Author: rolliwrites

🦴 POEM 🦴

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This poem is now available as an NFT. Add it to your collection today.

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PRESENTING: The Connoisseur (My First Collection of Literary NFTs)

Hello, Friends – – –

Just letting you know about my first NFT collection, The Connoisseur. It’s an assortment of entirely text-based NFTs – mostly poems (including the above poem), along with a handful of very short stories.

Stranded astronauts … unfrozen authors … beautiful music… There’s something for every taste – and budget.

Check out the full collection (scroll down to see the NFTs).

Cheers – – –

Rolli

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🐻Today, I Am an Enormous Teddy Bear🐻

Hello, Friends — 

From time to time, I am an enormous teddy bear…

As a Kinsman, I help raise funds for special equipment and travel assistance for life-saving procedures for children and adults in dire need. Like my little friend Miss Blake, above, who taught this clumsy bear how to dance.

Miss Blake is a paraplegic and wheelchair user with complex medical needs. She loves to dance and race her wheelchair.

For her 4th birthday, Miss Blake is asking everyone to donate to her campaign for Telemiracle, the foundation that’s helped her so much over the years.

Here’s the link to her campaign.

Miss Blake Spins for Telemiracle

We’d both be so grateful if you could help out.

Thank-you so much, friends.

Cheers — 

Please
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POEM: The Old Comedian

Illustration by Rolli

The old comedian

Martin
in our attic lived
a minute

We heartened him with
wine
and he us
with vintages of wit

‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎ until

some sinless
citizen 
passing over-
heard 
our laughter

‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎He died 
 ‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎‎in irons
 ‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎‎rusting
 ‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎‎The Last Comedian

Yet
we remember

how he warmed our 
throats’ 
cold corridors
with laughter as
wine
 
‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎as rushings 
‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎of vital
‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎wine

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My latest book of poems and drawings is Plumstuff. You might like it:
PRESENTING: Plumstuff