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Steve Silas Hendrickson (Hiatus) @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh and before I forget, @451degrees.bsky.social is one of the hosts too! ✨ Okay, signing off for real this time.

Steve Silas Hendrickson (Hiatus) @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hello #7SyllableSquad! Thank you for the well wishes, I will be logging off shortly but before I do, we have the following people who will host in my stead. 💜 Thank you for this, I wish I didn't have to do this but I need to take care of myself first. Love you all, see you in November ✨

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Steve Silas Hendrickson (Hiatus) @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

starting this Sunday September 28, up until the middle of October. Please let me know if you're interested, I'll make the announcement afterwards. 😌

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Steve Silas Hendrickson (Hiatus) @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hi all, I feel like I need a bit of a break from being online for a few weeks for my own mental health, so I would like to announce that I want a couple of people who are willing to host #7SyllableSquad temporarily until I recover. If you're interested, I'm looking for three potential hosts

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Steve Silas Hendrickson (Hiatus) @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

42th Day Of #7SyllableSquad (Sept 26) Happy Friday! Welcome to your daily dose of #7SyllableSquad. As a reminder, this prompt is a placeholder for 7SyllableSentence until Gabe returns. Today's word is #Turning #7SyllableSentence #writingprompt #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

#7SyllableSquad

Sept 20 Castle
Sept 21 Perfect
Sept 22 Enchant
Sept 23 Secrets
Sept 24 Abyss
Sept 25 Sirens
Sept 26 Turning

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Steve Silas Hendrickson (Hiatus) @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The way I gasped when I read this while remembering the news of what my brother did behind my dad's back.... Jesus Christ on a silver platter! 🫂

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Lish @teaintheweeds.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For anyone who learned that love can be used to justify almost anything. #DeadLetters #7SyllableSquad #PoemsAbout #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #Writers

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Steve Silas Hendrickson (Hiatus) @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm sorry, but it I see a prospective employee act human and use things that humans need, then I won't hire them. That's why I'm an AI bro! /s

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Steve Silas Hendrickson (Hiatus) @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me? A video game character? Am I real? (existential crisis starts)

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Mike O’Brien @zoomburst.substack.com · 25/09/2026

#poemsabout #deadletters I'm a little out of practice...

The usual guff about life after death - I reckon that I must have enough for a small pamphlet by now.

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John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#PoemsAbout #DeadLetters @thebrokenspine.co.uk It helps to know Bu Shi is a muse/alter ego I created in the early 2010s to post haiku/senryu, it also helps to know they don’t use the lettters L and T, but the poem uses all of the other letters. Our pseudo relationship is sometimes contentious.

DUBIOUS BU

bu emerges from a crack underground
open hand punch
hammering an arc of misshapen force

nor misspoken nor misheard

was a bad poem worsened
by jagged end rhymes
before even being conceived

weaned on my screams and misgivings

bad karma broken casino spinner
dopamine miser sucking my money sac
receiving receiving receiving never giving back

aces queens and princes join voracious jokers

oversized zippers sever
spewing sacred sera in free mason jars
examined by hydrographic surveyors

bu says form precedes usage

do you agree

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Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 25/09/2026

Happy #PoemsAbout folks, here's my quick contribution to #DeadLetters - will check back later to read others! Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry #poetrycommunity

Correspondence

every day of summer
I wrote you a letter
heartbeats
hand shaking
ink staining my fingers

I still have them
at the bottom
of a box
at the back
of the attic

I look out
over the sea
and wonder
how this day would feel
if I had posted them

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For #PoemsAbout #DeadLetters, here's a slightly crazed point of view: The Dead Letter. (*waves* to @alanparrywriter.co.uk 😁 )

The Dead Letter
We keep his secret, we remaining in the alphabet. He just got weary
of holding up that space between K and L. He always felt misplaced,
he cried to himself in the night. His shape became…
unrecognizable and after a while no one knew his name.
He slipped off the page. We do not forget.

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #ItWillDo #DeadLetters In his anger, he whispers that living with her is like inhabiting one of her terminally unfinished epistolary novels. He'd love her to end it.

