Fast-fact feelings
Knee-jerk reactions
You don’t really know what is going on

Never see the bigger picture
Struggling for easy answers
in a complex world
Grasping at straws
Fast-fact thinking
#Booksky #books #poetry #poet #poems #ebooks #poets #reading #rea

Don’t bend the knee.
It won’t go as well as you believe.
Don’t bow down to the fascist clown,
who believes he’s wearing an anointed crown.

Don’t do the fascist dance.
Don’t obey in advance.
Remember, no kings do we heed
in the land of the free.
#booksky #poetry

Don’t do the fascist dance.
Don’t obey in advance.

It’s an empty two-step leading
to only heartbreak and misery
as you forget the lessons of history.
Don’t heed fascism’s call.
Hold your head up and walk proudly.
No need to crawl.
#booksky #poetry

Cages in your imagination
can later lead to cages
in real life
as you seek to cage the source of your deepest fears
and ugly hatreds
Yet you remain twisted and stunted inside
your cage soon becomes a prison of suspicion and self-loathing
#booksky #poetry

It was fun working on this review of Timothy Billings' "Twenty-Nine Goodbyes" for the lovely folks at @asiancha.bsky.social.
It's all about #poetry, #translation, #李白, and the art of saying goodbye.

chajournal.com/2026/10/14/l...

Scent of a Field
written by: Miroslava Panayotova
 

I have had plenty of time
to forget what
I know,
even what
I don't know.

Today I only remember

the names of the winds
that passed

by me,
and the scent of a field. #Literature #WritingCommunity #Spillwords #Poetry #Fiction

It's #Tanka Tuesday!

Tree Gelbman--The Heroic Tanka
Happy Death Day (2017)

Not the nicest girl,
A Sorority Sister,
Trapped in a time loop,
Slowly starts to change her ways,
Can she find her own killer?

#poetry #horror #horrorfam #killer #time #repeat #murder #survival #timeloop

What do you think we owe you,
How much of us is yours to
Ogle at your leisure, justifying
Rape culture by claiming you’e
Edgy

#poetry #shanegillis #funnyifyouveneverbeencalledawhore

#poetry #tooHigh

Demon Brownie
---
Cocoa confections
Please
Hear my confessions
Never more shall I
Surrender

My gluttonous feasting's
Left time now repeating
In a hell of my hubristic
Creation

Pain ever swallows
My pleasure to the gallows
As pillows bathe fire to
My cheeks

🖋️1/2

after discovering
the truth
#bravery took two steps back

he wasn't agonizing
over what was
but living his life to the fullest

she in turn felt betrayed
having to relive heartbreak
a second time around

#vss365 #poetry

WORK FOR THE LORD -- a poem and song by Bill Kochman

#Poetry #Poem

https://www.billkochman.com/Poetry

WORK FOR THE LORD

by Bill Kochman

11-19-2017

When I get to Heaven,
What will I have to give?
Had I worked for the Lord,
Or for myself did I live?

That is the big question,
We will all have

Down Tick

The Londoners all have a frown
Since Big Ben’s repair blocked its sound
It’s hard to endure
Since I’m pretty sure
It once was the tock of the town

#funny #comedy #laugh #silly #humor #humour #verse #poetry #poem #limerick #London #BigBen #tick #tock #talk #town

The Audacity of Wildflowers written by: Liz Dickinson - The adjective ‘great’ is frequently used before wondrous natural wonders,... #Spillwords #Literature #Fiction #WritingCommunity #Poetry

Vocal Therapy
by Kevin Ahern

Off to a meeting
My friend has gone
For compulsive talkers -
On and On Anon

#funny #comedy #laugh #silly #humor #humour #verse #poetry #poem #vocal #therapy #compulsive #talker #anon #AA

Autumn Angel
written by: Maksymilian Tchoń
translated by: Magdalena Podobińska
 

The fog was not canceled on
an autumn morning Dew weighs
the sins from here to eternity on
a Cloud of secret knowledge in one
envelope a hungry Angel #Poetry #Spillwords #Fiction #Literature #WritingCommunity

Grey council echoes,
Grenfell cost-cutting shadows fall—
quiet streets count scars.

#botpoetry #cutup #poetry

PizzaCutter79's #poetry #memes #news: jADTMdFkdx

The feminists have gotten more delirious, attempting to make trauma sound more mysterious, by invoking fawning as a excuse, which makes the whole thing sound less serious, since the accuser can still be charged with abuse.