Daniel Gene Barlekamp

crane in the marsh-
one leg
longer than silence
#haiku #poetry #birds

#alicecooper #vincentprice #halloween #classichorror #october

The poem 'Justice' by Langston Hughes

This is my favourite Langston Hughes poem. He says so much in 4 lines, and the weight of the word 'perhaps' in the last line does not go unnoticed.

Posting on the 1955th day since George Floyd was murdered. Little has changed, things are probably worse

#poetry
#poemoftheday
#BlackHistoryMonth

New Release: America's Slide Towards Authoritarianism — International Human Rights Art Movement America’s democracy is eroding—bold voices from the United States and Italy, to the UK and Iran, connect through their literary craft and artistry. Each story represents a segment of American society ...

I'm proud to have a poem in IHRAM Press's anthology "America's Slide Towards Authoritarianism," in which 12 artists and 30 writers offer their take on the fragility of the values that once made America great. Preorder at a 30% discount before the Oct. 1 release date: shorturl.at/oFTcL.

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

-Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice"

#poetry #poetrysky

Two-Blooded I am a descendent of stillness

"I am a descendent of stillness
and sailors still in motion,
a brew of saltpeter and blackbird song."

-Rolando Kattan, from "Two-Blooded" (trans. Hedeen & Rodríguez Núñez)

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#poetry #Honduras #LatinAmericanpoetry

A photo of a page in the Alchemy and Miracles poetry anthology in front of a bookshelf with 2 small canvas paintings of a field in day and night. The poem is titled Full Bloom by Rita Taste and reads: if only we could live like the wildflowers, blooms of all sizes and colors sharing the soil of one field

if only
we could live
like the wildflowers,
blooms of all sizes and colors
sharing the soil
of one field

#micropoetry #poetry #wildflowers

Another one of my poems in the Alchemy and Miracles #poetryanthology 🌸🪻🌻🏵️

Many thanks to Teri “Sakyu” Santitoro for publishing five of my Scifaiku in the August print edition of Scifaikuest! This is the last of the five. Visit markhendricksonpoetry.com #scifi #micropoetry #haiku #haikuoftheday #haikulover #writingcommunity #writer #poetry #poems #poetrylovers #scifaiku

"My mother dries figs
with her blue-veined hands.
My mother smiles at walnuts
as though time in the heart never started."
--Bejan Matur, "As Though" (trans. Nell Wright)

#poetry #poetrylovers

a darkness
in which all articles
are indefinite
will we know ourselves
by our shadows our own words

#TankaThursday (dark)
#vss365 (article)

"When the prison door
bangs shut behind your back--
that's when you think about #freedom."
--Tomica Bajsić

#poetry #activism

“September approaching…I feel I owe myself a brief respite of leisure and no rushing around. I can’t face the dead reality. I want rainy days, lanterns and a hundred moons twining in dark leaves, music spilling out and echoing yet inside my head.”
—Sylvia Plath

#poetry #September #autumn

the leaves’ sleepy veins
wilt golden with rust
autumn’s copper blood

#haiku #whistpr

Mary Oliver talks about paying attention...

Take time to pay some attention to the care she has taken here with line breaks and enjambment...

#poetry
#poemoftheday

BIOPHILIA is almost there! Wednesday September 3! We’ll be sharing our cover on that day as well along with so much other incredible poetry, essay and visual art. #poetrycommunity

Four Poems by Teri Vela One Month Later Last night I was with D from high school and we were at a cabin / some place in the woods with lots of little living quarters / connected by pathways / D wanted sex / infatuation / …

Amazing, moving set of four #poems by Teri Vela in @villaineralit.bsky.social:

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#poetry #formalpoetry #writing #litmags #literature

Well isn’t this lovely.

Opera star sings Habanera (from Carmen) in the airport (?)

What a terrific voice.
#opera

I don’t care if they’re staged, we need more profl free public #music and #art.

Should be a great reading - tune in virtually if you're not in northeastern MA (link at bottom of flyer).

#poetry #poetryreading #openmic #writing

A reminder for future generations….please don’t let this kind of music die out.

After winter, — Bluestem Magazine

Check out "After Winter," a stunning poem by Katherine Gaffney in the Summer 2025 issue of @bluestemmag.bsky.social:

#poetry #writing

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On the road
In a toad
Route will not load

#dada #dailypoem #poemoftheday #poem #poetry #writing

'Plums' by Caroline Smith

Cover art: 'Frozen Oranges' by Denisa Popa

Wild Waters by Victoria Nations Painted river waves flash between bleached stairs and molded tubes. Three friends enter the abandoned water slide, their heads sloshing with high school memories as they dry slide...

Great piece of liminal flash by @victorianations.bsky.social out today in @nightshadesmag.bsky.social:

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#horror #flashfiction #horrorlit

Poetry's strength lies in its imaginative language, which empowers readers to step into different shoes, fostering both creative thought and a more expansive understanding of the world.

#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

Ditch Your Taste in Books A librarian’s guide to our cultural moment

Good reading for anyone who gets tired of recycled, referential content: "this book is basically Nancy Drew meets Van Helsing," or "you'll love this series - it's just like Stranger Things!"

#books #reading #libraries

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Stephen King, 11/22/63

I will never be done
with the rhyming
of the seas
and the
trees

#poetry

Author Robin Knabel reviews WEIRD TALES TO HAUNT YOUR REPTILIAN BRAIN edited by Stephen Rhoades — Robin Knabel — Inky Bones Press Author Robin Knabel reviews WEIRD TALES TO HAUNT YOUR REPTILIAN BRAIN.

New Review! I enjoyed this weird & wonderful collection of horror. Peek inside for my Top 10 stories from Weird Tales to Haunt Your Reptilian Brain - edited by Stephen Rhoades @stephenrhoades.bsky.social & pubbed by Burial Books @burialbooks.bsky.social.

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Japanese ukiyo-e print depicting a ghostly figure holding a sword.

'Female Ghost with Sword' from 'The Complete Works of Chikamatsu' - Uemura Shoen, 1923.
#GhostMonth #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt

Thus and Thus by Henri Barbusse (1929). The kind of unprepossessing book the is often overlooked in a secondhand setting but is, in fact, a brilliant collection of stories by the author of one of the standout novels of WW1 (and many WW1 stories in this collection).