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Ju (Julian)

@hool415.bsky.social
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Poetry stuff only. Nominated for a Forward Prize, Best Of The Net (Twice) and Two Pushcart Awards. Black Bough (Silver Branch Poet), East Ridge Review (Featured Poet), Joint 1st BB New Simile Competition.

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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hullo #poetry #blueskypoets
 Much Movement


An age is reached
when your full life can not be reviewed,
simply passed through hands
as a trailing ribbon of cinema-reel
becoming instead just a record of staccato-marks:
inspecting a road’s 
smouldering-rubber ECG of straggled-braking,

like the elongation of a young meteor:
that confident stub of light
lingering long enough
to change to mere decrepit finger,
tapping shakily 
against its waiting wall 
of windowless atmosphere.

Why too, even Victorian boxy-photography 
understood, 
you can only picture-perfectly 
the recklessly still
or the still-cooling dead.


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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
👍🏼
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nice one Jim! 👌👌
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hullo #poetry #mumbles
You Won’t Like This But You Should


Sometimes people are best seen as places,
the one I love 
is pure Mumbles:
a Newton Road, displaying its unfussy 
honest charm;
that corner table too,
snug
at the back 
of Joe’s Icecream;
where blue skies are always within reach
despite the occasional
and hurriedly bussed-through
rain.

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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Always a pleasure to read missus!
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cheers Kregian…you are a kind soul!
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exquisitely bitter and rightly so. Probably too much to hope for a wholesale cosmic restitution. A multi-pronged zinger. 🤝🎖️🤝👌
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hullo #fragmentsfriday and to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Thank you @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

Watching My Mum’s Balcony Doors Being Done (From Her Sofa)


Window-cleaner flamenco-dances
fan-shapes,
clearing soapy foam;
underneath:
thought darkened blackberries being washed… 
but just his mate’s 
vine-ish-vape
creeping-up.

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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hullo #poetry #time
Time


I always try to save time:
not put off chores, do the nonsense first,
imagining a pool of lapping minutes
slowly filling;
it’s an anathema to me
to task-delay,
get it done, get it done now
and even more seconds will form interest 
on my secreted hours’
earlier deposit,
but of course,
most days still manage to shiggle 
and squirm away.

Like a morning,
secretly yearning
they’d been born instead
an afternoon.

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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thanks pal…serious writes then some much sillier ones! 🙃
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hullo #poetry #whimsy

P.E.


Two school kids walk past the house
on opposite pavement sides,
an oval ball crosses the road
then rolls 
ungainly
under my car.
One runs deep 
into the drive to retrieve it,
the other stays back
and looks far too scared;
I played in his position:
in school,
you can always have 
contactless
contact sports.

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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hullo #poetry This one for a loved Spanish cousin.

All The Passings Felt At Roath Park Lake 


Under the wing
of missed-migrating formaldehyde skies, 
autumn crunches and rips unseen 
at ignorant foundations;
birds flowing away with such regularity,
like a shrugging tap’s 
passive-aggressive leak of overhead drips;
the parked-up ice-cream van: its music, off-key,
a stale lament and so last season;
everywhere colours are brittle, 
riddled with unforgiving, hateful corrosion;
those laid-out, opened conker-shells
with their shrunken and calcified 
arrested hearts…
I know someone splitting too:
still lovingly tended,
but already muddy,
part-buried in 
an ultimately unhelpful 
hospital bed.

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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you.
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cheers pal! Just another piece of silliness!
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s a discipline we all struggle to learn to sit with a poem for a day or two even when we are first convinced it is definitely finished. I’m not particularly good at this! Nice write though!
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Copper frock tattered… that’s rather good!
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Eh!
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well I just mean don’t feel sorry for me! X
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Gosh Anna. Thanks so much. It is all so sad. My dear Spanish cousin… Ju
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yay! Gotcha Smokie Bear!
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You (still) the best Jenster!
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cheers buddy! Lovely to hear from you. Still the one and original Jules The Poet!
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hullo #poetry #smallpoemsunday Apologies, I changed this one a little.

Two Telephone Calls


Yesterday, my Aunt,
crying,
said on the telephone 
you were close to dying,
she sounded like she was the last to know,
the very last one told;
not stupidity: a parent must never give up
and continually self-baste 
in amateur, homemade hope.
I told her I had reached you
the day before,
but kept back the fact
it felt already 
like a connection with heaven;
knowing you were weak,
and slipping away,
all my messages the previous month 
dropped by your hospital bed
remaining unpicked-up…
so, it was ethereal and an actual afterlife
to hear that weakened, wispy voice
we love,
probably for one last time:
you fluttering still,
but only just finding
a final brush of light.

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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cheers bud.
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cheers mush! Ack it’s not about me of course but thank you xx
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🤜🤛 thanks pal.
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
All true. Thanks Sue. The ovarian curse. X
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You should be! 🎯
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just seen your sucker punch of a poem. The emotion is visceral. I must go now. Wifey calling! Keep up the writes.
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That’s a mighty powerful write. Beautiful presentation too. Well done.
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🏃🏃🏃
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Stay zzz’n. It’s also what weekends are for!🫡
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I followed you back when I saw you mentioned poetry. Confess I hadn’t gone far down your feed but I hope you can have a creative ponder and get something hatched this weekend! 🤜🤛
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You the best and v v kind!
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ah Lish! That’s so kind of you. I now just have to make sure that you never ever read any one else so I stay top of your podium! 😁 Thank you!
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
😉🤜🤛👌
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thanks pal! Just seen, a little late, that you’ve hatched a zing…🤝
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wouldn’t it be dark and wonderful if you got a series of templates like these for your computer. Sue’s Stinging Software (Sheppey) Ltd). As usual Sue provides the brute scaffolding for us to fill in the blanks! Terrific! 🏆
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s the insect wot tickled yer fancy missus! 😀
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’ll have you at street corners too, if you don’t mind! Thanks pal!😀
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hullo @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for #fragmentsfriday #poetry
Battling (x3)

Thin-man cycling fast:
chained cranefly,     passing;
plane winning race 
with its roar;
sweary roofers versus their radio…

draw.

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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh I’m jolly glad Jude! Can still cite you as a character witness now then 😂
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ten four tango!
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Blimey no! It’s a standing joke that she’s going to get a wheelbarrow for the books when the time comes! All good, I just like ploughing morbid furrows! Cheers Jude!
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yeah and it’s only one more sleep till your zing zingy zinger lands too!
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh don’t worry my dear pal! No new health issues. Just ploughing the usual morbid furrow! There’s no better fun! Xx
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hullo #poetry #stars #pleiades #hyades
Resolution 


There’s a moment when you realise
that the Pleiades 
isn’t a cosmic smudge
but a tiny child’s yawn, 
showing the milk teeth
of many different stars;
whereas the Hyades
is a net dragged from the sea,
still clinging 
in a losing battle
to its last 
pearly droplets. 

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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🤝😁
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh don’t worry Jim, I often get my worms mixed up! I knew what you meant and was grateful for the comment!
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Cheers Jim! Most kind. Hope you have a great day! 🤜🤛
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