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Phil Hyde
@gphydeauthor.bsky.social
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Poet, writer and reviewer living in Grimsby, UK. Published by Black Bough, Hedgehog, the Dark Poets, Written Off, LIncs & Inks, voidspacezine. Short fiction extensively published by Pure Slush. Always follow back. https://linktr.ee/gphydeauthor
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Here's my offering for the theme of #blood - thanks to Daniel Cummings our #vss365 host

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February 7, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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Here's my offering for the theme of #ghost - thanks to Daniel Cummings our #vss365 host

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February 4, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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Here’s a response to the #vss365 theme of #pain
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February 3, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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Here's my offering for the theme of #karma @TopTweetTuesday. Thanks to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
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February 3, 2026 at 8:08 AM
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Here's my offering for the #vss365 theme of #soul and the #promptcombo theme of #tracks

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February 2, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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This is a fantastic work of research, very easy to lose yourself as you browse the pages. We hope you enjoy it.
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Finally got a copy of Philip Larkin’s Complete Poems. Studied Larkin - along with Ted Hughes, John Betjeman & Wilfred Owen - for O Level Eng Lit 40 years ago. Larkin’s humour cheers me up in very difficult times #Booksky
February 2, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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Here’s a response to this week's call for #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils from brokenspinearts.bsky.social

Thanks for hosting to and to EIC alanparrywriter.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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#vss365

Cough Fee

Steam-scalded air
buckles under plastic-lights.
I sit,
a spill of
sh-
ell shucked
thoughts.

A skinny barista
all factory-cold lattéd grin,
trades a cardboard sleeve
for my soul.

I’m a bisked it-man,
spangling
against the ceramic-rim.
I cough, and the
till rings
again.

#soul
February 2, 2026 at 8:04 AM
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Here's my offering for the theme of #shadow - thanks to Daniel Cummings our #vss365 host
photo my own
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity #Cleethorpes
February 1, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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Hullo @tomsnarsky.bsky.social and to #smallpoemsunday
Thanks as always for hosting #poetry
Llancaiach Fawr Manor Ghost Tour So many similarities between a near empty church and a supposed haunted house, I think in both it’s about straining: being overcome with that overwhelming need to hear then understandably filling in what’s missing yourself. No single admission guaranteeing a spiritual experience and even if it did feeling the same things as anyone else.
February 1, 2026 at 3:50 AM
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Here's my offering for the theme of #soothe - thanks to Bethany @blsamaddar.bsky.social our #vss365 host for all her great work over the last 2 weeks

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February 1, 2026 at 7:21 AM
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Here's my offering for the theme of #thrum - thanks to Bethany @blsamaddar.bsky.social our #vss365 host.

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January 31, 2026 at 8:16 AM
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You #obfuscate your heart,
yet like moon’s silver edge,
your longings wander
the seams of nightfall,
before writing yourself across my skin.

Like stars peddling memories,
you dust me in your fragments—
half-formed notes of warmth
that dry on my heart
until shadows swallow you
once more.

#vss365
January 29, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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Here's my offering for the theme of #obfuscate - thanks to Bethany @blsamaddar.bsky.social our #vss365 host.

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January 29, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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Here's my offering for the theme of #quiver - thanks to Bethany @blsamaddar.bsky.social our #vss365 host.
The painting of Cupid and Psyche (ca. 1870) is by Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898).
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January 29, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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Good morning. Thankfully the icy easterly retreated yesterday and walking the dog was a lot more pleasant. The view to Ben Bhraggie was striking with the mist hovering.

Have a great day, folks.

#Scotland
#sunnyday
#winter
A view across grassland to hills beyond. Bright blue sky with thin white cloud, thicker across the hills with a line of mist hugging the base. A thin line of sea just visible, right. pockets of gorse , poking up from the grassy plateau.
January 29, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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Here's my offering for the theme of #wane - thanks to Bethany @blsamaddar.bsky.social our #vss365 host. The image is by Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898).
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January 27, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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Here's (19)84 words on the theme of fascism, dictatorship, authoritarianism, thought police, state control for @TopTweetTuesday. Thanks as always go to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

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January 27, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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Here's my offering for the theme of #cusp - thanks to Bethany @blsamaddar our #vss365 host.

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January 26, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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Here's my offering for #smallpoemsunday - thanks to Tom @TomSnarksy
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January 25, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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The Society are celebrating 80 years since the publication of Jill, pictured here at Larkin's college, St Johns, Oxford.
January 25, 2026 at 11:51 AM
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Hullo #vss365 and to #ruse #poetry Another old one today.
Basement Window Dr Timothy Clark Smith decays in a Vermont graveyard, a narrow chimney from his rotten face reaches trodden grass, the vent itself capped by a cataract of nineteenth century glass. Taphophobia drove his flue so, if awoken buried deep, mouthing as a stranded fish, (the cruelest resurrection ruse), the dull spotlight would slither down and halter Dr Smith. This misty window remains today - opening up his forever home, but droplets pock the opaque pane: his bottled tears perhaps outlasting the dissolution of his bones. (Dr Smith resides in Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven and to this day his self-designed windowed grave can be visited.)
January 25, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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Here's my offering for the theme of #ruse - thanks to Bethany @blsamaddar.bsky.social our #vss365 host.
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity #monorhyme
January 25, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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Thanks to Bethany @blsamaddar.bsky.social our #vss365 host for the theme of #slip

Photo by Martino Pietropoli on Unsplash

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January 25, 2026 at 7:43 AM