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Someone Somewhere

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"I rhyme / To see myself, to set the darkness echoing." - Seamus Heaney, in Personal Helicon Let love, empathy, kindness guide everything we do. ...let's stop this divisive madness shredding our country apart. #StrongerTogether

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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
we are all exhausted and tired... i'm staying away from bluesky for mental sanity! I do peruse news and know whats going on but we slid really fast into fascism. each day there is something new that reminds me of this! Lawmakers and even many judges have failed us. image: recent. New Yorker 2025
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Poem: Uncertainty Principle at Dawn Catherine Barnett, in her 3rd book of poetry, Human Hours (2018)
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
No hope with the way Republicans are standing by the criminals/dictators/fascists. www.axios.com/2025/04/29/p...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
What a difference a year makes, huh! Last Year...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
But of course, Biden is to blame for effects of Trump's actions of the last 100 days and the mayhem he has caused! More give Trump an F than any other grade for first 100 days, poll finds www.npr.org/2025/04/29/n... Reality and what Trump and his administration say disconnected long time ago!
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The third James Bond novel was published this day in 1955. The plot: villain is a rocket-building technocrat who is actually a secret Nazi working for the Russians. Take a bow, Ian Fleming, Nostradamus of our day!😜😂 Via www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolC...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Trump bragging about how market showed best ever returns under any president ever under him in 2016-20 is false too but his markets will boom in trump 2.0 talk yesterday rings hollow too. Truth: 👇from 3 weeks ago. It's been dropping like a lead ball further since! www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
"An aching eye seeing through pain, a stewing pot of poison, I was both. Reaching for the antidote, I touched compassion. I touched mercy." Poetry by Rumi, translated by Haleh Liza Gafori 🎧 now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l... open.spotify.com/episode/0ZrE...
I saw myself sharp as a thorn.
I fled to the softness of petals.

I saw myself sour as vinegar.
I mixed myself with sugar.

An aching eye seeing through pain,
a stewing pot of poison,
I was both.

Reaching for the antidote,
I touched compassion.
I touched mercy.

