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John Newmark
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Banner: Famous cloned sheep, Dolly. Stuffed and on display at National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Photograph taken in 2023.
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"The materials you authored from sixth through eighth grade are now free and available to the populace (everyone) for adaptation, publication, or general enjoyment."
We Regret to Inform You That Your Middle School Diary Has Lapsed into the Public Domain
This letter is to inform you (the author) that your intellectual property (middle school diary) has officially entered the public domain due to you...
buff.ly
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
For parents of middle schoolers who are interested in #numerology. (Students or Parents)

67+41 =108=5*18

#genalpha #sixseven #fortyone
November 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Converting a poem by Robert Frost into a #limerick … May I be forgiven
September 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Goliath beetles
With genes for razor sharp teeth —
where scientists erred.

#science
#haiku
#poetry
#beetles
September 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
With blueberries

Feeling impotent?
A breakfast panacea:
Cascades of pancakes

#emoetry #impotent
#blueskyrelay #panacea
#dailyhaikuprompt #cascade
September 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I
Calmly
Explain how
I can’t whistle.
My lips together, I blow without sound.

#calm #emoetry
#whistle #blueskyrelay
#tetractys
#micropoetry
#poetry
September 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
A grave confession

I lusted after
the youthful departed corpse’s
pungent apples.

#BlueSkyRelay Lust / Departure
#DailyHaikuPrompt Grave / Apple
#Emoetry Youthful
#HaikuHorrorPrompt Pungency
September 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Please do not groan,
but for most poets it’s known
not to end a sentence with ‘preternatural’
unless you are dining on mackerel
or heading to the bank with collateral
for a loan

#BlueskyRelay
#preternatural
September 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Slightly diminish a band…

The Grateful Terminally Ill
Slightly diminish a band...

The Bee-Aitchs....
Slightly diminish a band...

Alan Parsons Plan
September 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Crimson blood drips
from prison walls —
bonechilling

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Crimson
#chill
September 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Port with every dessert.
#7syllablesentence
#port
September 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
A tendency for silliness
provides the resilience
one needs to overcome
conversational silences.

#blueskyrelay
#resilience
September 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I must stock up on doubloons.
Talk Like a Pirate Day’s soon.

#7syllablesentence
#doubloon
September 5, 2025 at 12:56 AM
A man condemned to
Solitary confinement
hears no birdsong

#dailyhaikuprompt
#birdsong
#blueskyrelay
#solitary
September 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Quartz
Granite
Porcelain
Marble, Limestone —
Counting the ways you can top your counter.

#tetractys
#blueskyrelay
#limestone
September 3, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I
Realized
I was now
Out of my depth.
Panicking, I dove underneath my desk.

This was not helpful in the very least.
I took deep breaths;
Recovered
slowly.
Sigh.

#blueskyrelay
#depth
#tetractys
September 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
My favorite dinner:
Escargot and Brussels Sprouts -
Said no one ever

#dailyhaikuprompt
#sprouts
#snail
September 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Dentist Chair

The spray of mist
does absolutely nothing
to relieve the pain

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#mist
August 31, 2025 at 4:09 AM
As Godzilla tramples
lovers cower in clover
covered in mud

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#clover
#mud
August 30, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Charge of the Bite Brigade

600 diners attacked each other with layered Turkish pastry. Servers to the left of them. Servers to the right of them. It became known as The Battle of Baklava. Tennyson was not present. There was no one around to immortalize the events but me.

#BlueskyRelay
#Charge
August 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
She flit — Left me in a snit.

#7syllablesentence #flit
August 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Twin souls galloping
across decades of laughter —
Boisterous friendship

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Boisterous
#Friendship
August 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Barely dressed woman
Tramples field of spring blossoms
Wine bottle in hand

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Barely
#Spring
#Vine
#Haiku
#Micropoetry
August 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The drawn shade blocked the sunlight.
The tree stopped providing shade.

#7syllablesentence #shade
August 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“Live, laugh, luff,” the sailor said.

#7syllablesentence #luff
August 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM