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linktr.ee/victoriaspires Commended Ledbury Poetry, TPW Prize. Shortlisted Aesthetica Arts Creative Writing Award. Contributing editor - The Winged Moon. Debut pamphlet Soi-même available from Salo Press: https://www.salopress.com/store/soi-meme/
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Book's arrived 📕 Trying to work up courage to do a video

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Out for lunch in the sunshine 😎 @salopress.bsky.social

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"let's all strive for creation" ... Here, here Francis 🙌🏼 Thank you for this contribution to #PromptCombo. We need this more than ever.

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Perfect haiku for #PromptCombo, thank you Jude ☺️ I share your fervent wish for their return x

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Ooh crikey! They're getting out in people's hands! Thank you @paulwritespoems.bsky.social 😍

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This will be excellent. Very much hope to be there 😍

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#PromptCombo #Architecture I'm going a bit rogue and posting a second poem to my own prompt 🙃 Mainly because @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social 's poem a couple of days ago made me think of it. You've all been so enthused & supportive of each other this week, it's been lovely 😍

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"there never was an architect" ... a cosmic howl into the empty void of our dying universe. Fantastic #PromptCombo response, John! I love how this prompt has taken us from the building blocks of the self to the vastness of space all in a few days 🤩

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@drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk this is so inspired and poetic! 😍 Fibonacci, fractals, golden ratio... What could be more poetic than that? Love this idea. Thank you for taking part in #PromptCombo ❤️

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

Thank you @noelcowley.bsky.social for this take on #PromptCombo. WIP or not, this is heady stuff! Interesting that you rendered 'judgment' as 'court'. That last stanza is so far-reaching. This idea of the end as an unroofing' is kind of blowing my mind a bit 🤯

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@bethbpoet.bsky.social thank you for this contribution to #PromptCombo, it fits the bill perfectly! I love the "gaslit corridors" with its double meaning and the "tungsten light of a cold evening"

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Gosh @rock-rex.bsky.social what a powerful lament, thank you for sharing this for #PromptCombo. Showing us literally the architecture of the dead - the nothing beyond nothing. The tapless pipe, a 'sarcastic fountain' - that detail, among a litany of horror, somehow really struck me 💔

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Thank you @janpsolivagant.bsky.social for this fascinating take on #PromptCombo. This poem feels like stepping through a portal into a lost world, perhaps even a kind of saudade for a more 'spacious age'. I love the references to Le Grand Meulnes, the sun-gilded motes, the Maquisards ❤️

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Another corker from you too, Paul 😁 The idea of a village church as part petrified creature, part mythical beast... something about seeing and feeling its concentration of energy through the eyes of a child really works 👏🏼

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Another fab response to this week's #PromptCombo, thank you Paul! The idea of factories, power stations as being monumental in the same way that castles are. And finding the beauty, illogical and unsettling as it may be, in the industrial decay 👏🏼

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An exciting moment! Not even got my own hands on a copy yet (they're on their way 😁). Thank you so much @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social 😍

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

#PromptCombo is 🔥 this week! Thank you to all of you for your excellent poems & your energy. Remember you can respond all week, & we welcome (encourage) liberal interpretations of the theme 😁

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Thank you @profkiki-poetry.bsky.social for this excellent contribution for #PromptCombo. The analogy of the wasps' nest works so well to describe this architecture of despair. The line "chews on wooden spoons of tired adrenal soldiers" is so vivid 👏🏼

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So glad you've joined #PromptCombo, @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social ! This is a superb haibun. Those 'dowsing-stick-sharp beaks', what a cracking image. And the haiku could stand alone but works so beautifully to crystallise the prose

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