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In the mail, mentally-enriching new issue of @readliberties.bsky.social , featuring my meditation on The Poet as Seer: Miłosz and Merton 👁️

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January 19, 2026 at 1:56 AM
lehaley.bsky.social
#JosephFasano ’s “Lorca (after Neruda)” reminds us that repression may silence a body, but it cannot extinguish what that body carried.

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#ArtAndResistance
#TheyCannotKillTheSong
#LiteratureAgainstViolence
#PoetryOfDefiance
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#WordsEndure
January 9, 2026 at 10:03 PM
carawaterfall.bsky.social
🌊 "Archiving these stories for the next generation to read, for me, stands as a lasting legacy." 📚✨" 📚✨

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January 12, 2026 at 1:15 PM
drdeepakdev.bsky.social
THE SIXTH DAY
—a requiem where bullets outlived vows

#TheSixthDay #PoetryAsWitness
#NoToTerror #GriefInInk #OutliveTheBullet #HumanBeforeAll
#VoiceOfTheFallen #WidowOfSixDays
#ElegyForTheInnocent #NotJustAnotherHeadline
April 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
laura-gerling.bsky.social
When the world's worst actors become credible critics, perhaps we've become what we once condemned.

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Turning the Turning Tables
Iran called up the other day,Said they’re concerned about our wayOf handling folks who march and shout:The tear gas, guns, the sorting out. Russia phoned to say they’re worriedAbout our…
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January 25, 2026 at 5:54 PM
drose28.bsky.social
They’re brigading.
They want this buried.

But it’s not just a poem —
it’s a witness.

If you feel it:
Like. Retweet. Speak.
Let’s make the silence loud again.
#TruthTelling #PoetryAsWitness #SignalBoost
June 14, 2025 at 6:06 AM
drdeepakdev.bsky.social
"Some wounds write back.
This isn’t just a poem—
it’s a refusal to forget,
to normalize grief,
or to stay silent
when the earth bleeds under our feet"

WHERE SHADOWS MAY BLOOM
—a testimony to what bled unspoken

#poeticreveries #justatry ##PoetryAsWitness #NoToTerror #AprilBleeds #HumanBeforeAll
April 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
chuchiblue.bsky.social
Another morning of reading the news, another poem for you.

#Poetry #PoliticalPoetry #PoetsOfBluesky #NewPoem #EarlDavidFreeland
#KingCovfefe #PoetryAsWitness #Reckoning #PoetryOfResistance #ContemporaryPoetry
King Covfefe - Earl David Freeland He says he couldn’t care less if the prices rise— foreign cars, domestic wages, eggs, insulin, rent, he couldn’t care less. He means it. He says it between swings. While the Dow freefalls he adjusts his grip. Asks if the cameras are catching the swing. This is how a king behaves when the peasants burn. Not with fire but overdraft notices, mothers counting pills at the sink, mildew blooming where the crib used to be. Marie said cake. Nero played while Rome burned. This one posts, then tees off. Covfefe. Let them eat Red Hats and stock tips, let them eat lead pipes and broadband outages. We funded the cart. We painted the staircase. We watched the match get lit. He couldn’t care less. He says it out loud. We laugh or we don’t. He’s not listening. He’s halfway to the green.
April 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
lehaley.bsky.social
#AmandaGorman ’s #ForReneeNicoleGood is an #elegy that refuses #erasure.

It names #grief, names #violence, and insists that #mourning itself can become a #moral #force.

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#PoetryAndProtest
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#BearingWitness
#AbolishICE
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#JusticeForRenee
A minimalist literary layout featuring white serif text on a black background presenting the complete poem “For Renee Nicole Good” by Amanda Gorman. The title and subtitle appear once at the top, followed by the author’s name. The poem unfolds in multiple stanzas reflecting on loss, collective grief, anger, remembrance, and the possibility of transformation through love and shared responsibility. The stark black-and-white design centers the language itself, underscoring the poem’s elegiac and activist tone.
January 9, 2026 at 5:31 AM
lehaley.bsky.social
#HumanArchive
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#ThisIsAmerica
White sans-serif text on a black background describes a school lockdown drill from a child’s perspective, listing instructions such as turning off lights, locking doors, silencing phones, and staying low. The text contrasts childhood memories of drills with present fear, ending with the line “You’re not giggling now.” The piece is credited to Human Archive and dated December 15, 2025.
December 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM