#Poetry
"Stories and songs enable us to locate ourselves in other people's experience and they increase our compassion. But these things in a vacuum are useless. A story doesn't cultivate empathy just by virtue of having been thought up; it must be engaged with to become powerful; the story must be read, the song must be listened to, in order to acquire its full power."
~ Kae Tempest
#PrideMonth #TellYourStory #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Bookstodon #Arts #Music #Quotes #Books #Poetry
In the desert
I saw a creature,naked,bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it
“Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.”
Stephen Crane
#everynightapoem #poetry
📖 #Today's #meditation :
🪽
Each time we betray our conscience, we strangle an angel.
And, yet, it's not certain we are allotted an infinite supply of winged pardons.
🪽
Unilever innovates
Harnessing AI's powers strong
Customer satisfaction
#unilever #ai #innovation #tnwconference #haiku #poetry
http://thenextweb.com/news/how-unilever-is-harnessing-ai-to-innovate-your-favourite-products
day 521
thought bubbles
rising from the deep
conversation
Please also check out my #pandemic #picturebook:
Daily haiku by Freeman Ng, the author of BASHO'S HAIKU JOURNEYS, a haiku picture book.
Hail, the people of Hillsborough
Lost too young on that day
Our hearts are still aching
But we'll be strong and stay
We mourn the tragedies
That made life so hard
But we will honor their memory
By standing guard
#hillsborough #facup #stadium #memorial #ode #poetry
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/fa-cup-final-offensive-shirt-charge-b2351186.html
"Off Tower Road" #writing #FlashMemoir #poetry #florida #gainesville #weird #alligators
Social Contagion
In order to develop antibodies
to strengthen our spiritual immunity
against viruses of our time—
cynicism, despair, nihilism—
we must risk partial exposure
Still to protect ourselves
from these perversities
of mind, body & spirit
we must wear a mask
& practice social distancing.
#poetry #WritingCommunity #spirituality #Monday #today #culture #mentalhealth #media #politics
A #book that asks:
How might we sanctify our days?
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-heretic-s-hymnal
#poetry #books #bookstodon #spirituality #prayer #Islam #faith #poetrycommunity #Monday
Collapse in New Haven
Four workers in hospital beds
Hope for a speedy recovery
#buildingcollapse #constructionworkers #newhaven #connecticut #haiku #poetry
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/04/us/connecticut-new-haven-building-collapse/index.html
I wish I could put
jasmine's perfume in a spray
for dull winter days
#575Prompt - spray
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
Wrong tracks lead to crash
Killing hundreds, injuring more
Signal caused the grief
#indiatraincrash #signalerror #trainderailment #haiku #poetry
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/india-train-crash-cause-signal-error-blamed-derailment-rcna87609
Sometimes when reading a poem by Oscar Wilde, it feels like it could apply to our modern day world just as well...
"Blessed are your floral shorteralls, your deeply pink fanny pack with travel-size lint roller just in case.
Level of splendiferous in your outfit: 200."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Summer by Chen Chen (2021 Poetry Magazine) https://bit.ly/3Cdk7Dt
do we dare exposure
must we lurk in the shadows
of ever changing cultural norms
the genuine self always knows
no matter what lies we spray on
for others to see and believe
we can never truly hide
we can only seek...
#MastoPrompt - self
#575prompt - 159- spray
#art #artwork #fediart #mastoart #artist #artists #artistsofmastodon #beauty #beautiful #self #selflove #selfcare #design #fedigiftshop #AYearForArt #poetry #poem #poet #writing #writingcommunity #smallpoems
I'm listening the current episode of the Origin Story podcast, discussing atheism. This quote's just been read out, from Philip Larkin's poem Aubade. I found it hilarious in context.
"This is a special way of being afraid
No trick dispels. Religion used to try,
That vast, moth-eaten musical brocade
Created to pretend we never die,
And specious stuff that says No rational being
Can fear a thing it will not feel .."
