JJNorton

Searching for words that turn the world to glass. My poetry blog is online, and my book is on Amazon. Killing Physicians: Shakespeare’s Blind Heroes

[JJNorton @world2glass]

Pandemic v. Protestors, by Star Parker | Creators Syndicate https://t.co/rnXbzQz9AG via @creatorsnation

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Shakespeare puts powerful words to the painful emotion created by loss and separation in “Sonnet 27.”

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[JJNorton @world2glass]

Whale, you do not stop.

You beat your head against the jagged rocks.
Blind in depths so dark light itself is blind,

You knock your head against the rocks to see
And scratch the god-itch from your thoughts.

(From “Moby Dick” by Dan Beachy-Quick)

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[JJNorton @world2glass]

In the car last night
You took a razor blade
To my heart, each word
Seeking to cut and peel,
To tear at scars earned
Long ago— but these
Old strengths protecting,
Armored knights guarding
Me from your reckless blade. #microprompt #vss365

[JJNorton @world2glass]

I’ve waded into waters
Like waves my questions rise
Angry white caps surging, drowning
Press me down into the depths.

[JJNorton @world2glass]

@ascifiwriter My book is about Shakespeare’s tragedies and late plays. It’s called Killing Physicians, and I’ve published it with a small house called New Reformation.

[shepherdmoon @shepherdmoon53]

what if we met on the soft side
of poetry?

I could trace the etymology of your truth, carve your verses into the soft wood of the Linden Tree

for one moment we could be the unstressed meter, safe in the arms
of the written form

[o. leary poetry @olearypoetry]

“Now I know I loved what who you might have been. Not who you were. Not what you were. How could I have loved that? How could anyone love that?” - O. Leary

[shepherdmoon @shepherdmoon53]

a refugee

there is no soup for sadness
no bread&butter for bitterness
a buffet of abundance is nonsense
if her belly is bloated with abandonment

how do you fill a dearth fueled by the death of her mother

so she held her in the liminal space
between pain&her next breath

[JJNorton @world2glass]

Truth like a skeleton key
Opens rooms in my mind
From which hope has fled. Bonds like anaconda rings
That squeezed, reduced
My vision to a pin-hole size
View of an eternal range
Now slack and I slip free.
#range #fled #vss365 #microprompt

[T. S. Eliot Foundation @eliotfoundation]

'There is another way if you have the courage...
The kind of faith that issues from despair.
The destination cannot be described;
You will know very litle until you get there;
You will journey blind...'

The Cockail Party opened on Broadway #onthisday 70 years ago

[JJNorton @world2glass]

I lift a steaming tea up to my lips
And feel a jasmine cloud ignite my mind.
Behind my fogging glasses visions form
For breaking, shaping, carving paths unknown.
I face a toxic loop and swing with hope
Discarded lies fall broken at my feet. #vss365 #microprompt #vsspoem

[Microprompt @microprompt]

We have a new #microprompt prompt word 1288 : LOOP : be #inspired & #create something!

Please post your creations in a fresh new tweet and include the #microprompt tag.

With thanks @MadQueenStorm @PromptList @PromptAdvant 💙

[T. S. Eliot Foundation @eliotfoundation]

'For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.'

- T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding

[JJNorton @world2glass]

Determined to shun her
Advances, knowing too well
The instability of her desire,
I cover my mind in nets
Of disciplined focus until
I hear her voice and the hook
Is set.
#vsspoem #hook #poetrycommunity

[JJNorton @world2glass]

I waited in silence
For a clarity to fall
Knowing that even
One feather of wisdom
Could set me free.
#vsspoem #poetrycommunity

[JJNorton @world2glass]

Her playlist, like a straight jacket, held me in reminiscence.
#hangtenstories 1120
@PromptList

[JJNorton @world2glass]

Pressed down into the angry coral
My leash stretched, board bobbing
At the surface, I close my eyes
And wait, relax, go limp,
Release control.
#vss365 #poetrycommunity #coral

[JJNorton @world2glass]

Now let Your face shine in my darkened heart,
Oh let it shine of wisdom and of grace,
And let it be a navigation chart
Across the white-capped seas, this hostile space
That separates me from her tender heart.
#vsspoem #shine #poetrycommunity