What’s the most appetizing double spondee you can think of. Mine’s footlong hot dog.
D. A. Powell@dapowell.bsky.social · 7h agoWhat's the most appetizing double spondee you can think of. Mine's flapjack shortstack.
opening the next Dune trilogy sandworms return to the ocean after millions of years on land
Dave Ashley@daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 2d ago#AugustAnarchy time to write any old stuff Your prompt is
#PoemsAloud #Light I wrote this poem for a prompt to use the word light. My first thought was how many Jesuses does it take to screw a lightbulb. Although the text is always in the Description on my videos, I’ll comment with a printout. youtu.be/KhgJRkscvi0?...
John Chmura reads How Many Jesus
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So, despite the shared hometown, the man's name wasn't Bruce Springsteen, it was Philip Freneau, "The Poet of the American Revolution." Celebrated for a while after Independence, then largely forgotten. I write a bit about him, and make a try at performing part of his civic warning poem with music.
From Philip Freneau’s “Reflections” or Darkness on the Edge of Town
It’s winter, outside of Freehold New Jersey. An old man is walking home. He’s not going to make it. Darkness, confusion from old age or infirmity, perhaps drink – I don’t know, I wasn’t there, but …
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I’m sorry, I’m not out to monopolize the #PoemsAbout #LastTrain #PoemsAloud @thebrokenspine.co.uk weekend. This should be the last poem shared from my dustbin. youtu.be/hgrvn31HDNc?...
John Chmura reads Train Wrecks and Toilet Tomes
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#PoemsAbout #LastTrain #PoemsAloud @thebrokenspine.co.uk The pine barrens have a lot of ghost towns and train tracks to nowhere, so ghost trains are easy to imagine. Yes, they did execute people at the Mount Holly Jail, thus the double meaning of hanging at the end. youtu.be/OvsGvnbXxyQ?...
John Chmura reads Night Train
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#haikusaturday #haiku #PoemsAbout #LastTrain @thebrokenspine.co.uk waiting for no train beside the rails pitch pines
#PoemsAbout #PoemsAloud #LastTrain @thebrokenspine.co.uk I have a bunch of train poems, several of which I would like to share to supplement the new poem I earlier today. This is a video I recorded four years ago. youtu.be/xTCDLn2CAhI?...
John Chmura reads The Nowhere Special
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#PoemsAbout #LastTrain @thebrokenspine.co.uk I am giving this poem a 🏅 for having too many great phrases and lines to single one out. I think we can all agree that @bundtkake.bsky.social gave us a masterclass today!
Ash & Ink@bundtkake.bsky.social · 5d ago#poemsabout #thelasttrain #poetry #blueskypoets @thebrokenspine.co.uk The world is different in a brown liquor haze and signal digit hours. Here is a #poem...
![DISJUNCTION
they took the train away
and they tore the lonely station down
left the barefoot pineys
with no way to get outta this town
So I’m talking about the old train station by where I walk the dog, that there’s only a sign now and a vinyl fence in front of an overgrown embankment, and that there used to be a turntable a few yards back because three rail lines met there, and my wife says I’m sorry but I just don’t give a shit.
the boiler is hissing the steam is nice and hot
the blue comet’s departing at nine on the dot
gals in summer dresses guys in linen suits
headed for the boardwalk on the classiest of routes
So we’re on our way to WaWa and my son goes what was all that about with Mom and I’m like I’m looking up shit for the prompt, last train. And then I tell him how my grandfather operated the Public Service trolley from the Hub City to Perth Amboy when he was still a teen. I wish he was still alive so I could ask him about it now. I wish he had told me stories when I was a kid. All I have is an odd quote in a retirement program I found at my mom’s that says, “My greatest thrill (Keasby [sic] Trestle) You ask me how I felt when the trolley went off the track.” I don’t even know who the “You” was, much less the how why and when.
the seriouser I study to me it starts to seem
the world is just a fat man in a trolley problem meme
I’m out of joy I can’t employ anything uplifting
the more I learn the more I turn to multitrack drifting
So I tell my son I looked up the Keasbey Trestle and didn’t see anything about trolleys, but the deadliest US train wreck in the last hundred years did happen in Keasbey when “The Broker” commuter train derailed on a temporary wooden trestle built to accommodate New Jersey Turnpike laborers working on the main line. If my Pop Pop conflated the train and the trolley I wonder why his most thrilling memory would be something he wasn’t involved in and my son says probably because every other workday was boring. Yeah I laughed it p…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xdsafbyenhkdiwry6znl7bki/bafkreig3schdb5ysatvjlv57dxfasatiejvfsfwivc3zcvhay23hx3im3u)
This is so good!!!
j r@osageorange.bsky.social · 5d agoGreetings, a piece inspired in part by #ChristmasInJuly though something of a lead-in. Some technical issues while traveling but constructive criticism is always welcome - feel free to express what you do/don’t like. 🙏🏻 #PoemsAbout #LastTrain @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
You must read Frank’s essay on this post!!!
