#poems

Started reading Roger Reeves' "King Me: Poems"
https://amzn.to/3OH42ub
📖👑
Thinking his second book of #poems was better than this, his debut, but we'll see.
#books #reading #poetry

A Certain Kind of Debt

BY SANDRA SIMONDS

You warned me about striving.
You said once they gave you a house

with waves of peppermint in the backyard,
the Library of Babylon, and free lunch,

they would take it away. Still, I ate
the fake meat they served on Fridays,

always alone with my petite jar of grief.
I liked the jar because it gave me something

to look forward to. The truth is uncomfortable—
now that’s something I told you.

I told you other things too—that we would
end up down south again in that city

of tarot card readers, storms, and gin.
In the summer, it’s terror for people

who can’t take it. But we can.
We were never really going to get away.

#poetry #poet #poetrycommunity #writer #writingcommunity #poem #poetrylovers #poems

„the #flowers were dressed in nothing but light” excerpt from Mary Oliver's #poem ”Just as the calendar began to day #summer ”
#photo #photography #maryoliver #mindfulness #meditation #poems

My poem "Within the Wake of Wider Gyres"
for a James Joyce (*waking from the nightmare of history) theme poetry challenge.

(* The comment of waking from history's nightmare comes from Stephen Dedalus, a character in Joyce's novel Ulysses.)

Poem text link:
https://allpoetry.com/poem/17202018-Within-the-Wake-of-Wider-Gyres-by-Robert-J.-Tiess

Allusions are made to Joyce (including Finnegans Wake), Yeats ("The Second Coming"), and Mary Shelley (Frankenstein).

#poems #poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #history #nightmares #jamesjoyce #Frankenstein #metaphors #horror #poem #thepast

Finished reading Mai Der Vang's "Yellow Rain: Poems."
https://amzn.to/3VVzEiY
📖🌧️
Was interesting for a while, but ultimately didn't grab me as much as her previous book of #poems, "Afterland."
#books #reading #poetry

PLEASE READ AND #BOOST

My little contribution for #wearorange

A ballad against gun violence

Thanks for reading

Only 4 minutes reading time
❤️ si_irini 😘

#betterworld #hope #fediverse #mastodon #writing #ballad #poem #poems #kindness #love #future #toleranc #givethemavoice #love #justice #human #humanrights #humanity

@DrOinFLA @claudiamiles

I’m tryin ta think
But nothing happens. Oh, no
It’s the Three Stooges.

#ThirtySecondHaiku #poetry #poems

#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

On June 8 at 8pm EST, Pinhole Poetry is launching their 1st print publication, a chapbook of poems selected from the inaugural volume of the journal! Contributors will read their work & showcase some pinhole photos. To join the zoom launch, please register here: https://pinholepoetry.ca/chapbook-launch/

ps. Pinhole is awesome. The contributors have written poems that make you feel the feels.

pps. I'm one of the contributors who will be reading 🌞 Come hear us!

#litmag #litmags #poetry #poems #poet #amwriting

When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.

When your vision has gone,
no part of the world can find you.

Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.

There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.

The dark will be your home
tonight.

The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.

You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.

Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn

anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive

is too small for you.

David Whyte

#poetry #poet #poetrycommunity #writer #writingcommunity #poem #poetrylovers #poems

#cinquat

A UFO per witnesses' information
reported to a passing traffic cop:
glinting metallic blue, grey on top—
windswept,
turns out, from Kai's birthday celebration.

— § —

#senryū

wants to show who's boss
storms in demanding, outraged—
I don't give a toss

— § —

#lune

houses in decline
faded paint
boards over windows

#haiku #MicroPoetry #SmallPoems #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity
#DailyHaikuPrompt: toss
#SalemVerse: windswept
#VSSPoem: decline

the locust tree is dying. my love noticed it first. i could see no difference between the pair, their ruffle of green feathers against the june light...

"where the knowing is" by Jill Kitchen #poetry #poem #poems #poets #prosepoem https://www.whaleroadreview.com/kitchen/?fbclid=IwAR3NsdJmkMTpEn4otrv_lOBjkc78upUZArH3TA2s1aahfIQnGARVbVE7hQU

I think of love as this inexhaustible power. Fueled by honesty and commitment. Often mistaken for weakness. Sometimes given through distance. But always bound to us by belief. Belief that the strongest bond we share is the bond of love and kindness.
Love is pure. It’s just the way we hand it out that can distort its original meaning.
#writing #writersofmastodon #thoughts #quotes #poetry #poems #writingcommunity

#senryū

coming-out ball
irises don ruffled gowns
flaunt décolletage

— § —

medusas pulsate
in ocean's profundity
thoughtless bubbles

#haiku #MicroPoetry #SmallPoems #poems #poetry
#575Prompt 157: circular

Utnapishtim is a character in ancient Mesopotamian mythology. He is tasked by the god Enki to create a giant ship to be called Preserver of Life in preparation of a giant flood that would wipe out all life.

Utnapishtim

Who knows the shape
of the great sea, Gilgamesh?

I have seen it.

The flood
poured through me like molten lead through cloth
and still even I don't know.

Now you come here to ask for immortality.
Your childishness makes me smile.

Return to your mud walls strong man.
Sit at your muddy river banks and cry for Enkidu.
Then, you too
may know the shape
of the great sea.

#poetry #poet #poetrycommunity #writer #writingcommunity #poem #poetrylovers #poems

by Little_Morry

"One day, I stopped telling myself what is was that I was telling myself and I stopped needing to know, all the things that I needed to know. "
-David Whyte

#poetry #poet #poetrycommunity #writer #writingcommunity #poem #poetrylovers #poems

Wet was the light as we saw it
through a threadbare lens
of what we call time or that period
of waiting between what will happen
next and what we regret having happened,
the hard-bad opposite of a world hunch or an omen...

"Wet was the Light" by Millicent Borges Accardi https://writinginawomansvoice.blogspot.com/2023/06/wet-was-light-line-by-pablo-neruda-by.html?spref=tw #poetry #poem #poems #poets

My poem "New Strings on an Old Guitar"
for a 30-word poetry challenge.

Poem text link: https://allpoetry.com/poem/17194097-New-Strings-on-an-Old-Guitar-by-Robert-J.-Tiess

#poems #poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #guitars #music #musicalinstruments #death #rebirth #reborn #memories #metaphors

My poem
"Said a Tree at Sycamore Canyon"

Text link
https://allpoetry.com/poem/17193269-Said-a-Tree-at-Sycamore-Canyon-by-Robert-J.-Tiess

#poems #poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #trees #nature #plants #canyons #seeds #grow #past #future #metaphors

PLEASE READ AND #boost

Finally, I am very happy that it is finished 😊

A thoughtful poem about the world.

It could almost be a second #introduction, while writing it I often thought it represented me very well.

But I think it does for many.

Thank you so much for reading, only takes 2 small minutes 🙏🏼🌹❤️

For those who can't read it, I'll make a thread about it later.

#writing #poem #text #betterworld #hope #givethemavoice #love #humanity #kindness #poems #human #tolerance #world

If I seem reticent,
My eyes sliding slowly off yours
To watch the busy ants on the ground
(Always busy, the ants)

It's because the sun behind you
Has your halo of hair
Bursting into celestial flame,
Matching the light in your eyes

Both of which
Make me shy

#Poetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #LittlePoems #Poems #Poem

"Henrietta and the great flood" by Tina Barry https://aminormagazine.com/2023/05/31/henrietta-and-the-great-flood/ #poetry #poem #poems #Poets

Some AI art that I've been working on, inspired by some of my haiku poetry.

Cold eyes watching me
Their gaze intent and piercing
Pointed blades of steel.

#haiku #haikupoetry #poetry #poets #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetryisnotdead #poems #poemsdaily #poetsofmastodon #amwriting #writing #writingcommunity #ai #aiartwork #AiArtCommunity

You Reading This, Be Ready

-William Stafford

Starting here, what do you want to remember?
How sunlight creeps along a shining floor?
What scent of old wood hovers, what softened
sound from outside fills the air?

Will you ever bring a better gift for the world
than the breathing respect that you carry
wherever you go right now? Are you waiting
for time to show you some better thoughts?

When you turn around, starting here, lift this
new glimpse that you found; carry into evening
all that you want from this day. This interval you spent
reading or hearing this, keep it for life –

What can anyone give you greater than now,
starting here, right in this room, when you turn around?

#poetry #poet #poetrycommunity #writer #writingcommunity #poem #poetrylovers #poems

i invite you to attempt to enjoy the latest in my ekphrastic series on hiroshige's "100 famous views of edo"! #sonnet #sonnets #poem #poems #poetry

On June 8 at 8pm EST, Pinhole Poetry is launching their 1st print publication, a chapbook of poems selected from the inaugural volume of the journal! Contributors will read their work & showcase some pinhole photos. To join the zoom launch, please register here: https://pinholepoetry.ca/chapbook-launch/

ps. Pinhole is awesome. The contributors have written poems that make you feel the feels.

pps. I'm one of the contributors who will be reading 🌞 Come hear us!

#litmag #litmags #poetry #poems #poet #amwriting

embouchure of dusk,
molten thunder-thrumming maw;
swallowing monsoon.

#haiku #poem #poems #poetry #smallpoems

pressured anvilhead
hammers hunched, expectant streets;
verdigris of light.

#haiku #poem #poems #poetry #smallpoems

Dear #fediverse
#mastodon

I'm going to get back into the grips of my #poems now....

Started several, want to finish a few, love them and then release them to you.

Thank you so much for reading my poems and thoughts.
You are great!

❤️ si_irini 😘

#betterworld #love #hope #future #tolerance #kindness #world #human #humanity #text #givethemavoice #handinhand

Pleased to have 4 #poems featured in Live Encounters #Magazine : showcasing leading academics, #writers, #poets, #activists of all hues etc. from around the #world.

#poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #WritingCommunity #spirituality #prayer #SilentSunday #Monday #inspiration

We rescue
We got two
They said
Semi-feral
They are
Affection gluttons
Trained
Barn cats
They are not
Instead
Furry flowers
Garden ornaments
Constant
Entertainment
And
So much
Love

ART IS HERE: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/colorful-cat-art-meow-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

#caturday #cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #kitty #kittyCat #meow #catlady #catmom #catdad #catart #pets #poetry #poem #poet #poets #poems #writing #writinglife #writingcommunity #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #Fediart #mastoart #mastodonart #pet #purr #colorful #colorfulart

2023 05 #Haiku #Zine
how to fold a one-page zine
Print out a free copy here.
http://katherinemontalto.com/2023-05-haiku-zine/
#ZineLibraries please feel free to print out this zine and add it to your collection.
contact me to let me know
http://katherinemontalto.com/contact/
Read #poems here.
http://katherinemontalto.com/2023-05-haiku/

shady characters
in the shadows of the past
Always a bright side!

#575prompt No. 147- shady

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/in-my-shadow-yellow-daisy-art-painting-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #artist #mastoart #fediart #haiku #poetry #poem #poet #writer #writing #writingcommunity #AYearForArt #flower #flowers #sun #sunshine #nature #landscape #landscapes #poems #poets #garden #gardening #wildflowers

towering over
all on the horizontal
Mountains of beauty!

#575Prompt - towering

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/white-mountains-two-black-and-white-art-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #artist #mastoart #fediart #haiku #poetry #poem #poet #writer #writing #writingcommunity #AYearForArt #mountain #mountains #nature #blackandwhite #landscape #modernart #landscapes #poems #poets

Tracy K. Smith's "My God, It's Full of Stars" is especially excellent if you like the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. #Poem #Poems #Poetry

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55519/my-god-its-full-of-stars

This week, I pushed my (still-injured) spine too far, so as I've been enduring the increased pain tonight, I've been reading, like doses of perfect emotional nourishment, the poems in Ada Limon's latest collection, which is called (ironically) The Hurting Kind. Every single one has been exactly what I've needed. Such a gift!

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/59571658

#poetry #poems

I've tried to write a poem as a model for children to use in #schools to explore their senses. In the end, I focussed on the the simple joys of a nose and toes. #poetry #poems #poem4kids #poemsforkids #poetrycommuntity #senses

leaf-fringed pools of light,
desolate photonic flares;
streetlamps in the park.

#haiku #poem #poems #poetry #smallpoems

My new weekly installment in Metapsychosis: #journal of #consciousness, #literature & #art:

Never mind #poetry or prose, good #literature is the art of friction.
✨
#Poems seem to grow with us. Often, it’s only we who are catching up with a #poem’s dimension.
✨
#Writing is a kind of echolocating—to discover our tribe.

https://www.metapsychosis.com/collections/quarantine-notes/

via @madrush

#WritingCommunity #ai #inspiration #motivation #wisdom #spirituality #meditation #poetrycommunity #quotes #words #books #life

oily, echoing;
concrete cave, inhuman hive -
catacomb of cars.

