Phil Hyde

Here's my offering for the theme of #lighning – thanks to Debbie @cribbowens.bsky.social s our #vss365 host

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#TankaThursday #memory thanks to @evecastle.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday

thanks to @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

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For #fragmentsfriday from @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
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Featuring:
River Vetter, @mairmacleod.bsky.social, @louisemather.bsky.social, @johnadlam.bsky.social, @fklein907.bsky.social, Tammy Pieterson, @gphydeauthor.bsky.social, Jeremy Giles, Noble Alobu, @iridescentwords.bsky.social

Here's my offering for the theme of #splendor – thanks to Debbie @cribbowens.bsky.social our #vss365 host

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Here's my offering for the theme of #timid – welcome to Debbie @cribbowens.bsky.social our new #vss365 host

The painting ‘Luna’ (1870) is by Edward Burne Jones (1833–1898)

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity #preraphaelite #BurneJones

#fragmentsfriday
#blackboughpoems

thanks, John🙏

Thanks Debra, appreciate your thoughts.

Here's my offering for the theme of #velocity – thanks to Danielle @daniellestejust.bsky.social our #vss365 host

photograph by Marcus Armani

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Here’s a response to this week's call for #PoemsAbout #UndertheSkin from @thebrokenspine.co.uk k

Thanks for hosting @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Bit tired of seeing #poems in my timeline by ppl (mainly men) of unsavoury/sexual nature so I'm not participating for a while. It's lazy and boring imo.
Thankyou to those poets I admire who have provided a platform @victoriaspires.bsky.social @hool415.bsky.social
@dragonslayerma.bsky.social

A short single stanza poem by Debbie Ross entitled Skin Tales You count your rosary of lumps and scars, praying to the twin gods of radio and chemotherapy, hoping the skin cancer is just under the skin, hasn’t gone too far…

Hello @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for today’s #PoemsAbout #UnderTheSkin a wee experimental verse that I’m not sure about. A bit literal rather than oblique I’m afraid. Appointments today, but will check back over cuppas when I can Thanks #blueskypoetry pals look forward to reading.

Here’s 18 words for #fragmentsfriday
Thanks as always to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @blackboughpoems
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Here's my offering for the theme of #mystified – thanks to Danielle @daniellestejust.bsky.social our #vss365 host

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Delighted to have contributed photography to this issue - big thanks to EIC Lucy Huddleston

The Ultimate Bounce(r) Most religions conjure endings into something springy: tombstones just scribbled and askew diving-boards, death, if oiled supple with belief, allows our rigor-mortis crouch to become one soaring upwards (judgement)-bound; we’re supposedly always tied to this divinely-taut, suddenly summoning rubber-band. Yet atop my final-issue pissy-mattress, I’ll find solace on simple unsprung foam, the comfort coming from dodging all the nonsense weighed-out before the shepherd’s rusted-turnstile home; instead, by only closing eyes and pulling snuggly-up, without a needed vault, the non-discriminating loam.

Hullo #vss365 and to #bounce Here’s an old one…

Here's my offering for the theme of #bouncy – thanks to Danielle @daniellestejust.bsky.social our #vss365 host

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All Swell

Choking on mountainous air,
where excuses crumble like air-dried bones,
I kneel,
voice scraped raw,
every word a nail,
every pause
a bloody scratch.
My unpeaked rage
swells
SW ells
S W E L L S
until
everything
s
i
n
k
s
into its own tarred canvas.

#mountainous

Here's my offering for the theme of #mountainous – thanks to Danielle @daniellestejust.bsky.social our #vss365 host

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Here's 66 words for @TopTweetTuesday, a hommage to Mr Larkin, another bespectacled bloke from the Humber. Thanks for hosting to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity #Larkin #PhilipLarkin #toads

Here's my offering for the theme of #enchanted - thanks to Danielle @DanielleSteJust our #vss365 host

The painting is ‘Unconscious Rivals’ 1893 by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912)

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The silver citadel
of the tea flask,
blackened to its heart,
purged by purifying bicarb.

#fragmentsfriday @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

Here's my offering for the theme of #kiss - thanks to Daniel Cummings the outgoing #vss365 host for all his prompts over the last 14 days.

The photo is ‘Le Baiser de l’Hotêl de Ville’ by Robert Doisneau, Paris 1950

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Here's my offering for the theme of #miniscule – thanks and welcome to Danielle @daniellestejust.bsky.social our new #vss365 host

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Here’s a response to this week's call for #PoemsAbout #Undressed from thebrokenspine.co.uk

Thanks for hosting alanparrywriter.co.uk

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Here's my offering for the theme of #dark - thanks to Daniel Cummings our #vss365 host
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do you remember
our aromatic passion,
such a bouquet of wonder,
sensuous spice
in every touch,
exquisite essence
in every taste,
now, just a scent
of dreams long past,
a thread of lost bittersweet
rainy yesterdays,
reminiscent of
lamenting lilacs.

#vss365 #touch
#poetry #poem
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