The Had Matter
looked on uffishly
as photons and
gluons danced
around tea time.
“We want matter!”
they screamed in
frenetic frenzy.
“We want to matter!”
“Both are important,
but you can’t be both,”
Had Matter said.
That is how photons
and gluons
lack matter,
but always will.
Square Peg (recently
of Round Hole)
bites everyone’s legs
at LexiCon Shack,
where a “the” and the “a”
sign art in the back.
The lines run-on
on adverbial tracks
in panel discussions,
where everyone’s
rushing for a
girl from Flushing
with free Oxford
commas in a
sack.
Beautiful Saturday in the shade 🫠
Question for #poets and #poetry lovers:
Do you know any poetry #podcasts? Ones that focus on poetry history, current events, interviews, poetics, technique, trends, readings, launches, reviews, etc.
If yes, what are your favs? Or even just ones you've heard about & have yet to taste!
I'm setting myself a goal of sampling 10 at least, then maybe making 1 a reg part of my poetry experience
Yesterday was scheduled
as the best day ever, but
no one invited me. It
was spar for the spores,
except I was the organizer.
Hurdle turtles but
me did forgets and
all I could do was
send me regrets,
get solace from my
pets, and generally
be general
(or less)
Award winning poet Adam Bolivar's new book of alliterative verse - dark fantasy in the heroic style.
With a foreword by Dennis Wilson Wise (a noted authority on Tolkien and epic fantasy), Richly illustrated.
"This book must be one of the single most original books that I have read..... Welcome, dear reader, to a novel world!” —DONALD SIDNEY-FRYER, Author of The Atlantis Fragments #poetry#poems#bookstodon
I'm proud to announce the ebook release of my first poetry anthology, "Emerging Fully Weird". I'm proud of the cover too, created by me using a licensed stock illustration. I think it captures the spirit of my poems very well.
Available from https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTV9VK48 (and all the other amazon stores too) #bookstodon#poems#poetry
The amygdala gala,
where synapses exceed
plasticity. Red carpet
flash and scowl. All
the dresses… it’s
for charity, really.
Sterilize rationality
and empathy, unite
untied emotions.
While here try the
buffet. The sushi’s
been out for days
and it’s all the rage.
Just be me, just
a tree, with a path
and a brook, and
infectious shade
that cajoles you
into smiling. At me.
At that tree.
And my only
eccentricitree
is you am you
and me am me,
and I’m working
on ambulating,
but evolution
takes time.
“John Shirley’s poetry is smooth and powerful. If it doesn't give you bad dreams, you're not paying attention.—TIM POWERS, winner of the World Fantasy Award and author of Last Call and On Stranger Tides
Rhyming, weird-tales antecedent poetry by John Shirley.
Yes, it’s a crummy picture. Blame the photographer (me) and the weather, but this is Emily Dickinson’s house in #Amherst#Massachusetts and Dickinson wrote her #poems behind that window at the upper left.
Do #women still appreciate long walks??
star gazing? #poems? hand written letters? #flowers? poetries? street-food dates? anything a poor guy can afford? do women still appreciate this???