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ElleM

@ellem111.bsky.social

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Health scientist, MA MSc, artist, writer, poet. Progressive. Vegan, NAUI diver. Care about justice, kindness, connection, animals. Goals: keep my sense of humor, make US a democratic republic again. Mayflower descendant. Art, poems copyrights.NoDM 🐸

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ElleM @ellem111.bsky.social · Feb 22

GUT PUNCH

It happens in the mind
The stomach gets it first,
Before processing has time,
The waves of nausea burst.
Queasy knowing yells,
Silence still prevails,
Speechless it reveals,
How deeply this thing feels.

LP2024©
#discover
#poetry
#poem

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 7h

9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
📹bokareva.solovey.m

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 57m

For #PromptCombo #Visitor ✨

for @hool415.bsky.social

The Visitor

Each autumn night my visitor comes
tucked between the soot-black of a crow’s
glossed wing. My visitor talks in fir
and ash, my visitor taught me how
to sing. He brings me tales of war
and woe, convenes in the hallways
of princes and kings. My visitor is
both steward and ship, my visitor tells me
everything. He is a seer and a soldier, too;
he speaks in the language of flight.
My visitor chants to the deer and birds,
from the ridges where his harsh voice hides.
He tangles the brambles, the hedges,
my hair; he does not leave my side. He comes
down the chimney like a story to tell,
he flickers like candle and light. He sleeps
among white stars and moonsnore and frost,
with the dusk underneath his skin. He twirls my words
into poems and hymn, my breath is his sister
and kin. He frightens the children and sailors
alike, but I’m not afraid of his din. Even when
I’m alone in the hush of myself, in my empty
lap there’s the wind.

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ElleM @ellem111.bsky.social · 7h

once words stayed buried
like blossoms mixed in cement
unable to resist being dismissed
dried to irretrievable oblivion
until the cement crumbled
flowers fell out
and flourished
words born as mine
sustain life once hushed
mend hearts torn with time

#RetroArtPrompt #Poetry #WritingCommunity

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ElleM @ellem111.bsky.social · 7h

can't sleep, it's crunch time,
and the reckoning blossoms,
frogs filling the streets.

#DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #Micropoetry #Resist

ElleM @ellem111.bsky.social · 8h

Considering that 21% of US adults are illiterate, 54% read below 6th grade level, and the department of education is destroying what's left of our education system, they must be hoping to make some arrests, very few people would understand what that means. 😂

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Jennifer @jen229.bsky.social · 19h

#NotAMonautomnSong
#MusicChallenge
Day 7
“Tell Me Something Good”, Rufus, featuring Chaka Khan
Definitely on the Feel Good playlist!

Thanks @lagrume.bsky.social for this cheery challenge!

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Rufus - Tell Me Something Good (feat. Chaka Khan) (1974)

YouTube video by toniojadetto

m.youtube.com

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Ed Hirsch @edhirsch.bsky.social · 11h

bsky.app/profile/edhi...

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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 12h

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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 13h

Yup!

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Tara Palmeri @tarapalmeri.bsky.social · 2d

For the first time in nearly a decade, Cheney Mason, a lawyer for the Jane Doe “Katie Johnson” who accused President Trump of sexual assault in Epstein’s House is breaking his silence in an exclusive interview.

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ElleM @ellem111.bsky.social · 8h

adjudicated, found guilty in a civil court of law because the statute of limitations had run out and he couldn't be criminally indicted

ElleM @ellem111.bsky.social · 8h

The word doesn't get a *, it is spelled RAPIST, let's not minimize, or put a fig leaf, on what this man is, he's a CHILD RAPIST.

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𝕲𝖆𝖊𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖔 @gmf1369.bsky.social · 14h

The Cranberries - Zombie (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by TheCranberriesVEVO

www.youtube.com

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ElleM @ellem111.bsky.social · 9h

This is the Marge we've not seen. Hope she stays like this.

ElleM @ellem111.bsky.social · 9h

Cruelty for pleasure is nothing to love.

ElleM @ellem111.bsky.social · 9h

We need to know the name of every single man, woman, and child, ICE abducted, their location, their condition, and their story. Then we can connect the full horror of what each of these ICE agents inflicted and demand justice.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14h

Live performance of "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield in 1967. The song was written in 1966 in response to the Sunset Strip curfew riots in Los Angeles. It became an anthem for generational conflict, civil unrest, and later anti-war movements.

"The lyrics are still so relevant."

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ElleM @ellem111.bsky.social · 14h

good point, disappointed to learn this though

ElleM @ellem111.bsky.social · 16h

wind whips hail across
an infinite field of ice,
no where warm to go

#DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #Micropoetry #Poetry

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ElleM @ellem111.bsky.social · 16h

Why would the Norwegian Nobel Committee fall for that?

ElleM @ellem111.bsky.social · 16h

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ElleM @ellem111.bsky.social · 16h

NO! NO!

Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado told BBC she is grateful for what US President Donald Trump is doing "around the world for peace".

Machado dedicated her Nobel Prize “to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!”.
#discover

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ElleM @ellem111.bsky.social · 17h

One of life's delights,
Vivid imagination
Creates many lives.

#DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #Vivid #Micropoetry #Poetry

ElleM @ellem111.bsky.social · 17h

Having a field day,
Raccoons chomp butter cookies.
Prime delivery.

#DailyHaikuPrompt #Field #Poetry #Humor #Micropoetry

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Taps the “this administration is full of eugenicists so yes, they do want people to die” sign so hard it snaps and shards go scattering everywhere.

And yes, we saw it coming.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19h

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