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Alex Jeffrey Pretti, Protector of the People, Pledge of Peace, Bright Famous Spirit. My five year old son

Poetry is about all I have left to offer. 💙

I support term limits for Congress, the Senate and SCOTUS.

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

Raskin: ICE and CBP — these are not law enforcement entities, and at this point they’re completely lawless. They’re outside of the Constitution.

today’s first draft, courtesy of the titular vocabulary word, “misokinesia”

why should I
deny my body
the animal pleasure
of making
noise?

#poetrysky #poem #writing #poetrycommunity

“The temple bell stops-
but the sound keeps coming
out of the flowers.”

Basho (1644-94)
Translated by Robert Bly
From Mary Oliver’s “A Poetry Handbook.”

#poetryoftheday #poems

I’m obsessed with this phrase, you are a word maestro 🥹😆

That color is stunning!!

BEAUTIFUL, YES

“In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.”

— I searched for quiet everywhere, and found it nowhere except in a corner with a book—

via The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco

#literaryquotes #booklovers #bookquotes

“red”

riding hood
I need to
cover my head. my
mother serves me
my grandmother
‘s ham recipe (on toast)
I gobble it up, the
aorta-colored soup
burps in the bowl
a grotesque sheen
my thorough heart
harrumphing under the
floorboards
edgar/eager ly

#ekphrasticpoetry #poem #writingcommunity

you should make this into a physical pin a la bookit 🤌🏼

Your work is wonderful! ❤️🙏🏼

“wizard’s seolfor”

I am a slut for
hearts etched into my latte
and this curve of the
Fox River, my dad’s
mother’s mother calling my
great-ancestors home.
Snow falls dreamily.
Crack’d, the mirror, silver
water’s tarnished flow.
Rub and rub and rub;
polish polish polish my
your our argentum.

#haiku

Ohhhh, as a girl who hails from a family of beach glass/rockhounds, i LOVE this so much 😍🤌🏼 I can feel this in my bones

An erotic Wednesday #haiku, as a treat #poetry #poem #poetrysky

Of course they do 😆 and then I’m sure they’ll argue with you about your answers bc that’s not what AI told them. I have been on medical leave since April and I am not looking forward to this new wrinkle in the attorney/client relationship 😆

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

playing with cutting and pasting snippets of news articles for this piece’s process

#poetry #poem #poetrysky #writer #writing #writingprocess #creativeprocess #poet

grief sucks #poetry #poetrysky #haiku #writer #writingsky #grief #mementomori

A little frost-kissed, so she gets to go in the drying area for use as a winter floral bath addition 😇

poppies, like blushing
orange rinds kissing ruby
black night, burst open

#WildWalkPrompt

#prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt

I’m honestly tickled that they make you use their service to do this 😆

I love collaging & writing 👏🏼

I, for one, am thrilled by the phrase “thermal burping.” I just get an image of a thermal vent shaped like Homer Simpson belching with those ruffled lips 😆

I’ll sign your petition to USPS to make one!!!

Coooooool thank you for sharing this!

poetry as penance #poem #poetry #dystopia

November rose with dewdrops from last night’s rain

#gardensky #gardening #roses #climbingroses #novemberblooms