Dropping by the Carnegie MOA and something tells me I need to get back to work

A-C-A-B

#Paintku "Tuesdays": Easter Special The Disciples Peter and John Running to the Sepulchre on the Morning of the Resurrection by Eugène Burnand (1898) the depth of three-day grief — their gaze Add your haiku to join.

#Paintku "Tuesdays": Easter Special

The Disciples Peter and John Running to the Sepulchre on the Morning of the Resurrection by Eugène Burnand (1898)

the depth of
three-day grief —
their gaze

Add your haiku to join.

Co-starring Mary Magdalene as barkeep

That first line is an amazing double entendres.

Greetings, some early-April absurdity for #fragmentsfriday. Many thanks to
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

A Bob-inspired baseball ballad:

Enjoying the new #RitesandTrials anthology from @thebrokenspine.co.uk and I’m chuffed to have a lil piece here from my wayward youth. So many great writers here!.

Two fictional characters from different universes you want to see fight

High praise in native vernacular, Philippa. I really enjoyed this piece.

How dare you after all I’ve done [gestures broadly at everything]

Mercy

This just in: virtual serf throws a tomato (thanks to @dadakuku.bsky.social)

For this #FragmentsFriday, a little one based in historical/scientific fact.

Thanks for hosting, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social!

U2 - Stay (Faraway, So Close!) YouTube video by U2VEVO

This week’s Friday Video featured U2’s Stay (Faraway, So Close!), a recording heavily influenced by the song stylings of Frank Sinatra.

And if you look, you look through me
And when you talk, you talk at me
And when I touch you, you don't feel a thing

m.youtube.com/watch?v=UGAO...

Bad Timing its pretty petals over the brown lifeless bed

Grateful to America Magazine for publishing my poem "Bad Timing."
www.americamagazine.org/poetry/2026/...
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

orange crutch got my spinegot these thumbsgot this family phone plan — J. R. Wilkerson

A new verse from returning contributor J. R. Wilkerson:

𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗵

got my spine
got these thumbs
got this family phone plan

— J. R. Wilkerson

Greetings, my #fragmentsfriday contribution today for
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
#poetry #zoo #primates #magic

Photo of a poem I wrote. It was a timed exercise set for me by a MH support worker. Text: 5 mins #3 Sad songs. Sad little bird. I held open my hand and you folded like fingers. I’m still sore about it. Thinking about that time you said “forever forget” and it meant nothing, but fell like a tree inside me. I wonder if it is ever winter where you are. Like, does it ever snow? Is it a forest, and are you there, with red breasted robins all along your arm, like a postcard? Or are all your trees blossomed and pink, like the best of all possible springs?

So good.

Many thanks to Kellie and the folks at @rfpress.bsky.social. In honor of this issue, am posting a pic of the ‘94 Beretta that got me through college. Sweet ride, though the floorboard would get waterlogged every time it rained. ☔️

Bonjour.

The shortest month of the year deserves the smallest and mightiest issue of the year. Tell your local short king.

www.roifaineantpress.com/blog

#writingcommunity

My contribution to #fragmentsfriday for
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

#haiku #senryu #poetry #micropoetry

guy who found my phone

called mom,
dad’s
old numbers

rank strangers,
everyone

Dear beautiful internet people:
Not to be overdramatic, but if you ever cared for me at all I beseech you to check out my lil poem “bloodworks” as well as some other amazing scribblers @rfpress.bsky.social this Sunday 2/23. 🩸🦟

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Punky Reggae Party (Visualizer) YouTube video by BobMarleyVEVO

Today’s Friday Video featured Robert Nesta Marley, born this day in 1945
🇯🇲
#BobMarley

The Wailers will be there
The Damned, The Jam, The Clash
Maytals will be there
Dr. Feelgood too

m.youtube.com/watch?v=SBAi...

our best
friends

aren’t blind,
but impartial

to hubris

#paintku
#senryu

For those who observe, from a wintry corner of Virginia:

All on that charming coast is no bitter snow and frost,
Like the lands of Virginia-ginia, O;
There streams for ever flow, and there flowers for ever blow,
And alas! I am weary, weary O!

- The Slaves Lament

#RobertBurns
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#Paintku Tuesdays Week 3

Today’s pick: Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876)

I fell in love with the painting the first time I saw it, back in high school.

the laughter
of dancing couples
twilight long

Feel free to join in with your own haiku.

joie de vivre

joined in
adornment,

flecks of
daylight

#haiku
#paintku