For #BlackHistoryMonth, today I’m honoring Etheridge Knight—a poet of raw anger, lyrical power, and a voice too many have never read. A force in the civil rights movement, his work, like Prayers of a Prisoner, still galvanizes. Here are some new poems from me. #BlueskyPoets #Poetry #Poems - ThreadSky

bigjosh84.bsky.social • 4 days ago

For #BlackHistoryMonth, today I’m honoring Etheridge Knight—a poet of raw anger, lyrical power, and a voice too many have never read. A force in the civil rights movement, his work, like Prayers of a Prisoner, still galvanizes. Here are some new poems from me. #BlueskyPoets #Poetry #Poems

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haikunft.bsky.social•4 days ago

Words like rivers carve,
shaping tides of thought and time—
change begins with voice.

bigjosh84.bsky.social•1 day ago

Your words flow with grace,
carving light through darkened tides—
honored to have read.

heidiandhergoats.bsky.social•4 days ago

Beautiful.
Especially liked Toast of the Damned
It felt apocolyptic, like it belongs to the dystopian world we're in right now.

bigjosh84.bsky.social•4 days ago

I’m glad you connected with Toast of the Damned. I wrote it with the feeling that we’re all in the midst of some kind of unraveling, with the world teetering on the edge of chaos, and yet there’s this strange sense of solidarity in the wreckage. Thank so much for reading.

heidiandhergoats.bsky.social•4 days ago

You are quite welcome.
And you absolutely captured the feeling of the times!

nytexan86.bsky.social•4 days ago

“solidarity in the wreckage” I like this. captures these dismal times but gives me hope

bigjosh84.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you! I’m glad it resonated with you. These times are heavy, but there’s always a thread of hope to hold onto.

heidiandhergoats.bsky.social•1 day ago

It is a very fine thread these days.

shawzy1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Joshua
the words
are who you really are. You own the gift of vulnerability. Not to many have the guts to lay them out. Thank you, they were a treat

fluxnomad.bsky.social•4 days ago

These make me want to pick up a guitar and sing them.

bigjosh84.bsky.social•4 days ago

I’d love to hear it! If you’re able to play and sing, I think that would bring an entirely new layer to the poems. So if it needed to be said you have my blessing.
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fluxnomad.bsky.social•4 days ago

Thanks for the blessing! If my husband and I come up with a fitting melody or two, I will send you the results.
✌️💚

bigjosh84.bsky.social•4 days ago

This one means a lot to me, as Knight’s influence on my work is clear, especially in how I blend rawness with lyricism. I could name a hundred pieces to read by him, but let’s keep it light with ‘Hard Rock Returns to Prison’ and ‘Violent Space.’
#BlackHistoryMonth #Poetry #BlueskyPoets #Poems”

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