Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet

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...

this job will kill you…   ‘i drank till 2am’   11pm and i have no business drinking this fifth scotch   but it is business.   strictly business. * #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 *...

i may have shared this before, but either way it’s from 2016. when bar writing i often engage in what i call ‘machine-gun fire,’ meaning i write snippets of thoughts one after the other without pause. the irony is even though they’re thoughts they really aren’t in that i never really gave them thought in the first sense. i know, i know, i’m a complicated man…   ‘puppy dog’   you leave; i linger. *...

‘my cost’   a misfortune has occurred an inconclusive blooming flower a strange illusion for the ghost who feeds on more than pretty words i’m more heinous than my faults and if expression is merely speaking tell me then is it worth more than my cost?   i’m not sorry for who i am taciturn in my suspension a suffering outlet in the art and i am everything who i am a temperamental superstition all i...

the struggle is real…   ‘dependency’   i hurt so deeply then that first splash of scotch kisses my lips and dear fuck i come alive   until morning.  * #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_pint...

this poem is from 2017: playing on the beach with my daughter when she decided coating me in sand was far better than any fun a shovel and pail could provide. an eventual dust-off later and i went scrambling for my phone to type the following down.   have you ever been hit by words that come hell or high water you had to pull from your brain before they disappeared? much like my ‘observations from...

ouija not necessary…   ‘i see them’   lost souls do not go undiscoverable to me. * #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 ‘Josep...

bar tales…   ‘he told good stories so i bought a round’   we sit listening  to the beatles and he reminisces about the time he once drove the autobahn  with the windows rolled down tunes turned up and  by the time hey jude slicks the speakers i swear i felt the winds of germany whip my bald head.   * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * 'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,'...

don’t singe your fingertips.   ‘choose your purpose’   some long to be the candle; some the wick. * #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  * subscr...

a typical poetry writing session for me lasts between 3-5 hours. whatever comes to mind is written, the page flipped and on to the next. no poem is given a second thought or remembered until months or even years later when it’s finally typed from my notebook to computer and given a quick edit for possible punctuation, spelling and structure. some pieces stick with me while others i deem ‘throwaway...

once you feed it, it never goes away…   ‘squirrel’   a blue collar gets a pass with nail beds chock-full of dirt but mine go unscrubbed and i’m labeled a slob. come near me enough and you’ll smell the endless mounds of earth i’ve dug. old storms and expired seasons stain my pores. the irony how history both tears and heals the wounds. i’ve ancient footfall echoing tips of each finger yet without t...

observatory poetry:   ‘please, no more’   her laugh split the ears of all at the bar and drove us to drink. * #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...

table for one, please... ‘slow sips’   they toast over margaritas oblivious that a table away a life comes apart over beer. * #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/...

this is my trauma process. i stare at it. i drink with it. i allow it to consume me. then i vomit it from every pore and lap it up again. everyone leaves. in silence their song.    ‘in my head’   i still lack the suitabilities of physical science my eyes of opal fire, conversations rich in distant ink abyss. i pity the child this small boy within, who as phenomenons go has yet vanished; for him ev...