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CeaseandCaesuraLit @ceaseandcaesura.bsky.social · 1d

Cease and join us for some lyric poetry by Bruce McRae!

#poetrycommunity #literarycommunity #contributorscorner #litseries

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Contributors' Corner

Two Poems by Bruce McRae

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PhantomLamb @phantomlamb.bsky.social · 2d

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CeaseandCaesuraLit @ceaseandcaesura.bsky.social · 3d

We're experiencing production delays. The two poems by Bruce McRae will be published tomorrow as promised. The literary discussion will follow at a later date.

#literarycommunity #poetrycommunity #publishing #litseries #contributorscorner

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PhantomLamb @phantomlamb.bsky.social · 5d

I like Taylor Swift. I just don’t think she’s a poet. Songwriting and poetry can overlap, and the forms share a history. However, the lyrics she writes are simply what they are—catchy pop lyrics.

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PhantomLamb @phantomlamb.bsky.social · 6d

nothing’s mystical, magical
but a goat dragged down
the road. failed sacrifice
after failed sacrifice
what do you call me by?

PhantomLamb @phantomlamb.bsky.social · 7d

#emotionalintensitypoem #defiancepoem #literarycommunity #misunderstoodpoetry #lyricpoetry

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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 10d

evening
fills the window
with anticipation
as a parasol
mushrooms in moonlight
a cricket tests the dark
and finds it tender
the garden
dissolves into dusk
so do I

#Photography Foolish Steve
@foolishsteve.bsky.social

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PhantomLamb @phantomlamb.bsky.social · 10d

gallop. wound. gallop. wound.
bound. and. fall. apart.

gallop. wound. gallop. wound.
bound. and. fall. apart.

the deer. as lawn ornaments.
slow as moss. like the peace
of being forgotten.

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Lothlorien Poetry Journal @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social · 11d

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Five Poems by Arvilla Fee

Lothlorien Poetry Journal Edited by Strider Marcus Jones Poet - Publishes poetry and fiction online and in print periodically. https://lothlorienp

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PhantomLamb @phantomlamb.bsky.social · 12d

I fail to see how this is related to a post about the bridges between literary genres.… I also have never supported Trump. I had a weird religious stint in my life, and have a lot of religious trauma from that time period in my life. But I am talking about literary work that crosses between genres

PhantomLamb @phantomlamb.bsky.social · 13d

#literarycommunity #poetrycommunity

CeaseandCaesuraLit @ceaseandcaesura.bsky.social · 13d

In other news, Cease and Caesura will be looking to expand our team. A more official post will come out about it in a week or so. In the meantime, if you know anyone who is interested in joining a lit journal that focuses on experimental writing that bridges genres, please spread the word.

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CeaseandCaesuraLit @ceaseandcaesura.bsky.social · 13d

“The moon attends to its scarred cheek. /We hear music on Regulus. A name on Mercury. / The voice of the sunset humming lyrically. / Just this moment, nothing less or more.”

– “Night Falls” by Bruce McRae

Coming out on October 7th!

#literarycommunity #poetry

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Coming Soon inContributors’ Corner

Two Poems by Bruce McRae

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PhantomLamb @phantomlamb.bsky.social · 14d

It also makes more sense why I have had a hard time receiving help from sources that really just wanted to free me from a pattern that was killing me mentally and emotionally. As someone who is neurodivergent, it really is difficult to survive in general. Even harder when the support is the problem

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PhantomLamb @phantomlamb.bsky.social · 14d

Beginning to think that my BPD is barely even the problem, and I have extremely religious parents with an authoritarian parenting style. And I’ve just been gaslit into thinking that how I operate is dysfunctional when I just didn’t have the tools I needed. Like fuck. I’m too poor to get out of this.

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 15d

we'll be opening for new work on october 1.

get your best ready. get your worst ready. we want to read you.

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Duotrope @duotrope.com · 17d

Today's listing of the day is: Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize (fee-based) #WritingCommunity

Listing of the Day

Today's listing of the day is: Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize (fee-based) #WritingCommunity

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PhantomLamb @phantomlamb.bsky.social · 18d

Go forth and support small indie lit journals and artists. Doesn’t even have to be mine. We need to even the odds here though. So many great artists and writers are on the winter edge of the internet.

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 19d

Poetry today by E. A. Midnight

“how much of love is seeing
someone else’s mental illness as a quirk / and not failure, not a dent, not
something that must be fixed”

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PhantomLamb @phantomlamb.bsky.social · 19d

I hear you. My mental process tends to be:

Judge. Reevaluate. I ain’t shit either. Do the personal work in private without performance. Remember to love people, and see yourself in others. Stop the BS. Evolve.

Obviously, it doesn’t work in all cases. Unconditional love can be abused. But still.

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Alien Buddha Press @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social · 20d

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Alien Buddha Press @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social · 21d

The Alien Buddha Gets Isolated & Weird!

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PhantomLamb @phantomlamb.bsky.social · 21d

on the road, throw my heart out like a scrap of meat,
and think: road rash.

at home, boil an egg in uncertainty,
and think: eternity.