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John Newmark

@gavroche.org

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Writer, Research Admin, Father, Husband, Geek Banner: Famous cloned sheep, Dolly. Stuffed and on display at National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Photograph taken in 2023.

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John Newmark @gavroche.org · 3d

“There’s another.”

John Newmark @gavroche.org · Sep 20

Converting a poem by Robert Frost into a #limerick … May I be forgiven

Frosty Limerick

There are two ways the Earth may expire:
Be it by ice or be it by fire.
Compare hatred with ice –
That end will suffice
Equal to the flames of desire.

John Newmark @gavroche.org · Sep 20

Goliath beetles
With genes for razor sharp teeth —
where scientists erred.

#science
#haiku
#poetry
#beetles

Image of African Goliath Beetle on a hand illustrating size.

John Newmark @gavroche.org · Sep 20

With blueberries

Feeling impotent?
A breakfast panacea:
Cascades of pancakes

#emoetry #impotent
#blueskyrelay #panacea
#dailyhaikuprompt #cascade

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John Newmark @gavroche.org · Sep 14

I
Calmly
Explain how
I can’t whistle.
My lips together, I blow without sound.

#calm #emoetry
#whistle #blueskyrelay
#tetractys
#micropoetry
#poetry

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John Newmark @gavroche.org · Sep 11

Thanks!

John Newmark @gavroche.org · Sep 11

A grave confession

I lusted after
the youthful departed corpse’s
pungent apples.

#BlueSkyRelay Lust / Departure
#DailyHaikuPrompt Grave / Apple
#Emoetry Youthful
#HaikuHorrorPrompt Pungency

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John Newmark @gavroche.org · Sep 8

Please do not groan,
but for most poets it’s known
not to end a sentence with ‘preternatural’
unless you are dining on mackerel
or heading to the bank with collateral
for a loan

#BlueskyRelay
#preternatural

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John Newmark @gavroche.org · Sep 8

Slightly diminish a band…

The Grateful Terminally Ill

Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · Sep 8

Slightly diminish a band...

The Bee-Aitchs....

Paul E Shinkle @paulshinkle.bsky.social · Sep 7

Slightly diminish a band...

Alan Parsons Plan

John Newmark @gavroche.org · Sep 6

Crimson blood drips
from prison walls —
bonechilling

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Crimson
#chill

John Newmark @gavroche.org · Sep 6

Port with every dessert.
#7syllablesentence
#port

John Newmark @gavroche.org · Sep 6

A tendency for silliness
provides the resilience
one needs to overcome
conversational silences.

#blueskyrelay
#resilience

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John Newmark @gavroche.org · Sep 5

I must stock up on doubloons.
Talk Like a Pirate Day’s soon.

#7syllablesentence
#doubloon

John Newmark @gavroche.org · Sep 4

A man condemned to
Solitary confinement
hears no birdsong

#dailyhaikuprompt
#birdsong
#blueskyrelay
#solitary

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John Newmark @gavroche.org · Sep 3

Quartz
Granite
Porcelain
Marble, Limestone —
Counting the ways you can top your counter.

#tetractys
#blueskyrelay
#limestone

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John Newmark @gavroche.org · Sep 2

The Green Mole
It was a children’s book with pictures so I’m not sure if it counts.

John Newmark @gavroche.org · Sep 1

I
Realized
I was now
Out of my depth.
Panicking, I dove underneath my desk.

This was not helpful in the very least.
I took deep breaths;
Recovered
slowly.
Sigh.

#blueskyrelay
#depth
#tetractys

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John Newmark @gavroche.org · Sep 1

My favorite dinner:
Escargot and Brussels Sprouts -
Said no one ever

#dailyhaikuprompt
#sprouts
#snail

John Newmark @gavroche.org · Aug 31

Dentist Chair

The spray of mist
does absolutely nothing
to relieve the pain

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#mist

John Newmark @gavroche.org · Aug 30

As Godzilla tramples
lovers cower in clover
covered in mud

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#clover
#mud

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John Newmark @gavroche.org · Aug 29

Charge of the Bite Brigade

600 diners attacked each other with layered Turkish pastry. Servers to the left of them. Servers to the right of them. It became known as The Battle of Baklava. Tennyson was not present. There was no one around to immortalize the events but me.

#BlueskyRelay
#Charge

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John Newmark @gavroche.org · Aug 29

She flit — Left me in a snit.

#7syllablesentence #flit

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John Newmark @gavroche.org · Aug 29

Twin souls galloping
across decades of laughter —
Boisterous friendship

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Boisterous
#Friendship

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John Newmark @gavroche.org · Aug 28

Barely dressed woman
Tramples field of spring blossoms
Wine bottle in hand

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Barely
#Spring
#Vine
#Haiku
#Micropoetry

John Newmark @gavroche.org · Aug 28

The drawn shade blocked the sunlight.
The tree stopped providing shade.

#7syllablesentence #shade

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