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Category: poetry
POPO 2026 Received cards with cento poem
If I remember correctly, I received a poetry postcard from every person on my list. That is truly impressive to me. As you can see there are more than 31 cards here. Thank you to the poets from the list who sent multiple postcards. Also Thank you to Jules and Kerfe for being so generous…
POPO 2026 Day 31 — Monster Bones
We have come to the final POPO 2026 card. I would like to thank Marina again for giving me permission to use her postcards for the Festival. Thank You <3 Tomorrow will be a photo of all of the poetry postcards I received during the festival. As I’ve done in previous years, I gathered one…
POPO 2026 Day 30
The older I get, the more I realizethat the human form wasn’t meantto last forever. It continues longerthan many other species; yet withthe gift comes responsibilities. E.G. trees exchange badair for good. And boulders areour memory keepers. I must ask what good use do we set ourselves to beyond worm food after we pass?
POPO 2026 Day 29
Reticent clouds teasehostage-holding us under treesskinny tomatoes, wrinkled carrots,thirsty toads, drooping ferns,browning grass, restless dust,flower heads seeding early. Though portended by machinesand itchy, hopeful eyes,it is the cloudswho will decidewhen and if to giftus their release.
POPO 2026 Day 28
Primary election day, where hope stirs,a giant wakes, with desireto scramble up from wallow of stressto cast veils of lies aside fromprofessional politicians beholdento their overlord paymasters. Primary election day, where we holdour breaths, trusting our state kinto understand what’s at stake,to get to the polls, to cast their votes.Hand to hand, heart to heart,to…
The Lost Ringmaster
The Lost Ringmaster Shirtless, riding across a golf courseon a red elephant, crowds turn to stareat the man with a chest that has no hair. He’s gone missing from the circus as hismount’s tetched with mad louse disease;still looking punched and fit, i.e. pleased. Within or without the ring, his fixed smirkrepresents the mien of…
