Why are the political leaders of this country turning it into the Hunger Games?

"The zenith of manly poetry may well have come in World War I, in which endless time in the trenches produced literary gold from Siegfried Sassoon, Joyce Kilmer, Wilfried Owen and Robert Graves, among hundreds of others." Source: Fox News search.app/fivNN

Really looking forward to Tom Holiday Sauce and Mark Ruffle Feathers upcoming Spoopyman movie. #spiderman #movies #action #fun

If anyone's interested in purchasing a copy, I co-write a chapbook with Hamant Singh called Andromeda Dreams last year! It has my favorite poem in it called "The Band from Andromeda" which is basically a galactic take on The Beatles. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/andromeda-...

Similar scenery is found in the narrative poem Hessen minus Finland! Being added onto next month! Alliterative free verse narrative poem goodness!

Writing Hessen has been the hardest and best writing experience of my life. It's a long-form narrative poem, and while it's very scattered, sci fi, and surrealist, and that was the point while writing it. I can't wait to wrap up parts IV & V and talk about it more. #poetry #readit #writer #scifi

@scalzi.com Scalzi's Parallels There's cats and people And places and pies And old men eating The gnarliest burritos Knowledge(?) ever devised. I disappeared and other People went mad with glutton! A burrito with some Oreo? Just end it Kidney, my dear! #johnscalzi #writertype #sciencefiction

Scalzi's Parallels There's cats and people And places and pies And old men eating The gnarliest burritos Knowledge(?) ever devised. I disappeared and other People went mad with glutton! A burrito with some Oreo? Just end it Kidney, my dear! #johnscalzi #writertype #sciencefiction

This could also apply well to guitar picks. #douglasadams #writer #hitchikers #sciencefiction #iknowright #waitwhaaaat

#harlanellison #writer #sciencefiction #yah

Tyrant Troll Acting is the end pursuit To call attention to ourselves, to slay the dragons in the night and ring all of the city bells. But to drink a manmade lake? That's mystic magic altogether. Take a minute, bring the axe, write with the last feather. #poetry #poet #vss365 #writer

A pink aurora over Fairbanks, Alaska #Nature #Wednesdayvibe

There are two wolves inside me. One is a troll. One is a poet. Then there are the benign tumors, the ones that occasionally appear to make the cliff side caves along long, long windy roads more bearable than societal existence. Be the poet. #poet #troll #writing #bluesky #scalzi #gracelol

"I don't need your goddamn glasses!" "Don't you mean classes?" "Oh... right. I don't need your goddamn glasses!" He said, tossing them at the asphalt and watching the plastic shatter against the ground. "Yeah, that's right." "Defiance." #writing #poet #writer #read #vss365

Sometimes I feel like a fish swimming through the melting concoction of a star. Other times I feel like a raven flying through the clouds of Jupiter. But most of the time, I just feel like a penguin waddling through life. #bluesky #writer #dumbo

Apocalypse Arrow It shot through the Earth's core and in an instant places shattered mountains, oceans, metropolitans erupted; nothing ever mattered. #poetry #poet #vss365 #writing #bluesky

Sol 1711: Left Mastcam-Z Camera, taken at 11:50:08.974 (local mean solar time), image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

After trudging through it for a year, the final version of Hessen will be wrapped up sometime next month. Hessen is a narrative poem in alliterative verse, and it's about the title character as he faces various beasts and mental trials. I have the book cover, "Books" I-III, now to finish up 4 & 5.

Lords The life we have is not our own, its dictated by the elder throne. slaved away tossed to other spaces a no name with a million faces. The gods above create the dead so the verse of song is read. Above us is the the elder throne, the life that never was our own. #poetry #poet #vss365 #read

The Doom Sleeper Brooding, foaming, gloaming. The beast latches on, eyes struck with stiff wiring. Drudgery, drudge, begrudging, the Earth is stringed with wires, strung along, threaded and cored deep through every ocean. What is this sentience when we don't know? #poetry #poet #specpo #vss365

Signals People like and unlike us send a great many messages, people with more eyes and less share with us their worldly mess. Someone else can take the reign their world is without the bane, without the ego driving us that makes Armageddon a small fuss. #poetry #vss365 #poet #writer #bluesky

New requirements to be President of the United States: 1. Must have severe dementia on some level. 2. Must be able to walk AT LEAST ten yards using cane or walker. 3. Must have previous work experience at McDonalds. 4. Must have no policies beyond calling people "dumb" and "stupid". #politics

Innocence To see a creature, dragon, Grendel, vampire, Lochness monster, werewolf, vicious beast skewered in warring feast is to see that wild wonder and live among the pretty planets and contemplated existence as we all pass out of nonsense. #poetry #poet #writer #bluesky #reader #reading #music

Dragon at the Tea Shop Crack! Shebang! The whole roof came undone collapsed onto all, it was no fun! The world had seen this prophecy yet continued along so miserly. The scales imprinted into the roof and ruined forever the eternal muse. The dragon order a large chai tea the largest ever, free!

