Peter Kaczmarczyk
@pkaczmar.bsky.social
Poet. Author of The Scars Across My Thigh and Distant Yet Always Heard. Vinyl lover. Library Cataloger. Co-creator of the Captain Janeway Statue. Unpaid Cat Herder #vss365 #writingcommunity #poetry
Escape the cage that’s
Erected around your soul
By one who claimed to love
Let not your existence remain
A silent tale of terror
Screams only heard on the inside
Your heart unseen
Unleash your voice to echo
In halls that once were dreams
Destroy it that holds you in its teeth
#vss365 #terror #unseen
Erected around your soul
By one who claimed to love
Let not your existence remain
A silent tale of terror
Screams only heard on the inside
Your heart unseen
Unleash your voice to echo
In halls that once were dreams
Destroy it that holds you in its teeth
#vss365 #terror #unseen
October 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
3 years ago this weekend I had the honor to have dinner with @thekatemulgrew.bsky.social. She'd come to Bloomington to see the statue of Captain Janeway that I and a dedicated team had designed, financed and erected. I can attest that Kate was genuine, funny, and a joy to spend time with. #startrek
October 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
3 years ago this weekend I had the honor to have dinner with @thekatemulgrew.bsky.social. She'd come to Bloomington to see the statue of Captain Janeway that I and a dedicated team had designed, financed and erected. I can attest that Kate was genuine, funny, and a joy to spend time with. #startrek
You I can fight
An enemy known
If I still have the energy
A lifetime spent
Battling demons’ unseen
You come for me in light
Masked minions who bleed
I prefer this over the shadows
That stalked my night
You threaten to take me whole
They drained my will to live
Bit by bit
#vss365 #unseen #energy
An enemy known
If I still have the energy
A lifetime spent
Battling demons’ unseen
You come for me in light
Masked minions who bleed
I prefer this over the shadows
That stalked my night
You threaten to take me whole
They drained my will to live
Bit by bit
#vss365 #unseen #energy
October 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I know you loved me once
More than a passing fancy
Less than a gateway to a different time and space
I don’t want you to suffer
I loved you too
But I do wish
As I sit with my dog and my whiskey
That my face hovers on the edge of your life
Telling you I am the one that got away
#vss365 #hover
More than a passing fancy
Less than a gateway to a different time and space
I don’t want you to suffer
I loved you too
But I do wish
As I sit with my dog and my whiskey
That my face hovers on the edge of your life
Telling you I am the one that got away
#vss365 #hover
October 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Boygenius. In their solo careers they were constantly encouraged to collaborate with men because the men were such a boy geniuses. Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus. In college a roommate pointed out that my album collection was virtually all men. He was right. I've come a long way Tony.
October 19, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Boygenius. In their solo careers they were constantly encouraged to collaborate with men because the men were such a boy geniuses. Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus. In college a roommate pointed out that my album collection was virtually all men. He was right. I've come a long way Tony.
October 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
October 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Just played an album I have not heard in 40 years. It has a truly haunting song about Anne Frank. How have we forgotten? How is it that some think that the Diary of Anne Frank is fake news? How have we gotten to where we are today? No Kings! Never Forget! Never Again! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSUf...
Human Sexual Response - Anne Frank Story
YouTube video by ༺𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚜𝚖𝚘༻
www.youtube.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Just played an album I have not heard in 40 years. It has a truly haunting song about Anne Frank. How have we forgotten? How is it that some think that the Diary of Anne Frank is fake news? How have we gotten to where we are today? No Kings! Never Forget! Never Again! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSUf...
In the midnight reading light dust swirls
Motions of a lone dancer with a tale to tell
Particles flaked from bark that coats your arid heart
Every time I feel it beat
A little more is sent spinning into the air
I inhale all I can to help me sleep
The only way I can hold a part of you
#vss365 #arid
Motions of a lone dancer with a tale to tell
Particles flaked from bark that coats your arid heart
Every time I feel it beat
A little more is sent spinning into the air
I inhale all I can to help me sleep
The only way I can hold a part of you
#vss365 #arid
October 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This cat's tired of your shit
I'm no photo prop
I refuse to be trotted out
To your wine soaked friends
Playing fake witchy games
Dressed like Stevie Nicks
I won’t summon an #unearthly spirit
Just for your amusement
But push me I’ll conjure one for mine
I'll bring on a demon to eat your face
#vss365
I'm no photo prop
I refuse to be trotted out
To your wine soaked friends
Playing fake witchy games
Dressed like Stevie Nicks
I won’t summon an #unearthly spirit
Just for your amusement
But push me I’ll conjure one for mine
I'll bring on a demon to eat your face
#vss365
October 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This cat's tired of your shit
I'm no photo prop
I refuse to be trotted out
To your wine soaked friends
Playing fake witchy games
Dressed like Stevie Nicks
I won’t summon an #unearthly spirit
Just for your amusement
But push me I’ll conjure one for mine
I'll bring on a demon to eat your face
#vss365
I'm no photo prop
I refuse to be trotted out
To your wine soaked friends
Playing fake witchy games
Dressed like Stevie Nicks
I won’t summon an #unearthly spirit
Just for your amusement
But push me I’ll conjure one for mine
I'll bring on a demon to eat your face
#vss365
Children bounce when hitting the ground
Held together with rubber bands and chewing gum
Traumas faced down
Buried beneath smiles and trading cards
Time dries out the ties that bind
Elastic dreams becoming broken seams
Wisdom the illusion of age
Hard earth waiting to greet you again
#vss365 #elastic
Held together with rubber bands and chewing gum
Traumas faced down
Buried beneath smiles and trading cards
Time dries out the ties that bind
Elastic dreams becoming broken seams
Wisdom the illusion of age
Hard earth waiting to greet you again
#vss365 #elastic
October 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Once upon a time hits from this album were overplayed. Listen closer. Martin Barres's guitar is amazing. Ian Anderson wrote lyrics capturing hypocrisy of a system we still live in today. Wonder'ing Aloud is a masterpiece in the simplest of forms. We have not progressed in 50 years. God save us all.
