 Safety pins, a safety belt, a safety talk you don't want to have. Safety lights, safety rules, safety shoes, walking a safety line. Safe habits, safe zone, safe sex, safe sex in a safe zone. Safer internet, safety cap, and safety vest. Safety first, safe poems that don't make you cry or sad.
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 You may have noticed ment on the opening page a statement about my new prefered social media destination. - I have decided not to be a part of the toxic Elon Musk site which shall remain nameless. He ran Twitter into the ground after he acquired it and has continued week after week to promote his own self-sentered adjenda therein.
He is losing people to BlueSky like a milk carton with a whole in it. Pretty soon there will be nothing but caustic material and lies there. I can tell you that many in the arts commuity and poets in particular have made the switch creating a thriving community and growing community. If you haven't tried it I recommend it. And look me up too. @stickpoet.bsky.social #bluesky  Not everyone is keen on poetry and I realized that almost as far back as I became aware of poetry. I guess when I first learned of it realizing what it was, I would hear people from time to time dismissing it as boring, or irrelevant, or too hard to understand was maybe the most common.
 How can anyone NOT be inspired by Neruda? I am always astounded by the simplicity of his language and the depth of feeling his images convey.
Are there other poets who do the same for you? Tell me about them. Let's start a dialogue, My poem “Ode to the How” appears in the latest issue of Hellbender Magazine - a big Thank You to Poetry editors: Pilar Randolph, Winner Olubunmi, Ella Wisniewski as well Editors-in-Chief Kelly Ward and Elise Zukowski. This issue is filled with exceptional curated work.
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