Dan Carpenter
@carpoet.bsky.social
Poetry lover, perpetrator of poems, proud Indiana internal exile
Thick
if I hadn't reacted like a girlfriend
when she told me and only me
she sometimes shopped late at night
wearing nothing under her raincoat
we'd be herding the grandkids today
if I hadn't reacted like a girlfriend
when she told me and only me
she sometimes shopped late at night
wearing nothing under her raincoat
we'd be herding the grandkids today
January 27, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Thick
if I hadn't reacted like a girlfriend
when she told me and only me
she sometimes shopped late at night
wearing nothing under her raincoat
we'd be herding the grandkids today
if I hadn't reacted like a girlfriend
when she told me and only me
she sometimes shopped late at night
wearing nothing under her raincoat
we'd be herding the grandkids today
White House dinner for Nobel laureates. Pearl Buck, Robert Frost.
January 27, 2026 at 12:21 AM
White House dinner for Nobel laureates. Pearl Buck, Robert Frost.
MORNING IDYLL?
Single digits and a foot of white death
I think I'm alone in this baleful glare
Till the air erupts with tawny madness
Of a hawk hard after a dot of a finch
And, best I can tell, coming up empty
God, how you cheat your non-humans
Of the rest that rewards my labors
Single digits and a foot of white death
I think I'm alone in this baleful glare
Till the air erupts with tawny madness
Of a hawk hard after a dot of a finch
And, best I can tell, coming up empty
God, how you cheat your non-humans
Of the rest that rewards my labors
January 26, 2026 at 2:34 PM
MORNING IDYLL?
Single digits and a foot of white death
I think I'm alone in this baleful glare
Till the air erupts with tawny madness
Of a hawk hard after a dot of a finch
And, best I can tell, coming up empty
God, how you cheat your non-humans
Of the rest that rewards my labors
Single digits and a foot of white death
I think I'm alone in this baleful glare
Till the air erupts with tawny madness
Of a hawk hard after a dot of a finch
And, best I can tell, coming up empty
God, how you cheat your non-humans
Of the rest that rewards my labors
Reposted by Dan Carpenter
Where TF is Pam Bondi’s outrage now???
Over 100 priests have been arrested in Minneapolis for protesting ICE.
They gathered to demand that airlines stop contracting deportation flights with DHS.
Over 100 priests have been arrested in Minneapolis for protesting ICE.
They gathered to demand that airlines stop contracting deportation flights with DHS.
January 24, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Where TF is Pam Bondi’s outrage now???
Over 100 priests have been arrested in Minneapolis for protesting ICE.
They gathered to demand that airlines stop contracting deportation flights with DHS.
Over 100 priests have been arrested in Minneapolis for protesting ICE.
They gathered to demand that airlines stop contracting deportation flights with DHS.
Reposted by Dan Carpenter
Did you ever think it would end like this
Lady liberty laying in a ditch
Did you ever think it would end like this
Lady justice without a stitch
#ThePoet
Lady liberty laying in a ditch
Did you ever think it would end like this
Lady justice without a stitch
#ThePoet
January 22, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Did you ever think it would end like this
Lady liberty laying in a ditch
Did you ever think it would end like this
Lady justice without a stitch
#ThePoet
Lady liberty laying in a ditch
Did you ever think it would end like this
Lady justice without a stitch
#ThePoet
"I regret most my lack of love, my selfishness and glibness (covering a deep shyness and need for love) with girls who, after all, did love me, I think, for a time. My great fault was my inability to believe it."
-- Thos. Merton
-- Thos. Merton
January 23, 2026 at 3:07 AM
"I regret most my lack of love, my selfishness and glibness (covering a deep shyness and need for love) with girls who, after all, did love me, I think, for a time. My great fault was my inability to believe it."
-- Thos. Merton
-- Thos. Merton
"I regret most my lack of love, my selfishness and glibness (covering a deep shyness and need for love) with girls who, after all, did love me, I think, for a time. My great fault was my inability to believe it."
-- Thos. Merton
-- Thos. Merton
January 23, 2026 at 2:48 AM
"I regret most my lack of love, my selfishness and glibness (covering a deep shyness and need for love) with girls who, after all, did love me, I think, for a time. My great fault was my inability to believe it."
-- Thos. Merton
-- Thos. Merton
The cat postpones
her predawn patrol
and curls at my feet
because she feels this bed's need
and she knows she is loved
her predawn patrol
and curls at my feet
because she feels this bed's need
and she knows she is loved
October 15, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The cat postpones
her predawn patrol
and curls at my feet
because she feels this bed's need
and she knows she is loved
her predawn patrol
and curls at my feet
because she feels this bed's need
and she knows she is loved
Reposted by Dan Carpenter
How are we to know
what the Higher Power willed
nothing more beautiful
than a calico cat
and the bluejay it killed
what the Higher Power willed
nothing more beautiful
than a calico cat
and the bluejay it killed
October 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
How are we to know
what the Higher Power willed
nothing more beautiful
than a calico cat
and the bluejay it killed
what the Higher Power willed
nothing more beautiful
than a calico cat
and the bluejay it killed
How are we to know
what the Higher Power willed
nothing more beautiful
than a calico cat
and the bluejay it killed
what the Higher Power willed
nothing more beautiful
than a calico cat
and the bluejay it killed
October 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
How are we to know
what the Higher Power willed
nothing more beautiful
than a calico cat
and the bluejay it killed
what the Higher Power willed
nothing more beautiful
than a calico cat
and the bluejay it killed
Reposted by Dan Carpenter
Nobel season is always an occasion to take down a book of Borges and read aloud at random, channeling his laughter.
October 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Nobel season is always an occasion to take down a book of Borges and read aloud at random, channeling his laughter.
Nobel season is always an occasion to take down a book of Borges and read aloud at random, channeling his laughter.
October 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Nobel season is always an occasion to take down a book of Borges and read aloud at random, channeling his laughter.
Don't let yourself get too old to reassess old favorites by old favorites. Sunday Mornin Comin Down, Me and Bobby McGee, Sam Stone and Far From Me, for starters, are awful. There.
October 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Don't let yourself get too old to reassess old favorites by old favorites. Sunday Mornin Comin Down, Me and Bobby McGee, Sam Stone and Far From Me, for starters, are awful. There.
Kathy
we're lost
I said
we're lost
I said
October 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Kathy
we're lost
I said
we're lost
I said
Haiku Red in Tooth and Claw
No beauty to match
that of this calico cat
-- save the slain bluejay
No beauty to match
that of this calico cat
-- save the slain bluejay
October 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Haiku Red in Tooth and Claw
No beauty to match
that of this calico cat
-- save the slain bluejay
No beauty to match
that of this calico cat
-- save the slain bluejay
Roy and the girl I knew ... Could it have been so long ago?
October 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Roy and the girl I knew ... Could it have been so long ago?
Linda Gregg in Greece.
September 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Linda Gregg in Greece.