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@osageorange

displaced bumpkin / unwashed scribbler

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U2 - Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
U2 - Stay (Faraway, So Close!) YouTube video by U2VEVO

This week’s Friday Video featured U2’s Stay (Faraway, So Close!), a recording heavily influenced by the song stylings of Frank Sinatra.

And if you look, you look through me
And when you talk, you talk at me
And when I touch you, you don't feel a thing

m.youtube.com/watch?v=UGAO...

06.03.2026 22:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bad Timing its pretty petals over the brown lifeless bed

Grateful to America Magazine for publishing my poem "Bad Timing."
www.americamagazine.org/poetry/2026/...
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

27.02.2026 17:22 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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orange crutch got my spinegot these thumbsgot this family phone plan — J. R. Wilkerson

A new verse from returning contributor J. R. Wilkerson:

𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗵

got my spine
got these thumbs
got this family phone plan

— J. R. Wilkerson

26.02.2026 16:50 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Greetings, my #fragmentsfriday contribution today for
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
#poetry #zoo #primates #magic

27.02.2026 11:53 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of a poem I wrote. It was a timed exercise set for me by a MH support worker.

Text:

5 mins #3

Sad songs. Sad little bird.

I held open my hand and you folded like fingers.
I’m still sore about it. Thinking about that time you said “forever forget” and it meant nothing, but fell like a tree inside me.
I wonder if it is ever winter where you are. Like, does it ever snow? Is it a forest, and are you there, with red breasted robins all along your arm, like a postcard?
Or are all your trees blossomed and pink, like the best of all possible springs?

Photo of a poem I wrote. It was a timed exercise set for me by a MH support worker. Text: 5 mins #3 Sad songs. Sad little bird. I held open my hand and you folded like fingers. I’m still sore about it. Thinking about that time you said “forever forget” and it meant nothing, but fell like a tree inside me. I wonder if it is ever winter where you are. Like, does it ever snow? Is it a forest, and are you there, with red breasted robins all along your arm, like a postcard? Or are all your trees blossomed and pink, like the best of all possible springs?

22.02.2026 23:03 👍 34 🔁 14 💬 4 📌 0

So good.

23.02.2026 00:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Many thanks to Kellie and the folks at @rfpress.bsky.social. In honor of this issue, am posting a pic of the ‘94 Beretta that got me through college. Sweet ride, though the floorboard would get waterlogged every time it rained. ☔️

22.02.2026 19:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Bonjour.

The shortest month of the year deserves the smallest and mightiest issue of the year. Tell your local short king.

www.roifaineantpress.com/blog

#writingcommunity

22.02.2026 17:20 👍 25 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 1

My contribution to #fragmentsfriday for
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

#haiku #senryu #poetry #micropoetry

guy who found my phone

called mom,
dad’s
old numbers

rank strangers,
everyone

20.02.2026 11:49 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Dear beautiful internet people:
Not to be overdramatic, but if you ever cared for me at all I beseech you to check out my lil poem “bloodworks” as well as some other amazing scribblers @rfpress.bsky.social this Sunday 2/23. 🩸🦟

19.02.2026 23:51 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Punky Reggae Party (Visualizer)
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Punky Reggae Party (Visualizer) YouTube video by BobMarleyVEVO

Today’s Friday Video featured Robert Nesta Marley, born this day in 1945
🇯🇲
#BobMarley

The Wailers will be there
The Damned, The Jam, The Clash
Maytals will be there
Dr. Feelgood too

m.youtube.com/watch?v=SBAi...

06.02.2026 16:26 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

our best
friends

aren’t blind,
but impartial

to hubris

#paintku
#senryu

28.01.2026 19:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

For those who observe, from a wintry corner of Virginia:

All on that charming coast is no bitter snow and frost,
Like the lands of Virginia-ginia, O;
There streams for ever flow, and there flowers for ever blow,
And alas! I am weary, weary O!

- The Slaves Lament

#RobertBurns
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

25.01.2026 14:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#Paintku Tuesdays Week 3

Today’s pick: Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876)

I fell in love with the painting the first time I saw it, back in high school.

the laughter
of dancing couples
twilight long

Feel free to join in with your own haiku.

13.01.2026 21:07 👍 49 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 3

joie de vivre

joined in
adornment,

flecks of
daylight

#haiku
#paintku

15.01.2026 09:39 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Enjoying the new #RitesandTrials anthology from @thebrokenspine.co.uk and I’m chuffed to have a lil piece here from my wayward youth. So many great writers here!.

20.12.2025 18:32 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
State Trooper
State Trooper YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen - Topic

Today’s Friday Video featured Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska album, not to be confused with his time with E-Street Band:

License, registration
I ain’t got none
But I got a clear conscience
‘Bout the things that I done

m.youtube.com/watch?v=wpvX...

20.12.2025 00:09 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The B-52's - Rock Lobster (Official Music Video)
The B-52's - Rock Lobster (Official Music Video) YouTube video by RHINO

Today’s Friday Video featured the B-52’s Rock Lobster, a tune John Lennon credited for getting back in the recording studio in 1980.

According to Lennon, "it sounds just like Ono's music, so I said to meself, 'it's time to get out the old axe and wake the wife up!'"

m.youtube.com/watch?v=n4QS...

12.12.2025 23:31 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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give a man a fish for alifetimehe’ll remembertotake thecannoli — J. R. Wilkerson

A new verse from returning contributor J. R. Wilkerson:

𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗮 𝗳𝗶𝘀𝗵

for a
lifetime
he’ll remember
to
take the
cannoli

— J. R. Wilkerson

23.11.2025 18:02 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Reposting this:

Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very rich are a poor bunch of bastards.

- John Steinbeck, East of Eden

10.11.2025 22:59 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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all the king’s horses came ill-equippedin mendingthe eggman,hisgoo goog’joob — J. R. Wilkerson

A new verse from new contributor J. R. Wilkerson:

𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴’𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲𝘀

came ill-equipped
in mending
the eggman,
his
goo goo
g’joob

— J. R. Wilkerson

22.10.2025 15:17 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Cake still going the distance

30.09.2025 21:57 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Nevermore

28.09.2025 19:16 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Elvis Costello - Watching The Detectives
Elvis Costello - Watching The Detectives YouTube video by ElvisCostelloVEVO

Going through an Elvis Costello #elviscostello phase

m.youtube.com/watch?v=snPD...

12.07.2025 23:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I’m a sucker for van Gogh, I like to get thisclose to see the paint textures

31.05.2025 21:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Beautiful piece, reminds me a bit of the view from the train

07.05.2025 15:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A sweep is as lucky as lucky can be

04.05.2025 13:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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03.05.2025 20:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a man wearing a cowboy hat and an orange jacket is driving a car ALT: a man wearing a cowboy hat and an orange jacket is driving a car

If you see this post your getaway vehicle

03.05.2025 10:50 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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02.05.2025 17:13 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0