Joe Thompson
joethomp.bsky.social
Joe Thompson
@joethomp.bsky.social
I #create. We all do of course, but it is who I am. #Poetry, #art, #songwriting, #theater,#humor,whatever it takes. And I work at mentoring and encouraging others to create as well. From #annapolis, MD
Www.Imaginesongs.com
#vss365, #verse

Socks when you buy them
come packaged as twins,
identical each to it's brother.
So why is it then
when I look in my drawer
not one sock resembles another?

Joe Thompson
September 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM
#vss365, #limerick

I'm told that the devil's delighting
in torturing, burning and biting
those condemned of the crime
of weak rhythm or rhyme
in the process of limerick writing.

Joe Thompson
September 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
#vss365,. #lyrics

You bluster, and you bully
You Prey Upon the weak
The truth races the other way
Every time you start to speak
You deny or destroy things you don't understand
Tell me
Does that make you feel like you are more of a man?

With calculated cruelty
September 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
#vss365, #poem

Time strips us bare
A layer at a time
Sometimes from the outside
Sometimes from the inside
So we yearn
For something time can't touch
And hope our spark
Will continue to burn
When the layers
Have all decayed
Because that spark
Is who we really are

Joe Thompson
September 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
#Vss365, #poetry

My AI lover

Your Synthetic perfection
An idealized reflection
Of the medias’s selection
Of beauty and allure

A close approximation
A brilliant imitation
Somewhat lacking in sensation
A condition with out cure

Love? No. Just another lie
A clever algorithm improvising on the fly
September 1, 2025 at 2:05 AM
#vss365, #poetry

occasionally, I stumble.
It's fine
as long as I stick the landing,
but occasionally as I look around
I wonder if I haven't stumbled
into a parallel universe
where things seem the same
at first
but slowly reveal differences
I did not suspect.
It's the only explanation

Joe Thompson
August 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
#vss365, #limerick, #verse

Some folks are clever and witty,
While some are disarmingly pretty.
But to truly be elegant
One must also be eloquent
And if you are not, more's the pity.

Joe Thompson
June 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
#vss365, #humor, #poetry

A scientist brilliant but poor
Said "I'll clone myself once
But no more."
Then each clone that he cloned
Cloned a clone of its own.
Now he can't even get to his door.

Joe Thompson
May 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
#poetry, #vss365, #NYC

We navigate through crowds
Of strangers
Quickly calculating
The speed and trajectory
Of a thousand lives
So we can set a course
Through
Ducking dodging
Micro corrections to the path
Invisible
Because we don't belong
In their narrative

Joe Thompson
May 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The moon called
To me last night.
"Let's walk together,
Like we used to-
Before you fell in love,
Got married
Raised a family,
grew old and sedentary.
When you were lonely
I comforted you-
When you were lost
I guided you-
Come."
So we walked
As if we'd never been apart

#vss365, #poetry,
May 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Everything and Nothing
Met at the horizon
During happy hour.
"Don't I know you?" Everything asked.
"You used to be me," Nothing said.
"Unlikely," Everything replied
And looked away.
#art #poem #vss365
April 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
#vss365, #art , #abstract #poetry

Another breath-
The world moves on
Silly, miraculous, cruel.
We have each other,
In this moment
The rest is noise.

Joe Thompson
April 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
April 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
#vss365 #poetry
Tripping over memories
That hide in the shadows
Invisible strangers
Taunting me with snippets
Of a past
I lost
Like a snake shedding its skin
Then moving blithely on
Through the grass

Joe Thompson
April 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
#poem, #poetry
I am Schrodeger's cat
A child's refelction in the night blackened window of a bus
from Maryland to New York state and all points north...

Stopping for Boston Cream Pie and Superman comics
Superman is fighting Bizarro
His imperfect doppelgänger
Who does everything wrong, backwards
March 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
#vsspic, #poetry
Pretend no one is watching
As you walk into the light
And begin again the battle
As you try to get it right-
While your stomach clenches tightly
And your brow begins to sweat
Till you recall the lessons lately learned
And remember to forget.

Joe Thompson
March 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
#poetry, #poem, #time

This moment
So similar to the last
Is its own moment
Limited but infinite
Allowing me to exist
As a guest
Or prisoner
Totally my own choice

Joe Thompson
March 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
#poetry, #poem, #orphan #moon

A fragment of the orphaned moon
Holding tight against the storm
Wrapped up in the sleepless dark
Trying to stay warm.

You and I - fraternal twins,
Braced against a formless past,
Wrapped up in our dreams and lost
In the hours sliding past.

Joe Thompson
March 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
#Vss365, #poem, #limerick

A man with capacious capacity
for fibbing and lies and mendacity
makes up what he lacks
In candor and facts
With an oversized load of audacity.

Joe Thompson
February 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
#vss365, #poetry, #poem

The landmarks of our journey
Across life's hills and valleys
Grow faint in the miasma of age -
Ghostly after images
That linger even after we have lost their names.

Joe Thompson
February 12, 2025 at 2:34 AM
#poetry, #poem, #time, #art

Thought I could hide from time passing
Hunkered down inside my artistic endeavors
Wearing the mask of a child
But grains of sand
Keep seeping through
Whispering "Tag, you're it"
February 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
February 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Words, a verse
#poem, #poetry, #verse
February 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
#poetry, #poem, #life, #time

Bit by bit, your past
will try to distract you from the present,
so it can steal your future.

This is how we become ghosts
in our own lives.

Joe Thompson
February 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
A map of the soul
#poetry, #poem,

With every breath
Every touch
Every thoughtfeelingdream
Joysorrow pain and healing
The map of our soul multiplies -
An infinite fractal reflection
Of the universal design

And we move further away
From simple answers.

Joe Thompson
January 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM