Friday, January 16, 2026

Stone Soup Croutons, 1-16-26: Friday Night


Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions selected from Stone Soup Poetry's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title (and sometimes the rest of the poem) later. You can read the other ones I've done since 2015 here.
 
I also have a book collecting the best of my first year of poems. Click here to purchase it.
 
We had a new workshop this week. It was fun again. So tired I forgot to press record. Thankfully, it was livestreamed, and I just uploaded that.
 
I didn't have a lot to say due to being tired. It shows in the poem, but the images were so perfectly laid out, and themes connected from poet to poet in a couple of cases. I love this group.
 
Off to write other things. Including the Stone Soup Crouton poem I should have written before. 

Thanks for reading.


Friday Night

Bejeesus knocked
you on bee's knees.
 
Mangosteen juice
shoots evergreen.
 
A new smell covers
up week's batshit.
 
Optimistic before 
the week started.
 
Fluids used to 
keep others warm. 

Told to glass blow
on half a lung.  
 
Lucky to pass two
minute hate test.
 
Narcissist badge
you pinned yourself.
 
Finally the peace
you never deserved. 
 
 
 
Special thanks to Richard Spisak, Jon Wesick, Bil Lewis, Paul Richmond, Robert Fleming, Ari Whipple, Nike Truth, Anna Geoffrey and James Van Looy.
 

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