poemakontsa
@poemakontsa.bsky.social
2024-25 Pushcart heartbreak nominee.
You know: I have to give you up again
And I can't.
I am after the lost sign, the single
pledge you graced me with.
And hell is certain
You know: I have to give you up again
And I can't.
I am after the lost sign, the single
pledge you graced me with.
And hell is certain
Pinned
poemakontsa
@poemakontsa.bsky.social
· Aug 21
The language of longing isn't in writing. It's a braille made of absent touching and skin
As Ten as Twenty
P. K. Page
They in us free our love
make archways of our mouths,
tear off the patent gloves
and atrophy our myths.
P. K. Page
They in us free our love
make archways of our mouths,
tear off the patent gloves
and atrophy our myths.
November 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
As Ten as Twenty
P. K. Page
They in us free our love
make archways of our mouths,
tear off the patent gloves
and atrophy our myths.
P. K. Page
They in us free our love
make archways of our mouths,
tear off the patent gloves
and atrophy our myths.
Dating app update: still seeing grown ups in their 40s describing what they are looking for is a new adventure 🫠
A lot of swashbucklers out there.
A lot of swashbucklers out there.
November 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Dating app update: still seeing grown ups in their 40s describing what they are looking for is a new adventure 🫠
A lot of swashbucklers out there.
A lot of swashbucklers out there.
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love his mechahitler stuff but also a fan of his early work like saying dead people are alive
JD Vance: "I'm a Grok guy. I think it's the best. It's also the least woke."
November 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
love his mechahitler stuff but also a fan of his early work like saying dead people are alive
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Yawns are weird. You're tired? Why don't you open your mouth really big about it? What's that? You're not tired, but you saw someone else open their mouth big? Well, guess what.
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Yawns are weird. You're tired? Why don't you open your mouth really big about it? What's that? You're not tired, but you saw someone else open their mouth big? Well, guess what.
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Presented by various Chicago literary curators: Jeffrey Wolf (An Inconvenient Hour), Simone Muench & Kenyatta Rogers (Sunday Reading Series), S. Yarberry (PO Box Collective), Ben Niespodziany (Neon Night Mic), & Exhibit B.
November 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Presented by various Chicago literary curators: Jeffrey Wolf (An Inconvenient Hour), Simone Muench & Kenyatta Rogers (Sunday Reading Series), S. Yarberry (PO Box Collective), Ben Niespodziany (Neon Night Mic), & Exhibit B.
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Chicago! Join us next month for a great cause (and a STACKED lineup)
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Chicago! Join us next month for a great cause (and a STACKED lineup)
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November 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Bonjour tristesse
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Bonjour tristesse
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But it is true, they fear
it more than death, beauty is feared
more than death, more than they fear death
-William Carlos Williams
(quoted by Cristina Campo in
“The Unforgiveables”)
it more than death, beauty is feared
more than death, more than they fear death
-William Carlos Williams
(quoted by Cristina Campo in
“The Unforgiveables”)
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
But it is true, they fear
it more than death, beauty is feared
more than death, more than they fear death
-William Carlos Williams
(quoted by Cristina Campo in
“The Unforgiveables”)
it more than death, beauty is feared
more than death, more than they fear death
-William Carlos Williams
(quoted by Cristina Campo in
“The Unforgiveables”)
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Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next
Good morning with more poems on Bach
Practicing Bach: Prelude
Jan Zwicky
Everywhere you look
there's beauty and it's rimed
with death
Practicing Bach: Prelude
Jan Zwicky
Everywhere you look
there's beauty and it's rimed
with death
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Good morning with more poems on Bach
Practicing Bach: Prelude
Jan Zwicky
Everywhere you look
there's beauty and it's rimed
with death
Practicing Bach: Prelude
Jan Zwicky
Everywhere you look
there's beauty and it's rimed
with death
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I love poems on musicians and composers. Among them, Tomas Tranströmer poem on Wagner. Also Gustafson's poem on Bach. Alejandra Pizarnik's poem to Janis Joplin.
I just read a beautiful poem by Canadian P. K. Page on Rostropovich.
What about you, reader, what's your favorite poem on a composer
I just read a beautiful poem by Canadian P. K. Page on Rostropovich.
What about you, reader, what's your favorite poem on a composer
November 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I love poems on musicians and composers. Among them, Tomas Tranströmer poem on Wagner. Also Gustafson's poem on Bach. Alejandra Pizarnik's poem to Janis Joplin.
I just read a beautiful poem by Canadian P. K. Page on Rostropovich.
What about you, reader, what's your favorite poem on a composer
I just read a beautiful poem by Canadian P. K. Page on Rostropovich.
What about you, reader, what's your favorite poem on a composer
Good morning with Classicist and poet Ruth Padel
Tiger Drinking at Forest Pool
Water, moonlight, danger, dream.
Bronze urn, angled on on a tree-root: one
Slash of light, then gone
Tiger Drinking at Forest Pool
Water, moonlight, danger, dream.