#haiku #poem #poems #poetry #mypoem #smallpoems

#barcelona #poems

https://magpiebridge.blogspot.com/2019/09/something-to-dream-on.html

#poetry #writing #writingcommunity #writer #poetry #poetry #poet #poets

#poem #poetrylovers #poetry #writingcommunity #writing #writer #poets #poet

Tired of reading your #poems to yourself? How about sharing them with the world? #Submissions are open for our Summer 2023 issue, and we have a global audience waiting to give you an ear: https://stanzacannon.com/submissions

#BreakTheSoundBarrier #poetry

#poems about #mexico

http://magpiebridge.blogspot.com/p/sketchbook-project.html

#poetry #writing #writingcommunity #writer #poetry #poetry #poet #poets

#poem #poetrylovers #poetry #writingcommunity #writing #writer #poets #poet #art #artist #artistonmastodon

A lucky page of my #poetry #book "Balancing Acts: New & Selected #Poems" (Press 53) comes to life in the sensitive hands of #artist, JLE:

https://www.press53.com/poetry-collections/balancing-acts-new-selected-poems-1993-2015-by-yahia-lababidi

@bookstodon #books #bookstodon #WritingCommunity #writing #art #poetrycommunity #friday
#time #memories #spirituality

Blooming thoughts reaching
Sacred heavenly heights
The enchanting sun
A quintessential halo
For growing angels
Goddesses of light
And Summer's promise

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/reaching-yellow-sunflower-art-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #artist #mastoart #fediart #haiku #poetry #poem #poet #writer #writing #writingcommunity #flower #flowers #floral #nature #colorful #mosaic #poets #poems #summer #sunflower #sunflowers #garden #gardening #yellow

red poppy flowers
a trace of warm summer air
Spring in transition!

#MastoPrompt - trace

This piece is a mixed media piece consisting of photography, watercolor and love. :)

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/endless-summer-red-poppies-art-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #artist #mastoart #fediart #haiku #poetry #poem #poet #writer #writing #writingcommunity #flower #flowers #red #floral #homedecor #love #nature #romance #colorful #mosaic #poets #poems #poppy #poppies #summer #sunday

a toddler at night
my oldest memory is
likely just a dream...

#DailyHaikuPrompt - memory

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/inspirational-art-you-can-do-it-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #artist #mastoart #fediart #haiku #poetry #poem #poet #writer #writing #writingcommunity #homedecor #colorfulart #colorful #AYearForArt #trees #tree #memories #memory #children #dream #dreaming #play #poets #poems #nature

Last Tuesday, I read my #poems to #kids in the primary #school of my square, who inspire me with their #joy and #vitality. I was afraid of such a new audience. They were so receptive I was impressed. A little girl asked me if she could hug me to say thanks, and then all the kids gathered around me in a big collective hug.😍 Now, when I leave my home, they are playing in the park of my quarter, and they come to greet me. They had stolen my heart!❤️
#Poetry #kids #school #education

a little spicy
mustard and chili peppers
Burning hot petals!

#DailyHaikuPrompt - mustard

*This piece is a painting on canvas using a black paint pen to create the mosaic.

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/mosaic-art-hot-chili-petals-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #artist #mastoart #fediart #haiku #poetry #poem #poet #writer #writing #writingcommunity #flower #flowers #flowerfriday #red #floral #homedecor #colorfulart #colorful #mosaic #poets #poems

Delighted to receive this wonderful #illustration to one of my #poems in "Balancing Acts" from #artist, and #friend, J L E

✨🙇🏻💫
https://www.amazon.com/author/yahialababidi

"Drylands

Tell me, have you found a #sea
deep enough to swim in
deep enough to drown in

waters to engage you
distract you, keep you
from crossing to the other shore?"

(Press 53)

#NationalPoetryMonth #poetry #WritingCommunity #art #books #Thursday #hope @bookstodon #bookstodon #writing #poetrycommunity

#goodnews from #Egypt 🇪🇬

‘Dear Mr. Lababidi,

I am Associate Professor at Ain Shams #University جامعة عين شمس , Cairo.

