Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet

Joseph Pinto
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poetry written from the inside of bars served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. ...drinkin' proofs and writin' truths...

  1. 2d ago

    accepting the silence

    it’s shameless book promotion time! i’ve already shared poetry from my collections ‘a distilled spirit,’ ‘scotch & scars,’and ‘from my front steps.’ now it’s more from my 2024 collection ‘dead bird.’   it’s all encompassing, my silence. drawn over me like a quilt.    ‘dead bird’ is available on amazon for your reading pleasure. if you enjoy it, please indulge me the favor of a review.   today’s selection is:   ‘accepting the silence’   once the blood stains the hands is there coming back or do we start over accepting the silence perhaps interment is a matter of layers a depth of infliction meant to condition the mind of the true horrors that await there is no use brandishing palms not when the stigma already infects self left to rot inside out spat and consumed again mother mary enjoys best dishes cold bones to pick last don’t worry dear i strain vocal cords now so you won’t hear me scream later.  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * 'Dead Bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * instagram at joseph_a_pinto * https://www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto  * subscribe to the ‘Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet’ YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y2stm5ms⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    accepting the silence

  2. 3d ago

    what buries

    it’s shameless book promotion time! i’ve already shared poetry from my collections ‘a distilled spirit,’ ‘scotch & scars,’and ‘from my front steps.’ now it’s more from my 2024 collection ‘dead bird.’   there are holes in my yard. home for all that has died. but nothing truly rests…    ‘dead bird’ is available on amazon for your reading pleasure. if you enjoy it, please indulge me the favor of a review.   today’s selection is:   ‘what buries’   keeping bones in palms anything other you are a liar silence is violence too dirt for the flower shelter for its seed   aren’t we all in love with someone else faked until time comes due   and what flees from breast we cannot cage despite the sorrow and all the aching   what buries does not keep dirt what buries does not keep dirt. * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * 'Dead Bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * instagram at joseph_a_pinto * https://www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto  * subscribe to the ‘Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet’ YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y2stm5ms⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    what buries

  3. Sep 23

    ouroboros

    it’s shameless book promotion time! i’ve already shared poetry from my collections ‘a distilled spirit,’ ‘scotch & scars,’and ‘from my front steps.’ we move along to my 4th collection from 2024, ‘dead bird.’   tighten the belt. it’s a cruel cycle, this life…   ‘dead bird’ is available on amazon for your reading pleasure. if you enjoy it, please indulge me the favor of a review.   today’s selection is:   ‘ouroboros’   we are born to be someone’s sacrifice fodder for the karmic machine fattened only to serve as bones’ stripped fat what to make of life once we are crushed do we bleat before death or find strength to go on hollow inside skin; cycled only to learn the test becomes the cycle  there’s no retiring this road before the slaughterhouse calls; there the leanest ones are recognized to have lived their fullest. * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * 'Dead Bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * instagram at joseph_a_pinto * https://www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto  * subscribe to the ‘Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet’ YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y2stm5ms⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ouroboros

  4. Sep 16

    the last

    it’s shameless book promotion time! i’ve already shared poetry from my collections ‘a distilled spirit,’ ‘scotch & scars,’and ‘from my front steps.’ now we move along to my 4th collection from 2024, ‘dead bird.’   my bird would never stop screeching for me. god, those screeches…only all for me…   ‘dead bird’ is available on amazon for your reading pleasure. if you enjoy it, please indulge me the favor of a review.   today’s selection is:   ‘the last’    rome burns while you knot laces lips taut as those laces feathers spiraling like cinder singed while the burn down goes so slowly, we’ve time to run out soul flight, we’re held up i fear this is the first of fires tonight. fragile things go in smoke soot covered scars the bird she screeches to save us or herself who knows and the last light like truth on the pew there to damage. across your eyes an orange glow ghost town population of loss the last to blaze a cage songless and white like skeletal ribs.  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * 'Dead Bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * instagram at joseph_a_pinto * https://www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto  * subscribe to the ‘Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet’ YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y2stm5ms⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    the last

