Karen Pierce Gonzalez
@karenpgonzalez.bsky.social
Award winning poet/writer/artist Chaps: Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs, Moon kissed Earth wrought Vision drunk, RavenSong, Down River with Li Po & more. linktr.ee/KPGFolkHeart #NotJustPretty NO MAGA No solicitation
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
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"The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free."
-Charles Tart
-Charles Tart
November 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
"The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free."
-Charles Tart
-Charles Tart
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Evening Sunday
a bit late for #PoemsAbout #dogtag
And thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
#poems #poetry
have a great week everyone everywhere 🚶🏼♂️➡️
a bit late for #PoemsAbout #dogtag
And thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
#poems #poetry
have a great week everyone everywhere 🚶🏼♂️➡️
November 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Evening Sunday
a bit late for #PoemsAbout #dogtag
And thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
#poems #poetry
have a great week everyone everywhere 🚶🏼♂️➡️
a bit late for #PoemsAbout #dogtag
And thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
#poems #poetry
have a great week everyone everywhere 🚶🏼♂️➡️
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For #PoemsAbout #DogTags I did not feel I had the right to write. Finally, a meager offering emerged. Thank you to all those who serve and have served.
Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk.
#poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk.
#poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
November 22, 2025 at 2:35 AM
For #PoemsAbout #DogTags I did not feel I had the right to write. Finally, a meager offering emerged. Thank you to all those who serve and have served.
Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk.
#poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk.
#poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
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Two things I learned
growing up next to
a military base
friends can come
from anywhere and
#dogtags are all
the same color
#PoemsAbout
@thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk
growing up next to
a military base
friends can come
from anywhere and
#dogtags are all
the same color
#PoemsAbout
@thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Two things I learned
growing up next to
a military base
friends can come
from anywhere and
#dogtags are all
the same color
#PoemsAbout
@thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk
growing up next to
a military base
friends can come
from anywhere and
#dogtags are all
the same color
#PoemsAbout
@thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk
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Incredible storytelling in such brevity, reading like reportage. Stunning, Karen 👏
November 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Incredible storytelling in such brevity, reading like reportage. Stunning, Karen 👏
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Oh Karen how heart-breaking, that 'ploughed under' has brought tears to my eyes - the power of poetry! 🙏
November 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Oh Karen how heart-breaking, that 'ploughed under' has brought tears to my eyes - the power of poetry! 🙏
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Solemn, with gravitas, a powerful truth.
November 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Solemn, with gravitas, a powerful truth.
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Yes, there is a beauty in the simplicity of truth...indeed speaks the loudest! ❤️
November 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Yes, there is a beauty in the simplicity of truth...indeed speaks the loudest! ❤️
This #InTheDark captures the #spider webbed nightlife of my outdoor tabletop #sculpture. #blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin #photography #nature #art #stunday #myphonephoto #photohour #bluesky #scape #landscape #photographersofbluesky
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This #InTheDark captures the #spider webbed nightlife of my outdoor tabletop #sculpture. #blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin #photography #nature #art #stunday #myphonephoto #photohour #bluesky #scape #landscape #photographersofbluesky
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Thank you Karen - yes, I dipped into history, but sadly it has not been relegated to history as it should be! 🙏
November 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Thank you Karen - yes, I dipped into history, but sadly it has not been relegated to history as it should be! 🙏
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BREAKING: AOC on MTG retiring:
"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
November 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
BREAKING: AOC on MTG retiring:
"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
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P.S. Thank you Karen for holding the #PoemsAbout feedback fort 💚
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
P.S. Thank you Karen for holding the #PoemsAbout feedback fort 💚
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That has to be hard to see, but so important to document.
November 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
That has to be hard to see, but so important to document.
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Yes reading this, and from what you had said before about your journalist background made me think you had been there, in it, writing from that place. That powerful reality really comes across in your poem. I’m learning from my husband & his family about the Spanish civil war & dictatorship in Spain
November 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Yes reading this, and from what you had said before about your journalist background made me think you had been there, in it, writing from that place. That powerful reality really comes across in your poem. I’m learning from my husband & his family about the Spanish civil war & dictatorship in Spain
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You have seen too much before your eyes, and can never be removed. Here in few words you sum up the profit and loss account of it all.
November 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
You have seen too much before your eyes, and can never be removed. Here in few words you sum up the profit and loss account of it all.
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I can only repeat what’s already been said. Picking up from @eleanorholmes.bsky.social, the subversion of pastoral imagery and language is profoundly effective.
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I can only repeat what’s already been said. Picking up from @eleanorholmes.bsky.social, the subversion of pastoral imagery and language is profoundly effective.
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This hits so starkly and so hard, but also reminded me that Ukrainian soldiers carry sunflower seeds in their pockets in case they are killed, so that one day the battlefields will bloom.
November 22, 2025 at 5:50 AM
This hits so starkly and so hard, but also reminded me that Ukrainian soldiers carry sunflower seeds in their pockets in case they are killed, so that one day the battlefields will bloom.
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Bitterly powerful piece🥹
elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire and says freedom
ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire and says freedom
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Bitterly powerful piece🥹
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Heartbreakingly powerful, Karen, in evoking the cost of war. I love the way you use the pastoral - initially to conjure innocence but then to emphasise horror and devastation - ‘ploughed under’, ‘watered’, ‘almost grown’, ‘reap what it sows’. Sparse, unsentimental and tender, a brilliant indictment
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Heartbreakingly powerful, Karen, in evoking the cost of war. I love the way you use the pastoral - initially to conjure innocence but then to emphasise horror and devastation - ‘ploughed under’, ‘watered’, ‘almost grown’, ‘reap what it sows’. Sparse, unsentimental and tender, a brilliant indictment
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This drips with sadness and truth...and then the punch at the end... "Invasion reaps only what is sows!" Truly magnificent! ❤️
November 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This drips with sadness and truth...and then the punch at the end... "Invasion reaps only what is sows!" Truly magnificent! ❤️
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Utterly blown away to be nominated for a #pushcart by a poetry journal that has, in the last year, published the likes of Kim Addonizio. 😭 🙏 All my gratitude to the editors of @oneart.bsky.social 🤗
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Utterly blown away to be nominated for a #pushcart by a poetry journal that has, in the last year, published the likes of Kim Addonizio. 😭 🙏 All my gratitude to the editors of @oneart.bsky.social 🤗