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Bob Varettoni
@bvar.bsky.social
Dad, writer; loves poetry, photography, music, art, and the Mets; Notre Dame alum; career in Public Relations - NYC & NJ - https://linktr.ee/bvar
“Life is an empty bottle filled with love.” - Santosh Kalwar
November 30, 2025 at 2:36 AM
70 years ago today! ❤️
Some context from 2020: varettoni.blogspot.com/2020/11/65-y...
November 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Music fills the air.
Poets sing prophetic songs.
Our prayers stay silent.

Watching @totalsystemfailure.band perform this past weekend at The Sanctuary in Butler, NJ - #mondaymorninghaiku📝 (49)
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
42nd Street, from the West Side, at night.
#photography #nyc
November 20, 2025 at 12:41 AM
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
A world full of woe.
When the band begins to play,
We dance anyway.

Today’s #mondaymorninghaiku📝 (48) is inspired by the music of @tmondecajun — they inspired a #poetry book, and yesterday, I read my contribution, “Vanishing Garden.” That poem is posted at varettoni.blogspot.com/2025/11/publ...
November 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Good morning!
Awakened by suburban leaf blowers in time to watch Bugs Bunny read Edgar Allan Poe “for kids” 🙂
November 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Escher vibes in the stairwell at Carnegie Hall in New York
November 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Unlit Christmas tree.
An emperor without clothes
awaits the spotlight.

Monday #haiku (47)
This past weekend in Rockefeller Center…
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
East 51st Street
#autumn in #newyork
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
“Hey, I’m walking here…”
Midnight Cowboy

“I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore…”
The Wizard of Oz
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
JP Morgan Chase headquarters in New York City… the view last night, and a few years ago.
November 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Times Square in early November
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Autumn’s arrival.
Everything disintegrates.
Wistful fallen leaves.

Monday #haiku (46)
November 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Spending the morning watching marathoners smile and cheer as they round the corner and hear the crowd along First Avenue in New York City… and, honestly, it has restored my faith in humanity.
November 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The Day of the Dead:
Ofrenda for my father
Flush with marigolds

Monday #haiku (45)
October 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Robert J. Varettoni, my Dad, who died 20 years ago this week...
October 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The NYC skyline, showing off again
October 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This was the scene last night in Red Bank NJ, as projectwritenow.org - a great community-based organization that supports and encourages #writers - celebrated its 11th anniversary.
October 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Yesterday, I attended a convening of healthcare leaders sponsored by the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation in NYC.
I was grateful to see so many friends there… and inspired by the program. “Unprecedented times” was a theme of the day, and participants issued a call for "radical empathy."
October 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Between buses in Weehawken, NJ
October 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
All the stars fell to earth tonight
#NYC
October 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Silent, I seek peace.
Bathed in a heavenly light,
I listen to stones.

Monday #haiku (44)
October 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Autumn in New Jersey
#photography
October 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Tables like flowers at tonight‘s Al Smith Foundation dinner at the Waldorf
October 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM