#Tunesday (revised) Somewhere Under your skin Running through blood You're alive m.youtube.com/watch?v=0D8I...
Palace - Veins
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A Spanish-language contribution (with English translation) for this week's #PoemsAbout theme #Strays @thebrokenspine.co.uk Inspired by a passing encounter years ago in Cartagena, Colombia - nicknamed “La Heroica” and site of what is widely regarded as the British Empire’s greatest naval disaster.
Greetings, a contribution for this week's #PoemsAbout theme #FaultLines - thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk for hosting #poetry
Super-late for last week’s #PoemsAbout #DeepCuts prompt but here’s another #UnintentionalTanka stolen from Jack Kerouac’s On The Road 🐸 #Poetry @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk
Greetings, and a happy Friday to everyone. For #PoemsAbout #DeepCuts thought I might share a piece titled “bloodworks” published last spring with @rfpress.bsky.social Many thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk roifaineantarchive.wixsite.com/rf-arc-hive/...
"bloodworks" by J. R. Wilkerson
how does it look,from a distanceas i flail at thisnuisance of mosquitosfrom my car to the clinic,as they wave me onat the front deskto the jungle roomyou see,they know me herebut this ain’t gracelandt...
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Having a little fun with #PoemsAbout #MainStage prompt. When the world’s not making sense I like to apply classic American literature to Japanese-style poetry. A piece stolen from East of Eden 🐸 #UnintentionalTanka #SteinbeckSenryu #Poetry @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk
A happy Friday to everyone. I might have posted a rough version of this piece months ago on a different prompt, am dragging the ukulele player back out for #PoemsAbout #MainStage #Poetry Many thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk
(waving at crane operator wearing a Prolonging The Magic t-shirt) #Cake
Delighted that my poem “I had a” is published in Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social alongside an excellent group of poets and artists. Thanks to the amazing head editor Leia Butler @leiabutler.bsky.social & editor Lowena Olver. A draft appeared on #poemsabout #poetrycommunity #Oulens …
I had a by C. Oulens — Full House Literary
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Big thanks 🙏🏻 to the editors @rfpress.bsky.social for giving “wizards” a home for Issue 98 ✨
Roi Fainéant Press SUBS ARE OPEN, BAYBEE!@rfpress.bsky.social · 2mo agoWelcome to this last week of July and the poetry party that begins our 98th edition! "come along fellow wizards" by @osageorange.bsky.social is out running wild in the world now, and you can read it here! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/come-al...
AYO! Guess what day it is? We're going back to a simpler time. Tell the uncle who wears his flip phone in a belt holster. www.roifaineantpress.com/blog #WritingCommunity
Today’s poetry jam features the anaphoric poem, “come along fellow wizards” by J. R. Wilkerson @osageorange.bsky.social inspired by a tour on The Potter Trail in Edinburgh. It’s lovely, it’s nostalgic, it’s joyful and you can read it on Sunday 7/26.
Very pleased to be a contributor to the latest edition of The Twin Bill with my poem “ballad of the saint louis browns,” something of an ode to my father’s first baseball love. thetwinbill.com
The Twin Bill The Twin Bill
Baseball lit!
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To a slightly lesser extent, Larry Mullen’s drum kit from the Rattle and Hum sessions at Sun Studio - no offense Larry we still love ya #sunstudio #u2
Oh hey just the original Shure Unidyne 55 at Sun Studio that Elvis recorded “That’s All Right” on in addition to his earliest recordings - likewise used by Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Car Perkins, etc. but nothin’ to see here move along
Dropping by the Carnegie MOA and something tells me I need to get back to work
Greetings, some early-April absurdity for #fragmentsfriday. Many thanks to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
Enjoying the new #RitesandTrials anthology from @thebrokenspine.co.uk and I’m chuffed to have a lil piece here from my wayward youth. So many great writers here!.
This just in: virtual serf throws a tomato (thanks to @dadakuku.bsky.social)
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Life is short and weird, poetry should be too 🙃 EIC: petrock.bsky.social Submit at dadakuku.com
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dadakuku@dadakuku.bsky.social · 7mo agoA new verse from returning contributor J. R. Wilkerson: 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 dashing princes, as it were some royal fuckup — J. R. Wilkerson
A new verse from returning contributor J. R. Wilkerson: 𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗵 got my spine got these thumbs got this family phone plan — J. R. Wilkerson
orange crutch
got my spinegot these thumbsgot this family phone plan — J. R. Wilkerson
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