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Brace Yourself: A Poetry Chapbook
Amazon.com: Brace Yourself: A Poetry Chapbook eBook : St. James, Edward: Kindle Store
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For those who like my poetry, you can check out my chapbook Brace Yourself here!
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It was self published so I appreciate everyone who does take a look :)
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It was self published so I appreciate everyone who does take a look :)
The #mind-blowing shooting streak
That illuminates night beyond the moon-
Comes across with a shriek
From #stem to noon.
#emoetry #wildwalkprompt #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity
That illuminates night beyond the moon-
Comes across with a shriek
From #stem to noon.
#emoetry #wildwalkprompt #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity
February 18, 2026 at 1:20 PM
The #mind-blowing shooting streak
That illuminates night beyond the moon-
Comes across with a shriek
From #stem to noon.
#emoetry #wildwalkprompt #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity
That illuminates night beyond the moon-
Comes across with a shriek
From #stem to noon.
#emoetry #wildwalkprompt #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity
At the river’s #end
An impressive mouth gaping
From marsh to the Sound.
#haiku #haikufeels #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
An impressive mouth gaping
From marsh to the Sound.
#haiku #haikufeels #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
February 18, 2026 at 1:18 PM
At the river’s #end
An impressive mouth gaping
From marsh to the Sound.
#haiku #haikufeels #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
An impressive mouth gaping
From marsh to the Sound.
#haiku #haikufeels #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
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A conspiracy of silence
covers everything
It’s deafening
You’re killing for the man
We weren’t born to run
we were born to die
if we decide to speak out
and step out of your killing line
amzn.to/3ScDi6q
#booksky #poets
covers everything
It’s deafening
You’re killing for the man
We weren’t born to run
we were born to die
if we decide to speak out
and step out of your killing line
amzn.to/3ScDi6q
#booksky #poets
Body Parts: Lyrical Poetry Or Poetic Lyrics For A Band To Be Named Later, Vol. 2
Body Parts: Lyrical Poetry Or Poetic Lyrics For A Band To Be Named Later, Vol. 2 - Kindle edition by Pappas, George. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Body Parts: Lyrical Poetry Or Poetic Lyrics For A Band To Be Named Later, Vol. 2.
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February 17, 2026 at 9:03 PM
A conspiracy of silence
covers everything
It’s deafening
You’re killing for the man
We weren’t born to run
we were born to die
if we decide to speak out
and step out of your killing line
amzn.to/3ScDi6q
#booksky #poets
covers everything
It’s deafening
You’re killing for the man
We weren’t born to run
we were born to die
if we decide to speak out
and step out of your killing line
amzn.to/3ScDi6q
#booksky #poets
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"My investigation into Alpha School also reveals that the massive amounts of data the company collects on students, including videos of them, is stored in a Google Drive folder that anyone with the link—even if they’ve left the company, or if it was sent to them—could access."
This is an insane story start to finish. $65k a year "AI school" heavily surveils students, generates nonsensical questions that "does more harm than good," scrapes from competitors. Stores hours of video of children insecurely. Lots more:
www.404media.co/students-are...
www.404media.co/students-are...
'Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School
Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that som...
www.404media.co
February 17, 2026 at 8:30 PM
"My investigation into Alpha School also reveals that the massive amounts of data the company collects on students, including videos of them, is stored in a Google Drive folder that anyone with the link—even if they’ve left the company, or if it was sent to them—could access."
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Congratulations to Michael Laskey who was awarded the King's Medal For Poetry at the weekend. Here's a fine appraisal of his work by Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social
thefridaypoem.com/michael-lask...
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The outsider who writes from within – The Friday Poem
Matthew Stewart looks at the work of Michael Laskey - The outsider who writes from within
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February 17, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Congratulations to Michael Laskey who was awarded the King's Medal For Poetry at the weekend. Here's a fine appraisal of his work by Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social
thefridaypoem.com/michael-lask...
thefridaypoem.com/michael-lask...
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sometimes the trick is
not choosing at all but to
walk the moment's edge
#senryu #poetry #visualart
#poetrycommunity #haiku
not choosing at all but to
walk the moment's edge
#senryu #poetry #visualart
#poetrycommunity #haiku
February 17, 2026 at 7:19 PM
sometimes the trick is
not choosing at all but to
walk the moment's edge
#senryu #poetry #visualart
#poetrycommunity #haiku
not choosing at all but to
walk the moment's edge
#senryu #poetry #visualart
#poetrycommunity #haiku
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Here’s an example of a local newsroom actually informing the public about AI (the role of journalism) versus the blatant AI boosterism we’re seeing many other newsrooms engage in to the detriment of the entire profession
The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could
February 17, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Here’s an example of a local newsroom actually informing the public about AI (the role of journalism) versus the blatant AI boosterism we’re seeing many other newsrooms engage in to the detriment of the entire profession
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Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
(Published Feb. 2025)
(Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
www.propublica.org
February 17, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
(Published Feb. 2025)
(Published Feb. 2025)
The #file is detailed
So the birth certificate
Can come into being.
