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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀

@wodz.bsky.social

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Writing almost every day (probably too much grimdark), occasionally published on dead trees and electric screens. Mostly poetry, usually short. Always rhotic I welcome questions Or better yet, answers

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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · Nov 11

behind a certain screen
the real world
lies

the poet
has to make you see
between

the sirens and the sky

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#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity

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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 17h

𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐧, 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐩 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐀𝐬𝐬⁣
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cash to cashless, seed to greed⁣
and all the world to smoke and ashes ⁣
time to hold on tight⁣
⁣
here comes the Fall⁣
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#vss365 #ash #poem #poetry #failedHaiku #Fall #Autumn #Oxymandias⁣
v2

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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 18h

𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐩 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥⁣
⁣
born on the fourth of july⁣
died sixth of january⁣
as old revolution clashed with greed⁣
⁣
a super pac collider shatters⁣
every heavy nuclei⁣
⁣
rapid unscheduled disassembly⁣
growing ⁣
⁣
great again⁣
⁣
#vss365 #clash #poem #poetry ⁣

William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks so much Julian 🙏

one must always learn from the enemy - sheathed claws 😉

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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 2d

😎. The interweb does seem to have an inordinate fondess for cats. Let's have some balance ... ?

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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 2d

𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫⁣
⁣
from electric squid disguised⁣
a poison ink associates ⁣
with dunderheads⁣
⁣
their orange son⁣
arises bloodshot in the west⁣
to sycophantic hail ⁣
⁣
and Wagner⁣
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#vss365 #associate #poem #poetry ⁣
#mutated #thunder #lightning

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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 2d

For @hool415.bsky.social and #PromptCombo #Visitor

from more than a momentary frustration

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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 2d

*Not* for his poetry ?

childrens.poetryarchive.org/poem/a-small...

(not sure why this keeps cropping up connected to primary schools)

A small dragon - The Children’s Poetry Archive

Listen and read along to 'A small dragon'.

childrens.poetryarchive.org

William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks John 🙏

William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks Debra. 🙏
Happy to strike any sort of chord 😎

William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks for peeking under the surface Sue 🙏🙏🙏
😎

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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 6d

For #PoemsAbout #Mannequin, a short dance macabre

#poem #poetry

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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 6d

ha! - only in my dreams.
If you haven’t read Zelazny yet, there are some treasures waiting for you to discover

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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 6d

Hi Julian. apropos of “half dead” and other bits of your comments … i wonder if you might enjoy this little gem :
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/engi...
💖

The Engine at Heartspring’s Center - Lightspeed Magazine

Let me tell you of a creature called the Bork. It was born in the heart of a dying sun. It was cast forth upon this day from the river of past/future as a piece of time pollution. It was fashioned of ...

www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 7d

buy one get one free
genocides are all the rage
blood rivers to the sea

#poem #poetry #haiku #news

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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 7d

.⁣
𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭⁣
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the wider your now⁣
the more that movement blurs⁣
with time, passing⁣
weary mass to heavy memory⁣
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this life⁣
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.⁣
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#vss365 #blur #poem #poetry #time #relativity #5lines ⁣

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Jenevieve Carlyn @coastalpoet.bsky.social · 8d

For #Promptcombo #Characters & #PromptTheme #Amphibian, a poem for my grandmother, whose roots were in northern Italy's Piedmont region.

Thank you to hosts:
@rfsmith.bsky.social
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social*

*a very last minute post, so sharing only for fun 🪷

'Kin' in Heimat Review, Jan. 2023

A photo collage for my 'Kin' poem, featuring (clockwise): a gnarled apple tree, a chiffchaff, yellow lilies, and pink apple blossoms.

Kin

In the evenings,
we walked to the soft silver pines,
tucking tufts and wisps into the branches
for the winged convocations
of the downy-wise—to covet,
to be taken up into the mysteries,
woven with leaves and lichen,
moss, feathers, twigs,
spun silk: entwined.

My grandmother wore her hair
in a swirl above her head,
like a yellow lily resting on a pond,
and we never saw a frog hop out,
but in the springtime,
it was an ever-present possibility:
a small amphibian might appear,
viridian as a river rock,
to sit and sing to the moon.

If a song thrush thatched
a hermitage, a peasant’s castle
in the knotted boughs of the old crabapple,
or if a chiffchaff overwintered in my braid,
then I could learn the avian folkways,
knowing when my feathered kin
was jubilant or tired, and needed rest
from prophesying;

Whole ecologies would branch and bloom
around us: orchards swirling,
a braided nest.

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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 7d

love the subtle braided rhymes. 👏

William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 7d

🙏🙏
Thanks Sue 😎

William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 8d

Hi #promptCombo! I’m always wary of saying too much about a #poem - but perhaps often don’t say enough?
This is for #character, but perhaps more accurately character-Type.

Ivy League

(v2, re-written today )
#poetry

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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 14d

life comes, life goes
the blinking of a tearful eye
a skein of mournful geese in passing
the tossing of God’s dice
like raging thunder

#vss365 #caprice #poem #poetry #5lines #tanka

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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 14d

👏👏😓

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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 14d

𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐢𝐳𝐳𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐨⁣⁣
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we will be much better off⁣⁣
without these souls⁣⁣
clinging to our stanzas⁣⁣
like tattered flags⁣⁣
in passing storms of ghosts⁣⁣
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#vss365 #caprice #poem #poetry ⁣⁣
#5lines

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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks Gary 😎

🙏🙏

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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 15d

ah well, the muse was generous this week!
Thanks for the kind words Victoria 😎

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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 15d

and every truth a-bashéd

across the pond
that orange scum of nonsense flows
in stinking depths
an older darkness squirms
and grows

forest frogs are lost
to broken gps
and foreign interference

and everywhere
the sound of water running
for its life

#poem #poetry #haiku #basho #news #vss365