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Oh yeah, a big shout out to #PoemsAbout poet, @vientoverde.bsky.social, who made frogpondfriday on FB. I am also in issue 49.2!!! I hope they post my ku someday! I think I sense some #rot in there, too!!!

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#SomethingEveryday #Smile @sonnetsmith.bsky.social i like to say i’m smiling on the inside when it’s probably more of a sneer when i was working people got used to me answering on the third ring those in the know knew i was doing thich nhat hanh’s telephone meditation now i let it go to voicemail

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I meant “strands” not “stands”

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#AcrosticOctober #GOLDEN @daveashleypoet.bsky.social gossamer stands dew laden orb weavers have gifted after late night carousing dinner dates and dancing ephemeral daydream catchers naturally gilt

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I am totally awed by the craft in Jen’s poem this week.

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John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A hook is one thing, but it takes a fine poet to carry through without missing a beat.

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#SomethingEveryday #NationalPoetryDay @sonnetsmith.bsky.social I could never pick my favorite poem, but I am sharing Cuttings, by Theodore Roethke, as well as my poem, Still Life Lady’s Slipper and Glass, from my book, 539. It is one of several poems I have written for my friend who died in 1986.

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John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This photo from 16 years ago came up in my FB memories today. My little Shirley was the best partner in crime, and when she rode shotgun it was always cheek to cheek. I loved her so much…

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John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#AcrosticOctober #Pumpkin @daveashleypoet.bsky.social Pet names for those under the thrall of moonlight and music playful pretty shorthands for love kind of irk me so can you tell I never was anyone’s Nooky Poo?

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Here are some related photos of the old cranberry sorting and packing building and the once again wild cranberry bogs.

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John Chmura reads Return to Double Trouble

#PoemsAloud #NewJersey #Pines #DoubleTrouble #Cranberries Some may know my poem, Double Trouble. It was mainly about the abandoned buildings. I’m also interested in how the bogs haven’t been cultivated since around 2010. youtu.be/GHtj7gwd9Aw?...

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YouTube video by John Chmura

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#SomethingEveryday #Thunderbirds @sonnetsmith.bsky.social a lifetime before super mario nation there was supermarionation i never saw the thunderbirds but i really wanted to live in the futuristic black world of fireball xl5 so jealous of steve zodiak when he flew hover bikes with doctor venus

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John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#SillySeptember #Xyrastic @daveashleypoet.bsky.social they needed an auctioneer to read the side effects for Xyrastic but even that left no time to mention what it supposedly cures i wasn’t very concerned about the 4 hr erection but the punning in church was utter nunsense

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#SomethingEveryday #Geese @sonnetsmith.bsky.social what a fucking wreck I worked through college at a drug store the owner incessantly burped and farted one pharmacist thought it was fun to goose the teenage workers was it ok since he grabbed boys and girls I got my friend a job he stole 500 valium

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John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#SillySeptember #palceous @daveashleypoet.bsky.social fleeing the sea decorum to the wind i ripped off my trunks and ran to the shower but alas my unmentionables were consumed by the most palceous ulcers where stringy tentacles still clung from dying skin

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John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah, those loxious bagels are to die for…

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John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#SomethingEveryday #Rabies #FuckTrump @sonnetsmith.bsky.social rabies would be cuter if it meant baby bunnies if you see a raccoon in the daytime they say it could be rabid if you see an orange raccoon it is definitely rabid even with the press pool 🎤 turned off his very existence is a turn off

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John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#SillySeptember #loxious @daveashleypoet.bsky.social i know it’s a schlep but trust me you’d be meshuga to go anywhere else for a bialy with a schmear and the cat’s pajamas a loxious bagel stacked with smoky goodness

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John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#SomethingEveryday #waters @sonnetsmith.bsky.social i hate those dumb commercials where a clumsy kid or dopey dad knocks over a glass and a slo-mo voiceover goes NOOOOO! then after that pseudo-emergency a hand model calmly wipes up the spill with one paper towel in real life i’d be like FUUUUUCK!

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John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#SillySeptember #senomistics @daveashleypoet.bsky.social it drains endowments and boggles my foggy mind while the undergrads are studying senomistics the grads are on to neo-senomistics and the post-docs are writing post-senomistic tomes meanwhile 3 year olds are solving rubik’s cubes in 3 seconds

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If this poem is rough, I don’t wanna be smooth!!!

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I know this was silly, but I think I now know where the & thing came from. My Kindle version of The Doll, by Bołeslaw Prus, replaces every ‘ and “ with funky characters. A 900 page slog, but I did read it!!! 🏋️

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#SillySeptember #tritzy @daveashleypoet.bsky.social this president is totally on the fritz covered in gold leaf putting on the ritz his tone deaf wife is always just as fritzy stilettos at disasters looking kinda tritzy pawing @ p—y with his grubby mitts leaving poopy puddles everywhere he sits

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Five songs you were obsessed with from five different stages of your life. 1. Aqualung, Jethro Tull 2. The Cutter, Echo and the Bunnymen 3. She Sells Sanctuary, The Cult 4) 74/75, The Connells 5) Living in Colour, Frightened Rabbit

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#SomethingEveryday #Dream @sonnetsmith.bsky.social when I dreamed I loved to fly over my old paper routes or Gumby glide across town for cloud fluffy pancakes and coffee now with a few extra pounds and a flaccid uvula my wife is usually jabbing my kidneys before I get my snoring ass off the ground

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What beautiful feelings. PoemsAbout Friday magic!!!

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#SillySeptember #pranchet @daveashleypoet.bsky.social at dinner with andre we ordered pranchet but i said pranchit and he said pranchay his was served on an artsy dish removing the lid the steam itself from the demiglaze was heavenly mine came on a paper plate and a catsup bottle with a gooey cap

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#PoemsAbout #DesdLetters @thebrokenspine.co.uk An actual Facebook post from Bu Shi from 2015: once we deciphered messages in missing words we were kings and queens

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