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John Guzlowski

@jzguzlowski.bsky.social
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Writer. Poetry. Novels. Newspaper columns for oldest Polish newspaper in America!

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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Poor and the Rich The poor sit in the mud eating stones And the Rich? They watch the poor in silence, And with the fork of day And the knife of night, They eat the children Of heaven
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wisdom is the river many drown in
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
POETRY IS Poetry is not not, not knot, not knock knock. Poetry is yes yes, yes yes yes, yes yes yes yes yes!
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 7h
The world  is the smell of flesh and the loveliness  of sun and death  on a spring morning  when you have  nothing left to lose  but wonder
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Poor and the Rich The poor sit in the mud eating stones And the Rich? They watch the poor in silence, And with the fork of day And the knife of night, They eat the children Of heaven
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Jim Young @oyoguhito.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
baitthelines.blogspot.com
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Barbara Harrington @oppaxez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No more workplace noise, no more rushing around. Just a little corner of the world that belongs completely to me enjoying some sweet fruit, playing a few happy chords, and appreciating the simple moments in life
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We walk with death The way the blind Walk with the sun. They feel it Even though They don’t see it.
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Lee Zimmerman @zim2918.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In the mirror My wife sees only her imperfection and all I see is her beauty
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
PTSD We all have some PTSD, some more than others. Have you seen the documentary by the great director john Huston called let there be light? It’s about the psychological effect of war on US soldiers after WWII. free on YouTube. youtu.be/KEqRbYJ2JxQ?...
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"Let There Be Light" (1946) - John Huston's Original, Gritty WW2 documentary
YouTube video by LionHeart FilmWorks
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
PTSD Liz Frisari I like your response. We all have some PTSD, some more than others. Have you seen the documentary by the great director john Huston called let there be light? It’s about the psychological effect of war on US soldiers after WWII. free on YouTube. youtu.be/KEqRbYJ2JxQ?...
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"Let There Be Light" (1946) - John Huston's Original, Gritty WW2 documentary
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Book My Mother Told Me to Write Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded -- her life under the Nazis t.co/5pHcdDRw9V
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Warning Smoking in this photo!
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wisdom is the river many drown in
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Jim Young @oyoguhito.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
there are fish in the lake behind the dam that leaks the waters that drive the turbines of your soul speak fish mouth the damned words the depth of feeling that the reign of tributaries contribute to everything look up there’s no going back this side of a thunderstorm so sit here with me
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
POETRY IS Poetry is not not, not knot, not knock knock. Poetry is yes yes, yes yes yes, yes yes yes yes yes!
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Ray @raymondgibson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Replying to @kashanacauley 
America is The Truman Show for guns. We all run around quickly and radically changing every aspect of life and culture just to make sure the gun never feels a moment of doubt or insecurity.
2:35 PM • Apr 5, 2018
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
There is rain in the mountains in the pine trees in the air Singing in the moonlight the wind's true home Drape your heart in leaves and dream
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every morning is a poem waiting to be written
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In the last 20 years about a half a million Americans were shot to death. We are a sick nation under God with liberty and guns for all.
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John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
GOD, divine insomniac, creates creature after creature, songbird after songbird, waterfall after waterfall just to drown out the sound of Adam's incessant, needy bloody poetry
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Memory is a fish you never catch twice.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hurry up and do it 💥
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Jim Young @oyoguhito.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
chasing ants with a magnifying glass to frazzle them ~ life here is thy sting
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Remember what it was like to be curious as a kid! lightning-and-ashes.blogspot.com/2026/09/reme...
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Remember What It Was Like To Be Curious?
“Remember what it was like to be curious?” I saw that question on a poster in Virginia’s Roanoke Airport this weekend.  The poster was for ...
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Jim Young @oyoguhito.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
spare me the despair i have enough of my own how full can emptiness be tell me ~ go on tell me what works eventually when all has been tried and failed the dam on time’s river is failing and not word can plug despair a deluge of death bed poems fills the piss pot i’m listening now alright
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Jim Young @oyoguhito.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One Stupid Thing After Another I was gonna Write a poem Titled One Stupid Thing After Another But then I realized What everybody Knows already There was no point
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Nirmal @nirmaldevkota.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Nirmal @nirmaldevkota.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ode to My Readers “Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’
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Isla @isla74155345.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Being smart doesn’t mean always being right. Sometimes it means smiling and saying, “Okay, you got me.” #SmartWomen #EmotionalIntelligence #LifeQuotes
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Make your own religion. Start with the puddles of mud You played with when you were a kid. Then make a list of the people you fucked When you were 19. Then complete it while taking all the 20 meds You take every day when you’re fucking 78. You’ll find God or someone else
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Just follow your own religion. Love yourself.” — Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fuck freedom of speech Trump says he’s ‘banning’ CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m with Kennedy
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A smile can make a friend for you out of an enemy. When death stares you in the face, smile at it and it may leave you untouched.”
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Cattle Train to Magdeburg Bob Jensen, a Canadian folk singer and author, did a YouTube video of my poem about my mom being taken to the slave labor camps in Germany. youtu.be/2_GSQyvP1bQ .
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Cattle Train to Madgeburg By John Guzlowski, Performed by Bob Jensen
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Tristan Moss @tristan-moss.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
bound just the dull thud of our boots
on this woodland path 
as if the roots that crisscross it are holding up the roof of a cavern
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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A Review of by John Guzlowski's Echoes of Tattered Tongues
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I will arise and go now, and go to Politicsfree, and a small cabin build there, of clay and waffles made without Wifi or politics on TV
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Is there a God? lightning-and-ashes.blogspot.com/2026/09/is-t...
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Is There a God?
Is There a God? Do I think now that there's a God? I don't know. I do know that the God of religion is freaky and not someone I want to hav...
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Jim Young @oyoguhito.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
reading a biography backwards home becomes a destination diaspora a beginning
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Lee Zimmerman @zim2918.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Love in the afternoon Words by @jzguzlowski.bsky.social
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Paul Theroux believes that the best writers are here to tell people the truth they must hear, but most writers aren’t the best and they feel they’re just hear to mumble to the crowds and wait for applause.
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Why You Should Not Stay Home it’s hard to stay at home and be polite to people and face things, but where’s the book in that?
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Olivia @imoliviaaaaa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
the ANGST in this one. i had to put my phone down and stare at a wall. Cold Water by Alec Nightfall #Booksky #BookSky
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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If a poem attacks you, don't move. Just listen
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