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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The house breathes The house coos The house sounds as if there’s infants in the walls —Melusine Poems

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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

New project for 2025, year of the snake 🐍 ! The Mélusine Poems Melusine is the half woman/half snake spirit of fresh water.

Detail of Melusine's secret discovered, from Le Roman de Mélusine, by Anonymous

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Mitch Goldstein @mgoldst.com · 03/02/2025

a helpful diagram. #art #design

a venn diagram: one cirsl says "f*ck around" , the other says "find out", and the intersectuon says "creative practice."

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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Get ready to send me poems!

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Cathy Horner @cathorner.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

"Faster!" Collage. I used real luna moth wings..found, I would never kill one. I love all the insect art and photos today for "green". #JanuArty #collage #JanuArty2025 #green #collageart #fantasy #humor #surrealism #cathyhorner #mixmedia #traditionalart #lunamoth

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Malachy Moran @malformed-poetry.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Today’s #poetryprompt: Let chance rule your #poem. Whatever that means to you. Roll a dice, pull a tarot card, open a book and select a random word or sentence. Life is full of happenstance and randomness. Let’s make it work for us. #WriterCommunity

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :) a special one today, one of my favorite small poems of all time by James Schuyler:

Closed Gentian Distances

A nothing day full of
wild beauty and the
timer pings. Roll up
the silver off the bay
take down the clouds
sort the spruce and
send to laundry marked
more starch. Goodbye
golden- and silver-
rod, asters, bayberry
crisp in elegance.
Little fish stream
by, a river in water.

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

today's writing prompt neonpajamas.substack.com/p/sunday-004...

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Pitymilk Press @pitymilkpress.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

How do we find our ppl on this brave new platform?? We are a small press from the Midwest publishing since 2011. Our open period for manuscripts is until the end of this month!! #booksky #poets #writers #smallpess #poetsofbluesky #queerpoets #opencall

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Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Up with this sort of thing. David Wheatley, one of our most thoughtful and generous poetry reviewers, does the round-up in The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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The best recent poetry – review roundup

Swell by Maria Ferguson; There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die by Tove Ditlevsen; Mind’s Eye by Carol Rumens; Strange Beach by Oluwaseun Olayiwola; Foxglovewise by Ange Mlinko

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Libraries are more than book lenders. Libraries help folks fill out taxes, fill out passport forms, access 3D printers, record in a (free) music studio, gather genealogy info, take various (again, free) classes, help with resumes, video editing equipment, large size PRINTING, ++++ I'M OUT OF ROOM!

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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

SOME 8’s Snow falling proton-wise —falling sideways is not a black swan event Speed is its own para//elogram I spend forever turning out in this ballerina nightness I feel myself bleed inside my skates #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

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scissor cut paper @dummypublic.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

bridge watchers

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Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I’ve been exchanging tanka poems with my friend Marina. Recently, she sent me a passage from Glissant’s Poetics of Relation—prompting me to resume our correspondence. As Frank O’Hara once said, “the poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages.” salrandolph.substack.com/p/poetry-as-...

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Poetry as Relation (Tankas for Marina)

Dear Friends, For a while now I’ve been exchanging occasional tanka poems with my friend Marina. To be honest, I’ve been a poor correspondent and there’s been a long gap. Recently, Marina sent me this...

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Cake Moth @cakemoth.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

An everyday prompt distilled from yesterday’s wild blue musings on the Northern night sky as The Code of 404 (4🌌4)=(🐝🌻🐝)=(🌒🌕🌘) What is coming toward you? What is being ferried away?

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mIEKAL aND @memexikon.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

It’s high time to reinvent Martian poetry. Multiple personalities optimize parallel universalities. How to activate cultural networks that span age & affinities? This quote is off limits for the average reader. If life hands you a sousaphone, make a parade. #ManifestoOfTheMoments #poetry

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Cake Moth @cakemoth.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

4🌌4 Poetics If this 0, pictured below, is the portal to the universe (currently known as Polaris) then that makes our earth the flower filled garden & the universe the hive & these 2, 4 legged bees are the pollen laden go betweens The boarder crossers The poets Traversing from flower to cave

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Cake Moth @cakemoth.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

May be the oldest 404 message, ever Very puzzling how these bees only have 4 legs

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Cake Moth @cakemoth.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

This is what Ive found so far: NOTES ON COOLIDGE, OBJECTIVES. ZUKOFSKY, ROMANTICISM, AND & by Robert Grenier: “The Maintains product of Coolidge's operations. Quincunx translated to lines from fives in nature.”

