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Steven Cudahy<p>give up my self<br>for a chilly belonging<br>barely a breath's length</p><p>daily rituals<br>a primitive blade<br>to shed true skin</p><p>that milling congregation<br>stark lights and plastic carpets<br>hotdesking across stained veneers</p><p>worship to evade violence</p><p>a pass to pass<br>consecrated spaces<br>restricted access</p><p>stacked inbox catastrophes<br>voices in the ether<br>false idols and dead gods</p><p>a necessary inefficiency<br>to be altar-burned<br>when no longer needed</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SmallPoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallPoems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MastoPrompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoPrompt</span></a> 14 March 2025 - hallowed</p>
Michelle<p>“Wake” from Library on Fire, 395 pages of burning <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> now available at <a href="https://www.nihtgengapress.com/product/library-on-fire" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nihtgengapress.com/product/lib</span><span class="invisible">rary-on-fire</span></a></p><p>Thank you for supporting an Indigenous independent poet directly!🖤</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/indie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
Michelle<p>It only takes <br>A pin point of <br>Light to <br>Forget the <br>Dark. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a></p>
Hans Kastell<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@streetbump" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>streetbump</span></a></span> <br>Vom Vater geprügelt<br>Von der Amme mit Egoismus und Missgunst gesäugt<br>Von der Mutter das Vaterunser eingebläut<br>Vom Pfarrer missbraucht<br>Von Gott geliebt<br>Vom Teufel erst recht</p><p><a href="https://nrw.social/tags/gothic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gothic</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/gedicht" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gedicht</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/poesie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poesie</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/dichtung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dichtung</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Oligarchie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarchie</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Libertarismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Libertarismus</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Feudalismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Feudalismus</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/klassismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>klassismus</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Konservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Konservative</span></a></p>
Simon Ashcroft<p>Blood Moon</p><p>Selene, stained red<br>by wounds Helios inflicts<br>on her, and himself</p><p>© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/senryu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>senryu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoetryCommunity</span></a></p>
Michelle<p>Each and every<br>One of us <br>Like a geode, <br>Broken open <br>But shimmering.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a></p>
Simon Ashcroft<p>Empty</p><p>I am a pitcher,<br>from which my words, as water,<br>spill, and are wasted.</p><p>© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/senryu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>senryu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoetryCommunity</span></a></p>
Michelle<p>“Quartz” from Library on Fire, my 3rd volume of <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> available now at <a href="https://www.nihtgengapress.com/product/library-on-fire" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nihtgengapress.com/product/lib</span><span class="invisible">rary-on-fire</span></a> 395 pages of burning poetry at your fingertips. </p><p>Thank you for supporting an Indigenous independent <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poet</span></a> directly! </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/indie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a></p>
Michelle<p>Love lets the <br>Light reach you <br>Even through <br>The cataract <br>Of grief.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a></p>
Mo Schoenfeld (she/her)<p>from my sick window<br>a cloud passes, as time does<br>our silent wind chimes</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/vss365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vss365</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History March 12, 1912: The IWW won their Bread and Roses textile strike in Lawrence, MA. This was the first strike to use the moving picket line, implemented to avoid arrest for loitering. The workers came from 51 different nationalities and spoke 22 different languages. The mainstream unions, including the American Federation of Labor, all believed it was impossible to organize such a diverse workforce. However, the IWW organized workers by linguistic group and trained organizers who could speak each of the languages. Each language group got a delegate on the strike committee and had complete autonomy. Big Bill Haywood and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn masterminded the strategy of sending hundreds of the strikers' hungry children to sympathetic families in New York, New Jersey, and Vermont, drawing widespread sympathy, especially after police violently stopped a further exodus. 3 workers were killed by police during the strike. Nearly 300 were arrested.</p><p>The 1911 verse, by Poet James Oppenheim, has been associated with the strike, particularly after Upton Sinclair made the connection in his 1915 labor anthology, “The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest”</p><p>As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,<br>For they are women's children, and we mother them again.<br>Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;<br>Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/breadandroses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>breadandroses</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/policebrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policebrutality</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/elizabethgurleyflynn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elizabethgurleyflynn</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bigbillhaywood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigbillhaywood</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>strike</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/picket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>picket</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>novel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uptonsinclair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uptonsinclair</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
Project Gutenberg<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> in 1818.</p><p>Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife Mary and her stepsister Claire Clairmont leave England for Italy (to escape its "tyranny civil and religious"), intending to take Claire's illegitimate child Alba to her father, Lord Byron.</p><p>Over the next four years produced what Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill call "some of the finest poetry of the Romantic period".</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_By</span><span class="invisible">sshe_Shelley</span></a></p><p>Shelley at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1529" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/15</span><span class="invisible">29</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a></p>
Michelle<p>Our beautiful <br>Lives as <br>Plum blossoms <br>Scattered ever <br>So gently into <br>Spring. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a></p>
Michelle<p>This catastrophe <br>Of atoms <br>Still thrums <br>With the <br>Explosion <br>That made it </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a></p>
Michelle<p>The stars <br>Speak the <br>Most ancient <br>Language,<br>Messages <br>Encoded in <br>Light.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a></p>
Michelle<p>You are a <br>Child of <br>The stars,<br>They keep <br>Silent vigil <br>Over you.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a></p>
Michelle<p>Waves of light <br>Over the horizon,<br>Drown the valley.<br>I hold my breath <br>And sink. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a></p>
Michelle<p>My heart <br>Reaches ever <br>Toward hope<br>Like a temple <br>Built after <br>The flood </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>Màiri Mhòr composed “Òran Beinn Lì” after tenants on Skye won back their grazing rights on Ben Lì &amp; a reduction in rent – following “the Battle of the Braes” in 1882, where 50 police officers had fought with local crofters &amp; arrested 5 men &amp; 7 women</p><p>3/3</p><p><a href="https://thepeoplesvoice.glasgow.ac.uk/song-ben-li-cathy-ann/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thepeoplesvoice.glasgow.ac.uk/</span><span class="invisible">song-ben-li-cathy-ann/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Gaelic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaelic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Gaidhlig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaidhlig</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/song" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>song</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/19thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>19thcentury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/womenwriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenwriters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/landrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landrights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Highlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Highlands</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Hebrides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hebrides</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Skye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skye</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>“Her cartography of place is a peopled landscape … symbolic of the community &amp; culture that she knew in her youth, &amp; these personal and communal associations have a fervent emphasis in her songs”</p><p>—Priscilla Scott on the poetry of Màiri Mhòr nan Òran</p><p>2/3</p><p><a href="https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/06/a-sense-of-place-in-the-poetry-of-mairi-mhor-nan-oran/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/06/a-</span><span class="invisible">sense-of-place-in-the-poetry-of-mairi-mhor-nan-oran/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Gaelic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaelic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Gaidhlig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaidhlig</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/song" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>song</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/19thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>19thcentury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/womenwriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenwriters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/landscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landscape</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Highlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Highlands</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Hebrides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hebrides</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Skye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skye</span></a></p>