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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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Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · 6h

Here's my offering for the theme of #ash - thanks go to Paul @thedevilstuna.bsky.social our #vss365 host
Photo by Stepan Vrany on Unsplash
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

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Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · 19h

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Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · 1d

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

#theclash #rockthecasbah

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

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Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · 2d

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

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · 2d

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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 3d

Here's my effort

#vss365

Resuscitation

I ass( )ciate
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with

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sp sp sp sputtered words
to FILL the air, anything
to reach you when
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heart
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slow.

#associate
#poetrycommunity

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Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · 2d

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

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

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Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · 4d

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

Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 5d

Our Black Bough #bestofthenet nominations for this year! Congratulations to

@gphydeauthor.bsky.social
Laurie Koensgen
@helenlaycock.bsky.social
@lenaozge.bsky.social
@ajpati.bsky.social
@merrildsmith.bsky.social

🍾🥂

#poetry #writing #poetsofbluesky

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Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · 4d

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

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

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Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · 5d

It's a great vid - love it.

Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · 8d

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.

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

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Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 9d

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

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.

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Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · 9d

Here's my offering for @TopTweetTuesday. Thanks to today’s host, Eleanor Holmes @eliot_north and EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

Couldn’t resist playing around and turning the nonet on its head! The image shows ‘Printed Sheet with Picture’ (1937) by Paul Klee

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Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks, Victoria, really appreciate this feedback.

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Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · 10d

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

Photo by Muath Alsaeed on Unsplash

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

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Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · 13d

Here's a piece for #promptcombo and the theme of #ancestor after a visit to Castle of San Antón in La Coruña, Spain

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

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Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · 16d

For @TopTweetTuesday, here’s 48 words inspired by last week’s visit to the Castle of San Antón in La Coruña, Spain

Thanks to today’s host, Vikki C @VWC_Writes and EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · 16d

Here's my offering for the theme of #reinvigorate’

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · 17d

Thanks, Evie - apologies for late response - I've been away in Spain and having a bit of a digital detox!

Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · 17d

Here's my offering for the #vss365 theme of #catastrophe
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · Sep 9

For this week’s theme @TopTweetTuesday constrained to 5 lines, it had to be a #tanka - thanks to today’s host, Swapna @SwapnaS28

I’m travelling all day en route to Spain so hope to check in later on.

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · Sep 8

Well, what better to #LiftToTheSky than the new collection from martinkennedyyates.bksy.social – erudite, inventive - a great publication from brokenspinearts.bsky.social helmed by EIC alanparry83.bsky.social

Part of my holiday reading so won’t be round for the next ten days, folks.

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Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · Sep 8

Here's a second offering for the theme of #doorway - thanks go to C.S Voll @Steph_Lepht our #vss365 host

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

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