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Jeff Casselman
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Independent Publishing Poet based in Montreal, Canada. www.postcardsfrompurgatory.ca
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Buried Beneath
You, fallen like an angel onto twisted rocks. Me, fallen like winter over my grave
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November 28, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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"Coyote Predicts his own Death" #poem #Poetry #poemoftheday on postcardsfrompurgatory.ca
Coyote Predicts his own Death
I’d become that question, the words of an obscure requiem my name the metaphor for all that wasn’t
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November 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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"The Future" #poem #poetry #poemoftheday on postcardsfrompurgatory.ca
The Future
there then not there, a coincidental rumor with the accidental mythologies of our steps into now.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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"Social Media" #Poem #poetry #poemoftheday on postcardsfrompurgatory.ca
Social Media
These remainders that remain now only on battlefields, waking the dead then shambling somewhere to nowhere between.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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“My Muse (II.)” – Full poem Visualizer.

Watch the full Visualizer for "My Muse (II.) on Youtube
“My Muse (II.)” – Full poem Visualizer.
Watch the full Visualizer for "My Muse (II.) on Youtube
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November 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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"Eden" #poem #poetry #poemoftheday on postcardsfrompurgatory.ca
Eden (a Study)
And if life lifted from my heart like a feather allowed to fly with winds far from where the promise of an oasis held my reflection in thrall.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Postcard from Purgatory - My Muse (II.) (Visualizer) - #poetry #poemreading #spokenword #animation
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November 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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"Tavira, Portugal (2009)" #poem #poetry #poemoftheday on postcardsfrompurgatory.ca
Tavira, Portugal (2009)
in me I can feel I am the water, as if in this brief moment I have flowed for a thousand years and I will flow for a thousand more.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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"Narcissus" #poem #poetry #poemoftheday on postcardsfrompurgatory.ca
Narcissus
there is no sun strong enough to feed a hunger feeding off it's hunger.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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"My Muse (II.)" #poem #poetry #poemoftheday on postcardsfrompurgatory.ca
My Muse (II.)
I could picture her in a museum or write her into a lie to explain myself, myself somehow flawless in her reflection.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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"The Chaos Quotient" #poem #poetry #poemoftheday on postcardsfrompurgatory.ca
The Chaos Quotient
Associations in the bright the flash of synapse draws together all randomness.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Bring #art to #life with TVVH_Urban Voices. www.facebook.com/reel/2076788...
Bring #art to #Life with @TVVH_Urban | Tvvh: Urban_Voices
Bring #art to #Life with @TVVH_Urban
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November 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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"How to Train Your Ghosts" (Visualizer) - #poetry="/hashtag/poetry" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#poetry #poem #love #spoken #word #poetry
How to Train Your Ghosts (Video Visualizer)
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November 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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"Words, Hidden in a Still Life" #Poem #poetry #poemoftheday on postcardsfrompurgatory.ca
Words, Hidden in a Still Life
Words can fail, unborn with thoughts.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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"Dead Letter Office" #poem #poetry #poemoftheday on postcardsfrompurgatory.ca
The Dead Letter Office
Yellowed and dog eared moments of a life that got pressed between these pages.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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"The Post Mortem (II.)" #poem #poetry #poemoftheday of postcardsfrompurgatory.ca
The Post Mortem (II.)
inevitable failures create the most beautiful moments in their post mortems.
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November 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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"My Muse" #poem #poetry #poemoftheday on postcardsfrompurgatory.ca
My Muse
Those eyes that shone, an opaque veil behind which stars dared not to be born.
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November 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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#Revolutions" #Poem #poetry #poemoftheday on postcardsfrompurgatory.ca
Revolutions
A perpetual state of falling
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November 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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"A Metaphor Wonders" #poem #poetry #poemoftheday on postcardsfrompurgatory.ca
A Metaphor Wonders
Flowers bloom without desire, love or death and no ocean is ever contained by the shores.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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"What Lies Beneath" #poem #poetry #poemoftheday on postcardsfrompurgatory.ca
What Lies Beneath
Does intention bloom under newly turned earth?
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November 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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"Interlude" #poem #poetry #poemoftheday on postcardsfrompurgatory.ca
Interlude
And I would reach like Apollo through time to capture you in this amber moment
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November 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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In The Moment

In the moment waiting for the next Mountains have become deserts Oceans have become salt plains The stars blink out and on one by one
In The Moment
In the moment waiting for the next Mountains have become deserts Oceans have become salt plains The stars blink out and on one by one
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November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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"Trust" #poem #poetry #poemoftheday on postcardsfrompurgatory.ca
Trust
"Every day a torrent of experience washing Over the heart's stones; the ocean that never rests The world always in motion, never stopping"
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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"Writ on p Porch in Hudson QC,
2009
Writ on a Porch in Hudson QC, 2009
An afternoon sun promises breezes and months of summer Sundays, overtures from chickadees and crickets of no matter under this shady porch.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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"Our Theology" #poem #poetry #poemoftheday on postcardsfrompurgatory.ca
Our Theology
the oracle ponders in your eye the absenteeism of your gaze your mouth that has opened to the words that no longer need speaking...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM