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Next Dreading #Slam is next Sunday (4th Oct) at the Rising Sun #Arts Centre #ReadingUk RG1 2ST.

New #poets and audience welcome. #free entry

To compete bring 3 of your own #poems each max 3 mins long .

Beyond callous,
a greedy ugliness
we can’t easily explain away.

All done in our name
in the end.
A haunting reality to face.

Visions of borderlines.

Everywhere
divided,
inside
and out.
#books #poetry #TheTrumpYears #poets #booksky
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"People who spout their emotions like blood exhaust me" — Rilke, speaking to Stefan Zweig as recalled by Zweig in his autobiography.

“When he entered a room full of company, he did it so quietly that hardly anyone noticed him.”

#Rilke #Zweig #poetry #literature

#poets #writers #literature #books

Complaining about the cost of eggs and gas…
A bitter memory as they deport your family and send you to concentration camp
ignorance won’t save you
in the face of fascism
as you clung so desperately to your racism
They said it couldn’t happen here
#poems #booksky #poets #fascism

They said it couldn’t happen here
now your future is a boot heel on your neck
choking off your dreams of freedom
they don’t keep their fascist dreams hidden, kid
making excuses for missing fascists in plain sight
smiling behind blue suits and lies as they steal your rights
#poems #poets #booksky

These days...
Freedom's Kiss
tastes like enduring a
tongue kiss
from an old
rotting
decrepit
loser
reeking of
halitosis
fascism
and ugly lies
Leaves me retching
choking
on the implications
of all we've lost
and a fading future
Everything seems
hollow now
the land of once free
#poetry #poets

Today’s offering in our Curio folio is from Stephanie Hashagen, one of America’s greatest contemporary poets. Enjoy.

www.muleskinnerjournal.com/new-page-71

#writingcommunity #litmag #flashfiction #literature #writers #fiction #fictionsubmissions #fictionwriter #poets #poetry #poetryjournals

This is the state of our disunion
A notice of dissolution.
Failures of communication

Embracing fantasies and easy lies
instead of hard solutions
until it’s too late to heal all the
heartbreak.

#Booksky #poetry #poet #poems #ebook #poets #reading #read

Even our past heartaches
are trapped in a recycled daze
Another fresh take on dead ideas and you call
that progress

These are rerun days.
Trapped in a recycled daze
Only the names and faces change

#Booksky #poetry #poet #poems #ebook #poets #reading #read

This is the state of our disunion
A notice of dissolution.
Failures of communication

Embracing fantasies and easy lies
instead of hard solutions
until it’s too late to heal all the
heartbreak.

#Booksky #poetry #poet #poems #ebook #poets #reading #read

My frank case against the #Trump presidency in 10 parts...#TheTrumpYears is a #poetic howl about living under the daily nightmare of the first #Trump administration
It’s very relevant for the horror we are living through today...
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#booksky #indie #poetry #reading #poet #poets #ebooks

Proud to be an #indie #author…my #words…my vision...and many #books to come
Discover my provocative #indie #novels, short #story and #poetry collections on my #authors page www.amazon.com/stores/autho...
#booksky #readers #indiebooks #read
#poets #reading #ebooks

Feed a fever,
starve a cold;
#nurture an ague
from malarial marsh mould.

#vss365 #poem #micropoem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #vsspoem #dpp #prose #emoetry #poets #verse

I've been enjoying the Survey of #Poets in the June/July 2026 London Magazine - it's good to hear what other serious writers are thinking about serious writing - as I have said, we are living in a Golden Age of creative #writing, coinciding with a new Dark Age of #reading