#haikufeels #haiku #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
So the birth certificate
Can come into being.
#haikufeels #haiku #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
February 17, 2026 at 1:45 PM
The #file is detailed
So the birth certificate
Can come into being.
#haikufeels #haiku #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
So the birth certificate
Can come into being.
#haikufeels #haiku #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
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"Alice fell by accident, arms pinwheeling
down, down.
I fall on purpose.
I do it every year."
Check out "Persephone Wins Custody of Herself" in @havenspec.bsky.social 🍂
down, down.
I fall on purpose.
I do it every year."
Check out "Persephone Wins Custody of Herself" in @havenspec.bsky.social 🍂
👀February 2026 Poetry👀
"Persephone Wins Custody of Herself" is a poem by @marisca.bsky.social about defiance and the endless cycles of the world. Subscribers can read it Monday!
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"Persephone Wins Custody of Herself" is a poem by @marisca.bsky.social about defiance and the endless cycles of the world. Subscribers can read it Monday!
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![An excerpt of the poem "Persephone Wins Custody of Herself" by Marisca Pichette, in Issue 22 of Haven Spec Magazine (February 2026). The text reads:
between cold-pink toes
the grass my mother worked so hard to plant
wilts, browns, dies.
white dress stained muddy at the hem,
hair tangled with sticks
I catch a snowflake in my teeth.
[...]
The background is the issue's cover art, titled Harmonies of the Harvest, by Matthew Spencer. It shows a figure with a human body and a deer head.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4ueitqarm32pz3ap6ckphdzu/bafkreibpx46mnn2qhfdzl5q2uqkvttj6v4kfzv2bagcpkfp5mqotohnqbi@jpeg)
February 16, 2026 at 8:29 PM
"Alice fell by accident, arms pinwheeling
down, down.
I fall on purpose.
I do it every year."
Check out "Persephone Wins Custody of Herself" in @havenspec.bsky.social 🍂
down, down.
I fall on purpose.
I do it every year."
Check out "Persephone Wins Custody of Herself" in @havenspec.bsky.social 🍂
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February 16, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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I heard a radio report recently of a teenage boy from Uganda, who was HIV positive and had his meds ripped from him when USAID was withdrawn. His classmates started to call him the Walking Dead. And when the reporter next heard from his caseworker, he was gone.
The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/TSV3cmb
February 16, 2026 at 5:49 PM
I heard a radio report recently of a teenage boy from Uganda, who was HIV positive and had his meds ripped from him when USAID was withdrawn. His classmates started to call him the Walking Dead. And when the reporter next heard from his caseworker, he was gone.
#Illicit meanings
#Occur in the chambers of
My still beating heart;
Ill intentions seeping out like smoke
From a chimney freshly stoked.
#emoetry #haikufeels #haiku #couplet #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
#Occur in the chambers of
My still beating heart;
Ill intentions seeping out like smoke
From a chimney freshly stoked.
#emoetry #haikufeels #haiku #couplet #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
February 16, 2026 at 12:27 PM
#Illicit meanings
#Occur in the chambers of
My still beating heart;
Ill intentions seeping out like smoke
From a chimney freshly stoked.
#emoetry #haikufeels #haiku #couplet #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
#Occur in the chambers of
My still beating heart;
Ill intentions seeping out like smoke
From a chimney freshly stoked.
