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❖ #ForgottenPoets & #ForgottenPrints ❖ Pre-1930s poetry & art ❖ Edited by Dick Whyte #dwpoems ❖ https://forgottenpoets.substack.com ❖ Poetry New Zealand ❖ #PoetryAotearoa ❖ Forgotten Press ❖ https://linktr.ee/forgottenpoets

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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · Nov 14

New book of #haiku and #renga by Laurence Stacey and Dick Whyte out now!!! #poetry #poems #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #micropoetry Buy copies here: amazon.com/dp/1991310471

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 1h

The Dark Blue Bird, Edward Lear.

Painting, The Dark Blue Bird

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 14h

From Wendy Xu's book, You Are Not Dead: bookshop.org/a/862/9780986025723

#poem #books #writing

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 12h

Laura Kasischke

Three Days

The dirty songbirds
that were my breasts
flustered
and sang
and ate me for
forty-eight years, two
months, one week, three
days, and left
behind
these wrecked nests.

Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 15h

Miriam Cassel Matthews - 5 Short Poems

Forgotten Poems #130

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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 15h

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From 'Spring Interlude' (1927)
—Miriam Cassel Matthews

#ForgottenPoets #poetry #booksky

SLAG

With your breath upon me
My love flames high with garnet sparks--
Like a furnace of molten steel,
Windblown.

Having felt the breath of God,
Are the stars
Mere smoldering slag
Fallen from an immortal crucible
Where souls are in the making?

Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 22h

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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 1d

Kenneth Slade Alling - 6 Short Poems (1923-24)

Forgotten Poems #131

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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 1d

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From the latest issue of #ForgottenPoets
—Kenneth Slade Alling (1923)

#poetry #poems #booksky

To One Who Asked

Ah, what are poems? There is a kind of tree
That bruised, bleeds golden blood into the sea.
And now you need not ask again of me.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 2d

K. Curtis Lyle

There is the SPIRIT
There is the SPIRIT
There is the SPIRIT
There is the SPIRIT

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 1d

you are a rare comet

Joseph Beuys, Comet, 1955-56

watercolour of a comet in paled hues of brown and cream

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 1d

I have four new poems in the newest 'censorship' issue of The Indianapolis Review

Here's one of them

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Silent America

The superstitious
lamb asks
for more
bricks.

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 1d

From Lucille Clifton's book, How to Carry Water: bit.ly/howtocarrywater

#poem #books #writing

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Deleuzian Haiku @deleuzianhaiku.bsky.social · 1d

#20 (p10-c)

orchid
becoming
wasp—
becoming
orchid

#deleuze #haiku

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orchid
becoming
wasp—
becoming
orchid

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 2d

Halie Theoharides

We tell ourselves a myth
We wait for a bigger entity
Some casual proof
To descend without trumpets
Before we’re let out
Into the big diorama of
Whatever things
Are sort of safe

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 2d

Tony Hoagland

Couture

If by mink
coat you mean
a soft, warm
garment
made from
the lives of
many other
creatures,
then, yeah, sure,
I guess you
could say I'm
wearing a
mink coat.

Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 2d

Any other Deleuze + poetry fans out there 🖤

Deleuzian Haiku @deleuzianhaiku.bsky.social · 2d

#18 (p10-a)

microfascisms
just waiting to crystallize . . .
i become cat

#deleuze #haiku

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microfascisms
just waiting to crystallize . . .
i become cat

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Deleuzian Haiku @deleuzianhaiku.bsky.social · 2d

#17 (p9-b)

couchgrass:
constantly fleeing
from fascists

#deleuze #haiku

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couchgrass:
constantly fleeing
from fascists

Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 3d

From ‘War Is Kind’ (1899)
—Stephen Crane

#poetry #poems #booksky

Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 7d

Miriam Cassel Matthews - 5 Short Poems

Forgotten Poems #130

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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 7d

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From the latest issue of #ForgottenPoets
—Miriam Cassel Matthews (1927)

#poetry #poems #booksky

THE BATTLE FROM A DISTANCE

I.

Through the night a light gleamed
Like that from pewter in a darkened room,

Or like a camp fire
Reflecting on the guns,

Or like a flame of lightning
Above low mist.

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 7d

Bob Heman

That

that becomes a river
or some earth that is burning
or a sky obscured by bicycles
that describes the shadows
cast by the giraffes
before they are swallowed
by the barn

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 7d

“National Poetry Day,” huh? Sure, why not. Anyway here’s Paul Celan.

A Leaf, treeless
for Bertolt Brecht:

What times are these
when a conversation
is almost a crime
because it includes
so much made explicit?

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Erika Lee Sears @erikaleesears.bsky.social · 7d

Crash #oilpainting #art

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 7d

dream awake dream