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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I haven't written much poetry in the last year, but I finished this one recently.

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I haven't written much poetry in the last year, but I finished this one recently.

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I bet if you went back in time and told John Crowe Ransom that New Criticism would lead to postmodern denial of authorial meaning which would then render A.I. lit as valuable as human lit, he’d be confused and also question your choices regarding best uses for a time machine.

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

A true double dactyl? Higgledy piggledy, Thomas A. Edison struggled in school due to ADHD. Had he been treated with lisdexamfetamine, “Highway to Hell” would be sung by AC.

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

A true double dactyl? Higgledy piggledy, Thomas A. Edison struggled in school due to ADHD. Had he been treated with lisdexamfetamine, “Highway to Hell” would be sung by AC.

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The Bigsby Barkley game.

A still from a Busby Berkeley film of dancers in a circle looking down at the camera, with the 6 dancers in the center of the circle replaced by photos of Tank Bigsby and Saquon Barkley.

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

this is art

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Happy Shakespeare Day!

The Fair Youth’s Complaint
An Imagined Reply to Shakespeare’s “Procreation Sonnets”

Well, Bill, your sonnets finally got to me,
With all their pressures to impress my seal
On waxen fruits that fruit eternally,
Et cetera, so forth, you know the spiel.
Enticed by your advice I grabbed a wife
With features fairly fine but not so strong
That they might mask my own engrafted life,
So sweetly celebrated in your song.
She birthed a boy. I staked and pruned him well;
I snipped and shaped his soul to match my own.
He blossomed, and I watched my own pride swell
Within a youth in whom my luster shone.
But oh, he burst, and spattered *me* with scorn!
Such bitter fruit were better left unborn.

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

A poem for Good Friday.

ECCE HOMO

Behold the Man whose head is crowned
With thorny branches twisted round
By hands that bear the stain of sin.
The multitudes are pressing in
And cries of “crucify!” resound.

Like seed sprung up in thorny ground
The loud “hosannas” have been drowned.
Through all the frenzy and the din,
Behold the Man.

Behold Him now condemned and bound.
Behold Him. Hear the hammers pound.
Behold, as well, the soldier’s grin.
Behold a mirror. Look within
And face whatever there is found.
Behold the Man.

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I’ve learned that Amazon shipped at least one person a copy of A LITTLE LIGHT with the last ~10 pages missing. Did anyone else have this? The last poem should be “Thanksgiving” on p. 91. Let me know if you have a book with missing pages and I’ll make sure you get a complete one.

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

If you’re in the Philly area on April 15th, come out to the Swedenborg Library at Bryn Athyn College to hear and share some poems. I promise it will be more fun than filing taxes.

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Happy birthday A.E. Housman, Robert Frost, and Leonard Nimoy!

**Poem for March 26th**

Out tramping past the cherry tree
I met a lanky lad
Who formed his fingers in a “V”.
His blessing left me sad.

The fellow’s words, I’m sure, were not
Designed to do me wrong,
But oh, I know ’tis not my lot
To prosper, nor live long!

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Happy birthday A.E. Housman, Robert Frost, and Leonard Nimoy!

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Tomorrow marks 6 months since the publication of A Little Light. If you’ve read it and enjoyed, please consider leaving a review on Amazon or GoodReads or another bookseller site. Heck, even if you hated it, any review is better than none! (I may regret this post.)

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Poem for the first Sunday in Lent.

TEMPTATION

For forty days and forty nights
the waters crash above the land
and storm clouds hide the two great lights.
An uncreation is at hand.

For forty days and forty nights
on Sinai, Moses sits in cloud
and eats no bread, nor drinks, but writes
the words that will convict the crowd.

For forty years of weary days
the manna falls, the daily bread
enduring though the people’s praise
decays, and grievance grows instead.

For forty days and forty nights
the Lord endures the tempter’s scorn.
Alone on desert land He fights
to see our undone souls reborn.

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Poem for the first Sunday in Lent.

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

My one word of advice for new parents: beware of crinkling.

Illustrated bar chart of “Relative Decibel Levels According to My Sleeping Baby,” showing slight increases from “Rain” to “Dog barking” to “Fireworks” then a large jump to the highest category, “Paper bag crinkling”

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Postponed due to weather ❄️ I’ll let you know when we settle on a new date.

