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Jim Richards
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Poet. I stare at words
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FLP BOOK OF THE DAY: Song for My Left Ear, Song for My Right by Jim Richards
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Song for My Left Ear, Song for My Right examines the sweet and strange journey from the small country of childhood to the perplexing universe of adulthood.
May 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Twenty years in the making, my first book is now available for pre-order at a 15% discount. Ships in August. If you are working on a book, keep working, never give up! If it can happen for me, it can happen for you. www.finishinglinepress.com/product/song...
May 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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#105

“Calm down—both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.”

—Czesław Miłosz
#aphorisms #proverbs #micropoetry

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November 26, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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“Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.”

—Mary Oliver (via Eve Castle)
@evecastle.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #poetry

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November 30, 2024 at 6:34 AM
who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there / and the nothing that is.

#poetry “The Snow Man” —Wallace Stevens
December 5, 2024 at 3:24 AM
I used to play in the snow and pretend I was a soldier. My poem about this appeared in Contemporary American Voices.
December 5, 2024 at 3:12 AM
I’ve never been a pie chart kind of person, unless the chart is three dimensional, edible, and made of pumpkin filling, apple filling, or coconut cream.
November 28, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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HOWS YOUR BOOK GOING?! HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED WRITING SOMETHING PEOPLE READ? Good luck in the trenches out there today. And remember, all you have to do is self publish a bestseller that becomes a movie and write the newspaper about it
November 28, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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How lucky we are
That you can’t sell
A poem, that it has
No value. Might
As well
Give it away.

That poem you love,
That saved your life,
Wasn’t it given to you?

—Gregory Orr
November 28, 2024 at 3:23 PM
“Lifted from the no of all nothing.” —e.e. cummings
November 28, 2024 at 3:36 PM