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❖ #ForgottenPoets & #ForgottenPrints ❖ Pre-1930s poetry & art ❖ Edited by Dick Whyte #dwpoems ❖ https://forgottenpoets.substack.com

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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · Nov 6
🖤 𝗦𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗢𝗟𝗗 𝗠𝗢𝗢𝗡: 𝗛𝗔𝗜𝗞𝗨 | 𝗛𝗢𝗞𝗞𝗨 | 𝗛𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗞𝗨 🖤
It's finally here! My brand new collection of #haikai featuring 200 #haiku written between 2008-2019, and edited earlier this year. Paperbacks and ebooks available now! www.amazon.com/dp/1991310501

#poetry #poems #poem #hokku #booksky
Cover of Dick Whyte's haiku collection, 'Same Old Moon' with an aged moon design, on a black background. haiku by Dick Whyte: in the shape of a missing stone-- autumn rain haiku by Dick Whyte: translating Issa's death poem-- sparrows
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Sara Sutterlin
Act three The night sun is reserved for inconspicuous hunchbacks & golden lackeys. In the apocalyptic morning sanctimonious myths are sung high in memory of delicious America
January 28, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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$1.95 POET son
January 29, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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Lorine Niedecker
to Cid Corman
January 28, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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David Ignatow, from Living is What I Wanted: Last Poems (1999)
Fixed or impermanent All these objects fixed in their places-- trees, houses, the declaration of independence, the bill of rights, the constitution--awaiting an end. The earth spins as if in search of its executioner, perhaps a comet sent at random by the law of impermanence, fixed in us like a bent tree.
January 28, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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2/2

Joshua Beckman,
from A Guide for Making
Fragments from Diaries
January 28, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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Well excuse me
an image showing Dom Sylvester Houédard's *great* poem frog pond plop
January 27, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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He opened the door and walked into the morning. Soon Toad was at Frog's front door. He took the list from his pocket and crossed out: Go to Frog's House.
Toad, all dressed up, leaves his house and heads to Frog's. From "A List" In *Frog and Toad Together*
January 27, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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'Sonnet to Mrs. Reynold's Cat'
—John Keats

#poetry #poems #booksky
Sonnet To Mrs. Reynolds's Cat Cat! who hast pass'd thy grand climacteric, How many mice and rats hast in thy days Destroy'd? How many tit bits stolen? Gaze With those bright languid segments green, and prick Those velvet ears -- but prythee do not stick Thy latent talons in me - and upraise Thy gentle mew - and tell me all thy frays, Of fish and mice, and rats and tender chick. Nay, look not down, nor lick thy dainty wrists-- For all thy wheezy asthma -- and for all Thy tail's tip is nick'd off -- and though the fists Of many a maid have given thee many a maul, Still is that fur as soft, as when the lists In youth thou enter'dest on glass bottled wall.
January 11, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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From ‘Two Cures For Love’ (2008)
—Wendy Cope

#poem #poetry #booksky
Two Cures For Love Wendy Cope 1. Don’t see him. Don’t phone or write a letter. 2. The easy way: get to know him better.
January 27, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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From ‘There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé’ (2017)
—Morgan Parker

#poetry #poem #booksky
January 27, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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#poemsfordays #poetrycommunity #poems #poets #poetry #supportyourlocalpoets #indiewriters  #poetsofinstagram #blueskypoets
#poetrynetwork #poetsoflosangeles
January 27, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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Mary Oliver 🩷
January 27, 2026 at 5:45 AM
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Juan Ramón Jiménez, tr. Dennis Maloney
POEM I wish that all my poems could be like the sky at night. The truth of the moment, without history. That, like the sky, they would yield at every moment all things, with all their stars. Not childhood, nor youth, nor age could rob them, or cast a spell on their immense beauty. A tremor, a flash, the music present and total. The tremor, the flash, the music in my head, The sky in my heart. The naked book!
January 27, 2026 at 4:47 AM
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Hello Tuesday.
🖼️ Alex G Griffiths
Bear and fox warming hands and toasting marshmallows over a camp fire in wooded setting, watched by hare, illustration.
January 27, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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Jon Woodward
at one point I walked to the grocery store and bought a pound of strawberries for 99 cents they weren't too tart if my body is found I want them to pack it with strawberries I want my casket lined with strawberries I want them to bulldoze strawberries over me
January 27, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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From The Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: bookshop.org/a/862/9780679728184

#poem #books #writing
January 19, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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“I saw the sun coming out,” said Frog. “I saw the birds sitting and singing in the tree. I saw my mother and father working in their garden. I saw flowers in the garden.”
Little Frog's parents wave to him from their garden, which is bursting with life. From "The Corner" In *Frog and Toad All Year*
January 18, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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neonpajamas.bsky.social
a poem of mine recently published in Michigan City Review

shout-out Long John Silver's

(sorry Ohio)
After Almost Choking to Death on a Life Saver in a Long John Silver's for Joe Wenderoth I'm being asked to leave this particular Long John Silver's. I will find another. There are 57 in Indiana. I'll be fine. There are 65 in Ohio, if necessary, but don't make me go to Ohio. No. Please. I'm fine in Iowa. There are 11 in Iowa. I'm okay in Illinois. There are 23 in Illinois. But no, no Ohio. Not today.
January 16, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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From ‘Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved’ (2005)
—Gregory Orr

#poetry #poems #booksky
January 13, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
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🎺🎺🎺
#sticker
10x10cm square sticker of a dark grey hare blowing on a yellow horn that is being carried by two white mice. There is a cloud like steam coming from that horn and in it is a text "nobody is free until everybody is free". The background is bright red with black and blue stars.
January 12, 2026 at 9:44 AM
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The white flowers strain upward / Into a pallid air of their references

Another uncollected John Ashbery poem
A Vase of Flowers The vase is white and would be a cylinder If a cylinder were wider at the top than at the bottom. The flowers are red, white and blue. All contact with the flowers is forbidden. The white flowers strain upward Into a pallid air of their references, Pushed slightly by the red and blue flowers. If you were going to be jealous of the flowers, Please forget it. They mean absolutely nothing to me. 1962 (written ca. 1959)
January 13, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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#monoku by Laurence Stacy. Laurence teaches English & Lit. courses at Kennesaw State University. He is the recent coauthor of Before the Earth: Haiku and Haikai. #poetry #haiku #oneliner #poetrylovers
January 12, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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From the latest issue of #ForgottenPoets
—Joseph Upper

#poetry #poems #booksky
—: Inhibition :— The night is pointed With cruel stars, And sharpened By the steel war chant Of ambushed crickets. If there were a blood-red moon, One could carefully Kill the thing he loved And bury it Beneath a monumental pine tree. But the cold bayonets Of the stars Prevent me; And the revengeful crickets Have made me weary of both love and hate.
January 12, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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🖼️ Yamaguchi Kayō
Leaping golden deer on dark turquoise background, painting.
January 12, 2026 at 6:57 AM