Bronze urn, angled on on a tree-root: one
Slash of light, then gone
November 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Good morning with Classicist and poet Ruth Padel
Tiger Drinking at Forest Pool
Water, moonlight, danger, dream.
Bronze urn, angled on on a tree-root: one
Slash of light, then gone
Tiger Drinking at Forest Pool
Water, moonlight, danger, dream.
Bronze urn, angled on on a tree-root: one
Slash of light, then gone
Good morning to the poets in love
November 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Good morning to the poets in love
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Lars Gustafson's The Stillness of the World Before Bach
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Lars Gustafson's The Stillness of the World Before Bach
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Another poem on Bach.
This one by Canadian poet Jan Zwicky.
Practicing Bach
There is a sound
that is a whole of many parts,
a sorrowless transparency, like luck.
This one by Canadian poet Jan Zwicky.
Practicing Bach
There is a sound
that is a whole of many parts,
a sorrowless transparency, like luck.
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Another poem on Bach.
This one by Canadian poet Jan Zwicky.
Practicing Bach
There is a sound
that is a whole of many parts,
a sorrowless transparency, like luck.
This one by Canadian poet Jan Zwicky.
Practicing Bach
There is a sound
that is a whole of many parts,
a sorrowless transparency, like luck.
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Well there's that Hopkins sonnet on Henry Purcell.
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Well there's that Hopkins sonnet on Henry Purcell.
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We elected the Wizard of Oz
CONFIRMED: the gold snot covering the Oval Office is $58-apiece onlays from Home Depot that have been spraypainted.
When Laura Ingraham confronted Trump about this in the Oval—specifically and correctly noting that the tacky garbage was from Home Depot—he lied to her face and insisted it wasn't.
When Laura Ingraham confronted Trump about this in the Oval—specifically and correctly noting that the tacky garbage was from Home Depot—he lied to her face and insisted it wasn't.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
We elected the Wizard of Oz
Another poem on Bach.
This one by Canadian poet Jan Zwicky.
Practicing Bach
There is a sound
that is a whole of many parts,
a sorrowless transparency, like luck.
This one by Canadian poet Jan Zwicky.
Practicing Bach
There is a sound
that is a whole of many parts,
a sorrowless transparency, like luck.
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Another poem on Bach.
This one by Canadian poet Jan Zwicky.
Practicing Bach
There is a sound
that is a whole of many parts,
a sorrowless transparency, like luck.
This one by Canadian poet Jan Zwicky.
Practicing Bach
There is a sound
that is a whole of many parts,
a sorrowless transparency, like luck.
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This wasn’t meant as a poem, though Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) was known as a poet too. It’s a portion of the liner notes he wrote for the John Coltrane Live at Birdland LP. frankhudson.org/2020/05/27/f...
from “John Coltrane Live at Birdland”
Continuing on from my post late last night, and the feelings of insufficiency we as artists may feel in the face of horrible things: cruelty, injustice, the taking of lives, the crippling of souls.…
frankhudson.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This wasn’t meant as a poem, though Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) was known as a poet too. It’s a portion of the liner notes he wrote for the John Coltrane Live at Birdland LP. frankhudson.org/2020/05/27/f...
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This is a poem of loss, taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023)...
February 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This is a poem of loss, taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023)...
I remember reading in the past Simone de Beauvoir's breakup letter to writer Nelson Algren and being more stunned by it.
What changed?
I thought this letter was incomparable
What changed?
I thought this letter was incomparable
November 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I remember reading in the past Simone de Beauvoir's breakup letter to writer Nelson Algren and being more stunned by it.
What changed?
I thought this letter was incomparable
What changed?
I thought this letter was incomparable
P. K. Page's poem to Bach cellist Rostropovich
This is already much.
But there is more:
what falls apart is held together
each
atom aligned
This is already much.
But there is more:
what falls apart is held together
each
atom aligned
November 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
P. K. Page's poem to Bach cellist Rostropovich
This is already much.
But there is more:
what falls apart is held together
each
atom aligned
This is already much.
But there is more:
what falls apart is held together
each
atom aligned
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Please stop trying to log in using the password "Blueskylouvre" they keep trying to disable my account
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Please stop trying to log in using the password "Blueskylouvre" they keep trying to disable my account
I love poems on musicians and composers. Among them, Tomas Tranströmer poem on Wagner. Also Gustafson's poem on Bach. Alejandra Pizarnik's poem to Janis Joplin.
I just read a beautiful poem by Canadian P. K. Page on Rostropovich.
What about you, reader, what's your favorite poem on a composer
I just read a beautiful poem by Canadian P. K. Page on Rostropovich.
What about you, reader, what's your favorite poem on a composer
November 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I love poems on musicians and composers. Among them, Tomas Tranströmer poem on Wagner. Also Gustafson's poem on Bach. Alejandra Pizarnik's poem to Janis Joplin.
I just read a beautiful poem by Canadian P. K. Page on Rostropovich.
What about you, reader, what's your favorite poem on a composer
I just read a beautiful poem by Canadian P. K. Page on Rostropovich.
What about you, reader, what's your favorite poem on a composer