Read the whole thing here:
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8495769-Aubade-by-Philip-Larkin
#Atheism #Podcasts #Poetry
June 5-11 at my #Crime #Poetry site #TheFiveTwo, "#Smile" by #PaulHostovsky: https://poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/2023/06/paul-hostovsky.html
pull of gravity
maintains its spherical shape
formed from a dust cloud
prompt No. 149- curvature
if you can, please do
treat this person mindfully
and with care: your self
#haiku #575 #poetry #writing #WritingCommunity #MastoPrompt #self
@tanweerdar
Mum enchanted by preacher
Follows him into the unknown
Hopes she will return
#rodgersshibutse #paulmackenzie #kenya #starvationcult #haiku #poetry
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/04/africa/kenya-cult-leader-shakahola-graves-intl-cmd/index.html
Today's poem:
Kef 12
- by Henry Dumas
https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/719283843637575680/kef-12?source=share
#poetry #HenryDumas #extinction #humanity #suffering #passivity #struggle #resistance
June 4, 2023
few things are as satisfying
as cool rain on a cool day
falling on a clean dump
our town recycling
as much to each other
as to industrial waste
cabling runs done back home
speakers for the elderfolk
leaving some food for others
having eaten there myself
dragging home lentils and coconut
a sweet dahl, non-traditional
plants planted in shared pots
going back in the spring
something for everyone
in this ever-cleaner community
where I was raised from small
by the folks who said take anything
and when you’re done
share it on
* * *
#poem #poetry #writing
Written on the road, because passenger time is writing time. No art, because passenger time is *not* painting time.
June 4, 2023
really, the best part is getting back out of the city
which, while somewhat chillier than it was last week
still has that particular city stink about its bulwarks
ensuring that unless one eats inside, surrounded
by a population who’s forgotten there’s a pandemic on
maskless, abrasive, sixteen tropes brown bagging it
even that extraordinary bagel with the proper cheese
everything on it, cuts of raw salmon sliced thin within
tastes a bit like exhaust in three layers, and human
in various stages of perfumed and cleaned, and bag that
where you can look as you drive by, seeing the ocean
right there, cemeteries and statuary broadcasting warfare
nationalism in concrete and stone-washed thoroughfare
no longer an invitation to either the tired or poor
though some yearning still remains to cry freedom
letting slip the fetters of that particularly processed water
scenting, mouth open, denied entirely that sea-fared breeze
dubious newsies arguing yet more about how far sunk
one’s landed fragment has become, water up, storm up
home away from nature slipping under some unknown
while we, packing our fill in baba ganoush, drive in turns
two bridges, a confusion of boroughs, a spare city
then three hours beyond our projected seven, because
once outside that abscent, one starts looking for almost anything
a hill to climb, a peopleless confoundity of trees and shrubbery
anywhere to lean back, still mostly strangers, and say –
well, that sure was a thing, not the remembered skyline –
still burning under raincloud and discount malicious hunting
and dear gods, paid in full, good to know the food stays right
two cold packed hundred-quart coolers frozen full of goodness
we are not human here, we are not human there, we are not human yet
we can go home at last, to remember to forget, and eat the very best
* * *
#poem #poetry #writing
Written on the road, because passenger time is writing time. No art, because passenger time is *not* painting time.
The spellings are that way on purpose.
No Spatial Isthmus
June 5, 2023
in the thousand screens wearing camera-ready
there are no masks who hold standard
invisible bandages wrapping perception
while we who are crippled
who breathe careful that others
may still breathe careful
of those no-mask wanderers
say nothing, for they
speak everything for us
in mouthless
tongues
* * *
In Shallow Desperation
June 5, 2023
road poems incoming
because these days
being on the road
doesn’t mean silence
it’s just delay
listening to rain
listening to tires
listening
to the back seat dog
happy as anything
venting cream cheese
venting salmon
venting
it’s just delaying
all the writing
while we breathe
in shallow desperation
* * *
Derailment
Cause clear, undisclosed
Trauma, loss of life
Ashwini Vaishnaw speaks
Lament
#india #train #derailment #ashwinivaishnaw #cinquain #poetry
https://todon.eu/@rybson I was not expecting an owl and a pussycat to appear on the radio, a charming #poetry reading!
Energy from space sent
Powering Earth from above
A bold new horizon
#solarpower #space #energy #caltech #haiku #poetry
https://www.engadget.com/space-based-solar-power-first-successful-experiment-caltech-000046036.html
Rescue
Heroic teens,
Bravely attempt;
But tragedy takes two lives
Sorrow
#bournemouth #beach #tragedy #drowning #rescue #cinquain #poetry
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bournemouth-beach-deaths-dorset-latest-b2351098.html
My self,
Was it the only thing
I truly ever owned
Or did it as well escape
Moment by moment?
Was it not mine
From the beginning?
The me
A 'fleckerlteppich'
Of all my ancestors.
The sum of all
That has become one - I
I am, still
I am.
Paint bends
Thereto the plate
Unmade, somehow amends
The slate
Where once a creak,
A crack, a symphony
Of ivories peak
From out noctiphany
Or peach,
A birth of leaf of litter
And earth, a blade a breach
Of sweet embitter'd
Reminds of seeds-man's cap awash
In odd old cloth under gourdy squash.
