Mark Fiddes
@fiddes.bsky.social
Poet and creative director. '*Other Saints Are Available' (Live Canon), 'The Rainbow Factory' + 'The Chelsea Flower Show Massacre' (Templar). Dubai, Barcelona, London and unmapped places in between. https://markfiddes.com/
I always used to keep a copy of the Communist Manifesto by the door and asked them if they had heard the Good News about historical materialism.
October 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I always used to keep a copy of the Communist Manifesto by the door and asked them if they had heard the Good News about historical materialism.
Reposted by Mark Fiddes
I believe it’s not about intrigue or trying to look clever.
You are allowing the reader to complete the thought or scene or emotion for themselves.
A form of abstraction, akin to the visual arts.
As Keats wrote: “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”
You are allowing the reader to complete the thought or scene or emotion for themselves.
A form of abstraction, akin to the visual arts.
As Keats wrote: “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”
August 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I believe it’s not about intrigue or trying to look clever.
You are allowing the reader to complete the thought or scene or emotion for themselves.
A form of abstraction, akin to the visual arts.
As Keats wrote: “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”
You are allowing the reader to complete the thought or scene or emotion for themselves.
A form of abstraction, akin to the visual arts.
As Keats wrote: “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”
Here’s a poem about just such a hummingbird…
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New evidence for hummingbirds
In Lima’s Inquisition Museum,everyone is made of wax.The rack handler and thumb screw guy wear hoodswhile the heretics display mild surprise,that it might have turned out otherwise on a different d…
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August 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Here’s a poem about just such a hummingbird…
markfiddes.com/2025/01/02/n...
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Mark, you are so generous in your support of me and so many other poets @iambapoet.com
July 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Mark, you are so generous in your support of me and so many other poets @iambapoet.com
Somewhere in the White House there’s a walk-in closet with a gold-braided uniform
hanging next to a Commander-in-Chief peaked hat.
hanging next to a Commander-in-Chief peaked hat.
June 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Somewhere in the White House there’s a walk-in closet with a gold-braided uniform
hanging next to a Commander-in-Chief peaked hat.
hanging next to a Commander-in-Chief peaked hat.