why didn’t I know about this? Have I been hiding under a rock or something?! Congratulations, Fidel x

Delighted with the arrival of Fidel Hogan Walsh’s @dragonslayerma.bsky.social beautiful new poetry collection ‘Out There’ 💫 All proceeds go to St. James's Hospital Foundation & it’s available for purchase here:👉 lettertecbookstore.com/product/out-... Congratulations Fidel!💫🤩👏

I'm just giddy with joy & pleasure to see Out There in your hands, @rhonagreene.bsky.social , Rhona. It looks right at home in your lovely setting. A huge thank you from this wildly beating heart of mine.❤️📖🙏 I'm dying to know what you think of it🤗

Most welcome, excited to read it! 🫶🏻✨🫶🏻

Have ordered this, so looking forward to reading it! 🤍🤍 #OutThere #PoetryCollections #FidelWalsh #MustRead

Once again thank you to the fabulous Victoria Spires for last week’s #PromptCombo . This week it’s #Characters and I provide an example. With love to everyone. @dragonslayerma.bsky.social @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social @hool415.bsky.social @paulbrookes.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social

'Licking his lips to send Fairy notes dancing with the rain' This is how you start a Monday morning on #PromptCombo and what a #Character you have given us Ronnie❤️ Everyone is welcome. Use the hastags & tag @rfsmith.bsky.social to get involved.

📖📖📖An update on donations & sales of my book📖📖📖 All proceeds go to St. James's Hospital Foundation, here's the link⤵️ stjameshospitalfoundation.enthuse.com/pf/fidel-walsh Big ♥️ Love from me & Out There! To buy the book⤵️ lettertecbookstore.com/product/out-... #PromptCombo Video by Anna Fitzpatrick

Family Reunion For @victoriaspires.bsky.social #promptcombo #ancestors #poetry #poems #blueskypoetry #blueskypoets #familyreunion Thanks.

🙏to @victoriaspires.bsky.social as #promptcombo host #Corvid & human #Steppe #Ancestry #Poetry: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 #Rooks #Jackdaws #Prehistory #Analog #Radio #Radiogram #NeolithicFarming #DawnChorus #Aubade

I'd intended to post a recording of my #poem Homecoming, first published in @eunoiareview.bsky.social, this week. And that's a happy accident, since it touches on @victoriaspires.bsky.social's #PromptCombo theme #ancestry #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #booksky #writingcommunity #poetry

For this week's #promptcombo #ancestry with thanks to host @victoriaspires.bsky.social Not feeling inspired at the moment, so here's an old one (surprisingly long!) which I think fits.

Hullo @victoriaspires.bsky.social and to #promptcombo #ancestor

"Dashed Hopes: a Present from My Past". My only (for obvious reasons) attempt at a triolet. It needs work, but has already had so much... #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #triolet #promptcombo #ancestry @victoriaspires.bsky.social

How brilliant to hear your words, Fidel, they're made for this wild and beautiful setting! "A fierce wind of change beckons" - what a rallying cry ❤️

Oooh couldn't resist joining in @victoriaspires.bsky.social! Here's a #promptcombo #ancestry offering from my first collection...

Martin Vine's "Ancestral Echoes" ... from genealogy to legend ... alliteration.net/poetry/ancestral-echoes/ #promptcombo #ancestry #alliterative #poetry #poetrycommunity #alliterativeverse

#poetsofbluesky #promptcombo #poemsabout Hope you don't mind a polite shout-out for this zoom event happening soon! Would love to see many of you there to hear these fantastic poets. DM me for zoom link x

Great tale & telling against the backdrop of a stiff breeze! 🏆🌊🌬️👌🌠

This is gorgeous, Fidel - ‘telling short stories and tall tales’. I love watching your sheer enjoyment reading out there in a wind that’s surely shaking ancestors’ bones. Watching this is a joyous experience to start the week 😊

Beautiful Fidel! Wonderful words with a superb presentation. I was just waiting for your beloved lake to appear! 👏👏

I love hearing you read in the midst of the elements, Fidel, a backdrop of rock, a whipping wind, so suited to the subject matter 👏👏👏

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind 😊Your joy in reading like this is so wonderful, Fidel 💙

