Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet

so tell me…how do you share the comfort..?   ‘best of intentions’   repeated, her legitimate question: “how do you console the black streams of memory? how do you distinguish miles from a  slowly shimmering mirage?”   suffice to say the bright of my eyes faded and i softly cleared my throat “glory and illusion are inseparable,” i told her, “still i’m not one to gloat. you see, the fearless man per...

shameless book promotion time! another selection from my 2nd poetry collection ‘ scotch & scars ’  from 2020.   a hill to some is a mountain to others. light to some is darkness to others. i guess what i’m saying is please don’t ever judge unless you wear the same shoes…   ‘scotch & scars’  is available on amazon. if you enjoy it, please indulge me the favor of a review.   today’s selectio...

shameless book promotion time! continuing with my 2nd poetry collection ‘ scotch & scars ’  from 2020.   a meal is just that, a meal. but did you also know that chow is a harbinger for many a relationship? you didn’t? luckily now you do. and you didn’t have to count any calories to find out, either…   ‘scotch & scars’  is available on amazon. if you enjoy it, please indulge me the favor of...

shameless book promotion time! the spotlight shines on my 2nd poetry collection ‘ scotch & scars !’   i released  ‘ scotch & scars ’  in 2020, two years after ‘ a distilled spirit .’  while the collection still featured ‘bar observations,’ it did begin to reveal more of my darker thoughts and emotions. good, raw poetry should be unflinching and that’s where  ‘scotch & scars’  delivers....

stare straight ahead. they’ll leave you alone eventually…   ‘seep’   blissful, ignorant silence— to seep alone in ruin   indulgent alcoholic consumption. * #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...

should you ask, i won’t hold back…   ‘sharp things’   you thought my pen was sharp you should hear my fucking mouth.  * #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/J...

some prose poetry from november of 2021.   my daughter, now 17, has special needs. i help her get ready for school every morning. i walk her to the school and return to pick her up every day. i still brush her hair. i’ve been doing this since she’s been 4 years old.    life is far from fair, and to this day i have trouble accepting the  why’s . but if god is who i think he is, he’ll have me guidin...

bar observation:   listen in on some conversations. it’s just blah blah blah. but the drinking? it’s all business.   ‘dumb, or are they’   waste the words the meanings   but never waste the alcohol. * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * 'Dead Bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback...

i call these ‘lubrication pieces.’ most of my writing sessions start with zero ideas. so i write anything! what’s the first thing i notice when glancing out the window? what seemingly mundane thing might’ve stuck in my head during the course of the day? how do my clothes feel on my body in the moment? whatever written doesn’t need to be good…it just needs to break the ice.    start with one small...

i tried to get clean. i swear i did…   ‘junkie’   i loved you not the devolved persuasiveness you lowered like a coffin into ground   you had an unconditional impatience   i had an analytical moderation of grace   together we doted a new testament (our complex game so easy to play)   i crowned your necessity believing any good thing could be improvised;   i’m left now in trembling light;   like a...

a simple little ‘quip’ today.   tired has handles. weary keeps straps.   i know.    ‘bags’   i have bags under my eyes.   they used to be full of something now they only carry weight.  * #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...

hello everyone! happy new year! i hope the coming months will be kind to you all and open the doors to your manifestations.    today’s poem is one i posted a long time ago but fitting, i believe, to share once more. our world has gone downhill with no end in sight, i fear. more than ever, we must find the champion within…   ‘beacon’   we live in a world of posers and followers desperate for the fr...

i haven’t shared one of these in a while so here we go. it’s what i call my ‘prose poetry.’ i take an uncommon word and write to the emotions it stirs without using the actual word anywhere within my conjuring. enjoy!  this one is from june 2023. ‘basorexia’   mother and father never taught love they lessoned set it free. i enlightened myself the anguished prophecy of borrowed wings. there remain...

shameless book promotion time! one last poem from ‘ a distilled spirit ’ published in 2018.  i suppose what makes me proudest about ‘ a distilled spirit ’ is that it’s my first poetry collection, poems lifted from my booze-stained notebooks and cobbled into cohesive form. it was my launching point as i’ve refined my voice over subsequent years and that’s the most important opportunity any writer c...

shameless book promotion time! more from my 2018 collection ‘ a distilled spirit.’   this book wasn’t just about writing what i observed while drinking at bars. this book was the first time i began to dissect my inner feelings and put them on a plate to share.   i’ve had zero f*cks since.    ‘a distilled spirit’  is available on amazon for your reading pleasure. link is in my profile. if you enjoy...

shameless book promotion time! on we go with ‘ a distilled spirit ’ from 2018.   there’s a story written on every face but few take the time to read them. even fewer know where to begin.   start in silence. ask the bartender for a drink. then sit. expand beyond yourself. then draw in that energy…   ‘a distilled spirit’  is available on amazon for your reading pleasure. link is in my profile. if yo...

shameless book promotion time! continuing with ‘ a distilled spirit ’ from 2018.   long before i had my spiritual awakening, long before i became a reiki master, i learned the hard way that you are not meant to save everyone, not even those you truly want to save. and sometimes, not even yourself.   it’s a hard lesson. one that has served me well.    ‘a distilled spirit’  is available on amazon fo...

shameless book promotion time! continuing with ‘ a distilled spirit ’ from 2018.   as i previously said, while putting this collection together i had been known for my horror fiction. my poem ‘you’ became a fusion, a dash of my horror background mixed with my emerging though still yet defined poetic voice. i wrote this over a few strong beers.   ‘a distilled spirit’  is available on amazon for you...

hello all! time for some shameless book promotions of which i am long overdue! i’m starting with  ‘a distilled spirit,’  my first poetry collection published back in 2018. up to that point in time, i never read poetry let alone craft it. i was becoming known for my horror fiction and prose. between projects, i’d go to my local bar and jot into a notebook as a way of keeping myself sharp. i eventua...

to only hold what once we held…   ‘in silence’   make theatre of this vow a complex game of illusion  stage squeezed out from lungs our old science exhausts the cells we fell gracefully as children while an astral lamp accused us of life now seeking peace we pencil ourselves  with sharpened expressions thoroughbreds, the slightest hitch all but derailing us. * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A....

challenge accepted.   ‘i can do this’   there is nothing worse than holding in a piss when you have important  words to write. * #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.c...

bar observation again.   let me be clear about something:  i fully support the LGBTQ community! nothing but love here!     ‘i love lesbians at the bar’ the men boast of the pussy   while the women truly get it.  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * 'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available...

yet time and time again i stalk this graveyard of the mind. mourning…   ‘buried’   buried in everything i have ever wrote, i refuse to resurrect you. * #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_pin...

hold me.   ‘i’m suffering’   awakened; what a formidable alternative to death subtleties weighing your whole being an ideal only children could paint with any sort of vibrancy convince yourself you’ve held the secret and i’ll signal the director:  the cue was missed. multitudes rolled in sushi blocks it inspires, i suppose rounded corners and  there’s a piece to us all a protesting hinge that slam...

i’ll show you where the real fires are…   ‘bad mistake’   never hand a rioting mind a pen. * #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...