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sonnets & vignettes…the ghosts of gnosis…collateral damage…prose, prozetry & leftover poems on love, nature, the passing scene…sometimes mystical, sometimes philosophical, largely agnostic.

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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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A SOMEWHAT IRREVERENT DITTY (from the church-sitter notebooks) Beneath a chipped plaster St Rita(I’m hoping she’ll understand)I chant om nama shivayawhen this god shit gets outta hand.S…
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
People joined the National Guard to protect their fellow Americans, not to become an occupation force over them.
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Awinita @awinita.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I'm not like this (I hope) but I find this very funny
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M. T. Anderson @mt-anderson.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
It cannot be easy to be a police officer in Sandwich, Massachusetts right now.
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Muse-ical Poet @muse-icalpoet.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
#FirstNameinSong #MusicChallenge The Beatles - Dear Prudence for Prudence Farrow youtu.be/wQA59IkCF5I?...
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Dear Prudence (Remastered 2009)
YouTube video by The Beatles - Topic
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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
clever...but wrong-headed.
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Awinita @awinita.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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The second law of Labrador puppies
You think it’s a lumpof the palest claythat pile of puppieswho sleep all dayon newspapersin the garage….six or eight of ’em -coalesced as oneas they were in mom -and once in a whilethe …
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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
countercatechism.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/m... #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
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Awinita @awinita.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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Cormac Stagg @cormacstagg.com · 29/07/2025
'The living Spirit makes her play, comrades, in the soft, shy, sacred moments of the day.'
Image by Martine Le Faou from Pinterest
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Awinita @awinita.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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Awinita @awinita.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
ORLANDO The artist is never defined by a gender Artists are sexless as empyrean angels . a somewhat condensed version of Wolfe’s novel Noted in the margins: A Book by James Thurber and EB White entitled Is Sex Necessary / or why you feel the way you do 😎 #poem #writingcommunity #bskypoetry
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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A wee sabbath sonnet 😎 #poem #sonnet #writingcommunity countercatechism.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/o...
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Oh world
.Oh world I cannot whip thee hard enough*You’ve gone to pot, straight down the tubes, the sewer.Past generations made of sterner stuff?Beyond stupidity, I think our flaws were fewer.We shared…
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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A wee sabbath sonnet 😎 #poem #sonnet #writingcommunity countercatechism.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/o...
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Oh world
.Oh world I cannot whip thee hard enough*You’ve gone to pot, straight down the tubes, the sewer.Past generations made of sterner stuff?Beyond stupidity, I think our flaws were fewer.We shared…
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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
ORLANDO The artist is never defined by a gender Artists are sexless as empyrean angels . a somewhat condensed version of Wolfe’s novel Noted in the margins: A Book by James Thurber and EB White entitled Is Sex Necessary / or why you feel the way you do 😎 #poem #writingcommunity #bskypoetry
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John Henry @priveteye.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I support Palestine Action This is an 'I am Spartacus' moment Please Repost
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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
there is nothing particularly moral - or immoral - about this dead presidens remarks...and they are most appropriate.
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LibraryThing @librarything.com · 22/07/2025
Today is the birthday of Janusz Korczak, a Polish children's rights advocate who ran a number of orphanages, and was the author of classics like "King Matt the First." He had the opportunity to escape the Nazis, but refused to leave his orphans, dying with them at Treblinka. #💙📚 #Booksky
A photograph of Janusz Korczak, with the covers of two of his books—King Matt the First and A Child's Right to Respect.
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Awinita @awinita.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Since nobody asked...😎 countercatechism.wordpress.com/2022/12/16/t...
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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
even I find this strange... #poem #poetry #writingcommunity countercatechism.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/t...
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The Moral Universe
Metaphor will make it easier to understand.Think first of Earth as a kind ofblueprint for a universe of galaxies.Here, are wide rivers, lakes and oceans of goodnesswhile jagged mountains rise to vo…
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
#BookSky
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Born on this day in 1834, in Paris, Edgar Degas. Painter, sculptor, & printmaker w/ a great eye and intelligence. Here by himself in 1862. Quite the dandy!
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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
OK. I dareya...😎 #poem #poetry #writingcommunity countercatechism.wordpress.com/2024/04/30/t...
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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
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jackydu.bsky.social @jackydu.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
MixedMedia Paper Collage 🤓 #mixedmedia #collage #Papercollage #abandoned #decay #forgotten #ruinporn #handmadecollage #paperart #blueskycollage #Art #collageart #artsky #Artist
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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” — James Baldwin
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What Bird?🦜 @whatbirds.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
🌏 Blue-winged kookaburra (Dacelo leachii) #AustralasianBirds #AustralianBirds | #BlueWingedKookaburra #DaceloLeachii | #Kookaburras #TreeKingfishers #KingfisherFamily #Coraciiformes 📷: Photo by Gaz_Chapp🦜 #MyBirdcards #birdsoftheworld #birds
🌏 Blue-winged kookaburra (Dacelo leachii)

