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The Distributed Proofreaders' blog this month is about another Edgar Allan Poe book at PG: "The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe."

https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/11/01/nevermore/

#books #literature #poetry

The Distributed Proofreaders' blog this month is about another Edgar Allan Poe book at PG: "The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe."

https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/11/01/nevermore/

#books #literature #poetry

Christina A Hawthorne🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

#Today 31.1

A smile, or two, for your Halloween.

The Vampire Blues was one of those poems that burst forth while I typed as fast as I could.

Kind of like, you know, guzzling blood. Not that I do that.

Be everwell.

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Poem #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Halloween #Vampire

the vampire blues

Undead, gotta get a life,
I’ve got the vampire blues.
No tanning on the beach
or I’m ashes on the news.

No skipping down the street
on a sunny afternoon.
No pulling up stakes
after they’ve run me through.

Missing the days of red sauce
that’s not blood typed.
Hungering for pizza,
but the garlic’s got bite.

Looking ghostly without a mirror,
what’s a dead girl to do?
No one cares that I’m batty,
yeah, I got the vampire blues.

©October 2016, October 2021
Christina Anne Hawthorne

An older blonde woman in a black velvet jacket and purple top smirks at the camera, a top hat on her head that's adorned with purple and pink flowers on the left side, a purple band around the gray hat.

Lee Firefly

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poem #poemsforyou #writing #quotes #literature #leefirefly

Michelle

There is a
Collision of
Galaxies,
Fire and gravity,
Constellations
Shifting,
A becoming
That I cannot
Subdue.

#poetry

Project Gutenberg

#OTD in 1894 poet and essayist e. e. cummings was born.

"Cummings wrote approximately 2,900 poems. He is often regarded as one of the most important American poets of the 20th century. He is associated with modernist free-form poetry, and much of his work uses idiosyncratic syntax and lower-case spellings for poetic expression."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings

Books by cummings at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2755

#poetry #literature

古代兵器 Aureliano :luffy:

#PoemaDiario #poem #poetry

Anna Akhmatova
Wild honey smells like freedom...

Wild honey smells like freedom,
Dust — like a ray of sun.
Like violets — a young maid’s mouth,
And gold — like nothing.
The flowers of the mignonette smell like water,
And like an apple — love.
But we learned once and for all
That blood smells only like blood...

And in vain the vice-regent of Rome
Washed his hands before all the people,
Urged on by the ominous shouts of the rabble;
And the Scottish queen
In vain washed the spattered red drops
From her slender palms
In the stifling gloom of the king’s home...
Translated by Judith Hemschemeyer

Project Gutenberg

#OTD in 1888, writer T.S. Eliot is born in St. Louis, Missouri, US.

"He was a leading figure in English-language Modernist poetry where he reinvigorated the art through his use of language, writing style, and verse structure. He is also noted for his critical essays, which often re-evaluated long-held cultural beliefs."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot

Eliot's books at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/599

#books #literature #poetry

#OTD in 1888, writer T.S. Eliot is born in St. Louis, Missouri, US.

"He was a leading figure in English-language Modernist poetry where he reinvigorated the art through his use of language, writing style, and verse structure. He is also noted for his critical essays, which often re-evaluated long-held cultural beliefs."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot

Eliot's books at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/599

#books #literature #poetry

T. S. Eliot is shown seated outside and smoking a cigarette.

Assoc for Scottish Literature

Today, 20 September, is Batman Day. You’d think there would be a signal or something but

Anyway, here’s “Batman’s Aff His Nut”, by Robert Florence

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #comics #comicbooks #Batman #BatmanDay

Blurry photo of a man in a (partial?) Batman costume, on a wet Glasgow street – probably taken during the filming of the 2022 movie THE BATMAN, where Glasgow was a stand-in for Gotham City.

