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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 4h

Joan Baez tells us why she's turning to poetry to talk about the news — and shares an exclusive new poem skewering Donald Trump's lack of empathy.

Joan Baez Skewers Donald Trump's Lack of Empathy in New Poem

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namehereok.bsky.social @namehereok.bsky.social · 5h

“She had gotten the better of herself, and asked for none of the things that belonged to this world.”
-The Phantom Carriage, 1921, dir. Victor
Sjöström

#quotes #poetry #cinema #whatimwatching #victorsjöström

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namehereok.bsky.social @namehereok.bsky.social · 1d

“Sunshine is something
I hear of
on late-night news.
A pathetic mortal vampire
since you revoked
your invitation.”
-S.L. Robinson

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #dreamsofdecadence #slrobinson

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namehereok.bsky.social @namehereok.bsky.social · 2d

“Alas! I prophesied truly, and failed only in one single circumstance, that in all the misery I imagined and dreaded, I did not conceive the hundredth part of the anguish I was destined to endure.”
-Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein”

#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #frankenstein #maryshelley

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Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 4d

“No Kings” was a popular topic for Poems While You Wait at the Art Institute today

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namehereok.bsky.social @namehereok.bsky.social · 8d

“I have no use
for my pen, which lies
languorously without grief.”
-Ha Jin

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #hajin

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namehereok.bsky.social @namehereok.bsky.social · 15d

“…brushing
everything as she passes
with her slow hands
and soft lips —“
-Mary Oliver

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #maryoliver

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Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social · 17d

The Books I Have Not Read, by Shel Silverstein

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 18d

Good morning. Don't panic.

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Bride of Funkenstein @malicew.bsky.social · 21d

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namehereok.bsky.social @namehereok.bsky.social · 24d

“The stars are far brighter
Than gems without measure,
The moon is far whiter
Than silver in treasure;
The fire is more shining
On hearth in the gloaming
Than gold won by mining,
So why go a-roaming?”
-J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit”

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #tolkien

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TheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 27d

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur

Pic of the day

#photography

The tall red mountains of Zion national Park

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namehereok.bsky.social @namehereok.bsky.social · 27d

“I cannot see her tonight.
I have to give her up.
So I will eat fugu.”
-Yosa Buson

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #haiku
#booksky #whatimreading #buson

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namehereok.bsky.social @namehereok.bsky.social · Sep 22

“ ‘Go back?’ he thought. ‘No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!’ So up he got…”
- J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit”

#quotes #tolkien #thehobbit #lotr #booksky #whatimreading

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namehereok.bsky.social @namehereok.bsky.social · Sep 22

“We lived at the end of an empire.”
-Jim Moore

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #jimmoore

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namehereok.bsky.social @namehereok.bsky.social · Sep 18

“Tonight there must be people who are getting what they want.”
-Jennifer Michael Hecht

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #jennifermichaelhecht

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namehereok.bsky.social @namehereok.bsky.social · Sep 14

“your life is not a crime”
-Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #josephfasano

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namehereok.bsky.social @namehereok.bsky.social · Sep 13

“Death calls to us all, my friend- it is a potent lure. We search for answers, and find none, and begin to consider the void…”
-FL4K, Borderlands 3

#quotes #whatimplaying #borderlands #borderlands3

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · Sep 11

Fascism is the small mind's fear of the myriad beauties of the world.

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namehereok.bsky.social @namehereok.bsky.social · Sep 11

“Not all hurt people hurt people.
Some spend their lives making sure no one else
feels what they did.”
-Nadia Addesi

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #nadiaaddesi

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namehereok.bsky.social @namehereok.bsky.social · Sep 10

“We have not long to love.
Light does not stay.”
-Tennessee Williams

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem
#booksky #whatimreading #tennesseewilliams

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namehereok.bsky.social @namehereok.bsky.social · Sep 6

“The paper is full of every kind of blooming horror
And you sit wondering
What you’re gonna do.”
-Maya Angelou

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #mayaangelou

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poetryisnotaluxury.bsky.social @poetryisnotaluxury.bsky.social · Sep 1

let us be like the flowers

Grace Paley

September

Then the flowers became very wild
because it was early September
and they had nothing to lose
they tossed their colors every
which way over the garden wall
splattering the lawn shoving their
wild orange red rain-disheveled faces
into my window without shame

From Grace Paley / Begin Again

Collected Poems

Farrar Straus And Giroux, 2001.

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Jenny Tayla @jennytayla.bsky.social · Aug 29

~David Gate

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namehereok.bsky.social @namehereok.bsky.social · Aug 30

“England is a cup of tea.
France, a wheel of ripened brie.
Greece, a short, squat olive tree.
America is a gun.”
-Brian Bilston

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #SOSAmerica

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