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Scott McConnaha

@smcconnaha.bsky.social

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Poet and grandpa. It’s taken too many years for me to finally say that out loud. (Not the part about being a grandpa.) Living in Wisconsin.

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Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 21h

Thank you, David

Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 1d

Restful. Thank you.

Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Emily!

Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 1d

Love this. Your lovely poem evokes a huge sense of "finally!"

Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 1d

Let's listen in black and white. Love this!

Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 1d

Made me smile, and think of all the places I’ve stealthily left my spoor 😊

Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 1d

Awww. Thank you!

Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 1d

The escape room. “Twin torments for hermit souls.” Love that!

Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 1d

Hello Fidel. Love this prompt. Thank you!
@dragonslayerma.bsky.social
#promptcombo #simplepleasures

Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, Emily! Totally agree.

Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you, Karen. So kind.

Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you, Jane! That is indeed what I was going for. If more people just stuck to their own honest work…

Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks so much, Alan. Really appreciate it!

Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 4d

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

Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 18d

Wow. This one's made me pause.

Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 22d

I can’t wait. Gonna be so much less traffic

Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 22d

I certainly will!

Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 22d

“I hold the restlessness of wild words”
Love that!

Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 22d

Lovely poem. Really like “ancestral stories ‧ spoken to none,
a patchy picture, parish records
that mice and mould ‧ have managed to chew,
a legacy of legend ‧ that lessens to myth”

Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 22d

So many evocative images. I'm especially struck by this one:
“…the line of trees / Along the edge of the field, signaling nothing but a windbreak / To the next horizon.” Beautiful!

Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you!

Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 25d

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
— Albert Camus

Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social · 26d

Writers and artists take note.

M. Kabir @mkabir.bsky.social · 27d

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”

— Carl Jung (1875–1961)

Reposted by Scott McConnaha

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 27d

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.