Karofi Alzahiri (El-patron)
@karofiguy.bsky.social
An admirer of the zahiri school of thought
⬛A poet 📕. ⬛ #Bahaushe
A trouble maker
🔞 co author Song Of Endless Flames
⬛A poet 📕. ⬛ #Bahaushe
A trouble maker
🔞 co author Song Of Endless Flames
“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."
[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
― Franz Kafka
[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
― Franz Kafka
May 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."
[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
― Franz Kafka
[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
― Franz Kafka
Reposted by Karofi Alzahiri (El-patron)
It is summer and I am in the middle
of my life.
Linda Gregg
of my life.
Linda Gregg
May 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
It is summer and I am in the middle
of my life.
Linda Gregg
of my life.
Linda Gregg
Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul". Well, it's not easy but men do it all the time.
Mario Puzo, Fools Die
Mario Puzo, Fools Die
December 1, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul". Well, it's not easy but men do it all the time.
Mario Puzo, Fools Die
Mario Puzo, Fools Die
“The road to self-deception is narrow to begin with, but there's always someone ready to broaden it out, for as the proverb says, self-deception is like eating or scratching, it's all a matter of beginning.”
― José Saramago
― José Saramago
November 25, 2024 at 2:27 PM
“The road to self-deception is narrow to begin with, but there's always someone ready to broaden it out, for as the proverb says, self-deception is like eating or scratching, it's all a matter of beginning.”
― José Saramago
― José Saramago
“The truth is we can survive our lives, but not our skin. But you know this already.”
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
November 19, 2024 at 1:41 PM
“The truth is we can survive our lives, but not our skin. But you know this already.”
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
It is not death that human beings are most afraid of. It is love.
Ben Okri, The Famished Road
Ben Okri, The Famished Road
November 16, 2024 at 12:08 PM
It is not death that human beings are most afraid of. It is love.
Ben Okri, The Famished Road
Ben Okri, The Famished Road
Reposted by Karofi Alzahiri (El-patron)
Hi new friends! So heartened by the way that the literary community is swiftly growing here on Bluesky.
To celebrate the influx of cool new folks, I’m giving away signed copies of my latest novel, ESCAPE VELOCITY, to three random followers who repost this. Ends 11/14/24 11:59 NY time. US/Can only
To celebrate the influx of cool new folks, I’m giving away signed copies of my latest novel, ESCAPE VELOCITY, to three random followers who repost this. Ends 11/14/24 11:59 NY time. US/Can only
November 13, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Hi new friends! So heartened by the way that the literary community is swiftly growing here on Bluesky.
To celebrate the influx of cool new folks, I’m giving away signed copies of my latest novel, ESCAPE VELOCITY, to three random followers who repost this. Ends 11/14/24 11:59 NY time. US/Can only
To celebrate the influx of cool new folks, I’m giving away signed copies of my latest novel, ESCAPE VELOCITY, to three random followers who repost this. Ends 11/14/24 11:59 NY time. US/Can only
"Under the sun, time mends the garment of life"
November 11, 2024 at 8:51 PM
"Under the sun, time mends the garment of life"
Reposted by Karofi Alzahiri (El-patron)
“Prose poems especially favor fragmentation, a stop-and-start flow, loose ends, a permeable border between the imaginary or interiority and what counts as empirical reality, and play.”
Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social
Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social
A Review of Ayesha Raees’ COINING A WISHING TOWER
COINING A WISHING TOWER by Ayesha Raees (Radix Co-op, 2024). 72 pages. $17.95 by Burgi Zenhaeusern COINING A WISHING TOWER BY Ayesha Raees (Radix Co-Op, 2024) As little as we write in a vacuum, we …
moistpoetryjournal.com
November 11, 2024 at 3:11 PM
“Prose poems especially favor fragmentation, a stop-and-start flow, loose ends, a permeable border between the imaginary or interiority and what counts as empirical reality, and play.”
Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social
Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social
Leaders speak with assurance
They convince you until you forgot everything is a lie,
But the bandits speak with guns,
They say the gunshots is for those above,
But the bullet is for you
Nasiba Babale - Pickled Moments
They convince you until you forgot everything is a lie,
But the bandits speak with guns,
They say the gunshots is for those above,
But the bullet is for you
Nasiba Babale - Pickled Moments
October 14, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Leaders speak with assurance
They convince you until you forgot everything is a lie,
But the bandits speak with guns,
They say the gunshots is for those above,
But the bullet is for you
Nasiba Babale - Pickled Moments
They convince you until you forgot everything is a lie,
But the bandits speak with guns,
They say the gunshots is for those above,
But the bullet is for you
Nasiba Babale - Pickled Moments
July 3, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Reposted by Karofi Alzahiri (El-patron)
If you're a magazine, TV station, radio station, podcast, Twitter handle, FB page, website, newspaper... If you're any media platform that would like to amplify literary works and events (such as the Kano International Poetry Festival coming up in June), please indicate!
Thanks
Thanks
June 27, 2024 at 1:15 PM
If you're a magazine, TV station, radio station, podcast, Twitter handle, FB page, website, newspaper... If you're any media platform that would like to amplify literary works and events (such as the Kano International Poetry Festival coming up in June), please indicate!
Thanks
Thanks
If you're a magazine, TV station, radio station, podcast, Twitter handle, FB page, website, newspaper... If you're any media platform that would like to amplify literary works and events (such as the Kano International Poetry Festival coming up in June), please indicate!
Thanks
Thanks
June 27, 2024 at 1:15 PM
If you're a magazine, TV station, radio station, podcast, Twitter handle, FB page, website, newspaper... If you're any media platform that would like to amplify literary works and events (such as the Kano International Poetry Festival coming up in June), please indicate!
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The book is out!
June 17, 2024 at 8:35 AM
The book is out!
"A thousand times have I said it to her and to myself: the most beautiful is also the most sacred. And such was everything in her. Like her singing, even so was her life."
Hölderlin
Hölderlin
May 29, 2024 at 5:42 AM
"A thousand times have I said it to her and to myself: the most beautiful is also the most sacred. And such was everything in her. Like her singing, even so was her life."
Hölderlin
Hölderlin
Prints by Namibian artist Lok Kandjengo.
May 29, 2024 at 5:39 AM
Prints by Namibian artist Lok Kandjengo.
10th June is the day! Can't wait
May 28, 2024 at 4:43 AM
10th June is the day! Can't wait
“Is that what art is? To be touched thinking what we feel is ours when, in the end, it was someone else, in longing, who finds us?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
May 21, 2024 at 11:32 AM
“Is that what art is? To be touched thinking what we feel is ours when, in the end, it was someone else, in longing, who finds us?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.
José Saramago
José Saramago
February 8, 2024 at 5:11 AM
Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.
José Saramago
José Saramago
It's gonna be fun
February 7, 2024 at 12:47 PM
It's gonna be fun