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@kentpitman@climatejustice.social · 15 hours ago

Having recently read it aloud at a charity event, I have finally just published to my website my 2012 essay "Lie to Me", written at the time for my friend Juli, inviting honesty, which it suggests is more about trust, immediacy and fearlessness than it is about truth. I figured somehow that Valentine's week was a good time to get it out into the world.

There is an accompanying audio reading by me. It is about 5 minutes long.

https://nhplace.com/kent/Writing/Lie-To-Me.html

#Valentine #Valentines #ValentinesDay #honesty #truth #lies #lying #trust #immediacy #honesty #essay #writing #WritingCommunity #poem #FreeVerse

Lie to Me by Kent M Pitman

A 2012 essay, inviting honesty, which it suggests is more about trust, immediacy and fearlessness than it is about truth.

Kent Pitman

@kentpitman@climatejustice.social · 15 hours ago

There is an accompanying audio reading by me. It is about 5 minutes long.

https://nhplace.com/kent/Writing/Lie-To-Me.html

#Valentine #Valentines #ValentinesDay #honesty #truth #lies #lying #trust #immediacy #honesty #essay #writing #WritingCommunity #poem #FreeVerse

Lie to Me by Kent M Pitman

A 2012 essay, inviting honesty, which it suggests is more about trust, immediacy and fearlessness than it is about truth.

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Stuff I found

@stuffifound@pixelfed.social · 5 days ago

I know this has been shared many times before but never by me and I did want to share it for that one person who may not know it yet (or didn't know who wrote it)

#activism #marwanmakhoul #poem #poetry #war #antiwar #antifascism #antifa

In order for me
to write poetry
that isn't political
I must listen to
the birds

And in order to hear the birds
the warplanes must be silent

(Marwan Makhoul) — In order for me to write poetry that isn't political I must listen to the birds And in order to hear the birds the warplanes must be silent (Marwan Makhoul)

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Stuff I found

@stuffifound@pixelfed.social · 5 days ago

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EvaLie_Tablet

@EvaLie@bildung.social · last week

Schreibst du bitte in mein "Poesiealbum" 🖋️📖 ?

"Wer in dieses Büchlein schreibt,
den bitte ich um Sauberkeit.
Reiß' mir ja kein Blatt heraus,
sonst ist unsere Freundschaft aus."

Bitte antworte hier mit deinem schönsten, witzigsten, kitschigsten Poesie-Album-Spruch, male eine eigene Seite und/oder sende ein Foto aus deinem eigenen alten Album.

Ich möchte meiner sechsten Klasse zeigen, wie weit verbreitet diese Gedichtform war.
Danke! Bitte teilen!

💚 Poesie

#FediLZ #Buch #MastoArt #Poem

Foto eines Poesiealbums.
Vorne steht "Poesie", schwarzer Grund, bunte Herzen
Design der 90er Jahre — Foto eines Poesiealbums. Vorne steht "Poesie", schwarzer Grund, bunte Herzen Design der 90er Jahre

EvaLie_Tablet

@EvaLie@bildung.social · last week

Schreibst du bitte in mein "Poesiealbum" 🖋️📖 ?

"Wer in dieses Büchlein schreibt,
den bitte ich um Sauberkeit.
Reiß' mir ja kein Blatt heraus,
sonst ist unsere Freundschaft aus."

Bitte antworte hier mit deinem schönsten, witzigsten, kitschigsten Poesie-Album-Spruch, male eine eigene Seite und/oder sende ein Foto aus deinem eigenen alten Album.

Ich möchte meiner sechsten Klasse zeigen, wie weit verbreitet diese Gedichtform war.
Danke! Bitte teilen!

