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Fidel Walsh
@dragonslayerma.bsky.social
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Writing poetry. 3 poetry collections, Living with Love, Time & Out There. Short stories, Thrice Remembered an Anthology.

To buy my new book Out There
https://lettertecbookstore.com/product/out-there/

I'm 1 of the #PromptCombo hosts
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Fidel Walsh @dragonslayerma.bsky.social · Jul 25
Excited to announce the upcoming release of my latest poetry collection 'Out There'

#Irishpoetry
#PromptCombo
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#PromptCombo #NorthStar ❤️🌠
November 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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andywilliamson.com
Maybe a bit off-script for #poemsabout #dogtags but it's what emerged - a quick poem on names and seasons of a relationship. Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poems #poetry
Call me by any name spring sunshine graces your smile birds sing in praise of all the saints as we amble through the market holding hands you call me by any name that means love summer heat warms to our conversation young birds fledge, their nests left behind we run for the bus, not fast enough to catch it you call me by names only we can know autumn comes early, rains close around us the birds will leave for warmer lands as smoke from cosy hearths fills the air you call me in a hushed voice winter is hard, a northerly wind brings snow those who are left search for shelter you are wrapped up against the elements you call me to say goodbye
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
It's like a wildfire in the brain, and so often leaps the distance to inspire others like @daveashleypoet.bsky.social.
November 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
Thank you, Fidel for providing such an inspiring platform, and prompt that unlocked this crazy exploration.
November 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
Hi @dragonslayerma.bsky.social Fidel, here is my fifth and final response to your great #promptcombo #NorthStar:
The Cynosure A focal point around which all revolve. Dog's Tail end around which the dog chases. Am I in language you feel most involved? Am I the routine your life embraces? Am I the main question you ask yourself? Person most important, central to you? Your pivot, your rock of ages, your wealth? Or in the mirror, just depend on you. I'm your family, I'm their rescuer Loss of regain, regain of loss, again. Answerer of questions, tale relayer, inventor of explanations, refrains. Who wags the dog, whose keen tail never ends, who repeats, never exactly, words wend.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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daveashleypoet.bsky.social
Anytime Fidel, I enjoy writing for promptcombo as I try to put a bit more thought into it. Also that prompt was inspired
November 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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daveashleypoet.bsky.social
@dragonslayerma.bsky.social
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#PromptCombo #NorthStar #madrigal #poem #friendship #blueskyrelay #mercurial

this is my last madrigal for promptcombo this week. Huge thanks to @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for the challenge and @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social for chatting about satire
November 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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@dragonslayerma.bsky.social

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#PromptCombo #NorthStar #madrigal #poem #love
November 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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daveashleypoet.bsky.social
an oldie I wrote about ptsd
November 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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@dragonslayerma.bsky.social
#promptcombo #NorthStar
November 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
Hi @dragonslayerma.bsky.social Fidel, as I'm on early shift tomorrow. Here is my fourth sonnet in response to your cracking #promptcombo #NorthStar:
I'm Perun's Eye perched atop the World Tree, I'm eagle eyed, for stealer of my cattle, wife and bairns. Up from dark, out from the place where he hides. He'll catch my leetnin arrows till he learns. My eye is constant. Total surveillance. I'll chase him round this earth, my world above, lob my arrows at him shouting a dance until my thunder striking darts prove enough. He relents and releases the bodies of my wife, bairns, and cattle. Kids and she want to be left alone. Cows only seep soured milk, and half lives. Children tell me they prefer their second dad and his games until sunned air works.. Then stolen again.
November 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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jenthorne.bsky.social
Thank you for a great prompt @dragonslayerma.bsky.social

Here is my offering.

#promptcombo #NorthStar
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#blueskypoets
Polaris I am not one star not a single flicker trembling in the night. I am three woven in orbit a trinity of light that refuses to dim. The daughter: Polaris Ab a quick and restless rhythm in the sky carrying the gravity of distant wishes. The wife: Polaris B a circling sentinel tethered by devotion balancing orbits in constant presence. The mother: Polaris Aa vast heart, burning galaxies in her chest warmth unyielding her voice a trusted compass. Together we shine not as fragments but as one beacon shining through darkness. The daughter’s spark the wife’s glow the mother’s flame I am the constellation of woman the North Star. When you lift your eyes searching for direction find me triple whole radiant.
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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@dragonslayerma.bsky.social

