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Mark Tate
@markstate.bsky.social
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Inspired by: Michelle Obama Muhammad Ali Kamala AOC Ms Crockett numerous writers including Toni Morrison Basho Merwin. See www.markstephentate.com Walking Scarecrow (poems) won BLP Book of the Year (2023) ©️ posted poems. No DMs
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · Aug 26
I took this pic a few years ago but I’d like to dedicate it to my lovely wife of twenty plus years
A pic taken a few years ago dedicated to my lovely wife of twenty plus years
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 1h
No I walked today my four miles cut a bit short cuz I did need a nap
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Phoenix🔥 @fivetimessix.bsky.social · 7h
Did you nap instead of walk? @scottbluewave.bsky.social
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 4h
Democracy defenders looking to meet you! Say Hi 👋, Vet, F&R. Ty! 💙
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🚫Add-Ons
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Julie J @j1j2.bsky.social · 4h
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 4h
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 2h
Love Me Do
Beatles
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 2h
Name another song that mentions the word "Love." 🎶
Re-recorded for the movie, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Dolly Parton's 1974 hit song, "I Will Always Love You" again hits #1 on the Billboard Country singles chart on October 16, 1982. Making Dolly the 1st musician to achieve the feat of hitting
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Phoenix🔥 @fivetimessix.bsky.social · 12h
🤔 We need to reverse his presidency.
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Susan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · 17h
Yutaka Murakami b.1957
Japanese watercolourist
#Caturday
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 2h
Yes
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 17h
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
-Christopher Marlowe
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6h
Everyone sing along!

🎶Don’t cry for us, Argentina.
We’re like Canada, only much meaner.
And we gave up healthcare,
For your peso to be finer,
So you could steal our soybean exports.
That went to China.🎶
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 13h
Watch Tyler Shelton work at his art piece, with a bit of jazz.

Mesmerizing.

#art #painting #jazz #modern
#draw
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pm gibbs @pmgibbs.bsky.social · 9h
my seat at the table
wind band plays
eyes are feasting
hunger for solitude
is satiated with leftovers
to carry home
Five Stars
Trees against a blue sky
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 5h
If I were green with black and blue freckles 🎼 wouldya still love me 🎼 wouldya kissa my eyes and buy me me sunglasses Aloha Kike@Kailua @hale-ie-maia.bsky.social
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Kikē@Kailua @hale-ie-maia.bsky.social · 16h
#art #psychedelic #drawing #ink #watercolor #doodle #trippy #mandala #tondo #LGBTQ #Hawaii #bsky.art #pizza #paella #collage

16th October 2025 Post

With Aloha a Tutti!!!
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 10h
a favorite book and a goodly chosen selection: Jules Supervielle, 1884-1960 trans. David Gascoyne
Eds Pinter Astbury Godbert anthology “Rain and the Tyrants” by Jules Supervielle, trans. David Gascoyne
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@BioAnnie2 📎 @mauimom.bsky.social · 12h
Gunna post this everyday until we are this again!

youtu.be/G6lxpt8lzbo
Willie Nelson - Living In The Promiseland (Official Video)
YouTube video by WillieNelsonVEVO
youtu.be
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 11h
autumn fog—dew on
purple loropetalum
leaves—house finches

#haiku
#scape
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 12h
exactly potato and me are one
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 12h
I often get in trouble for using this word—but what the hell—gorgeous

and yes loved the alt text, captured the moment
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 12h
Agreed. BTW Pippin (d.810) well you see his nickname was Pomme de Terre
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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 1d
Love the French policy on kings' nicknames.
"Louis the German", "Charles the Fat", "Louis the Stammerer" and others.
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 13h
Give me Ribbity or give me death! 🤭😅🤣

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 23h
German photographer and contemporary artist Simone Gilges
Enlightenment (2015-17)

#SimoneGilges #ContemporaryArt
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13h
Big news here: the White House has backed down from shutting down I-5 this weekend following our reporting last night.
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 12h
*Woman*

Woman —
how hot the skin
she covers.

—Lady Sute-Jo, 1633-1689
[trans. Lucien Styrk and Takashi Ikemoto, as printed in 99 poems in Translation, Grove Press]
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 13h
Okay meet you at Banger
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V @vmc54.bsky.social · Feb 27
Holy cow, Bluesky friends. Tonight's sunset was an absolute banger.

Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
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