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...
Grateful to America Magazine for publishing my poem "Bad Timing."
www.americamagazine.org/poetry/2026/...
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
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
Greetings, my #fragmentsfriday contribution today for
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
#poetry #zoo #primates #magic
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?
So good.
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. ☔️
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
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
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. 🩸🦟
Today’s Friday Video featured Robert Nesta Marley, born this day in 1945
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#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...
our best
friends
aren’t blind,
but impartial
to hubris
#paintku
#senryu
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
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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.
joie de vivre
joined in
adornment,
flecks of
daylight
#haiku
#paintku
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!.
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...
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...
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
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
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
Cake still going the distance
Nevermore
Going through an Elvis Costello #elviscostello phase
m.youtube.com/watch?v=snPD...
I’m a sucker for van Gogh, I like to get thisclose to see the paint textures
Beautiful piece, reminds me a bit of the view from the train
A sweep is as lucky as lucky can be
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