Frank Hudson@frankhudson.bsky.social · 5d agoA second voice from the ancestors for today’s #PoemsAbout @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk This one by a poet raised by the widow of man from John Brown’s raid, Langston Hughes. The quietest #LastTrain poem ever? Like my other ancestor poem today, I add a long musical coda to the poem.
Another #PoemsAbout and #PoemsAloud tour de force from @frankhudson.bsky.social for #LastTrain Educating and entertaining us!!!
Frank Hudson@frankhudson.bsky.social · 5d agoHere are two voices of the ancestors combined with music I made for today’s #PoemsAbout #LastTrain The first, the son of a Swedish immigrant railroad mechanic Carl Sandburg’s poem “Limited.” In the essay presenting it I write of how Modernist poets all seemed to have a train poem in them.
when they say haiku but they really mean senryu is that DEI In other words, can someone explain to me how the Trump administration uses DEI as an excuse for everything? Now they are defunding bike lanes for being DEI when we all know it’s because Biden rode bikes and Trump got the 🐦 from a cyclist.
I know it’s a little early to wait by the tracks for the #PoemsAbout train to arrive. @throwawayreg.bsky.social hasn’t even posted his weekly picture to get us psyched…
The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)@thebrokenspine.co.uk · 6d agoTomorrow: #PoemsAbout #LastTrain. Write the moment before the doors close. The thing left unsaid. The person left behind. Theme opens tomorrow. Use Alt Text.
Had a great time with @mrchrisrockwell.bsky.social at the Union Market in Tuckerton Seaport on Sunday. I wrote this while drinking tea and studying the art on the wall, then performed it surrounded by the art and artists that inspired it. youtu.be/tstsCSBMzN8?...
John Chmura reads Gia Don’t Rush the Matcha
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I don’t follow daily haiku prompts but after seeing a number of glade poems today I couldn’t resist. all gussied up on the bus to bingo smelling like Glade #dailyhaikuprompt #glade #haiku
#PoemsAbout going back to #BonesofTrust A month ago I mentioned that this poem was loosely based on the captain’s house at Tuckerton Seaport, but I didn’t have a photo at the time. It’s so sad. When I wrote the poem there was a tea house there. Now it is totally vacant.
John Chmura@johnchmura.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy poem, Bones of Trust, is on p. 32 of this beautiful magazine, free online and in hardcopy at the generous sponsors’ locations. Echoes of LBI has become a yearly staple on Long Beach Island, New Jersey. #PoemsAbout folk might remember the #BonesOfTrust prompt. issuu.com/echoesoflbi/...
I’ll be reading at Tuckerton Seaport in a few hours. Must remember to take a photo of the captain’s house and graveyard on which I based a poem that I posted a month ago.
after the lawn guy robin feeds her young a poisoned insect #haiku #haikusaturday #bird
@poetry-with-hart.bsky.social is at her very best in this mixed form poem.
Lin Hart@poetry-with-hart.bsky.social · 2w agoThis took an longer than intended to wrestle into the shortest prose needed, to reveal the narrative of epiphany in the haikus. I'd say enjoy but... experience is more accurate. CW: self harm @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #ampersandafterdark #poemsabout #badhabits #haibun #poetry
#PoemsAbout #BadHabits @brendafromia.bsky.social certainly did not procrastinate at all in this revision!!’
Brenda Blue@brendafromia.bsky.social · 2w agoYep - I like this version better. Thanks again. I always appreciate your feedback. 👍
Don’t you love a poet who is always trying something different?
Avery Lark ✨@thebisylarke.bsky.social · 2w agosomething a little different this week for #PoemsAbout #BadHabits @thebrokenspine.co.uk I started writing this while seeing The End of Evangelion in theaters this week. This is partly an ekphrastic illustration of the film and partly a personal mirror poem about its parallels to my life.
![LOVE IS DESTRUCTIVE.
[an ekphrasis of Evangelion]
i. BIRTH / air
the only survival i can grasp is a knife
the only thing a hedgehog can do is pierce
the only thing a human can do is
hate/hurt/hide
mother, even if all you know
how to do is smother
i know now you meant to protect me from
white winged vultures circling the sun
devouring me, cutting the cord
only a divine spear could spend
my berserker guts
this biting blood kiss
humanity’s end on its humble cross, praying
to return to the womb. this way, i would
have never met you. you wanted a doll,
inert stuffing made in your image, but
imperfect me, your uncanny reflection
i’m all you’ve got left.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ztm6jzu5fjnxll3m65lsuerv/bafkreif5ebl7jxa5ae4mzwbud747qvhuyanefz7ji2v2ykv4osz32qihvy)
