Julian (Hool)

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The Question Repeated Itself The question repeated itself. “So, tell me, do you deserve to be here?” God stared, entirely fairly awaiting my answer. I trembled and sweated then finally spoke. “No”, I said, “I really don’t.” “Exactly”, said God, before smiling and adding: “You see, I rarely need to make the decision myself.”

Hullo @fromoneline.bsky.social #fromoneline and to #thequestionrepeateditself

The way you read ‘anticipation’…
brilliant words and of course, reading! 👌👌

Loss I used to dream of your grave, the cemetery undayed kneeling my fingers running through sickened grass: clumps nourished by your cancer, scrambling downwards, a crescent of mud waxing under every nail, my hands are bloody and blackened, they must match your own, this dream reaches wetted wood, your lid now weak as rushes and as I tenderly part the softened splinters, only bones distant traffic pounds like a subterranean heart then sizing up the choice, I strike tibia against fibula hard, just to make you spark again.

Hullo #vss365 and to #bones An old one today.

Sigh! 🙂

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New style!

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More!

These are getting more and more horrific! Excellent.

Pale Once, an elderly neighbour, (who would die the next day), was placed by his upstairs window. He looked so pale: waxy as an unlit candle, his cream curtains quivering like premature, part-formed wings. It was summer, I was in my garden and we all knew he was dying. I sometimes climb back into that stare, to take his point of view: not seeing the trees, plants, or grass or me, only a bespoke armageddon.

Hullo #vss365 and to #pale

This feels a nature versus nurture ponder. Stark but thoughtful and effective.
They’ll be a new host and prompt for the week on Monday morning UK time.
Hope to see you there Stace.
Thanks for taking part, even if a little late!🙏

Old I know a few perfectly well elderly who can only look back, you know, the ones that forcefully reminisce at every point, as if they have a tilting mechanism which suddenly acts to cease their engagement with the current. These days I just think there’s something eminently sensible, even rather lovely in that. Enlightenment Stopped driving at a crossing, facing the other way: a packed city bus, the young crew-cut driver looked so serene, reminded me of a long-ago college visitor: a meditation demonstration from a Buddhist monk; both calmly following the prescribed path, each suitably unattached to their distracting internal chat.

Hullo @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday #poetry Thanks as always for your curating!

I’ll take that. A really lingering funeral…
Cheers Glenn

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It’s bloomin marvellous Jits!

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Overheads When I was young the constellations were glints of bone, suspended skeletons, whose mythic forms loomed large as legends; the pinned sagas of my junior skies. Then a telescope brought the stars to me. Freed from their confinement by the sound of science, I understood something of the universe’s atomic roar. I noticed colours: odd drops of blood, the discarded flecks from a manhandled bullion and tints from the deftest breath of blue. For a time, these sparks scarred me as the furthest outriders from the pomp of a Creator’s blaze. Now my exploded theology has flung these thoughts aside and all my myths have died. With only science left, half a knowledge no longer enough to hear the birth of light; and the sky is mute again, the darkness, undisguised.

Hullo #vss365 and to #blood
Another old one today.

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Always a pleasure, Fifty

Cheers Fifty. It was so sad and awful to observe.

Really. It’s as good as that floozy crashing the wake!
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Cheers John. Not sure I’d noticed that!

@hool415.bsky.social Such has been my consumptive state this week, I've only just managed to turn out the slightest of trinkets for your #tracks #PromptCombo. But here it is, and within the stated deadline 🙃

Hope you've had a lovely week hosting !

Oh you are soooo annoying Jitters. As Tommy Cooper might say…just like that! The magic that spins from your brain so easily. Just ludicrous! Could requote every ruddy line! 🎯🏆🏆

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Only want to say one word Andy…beautiful!