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@johntheobscure.bsky.social
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🇨🇦 Writer, photographer, flaneur, eco-conscious, advocate, doomer.

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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"...hanging like shrines for the sun to beatify..." (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #CanLit #nature #writingcommunity
A high-angle view overlooking a deep blue lake studded with wooded islands under a bright, sunny sky with light clouds. In the foreground, a young oak tree with vivid red autumn leaves catches the sunlight, framed by rocky terrain, pines, and vibrant fall foliage.
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So thrilled to be included in Issue 29 of @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social . Honored to share space with such a fantastic group of writers!
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
So delighted to have a piece included in Issue 10 of @rabblereview.bsky.social alongside so many wonderful writers (not to mention amazing cover art)! You can read the new issue here: f.mtr.cool/gy2u9nh6v4 #poetry #writingcommunity
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RABBLE REVIEW ISSUE No.10 | RABBLE REVIEW
We are excited to bring you a new issue of RABBLE REVIEW later this summer. Our tenth issue is an exploration of this current moment in time. It will also explore the hunger and yearning that is beginning to sprout within ourselves as we respond to this moment..
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"... the wettest leaves catch fire in the dying day..." (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #sunset #trees #canada
Tree branches
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A great blue heron keeping watch while the willows rehearsed the wind. 📸: my own #trees #canada #bird #heron #nature
A great blue heron .
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"...passing gingerly by bare walls, tired furniture.." (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #lightandshadow #plants #canada
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"...summer’s cooling squalls ricochet off Rideau..." (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #river #clouds #storm #canada
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
woodland reliquary 📸: my own #photography #nature #canada
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"why is resilience so quiet?"  (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #flowers #nature #canada
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"... a drop of light shapes the dark"  (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #leaves #trees #shadows #canada
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
"some perspectives of beauty can be wounded" (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #flower #rain #canada
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"...the songs of the Red-winged Blackbird taken for granted..." (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #blackbird #bird #canada
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
"...as jays sash the hot air ..." (from one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #bird #bluejay #Ottawa #nature #canada
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
"All days would be today, I thought but even that day didn’t last." — from "Wild Strawberries" (published in Anomaly f.mtr.cool/pvyphwyoit 📸: my own #poetry #poem #spring #naturephotography
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
A final post for #nationalpoetrymonth : #EmilyDickinson   "A WORD. A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day." -Emily Dickinson #npm2026 #poetrylovers #poem #poetry
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Another post for National Poetry Month:  "The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough,  may last." -- Louise Glück #poetry #nationalpoetrymonth #npm2026 #quotes #quotesoftheday #poetrylovers #LouiseGlück #poem
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
In light of April being poetry month: “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” ― William Wordsworth #poetry #nationalpoetrymonth #npm2026
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
These geopolitical days has me thinking of my poem "Has the West Always Been Uncivilized?" published last year in @poetrysuperhwy.bsky.social last year (f.mtr.cool/jfvfxpfrmw)  #peaceful #coexistence
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
So grateful to be in included in the inaugural issue of "Only Human: English Language Senryu" ! @onlyhumansenryu.bsky.social  Many thanks to AJ Wentz and David Oates for including 2 of my poems. #senryu
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Only Human: English Language Senryu
Read Issue 1.1 Welcome to Only Human Only Human is a new journal of English-language senryu, kyoka, and other Japanese forms with an emphasis on humanity.Our inagural issue is now live! You can read Issue 1.1 here. While you’re visiting, you can also check out our guidelines and meet the editors.
