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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · Jul 20

Solivagant's #workshops, #retreats & #hypnocoaching nurture the innate #giftedness and #wisdom of #introversion, #solitude, #highsensitivity & #neurodivergence.

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Rowboat stranded by the retreated tide on a salt marsh on the North Norfolk Coast

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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 1h

Most welcome! Yes, I believe that's Michaelangelo.

Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 1h

Many thanks, John. 🙏😊 My free adaptation of a little-known Georg Trakl poem.

Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 1h

Most welcome, John!

Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 2h

Superbly succinct & unsparing. And yes, that shortening refrain. 🏆🌠

Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 2h

Many thanks, also for the repost! 🙏😊 Credit ultimately lies with Mr. 27-Club Trakl, whose expressionism is basically pathetic fallacy on steroids - or, in his case, cocaine.

Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 2h

This is superb, Eleanor! Also darkly disturbing & expressed so (un)sparingly & succinctly. Great work! 🏆🌠

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Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social · 3h

Morning all, I'm going to be looking through posts later today for #poemsabout & #imperfectme

This has taken me back to an old project, 'Flora Speaks' where I created the character Flora to say things I struggle to. Basically she is badass!

Thank you 🙏
@alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

ink blot

they tried to dip me in ink, press me on paper,
just like a specimen collected for show.

his Red Hot Poker was the last thing
they expected to find, between white sheets
of tree pulp, sweat, and the salt stain of tears.

a life size ink blot for fools, who would
try to understand the unknowable.

Rare Book Division, The New York Public Library. "Quanta neruorum tabula. [Human ervous system]" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1545. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-f38e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you, also for the repost! 🙏😊 The credit ultimately lies with young Georg Trakl.

Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 2h

Student parties in the early-mid '90s for me. Druggy, munchied & safe-sexed (ideally). 😅 Kids these days (by kids, I mean those born after 1985) seem strait-laced compared to the mischief Boomers & GenXers got up to. 😅

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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 3h

Most welcome!

Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 3h

You're most welcome, Carolyn. Party Seven sounds like the late-'80s zeitgeist of my teenage years, relieved only by Glasnost & Acid House. 😅

Shandy in the '70s for me. Early '80s were all surreptitious nips of sherry & port from the family drinks cabinet. 😅

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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 3h

Most welcome, Helen!

Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 3h

Most welcome!

Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 3h

Most welcome! I really liked the poem with its refrains.

Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 3h

Many thanks, Sue! 🙏😊

Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 3h

Many thanks, also for the repost! 🙏😊 The credit ultimately lies with young Mr. Trakl.

Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 3h

Many thanks, also for the repost! 🙏😊

Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 3h

Supple, sparse, superbly rhythmic. The inanimate beautifully animated! 🏆🌠

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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 3h

This really resonates, Carolyn. Clever weaving in of tenses - I approve. And yes, I know all about "sweet-fatal punches" (ask my 16-year-old self 😅), although I was a decade or so late for Party Seven. 😁 Great work! 🏆🌠

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Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 12h

For #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe Posting my effort now but madly busy so will try to catch up with everyone’s work later - the ones I have seen are great 😊
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk

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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 3h

"Anecdotes of nowhere" & the browsing of bags - so vivid, so surreal, yet eminently relatable. I can see, feel this in my mind's eye. 🏆🌠

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C. Oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social · 8h

For this #PoemsAbout I’ve found the perfect #ImperfectMe (no lying🤥) and now that the 🐱 out of the 🎩 (was it a 🛍️?) I’m gonna 💨 for the day (JK…) Thanks to host @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
also for #haikuchallenge #anecdote for host @bleuowl.bsky.social
#tanka #Oulens #blueskypoetry

Confessions of an unabashembellisht
- C. Oulens

Oi, I’m a hatful
of lies that hurts umm… no one?
okay… almost.— there!

you browse your own bags while I
~embellish~>
anecdotes of…
nowhere—… .. . _ -

Afterword

* if I’ve to ‘embellish’ (instead of ‘spin’) ‘anecdotes’ (instead of ‘tales’) it’s reasonable that I be permitted 2 extra syllables in the #tanka for my extra-churned services…?🤔

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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 3h

Inventive, intriguing, invites repeated reading! 🏆🌠

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Dean Norton @zentinl.bsky.social · 8h

#PoemsAbout. An October Friday seems perfect for an #ImperfectMe... @alanparrywriter.co.uk brought 🔥 this week with this prompt. @thebrokenspine.co.uk @brokenspinearts.bsky.social @alanparry83.bsky.social @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry

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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 3h

For me, a psychologically astute taking-stock at/of midlife. 🏆🌠