My wife going from a week in the ICU to the patient floor.

July 4th weekend, what better American poet to discuss than Carl Sandburg…

#PoemsAbout #CheapMotels @thebrokenspine.co.uk Will add a reading in the comments.

Luv this narrative!!!

This looks so cool!

#PoemsAbout @rburrows.bsky.social and @jenthorne.bsky.social, I see your Roxette and Dusty Springfield and skipping right over Prince and Sheena Easton who I shared already, I raise you ABC. There’s one thing that still holds true… youtu.be/cNEdxZURTaI?...

This really is a psychic mosaic!

I’ve been out most of the day. But I see this excellent poem has been up for three hours and where are the comments?

A prose poem for #PoemsAbout #TheLook @thebrokenspine.co.uk There is a certain evidentiary value to the photos. I originally wrote the letter l but later found a picture from 2011 with the missing i in Hilton. Special thanks to @jenthorne.bsky.social and @daveashleypoet.bsky.social, iykyk

PoemsAbout week madness. Thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk I have had a persistent ear worm of Sheena Easton and Prince singing “sho'nuf do be cookin' in my book,” and thanks to @jenthorne.bsky.social and @daveashleypoet.bsky.social I am seriously considering vying for the human excrement crown.

Find the Klee Kai…

Definitely a 🏅 for hitting the 🎯on #PoemsAbout #OutAfterMidnight…

She uses the stairs as a pillow. And look at that little back paw tucked underneath…

#haiku #haikusaturday #rejection #summer Two rejected haiku for a summer theme submission call: late to market squishy melons feeding fruit flies weeping cherry wishing deer would eat weeds

Do you see why I am so blessed to be in two Ocean County, NJ, writers’ groups with @thebisylarke.bsky.social and to hear her read live at Tuckerton Seaport? The attention to detail in this poem. Survival, affirmation, and the perfect lead in to summer. You know what comes next…🏅

I just gave out a medal for a great intro and then I see @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social say, “If I don’t post it now I will edit it to death, and prolly bury it my backyard.” That prolly has to be the mountain mama talking! 🏅This poem is screaming for a 💀 |{I}\_ 🎤 I/ \ /_ \_

I love @stacebot.bsky.social’s intros. “I’m thinking about accumulation” And now are, as well. Stace is one of the select poets who gets 🏅s for intros.

I’m giving out a lot of 🏅 on #PoemsAbout today. The quality is first rate as we have come to expect and respect, but I worry in the back of my mind I was influenced by the video of the orange ass almost choking the military guy with the ribbon he couldn’t clasp. Just know, I would never choke you!

I have a message notification but no new messages showing. If you messaged me today, please don’t be offended by my lack of reply. Especially if you are a friend from #PoemsAbout…

#PoemsAbout #OutAfterMidnight @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will put a reading in the comments which might help define the feeling I was aiming at…

Spot the Klee Kai…

#PoemsAloud #Elegy #Drowning #Remembrance As some of you know, my best friend from high school drowned at the New Jersey shore. Next Tuesday marks the 40th anniversary of his passing, commemorated by this poem. youtu.be/0W6zgWPhtGg?...

#PoemsAloud The title of this poem borrows the first line of Mary Oliver’s poem, The Summer Day. youtu.be/wzHNFxZ4kXI?...

Seven years ago Shirley went over the rainbow bridge. My sweet girl.

Tell me you’re using AI without telling me you’re using AI. Is this chart useful?

Then and now in DC. 1976, the Bicentennial celebration culminated with the opening of the National Air and Space Museum. 2026, circus at the White House and military honor guard for cage fighters.

This is a great reading of a really fine poem. We are lulled by the rhythm and then the argument hits so strong at the end.

Her back leg is tucked under her forelegs. Poor 🐶 tried to eat a 🐝 yesterday and is on Benadryl.

#haikusaturday #senryu #PoemsAbout #WrongBody #WrongShoes @thebrokenspine.co.uk he dons his clown shoes one foot at a time where his humanity ends In response to Trump ass wipe Marco Rubio having the audacity to compare the creation of the UFC to Apollo 11, his latest intellectual capitulation.

Evie says this is storytelling more than poetry, but I say it is superior narrative poetry!!!

As he so often foes, @frankhudson.bsky.social schools us as he entertains us!!!

Get ready #PoemsAbout poets, @thebisylarke.bsky.social is in the house. Avery is not only one of my favorite poets, but she is great at “getting” what others write.

This poem is s must read for pride month!

It's been a while, but I'm back. @thebrokenspine.co.uk Did you miss me? Here's my poem about 'Wrong Body'. Some trans people say that they were born in the wrong body and that's okay. However, I say that I wasn't born with the wrong attachments. #PoemsAbout #WrongBody #poetry #poetrycommunity

#PoemsAbout #WrongBody @thebrokenspine.co.uk I’m not sure it’s for me to tell this truth. I will post a reading in the comments.

You can say what you want about Taylor Swift at Madison Square Garden, but she managed to do three things Dozy Don couldn’t. She didn’t get booed, she stayed awake, and she was there to the end. She seems to bring a contagious energy wherever she goes.

I was grilling kielbasa on the patio while my son and klee kai were walking around the yard. My son called out do you have a poop bag and I was like I always have a poop bag. My future epitaph: here lies John semi-beloved always had poop bags

Watch the eyes!

She’s trying to protect the house but she’s a little tired. Turn up audio.

Do you need glasses to see it?

Merril is multitasking, as she often does. First she is reflecting, and then she is fighting fascism!!!

It’s rare for me but I have no words…

Something to look forward to. The first song on the album dropping October 23rd. I really do like Fenne Lily… youtu.be/wbW-G09xqbY?...

The juxtaposition of birdsong and gunfire. One of those birds is aptly haunting.

It’s so disappointing to find out you’re rejected by seeing others post links to journals you didn’t know had been published yet. I well understand that editors can be inundated, but I think they should make it clear in the submission guidelines whether or not to expect a response.

My 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/...

#poets What are your opinions about titles for Fibonacci poems? Part of me feels that the tile counts as zero so it shouldn’t appear and also as a short form like haiku it shouldn’t have a title.

@coastalpoet.bsky.social is an eco warrior. Not just on the coast! youtu.be/WAvPucKjEhw?...

For this fallow #PoemsAbout week, I have accepted the challenge from @stacebot.bsky.social to write on #BadErections because I misread bad directions on her #EarnTheRight poem last week.

The department of war is blowing shit up on the base tonight. The assholes around here call it the booms of freedom but in my house we call it practicing war crimes.