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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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@hool415.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:22 PM

Hullo #poetry #love


The Problem With Love Poetry 


No one, 
truthfully,
wants to know 
when love goes well and is absent drama:
a time of fine, but uneventful weather;
that meal summed up
as genuinely 
simply being nice;
the warm recognisable smile
which isn’t always precursor 
to nascent guffaw;
a tide filling up the bay
so quietly,
without any noticeable waves.


Julian Cason
@hool415.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 1:01 PM

Cheers!

@hool415.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 1:00 PM

Excellent Gary!🎯

@hool415.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 8:37 AM

😘

@hool415.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 8:10 AM

Ah Jenster! May all the clouds needed errr cloud your day. ⛅️

@hool415.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 7:09 AM

Join a union! 🤜🤛

@hool415.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 6:51 AM

Have a good day pal. Remember coffee breaks aren’t just for kit-kats but for cramming in even more Fragments!

@hool415.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 6:35 AM

Cheers Rach! Ok I’m all breakfasted up so the reads begin!

@hool415.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 6:34 AM

Why is it no surprise you liked the grim one Bill! 🤜🤛😁

@hool415.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 5:31 AM

Hullo #poetry #blueskypoets #fragmentsfriday

Three Thoughts


Leafed-trees shiver without obvious weather.

Bat’s hokey-cokey flying 
requires breathalysing.

Rivers are both coffin and cortège 
for raindrops.


Julian Cason
@hool415.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 1:33 PM

Kick over that desk, open the nearest window and welcome back our friend sky! Otherwise, just have a calm afternoon! 🙃

@hool415.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 1:22 PM

I get this totally! Yes…ghost days! You and me both about a sky obsession…day or night. Perfect poem capturing one of its many facets. 💪🖋️👏👏

@hool415.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 12:06 PM

I forgot to pass salutations on to your Tasmanian Devil as well…so not that good! (*hands back a house point*) 😁

@hool415.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 11:50 AM

Sorry Jen…been in Sains! Yup less whimsy more documentary eh! Have a groovy day pal.

@hool415.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:33 AM

Hullo #whimsy #poetry

The Slowest Forms Of Transportation 


Either,
a wonky shopping trolley,
where one wheel is the whining toddler
who cannot be cajoled,
or the elderly dog,
where every ruddy thing
requires a sommelier’s lingering
pretentious sniff;
we’ve even been known 
to back-track half a street
for second whiff’s
of particularly pungent uncorkings.

Julian Cason
@hool415.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 6:01 AM

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.


Julian Cason
@hool415.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 11:44 AM

👍🏼

@hool415.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 11:32 AM

Nice one Jim! 👌👌

@hool415.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 8:15 AM

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.

Julian Cason
@hool415.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 5:33 AM

Always a pleasure to read missus!

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