the fascists' game is musical chairs. at the end, there are no chairs left #senryu #haiku #haikupoem #575poem #haikupoetry #poetry #poem #blueskypoet #blueskypoetry

Auden, from 'September 1, 1939' #poetry #poem

Percy Shelley calling to us from out of the past #poetry #poem

In 2020, Renee Nicole Good won the Academy of American Poets Prize for that year. I have linked the #poem below. Today, ICE murdered her in cold blood in front of her wife. We will honor you, Renee, and we will not be silent. #ReneeNicoleGood

new year's resolutions: 1. actually finish stuff 2. show it to people 3. repeat steps 1 & 2

Someone flips on Jools Holland's Hootenanny and The Kooks are playing and suddenly I remember watching The Kooks live at the Isle of Wight Festival TWENTY YEARS AGO and I would like a refund on this whole ageing business pls

this is such a great idea, getting in on this too

Ducked off the street into a hotel corridor to get out of the rain, stood inside a few minutes before realising I was standing next to then-future chancellor Rachel Reeves and (remember him?) Dan Jarvis, waiting to go onstage to speak at a panel

such a lovely christmas but soo tired and socialed out, time to hibernate until next year 😅

fresh-picked emotion dried and pressed to nature's page; the art of haiku #haiku #haikupoem #575poem #haikupoetry #poetry #poem #haikufeels #blueskypoet #blueskypoetry #dailyhaikuprompt

winter solstice, mist like steam beneath the streetlamps; breath of a ghost sun #haiku #haikupoem #haikupoetry #poetry #poem #haikufeels #blueskypoet #blueskypoetry

black-tip gull, streaking down the flight of a sunbeam at nothing but joy #haiku #haikupoem #haikupoetry #poetry #poem #haikufeels #blueskypoet #blueskypoetry

Greens really likely to get major liftoff before Your Party can even set out its stall, assuming its self-inflicted wounds aren't already mortal

me: i have good news and bad news. you're transgender. young me: wait, is that the good news or the bad news me: yes

two and a half years into transition and I finally bothered to get my ears pierced lol

my girlfriend is so much like my bra (super supportive and constantly on my boobs)

friends fear she's making another forlorn and half-assed attempt to start posting on bluesky again

"i'm not like other girls" i am. i am exactly like other girls. i love the other girls and we are all joining forces against you so that we can defeat you with the power of friendship

“I don’t deserve—” shut up, yes you do, unless the answer is “a coward’s death” (you are a great warrior)

Bertolt Brecht’s “Cantata for the anniversary of Lenin’s death” (he died 100 years ago today):

"a voice like iron and honey" sounds like my new voice training goal

trans ppl reskeet with a nice pic of yourself

Transition stories in 12 words or fewer Finally learned to speak and understand my own language

Pleased to report that Alison Rumfitt has followed up her banger first book "what if transphobic fascism was a house" with another banger, "what if transphobic fascism was worms"

end of a long shift, voice tired, talking to customer on phone about fitting new bathroom she laughs, says "don’t you hate those little shower cubicles, there's never enough room to bend down and shave your legs is there?" takes me a second to realise I AM PASSING ON THE GODDAMNED TELEPHONE

couldn't be me, my skeleton will simply be too busy locked in deadly blade-to-blade combat with the Argonauts

Identify with this a lot - my egg cracked the way Hemingway describes going bankrupt: gradually, then all at once. I can see some of the individual turning-points in hindsight but they weren't necessarily obvious at the time