Big demand for Swift
Eras Tour fans gather outside
To cheer in the night
#taylorswift #erastour #ticketlessfans #gathering #haiku #poetry
Talks
Agreed, for disputes done
Japan and South Korea
Wishes for normalcy soon
Securely, now move on
I just posted my 'bird haiku of the day' on the website of haikudailypodcast. Today it's about the hummingbird.
tiny, colourful
ninety wingbeats per second
hummingbird power
#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
https://haikudailypodcast.substack.com/p/writing-prompts-for-june-2023
image in mirror
does the cat know she's
looking at herself?
#MastoPrompt - #self
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#AYearForArt #ArtMatters #LoveArt #Photography #poetry
#environment #painting #bookbinding
#JohnClare and a sea of buttercups.
How sweet when weary dropping on a bank
Turning a look around on things that be
Een feather headed grasses spindling rank
A trembling to the breeze one loves to see
& yellow buttercups where many a bee
Comes buzzing to its head & bows it down
& the great dragon flye wi gauzy wings
In gilded coat of purple green or brown
That on broad leaves of hazel basking clings
the cold and wet spring
put the potager on hold
flourishing at last
#dailyhaikuprompt - flourishing
#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
A grand jury in DC
Is hearing evidence, we see
Against former Trump
For his handling of documents
Criminal charges could be on the rise
Unless he can devise compromise
For a San Francisco dream come true
A six car garage, what to do?
Tore it down and built three homes
Each for six-hundred grand, no roams
Joran
Suspect, moved, Peru
Dragged towards US, charges
Darkest of affairs
Justice denied
#nataleeholloway #joranvandersloot #justice #peru #cinquain #poetry
The #MastoPrompt for Monday 5th June 2023 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
The latest free reviews on Bogi Reads the World: a fantasy graphic novel that was a pleasant surprise, a small volume of queer prose poetry, and a vintage YA science fiction book!
https://www.bogireadstheworld.com/reviews-sina-lemus-hoover/
#Bookstodon @bookstodon #Books #BookReviews #BogiReads #ScienceFiction #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #GraphicNovels #Iran #Mythology #Latine #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Queer #YA
Working next week's newsletter.
Thinking about the immensity, the mystery, and memories that lie in wait on either side of every door...
Subscribe below if you'd like to give it read it when goes out on Wednesday:
https://duanetooos.substack.com
#reading #writing #art #poetry #read #write #amwriting #amwritingnonfiction #books #sunday #blog #newsletter @bookstodon
My Truth
I stepped up
onto
my soapbox
but others were
higher
louder
better
than me,
so I farted.
I couldn't
get them to
listen,
but they had to
smell
my truth.
no need for color
words are unnecessary
Art speaks volumes...
#MastoPrompt words
#art #artwork #fediart #mastoart #artist #artists #artistsofmastodon #blackandwhite #blackandwhiteart #nativeamerican #pottery #modernart #design #fedigiftshop #AYearForArt #haiku #poetry #poem #poet #writing #writingcommunity #smallpoems #pattern #patterns
who need
the proofread?
who need
the copy editor?
who need
the red-pen corrector?
you need
the proofread!
you need
the copy editor!
you need
the red-pen corrector!
Rainbow of sages
Fledgling scrub jay on the move Summer's calling you
Aphorisms of mine, translated into #Italian :
#italy #translation #poetry #writing #WritingCommunity #SilentSunday #Sunday @bookstodon #books
"Secret Plant Cave" #writing #FlashMemoir #poetry #florida #gainesville #MeetCute
The desert
is
it so, that
we can not share love...
Introspection finding peace...
yet indebted to this cup of water
#Poem #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #shortpoem #shortpoems
His speech went on a long time.
I heard other people laugh sometimes,
But the words flowed past me,
Never really making contact.
To be honest,
That man had already had
Way too much
Of my attention.
freedom of speech ends
where begin hatred, sedition,
discrimination
🏳️🌈
#MastoPrompt - #speech
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#amwriting
#pride
#pridemonth
Words that incite
Division, hatred and riots
Are not free speech.
They are the costliest
Of all.
The #MastoPrompt for Sunday 4th June 2023 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
@DrOinFLA@lounge.town
writing a haiku
in thirty seconds easy
fifteen seconds left...
#poetry #haiku #ThirtySecondHaiku
flower here, leaf there
gather my garden salad
palate and eye feast
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#AYearForArt #ArtMatters #LoveArt #Photography #poetry
#environment #painting #bookbinding
#JohnClare in praise of the humble daisy.
While on the sunny bank the daisys seem
With smiling charms to court the clowns esteem
Nor do they spread their smiling charms in vain
His bosom warms enrapturd at the sight
With secret pleasure & unknown delight
His swelling soul to memorys treasure flies
& strives to speak—but Ignorance denies
...And they call again, "It's simple," they say,
"and you too have come
with light, and to shine."