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Rachel @vignettes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For this weeks #PoemsAbout #DeadLetters Thanks as always to @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Dead Letters

They dressed him in bronze,
raised him above the traffic
to applause.

A century ripened beneath his shoes.

Then rope.
Bronze struck stone, shoulder first,
the city ringing through his body.

Harbour water closed over his mouth.

They dragged him out bedraggled,
silt in his cuffs, weed between his buttons,
stinking of still water.

Paint across his chest:
the city writing back.

Now, behind museum glass,
he dries badly.

This morning a letter lies
against the empty plinth,
rain loosening the ink
into the stone,
an address
still valid.

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Paul Cannon @pvcannon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For #PoemsAbout #DeadLetters With much thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

A free verse poem that talks about a lost opportunity and the inability of one to communicate with the other after meeting and the grief of hearing of their death many years later.

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Ennui @listlessennui.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is the shape perfect? No. Do I care? Hmmmm not enough 😁 #poemsabout #deadletters #poetry

Once
I had a drawer
Full of carefully kept
And cherished words -
Of doodles and notes
And all your secrets.
I burned them all,
Just to forget.
I didn't.
I'm sorry.
I have
A letter for you
Still, collecting dust
Tucked securely within
This pocket on my shirt
Surely, a coincidence -
This pocket rests
Above my
Heart.
I'm sorry.

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David Birch @davidbirch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A little stumped by today's #PoemsAbout prompt #DeadLetters so here's quite an old poem which I think works. Many thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the challenge. Will read and respond to other offerings later

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Steve Silas Hendrickson (Hiatus) @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

41th Day Of #7SyllableSquad (Sept 25) Happy Friday! Welcome to your daily dose of #7SyllableSquad. As a reminder, this prompt is a placeholder for 7SyllableSentence until Gabe returns. Today's word is #Sirens #7SyllableSentence #writingprompt #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

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Steve Silas Hendrickson (Hiatus) @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love my 8bitdo, I've been using this controller for two years and it's still alive and kicking with no stick drift. ✨ #8bitdo #GamingSky #controllers

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Steve Silas Hendrickson (Hiatus) @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Your screaming hunger, Your desires swallowed into your chilling abyss, Your constant thrill-seeking ways, The jaws of eaten fish jaws. #vss365 #tankathursday #7SyllableSquad #tanka #短歌

"The Mansion of the Plates (Sara yashiki), from the series One Hundred Ghost Stories (Hyaku monogatari)"
Artist: Katsushika Hokusai

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Steve Silas Hendrickson (Hiatus) @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

At the moment, my six modes and four voices agree on certain things, but disagree on others. Some differences feel irreconcilable, like if people deserve forgiveness, or if pineapple on pizza is a valid pizza. Oh well. 🤷

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Steve Silas Hendrickson (Hiatus) @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One thing about OSDD is all experiences feel like they're passing through a cave, echoing each time, and a version of each memory is absorbed by one mode. So for my anger to be diffused, or trauma to be healed, each mode should agree that they're ok with what happened, and that they're past it.

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Steve Silas Hendrickson (Hiatus) @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Guy's idea of a picnic was to take me ATV riding near a volcano last year...so yes, yes he would.

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Steve Silas Hendrickson (Hiatus) @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

40th Day Of #7SyllableSquad (Sept 24) Happy Thursday! Welcome to your daily dose of #7SyllableSquad. As a reminder, this prompt is a placeholder for 7SyllableSentence until Gabe returns. Today's word is #Abyss #7SyllableSentence #writingprompt #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

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Steve Silas Hendrickson (Hiatus) @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh god I'm glad hubby is not here to see this, he would've feigned outrage and asked me to eat outside in protest. 😭

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Steve Silas Hendrickson (Hiatus) @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How much do you like these tropes? Enemies to lovers: 3/10 2nd chance: 1/10 Fake dating: -10/10 Friends to lovers: 7.510 Age gap: -5000/10 Found family: 9/10 Grumpy x sunshine: 5/10 Pregnancy: 0/10 Slow burn: 9/10 Love triangle: 0/10

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