Text: She’s turned the Waynes against us…

She’s turned the Waynes against us

Batman’s aff his nut
by Robert Florence

Have you seen the way he cuts aboot
Dressed up as a mad fuckin bat
Batterin guys
I was lit at:
“Mate, I’m worried aboot ye
I know your ma and da died
But everybody’s ma and da dies
And we’re no aw runnin aboot
Hookin muggers and
Kickin psychopaths in the baws.”
And that was when Batman went
“Aye, but do ye ever feel like it?
Do you ever look at the world and feel like it?
Like having a big mad base under your hoose?
Do you ever feel like drivin a big mad motor
that turns intae a tank?
And leatherin fuck oot of guys aw night?
Scarin the fuckin shite oot of them?”
And that’s when I was lit at:
“Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae.”
And that’s the Secret Origin of Robin
And everyone else.

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Thank you @davidtoddmccarty for sharing this.
Everyone needs to watch this short video, if you are reading this you need to watch this!!

https://youtu.be/CDs2d3dJtYk

#Art #creativity #mastoart #artist #music #poetry #poet #writing #writersofmastodon #poetrycommunity #musiciansofmastodon

Martin Rundkvist

Heard a ~15-y-o boy recite #rap lyrics non-stop for 20 minutes on the subway. Seemed to be crime-glorifying stuff, but man, the grades he'd get if he would memorise and perform an equal amount of establishment #poetry.

Carmela 🍉🔻

Many books have been released about Duterte’s drug war. But this is one the most interesting of them all:

Tokhang Tokhague: Mga Tula edited by Sejo Esguerra (my inaanak) and Mia Jalandoni Sumulong

#duterte #philippines #politics #books @bookstodon.com
#bookstodon #EJK #poetry

Book: Tokhang Tokhague. Anthology of Filipino poems

Project Gutenberg

#OTD In 1846, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning elope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning

Books by Elizabeth Barrett at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/781

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Browning

Books by Robert Browning at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/146

#books #literature #poetry

Paintings of Elizabeth Barrett on the left and Robert Browning on the right by Thomas B. Read

古代兵器 Aureliano :luffy:

#PoemaDiario #Poem #poetry

The Gun Joke - Jamaal May

It’s funny, she says, how many people are shocked
by this shooting and the next and next and the next.
She doesn’t mean funny as in funny, but funny
as in blood soup tastes funny when you stir in soil.
Stop me if you haven’t heard this one:
A young man/old man/teenage boy walks into
an office/theater/daycare/club and empties
a magazine into a crowd of strangers/family/students.

Ever hear the one about the shotgun? What do you call it
when a shotgun tests a liquor store’s bulletproof glass?
What’s the difference between a teenager
with hands in the air and a paper target charging at a cop?
What do you call it when a man sets his own house on fire,
takes up a sniper position, and waits for firefighters?

Stop me if you haven’t heard this one:
The first man to pull a gun on me said it was only a joke,
but never so much as smiled. The second said
this is definitely not a joke, and then his laughter crackled
through me like electrostatic—funny how that works.
When she says it’s funny she means funny
as in crazy and crazy as in this shouldn’t happen.
This shouldn’t happen as in something is off. Funny as in
off—as in, ever since a small caliber bullet chipped his spine,
your small friend walks kinda’ funny and his smile is off.

Crewman Six, Snack Viking 🪓

Merciless Maturity

It is not
childish things
we give up
when maturity
comes upon us,
but instead
the notion
that there is
someone
anyone
to protect us
from burdens
never chosen,
responsibilities
never sought,
harsh realities
unforgiving
unrelenting
merciless.

#WritingCommunity #Poetry
https://ko-fi.com/post/Merciless-Maturity-L3L01KMTWH

poetikagaur

"Despierto. Tengo ante mí, detrás de mí, la noche eterna. He dormido durante millones de años; durante millones de años voy a dormir… No tengo más que una hora. ¿Acaso van a estropearla ustedes con explicaciones y máximas? Me estiro al sol, sobre la almohada del placer, en una mañana que jamás volverá."
Marguerite Yourcenar #poetry #margueriteyourcenar