Rumi
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, There is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, The world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other Doesn't make any sense. - Rumi from The Essential Rumi, 1995, translations by Barks et al
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
No visitor but since the regime change in Jan, this 👇 is how I have been feeling. .. from Overstaying, by Ariane Koch, p73 www.nyrb.com/products/ove...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Poem: Self-portrait as Etioly, by I. S. Jones, American / Nigerian poet and senior editor for Poetry Northwest where she runs her column, The Legacy Suite, a three-part interview documenting the journey of writers publishing their debut poetry collections. pleiadesmag.com/the-magic-of...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
🎨 Umar Defeats a Dragon, from the Hamzanama, an illustrated copy of the Persian epic of Amir Hamza, the uncle of the prophet Muhammad - put together between 1562-1577, under the patronage of Mughal emperor Akbar & the leadership of above-mentioned Mir Sayyid Ali. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_H...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Self-portrait by Mir Sayyid Ali, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1550 Mir Sayyid Ali, miniature artist from Tabriz, Iran (Safavid Empire), later an artist at the court of the Mughal emperor, Akbar. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Say...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
🎨 Nighttime in a City, probably a folio from an illustrated manuscript, c. 1540, Attributed to Mir Sayyid Ali, miniature artist from Tabriz, Iran (Safavid Empire), later an artist at the court of the Mughal emperor, Akbar. Medium: opaque watercolor, gold and silver on paper hvrd.art/o/303390
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
"I have built a high palace that will never disappear. No rain, no wind will destroy it." - Ferdowsi, Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnameh 🎧 Shahnameh www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... 🎧 Ferdowsi: How One Poet Saved Persian Civilisation m.youtube.com/watch?v=2hTN...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Was going to start Izumi Suzuki's novel, Set My Heart On Fire, that I had picked up at the library earlier in March but I'm so easily distracted & ended up reading about some other books (mentioned in aforementioned podcast) this evening. So it goes.. Review chireviewofbooks.com/2024/11/13/t...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Well... Can someone fact check this data/graph. www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Poem: Silenced, by Tara Bray, a Michigan-based poet www.terrain.org/2006/poetry/...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
loved the ending :) Be the Dog, prose-poem by Shane Kowalski, a PA-baed writer and author of the story collection Small Moods (Future Tense Books). poems.com/poem/be-the-...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Ok...not posting anything more about politics after this. Even God rested on a Sunday, they say! :) So, some art and poetry and music to fill our feeds for the rest of today. Let me start with this poem for now. A Certain Song, by Ko Un (from The Three Way Tavern) www.ucpress.edu/books/the-th...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
POEM: Knowledge, by Louise Bogan
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Here's a poem by Danusha Laméris whose poem Small Kindnesses is very popular (image below) Fictional Characters by Danusha Laméris wordsfortheyear.com/2015/07/18/f...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
And really - look at this graph! Dismal outlook! "The big news in the UMich data was not inflation expectations. Look at what people are saying about the jobs market! Expected change in unemployment worst since the 2008 recession...." Consumers see labor market collapsing x.com/RenMacLLC/st...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Musk/Trump plan to hurt 99%+ of us. As billionaires, they don't need Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. They need the Trump tax cuts for the mega-rich. It's a transfer of wealth, once again, from the rich to the poor. Excerpt below from Paul Krugman post: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-clean-...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Contribution to the US trade deficit, by country (2024) So wonder why Trump is so obsessed with Canada. Just a fragile male ego slight left over from term1, angst over the alpha-ness of Trudeau that he cannot deal with? Remember the shake hand in term1. That's one theory. What else is going on?
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
At what point on its slide down to <$100, possibly $50,* does that Muskrat bail on DOGE & do his job as CEO of Tesla? Maybe he read the tea-leaves about BYD/Geely & gave up on TSLA; focus now only on SpaceX? *~ 1/3rd of Musk's net worth comes from Tesla stock 📷: TSLA YTD & 1year, as of Mar132025
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
My 71st Year, by Walt Whitman, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University. Read about it here: slate.com/human-intere...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
June 25, 2023: IR image of Saturn taken by the James Webb Space Telescope! Version from the Internet. Original post here webbtelescope.org/contents/med...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Books for March (till April 9): Nightstand excesses......3/3 These 4 books of poems I will definitely read this month. I've posted about Mosab Abu Toha as well as Jorie Graham's To 2040 recently; but I didn't go looking for them. They found me at the library yesterday and I was receptive.
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Books for March (till April 9): Nightstand excesses, thanks to the largesse of public library system of the US. ...2/3 I always find books serendipitously, pick up a dozen on impulse, peruse a few, return others without reading. How many of these slim interesting novels will I read this month?
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Books for March (till April 9): Nightstand excesses, thanks to the largesse of public library system of the US. ...1/3 First six have been checked out already for a few weeks; only have read a few essays from Glück's book so far, a few Hirshfield poems, 20 pages of the Quirke mystery by Banville.
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Blue, a poem by Joy Sullivan, from her new collection Instructions for Traveling West www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734503... Joy Sullivan is a poet and community builder and the founder of the Sustenance Writing Community, home to 200 poets and ... A conversation: youtu.be/hNTOOeLEaqU?...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Poem by Jonathan Kinsman (he/him), a transmasculine poet and a BBC Edinburgh Fringe Slam finalist. His debut pamphlet, &, published in 2017. His second, witness, released in 2020. Genderfux, co-authored with Jem Henderson & JP Seabright is out now. www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/some-po...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Refreshing walk to the library; returned 2, picked up 7*! Have 14 books on my nightstand now; all set for next 5 weeks. *Including these 3 by @joriegraham.bsky.social Need to get back to her conversation with David Naimon which I started last weekend; 2/3 hours left. tinhouse.com/podcast/jori...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Not a federal employee but hey Muskrat, here's 5 things many of us not taking down the government did last week. 1. Lent a Hand 2. Listened Actively 3. Promoted Open-Mindedness 4. Showed empathy 5. Spread Kindness What did you do, Muskrat, other than lose a few billions of your ginormous assets?
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"I stood perfectly still and was a flower" Nikki Giovanni - Winter Poem poetrysociety.org/poetry-in-mo... “The flower is not a flower, it is a state of mind" Cecilia Vicuña, quoting a Yuome saying in her chat with Naimon tinhouse.com/podcast/ceci... I like finding intersections in things I consume
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This is a beautiful love poem by Li-Young Lee which I had posted in Dec24 on Facebook before leaving for Bluesky in January this year. I am thinking today of the responsibility of keeping our democracy, our communities, our most marginalized and vulnerable, safe as a "joint and fragile keeping".
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I dont have the full poem but Patrycja Humienik is an amazing upcoming poet! "If I had to, I might hide my soul in the movement. But I don't have a say. What does a soul hide from anyway? Is there a saint who hid from God? And why shouldn't every soul be holy?" www.patrycjasara.com/poetry-1
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"Singing and singing, Out of the lips of silence, Out of the earthy dusk." - Willa Cather, in her poem Prairie Spring poets.org/poem/prairie...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Poem: Carrying Our Words, by Ofelia Zepeda original in the O’odham language at the link. poets.org/poem/carryin... Ofelia Zepeda, a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation of southwestern Arizona, was born in Arizona in 1952. She received a BA, an MA, and a PhD from the University of Arizona.
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Here's a poem I found today, David @davidnaimon.bsky.social having heard your lovely conversation with Cecilia Vicuña about Deer Book just yesterday. Wondering how she would respond to this. :) Anne Carson - Short Talk on Vicuñas (Your conversation is going to stay with me a long time..)
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Oh...I didn't know Anne Carson wrote such beautiful love poems. "Give me a world, you have taken the world I was." O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love, by Anne Carson poets.org/poem/o-small...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Mood. (not the part about His love as I'm an atheist but everything else.) Poem: Anne Carson - God’s Beloveds Remain True
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
😢 Will stop reading this long book excerpt here, not because I'm not interested in it but my flu - headache - is on the rise again. Been in bed for 2 full days and still feeling miserable. Need to shut eye and rest..
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This rings so true in today's America
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This! Last line got cut off ...para ends "Feudalism isn’t just a metaphor. It’s the operating system for the present."
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Obit By Mosab Abu Toha November 6, 2023 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
My moment of zen for all those fighting the good fight. Thank you.
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I posted earlier about .. 1) Jane Kenyon’s Peonies www.commonwealmagazine.org/jane-kenyon%... 2) Jane Kenyon reflects on the work and waiting for a week, a day, an hour of glorious excess when peonies bloom newengland.com/living/garde... Poem: Jane Kenyon - Peonies at Dusk
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
One of the essays Donald Hall wrote remembering Jane Kenyon, Oct 2005 www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi... And the poem below, Weeds and Peonies, by Hall from Without (1998-99)
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