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Thursday, September 2, 2021

Featuring Tohm Bakelas

 


“haiku on my present, past, and future state of creativity”

 

today i write haikus 

yesterday short poems 

tomorrow nothing 

 

 

 

 

“hangover haiku”

 

seat taken for one 

eggs, toast, hash browns, and pepsi 

i am all right now 

 

 

 

 

“haiku for kent and d.a. and the so-called cleveland school” 

 

cleveland poetry 

against academia— 

forever outside 

 

 

 

 

“haiku for Dylan and Kaydence”

 

at seven and four— 

you both are too sarcastic 

for your own damn good 

 

 

 

 

“haiku for victor clevenger”

 

from one madhouse to 

another— we write haikus 

to get through the day 

 

 

 

 

“call it as it is”

 

what the fuck was that— 

conversation flat lined but 

that’s not saying much 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BIO: Tohm Bakelas is a social worker in a psychiatric hospital. He was born in New Jersey, resides there, and will die there. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, zines, and online publications. He has published 10 chapbooks. He runs Between Shadows Press. 

 

 

 

CONTACT:

Email: tohm.bakelas@gmail.com

Website: https://tohmbakelaspoetry.wordpress.com

Instagram: @flexyourhead

 

Read previous poems by Tohm (2020) on BMR here: https://georgedanderson.blogspot.com/2020/06/featuring-tohm-bakelas.html

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