The Mad Sonneteer
@themadsonneteer.bsky.social
Poet? Philosopher? Social Commentator? Student? Teacher? Jedi Knight? Bud Koenemund is The Mad Sonneteer!
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USS Arizona Memorial - #PearlHarbor, Hawaii
7 December 1941
7 December 1941
December 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
USS Arizona Memorial - #PearlHarbor, Hawaii
7 December 1941
7 December 1941
December 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
December 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
RSVP to Holly Gennaro ASAP.
December 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
RSVP to Holly Gennaro ASAP.
“The fairy poet takes a sheet
Of moonbeam, silver white;
His ink is dew from daisies sweet,
His pen a point of light.”
- #JoyceKilmer (born: 6 December 1886)
Of moonbeam, silver white;
His ink is dew from daisies sweet,
His pen a point of light.”
- #JoyceKilmer (born: 6 December 1886)
December 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
“The fairy poet takes a sheet
Of moonbeam, silver white;
His ink is dew from daisies sweet,
His pen a point of light.”
- #JoyceKilmer (born: 6 December 1886)
Of moonbeam, silver white;
His ink is dew from daisies sweet,
His pen a point of light.”
- #JoyceKilmer (born: 6 December 1886)
Anyone else know the feeling when you have to crawl out of bed at 0400 because the last two lines of a new #sonnet just hit your brain, and rather than simply jot them down on the clipboard on your nightstand, you have to see what they look like on the page? No? Just me? OK.
December 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Anyone else know the feeling when you have to crawl out of bed at 0400 because the last two lines of a new #sonnet just hit your brain, and rather than simply jot them down on the clipboard on your nightstand, you have to see what they look like on the page? No? Just me? OK.
December 6, 2025 at 9:51 AM
December 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
December 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
- #ClaudeMonet (died: 5 December 1926)
December 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
- #ClaudeMonet (died: 5 December 1926)
“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.” - #AlexandreDumas (died: 5 December 1870)
December 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.” - #AlexandreDumas (died: 5 December 1870)
Dear Santa;
1. What I really want – NEED – is a cure for cancer.
If you could drop it off to Sloan Kettering in New York City, I’d really appreciate it.
2. I know times are tight, but if you could ask people to donate a few dollars to Christina Alvarado's GoFundMe, I'd really appreciate it.
1. What I really want – NEED – is a cure for cancer.
If you could drop it off to Sloan Kettering in New York City, I’d really appreciate it.
2. I know times are tight, but if you could ask people to donate a few dollars to Christina Alvarado's GoFundMe, I'd really appreciate it.
Donate to “Fighting for Life: Rebuilding Hope with Stage 4 Cancer”, organized by Christina Alvarado
This is the cost of my medical insurance for the year. This i… Christina Alvarado needs your support for “Fighting for Life: Rebuilding Hope with Stage 4 Cancer”
www.gofundme.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Dear Santa;
1. What I really want – NEED – is a cure for cancer.
If you could drop it off to Sloan Kettering in New York City, I’d really appreciate it.
2. I know times are tight, but if you could ask people to donate a few dollars to Christina Alvarado's GoFundMe, I'd really appreciate it.
1. What I really want – NEED – is a cure for cancer.
If you could drop it off to Sloan Kettering in New York City, I’d really appreciate it.
2. I know times are tight, but if you could ask people to donate a few dollars to Christina Alvarado's GoFundMe, I'd really appreciate it.
December 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reposted by The Mad Sonneteer
The NYC Young Republicans are pivoting from having Nazi-sympathizers in their ranks to featuring them at their galas.
When people show you who they are, believe them.
When people show you who they are, believe them.
December 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The NYC Young Republicans are pivoting from having Nazi-sympathizers in their ranks to featuring them at their galas.
When people show you who they are, believe them.
When people show you who they are, believe them.
So true… and always will be.
December 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
So true… and always will be.
“In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.” - #RobertLouisStevenson (died: 3 December 1894)
December 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
“In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.” - #RobertLouisStevenson (died: 3 December 1894)
“We could not understand because we were too far and could not remember because we were travelling in the night of first ages, of those ages that are gone, leaving hardly a sign—and no memories.” - #JosephConrad (born: 3 December 1857)
December 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“We could not understand because we were too far and could not remember because we were travelling in the night of first ages, of those ages that are gone, leaving hardly a sign—and no memories.” - #JosephConrad (born: 3 December 1857)
December 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Verily, I say unto thee; sell no tree representing a Pagan ritual to any man who worships a different make believe man/woman/being in the sky than thou dost! For I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger… Oh, wait! Different verse!
#Christians
#Christians
December 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Verily, I say unto thee; sell no tree representing a Pagan ritual to any man who worships a different make believe man/woman/being in the sky than thou dost! For I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger… Oh, wait! Different verse!
#Christians
#Christians
“What is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a rosy circle drawn around the verb ‘to love.’ A kiss is a message too intimate for the ear, infinity captured...” - #EdmundRostand (died: 2 December 1918)
Cyrano de Bergerac 1950
YouTube video by Aaron Yang
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December 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
“What is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a rosy circle drawn around the verb ‘to love.’ A kiss is a message too intimate for the ear, infinity captured...” - #EdmundRostand (died: 2 December 1918)