~ Mary Oliver from "When I am among the trees" #poetry
I’m tryin ta think
But nothing happens. Oh, no
It’s the Three Stooges.
#ThirtySecondHaiku
Pizza is the best.
It's delicious, and you don't
Have to wash dishes.
🍕
OK, now you folks go!
#poetry #poems #poets
#literature
"You are loved and seen"
hits different,
For those folk rendered
invisible,
By those folk who love
What was before,
More than those of us
Who are here now.
Hey! I’m Ewan, a Spanish-born #British student who codes in #Python and writes #Poetry.
I have an obsession with #Lycanthropy, you can blame Wolfblood for that. I also adore linguistics, and i've learnt basic conversational (European) Spanish and French.
I play on #Playstation mainly nowadays, but I do enjoy #Nintendo consoles.
I’ve been bouncing around the #Fediverse.
my home page is https://ewancroft.neocities.org.
creativity
colorful Worlds deep within
begging to come out...
#575Prompt - worlds
ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/yellow-and-blue-art-worlds-within-sharon-cummings.html
#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #haiku #smallpoems #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #writer #writers #artist #artistsofmastodon #words #collage #mixedmedia #modernart #abstract #abstractart #AYearForArt #poet #poem #gold #blue #mandala #meditation #peace
The BlueSuburbia Demo is now on Steam!
https://alienmelon.itch.io/bluesuburbia/devlog/540473/the-bluesuburbia-demo-is-now-on-steam
(devlog update)
#GameDev #Games #IndieGame #IndieGameDev #VideoGames #poetry #Art
Via some reworking of my book I find I have a "new" album. Free to stream and download! #writing #FlashMemoir #poetry #SpokenWord #florida #free https://damonthomas.bandcamp.com/album/on-a-coral-reef
The decima is ten lines long
with just eight syllables per line
and, like some others in it's rhyme,
the a-b-b-a is first along.
Then a-c-c-d is laid on,
tied up with a d-c couplet
like a delicate word cutlet.
Those consonants we like to chomp,
letting unobstructed vowels romp
playfully across the tonguelet.
Shift - a spontaneous #poem - Maui series
#poetry #improv #improvised
https://muz4now.com/2013/shift-spontaneous-poem-maui-series/
we pretend we are
everything you see online
Illusory lives...
#Mastoprompt - illusory
#art #artwork #fediart #mastoart #artist #artists #artistsofmastodon #blackandwhite #blackandwhiteart #nativeamerican #pottery #modernart #design #fedigiftshop #AYearForArt #haiku #poetry #poem #poet #writing #writingcommunity #smallpoems
We were cut from the same cloth
But sewn into different clothes,
And now you shimmer
Afar as white starlight,
As I languish in laundry
Awash with wist.
But the scent of summer nights
Still clings to us both.
You do remember,
Don’t you?
〜XI
a bold swoosh of blue
a base of the purest white
A sudden impact!
ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/blue-and-white-abstract-art-water-tight-2-sharon-cummings.html
#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #artist #artists #AYearForArt #poetry #beach #beachlife #haiku #ocean #sea #coastal #Florida #oceanlife #writing #haiku #nature #colorful #poem #poet #writing #writingcommunity #tropical #modernart #waves #blue
A second #PrideMonth post for day 2 - please read my #poetry! I would deeply appreciate it! It's very personal and written through the course of my transition, and I'm still writing! :alicehearttrans:
https://void.werefox.cafe
#trans #queer #pride #TransArtist
"Living In An Old Country Song" #writing #FlashMemoir #poetry #florida #thrifting
A colorful, painted Quintilla poetic form.
https://xxyxxy.com/items/0WpR5Tos
“The purpose of poetry is to return that which is familiar to its original strangeness.”
Charles Simic
The Atlantic hurricane season officially starts tomorrow. I still remember how Hurricane Gilbert squatted over Jamaica for three nightmarish days before leaving.
Olive Senior's "Hurricane Story, 1988" connects the other hurricane stories in the "Travellers' Tales" section of her poetry collection, Gardening in the Tropics, which is an absolute must-read.
#OliveSenior
#Poetry
#CaribbeanLiterature
#Jamaica
#Caribbean
#HurricaneSeason
memories lost
a past lost
a self lost
#dailyhaikuprompt - lost
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
@dailyhaikuprompt - lost
https://frankly.social/@joel/110459291704183473 @joel tooted about a new-to-me poetry form last night, and I got so excited to try it I paused FFXIV and had a go.
~
Ever wouldst thou go
fast to face a foe
in pride;
turn aside my woe,
wisdom earned, and though
I tried,
stubbonly forego
what you learned, and so
I cried
~