Folio Entries - josephbrindley.com/folio
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Transmission Signal: Re-established. Transmitting.
Date: 2026-05-22
Categories: Writing
Excerpt: It's always hard to start something isn't it? Almost as hard as it is to stop. Life has a funny way of starting over and over again like a butterfly eating itself. Sometimes it is a comfort to know we are such an infinitesimally small piece of this incredibly stupid universe we are stuck in. Part of
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202605220155-transmission-signal-re-established-transmitting
Twenty-Six to Go...!
Date: 2025-08-14
Categories: Poetry, Writing
Excerpt: Working on polishing and finishing up the last few sections of Black Butterflies for its release at the end of the month!
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508140000-twenty-six-to-go
Neon Stream - Half Dot Dash Poetry Form Sample
Date: 2025-08-13
Categories: Poetry
Excerpt: Rain on the glass gray, lights in a row day, steam from the pan spray.
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508130000-neon-stream-half-dot-dash-poetry-form-sample
Poetry Form - The Half Dot Dash Couplet
Date: 2025-08-12
Categories: Poetry
Excerpt: The Dot Dash Couplet is a two-line rhyming form built on a fixed syllable pattern of alternating short and long beats.
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508120000-poetry-form-the-half-dot-dash-couplet
Software and Secrets
Date: 2025-08-11
Categories: Writing
Excerpt: I've been going through my writing process of late, and trying to streamline, improve, upgrade, or downgrade, as the case may be.
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508110000-software-and-secrets
Wednesday Was a Very Bad Day
Date: 2025-08-10
Categories: Poetry
Excerpt: I scroll through the shadows, your name in the glow, hunting for daggers I'm sure you will throw.
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508100000-wednesday-was-a-very-bad-day
Title Unlocked
Date: 2025-08-09
Categories: Writing
Excerpt: Today I selected the title for the upcoming work of mine that I am working through in my bachelor's studies.
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508090000-title-unlocked
Black Eye Wale
Date: 2025-08-08
Categories: Poetry
Excerpt: The phone would ring at half-past two, your voice all slur and cigarette rain.
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508080000-black-eye-wale
The Undone Dead
Date: 2025-08-07
Categories: Poetry
Excerpt: he was not a monster / not at first. / at first, / he said i was beautiful / in ways i had never been called anything before.
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508070000-the-undone-dead
World Wide Weird
Date: 2025-08-06
Categories: Website
Excerpt: Worked on the website some here and there, and I think I have it as good as it's going to get for the near future.
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508060000-world-wide-weird
My Body
Date: 2025-08-05
Categories: Poetry
Excerpt: Each step creaks louder, shifts more beneath me. The banister sighs under the weight of all I haven't said.
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508050000-my-body
Morning
Date: 2025-08-04
Categories: Poetry
Excerpt: static compartmentalized, hollow face / remembering the past through rain
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508040000-morning
Poetry Form - The Retraux
Date: 2025-08-03
Categories: Poetry, Writing
Excerpt: Poetry comes in all forms, from sonnets to free form, and something I've wanted to do to better express myself is create some new forms of poetry for others to use.
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508030000-poetry-form-the-retraux
The Alchemy of Sunflowers
Date: 2025-08-02
Categories: Poetry
Excerpt: they called him broken - as if a fractured mind couldn't still conjure sky.
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508020000-the-alchemy-of-sunflowers
31 Days Away
Date: 2025-07-31
Categories: Writing
Excerpt: My newest project is set to release thirty-one (31) days from now, and every day leading up to the release, a small sneak peek!
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202507310000-31-days-away
It's Alive. Still.
Date: 2025-07-30
Categories: Writing
Excerpt: Well, today's launch day didn't go precisely as planned. But at least the website facelift is complete - for now, minus some minor changes. Working on three d...
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202507300000-its-alive-still
On Poetry
Date: 2025-07-30
Categories: Writing
Excerpt: There is a haunting dissonance you feel when writing about your personal trauma through the spyglass of a poem. Nothing is as real as it should be. Nothing is...
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202507300001-on-poetry
Oops, I Blogged Myself.
Date: 2025-07-28
Categories: Writing
Excerpt: I said years ago I would never write another public blog. Well, oops. Talked myself out of this about six times already today, but it's time. Not time for th...
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202507280000-oops-i-blogged-myself