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Lit·er·ar·y Pug /ˈlidəˌrerē puhg/ rearranging words, watching 𝐴𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒 🐶#poetry #5amwritersclub🐶 Editing 2024 poems. Life is Star Trek. Be mindful.

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Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 19h

standard operating
procedure, step 212:
your hand is always
bigger than
(mine)
nothing is unsolvable,
at least that’s how you
decided to show up.
(finally)
committee decides
soon my hand size,
which is puzzling as
you still clasp
(mine, finale)
#5amwritersclub
#poetry
#blueskypoets
#poem

Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 7h

Yes. Best time to write for sure!

Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you! (returns salute)

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Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 11h

I wish I could claim dedication. My brain wakes me up. I do about 1-1.5 hours then fall back asleep.

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Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 19h

The world is one big word bucket of yard sale legos, and I am here for the sorting.
#5amwritersclub

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Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 19h

Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 1d

In my knee jerk world,
swallowing a tricycle
is a regular occurrence.
Doesn’t matter I’m on it,
peddling fast enough
for two time trips.
Deciduous pasts
will slough off
eventually.
But why wait?
Unhinge my jaw
so I can prep
for the meal
while it’s still
green
#5amwritersclub #poem #poetry

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Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 3d

Greatness doesn’t come
from being greater. It comes
from being ok with being
good, consistently.

Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 3d

We will have to start combining GIFs, like in Orwell’s 1984. Doubleplusungood.

Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 3d

It was the winter of 65.
I was dropped onto the
earth in a pink tuxedo.

Calculus class was
terrifying and red, and
a few vibrations that
hummed inside.

Strawberry sugar always
sweetened the sour at
my back teeth.

One rumpled molar
even escaped,
to explore.
#5amwritersclub
#poem
#poetry

Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 4d

Solo solipsist
redundant recant
of the decanting of
self by self, with
guest appearance
by self. Can’t prove
it, this the it self
itself on the shelf
in the town of Guelph.
Solipsist slippers worn
while I sell me shells
by the thee shore, but
can’t be sure thee
tidal pool is dual.
How cruel!
#poem

Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 5d

Why was I given the template
for more of me?
What is my motivation to
replace what breaks, to age
to obsolescence?

I threw out the manual.
Free verse creation.

Multiple arms ok. Success
goaded me on to wings,
branches, pseudopodia.

I enveloped the universe.

And digested it.
#5amwritersclub

Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 6d

Far is outmoded,
almost moldy.
We keep everything in
existence close, so
there’s no reach or
travel. Balance is
tipping when your
freight is fright. I’m
afraid regret only
plays out as a gift
these days, because
sorry exceeds safe,
and worry is worse
than late.
#5amwritersclub #poem #poetry #poet

Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 6d

The writer and the pea.
So many levels
So many
drafts.
“I was so uncomfortable
last night, and look
what I found…”
(holds up gerund)
“They must be a true
writer. Detecting
is a skill. Sometimes
the stress gerunder
matters under a
mattress.”
#5amwritersclub

Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 7d

Best poetic thoughts into the ether.

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Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 7d

Enter at 6, to start.
Exit at 3, or 12, or 9.

But what if we enter at
the perpendicular, or
even teleport in?

Or we can enter at the
exit and go backwards,
meet ourselves at 6

Either way, standing it
on end and spinning it,
it was always a sphere,
it appears.
#5amwritersclub #poetry #poem

Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 9d

#5amwritersclub #poem #poetry
#writingcommunity #blueskypoets

Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 10d

My orchids are flirting with me. 🥰

Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 10d

Donuts. Cookies. Nothing you can’t catch up on. Welcome back.

Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 10d

Well done pop tarts are a thing, for sure.

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Mickey Revenaugh @mickeyrevenaugh.bsky.social · 11d

Ode to the #5amwritersclub XOXO

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The 5am Writers Club by Mickey Revenaugh — Yellow Arrow Publishing

Mickey Revenaugh, Yellow Arrow’s president of the board, explains her adventures in writing in the 5am Writers Club.

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Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 10d

Nice write!

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Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 10d

Pre-op poems. Me-ops.
Careful scrubbing and
gowning before handling
of any words. Only the
freshest of phonemes
used in the prep,with
an ear to carefully
cross-contaminate
as much as possible.
Double entendre probable,
Interpretation unique,
multivariate critique
(I’m a little sneak)
#5amwritersclub

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Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 11d

Someone changed
the clock. Now it’s
a dreary new model.
Oh, clock! Why does
changing matter?
Why does matter
change? Why chatter
stays mainly in the
plain? Ticking is
still ticking, last
time I checked.
On time for being
out of time, but
at least let the
accounted ledger
lead you.
#5amwritersclub

Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 12d

Sometimes I’m purposefully
teetering on the edge,
teething insanity like it’s
erupting through my gums,
seething profanity escaping
me during services, in elevators,
in dreams, in reams, teaming
up with can-do, unlikely
bedfellows, bellowing
a duplicitous diatribe
to a tribe I cannot describe.
#poem

Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 14d

#5amwritersclub #poem #poetry
#writingcommunity #blueskypoets