  5. Sep 14

    peering through

    it’s shameless book promotion time! i’ve already shared poetry from my collections ‘a distilled spirit,’ ‘scotch & scars,’ and ‘from my front steps.’ now we move along to my 4th collection from 2024, ‘dead bird.’   i hit my ‘groove’ during the writing of ‘dead bird.’ i believe writers should follow an evolutionary timeline of growth and introspect. sometimes that road is paved by the natural process of life. sometimes, it’s triggered more forcibly.    the sudden passing of my pet bird sparked the emotional trigger for my collection. but if you think ‘dead bird’ is anything about a bird at all, well, i guess you haven’t been following me very long.    ‘dead bird’ is available on amazon for your reading pleasure. if you enjoy it, please indulge me the favor of a review.   today’s selection is:   ‘peering through’    no childhood to fall back on small wonder i fear cliffs sterilized by the book i made myself fertile across a page; am i beautiful   a bruise is a knuckle unaware of the patient hand so truth slurs sometimes through lips stained red and the bars of this cage allow more room than they should   silence is like darkness unwanted, but coming.  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * 'Dead Bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * instagram at joseph_a_pinto * https://www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto  * subscribe to the ‘Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet’ YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y2stm5ms⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    peering through

  6. Aug 5

    when will we be us

    and now the conclusion of my shameless book promotion time for my 2021 collection ‘from my front steps.’   how far does the string stretch..?   ‘from my front steps’ is available on amazon for your reading pleasure. if you enjoy it, please indulge me the favor of a review.   today’s selection is:   ‘when will we be us’   you can’t share my drink but we can share the sky do you gaze as i do alone atop front steps filling spaces with question marks while the breeze exclaims touch atop skin and i am dumbstruck   and i am in awe   the further you draw  the closer you come in you had me the moment god made this world spin; indoor living stifles the senses but outdoors universe reminds: we are tethered.   still hopeful the string shortens lengthening our mythos. * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * 'Dead Bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * instagram at joseph_a_pinto * https://www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto  * subscribe to the ‘Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet’ YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y2stm5ms⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    when will we be us

  7. Jul 29

    not hungry anymore

    on we go with my shameless book promotion time! continuing with my 2021 collection ‘from my front steps.’   can you ever have what you truly want? i lose my appetite thinking about it…   ‘from my front steps’ is available on amazon for your reading pleasure. if you enjoy it, please indulge me the favor of a review.   today’s selection is:   ‘not hungry anymore’   seems as though everyone’s inside chilling skin and protecting themselves barriers come in cloth now as if words did not infect enough i sunburn my eyes so i can’t see what i’m thinking  my verse fuels visions and  in this heat paragraphs and booze do not dispel reality so easily dinner seems a welcome thought to fill me so too, once, the thought of you and i you made it clear you couldn’t stomach that and force-fed i had no choice but digest. these days i am hardened but liquid spilling quietly from the seams and i can’t smell what the neighbors are cooking or tell you you’ve ripped out my guts when i was quite content with the way you stole my heart. * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * 'Dead Bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * instagram at joseph_a_pinto * https://www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto  * subscribe to the ‘Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet’ YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y2stm5ms⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    not hungry anymore

  8. Jul 23

    chronic pain

    more of my shameless book promotion time! continuing with my 2021 collection ‘from my front steps.’   at the time of its writing, i was struggling with the effects of spinal stenosis, masking the pain with copious amounts of booze and unwilling to lean into self-healing even while i still readily helped others. i had to learn that healers have their own process, and timeline, before accepting and stepping into what they already own.   ‘from my front steps’ is available on amazon. if you enjoy it, please indulge me the favor of a review.   today’s selection is:   ‘chronic pain’   it’s borrowed time sitting atop my front steps no longer can my spine withstand the compression i grit teeth and knock the amber down my throat disconnecting anguish from reality month by month bowing just a bit more in my head i am still who i can no longer be come stare into my eyes before they dull over there before you the illusion i’ve married— i am whole; i am whole— but i am nothing. and i am tired. and i am worn; the humidity rolling down my ribs a reprieve to the fire rolling thru my core. * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * 'Dead Bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * instagram at joseph_a_pinto * https://www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto  * subscribe to the ‘Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet’ YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y2stm5ms⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    chronic pain
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