Hi Vic, brilliant #ancestry for this week's #PromptCombo Here's an old video of me reading my poem Storytelling (from my our book Time) that fits your prompt. Have a fabulous week hosting, darlin❤️ Video by Julie Corcoran

Oh, what a splendid start to the #PromptCombo week with this perfect write, Vic. Love this #ancestry theme. Tag @victoriaspires.bsky.social #use the hastags to get involved Have a fabulous hosting week, my darlin♥️

#poetrycommunity #poetsofbluesky #promptcombo Save the date for something special happening on Zoom, Friday 10th October. Line-up to be announced shortly & Zoom details from me 🩷

Thank you, Fidel @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for last week's #promptcombo. All are welcome to contribute. Use hashtags #promptcombo #history and my tag:

A very exciting new prompt for your work at #PoetryTheme with its first theme #AMPHIBIAM Everyone is welcome. #Blueskypoets

The first #PoetryTheme prompt is #AMPHIBIAN Nature's amphibians move across habitats. Metaphorical ones might shift in class or identity Take your time. Post a poem by the end of 30 September. Tag @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Use #PoetryTheme & #AMPHIBIAN hashtags & please say if you want DM comment

written today, a combo response to #promptcombo #clocksticking and #vss365 #bearable the unbearable remains #poem #poetry

For #PromptCombo #ClocksTicking ✨ for @dragonslayerma.bsky.social

Have fun. You're a very generous host, Fidel. Thanks #promptcombo #poetsofbluesky

#ClocksTicking wants to say a huge thank to all you brilliant wordsmiths who responded this week. I have loved every single word you have written & this wild crazy heart of mine is full of love. #PromptCombo also thanks you❤️⏳️ I'm off gallivanting🙏 new host on Monday

Opportunity knocks, tick tock, the dancing clock. Time is running out. #promptcombo #clocksticking ##haiku #senryu #micropoem #micropoetry #3lines #poem #poetry

For #PromptCombo #ClocksTicking & #PoemsAbout #Candlelight, this was in Autumn Sky Poetry, Nov 2020. Bit bleak, but long past. Currently in a season of renewal, & if you've gone through this w/ family, wishing you peace. 'Remember the year a fox' @dragonslayerma.bsky.social @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Poem 204: Meantime. My contribution to this week’s #promptcombo #ClocksTicking - a cracking prompt from @dragonslayerma.bsky.social

#promptcombo is new to me @dragonslayerma.bsky.social but here is a real bit of juvenilia We thought God was Time But Time is too cruel to be God, who is Love. Or anyway he's supposed to be. (I was 16 when I wrote this , was into Appollinaire and Roger McGough )

It is curse of the aged To wish in their youth They spent more of their time Enjoying And the folly of the youthful To think when they've aged There'll still be time left To enjoy. #Emoetry #youthful #poetry #blueskypoet I think this fits #promptcombo #clocksticking too @dragonslayerma.bsky.social

Hi Fidel, @dragonslayerma.bsky.social and your wonderful #promptcombo #ClocksTicking. Here from my collection "The Spermbot Blues" is my fifth:

Hi Fidel. Thank you for hosting #PromptCombo with you customary genius. #Clocks ticking a fabulous prompt and here is my contribution. Love to all.

Congratulations Fidel! 🙂

Congratulations Fidel! Firmly on my shopping list for next month! 🩷💐🩷

🗣️🗝️ þ - "th" as in thin #haikufeels #wildwalkprompt #vss365 #poemspell #promptcombo #clocksticking @dragonslayerma.bsky.social

Ah no, I wouldn’t single out a particular writer here; the responses have all been brilliant. No I meant simply that your wonderful #clocksticking - with its array of clock’s ticking, clocks ticking or even clock sticking possibilities - has been a favourite prompt

What a very generous reading Fidel. Thank you! Will be thanking you again later in the post to some draw attention to what has been a real favourite of mine in #promptcombo themes. Timely, in every way

Hi Fidel, @dragonslayerma.bsky.social. Thank you for the very excellent #promptcombo #Cloksticking. Here is my third from my collection "Spermbot Blues," minus the inventive font:

Thank you, Fidel, @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for this week’s #promptcombo #Clocksticking.

A last #poem for your #PromptCombo theme #clocksticking Fidel @dragonslayerma.bsky.social is Apparition, again published by @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social in @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social & recorded here with text in post below. Thanks for a great theme #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #poetry