Made a Patreon! Gotta get this whole thing set up, but diving in without fear. #poetry #poet #bluesky #writer #musician

When you wish upon a star And you're ugly, Remember that looks come free, But rock n' roll is forever. #poetry #poet #bluesky #thegoat #reader #writing

Wild Sky Chirping birds and fires burn for peace and calm I quietly yearn. For every life I seem to find I'm never there I'm just behind, observing and noting, articulating the way— there's always something here when there's nothing left to say. #poetry #poet #bluesky #writer #finding

Dusk of the Green Star It falls upon us all, climbs around the wreckage of every building broken by eons, and ending on a note unsung for millennia— survivors scream and cry out for the only breaths that know. #poetry #poet #bluesky #writing

Listening Hum It's not a sound Of distraction, It's one of comfort. What fields draped over the silhouette scenery a listening space for when the world is loud and in the human race. #poetry #vss365 #poet #bluesky #writer

Come on RTD - so frustrating. A robust Transit system is critical for our working families, for our climate and for a livable Front Range.

Protect the turtle Protect the turtle Because turtles are amazing Rhyme words: turtle.

🔭 M77: Spiral Galaxy with an Active Center Image Credit: Hubble, NASA, ESA, L. C. Ho, D. Thilker apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25120...

Wanna avoid responsibilities while appearing responsible? Wanna escape your mess of a life while looking like you have it all together? Wanna stave off people without coming across as rude? Try reading a book in public! 📖 #WritingCommunity #BookSky

@nebullama.bsky.social Btw, will you make any towel references in your debut novel?

Time is an illusion there are no clocks or numbers here I'll show up late to the docks. Who cares if you're not cool or not, who cares if noses blow with snot? Goblins live upon this Earth, making meals of people, stealing food from seals. #poetry #vss365 #poet #bluesky #writer

@scalzi.com If you could choose to build a galactic highway bypass that destroys the Earth or a planet-sized combustion engine to zip Earth through the atmosphere straight into the sun, which would you choose and why? Asking because thoughts.

Good night NGC 346 NASA/Chandra Observatory

Cradle of the Monarch The throne sits empty occupied by dust, and legions march on in the fields of death's lust. Endeavor to end this conflict, the world won't see the end— there is no end that will be just a new start around the bend. #poetry #bluesky #vss365 #poet

The real struggle in life is the one where I can't tell if what I have going on is guitar, music, or life. They're all exactly the same. #music #guitar #guitronist #life

One of my favorite Douglas Adams quotes: “All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.” More timely today than ever, don't you think? 💙 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky

Assorted nonsenses. linktr.ee/Guitronist

Guitar sadgeconfusedface #bluesky #guitar #smileyface

I signed the contract! 🥳 Next year will be WILD! 👏 #WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky #Author

My debut book drops next year! First in Finnish 🇫🇮 (since I'm a Finn), and, if all goes well, later in English 🇺🇸 (sorry, my English-speaking friends 🫶). I can't share many details yet, but expect a wild, Douglas Adams–esque sci-fi humor space adventure! 🪐🌌🤖 #WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky

My artwork of a Sunset on Mars. Dust and small particles suspended in the Martian atmosphere scatter light in the direction of the Sun forward. This creates a blue halo around the setting Sun, rendering a Martian landscape quite different from its terrestrial equivalent. #ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt

approaching a rapidly strengthening tornado in central Minnesota on 7/8/2020

I love how an imperfection on the shell creates the illusion of a cloud. #585/3:56 pm #art #photography #macro

I once had a moment where I was sitting at a grand piano in a church platform. A lady said "I can't wait till we can all make eye contact with one another during service tonight!" Make eye contact. It's apparently what Jesus wanted. #vss365 #story #poet

To Understand It’s nothing more then a passing memory, a truth untold in a dying sea. Maybe we can make sense of this rain; for now the world is overran. #poetry #poet #bluesky #writing #reading