James Ph. Kotsybar
@bardofmars.bsky.social
In print in seven countries, first poet (honored by NASA to be) published to another planet. Once sang William Blake's poetry with Allen Ginsberg. Joseph Gordon-Levitt workshopped one of my poems into a screenplay. Prior nursery owner & orchid judge.
Mem. Gertrude Stein's Salon: mantis.stanford.edu/james-ph-kot... ... the imp in her could offend even Hemingway with one word, the color of banana, he was still more ape for her in admiration than his gorilla machismo could ever admit.
James Ph. Kotsybar — Mantis
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While scrolling through this timeline: www.historic-newspapers.com/blogs/articl... try this soundtrack of the year 1958: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6c1... #MusicMonday
Martin Denny - Goony Birds (1958)
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“Summer's lease hath all too short a date." Sonnet 18 #ShakespeareSunday
Beach Dance Party
ALT: Beach Dance Party
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LITERAL LEGACY #haiku #ShakespeareSunday Heeding what's implied, a poet fights with himself over choice of words.
In Print For The First Time: I speculate on what distinguishes us from the other animals with whom we share the planet. What is our distinctively unique feature as beings? With this haiku, newly published in MICROSCOPIC, I suggest it may not be speech or tool use (or even opposable thumbs).
'No nature poems, please': On how we (don't) talk about nature www.resilience.org/stories/2026...
'No nature poems, please': On how we (don't) talk about nature
It seemed an odd request for a poetry magazine. What stuck with me most, though, was the very notion of a “nature poem.” What is such a thing? How in this age of collapse and dislocation do we define ...
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CLIMATE EXPECTATION #haiku w/ #seasonalword (or phrase) The Sun should warm us, at least until eight o'clock— California's dream. (The "kigo" is implied, yet strongly present.)
3 Supreme Court Justices, 54 Circuit Court judges. and 174 District Court judges were given lifetime appointments by this man, but did even one of them visit while he's been hospitalized for over a month? #ThoughtsAndPrayers #MitchMcConnell #CongressionalHonor #AmericanValues #EarlyHibernation
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... At a meter long, this is what you can make of it: www.google.com/search?q=sal...
New giant salamander species discovered in 3.5-million-year-old fossils
Fossils discovered in Japan more than two decades ago have finally been identified as a new genus and species of giant salamander. Limnospondylus ajimuensis lived around 3.5 million years ago in a war...
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TRUMP FORCE ONE #haiku #DonaldTrump Law, like gravity, can be briefly escaped, yet. in the end, will win.
New Study Shows: Newspapers May Be Key To Longevity.
So beautiful when melody and counter melody are overlaid -- even the meaning of the lyrics harmonize. #MusicChallenge www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbX_...
Pack Up Your Sins And Go To The Devil - Joan Morris and William Bolcom
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DARWIN’S ORCHID AND THE HAWK MOTH OF TOMORROW’S PREDICTION “...Bah!” said his peers, when he told them they’d find it. Generations later, it was found (hah! ) on this orchid, and the proboscis fit! Facts and logic informed his prediction, yet they called him mad for his conviction.
"Observe how system into system runs what other planets circle other suns." ~ Alexander Pope science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
NASA's Webb Discovers Hidden Planet in Famous Star System - NASA Science
Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a giant planet outside our solar system, called an exoplanet, hiding within one of the
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GORER Writers #haiku #HorrorWriters The horror genre grows more graphic, less subtle, psychological.
Marine Cosmos #haiku Aliens thriving yet hidden, undiscovered, in Earth's aqua space. www.yahoo.com/news/science...
Scientists discovered 31 new deep-sea species off Brazil in just two weeks
Meet some of the 31 new species scientists have identified in what could be record time, off the coast of Brazil.
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EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN #haiku Fossils of dead things become luxury items, properly auctioned.
France Today (FranciaOggi.com) Live@radionizza.com · 3w agoUnited States: T-Rex skeleton "Gus" sold for $50.1 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York, becoming the most expensive dinosaur fossil ever recorded. Context: Fossils of this caliber rarely come to market due t ... Fact Check by gemma4:latest https://bsky.app/profile/afp.com/post/3mqmrhiydn32y
BASIC MECHANICS #haiku Think God gives a void? Empty doesn't mean "nothing," in a quantum field. (Ironically, the middle line is not a double negative, and it is grammatically correct.)
Dance By The Light ... @mrwamble.bsky.social #poetry #poetsofbluesky #haiku In Western folklore, full moon's light cased pregnancy -- gimcrack alibi.
RETROPY© #haiku Sometimes particles can go faster than light speed and backwards in time. www.lanl.gov/media/news/0...
"It's clouds' illusion I recall. I really don't know clouds at all." ~ Joni Mitchell boingboing.net/2026/07/08/t... "I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder." ~ Percy Bisshe Shelley
This website turns yesterday's sky into a poetic memory
What Color Was The Sky uses cloud cover, humidity, and sunset timing to write a poetic portrait of your sky.
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