💚 Poesie

#FediLZ #Buch #MastoArt #Poem

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Assoc for Scottish Literature

@scotlit@mastodon.scot · last week

I think that authors’ ghosts creep back‍‍
Nightly to haunt the sleeping shelves‍‍
And find the books they wrote.‍‍
Those authors put final, semi-final touches,‍‍
Sometimes whole paragraphs.‍‍
Whole pages are added, re-written, revised…

—Muriel Spark, “Authors’ Ghosts”
published in COMPLETE POEMS (Carcanet, 2015)

18/18

#Scottish #literature #MurielSpark #20thCentury #WomenWriters #poem #poetry

Authors’ Ghosts
Muriel Spark

I think that authors’ ghosts creep back‍‍
Nightly to haunt the sleeping shelves‍‍
And find the books they wrote.‍‍
Those authors put final, semi-final touches,‍‍
Sometimes whole paragraphs.‍‍

Whole pages are added, re-written, revised,‍‍
So deeply by night those authors employ‍‍
Themselves with those old books of theirs.‍‍

How otherwise‍‍
Explain the fact that maybe after years‍‍
Have passed, the reader‍‍
Picks up the book – But was it like that?‍‍
I don’t remember this . . . Where‍‍
Did this ending come from?‍‍
I recall quite another.‍‍

Oh yes, it has been tampered with‍‍
No doubt about it –‍‍
The author’s very touch is here, there and there,‍‍
Where it wasn’t before, and‍‍
What’s more, something’s missing –‍‍
I could have sworn . . . — Authors’ Ghosts Muriel Spark I think that authors’ ghosts creep back‍‍ Nightly to haunt the sleeping shelves‍‍ And find the books they wrote.‍‍ Those authors put final, semi-final touches,‍‍ Sometimes whole paragraphs.‍‍ Whole pages are added, re-written, revised,‍‍ So deeply by night those authors employ‍‍ Themselves with those old books of theirs.‍‍ How otherwise‍‍ Explain the fact that maybe after years‍‍ Have passed, the reader‍‍ Picks up the book – But was it like that?‍‍ I don’t remember this . . . Where‍‍ Did this ending come from?‍‍ I recall quite another.‍‍ Oh yes, it has been tampered with‍‍ No doubt about it –‍‍ The author’s very touch is here, there and there,‍‍ Where it wasn’t before, and‍‍ What’s more, something’s missing –‍‍ I could have sworn . . .

Assoc for Scottish Literature

@scotlit@mastodon.scot · last week

THE CROOKED DIVIDEND
Essays on Muriel Spark
ed. Gerard Carruthers & Helen Stoddart

Muriel Spark in British culture; the influence of Scottish literary traditions on her work; how she explores gender, religion, politics; & more

Also online via Project MUSE

@litstudies

17/18

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/the-crooked-dividend/

#Scottish #literature #MurielSpark #20thCentury #WomenWriters

Association for Scottish Literature

Occasional Papers series no. 24

Edited by Gerard Carruthers and Helen Stoddart Published in: Paperback By: Scottish Literature International, 2022 Price: £19.95 / €24.95 / $27.95 ISBN 978-1-908980-33-5 Order from Hive.co.

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@scotlit@mastodon.scot replied · last week

—Muriel Spark, “Authors’ Ghosts”
published in COMPLETE POEMS (Carcanet, 2015)

18/18

#Scottish #literature #MurielSpark #20thCentury #WomenWriters #poem #poetry

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Bruce MacDonald

@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io · last week

Good morning from Minneapolis where a dusting of snowfall is moving across the region to brighten the landscape. An inch or two when all is said and done.

Quite early Sunday morning it's 20℉; overcast skies; gusty south-southwest winds; barometer reads Fair; and visibility is 10 miles at the airport.

Heading for a high temperature of 29℉.

The Full Moon has set.

Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colours from our sight
Red is grey and yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion
—from Graeme Edge, "Late Lament;" The Moody Blues, "Days of Future Passed"

2026: 32 days in/333 out.

We've a long row to hoe.

#mnwx #SeedLibrary #poem

A seed-sharing library at the Nokomis branch of Hennepin County Library, Minneapolis, consists of a repurposed card catalog cabinet with labeled drawers and an overflow woven basket on top.

Bruce MacDonald

@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io · last week

Good morning from Minneapolis where a dusting of snowfall is moving across the region to brighten the landscape. An inch or two when all is said and done.

