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Australian writer of Poetry & fiction. Publishing original works and pocket classics at jbestbooks.com
Bloghttps://jbestbooks.com/
Bookshttps://linktr.ee/jbestbooks
Reading Shroud, by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Very glad to have recently discovered this author, he's fantastic.
#shroud #tchaikovsky #sciencefiction #AdrianTchaikovsky

Short stories are everywhere.
Post-it note found in a Hostel in Germany.

#backpacking #shortstory #shortstories #travel

@pluralistic
Mate, honestly. Everytime I read one of your articles I just want to like, fist pump, and high five your sentences and stuff.
Not much gets me fired up these days, but your stuff still gives me hope.
@pluralistic I sense a disturbance in the Metadata😂

Welcome! I am a poet and self-pub author from australia.

I have published 5 pocket editions of classic poetry works (so far!) and always carry at least one when I travel.

I also write science fiction, and have recently published a children's book with a tale in verse.

All book links here: https://linktr.ee/jbestbooks

#poetrybooks #classics #booklovers #pocketpoetry #bookcommunity

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Books by Jonathon Best

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@kauer @tanweerdar

Of course! To grapple.
Wrestling and rolling on the floor.
A better word than 'apple'.
Why'd I not think this before?

@kauer awesome, thank you. always keen for reading recommendations. I will check it out

@tanweerdar

Excitedly, I sit to write,
Though, much like times before,
I stare at pages, mark the date
Then manage nothing more.

I prep my thoughts and squeeze my brain,
Collecting not a drop.
I breathe and focus through the strain
Of voice which tells me, “Stop!”

A starting point is what I need,
A Masto-prompt, perhaps?
I’m sure today’s an easy word
That wont cause my collapse.

It’s ‘dapple’, not so easy, then,
As nothing rhymes with that.
If poetry flows from this pen
I’ll surely eat my hat!

And anyway, what does it mean?
For life, I am unsure.
You try your hand at many things
you haven't tried before?

That’s dabble! Silly me, I say-
But what else could it be?
When people dress in suit and tie
And gesture, ‘look at me’?

That’s dapper! Oh, for Heaven’s sake,
I’m hardly worth a dime.
If I know not its meaning, then
How shall I make it rhyme?

Defeat declared; I free a sigh
And kick back with an apple.
My God, that’s it! I did it, see?
I found a rhyme for dapple!

#MastoPrompt #dapple #poetry #poem #firstperson #poetsofmastodon #Writing #prompt #writingprompt

@trishf42 oof, thank you.
You've just reminded me that bluey is already a thing. I will make sure that the name in the pic is just a placeholder

Good day, internet.
Any suggestions for the name of the bar, in a kids book I'm working on?

#askmastadon #question #assist #KidsBook #picturebook #wip #name