The blue-winged kookaburra is a large, stocky kingfisher with a white head streaked brown, and lacking the prominent dark mask of it's larger relative, the laughing kookaburra. Its back is dull brown, wings are striking blue, and the underside is a creamy-white, finely barred with brown streaks. Found in northern Australia and southern New Guinea, it inhabits open savanna woodlands and swamps. Typically found in family groups of up to 12 individuals, they perch conspicuously, hunting insects, reptiles, and small mammals with a cackling, squawking call. 2.5 Flash (Edited)

Four subspecies are generally recognised.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

📷: Photo by Gaz_Chapp via Pixabay 
https://pixabay.com/photos/kingfishers-bird-tree-branch-8270727/

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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
yes.
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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
even I find this strange... #poem #poetry #writingcommunity countercatechism.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/t...
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The Moral Universe
Metaphor will make it easier to understand.Think first of Earth as a kind ofblueprint for a universe of galaxies.Here, are wide rivers, lakes and oceans of goodnesswhile jagged mountains rise to vo…
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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Starting over as a swamp dweller 🎨 Lily Seika Jones
Illustration of a mouse in a blue cloak among reeds.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Hello Monday. From from Harley MS 565, C13th.
Flying pigasus watched by man in blue who points at it, open mouthed.
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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
#writingcommunity... I can almost guarantee that you will enjoy this apostrophic number 😎 countercatechism.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/t...
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TO THE FLOWER POT ON MY WRITING TABLE
an apostrophic poem (as first published by POL in 2012) As if it were some ritualpunctuation for my thoughtsI peered down into your mini-irisesditto and ditto all day..Purple as Clytemnestra’…
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Morning. 🖼️ Vanessa Cooper
Tree of Life by Vanessa Cooper is an oil painting depicting a terrarium filled with an abundance of nature. The central feature is a lush tree, adorned with various birds; pheasant, owl, goldfinches, pigeon, dove, blackbird, crow, fruits like pears and apples, and foliage. Beneath the glass dome, a squirrel and a rabbit are also visible among the detailed flora and fauna.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
🖼️ Edith Holden
Meadow Crane's-bill (Geranium pratense).
Yellow Toadflax (Linaria vulgaris):
Also known as Common Toadflax or Butter-and-Eggs,
Magpie Moth.
Illustration.
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Awinita @awinita.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
#writingcommunity... I can almost guarantee that you will enjoy this apostrophic number 😎 countercatechism.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/t...
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TO THE FLOWER POT ON MY WRITING TABLE
an apostrophic poem (as first published by POL in 2012) As if it were some ritualpunctuation for my thoughtsI peered down into your mini-irisesditto and ditto all day..Purple as Clytemnestra’…
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Awinita @awinita.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
🎯
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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
OK. I dareya...😎 #poem #poetry #writingcommunity countercatechism.wordpress.com/2024/04/30/t...
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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
fun and smooches 😎 #poem #writingommunity countercatechism.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/i...
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I KISSED THE DJEMBE MAN
Plastic whistles                      scream           to.ky.o.zone         …
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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
BIRD'S EYE #POEM Seems the world's freezing or roasting. People are either timid or boasting. Me? If I'm not asleep I'm posting!
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
🖼️ Vanessa Cooper
The painting depicts a still life featuring a patterned pitcher filled with flowering branches, against a light blue background. Two sparrows are also prominently featured in the composition: one perched on a branch extending from the pitcher, and another at the base of the pitcher on the left. 
A large, decorative pitcher with a dark blue upper section featuring swirling patterns and a lighter, textured lower section with reddish-brown dots and a bow-like detail at its base.
Branches laden with delicate pink and white blossoms, along with hanging catkins, emerge from the pitcher and extend across the canvas.
Two small, brown sparrows are included, one positioned on a branch near the top right of the pitcher, and the other near the bottom left, seemingly on a surface in front of the pitcher.
A solid, light blue background provides a simple backdrop, drawing focus to the central arrangement.
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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
seriously...? #poem #writingcommunity countercatechism.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/f...
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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
love poem of sorts 😎 #poetry #writingcommunity countercatechism.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/c...
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Confession: I am not a true agnostic
I have an absoluteabiding and unadulturated beliefin Saulé[ who always punishes mefor my carelessness in summerby burning my skin! ].Saulé, Sauléand this is her day[which you callsolstice, after so…
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counter-catechisms @counter-catechism.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
#poem #writingcommunity #poetry #philosophy countercatechism.wordpress.com/2025/07/11/h...
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