Loving your response to the image, Peter.👋👋👋

jade dragon frozen in the middle air and in the middle of a rictus, humourless, is stiffened in off-season rigor, promised riches nowhere to be seen. the sand around it’s rumpled by a thousand footprints, but its gaze is fixed inflexibly ahead. behind it helter skelter, wheel, and roundabout, still brightly hued though faded in the winter sun, stand in the selfsame state of hibernation, statues of their lively summer selves.

GPH11: "Dragon Ride" (very much a first draft)

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The answer is a refrigerator! 😀

Here's my outing into deep space for @TopTweetTuesday. Thanks for hosting @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
Photo by Aldebaran S on Unsplash
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#vss365 ‘undersea’
Thanks to host Brooksie @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

#vss365 ‘trickery’
Thanks to host Brooksie @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social
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Here’s a response to this week’s theme of #cool from #TankaThursday- it also uses the form of an Anglo-Saxon #riddle poem. Thanks to @evecastle.bsky.social for hosting.

#tanka #tankapoem #fivelines #poet #poetrycommunity

#INVESTITURE

for a burdensome hour
this terrible power
heavy on shoulder
a tin-plated boulder
to embody and alone to bear
pulled earthward
by sweat of fear
the crown
the robe
the shield
the star
the authority
defines what you are

#vss365

Daffodils teeter,
tottering down the grass bank,
drunk on spring fever.

For #fragmentsfriday @blackboughpoems and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
#vsspoem #haiku

A late posting (due to broadband issues) to @TopTweetTuesday and the theme of #cosmic

It’s a response to visiting #GrimsbyMinster and the #Helios installation by artist @lukejerram.bsky.social

Thanks to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

Here's a poem for the theme of #water from several poems celebrating The Herring Girls, itinerant workers who followed the trawlers down the East Coasts of Scotland and England – thanks to Rachel @redsaid1.bsky.social
our #vss365 host
#herringgirls #herring

Sunday Snippets In the seaside resort of Cleethorpes in North East Lincolnshire, UK, the slot machines in the penny arcades do a brisk business, enticing holiday makers to spend their pennies and pounds. The clink of copper coins provides a soundtrack to desire and the hunger to possess. Here you can make a Deal or No Deal and face down the faded celebrity of Noel Edmonds, now confined to a plywood cut-out and stashed away in a dusty corner. Harmless fun or a tiny ecosystem nurturing the need to acquire? Prizes GP Hyde

This week's Sunday Snippet features one of the apt shots from GP Hyde's collection, titled 'Prizes'. @gphydeauthor.bsky.social

Harmless fun or a tiny ecosystem nurturing the need to acquire?

Find the rest of the pieces in Issue 6.

Very good to watch Harold Pinter discuss and then perform Samuel Beckett’s ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’ on BBC Four – still available on the iPlayer.
#pinter #beckett #BBCFour

Welcome To The Wombwell Rainbow Ekphrastic Challenge 2026 featuring 16 creatives responding to 3 artworks a day, over 30 days. Artworkers are Phil Hyde, Francis H Powell and Molly Ovenden. Day Thirtee... GPH13 MO13 FHP13 GPH 13 – holiday chaletHungry Changing RoomThere was a bump, a bangan awful gut wrenching twang,then a burp and a chomp.The door opened with a flomp!It spat the surfer out of reach…

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TUESDAY TASTERS Ruminating, rumbling down narrow curves and old highways, childhood memories snowballed, restless with Scotch as his only companion. He arrived in front of a dilapidated farmhouse, and a smudged sign read, “Condemned! No Trespassing! County Code…” AMBITION Eric Herrington Text is on a black background. Underbelly Press logo in the top right corner. Bottom right corner is an image of a stack of gold bars.

Ambition by Eric Herrington.

This Issue 6 piece explores the relationship between greed and ambition, and the alienation that can follow. The contrast between past and present is striking, adding nuance to a short piece. The structure was inspired by the Japanese folktale Urashima Taro.

Here's my offering for @TopTweetTuesday and the theme of overlooked things. Thanks to Ian @ITatum for hosting and to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

Pleased to be contributing images to the Ekphrastic Challenge run by @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social - some great responses appearing. Thank you to EIC Paul Brookes

#ekphrasis

Much appreciate Paul Brooke’s’ @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social efforts and commitment for providing a platform for creatives to collaborate. 🙏🙏💫
My poems for day 1 in response to photo of @gphydeauthor.bsky.social and art of @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social
Link below to read all the poems.
#Oulens

Loving this Peter 👋

gelid ripples of the rising tide swirl slowly around rusted struts that rear above a grey-brown sunless sea they bear aloft a child of Aphrodite’s isle where long-remembered sunshine gleams in bubbles on the sizzling surface in a row of deep-fat fryers (extra-virgin olive oil deflowered sixty years ago) should the lovely child of Zeus set dainty foot upon this snowy beach she’d shriek and leap back to her shell and leave the pleasures of the winter coast to those of us whose frames are hardened to the eastern winds that saw our birth

GPH01: "Winter’s Snow by Cleethorpes Pier"

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Here's my offering for @TopTweetTuesday exploring the theme of collision of present day and myth, ritual, the future, the city.

Thanks for hosting to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

For #fragmentsfriday from @blackboughpoems and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity #haiku

Here's my offering for @TopTweetTuesday on the theme of ocean, land, air with one new word. Thanks for hosting to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity #imagism #metaphor

ISSUE 6 ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY
☆ @gphydeauthor.bsky.social ☆ Laurie Avadis ☆ @rachelturney.bsky.social ☆ @sarahleavesley.bsky.social ☆

Yes, indeed

Thanks, John 🙏

Here's a #meltingsnowball in which the bolded words reduce by oneletter per line, my offering for the theme of #waver – thanks to Prof Fox @darkxfer.bsky.social our #vss365 host
Photo by Nathan Waters on Unsplash
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

#sunset #TankaThursday #tanka #tankapoem #fivelines #insomnia #promptcombo
#smallpoemsunday
photo my own

Here’s a response to this week's call for #PoemsAbout #Melt from @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Thanks for hosting to EIC @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Photo by Cinq1 on Unsplash

#Scunthorpe

Here's my offering for the theme of #overcast – thanks to Prof Fox @darkxfer.bsky.social our #vss365 host

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity