Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom

This poem could help you experience again that which is passed, like the high ceiling rose in its triangle of sun, rose fragrance drifting in through her bedroom window. Or Ambros Adelwarth in his homburg hat, and the mirror which climbed back upon the wall: the blank clocks, blank signs, the shattered sun and moon – all the images and symbols, the irresolution of the lyrics to the song: a song about writing a song which the song itself is about. Or the time you cast it all aside as if the rose were one more self-sufficient symbol – only to reach again for the empty notebooks from the box behind the wardrobe.

Hi @victoriaspires.bsky.social and #PromptCombo
The excellent #ThisPoem prompt inspired me to go a bit meta - with apologies to Procol Harum and W.G. Sebald

Freeflow This poem defies logic There is no logic Just pen to paper Begin writing Don’t stop to think Let it go Let it flow Synapse to scrawl Words from somewhere Direct from The unconsciousness Automatic unfiltered Word ectoplasm Free write flow Pen stops Poem ends © Glenn Barker December 2025

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It's been a while since I contributed, this one from a free write (no editing) this morning exactly as it says here, after reading the prompt and your own poem for #PromptCombo #ThisPoem

Many thanks! Yes, also for the acuity of both the change & the music of change. 🙏😊

Many thanks! Yes, I have two distinct infant memories of that great-grandfather, & he's a silent, almost lugubrious figure in both recollections. 😁🙏

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You're welcome! I find that a bit of madness is never amiss on a Monday morning! 😁

You're welcome!

You're most welcome!

Thank you, Sue, also for the repost. I used young Kostya Balmont's meditations as scaffolding here. 🙏😊

Crikey! Carry On Camping! I've been outflanked and outcamped! 😅🙏🏆

A very quick instinctual scribble as a bit of fun for @victoriaspires.bsky.social wonderful poem prompt. If I have time I will try another more considered response.

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Many thanks, Emily! Based on an actual family legend! 😅🙏😊

Great meta-meditation on the tricube form, in the tricube form. 🙏🏆

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The Tricube
Three by three
Then, three more

Lines, stanzas,
Syllables
All in poem

Box like shape
Constrained write
Amazes!

Tommorow maybe a sonnet about juxtaposition!!!

Fantastic use of plosive, dental sounds to hammer the message home! 🙏🏆

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The things that keep us from sleep..
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Have a great week. You've set us all off early

Yes, this is true! Thank you, Jude, also for the repost! 🙏😊

😁 I'm very partial to titters! Titters of all shapes & sizes welcome!

And thank you, Dave! 🙏😊

Sounds like some of mine too, except that I have a habit of fiddling with them, even if they're deemed "complete." 🙏🏆

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#PromptCombo #ThisPoem.

Many thanks, Dean! 🙏😊 Zeitz is reminiscent of how the GDR looked on the verge of its collapse & in the immediate aftermath some 35 years ago now (I was there). Except that Zeitz is emptier & more decrepit. I visited in 2022.

You're welcome!

Thanks for the repost, @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social 🙏😊

Damn it! That was going to be my line! 😆

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Thanks for the repost too! 🙏😊

😆 I know! Based on a family legend. 😆

Yes, this is very true! Many thanks, Silvia, also for reposting! 🙏😊

I love the "haruspicy on entrails"! 😁 And the contradiction of "bit between its teeth" & "tail between its legs"! 😁 Great work! I have a 2-for-1 offer for you this week: two vastly different poems.

Yes, alternate realities, paths not taken, the holloways of hauntology! I approve! 🙏🏆