#emoetry #haikufeels #haiku #couplet #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
February 16, 2026 at 1:57 AM
February 16, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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Delighted to have a couple of poems in the excellent Eunoia Review. This is the first. Homecoming. #poem #poetrycommunity #booksky @eunoiareview.bsky.social
Homecoming
The carriage lights fail again. He is warmed with a plastic cup of instant plastic tea, and exults in this jolted tack into the forms of petrochemical corporatism, the exhaust clouds from floodlit towers that spray fouled-effluent spectres. Filmy beams slant the carriage with fume, mix…
The carriage lights fail again. He is warmed with a plastic cup of instant plastic tea, and exults in this jolted tack into the forms of petrochemical corporatism, the exhaust clouds from floodlit towers that spray fouled-effluent spectres. Filmy beams slant the carriage with fume, mix…
Homecoming
The carriage lights fail again. He is warmed with a plastic cup of instant plastic tea, and exults in this jolted tack into the forms of petrochemical corporatism, the exhaust clouds from floodlit towers that spray fouled-effluent spectres. Filmy beams slant the carriage with fume, mix phosphates in tea. Its girders lit zinc, zinc-oxide flashed, the familiar bridge rears in the grace…
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April 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Delighted to have a couple of poems in the excellent Eunoia Review. This is the first. Homecoming. #poem #poetrycommunity #booksky @eunoiareview.bsky.social
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stumbly landing
flat against the winter wind
peanut first, of course
#haikufeels #Flatten #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Nature #WildlifePhotography #Birds #Birding #BlueJay #Haiga #ImageAndVerse #Winter #EastCoastKin #BirdOfTheDay
flat against the winter wind
peanut first, of course
#haikufeels #Flatten #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Nature #WildlifePhotography #Birds #Birding #BlueJay #Haiga #ImageAndVerse #Winter #EastCoastKin #BirdOfTheDay
February 15, 2026 at 1:35 PM
stumbly landing
flat against the winter wind
peanut first, of course
#haikufeels #Flatten #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Nature #WildlifePhotography #Birds #Birding #BlueJay #Haiga #ImageAndVerse #Winter #EastCoastKin #BirdOfTheDay
flat against the winter wind
peanut first, of course
#haikufeels #Flatten #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Nature #WildlifePhotography #Birds #Birding #BlueJay #Haiga #ImageAndVerse #Winter #EastCoastKin #BirdOfTheDay
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après nous, le déluge
#imageandverse #orangesun #EastCoastKin #photography #CloudscapeClub #StormHour
#imageandverse #orangesun #EastCoastKin #photography #CloudscapeClub #StormHour
February 15, 2026 at 5:23 PM
après nous, le déluge
#imageandverse #orangesun #EastCoastKin #photography #CloudscapeClub #StormHour
#imageandverse #orangesun #EastCoastKin #photography #CloudscapeClub #StormHour
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February 14, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Spring’s #lush forest thrives from Winter’s frozen desolation of thick ice.
#monoku #wildwalkprompt #oneline #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
#monoku #wildwalkprompt #oneline #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
February 15, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Spring’s #lush forest thrives from Winter’s frozen desolation of thick ice.
#monoku #wildwalkprompt #oneline #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
#monoku #wildwalkprompt #oneline #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
To #flatten the world
Down to this little pond, it’s
Turtles sunbathing.
#haikufeels #haiku #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
Down to this little pond, it’s
Turtles sunbathing.
#haikufeels #haiku #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
February 15, 2026 at 12:56 PM
To #flatten the world
Down to this little pond, it’s
Turtles sunbathing.
#haikufeels #haiku #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
Down to this little pond, it’s
Turtles sunbathing.
#haikufeels #haiku #poem #poetry #writingcommunity
Love is so last February
With the baked goods and hearts
We’re #overit come January.
#emoetry #poem #poetry #tercet #micropoetry #writingcommunity
With the baked goods and hearts
We’re #overit come January.
#emoetry #poem #poetry #tercet #micropoetry #writingcommunity
February 14, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Love is so last February
With the baked goods and hearts
We’re #overit come January.
#emoetry #poem #poetry #tercet #micropoetry #writingcommunity
With the baked goods and hearts
We’re #overit come January.
#emoetry #poem #poetry #tercet #micropoetry #writingcommunity
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"I sit just above the sternum, where Christ’s unblemished mercy meets freckled cleavage. I hang, heavily and blessedly, where divinity schmoozes décolletage on the clavicular altar of Florida’s own Evangelical Barbie."
I Am Pam Bondi’s Shiny Gold Cross Necklace
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was “accessorize.” I am equal parts holy relic and regional pageant tiara. I...
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February 14, 2026 at 2:30 PM
"I sit just above the sternum, where Christ’s unblemished mercy meets freckled cleavage. I hang, heavily and blessedly, where divinity schmoozes décolletage on the clavicular altar of Florida’s own Evangelical Barbie."
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For #PoemsAbout #undressed for today’s prompt from @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk I offer this wee poem. It was all that came to mind. No doubt could do with work. Will read as and when my head allows. Have a good #poetry day folks.
February 13, 2026 at 6:23 AM
For #PoemsAbout #undressed for today’s prompt from @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk I offer this wee poem. It was all that came to mind. No doubt could do with work. Will read as and when my head allows. Have a good #poetry day folks.