“It’s the nature of the wise to resist
Pleasure, & the foolish to be [its] slave
[For certainly the good must persist
(& the weak to hide in luxury’s cave)]”
#Epictetus
#PhilosophyPoem
#ComicPoem
“Pecuniary emulation drives
Consumers to spend more on displays
Of wealth and status symbols, [to prize:
(]Opposed to more useful commodities[)]”
#ThorsteinVeblen
#PhilosophyPoem
#PecuniaryEmulation
#SelfiePoem
#ComicPoem
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Cities can be paradises
When individuals accept others
Leaving people to their own devices
(Honestly most mistakes no one bothers)
#SelfiePoem
#ComicPoem
#MapPoem
#NewYork
“Those who… make you believe absurdities,
Can make you commit atrocities.”
― #VoltaireCouplet
#PhilosophyPoem
#PhilosophySonnet
#ComicPoem
@sagan.bsky.social
Insanity fertilizes
People’s unholy ambitions
Whilst laziness utilizes
Our inhuman demolitions
#SelfiePoem
#ComicPoem
#Redeemer
I’m trapped here in this near perfect world
Constantly locating stupid problems
I look about sneering, with my lips curled
(Shortages of gratitude caused them)
#SelfieSonnet?
#SelfiePoem
#Comicpoem
America is evaporating
The digital stream of zeroes & ones
Is this patriotic land exploiting
(All our money & work goes to rich bums)
#SelfiePoem
#philosophyPoem
#ComicPoem
Anybody & Evérybody
Will go to evéry & any length
To dodge & evade, all things G_dly
(The modern soul seems to lack strength)
#PhilosophyPoem
#SelfiePoem
#ComicPoem
@philosophors
@QuoteJung
We all carry modernity’s troubles
Either on top* of our craniums
Or in a shopping cart with bottles
(Ignore• quotidian geraniums)
#SelfiePoem
#SelfieSonnet?
#comicpoem
*in front
•forget
The insanity of self-righteous rage
That the algorithms now fertilize
Shows us how we choose arrogance’s cage
(Moral wounds citizens can’t cauterize)
#HeadlinePoem
#ComicPoem
www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/19/w...
We haven’t found the abyss quite yet
But humanity’s still excavating
Our insanity hasn’t been met
(People are still deprecating)
#HeadlinePoem
#ComicPoem
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"Shakespeare Goes to a Poetry Workshop".
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #comicpoem #choughpublications
My mind is constructed of stories
That find themselves retold ad nauseum
Most of them are youthful glories
(Battling memories’ coliseum)
#SelfiePoem
#ComicPoem
Hidden purpose #trains,
Each street brawl, a sharpened skill,
Destiny's dark pull.
🦇 🧍
#WSS366 #DailyPrompt #ThreeLines #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #Senryu #InspiredBy #BatMan #BruceWayne #DC #CrimeFighter #ComicPoem
The city has slowly come together
Over the centuries of our travail
Things get calamitous & then better
Working best when common people prevail
#Comicpoem
#SelfiePoem
#PhilosophyPoem
#CityPoem
Shel Silverstein - "Sahra Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out"
#poem #comicpoem #poetry #comicpoetry #childrenspoetry #shelsilverstein
"Chough Chavs".
#poem #comicpoem #poetry #skypoets #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetrycornwall #choughs
Life & Death
#art #digitalart #illustration #digitalillustration #comicpoem #comic #comicstrip #poem #ventart #twdeaththoughts #coloringpractice #digitalcoloring
Comic poem: Rage
#art #digitalart #illustration #digitalillustration #comicstrip #comicpoem #poem #comicformat #bodyhorror #ventart #digitalpainting #coloringpractice
The well heeled & most preferred Caucasians
Nibble around the wheel of hardened cheese
Treating Americans ǝʞıן they’re agents
Who need to go about & begging “please”
#HeadlinePoem
#comicpoem
#Cthulhu
#hplovecraft
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Let’s radiocarbon date our country
Find out when we became the enemy?
Trading humanity’s good for money
Our land is clearly becoming scummy
#HeadlinePoem
#ComicPoem
It occurs to me that the beautiful
Is completely imprisoned within
The observer who is dutiful
To complete life: both virtue & sin
#SelfiePoem
#PhilosophyPoem
#SelfieSonnet?
#comicpoem
Sequel to Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".
#poem #poetry #skypoets #poets+ #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #comicpoem #robertfrost
Comic poem classroom professor bow tie I’m just the lumpenproletariat society’s unthinking low strata Though I have joined the professoriat To rich whitey that doesn’t matter #SelfiePoem
I’m just the lumpenproletariat
society’s unthinking low strata
Though I have joined the professoriat
To rich whitey that doesn’t matter
#SelfiePoem
#comicPoem