Phil Hyde

Here's my offering for the theme of #beetle - thanks go to Paul @thedevilstuna.bsky.social our #vss365 host for a great 15 days of prompts and ideas.
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Here's my offering for the theme of #deluxe - thanks go to Paul @thedevilstuna.bsky.social our #vss365 host

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Of course it was! 😜

This is not a poem
but a #HashtagGame
that’s played on Tuesday
@TopTweetTuesday
courtesy @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
who challenges us to write . . .

The theme of #undertone gives me a chance to pay respect to Mr Feargal Sharkey – singer turned campaigner for clean water. Thanks go to Paul @thedevilstuna.bsky.social our #vss365 host

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity #theundertones #feargalsharkey

Thanks, Julian - glad you enjoyed it. Hope you had a god journey.

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Here's my offering for the theme of #piranha - thanks go to Paul @thedevilstuna.bsky.social our #vss365 host

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Here's a spooky little piece for #promptcombo and the theme of #visitor
Thanks to Julian @hool415.bsky.social for hosting and to Victoria‬‬ @victoriaspires.bsky.social ‬‬

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Here's my offering for the theme of #raincoat - thanks go to Paul @thedevilstuna.bsky.social our #vss365 host

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Next week’s #poetry challenge on TopTweetTuesday on Twitter

Write a poem that’s aware of the act of creating a poem, the choices of the poet, authorial bias & explores some of the contrived aspects of writing.

Imagistic, tight writing, 80 words max.

@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social back hosting!

‘Have we not always knelt in this midnight temple, sought that silver elixir’

Saraswati Nagpal’s ‘Night’s Lapis Dome’ from ‘Drench Me in Silver’

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Excellent @leiabutler.bsky.social 👏👏👏

Here's a #monorhyme celebrating Mr Mervin and the theme of #verve - thanks go to Paul @thedevilstuna.bsky.social our #vss365 host

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Join us this Sunday 12th Oct for ‘Crafting Your Year in Poetry’ where we look at how to improve our writing routines, submission & publication rate, develop our profile and work on our own 12 month writing plans

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Here's my offering for the theme of #libertine - thanks go to Paul @thedevilstuna.bsky.social our #vss365 host

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Here's my offering for the theme of #ash - thanks go to Paul @thedevilstuna.bsky.social our #vss365 host
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Here's my offering for the theme of #clash - thanks go to Paul @thedevilstuna.bsky.social our #vss365 host

#theclash #rockthecasbah

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Here's my offering for @TopTweetTuesday. I couldn’t resist the wordplay in the prompt of ‘mystical’!

Thanks to today’s host @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social and to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

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Here's my effort

#vss365

Resuscitation

I ass( )ciate
filling g a ps

with

g a s p e d
b
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a
t
h

sp sp sp sputtered words
to FILL the air, anything
to reach you when
the
heart
b
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a
t
s
slow.

#associate
#poetrycommunity

Here's my offering for the theme of #associate - thanks go to Paul @thedevilstuna.bsky.social our #vss365 host

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Here's my offering for the theme of #advert - thanks go to Paul @thedevilstuna.bsky.social our #vss365 host

The reference is to a great album ‘Over-Nite Sensation’ (1973) by the Mothers of Invention.

#zappa #mothersofinvention

Whoa, I didn't see this coming! Awesome to be in the company of these writers.

Massive thanks to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and EIC MatthewMCSmith.bsky.social

Here's my offering for the theme of #elastic - thanks go to Paul @thedevilstuna.bsky.social our #vss365 host

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It's a great vid - love it.

Here's my offering for the theme of #Pulp - thanks go to Paul @thedevilstuna.bsky.social our #vss365 host

Favourite Pulp song? As you might expect, it’s ‘Disco 2000’.

#Pulp #JarvisCocker

Here's my offering for the theme of #blur - thanks go to Paul @thedevilstuna.bsky.social our #vss365 host

The Blur tune that’s always popping into my head is ‘Country House’ – daft video but great tune and lyrics.

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Young Son Playing My arm, a single quivering spider’s leg suspending him: willingly-webbed, plump fly hung over our bed’s Alpine ledge, carpet redefined active volcano, just inches below a banked deluge of duvet-snow; his challenge to grip despite the fraying line of slippery giggles… Played Ghosts too, that jamboree of anarchy: pitch black tag, absent all light and adult sense, till my eye socket briefly planted his thumb as bemused flowerless stalk; my cracked sight-pot requiring the horticultural care of A&E, where I bloomed unseasonal red. Simpler games: (not) netting skittish leaves, which fled gilt-edged out of shaken Octobers. His childhood pulled up now: a short month of sparkling, fluttering, but barely catchable days.

Hullo. Put this up on the other side for a #play challenge. #poetry