I'm planning to write a paper about some of your #poems & #aphorisms. I intend to focus on your admirable use of metaphor within the conceptual metaphor #theory.

I was wondering if you could update me about your most recent poems after those published in Balancing Acts

Looking forward to working on your enjoyable production’

@bookstodon #books #WritingCommunity

Inside of this measuring stick called a line
is the breath of your poem.
See, how you breathe in
then out,
your best-washed thoughts at the end
or beginning of letters strung
on a clothesline of air.

The bigger inhale is a stanza,
a crisp paragraph of words,
thoughts stacked as neat as laundry,
folded, ready to wear,
just waiting for you
to say them.

—Marjorie Maddox Hafer, The Short and Long of It

#MondayMood #photography #poems

#poems

https://magpiebridge.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-night-is-starred.html

#poem #poetrylovers #poetry #writingcommunity #writing #writer #poets #poet

A poem from last year. I feel this always. #poems

Saw a deer running
To be clear, I was running.
He just stood. And looked.
#haiku #running #poems

Check out my latest chap, The Vessel of the Now, available from Back Room #Poetry. Sample poem, a little bit about the book, and order info here:

https://backroompoetry.co.uk/the-vessel-of-the-now

#poems #chapbooks #nationalpoetrymonth #SupportIndiePresses

it's not quite purple
a surge of violet blue
A deeper vision!

#dailyhaikuprompt - purple
#MastoPrompt - surge

ART https://fineartamerica.com/featured/violet-blue-abstract-art-by-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

#artwork #artist #AYearForArt #mastoart #fediart #haiku #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #smallpoems #artists #writers #poets #poems #poem #poet #poem #writer #abstract #abstractart #homedecor #interiordesign #art #ArtMatters #BuyIntoArt #writer #writers #writinglife #violet #colorful #colorfulart

a gentle breeze blows
the scent of plumeria
Heaven is calling!

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/pretty-pink-plumeria-flowers-sharon-cummings.html

#artwork #artist #AYearForArt #mastoart #fediart #haiku #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #smallpoems #artists #writers #poets #poems #poem #poet #poem #writer #springtime #flower #flowers #colorful #colorfulart #pink #plumeria #tropical #coastal #beach #beachlife #beachy #beaches #botanical #grief #love #garden #gardening #gardener #gardens #floral #Spring #springthings #plant #plants

my heart is blooming
tender as pink baby feet
Flowers spring to life!

#dailyhaikuprompt - bloom

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/soft-pink-tulips-flower-art-sharon-cummings.html

#artwork #artist #AYearForArt #mastoart #fediart #haiku #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #smallpoems #artists #writers #poets #poems #poem #poet #poem #writer #springtime #flower #flowers #colorful #colorfulart #pink #tulip #tulips #botanical #grief #love #garden #gardening #gardener #gardens #floral #Spring #springthings #spring #springthings #floral #fun

(Issue) Number Five is alive! Short and sweet with punch and pucker, our first issue of 2023 features eight brilliant #poems by five #poets: @dogtrax; Gregory Schwartz; Laura Cooney; @jackferguson; and Gerald Sarnat. Listen to them all here: https://stanzacannon.com/issues/issue-five

#litmag #literaryjournal #litjournal #audio

memories littered
empty shells on the coastline
Blue like my childhood....

#DailyHaikuPrompt -shell

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/deep-blue-nautilus-shell-art-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #nautilus #sea #sealife #ocean #oceaans #oceanlife #beach #beachlife #beachy #beaches #poetry #haiku #writing #writingcommunity #writer #writers #poem #poems #poet #poets #micropoetry #smallpoems #blue #seashell #seashells #coastal #tropical #writerslife #homedecor

Tails entwined
They dance
They flutter
Days pass
She offers
her eggs
He releases
the spark
Inside
He carries them
He births them
He is not her
She is not him
They are them
Bonded
For life

ART HERE https://fineartamerica.com/featured/enchanted-seahorse-beach-art-sharon-cummings.html

#seahorse #fish #ocean #sea #sealife #beach #beachlife #AYearForArt #mastoart #coastal #tropical #art #poetry #gender #science #biology #animals #poet #writing #writingcommunity #writer #poem #poems #poets #nature #fun #cute #colorful #artwork #artist #fediart #ArtMatters

worshiping the night
constellation's confessions
Fasting from daylight.

