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Ben Morgan
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Medea in Corinth - 2nd edition 2025 from Poetry Salzburg

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I sometimes genuinely wonder if our society deserves to survive.
November 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Kind of cool that one of these men is about to be Prime Minister of Holland.
October 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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I'm sorry but i always think jewel thieves are kind of fabulous. I'm sure there are a million reasons why this feeling is problematic and i should shed it but seriously, 'armed with small axes'? In the louvre? Why isn't all bad news like this
October 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Post you from a different era...

I was in this mood throughout the 90s
October 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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I just googled that and i'm afraid i can only conclude it is the work of satan!?? 🫢😂
October 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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All there is here - black tiles, a faint smell of rubber, and this solemn list of prohibitions for the protection of the absent cats.
October 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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rip jilly cooper but i'm not going to 'forget' the bronte sisters because she has died, nor because of her books

Can we stop getting stupider!? And more oddly misogynistic

Please
October 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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James Merrill, a great queer poet, though not the one the straight boys decided they liked. So not as widely read here as O'Hara. But a genius all the same. Happy national poetry day.
October 2, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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A Christmas poem, first published by @alanhumm.bsky.social at One Hand Clapping. Its amphibians are people. Its speaker is part of the Christmas story.

#PoetryTheme #AMPHIBIAN

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Birthday Tonight, like last year, we fish out the birthday tankards, and my mind goes back to that night beside the lake, when the spring moon unravelled her hair. Mother and father were wrangling over the catch. It smells bad, she said, the boy won’t be safe, and he said, The boy needs a meal. There’s still my bread – she said, and I saw, like lightning gentled to sunshine, that moonray spread out into cobwebs. Silver lightfall dimpled the water like heavenly rain. That night, he dropped, in his rage, a new bowl, which glinted the white of those tankards. When I saw it, and what lay behind it, I knew all colours were one colour. Later, after my promise – my mouth like a hem on a new shirt – he led me to the edge of the water through my soft mesh of tears. We moved her, quick as a fresh catch, the long silver line of a salmon in a net made of silence, left that night, delicate-soled nomads, never speaking her name. I blink her away, sweet mermaid loosed to the deepest water. I am here now, at this shaking table. This soft new man has planted himself in our hearts, and we must be grateful. He receives, gently, the too quickly proffered good wishes, the jewels-on-a-plate tears of joy, the singing that makes the place tremble. Tonight, it seems his gentleness saps him, wounds him like the first touch of autumn. The line thins. My turn. My hand in his hand. Auspicious day, I say, allowing the coolness he likes in me. He smiles, his dark eyes gone hard. Judas, he says, you’re too good to me.
September 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Spending some time this evening with history's campest painting, Francesco Hayez's 'Vengeance Is Sworn.' That silk....
The real housewives of Venice plot canalside in black silk.
September 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Anyone know how i would fix a scratch like this on an oak laminate work surface? Varnish?
September 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Ed. by Jacqueline Onassis!?
Cover of a vintage edition of the firebird and other Russian fairytales "edited and with an introduction by Jacqueline Onassis"
September 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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A spot of light is that this lovely poet is poet laureate of the United states
September 22, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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I've been told about this appalling national practice but never witnessed it. Whenever we do this we should - must - be corrected for our own good
September 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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First day at school, round about this week, few years back. The child is (well, let's say father) father to the man.
September 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Boy dinner
September 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Mid pandemic memory, 4 years ago today
A post from 4 years ago today that reads Kudos to the extremely nice barista who just leaned in and said through his mask, "I'm so sorry sir, but I think you'd want to know, your shirt is on inside out."
September 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Its just so unfortunate the word is 'sewer'
An ad for the great British sewing bee with the text 'which aspiring sewer will measure up to impress the judges?'
August 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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This person should be found and imprisoned
August 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Stupidly proud of having stumbled on this much instagrammed house by mistake

I should probably be ashamed of involving myself but look! Its real.
August 31, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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The Telegraph must be doing it deliberately now, right?
August 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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The only aspect of this i object to is the term 'fiction novels'

I feel like I've heard it elsewhere

Let's agree it never happened
August 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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❤️👑🫡
July 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Come on alanis!!!
July 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Alanis morissette with @samfr.bsky.social

We last saw her at 18

Some short time back.....
July 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM