Daniel Gene Barlekamp
@dgbarlekamp.bsky.social
Short story writer. Poet. Fan of ghosts, monsters, and local legends.
November 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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My very good friend @indigorue.bsky.social has a beautiful 💔 story out today. Go read it!
“You name each shape in sing-song, asking me to play along, but it’s the summer before seventh grade and I’m too old for make-believe.”
Read my contest-winning story, “Lee Aeronautics,” here:
Read my contest-winning story, “Lee Aeronautics,” here:
Lee Aeronautics
On a lazy mayfly day, we sit on Grandpa Lee’s wrap-around porch, purple-tongued and sticky-fingered from the grape soda and teriyaki jerky he keeps in the pantry because they’re your favorites.&nbs…
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November 21, 2025 at 4:06 AM
My very good friend @indigorue.bsky.social has a beautiful 💔 story out today. Go read it!
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Study of a fir tree, c.1842 by Emily Brontë, best known for her classic novel 'Wuthering Heights' #WomensArt
November 4, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Study of a fir tree, c.1842 by Emily Brontë, best known for her classic novel 'Wuthering Heights' #WomensArt
October 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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'Raven' collage by Lisa Morales, textile and mixed media artist #WomensArt
October 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
'Raven' collage by Lisa Morales, textile and mixed media artist #WomensArt
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Check out New Verse Review's Halloween issue!
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October 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Check out New Verse Review's Halloween issue!
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October 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
October 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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October 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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This is my favourite Langston Hughes poem. He says so much in 4 lines, and the weight of the word 'perhaps' in the last line does not go unnoticed.
Posting on the 1955th day since George Floyd was murdered. Little has changed, things are probably worse
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#BlackHistoryMonth
Posting on the 1955th day since George Floyd was murdered. Little has changed, things are probably worse
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#BlackHistoryMonth
October 1, 2025 at 8:42 AM
This is my favourite Langston Hughes poem. He says so much in 4 lines, and the weight of the word 'perhaps' in the last line does not go unnoticed.
Posting on the 1955th day since George Floyd was murdered. Little has changed, things are probably worse
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#BlackHistoryMonth
Posting on the 1955th day since George Floyd was murdered. Little has changed, things are probably worse
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#BlackHistoryMonth
I'm proud to have a poem in IHRAM Press's anthology "America's Slide Towards Authoritarianism," in which 12 artists and 30 writers offer their take on the fragility of the values that once made America great. Preorder at a 30% discount before the Oct. 1 release date: shorturl.at/oFTcL.
New Release: America's Slide Towards Authoritarianism — International Human Rights Art Movement
America’s democracy is eroding—bold voices from the United States and Italy, to the UK and Iran, connect through their literary craft and artistry. Each story represents a segment of American society ...
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September 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I'm proud to have a poem in IHRAM Press's anthology "America's Slide Towards Authoritarianism," in which 12 artists and 30 writers offer their take on the fragility of the values that once made America great. Preorder at a 30% discount before the Oct. 1 release date: shorturl.at/oFTcL.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
-Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice"
#poetry #poetrysky
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
-Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice"
#poetry #poetrysky
September 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
-Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice"
#poetry #poetrysky
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
-Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice"
#poetry #poetrysky
"I am a descendent of stillness
and sailors still in motion,
a brew of saltpeter and blackbird song."
-Rolando Kattan, from "Two-Blooded" (trans. Hedeen & Rodríguez Núñez)
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#poetry #Honduras #LatinAmericanpoetry
and sailors still in motion,
a brew of saltpeter and blackbird song."
-Rolando Kattan, from "Two-Blooded" (trans. Hedeen & Rodríguez Núñez)
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#poetry #Honduras #LatinAmericanpoetry
Two-Blooded
I am a descendent of stillness
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September 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
"I am a descendent of stillness
and sailors still in motion,
a brew of saltpeter and blackbird song."
-Rolando Kattan, from "Two-Blooded" (trans. Hedeen & Rodríguez Núñez)
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#poetry #Honduras #LatinAmericanpoetry
and sailors still in motion,
a brew of saltpeter and blackbird song."
-Rolando Kattan, from "Two-Blooded" (trans. Hedeen & Rodríguez Núñez)
shorturl.at/wgSWQ
#poetry #Honduras #LatinAmericanpoetry
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if only
we could live
like the wildflowers,
blooms of all sizes and colors
sharing the soil
of one field
#micropoetry #poetry #wildflowers
Another one of my poems in the Alchemy and Miracles #poetryanthology 🌸🪻🌻🏵️
we could live
like the wildflowers,
blooms of all sizes and colors
sharing the soil
of one field
#micropoetry #poetry #wildflowers
Another one of my poems in the Alchemy and Miracles #poetryanthology 🌸🪻🌻🏵️
September 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM
if only
we could live
like the wildflowers,
blooms of all sizes and colors
sharing the soil
of one field
#micropoetry #poetry #wildflowers
Another one of my poems in the Alchemy and Miracles #poetryanthology 🌸🪻🌻🏵️
we could live
like the wildflowers,
blooms of all sizes and colors
sharing the soil
of one field
#micropoetry #poetry #wildflowers
Another one of my poems in the Alchemy and Miracles #poetryanthology 🌸🪻🌻🏵️
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Many thanks to Teri “Sakyu” Santitoro for publishing five of my Scifaiku in the August print edition of Scifaikuest! This is the last of the five. Visit markhendricksonpoetry.com #scifi #micropoetry #haiku #haikuoftheday #haikulover #writingcommunity #writer #poetry #poems #poetrylovers #scifaiku
September 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Many thanks to Teri “Sakyu” Santitoro for publishing five of my Scifaiku in the August print edition of Scifaikuest! This is the last of the five. Visit markhendricksonpoetry.com #scifi #micropoetry #haiku #haikuoftheday #haikulover #writingcommunity #writer #poetry #poems #poetrylovers #scifaiku
"My mother dries figs
with her blue-veined hands.
My mother smiles at walnuts
as though time in the heart never started."
--Bejan Matur, "As Though" (trans. Nell Wright)
#poetry #poetrylovers
with her blue-veined hands.
My mother smiles at walnuts
as though time in the heart never started."
--Bejan Matur, "As Though" (trans. Nell Wright)
#poetry #poetrylovers
September 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"My mother dries figs
with her blue-veined hands.
My mother smiles at walnuts
as though time in the heart never started."
--Bejan Matur, "As Though" (trans. Nell Wright)
#poetry #poetrylovers
with her blue-veined hands.
My mother smiles at walnuts
as though time in the heart never started."
--Bejan Matur, "As Though" (trans. Nell Wright)
#poetry #poetrylovers
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a darkness
in which all articles
are indefinite
will we know ourselves
by our shadows our own words
#TankaThursday (dark)
#vss365 (article)
in which all articles
are indefinite
will we know ourselves
by our shadows our own words
#TankaThursday (dark)
#vss365 (article)
September 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
a darkness
in which all articles
are indefinite
will we know ourselves
by our shadows our own words
#TankaThursday (dark)
#vss365 (article)
in which all articles
are indefinite
will we know ourselves
by our shadows our own words
#TankaThursday (dark)
#vss365 (article)
“September approaching…I feel I owe myself a brief respite of leisure and no rushing around. I can’t face the dead reality. I want rainy days, lanterns and a hundred moons twining in dark leaves, music spilling out and echoing yet inside my head.”
—Sylvia Plath
#poetry #September #autumn
—Sylvia Plath
#poetry #September #autumn
September 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
“September approaching…I feel I owe myself a brief respite of leisure and no rushing around. I can’t face the dead reality. I want rainy days, lanterns and a hundred moons twining in dark leaves, music spilling out and echoing yet inside my head.”
—Sylvia Plath
#poetry #September #autumn
—Sylvia Plath
#poetry #September #autumn
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September 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Mary Oliver talks about paying attention...
Take time to pay some attention to the care she has taken here with line breaks and enjambment...
#poetry
#poemoftheday
Take time to pay some attention to the care she has taken here with line breaks and enjambment...
#poetry
#poemoftheday
September 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Mary Oliver talks about paying attention...
Take time to pay some attention to the care she has taken here with line breaks and enjambment...
#poetry
#poemoftheday
Take time to pay some attention to the care she has taken here with line breaks and enjambment...
#poetry
#poemoftheday
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BIOPHILIA is almost there! Wednesday September 3! We’ll be sharing our cover on that day as well along with so much other incredible poetry, essay and visual art. #poetrycommunity
August 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
BIOPHILIA is almost there! Wednesday September 3! We’ll be sharing our cover on that day as well along with so much other incredible poetry, essay and visual art. #poetrycommunity
Amazing, moving set of four #poems by Teri Vela in @villaineralit.bsky.social:
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#poetry #formalpoetry #writing #litmags #literature
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#poetry #formalpoetry #writing #litmags #literature
Four Poems by Teri Vela
One Month Later Last night I was with D from high school and we were at a cabin / some place in the woods with lots of little living quarters / connected by pathways / D wanted sex / infatuation / …
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August 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Amazing, moving set of four #poems by Teri Vela in @villaineralit.bsky.social:
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#poetry #formalpoetry #writing #litmags #literature
shorturl.at/tMJvS
#poetry #formalpoetry #writing #litmags #literature