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
"islands: / gardens / of wintry dust" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #life #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #snow
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
"the soft blue light, a shoreline against the sky" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #life #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #mist
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
"a parting from all that accumulated weight embraced through time" (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #winter #mist #BlueskyPoets #Ottawa #nature #writingcommunity #canada
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
"a tender release from expectation like a skin of frost scrapping air" (from on of my untitled poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #winter #frost #BlueskyPoets #Ottawa #nature #writingcommunity #canada
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
"Missteps as I learned to father and to husband" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #life #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #birds
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
"Every wave a new line; every wag a punctuation of joy." (a little more of a tongue-in-cheek piece - Happy Birthday Rosie) 📸: my own #poetry #Atlantic #CapeBreton #Ocean #Dog #dogsofbluesky
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
These words are... insufficient. Miss you dad.  📸: my own #nature #art #photography #naturephotography
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
"We are built of the spaces we no longer fill." (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #solitude
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
"How do you wound a memory? " (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #memory
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
"If silence had texture, it would feel like this" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #solitude #ottawa
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
"I’d be the physics of no edges,  of haze from afar and clarity up close" #poetry #fog #nature #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
“All days would be today, I thought  but even that day didn’t last.” Missing you a little extra today. Happy birthday, Dad. (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #Poetry #WritersOfBluesky #GriefJourney #NaturePhotography
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
"everywhere only white everywhere. The wind your only friend.” (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #solitude
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
"grief settles the way snow does: soft,  and suddenly everywhere" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poetsofbsky #memory #winter #naturephotography #ottawa
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
"...you are walking toward what you cannot see, and you are leaving behind what you cannot save..." (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #naturepoetry #BlueskyPoets #writersofBluesky #writingcommunity #nature
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
"....all memory is a door that only opens in, and no amount of force will breach the lock...." (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #naturepoetry #BlueskyPoets #writersofBluesky #forest #writingcommunity #nature
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
"...I walk, but my shadow walks further, always leading the way ... it is the only thing I have left that exceeds me..." (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #BlueskyPoets #writersofBluesky #fall #writingcommunity #nature
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
"...a river's chorus, lamenting our loneliness. Today, it sings of fire. Soon, of ash..."  (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #fall #autumn  #naturepoetry #BlueskyPoets #writersofBluesky #forest #solitude #writingcommunity #nature
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
"...the old skin, sliced off. New purpose, waiting in the bone...." (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #Autumn #Duality #Fornever #Poetry #Solitude #writingcommunity #fall
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
"...the quiet, soft gloom of it all, and understand how beauty mourns more true than any word..." (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #grief #fieldnotes #poemfragment #naturepoem #BlueskyPoets #NaturePhotography
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
"You said you lived a good life....to love is to accept shadows..." (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #naturepoetry #BlueskyPoets #writersofBluesky #moon #solitude #poemfragment #writingcommunity #night
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"a river of stars  shares the silence  as we flicker on the shore" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #Poetry #NightSky #Photography #Canada #nature #writingcommunity
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
"the sharp edges of shifting winds slice off the old skin" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #PoetryCommunity, #PoetryOfCanada, #WritingCommunity #Poetry #Photography #Canada #nature
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Honoured to have my poem “Abandoned Boyhood” published in Canada Poetry Magazine (@ Wax Poetry & Art). You can read it here: f.mtr.cool/nofiawotav #Poetry #LitMag #PoetryCommunity #CanadianWriters #AmWritingPoetry
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Canada Poetry Magazine - "Abandoned Boyhood" by JM Kehoe
Read the poem, 'Abandoned Boyhood' by JM Kehoe, poet from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Published in Canada Poetry Magazine, part of the Wax Poetry and Art Network.
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
“A lake holds its breath, while the sky rehearses” (Yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) Photo : my own #Poetry #NightSky #Photography #Canada #nature #writingcommunity
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
“Some treasures can’t be carried, only stood upon.…” (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #grief #forDad #fieldnotes #lightandloss #poemfragment #naturepoem #remains #BlueskyPoets #HikingWithDogs #NaturePhotography #WildernessViews #DogsOfBluesky #AdventureDog
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
“…what remains / still leans into the light” —for Dad (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #grief #forDad #fieldnotes #lightandloss #poemfragment #naturepoem #remains #BlueskyPoets
A close-up of wild grasses and tall blades in the foreground, glistening faintly with dew. Behind them, yellow wildflowers blur into soft focus. The sky is streaked with dusk light — lavender, pink, and pale blue — casting a gentle glow over the field. The scene is quiet, tender, and reflective.
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
“Somewhere deeper in, we find the walls we didn’t know we built.” (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #naturepoetry #BlueskyPoets #writersofBluesky #forest #solitude #poemfragment #writingcommunity #nature
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
" Spores drifting — dust becoming life again." (from one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #micropoem #forestpoetry #mushrooms #canada #nature #poetrycommunity
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
"The calm calls: mirrored fog, all thoughts unfinished." (from my untitled poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #dock #mist #BlueskyPoets #OttawaPoet #nature #writingcommunity #canada
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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"The places where shadows never stop nestling,” (from a recent poem I am still working on.) 📸: my own #poetry #blueskypoets #canlit #moonlight #naturepoetry #poetsofbluesky #originalpoetry #landscapephotography #selfshot #poetryandphotography #moon #nature
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