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Cake Moth @cakemoth.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

If 404 represents the ancient starless true north then the quincunx would be the current Polaris configuration Somewhere in my travels Ive come across a quincunx poetics which i can no longer find Can anyone out there help with this?

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Steven Leyva @stevenleyva.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Every Poem is an Advent — day 18 Poem by Summer J. Hart from the book BOOMHOUSE

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Cake Moth @cakemoth.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

4🌌4 Poetics: Sometimes i wonder about the eons when the North Star was gone When the constellations & the 4 quartered moon circled a void A portal —circled the North Door What were their poems like?

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

“Sound harmonies and disharmonies lead you to say things and invent things you couldn’t otherwise say. And the other part … is that those harmonies, if they’re particularly arresting to the ear, make the old connection between poetry as an oral art and Memory” -- Robert Hass

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Virgil Kay @virgilkay.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Writing poems on the bus beneath the shade of an agreeable tree although the driver thinks my use of simile is as thin as a blade of grass

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Cake Moth @cakemoth.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Super funny bird feeder poem by the great Peter Voulkos news.artnet.com/app/news-upl...

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Cake Moth @cakemoth.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Rough Translation The poetics of how a moth flies through a room 🎪✈️ 🎶 🍂 🌀 🍂 🎶 ✈️🎪 3 moths 3 thousand

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Cake Moth @cakemoth.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

4☁️4 poetics of veering off course

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

“You must write as if you're already dead.” -- Nadine Gordimer quoted by David Rieff quoted by Moyra Davey in Index Cards

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Cake Moth @cakemoth.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Some Cakes

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Nonceptualism @nonceptualism.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Photography by William Gedney, Girl standing on desk in courtyard, performing for a seated girl, 1955, Brooklyn, New York.

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Cake Moth @cakemoth.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

My alter/alter/alter ego posted a dream this morning that’s got me thinking about dream work & poetry: The idea of focusing on the 5 senses at work within the dream as primary subject matter—along side of, or even eclipsing, the narrative.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :) here’s a poem I love by Kristín Ómarsdóttir (tr. Vala Thorodds), & one by me :)

THE WHITE DOVES

The doves at home
are white as sails.
Yet I have told no one about them.

They act as curtains when I sleep
and curtains while I wake.

My love, if I die.

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That windshield-wiper laugh. It’s summer on another planet, one with shorter years. Pinpricks of history deflating our stable point in the orbit. An Austrian grape, too sweet to make wine from, pops in the sun.
Limp lemon father, clockmaker, go nowhere that love wouldn’t go

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :) here are two new poems by me, “Misbehaving Light” in Looky Here Magazine & “God Shed” in Occulum Journal, plus a found teacher report sheet poem~

What it forgives: a long list
of dry-erase feelings, a voice
raised too quickly & apologized
for, after, but not right
after, thinking the moon
has powers that would give it
responsibilities it's really unfair
to hold a rock to, even one
that gets all that sun
& seeds it for the leechers

MISBEHAVING LIGHT in a fun, big, wiggly font

God Shed
BY OCCULUM ON DECEMBER 14, 2024
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by Tom Snarsky

I tore it up, I lemoned it with my bad
attitude toward everything, no cashew

juice, no withdrawals from the fog
bank, no little animals to exculpate

you, no movement from the blue
crabs, one upside down one

looking dire, the littlest juror
to appear before a similarly

-clawed god, segmented legs
tracing language in the unmoist

air, priced per pound, tell the truth
enjoin the pincers, & the reply:

there was no one in the ocean
this cold, no one this blue

19. Demands a lot of attention
20. Destroys his/her own things

21. Destroys property belonging to others
22. Difficulty following directions

23. Disobedient at school
24. Disturbs other pupils

25. Doesn’t get along with other pupils
26. Doesn’t seem to feel guilty after misbehaving

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Nikki Grimes @poetnikki.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

If I had to pick a favorite poetry collection by Nikki Giovanni, this would be one of them. And "Winter" would be one of my favorite poems in it.

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Glenn Ingersoll @glenningersoll.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Lets say the sky shows up / and the mountain puts down / the snow the sky brought hours earlier / and lets say the sky offers mostly the moon / but holds back all but a sliver

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EM Mark @redthreads.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

“Of course, there should be cake.” — TS Eliot

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