Today's #poetry reading video is "parallelogramic" from "Banana Magnet", which is available as a free pdf at 226press.com. vimeo.com/488601305

The world was born before eyes and sufficient to itself. The heartbreaking beauty will remain when there is no heart left to break for it. -Robinson Jeffers

In the world we keep ourselves small, but in our own little space, we are immense as a universe & earth so huge as to contain us still, not nearly vast enough to hold our hearts & though your body and mine, exist with brief fragility, when woven together, we spell eternity. #poem #poetry

My college sanctioned me when I wrote a column in the student newspaper on BDSM but I got off with just a slap on the wrist.

Poem for your St. Patrick's Day ☘️ ~Joy Harjo The Poem I Just Wrote —The poem I just wrote is not real. And neither is the black horse who is grazing on my belly. —And neither are the ghosts of old lovers who smile at me from the jukebox.

let's step outside and scream, "what's goin on!" about it

Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist. It’s an event that the Vatican, and the pope, are treating with caution.

I can’t control who I dream about, but it wasn’t you. Maybe if you tried harder, but I think it means that my subconscious mind doesn’t consider you. #poetry

Today's #poetry reading video is "episodic equinox" from "Banana Magnet", which is available as a free pdf at 226press.com. vimeo.com/488556895

This pox of "metaphor-challenged people who act as if skepticism is all that is needed to acquire knowledge, which allows them to circumvent the requirement to learn by simply demanding the right to ignore truth." But ignorance doesn't make you an expert. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...

CONAN: “For the first time since 2012 no British people are nominated for Best actor or best Actress… a British spokesperson commented, ‘Yeah, well, at least we arrest our pedophiles.’" #Oscars

#Oscars …. lmfao… brilliant

So evil it is hard to wrap your mind around it all.

biting into another sweet roll rushing home there's church at 11a #tanka

Wind-chimes and train horns Bluejays and robins — morning mist meets dawn on wings of song #poetry #Spiritchat #relationships

#AmpersandAfterDark /:\ Challenge 09 for March 15, 2026 Your piece must include three solutions. But, none of them may fully solve the problem. #writingprompt #poetryprompt #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #writing #5amwritersclub #poetry #creativewriting

a billion is 1000 millions i muse as i smear a packet of peanut butter i stole from denny's onto a piece of torn cardboard

..i'm listening to new music.. fueling a melody inside.. i think finding a way.. away from what we knew forever.. even on a mind level.. dare to love self enough.. is beautiful.. so i hope you go.. just "go left for awhile".. don't tell anyone.. renew alive.. i really do.. ©️dww

I see a war for oil as the Revenge of the Dinosaurs.

"The Making of Strudel" (with apologies to Henry Reed) #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #PoetsOfDoom @jenthorne.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social

🌸 I’ve smelled the sweetest plum blossoms swirling about forgive me, the wind #haiku #senryu #spring #williamcarloswilliams

republicans are in charge of everything and they are getting everything theyve ever wanted and doing everything theyve ever wanted and the world is on fire and the global world order is collapsing. is there a correlation? who can say

"AI is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world" www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Today was the day they julienned Caesar.

shoes on my feet why not take them off & feel the earth; the beLoved while it is still allowed while it is still available

heading home frequently laughing to myself this world continues to turn #tanka

Thank you @jenthorne.bsky.social Writing this was a lot more fun than I expected! #PoetsOfDoom @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social @daveashleypoet.bsky.social Wither the Hairtongs? I have seen them not, #poetry #blueskypoet #poem #sonnet #comedy #poetrycommunity

Two Poems by George Franklin in ONE ART: a journal of poetry oneartpoetry.com/2026/03/15/t...

Good morning and many thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk for your intriguing #PoemsAbout prompt #BeingWatched. This isn't new but I hope it fits the bill. Looking forward to reading everyone else's contributions #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

blushing snow, blossoms drift like a pink tide, pale velvet breaking against the sky, drowning the grass in spring— a beautiful, brief unravelling, a soft breath before the fall: life in a moment. #writing #poetry #blossom #bloom

Today's #poetry reading video is "shriner fantasy" from "Banana Magnet", which is available as a free pdf at 226press.com. vimeo.com/488555919

welcome to America, where antifa — which is short for anti-fascist — has been designated as a domestic terrorist organization, while the GOP, NRA, and the KKK have not

“Section 14 of the Press Law ordered editors ‘to keep out of the newspapers anything which…tends to weaken the strength of the German Reich, outwardly or inwardly.’” - William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 405

Zolos reawaken the greatest show on dirt. ATL 3-1 PHL. Anello with the late lone #DOOP.

The Union have started a MLS season with four straight losses for the first time in their history.

This is probably a column, but as journalists, we're told that context matters. So the Union moves of the offseason, in isolation, were fine. Together, in context, seem like at the very least to have had a prohibitive waiting period to work out that might cost them this year.

Does the New York/New Jersey NWSL team have a different name in the DC universe?

It's #DOOP Day in Atlanta: black and red vs. blue and gold, Five Stripes vs. Zolos, United 2 of 3 vs. your Philadelphia Union. 3 pm on Fox and AppleTV. Everybody tie your shoes.

U.S. hoteliers were promised a World Cup boost, but lagging bookings less than three months ahead of the tournament are giving the industry the yips.

My humanity is the one thing they cannot take from me through legislation, through force, through fear. It belongs to me. And I will not surrender it, not even to my own rage, not even in the name of the people we have lost. I will not let them take that too.

Today's #poetry reading video is "Pride Preposition" from "Banana Magnet", which is available as a free pdf at 226press.com. vimeo.com/488555234

I know, my friend, that it is disheartening to remember that six years later Covid is still here, but know, my friend that it is heartening to remember that six years later you are still here too.

The Iranian football association has responded on social media, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump posted that Iran's participation would not be "appropriate ... for their own life and safety" amid the countries' ongoing war.

In the 1920s, there was an enormous Klan-aligned caucus in the House of Representatives that passed an immigration restriction bill designed to keep out Catholics and Jews because they supposedly posed an existential threat to American civilization. 100 years later, here we are.

𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚊 𝚍𝚘𝚘𝚛𝚠𝚊𝚢, 𝚟𝚊𝚜𝚝, 𝚋𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚑𝚒𝚍𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝚜𝚢𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚛𝚢.. 𝙽𝚞𝚍𝚐𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚜 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗— 𝙰𝚕𝚕 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚍𝚐𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝, 𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚐𝚗𝚒𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚞𝚗𝚏𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐.. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎— 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚠𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚜 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍𝚜. #Raven #Photography