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Visions of borderlines.

Barbed wire
ripped through our hearts and
souls.

Young children
left
in cages,
in cold tents,
alone
at the Texas border.

Families
split up,
hearts shattered.
#poetry #TheTrumpYears #poets #booksky #books #ebooks

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Visions of borderlines.

Barbed wire
ripped through our hearts and
souls.

Young children
left
in cages,
in cold tents,
alone
at the Texas border.

Families
split up,
hearts shattered.
#poetry #TheTrumpYears #poets #booksky #books #ebooks

amzn.to/3Bsr0jj

A legion of
liars
freaks
corrupt
twisted buffoons
enabling a reckless
dangerous fool

Torching our constitution
and the rule of law
Everything distorted
like a funhouse mirror in hell

Truth
turned upside down

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#indie #poetry #TheTrumpYears #poets #books #booksky #ebooks

Hollow,
shallow
policies.

An ugly strawman
in disguise.

No sincerity
or honesty in
your cagey eyes.
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#poetry #TheTrumpYears #poets #books #ebooks

Rallies
of hate

All hail the
liar in attack mode
spinning lies
for his blind
rabid base.

Haunted
by echoes
of a fascist past
out of a dictator’s sad playbook
#poetry #poets #books #booksky
#TheTrumpYears

Other than BlueSky, where else do #poets, #editors, #publishers, and #litmags congregate or frequent?

Facebook?
Instagram?
Threads?
Reddit?
Twitch (that would be interesting)?
Discord (ditto)?
Pinterest?
Dog help is, Twitter/X?

A new free article of mine on Substack...

"Welcoming All the Words"

On acknowledging and appreciating all the poets.

Yes, ALL of them/us.

robertjtiess.substack.com/p/welcoming-...

#poetry #poets #writing #writers #tolerance #unity #together #liberty #respect #acceptance #community #democracy

#Eloquence is an actor's gift and a #writer’s trap—letting your nonsense sing,

Eloquent speakers can take your most leaden #prose and make it dance right past the audience’s good sense and taste.

#vss365 #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #dpp #emoetry #poets #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry

For this week's #PoemsAbout #FaultLines i'm thinking about a poem i read once in 2004. Thanks for reading, even though I am posting late again this week!

@alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#poetrycommunity #poems #poets #poetsofbluesky #poet #haiku

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

Also how do we achieve the #sublime? Or explore it? Or does it just “happen”? That Q takes us beyond #writing alone. However my #CanLit prof said that as #poets #age they grow #mystical or mad.