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Postponed due to weather ❄️ I’ll let you know when we settle on a new date.

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I joked to my father-in-law Eagles 100 Chiefs 0, but realistically it will probably be a closer game. Eagles 70 Chiefs 6. Go birds! 🦅

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Pronunciation question: do you pronounce “hire” the same way you pronounce “higher”? (And if you’re willing to say, where are you from?)

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

If you’re in the Philly area, come out next Tuesday (Feb 11th) for a poetry open mic at Bryn Athyn College’s Swedenborg Library from 6:30-8:00 pm. I’ll read several of my poems, then the mic will be opened for you to share yours. Hope to see you there!

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Well sorry Pellets of Fire Calcium Chloride Pellets, I’m melting as much as I can afford to melt and I DO NOT NEED YOUR ATTITUDE.

Bag of ice melter with the words “USELESS, MELT MORE!”

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I shouldn’t brag, but I read sooooo many books in 2024 and most of the time I read them upside down AND I did the voices.

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Technically a poem for Candlemas rather than Christmas, but still appropriate for the season - “Candlemas” by Denise Levertov. #smallpoemsunday

With certitude
Simeon opened
ancient arms
to infant light.
Decades
before the cross, the tomb
and the new life,
he knew
new life.
What depth
of faith he drew on,
turning illumined
towards deep night.

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (Anagrammed Lines) It came from outer space — a comet of imp creatures; a curse of meteor impact — to permute a cosmic fear, to cap our mesmeric fate...

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Perhaps my favorite small poem - “Aubade” by Bill Coyle, from his book The God of This World to His Prophet. #smallpoemsunday

Aubade

On a dead street
in a high wall
a wooden gate
I don't recall

ever seeing open
is today
and I who happen
to pass this way

in passing glimpse
a garden lit
by dark lamps
at the heart of it.

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Somehow the editors of the new Taylor-Swift-inspired poetry anthology forgot to ask me to submit my three sonnets of song titles from The Tortured Poets Society. Oh well. At least they’re preserved for posterity here on Bluesky. #taylorswift #poetry

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The best leg / balance / posture exercise is the one where you crouch down to reach things from the bottom rack of the dishwasher while keeping your upper body at exactly the same angle because you are terrified of disturbing the sleeping baby in your carrier.

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

An Advent prayer.

MEDITATION ON THE MAGNIFICAT

All the builders up of Babel
will be scattered, kingdoms shattered,
when the King is born in pure humility;

and my pride with all its craving
to be flattered will be battered --
let it be so, Lord, and let me let it be.

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Today my book is just TEN DOLLARS! (Yes, it was ten dollars yesterday and will be ten dollars for as long as I’m too lazy to bother making complicated change for people who want to buy it in person, i.e. until the end of time, but still - it’s a bargain!)

A screenshot of the Amazon page for A LITTLE LIGHT: Poems by Coleman Glenn, showing the book’s cover along with the paperback price listing at $10.00.

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

That, friends, is quality sports writing. (From Gary Klein in today’s LA Times)

Minutes after the 1990s band Smash Mouth performed at halftime, Barkley smashed the Rams in the mouth.

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Happy #smallpoemsunday (and happy birthday Tom!) Here’s a recent one of mine.

**Suspended**

He says again what he has said before:
if necessary, he will drop it all
for her, for them — *I’ll let it hit the floor*,
he says again. What he has said before
holds little that might move her anymore.
It hangs, a veil of rain failing to fall.
He says again what he has said before:
*If necessary*. He will drop it all.

~Coleman Glenn

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Sarah Alice @bandytstamp.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Tom, thank you for being such a generous poetry ambassador! Ted Kooser #smallpoemsunday

A Happy Birthday

This evening, I sat by an open window
and read till the light was gone and the book
was no more than a part of the darkness.
I could easily have switched on a lamp,
but I wanted to ride this day down into night,
to sit alone and smooth the unreadable page
with the pale gray ghost of my hand.

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Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

If you’ve read and enjoyed my book, I’d love to have a review or two of it on Amazon - doesn’t have to be long or detailed or even positive, but (I’ve been told) it helps other people find it. Thanks!

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