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James Ph. Kotsybar
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In print in seven countries, first poet (honored by NASA to be) published to another planet.
Once sang William Blake's poetry with Allen Ginsberg.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt workshopped one of my poems into a screenplay.
Prior nursery owner & orchid judge.
From: VENN TABLE FOR ONE?
#excerpt 🟰
Not everyone sees the beauty of math
or understands the treasures that they find.

Few know the delights of a chalkboard, full,
reduced to one elegant line, at last,
or explanation of gravity’s pull,
or finding how those things with heft amassed.
December 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
December 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
... simultaneously forcing a societal reckoning with meaningful work, human identity, and the ethical boundaries of autonomy, ushering in an era where humans either ascend 👼 to higher creativity or risk becoming obsolete in a world where machines do everything better, faster, and without complaint.
December 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
December 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Actually, this was my second international citation.
December 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
VACATION PLANNING
#haiku #TravelerMiles
Though I've got the miles
and the time to take a trip,
off-world can't be booked.
December 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
VACATION, ATLAS!
#reversing #fibonacci start with 21 syllables. (then 13,8,5,3,2,1,1)
December 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
LIMITING TERMS
#SupremeCourt #haiku
Appointed for life
What on Earth were we thinking?
Recipes for graft?
December 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
THERE WAS A WAR ON?
#holiday #haiku
FOX and MAGA won!
We can say, "Merry Christmas!"
(Glitzmas, if preferred).
December 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
from
EXOGENETIC DESELECTION

The first interplanetary hybrid was created to avoid restrictions imposed by The Federation upon the transportation and trade of tribbles, but Trabbits® were a “haribble” idea.
... if they reached Earth, they would burrow. Their “crashed” cargo ship made quite a furrow.
December 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Expression Of The Artificially Intelligent
#haiku #prophetic
It will sing to us
using our stolen voices --
lyrics sans intent.
December 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
My very first science poem.
December 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
CUTE TO GOD
#haiku #spiritual #humor #humour
I sometimes wonder:
What does God know about “cute?”
And what makes it fade?
December 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A CONSTELLATION OF SATELLITES
#haiku
They call it StarLINK:
This X LLC provides
internet, blocks stars.

I've read that one in three astro-photographs now sport Elon Musk's autographic streaks.
Is this the price of progress¿ or just one billionaire pushing would-be astrophotographers aside?
December 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Happy Birthday to Cathy Lee (Wonder Woman) Crosby!
December 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
"A little learning is a dangerous thing ;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again."
~ Alexander Pope
December 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
OHIO REFUGEE
#haiku #immigration
My parents brought me,
Californian since age six,
seeking better life.
December 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
OVERTURE OF PLANETS
#haiku #sequel
Collisions murmur,
Tuning their orbits, until,
they strike concert pitch.
December 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
DON'T LOOK NOW, a #haiku inspired by #MatsuoBashō and the #ThomasYoung #doubleslit #experiment.

Particle photon
through twin slits, concurrently --
light laps like waves. Flash!

#Physics #Sciku
December 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
EMERSON ANNOTATED
#haiku
Sometimes a scream is
better than a thesis, but
best is dialog.

#eeriecollage
November 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
NOW IN 3-D!
#haiku
Black and white gothic,
given sound, color and now
added dimension.
November 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
DEVOUT ONLOOKER
#chapbook (20pg)
November 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Joan Of Spark
#haiku
Nothing can stifle
her determination or
fiery passion.
November 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
What Goes Around
#sonnet
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
EYES HAVE IT
#haiku
Smiling starts from eyes,
magnetically drawing
corners of the mouth.
November 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM