counter-catechisms
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sonnets & vignettes…the ghosts of gnosis…collateral damage…prose, prozetry & leftover poems on love, nature, the passing scene…sometimes mystical, sometimes philosophical, largely agnostic.
clever...but wrong-headed.
August 14, 2025 at 4:52 AM
clever...but wrong-headed.
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy
justice can have.”
— James Baldwin
justice can have.”
— James Baldwin
July 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy
justice can have.”
— James Baldwin
justice can have.”
— James Baldwin
July 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
July 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
pretty important #poem as I see things.
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July 6, 2025 at 5:34 AM
pretty important #poem as I see things.
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To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
July 4, 2025 at 4:55 AM
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
#poem #poetry #writingcommunity
a poem I am ridiculously proud of 😎
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a poem I am ridiculously proud of 😎
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June 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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a poem I am ridiculously proud of 😎
countercatechism.wordpress.com/2024/04/11/s...
a poem I am ridiculously proud of 😎
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a sweet little Grand Sonnetina 😎
Bet you like it!
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Bet you like it!
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June 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
a sweet little Grand Sonnetina 😎
Bet you like it!
#poem #poetry #writingcommunity
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Bet you like it!
#poem #poetry #writingcommunity
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Here's what I like on Bluesky
June 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Here's what I like on Bluesky
June 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
June 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
THESIS (wip)
When phds had gone missing
tired HS teachers gone fishing
botanists, all gone to seed
& the last librarian, to read
one thing of great value remained –
its beauty as yet, unstrained -
now there for itself, its own sake:
#POETRY: what’s left when you take
all half-cocked words away.
When phds had gone missing
tired HS teachers gone fishing
botanists, all gone to seed
& the last librarian, to read
one thing of great value remained –
its beauty as yet, unstrained -
now there for itself, its own sake:
#POETRY: what’s left when you take
all half-cocked words away.
June 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
THESIS (wip)
When phds had gone missing
tired HS teachers gone fishing
botanists, all gone to seed
& the last librarian, to read
one thing of great value remained –
its beauty as yet, unstrained -
now there for itself, its own sake:
#POETRY: what’s left when you take
all half-cocked words away.
When phds had gone missing
tired HS teachers gone fishing
botanists, all gone to seed
& the last librarian, to read
one thing of great value remained –
its beauty as yet, unstrained -
now there for itself, its own sake:
#POETRY: what’s left when you take
all half-cocked words away.
Georgia O'Keeffe's stunning portrait of fellow artist Beauford Delaney, from the collection of the National Portrait Gallery
May 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Georgia O'Keeffe's stunning portrait of fellow artist Beauford Delaney, from the collection of the National Portrait Gallery
