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Dick Westheimer

@rlwesty-poet

Poet, gardener, runner, reader, nerd, writer of unabashed and sometimes appreciated love poems.

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At the End of the World Is Forgetting  by Dick Westheimer - Rattle: Poetry In the abandoned stacks of the abandoned wing of the library where abandoned books are kept—there is quiet beyond the finger-to-the-lips shush, beyond the quiet thrum of the furnace deep in the womb o...

Appreciate that the good folks at @rattlepoetry.bsky.social love haibuns as much as I do! rattle.com/at-the-end-o...

21.03.2025 17:39 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

You are so kind. Glad that the poem resonants.

15.02.2025 00:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks so much, @poetlady74.bsky.social . You give me hope that a little poetry community can grow here!

15.02.2025 00:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy Celebrate-Your-Insecurities day! Thanks to the good folks at @rattlepoetry.bsky.social for curating this little love poem of mine.

14.02.2025 17:40 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

Thanks so much for sharing @josiegz.bsky.social

14.02.2025 17:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Y’all are un fuck fire.

03.02.2025 01:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh I can relate. (But more as the mother than the daughter 😂)

17.01.2025 13:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love the fellowship in the bins image too.

17.01.2025 13:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seriously?!

“chainsmoking commandant,

lights one child off another.”

17.01.2025 09:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh, that sweet fellowship in the bins!

17.01.2025 09:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am touched you'd share this. Thanks so much for your kind word, @poetlady74.bsky.social

15.01.2025 17:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A little love poem in @gyroscopereview.bsky.social www.gyroscopereview.com/wp-content/u...

15.01.2025 05:45 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
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Ski day, thinking in poems.

15.01.2025 05:36 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Adam & Eve | Gashmius Home

Please to have a mini-folio of my Garden of Eden poems curated by Gashmius. www.gashmiusmagazine.com/from-the-gar...

13.12.2024 04:34 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think it’s as simple
As just posting and commenting on a lot of content. (Too much work for me 😊)

10.12.2024 09:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

oh, jeeze. this happened to me in the dentist chair yesterday (waiting for the novocain to set in).

05.12.2024 16:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I do love this!

01.12.2024 14:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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21.11.2024 22:22 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It was an utter obscenity. I gasped when I saw how misleading the working was.

20.11.2024 22:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks for this. Another BlueSky moment worth signing on for.

20.11.2024 22:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just what I needed today, @davidpepperoh.bsky.social . Thanks

20.11.2024 19:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh, and those em dashes.

20.11.2024 19:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

For sure, I aspire to be one of those!

20.11.2024 19:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh, I love this little poem in @Rattle today by @Philip Metres. At times I resemble it. At times I resent it. Either way, it’s worth reading again (and reading the poet’s comment at the end).

www.rattle.com/the-elders-b...

20.11.2024 19:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He basically never showed me your posts within a few month of his taking over x.

17.11.2024 01:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My whole life here in rural Ohio is being w folks I “disagree with.” We care about and for each other but there’s no “changing minds” here (except about who’s the best baker ‘cause that’s me 😂)

17.11.2024 01:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great interview!

13.11.2024 19:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0