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#PromptCombo #NorthStar #madrigal #poem
November 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Here's my offering for #promptcombo and the theme of #NorthStar
Thanks to Fidel @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for hosting
#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity #astronomy
November 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
Hi @dragonslayerma.bsky.social Fidel. Here's my third sonnet for your wondrous #promptcombo #NorthStar:
Altan Hadaas I am the Golden peg pins earth below and earth together.Once one of eight skilled brothers. King offered his golden arrow to rescue his queen stolen by a big billed bird. All my brothers agreed. Listener who can hear leaf fall hundred miles away, Airspace fies above us all with Farseer on his back who can see an ant's wild way, Lifter moves mountains for lean Speedier to zoom through. On the second day, Snouter smells the bird's trail. Tracker traces its spoor. Monster distracted by Airspace flutter. We bring lost queen to grateful king once more. Unbreakable arrow king lobs higher I catch it, am North Star, kin Big Dipper.
November 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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fhpowellwriter.bsky.social
@dragonslayerma.bsky.social
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#PromptCombo Theme is #NorthStar
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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damon-berry.bsky.social
#PromptCombo
#vss365
#7syllablesentence

properly pointed
the end is a beginning
common goal of one
the beginning is an end
timeless spaces in between

#tanka
#NorthStar
#goal
#one
November 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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emteepoetry.bsky.social
Luckily for me I had written a wee poem about the North Star a short time ago. I just had to find it again! Written to a picture prompt, I hope it works without it too.

Sharing for #PromptCombo #NorthStar

@dragonslayerma.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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mwplovesmusic.bsky.social
North Star,
compass,
guide in the sea-
I am now lost,
floundering,
bewildered- without thee;

I know no direction
forward or back
all seems hopeless-
dreams I now lack;

I’m hazy and dazy
just wandering about
I have no meaning
and am full of doubt

#promptcombo @dragonslayerma.bsky.social #poetry
November 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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zentinl.bsky.social
Thanks, Fidel @dragonslayerma.bsky.social
for #northstar and for anchoring #promptcombo this week.
November 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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@dragonslayerma.bsky.social
#promptcombo
#northstar

I'm trying to put together stories from childhood. The prompt took me to somewhere I didn't know I was going. Probably too personal so I'd welcome feedback. Hope it's not too off-theme. I think I needed a dragonslayer back then.
Thankyou
November 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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hool415.bsky.social
Hullo @dragonslayerma.bsky.social Thanks for such a stellar theme.
I love the idea that whatever our beliefs, as energy is never actually destroyed we will always continue!
#promptcombo #northstar
Twinkle At my ending a pinch of heat slips free, this distilled kiss ascending is immortality. Jostled by a bawdy waiting breeze, my tiny warmth touches clouds, to coax a single raindrop legacy. Which in turn might fall on-top an over-mighty swell, to roam the seas as part of a never-ending wave farewell. Or perhaps I will just arise unhindered, a wisp with other chattering atoms: an almost undetectable atmospheric phantom. Then you may see me wink high above a winter's night, as I dance momentarily, with a star's tentative and always bashful light.
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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poetry-with-hart.bsky.social
Another one for "Family Portraits." Enjoy 🤗

#blueskyrelay #iron #promptcombo #truenorth #poem #poetry #haibun
My father taught us of True North, unwavering hope when life spins your inner compass around. It was a different sort of Polaris, though he mentioned that too. How to pick it out among the crowded sky and use it to find dry ground again. His words were a flinders bar, correcting the magnetic fields surrounding the metaphorical ship of our lives. Most of all my father taught us that when we feel lost, to find home again all one needed was hope. His words were iron pointing the compass needle, family is True North.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
Hi @dragonslayerma.bsky.social Fidel. Here is my second sonnet for your #promptcombo #NorthStar:
2 The Red Supergiant I'll be long dead before you grow into red supergiant, then supernova explosion as you also must change too, become that something else, something other. Long in our skies, long in our recall: World's peg, Erun's eye, the iris, still point, Cynosure, sight's focus, centre of all eyes, appears as other stars waypoint. Before Polaris, Thuban was the North Star, After, it will be star Gamma Cephei, or Errai, the shepherd, guiding from afar. A sense of direction, keen compass lore. Our latitude measured by degrees on angle between North Star and horizon.
November 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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North star sparkles, a
Crystal in midnight ink, the
Compass of my heart.
#PromptCombo #NorthStar #haiku #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@dragonslayerma.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM