasternLDN Wow, that’s so exciting, well done!

[Tanya Marlow @Tanya_Marlow]

@BACP Already two therapists, Billy Smith and Lucy Anderson have changed their wording upon prompting. That’s a double-edged sword. It raises the question - will it change their practice, or just their advertising? How can M.E. clients be sure they have a safe therapist?

[Tanya Marlow @Tanya_Marlow]

This stuff is rife. I’ve done a quick search on BACP site. So many. Lucy Adamson, @BACP member. Claims to treat ME by ‘looking at individual’s history and unblocking unresolved issues’. @MEAssociation @MEActNetUK @actionforme

[Ellora Sutton (she/her) @ellora_sutton]

“the stare of the magpie. any number of magpies.”

My Name is Abilene by Elisabeth Sennitt Clough is full of ‘holy shit!’ poems, like this —

[Make My Money Matter @MMMoneyMatter]

Ever wondered what your pension gets up to when you’re not looking?​

Meet Oblivia Coalmine 🔥​

#FrackingHell

[Clare Shaw @ShareClaw]

Today I’m saying my last goodbyes to a friend. Sometimes we do all we can, and it’s not enough. Sometimes we can only do small things, and they mean everything.

[Ms Barney Harper @MsBarneyHarper]

Mightily unimpressed with @sykescottages Booked one tonight and after a 6.5 hour drive, found the keys missing. No-one answered the ‘emergency’ phone number or replied to the 24hour web chat. Now £150 down in last minute accommodation. Never using them again!!

[Ms Barney Harper @MsBarneyHarper]

@ninaparmenter These are great!!

[Ms Barney Harper @MsBarneyHarper]

@DavidRosenthal_ @poetjohncompton This is my favourite.

[Ms Barney Harper @MsBarneyHarper]

@faithinavan @dolearning That’s exactly what I was thinking!!!

[Ms Barney Harper @MsBarneyHarper]

I ❤️ migraines.

Wrong out comes language.
Green-skinned, thumb pressed on my eye.
Please turn out the lights.

[Ms Barney Harper @MsBarneyHarper]

Blackberry picking…

We compete with bees
for blue bruised fingers
and our black toothed witch’s grins.

[Ms Barney Harper @MsBarneyHarper]

Here is one from last night’s insomia:

Sleep is behind glass
A museum artefact
I can only look.

[Ms Barney Harper @MsBarneyHarper]

Reading the poem in the tweet below reminded me: I used to write poetry. A micro poem every day, for example. So I tried again. This is about the wonder of reading:

I have been elsewhere,
lived a lifetime in strange skin.
I lift my eyes: gone.

[Ms Barney Harper @MsBarneyHarper]

I love this poem.

[Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem]

“listen I love you joy is coming”

— Kim Addonizio

[Ms Barney Harper @MsBarneyHarper]

@readalittlepoem I love this poem.

[Ms Barney Harper @MsBarneyHarper]

@SheetMusicScan Hi, I need to return a faulty iPad. Will I be able to re-download the app, having paid for it once?

[Ellora Sutton (she/her) @ellora_sutton]

One of my favourite things about facilitating workshops is that I get to share my favourite poems. Today, I shared this one by Tania Hershman, from her Nine Arches collection Still Life With Octopus 🐙

[Ms Barney Harper @MsBarneyHarper]

@ellora_sutton @NineArchesPress @taniahershman Wow, I LOVE this! 🐙

[John McCullough 🏳️‍🌈 @JohnMcCullough_]

Love this poem by Linda Pastan, originally published in Poetry magazine in September 1981. (It also appears in her 1982 Norton volume, AM/PM: New and Selected.)