#575prompt #fasting
#dailyhaikuprompt #constellation

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/calling-the-night-crow-art-by-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #artist #AYearForArt #mastoart #fediart #haiku #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #smallpoems #artists #writer #writers #poets #poems #poem #poet #poem #writer #writerslife #night #sky #bird #birds #crow #blackbird #moon #fullmoon #nightsky #galaxy #heaven #astronomy #milkyway #nebula #nasa #universe #spirituality #spiritual

where there's smoke there's fire
whoever said this missed it
The joy of dry ice!

*Southern pronunciation of fire....LOL

#575prompt #smoke

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/black-magic-313-by-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #artist #AYearForArt #mastoart #fediart #haiku #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #smallpoems #artists #writer #writers #poets #poems #poem #poet #poem #writer #writerslife #blackandwhite #BlackAndWhiteArt #modernart #modern #homedecor #interiordesign #magic #magical #painting #paintings #abstract #abstractart

#Introduction

Hi, I’m Ken, I’ve been on the Fediverse for a couple of weeks now. It seemed silly to introduce myself to nobody when I first started this instance, although I did fill in my bio. I’m a #writer from England who joined the Fediverse to publicise my work and maybe try to #getfedihired. I’m still feeling my way around the social aspects of this though, I don’t just want to use this as an advertising platform.

Looking back over my statuses for the first fortnight, so far I’ve mostly boosted things I found funny or beautiful. I replied to a few other posts including some responses to #SillyCuratorPrompts and #DesignChallenge – two drawings and a silly poem. And early on I posted another poem, largely to push past the anxiety I felt about the whole social media thing. The last thing I put up was some photos of spring flowers.

I already have a blog at https://kenhutton.uk or https://kenhutton.uk/atom for your rss/atom reader. You can find more information about my book ‘Social card games’ there if you’re interested and I plan to post some stories and poems there soon, perhaps some essays too. No promises about when though, as I’m job hunting right now and not putting pressure on myself to do too much else.

#writing #poems #poetry #bookdesign #typography #cardgames #ttrpg #wargame #crochet #knitting #tunisiancrochet #woodwork #dorset #walking #gawk #guix #TeX #publishing #design

smitten
by springs earthy scent
arrow hits it mark

pd ~ 🌱
prompt -> arrow
#Imagiku #haiku #poetry #writing #SmallPoem #poet #Poetry #writer #MicroPoetry #poems
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a quarter century flies
parallel to the white stork
I am a mother.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - Stork
#MastoPrompt - quarter

ART
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we busy ourselves
until our souls glaze over
Just bee still and breathe...

#DailyHaikuPrompt bee
#MastoPrompt glaze

ART
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Garden spirits roam
Beneath the shrimp plants
Along the hibiscus
Between the orchids
Hanging soulfully
Their names carved
Into oddly shaped stones
A constant reminder
Of sweet furry paws
Gentle giants and little friends
Never forgotten

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Today’s poem from 'Our Own Coordinates: #Poems About #Dementia (https://sidhe-press.eu/books/, @missyerem, EIC) is this beauty by Jane Gilheaney ❤️

Come and join us this Friday, March 17 at 7 pm GMT (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/our-own-coordinates-online-launch-tickets-565942287617) #Poetry #PoetryCommunity

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Next poem, shorter this time - "Bookstores".

Each of these is describing a particular bookstore that stuck out in my memory at some point in time.

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5/

"Another Forest Song" (2/2)

All writing and illustrations were done by me.

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"Another Forest Song" (1/2)

This poem is lengthy. Will split into multiple toots.

Based on the work of Lesya Ukrainka, one of Ukraine's most treasured writers. The poem is all mine except quotes in German and French were directly taken from her writing, I don't actually speak either and had to consult native speakers to incorporate them :)

The illustrations were also all drawn by me.

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from birth to the beast
that people call life and death
It's all baby steps...

#DailyHaikuPrompt birth
#MastoPrompt beast

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the soft grasses blow
trees covered in yellow sheets
Allergy season!

#DailyHaikuPrompt soft

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Today's #poem from my chapbook.

This one is simply titled after the format, "A Haibun", but I like something about its simplicity.

My favorite part is the end, with the quote from that book I picked up.

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liquid diamonds
after the torrential pour
The magic remains.

#MastoPrompt - torrential

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