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Karen Pierce Gonzalez

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Award winning poet/writer/artist Chaps: Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs, Moon kissed Earth wrought Vision drunk, RavenSong, Down River with Li Po & more. linktr.ee/KPGFolkHeart #NotJustPretty NO MAGA No solicitation

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Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social · Jul 6

Enjoy these 3 short trailers. #DownRiverWithLiPo #MoonkissedEarthwroughtVisiondrunk #Twasbrillig #poetry #hybrid #poeticlibretto #Pamphlet/Chapbook @blackcatpress.bsky.social #BottlecapPress #PoeticLibrettos karenpiercegonzalez.blogspot.com/2020/09/welc...

Chapbooks

Contact: [email protected] Chapbooks THREE NEW RELEASES! Down River with Li Po Inspired by Tang Dynasty poet/philosopher The Black Cat ...

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Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social · 4h

My pleasure, Scott 🌟

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Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you, Karen. So kind.

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Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social · 7h

My pleasure!

Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks so much for this! #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
#StayCreative #PoetsSupportPoets

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stace.bot @stacebot.bsky.social · 14h

The repeating line that continues to shorten has such a strong impact!

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Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social · 9h

I found the undertone of this painful: 'always banished'. We belong to ourselves (and no one else) regardless of judgements that may seek to sever this cord. #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #StayCreative #PoetsSupportPoets

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Ross McDermott @beyondtheonions.bsky.social · 1d

#PoemsAbout #poem #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #writing #amwriting #struggles
Thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk
* This is an older piece I wrote quite some time ago... it fits well with the prompt #ImperfectMe -- as I'm sure it does convey.

~baubles~

my words just baubles, cheap décor hung of the weeping limbs of a dead, dry christmas pine.
crumbling brittle thorns, needles fall in showers to the linoleum – dusty tears from the tormented heart of a poet, squeezed like a lemon, lamenting for eternity.
follow Willy’s weeping words and “strut and fret the hour,” the one that never comes and is always banished when it does…
is all the light a manic mirage, a grand deception of that tortured chamber?
to question is enough, to wonder is divine.
I relish in that wonder and let the query swim, refusing to relent an answer, with an equal air of divinity.
“strut and fret” indeed! not this...
...not this tortured heart.

a poem by Ross McDermott, Beyond the Onions

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Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social · 9h

What a reminder: we often cross our own boundaries hoping to be perfect for another. This imperfection is to be handled with care. Thanks John, for a moving #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #StayCreative #PoetsSupportPoets

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 1d

For #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe on #worldmentalhealthday, here's one of mine posted here earlier this year 🤜🤛
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@alanparrywriter.co.uk

$Insecurity alert We can argue the toss over separations and losses, but this much is for sure – I am insecurely attached. Mostly I depend upon your warmth and acclaim to scaffold the edifice of my ramshackle sense of self. But hey – no pressure! It's not like you owe me any special consideration – no need, as such, to frack my mudrock offerings for depth or distinction. I'm not proud – I can do naked and abandoned in the void every bit as easily.$

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Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social · 9h

The closing lines wake us from the dream we all have of 'being' someone else. We become the 'beast' rather than the 'beauty'. A wonderful narrative tone. Thank you. #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #StayCreative #PoetsSupportPoets

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Quill of Mnemosyne @sonnetsmith.bsky.social · 2d

My contribution to #poemsabout #imperfectme
It's a piece that I've been meaning to write for a few weeks but never got round to it, so thank you
@alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
For the push.

This is

Cracks In the Mirror

#poetry #blueskypoet #poem #mirror #identity #lost

It stares at me, from the other side of an empty room,
A face familiar, but still unrecognizable.
Silvered glass, which was not cracked last time I looked upon it
Now shattered into fragments, in each one an impostor.

A thousand faces trapped within; not one is whom I seek,
It stares at me, from the other side of an empty room
And I stare back, wondering who this man before me is
The man with cracks that crawl across his myriad of masks.

I know him not; I never have, but somehow he knows me
His crooked smiles, and weary eyes drill deep into my soul
He stares at me, from the other side of an empty room
From in between the cracks; a man I thought I used to know.

Once upon a time I saw my own face in the mirror
A bright and beaming smile; that was who I'd always be,
But somehow I cant see him in the faces of the beast
That stares at me, from the other side of this still empty room.

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Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social · 9h

The final stanza sweeps away all doubt: to be 'in body' is generative. It grounds skyward glances, calms inner chatter, and finds lost sense of purpose. #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #StayCreative #PoetsSupportPoets

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Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 1d

A bit of a #WIP I've been working on just as #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe hit.
Thanks! @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

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Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social · 9h

This: lies I'd rather forget. Something profound about this vulnerability. It's the perfection of truth and is what keeps us far removed from imperfect AI. #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #StayCreative #PoetsSupportPoets

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Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · 1d

#PoemsAbout #imperfectMe
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@alanparrywriter.co.uk

@thebrokenspine.co.uk

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Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social · 12h

Of course 🌹

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Rebekah 💙🏳️‍🌈 @rteller.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you ❤️

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Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social · 12h

The sorrow in this is so tangible. And your formatting allows me to feel it deeply. Thanks for sharing 🙏 #poemsabout #imperfectme
@alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

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Rebekah 💙🏳️‍🌈 @rteller.bsky.social · 16h

Here's my offering for #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Twelve

Sometimes I feel
I don't belong
And being here
Just feels so wrong.
From deep inside
A quiet moan.
And all I want
Is to go home.

I get nervous.
I don't know why,
And all I seem
to do is cry.
It's dark and wet
And hard and old.
And all I do
Is what I'm told.

The world is there.
It's big and bright.
But all I see
Is empty night.
Nightmares and fear
And evil queens
Are all I have
In place of dreams.

But someday soon,
I don't know when,
This misery
Will find an end.
Can someone please
Help me relieve
The endless fray
Of being me?

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Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social · 12h

The truth so beautifully captured in your words.🙏 #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #StayCreative #PoetsSupportPoets

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Alan Parry He/Him @alanparrywriter.co.uk · 13h

‘bare feet on the hour hand’ — brutal and brilliant. You trap the reader inside time’s cruelty.
#KeepWriting #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe

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Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · 13h

Very kind, thank you

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Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social · 15h

Truly, no one is alone! A strong message softly delivered. #poemsabout #imperfectme @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #staycreative #poetssupportpoets

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Kristin Houlihan, Writer @kristinwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Late post for #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe

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From my book, Lift the Mask, and the piece its title was taken from (this is a photo of the page from the paperback)

#Ubiquity

Normalize the
#ubiquity of brokenness.
Enlighten all to the
universality of struggle.
Lift the mask worn
by the apparently whole.
Each broken soul
will then find solace
in knowing it's
not alone.

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Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social · 15h

Great poem! Unexpected journey well worth the travel. #poemsabout #imperfectme @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #staycreative #poetssupportpoets