#prose

@PuercoPop @ralphm

Btw. a relatively new #Jabber client that tries to cover the Slack/Discord use case is #Prose by @prose. They just a made a release 0.8.2 yesterday (Congrats!), which I'm curious to try out. https://prose.org/

The Return

A rather ordinary butterfly, mostly black with a couple of pale blue spots, lands opposite me on the table in a park where I sit reading. He, she, it—how can you tell—just rests there looking at me. The strange thing is, I know this butterfly, for over the course of three days last summer, at the same table, it came to keep me company. By the third day, I had a weird feeling that this insect knew me and, perhaps, intended to communicate something. I addressed a couple of questions his, her, its way but . . . nothing, at least as far as I could tell. Then, it disappeared. I thought it must have died, or been eaten by a bird. How long do butterflies live anyway? But that’s the question, because the same butterfly is back. I’m sure of it. I am not dreaming, and I sure as hell am not Chaung Tzu. For just a moment last year I wondered whether I was being visited by the spirit of someone I knew. But now . . . ? Suddenly the butterfly wiggles its antennae and flies away. I can’t help feeling I’m going somewhere.

lost in thought
a dandelion seed
in the wind

--Robert Witmer
Tokyo, Japan

drifting sands, Issue 29
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#haibun #poetry #prose

From: blenderdumbass . org

People often point out various grammatical errors in texts people write. As if having better attention to words makes the argument presented more or less valid. So I suppose I'm gonna rant about this.

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/stupid_correct_english

#English #Language #FreeSpeech #Grammar #Poetry #Prose #Freedom

@mauro not sure if you've seen this, but looks interesting to me, using #xmpp

#Prose - I just read about it recently, and now available to install via #Yunohost

https://prose.org/
https://apps.yunohost.org/app/prose

Pro writing tip:

Be careful not refer to bad people as "viscous."

While it's true that some villains may well resemble walking human syrup, I'm pretty sure that what you actually mean is "vicious."

#writing #badguys #prose

From: blenderdumbass . org

People often point out various grammatical errors in texts people write. As if having better attention to words makes the argument presented more or less valid. So I suppose I'm gonna rant about this.

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/stupid_correct_english

#English #Language #FreeSpeech #Grammar #Poetry #Prose #Freedom

If the cry
does not reach
who should

When the suffering
so ominous
knows no end

When life
Even so well lived it was
calls no mercy

When love
though it seemed so hopeful
never stayed long

Then the cry of hope only remained
This is the only thing
what can still help

si_irini

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@themimitoof ça n'est pas contre toi du tout. Cette idée que c'est ancien (ce qui est vrai) et dépassé (ce qui est faux) est courante, et ça n'aide pas, déjà qu'on est pas les meilleurs en com' .

Des interfaces "fancy" on en a, regarde #Movim (https://movim.eu/) ou #Prose (https://prose.org/) par exemple. Je travaille moi même à un redesign du l'interface web de #Libervia.

Niveau fonctionnalités, je pense pas qu'on manque de grand chose, et c'est extensible de toute façon.

When love goes
only hope remains
for a life
with her again

If love goes
one now asks
when will she come again
Another form
with a different face
but there it shall be
again

For to think
now it's over forever
Heart then cuts itself
into a thousand parts

She must come
she must come again
for only life can live
when love again

si_irini

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Paint and Prose

Paint and Prose. #12/52#project2025 #art #prose #husbandandwife

http://itsjamesd.com/2025/03/21/paint-and-prose-3/

From: blenderdumbass . org

People often point out various grammatical errors in texts people write. As if having better attention to words makes the argument presented more or less valid. So I suppose I'm gonna rant about this.

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/stupid_correct_english

#English #Language #FreeSpeech #Grammar #Poetry #Prose #Freedom

Paint and Prose

Paint and Prose. #11/52project2025 #art #prose #husbandandwife

http://itsjamesd.com/2025/03/13/paint-and-prose-2/

Vaguely searching for Lorca

We walked along the dusty track, from shade to shade of the ancient olive trees that grew along the route. The summer’s afternoon heat drapes the landscape in shimmering gauze; the buzz of the insects in the dry grass fields surrounding us punctuated by the sound of an old truck making its way up the other side of the valley. Two old men, vaguely searching for an old stone cabin that the villagers had said once belonged to Lorca, his retreat for writing when he lived nearby. Two old men, not really caring whether we found it or not, stop to share a drink of water and a moment of easy intimacy under the Spanish sun.

Poets’ dreams drift
under the Spanish sun
cicadas singing

--Patrick Stephens, France

cattails, 110, April 2023
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#haibun #poetry #prose

Anyone using self-hosted #Prose for #XMPP?

From: blenderdumbass . org

People often point out various grammatical errors in texts people write. As if having better attention to words makes the argument presented more or less valid. So I suppose I'm gonna rant about this.

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/stupid_correct_english

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The beauty
it comes from everywhere

Beauty
can be found everywhere

We capture
and see it should

We should pass it on
and feel the beauty

So that all the ugliness of this world
does not gain the upper hand

si_irini

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Tomboy
by Tish Davis

still life:
Hunter’s Moon on the skin
of a tipi

The bows, unstrung, are stored in the smallest tent. The men play cards under a tarp—one slaps his leg as he talks about the buck’s crashing descent into the ravine; another adjusts the lamp and now, I’m able to see Father's face. After sorting through the sticks, my brother and the other boys draw circles in the freshly cleared patch of dirt around the fire. I step away from the camp and, in the moonlight, examine the arrowhead that I found. Who was the man who shaped this stone? Did he chew the tendons from the deer’s shank and use that to make his bowstring? Did he fashion his bow case from the skin of a cougar’s tail? Running my finger along the tip of the flint, I wonder if he took his daughter hunting, and if she cried.

shooting star—
a blood trail
lost

Frogpond, 32-3, 2009
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Innocent times there once were
Untaken by the evil forces

When smiles were not yet put on
When laughter was still so loud

When hearts were not yet heavy
When joy was still unclouded

Innocent times there once were
Back you want them
Nothing else

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Wenn Geschichte sich wiederholt
und diejenigen,
die sich der Vergangenheit
sehr wohl bewusst,
die falsche Wahl treffen,
dann haben alle Opfer
der Vergangenheit,
die für das Richtige
ihr Leben ließen
ein nie endendes Martyrium zu ertragen

Da sie ein zweites Mal
einen Kampf verlieren,
der doch schon
vor so langer Zeit gemacht

si_irini

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