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Julian (Hool)

@hool415.bsky.social

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Nominated for a Forward Prize, Best Of The Net (Twice) and Two Pushcart Awards. Black Bough (Silver Branch Poet), East Ridge Review (Featured Poet), Frogmore Papers, Full House Literary, Dream Catcher, Starbeck Orion, Dreich, Broken Spine, Frazzled Lit.

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

Hullo. On the theme of writing a poem.
#poetry

Hatching

Scattered seed first
around a pecking chicken-brain:
lines of words
pneumatically or lackadaisically
eaten-up
depending on the day,
all letter-husks digested
to produce the flawless countenance
of a finished egg but
pre the dreamt of presented cup:
runny tectonic cracks
as a different entity with wildly unexpected
DNA appears.
I scramble up the gungy mess,
place that crushed shell
on my fermenting-compost heap…
becoming soon new maggot-words,
flying away
to infest some other poet’s
left open page.

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Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 17m

Eeek! 😊

Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 18m

Ah you are yolking Gary!
It was no doubt a triumph!!!🙃

Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 55m

Ah thanks Hel!
I was going to ask you which one to post for TTT but woke up at 3am and just bustled this one out to play ! Xx

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Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 1h

I make a mean dhal but would like a curry. I’m not mad on vegetables (I know!, I know!)
But I’ll just pop in the dreaded mushrooms and or chick peas instead!

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Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 1h

I’m the worlds unhealthiest vegetarian. Send my your spicy dishes Jan when ever you have a moment!

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Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 1h

Jump in with me Jan! You know it makes sense! 😎

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Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 2h

There was a last line about forgetting to order rice….

But I never ever have had such food amnesia!

😉😘

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Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 2h

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Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 3h

Cheers comrade. We are both on the same page for seemingly everything today!😘

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Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 3h

Hullo @dragonslayerma.bsky.social Thanks for hosting #promptcombo #simplepleasures

Here’s a little bite of whimsy!

Simple Pleasures

I adore a channa dhansak, mushroom bahji, garlic naan…
mango chutney, onion salad
and well…
two to three poppadoms.
There is the sacrament, the indulgence
of eating one of them
when collecting-pilgrim
in my Saturday happiest car.
I imagine breaking down
but confessing to the R.A.C.
honestly chaps,
please feel free
to take your longest ever time.

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Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 3h

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Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 3h

Great theme! You’ll clean up! X

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Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 4h

These words should be a voice over for a Radox advert! Procter and Gamble take note! I’m so a daily bath not shower man. You’ve nailed all the dissolving powers of the tub Fidel! 🛁🫧🏆

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

Hullo. On the theme of writing a poem.
#poetry

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Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 14h

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Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 14h

Cheers Philster!
Theologically not that much changed today, but we are all forever pilgrims really, aren’t we!
(It was a long but good day too!)
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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 4d

#promptcombo #poetry

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Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 14h

Well I’m about to zzzz and you Mizz have a glorious last word to end this week’s combo. Wonderful idea, cleverly and deftly executed! Bravo!👏 You

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Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 15h

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 20h

For #PromptCombo #Visitor ✨

for @hool415.bsky.social

The Visitor

Each autumn night my visitor comes
tucked between the soot-black of a crow’s
glossed wing. My visitor talks in fir
and ash, my visitor taught me how
to sing. He brings me tales of war
and woe, convenes in the hallways
of princes and kings. My visitor is
both steward and ship, my visitor tells me
everything. He is a seer and a soldier, too;
he speaks in the language of flight.
My visitor chants to the deer and birds,
from the ridges where his harsh voice hides.
He tangles the brambles, the hedges,
my hair; he does not leave my side. He comes
down the chimney like a story to tell,
he flickers like candle and light. He sleeps
among white stars and moonsnore and frost,
with the dusk underneath his skin. He twirls my words
into poems and hymn, my breath is his sister
and kin. He frightens the children and sailors
alike, but I’m not afraid of his din. Even when
I’m alone in the hush of myself, in my empty
lap there’s the wind.

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Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 18h

Exquisite Anna! Can see the craft in this write. Adore ‘moonsnore’ 🏆 Feels suitably seasonally eerie! Bravo!

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Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · 20h

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 ‬‬

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity #Halloween

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Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 19h

Excuse delay Phil, been on the road. Succinct and rather seasonal! Beautifully presented too with your subtle bleeds!

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Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 1d

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Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 1d

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