Quite early Sunday morning it's 20℉; overcast skies; gusty south-southwest winds; barometer reads Fair; and visibility is 10 miles at the airport.

Heading for a high temperature of 29℉.

The Full Moon has set.

2026: 32 days in/333 out.

We've a long row to hoe.

#mnwx #SeedLibrary #poem

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Joy

@joynewacc@mastodon.social · last week

Lately, my eyes—weighted by the harrowing details of genocide and worn by the dust of my home’s ruins—fail to perceive the world. Something within them falters, forcing them to forsake the silent 'spring of inanimate things' that lingers around me.

Everything has dissolved into gray, drifting in a closed loop of mute screams—audible only to the ants, the stones, the trees, and the beasts; sensed by every living pulse, save for humanity.

#poetry #gaza #genocide #palestine #writing #poem

Joy

@joynewacc@mastodon.social · last week

Everything has dissolved into gray, drifting in a closed loop of mute screams—audible only to the ants, the stones, the trees, and the beasts; sensed by every living pulse, save for humanity.

#poetry #gaza #genocide #palestine #writing #poem

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@markwyner@mas.to · 2 weeks ago

Art by Ravi Zupa.

Inspired by the poem “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas. The general consensus of the poem is that it is about being on the threshold of and not conceding to death.

How timely.

Original art:
https://ravizupa.com/products/test-product-rage-print

Full poem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_not_go_gentle_into_that_good_night

#Art #Poem #Poetry #Death #Mortality #Resist #Antifascism #Fascism #ICE

Illustration of the head of an angry black cat with the caption “do not go gentle into that good night. Rage against the dying of the light.”

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@markwyner@mas.to · 2 weeks ago

Art by Ravi Zupa.

Inspired by the poem “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas. The general consensus of the poem is that it is about being on the threshold of and not conceding to death.

How timely.

Original art:
https://ravizupa.com/products/test-product-rage-print

Full poem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_not_go_gentle_into_that_good_night

#Art #Poem #Poetry #Death #Mortality #Resist #Antifascism #Fascism #ICE

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@markwyner@mas.to · 2 weeks ago

Tired, by Cleo Wade. Pretty timely.

Don’t give up, folks. Keep fighting the good fight. We can do this. ✊🏻

#Poem #Poetry #CleoWade #Resist #Antifascism #ICE #Minneapolis #DontGiveUp #Hope

Tired, Cleo Wade.
I was tired of worrying
so I gave myself my peace back
I was tired of feeling intimidated by what I should do
so I pulled up my sleeves
and
got to work on what I could do
I was tired of not knowing
so I found out — about myself, my family, my
ancestors, my government and the struggles of others
I was tired of seeing evil everywhere
so I found the heavenly spots and showed my
neighbors where they
were
I was tired
of looking at the world as one big mess
so I decided to
start cleaning it up
and when people ask me if I’m exhausted
I tell them no
because
more than anything
what I got the most tired of
was being tired — Tired, Cleo Wade. I was tired of worrying so I gave myself my peace back I was tired of feeling intimidated by what I should do so I pulled up my sleeves and got to work on what I could do I was tired of not knowing so I found out — about myself, my family, my ancestors, my government and the struggles of others I was tired of seeing evil everywhere so I found the heavenly spots and showed my neighbors where they were I was tired of looking at the world as one big mess so I decided to start cleaning it up and when people ask me if I’m exhausted I tell them no because more than anything what I got the most tired of was being tired

Esther Schindler

@estherschindler@newsie.social · 2 weeks ago

This

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@lufthans@mastodon.social replied · 2 weeks ago

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For Alex Jeffrey Pretti

Murdered by I.C.C January 24, 2026

by Amanda Gorman

We wake with
no words, just woe
& wound. Our own country shoot
ing us in the back is not just brutal
ity; it's jarring betrayal; not enforcement,
but execution. A message: Love your people & you

#alt4you #alttext #AmandaGorman #poem