August 20, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Once upon a time hits from this album were overplayed. Listen closer. Martin Barres's guitar is amazing. Ian Anderson wrote lyrics capturing hypocrisy of a system we still live in today. Wonder'ing Aloud is a masterpiece in the simplest of forms. We have not progressed in 50 years. God save us all.
I hardly remember the world before cats had wings
I take comfort in the fact that
They still think we are fun to have around
Hairballs and rodent entrails are always raining down
We were once the dominant species before this new regime
Nowhere is safe from the little killing machines
#vss365 #wings
I take comfort in the fact that
They still think we are fun to have around
Hairballs and rodent entrails are always raining down
We were once the dominant species before this new regime
Nowhere is safe from the little killing machines
#vss365 #wings
August 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Really excited to have in hand the latest issue of New Square from the Sancho Panza Literary Society. I am honored that they have included my poem Solitude of Two, which I feel is one of my strongest works to date, amongst so many great authors. #poetry #lovepoems
August 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Really excited to have in hand the latest issue of New Square from the Sancho Panza Literary Society. I am honored that they have included my poem Solitude of Two, which I feel is one of my strongest works to date, amongst so many great authors. #poetry #lovepoems
Happy #internationalcatday! Looking for just the right way to celebrate? Pick up a copy of my book of poems with #cats, Could Have Gotten a Cat. Mostly happy, a few sad, some just plain weird. You won't regret it and neither will the cats you read them to. #catsofbluesky #poetry a.co/d/bEGhk2x
August 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Happy #internationalcatday! Looking for just the right way to celebrate? Pick up a copy of my book of poems with #cats, Could Have Gotten a Cat. Mostly happy, a few sad, some just plain weird. You won't regret it and neither will the cats you read them to. #catsofbluesky #poetry a.co/d/bEGhk2x
An angel danced on the head of a pin
I impaled it
Stuck it on my lapel as a charm
Turns out I was a djinn
Offered me 3 wishes for its freedom
But I was Aladdin Sane
I wore it till it passed away
I don't worry we'll meet again at the pearly gates
I know I won't be going there
#vss365 #angel #charm
I impaled it
Stuck it on my lapel as a charm
Turns out I was a djinn
Offered me 3 wishes for its freedom
But I was Aladdin Sane
I wore it till it passed away
I don't worry we'll meet again at the pearly gates
I know I won't be going there
#vss365 #angel #charm
August 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I am really excited to have my poem The Scars Across My Thigh up at Spillwords, along with having my own author page. Check it out. #poetry spillwords.com/the-scars-ac...
The Scars Across My Thigh, poetry at Spillwords.com
Spillwords.com presents: The Scars Across My Thigh, a poem by Peter Kaczmarczyk, who has been published in over 70 journals and anthologies.
spillwords.com
August 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I am really excited to have my poem The Scars Across My Thigh up at Spillwords, along with having my own author page. Check it out. #poetry spillwords.com/the-scars-ac...
Time soldier
Patrol the past
Put up walls
Keep out #crimson memories
Fences make good neighbors
Time soldier
Dig up graves
Make them deeper
Botox won’t raise the dead
Regrets don’t keep secrets
Where were you in 1992
Distant yet always heard
Buddha on a train
Time soldier
Cuts you down again
#vss365
Patrol the past
Put up walls
Keep out #crimson memories
Fences make good neighbors
Time soldier
Dig up graves
Make them deeper
Botox won’t raise the dead
Regrets don’t keep secrets
Where were you in 1992
Distant yet always heard
Buddha on a train
Time soldier
Cuts you down again
#vss365
July 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I so easily turn a blind eye
To a world full of injustice and genocide
I hardly notice the destitute
Lining streets and alleyways
Heads down just like mine
But today I shed a tear
Watching the bird with the damaged wing
Struggling through the grass
In search of only shelter and a meal
#vss365 #tear
To a world full of injustice and genocide
I hardly notice the destitute
Lining streets and alleyways
Heads down just like mine
But today I shed a tear
Watching the bird with the damaged wing
Struggling through the grass
In search of only shelter and a meal
#vss365 #tear
July 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Is it better to have loved and lost?
A promise was made and not kept
A heart held then tossed away
Good intentions don't cushion the fall
Nothing mutes the voices saying rise up try again
Pain is real bruises deep
Stillness protects what remains
You do not miss what you never had
#vss365 #promise
A promise was made and not kept
A heart held then tossed away
Good intentions don't cushion the fall
Nothing mutes the voices saying rise up try again
Pain is real bruises deep
Stillness protects what remains
You do not miss what you never had
#vss365 #promise
July 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Having purpose gives my action meaning
Meaning leads me to deeper understanding
With understanding there is dawning enlightenment
So enlightened I am spurred again to action
Onward I march to an imagined destination
Circling ad infinitum
I really need to cut back on the coffee
#vss365 #purpose
Meaning leads me to deeper understanding
With understanding there is dawning enlightenment
So enlightened I am spurred again to action
Onward I march to an imagined destination
Circling ad infinitum
I really need to cut back on the coffee
#vss365 #purpose
July 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM