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Book_of_Norman
@silver-sense.bsky.social
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I'm a human. I like most other humans, assorted mammals, reptiles, and generally most forms of life. I practice words. Challenge imagination. And love science, fiction, simple nature, and city scapes. Nothing need be neglected when finding beauty.
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#poetry #SuddenWords #poems
November 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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#SuddenWords #Poem #Poetry
November 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Everyday. #nomoretrump #american #democracy #nokings #nodictators
September 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Not my usual thing but we have this new lovely and I had to share.
T. Kahlenbergi #spiders #oddpets #tarantula #arachnids
June 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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My grief at one time. #vss365 #grief
Thin By NRB Be patient and silent in the coming sun Slip like gossamer in the breeze for none The pale yellow light that paints the dawn, gone in an instant to the light that is done Narrow still is the beam, a lattice bright Casting thin long shadows so contrite But I'm no longer there you see, having slipped away last night Nothing left, a single tear Self hung Full song Silent fright A soul's suit of armor shrugged off in the night.
April 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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So you need to e some goats? Why not a hearse? 🤣
April 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Yep.
April 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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#randomwords

These birds are crazy. A spontaneous poem.
March 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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March 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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#randomwords

Desert Folly

This time of fleeing
Hope of desert wandering
Cacti blossoms
And brittle grey bones
Sun leaching inside
Outside salt dried skin
I taste the heart dust
Feet walking, wide arms
Am I not my own Sego
Lost desert lily
Hot deep red stones
Spirit ticking
Breezed chroma
Alone
Desert Folly This time of fleeing Hope of desert wandering Cacti blossoms And brittle grey bones Sun leaching inside Outside salt dried skin I taste the heart dust Feet walking, wide arms Am I not my own Sego Lost desert lily Hot deep red stones Spirit ticking Breezed chroma Alone
March 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Really? Empathy is the weakness?? I guess when you're Elon having empathy with Nazis it is a weakness.
March 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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#vss365 #randomwords

Long time ago
Brazen me
Love and insecurity
Deep connection
Should haves abundant
But life held commitments
Ones I feared
Now I wonder
Where she is
How she is
Who they are
Punk rock days. My girlfriend and I sitting in a park. I have a short red Mohawk.
March 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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#humanity #randomwords
Try To Humanize We must push for change. Tulsa massacre, the genocide of native Americans, the hate against minorities, against each other, everywhere. We, as a species, must find a better path. We can. We must. I will not concede this unrelenting hope of mine that it can happen. It starts at the individual, the home, through education, with organizations, and enacted by government. Some would argue human nature will never change. Not with that attitude it won't. When you dehumanize any group, you become a part of the problem. Hate an idea, not the individual. Are the dark forces of hate unchangeable? Maybe with some people. But people don't live forever. They will die out. It could take a long time but it will eventually fail or, if we do nothing, we all will. This could be the time. Honestly, it's always the time. End your hate. Exalt helping each other. End greed. Start healing each other. I was about to delete this. Who am I to speak like this? I'm a human being that doesn't want to give up and give in. I refuse to give into the dark and cut the wings of our better angels. What will we all do?
February 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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#randomwords
Tone By Norman Barton I am the one caveat of all my life. Subtle difference that ends the strife. Nothing permanent to tempt fate. Something underneath unseen. He draws a line, graphite grinding across the paper fibers. He listens to his own self scribing. Divided and intense. Leaning in on the book. Leather and ink, graphite and tabula rasa.
February 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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#vss365 #displace

Shudder now
Blank regression
A displaced raven
Black eyes following
Notice of Spring lost
Raven wheels in sky
I forget my past
This time
Arm outstretched
Raven lit
We look deeply at the other
Nothing really lost
Only time to sort death and life
Only our secret past
The raven look back at you.
February 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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#vss365 #sonder

Weirdly inspired write.
#vss365 #sonder Scene fade in; driving on the dark twisted roads of West Virginia Background music, Dead Kennedys "Holiday in Cambodia" "Fucking people drive like RFK jr's brain worm." Spitting the words, he passed 4 cars, not seeing the old pickup rounding the turn. The collision was a monster of steel and speed. No one would wonder why. Everyone lacked the sonder to care. Each ego movie playing out like so many Olympian gods infighting. Each consumed with self He gasped through blood, red spittle cursing. His right eye slowly drifted left. He'd never hear the other movies crashing into his. He'd never see the ending.
January 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Witness! 4° F at 7 AM!
Early morning picture looking east toward the dawn. A snowy scene of trees and barns.
January 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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I think Mister Whee is having too much fun. #cats #catsofbluesky
January 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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And Flop the Cat bird watching
January 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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I love the birds in the snow. Here's to some peace for your birds!
January 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Had to share this Cardinal with you all. #birds #birdsofbluesky #snow
January 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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But some great bird watching for them!
January 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Oh, and still falling.
January 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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And still, #snow is falling.
January 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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And the #snow keeps falling.
January 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM