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Peter J. King
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Poet, painter, translator (mainly from modern Greek & German). Originally from Boston, Lincs (though after the last election I identify as being from Islington), I live in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds.

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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · Sep 17
'Contact Light' is now available.

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SPOTLIGHT: Contact Light by Peter J. King
The Zombie Apocalypse Every surface of the Earth is rough and dry,with unhealed wounds that fester and degrade;her once-bright seas are yellow-brown and stillbeneath the scum of plastic, sunlight-b…
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"...researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany & the Centre for Demographic Studies Spain... estimate that between 99,997 & 125,915 Palestinians died in Gaza between 7 October 2023 & 6 October 2025, with a median estimate of 112,069."

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A devastating new study has found that more than 112,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Israel launched its assault in October 2023. T...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Tom Waits - "Clap Hands"

#song #experimentalrock
Tom Waits - Clap Hands
YouTube video by Os. Bend.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Stackridge - "God Speed the Plough".

Song that is an instrumental from any genre.

#breakingkindsongs #musicchallenge #musicsky #folkrock #progressivepop #progpop #progressiverock #progrock
God Speed The Plough (2023 Remaster)
YouTube video by Stackridge - Topic
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November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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"Wuppertal".

One of a series of poems responding to the work of Emmy Klinker (1891-1969), a German artist born in what's now Belgium, dubbed a degenerate artist by the Nazis.

#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #wuppertal #emmyklinker #klinker
from winter woods we gaze into the valley where a city stretches out along the river like a richly woven carpet from Tibet. a distant whistle draws the eye past towers and steeples, stone and lead and verdigris, to where great arches measure out the land in red-brick curves. cast iron scrolls festoon the full gasometer, surround the station’s gaping mouth from which a brightly-painted tram car, hanging from its single rail, darts like a needle stitching towns into one vibrant patterned whole.
November 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Untitled (acrylics on paper).

#painting #art #acrylics
March 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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St Leonard's church, Bledington, Gloucestershire.

#photo #photography #mediaevalarchitecture #architecture #churcharchitecture #church #graveyard #bledington #gloucestershire #cotswolds
February 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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'The Love': New Poetry in Translation by Hoda Omran
‘The Love’: New Poetry in Translation by Hoda Omran
“Marriage is the afterlife / for which we have to cross this life, / leaving behind our homes and pasts, / waiting for justice with a light heart, / where our homes become our graves.”
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November 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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The judge due to rule on the proscription of Palestine Action is swapped last minute for a panel that includes a judge with a history of working for the government and another who ruled in favour UK selling jets to Israel.

Accusations of a “stitch-up”.

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A ‘Stitch-Up’: Palestine Action Case Gets New Judges | Novara Media
The judicial review of Palestine Action’s proscription has been thrown into turmoil by a last-minute change. A new panel of judges includes one with a long history of working for the government and an...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Shop window with red lettering: WE BUY MEN USED 29 AND UP
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Rabindranath Tagore - "Gitanjali" 14

I reversioned this from Tagore's own translation .

#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #bengalipoetry #reversionedpoem #reversioning #tagore #rabindranathtagore
I am filled with myriad desires I whine and beg for their fulfilment but you save me from myself with stern refusals, and my life is moulded by your mercy. You are slowly leading me to merit your unasked-for gifts – sky, light, body, life, and mind – and from the dangers of too much desire you rescue me. I am inclined to laziness, procrastination; sometimes, though, I leap up from my bed to follow you, but you are cruel and hide from me. You are slowly leading me to merit union with you by constantly refusing me, and from the dangers of half-willed desire you rescue me.
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Untitled (acrylics on paper).

#painting #art #acrylics
April 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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The only version I have of a photo of me at London Zoo -- I'd guess either 1959 or 1960.

#photo
January 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Two New Poems by Olivia Elias
Two New Poems by Olivia Elias
“nothing to hold on to no more suitcases / & nothing left to take away”
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November 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.

We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
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November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Jackie Venson - "Rollin' On".

Drums: Rodney Hyder
Bass: Marcus Clark
Keyboards: Jon Deas

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#jackievenson #blues #guitar
Rollin' On from Jackie Venson Love Transcends Live in Austin
YouTube video by Jackie Venson
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November 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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"Constant Follower".

#poem #poetry #skypoets #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #osiris #osirismagazine
January 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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"Op art".

#poem #poetry #skypoets #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #concretepoem #opart
January 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Untitled (acrylics on paper).

#painting #art #acrylics
April 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Σοκάκι και Οδός Λήδρας στη Λευκωσία, Κύπρος.
A side street and Ledra Street in Levkosia, Cyprus.

#photo #photography #cyprus #levkosia #nicosia #streetscene #architecture
January 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Germany is now taking in animals from Gaza while refusing entry to injured and sick Palestinians. The message is clear: in Germany’s hierarchy of “valuable” life, Palestinians are valued less than animals. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/germ...
Germany is offering asylum to donkeys from Gaza. Gaza’s children? Not allowed.
Germany is now taking in animals from Gaza while refusing entry to injured and sick Palestinians. The message is clear: in Germany’s hierarchy of “valuable” life, Palestinians are valued less than…
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November 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Oatleaf’s Pushcart Prize nominees for 2025!
Congratulations to our nominees and thank you to all the poets who contributed to the magazine this year!

Visit the link below to view the full list.

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November 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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unutterably grim.
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Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab warns the RSF is still disposing of bodies in El-Fasher, with satellite images showing empty markets and no civilian activity, raising fears that most residents have been killed, detained, or forced into hiding since the city fell in late October.
Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at YSPH @HRL_YaleSPH 🚨ATROCITY ALERT 🚨 @HRL_YaleSPH finds RSF continues body disposal, and no market activity in El Fasher – raising major concerns about the status of civilians. #KeepEyesOnSudan 🛰️ @Vantortech + @Planet https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnood/publications/reports/ 3.635175,25.332129 Daraja Oula, El-Fasher Active burning and new presence of white objects between 12, 13 & 17 November 2025 Copyright: Satellite imagery 12, 13, 17 November 2025 © 2025 Vantor. Analysis conducted by Yale HRL. Analysis of satellite imagery collected between 09 and 13 November 2025 over the Daraja Oula neighborhood shows the new presence of an actively burning pile on 13 November that was not present in 12 November imagery. Imagery from 17 November 2025 shows the charred, ashen remains of the pile. Newly present at this location are two ground disturbances and scarring, displaying signatures consistent with charred remains. Two clusters of white objects are newly present at this location on 17 November 2025. 13.6294, 25.32945 Al Saudi Hospital, El-Fasher Continued burning and new presence of white objects between 09, 13 & 17 November 2025 Copyright: Satellite Imagery 9, 13, 17 November 2025 © 2025 Vantor. Analysis conducted by Yale HRL. Analysis of satellite imagery collected on 17 November 2025 shows the new presence of white objects in a hole dug on the western side of Al Saudi Hospital in El-Fasher. This hole has been previously observed with white objects placed in its center, subsequently lit on fire, and burned to smoldering ash multiple times throughout November 2025. The imagery below shows white objects present in the hole on 09 November 2025, with charred, ashen remains visible on 13 November 2025. The imagery collected on 17 November 2025 shows more white objects placed in the hole. 13.62494755, 25.35750594 Grand Market (Souq), El-Fasher No current pattern of life observed compared to prior years and 2023 baseline Copyright: Satellite Imagery 8 Nov 2023, 19 Nov 2024, 17 Nov 2025 © 2025 Vantor. Analysis conducted by Yale HRL. In imagery collected on 17 November 2025, there is no pattern of life visible at or near the Grand Market compared to prior imagery and baseline activity from 2023. The last period of major market activity visible in satellite imagery was in 2024. By November 2025, the Grand Market appears to have increased vegetation overgrowth and lacks the previously visible activity of persons, vehicles, and carts compared to 2023 baseline and other prior imagery. Throughout the conflict, market activity has decreased. Vegetation overgrowth present in Sept-Nov 2025 imagery is not visible to the same extent in prior imagery of a similar period. It is possible that minimal activity takes place within the covered market that satellites cannot capture.
November 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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A film that's set where you're from.

Not a lot of choice....
November 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM